Search results for "Audit"

Optimizing self-organizing timbre maps: Two approaches

1997

The effect of using different auditory images and distance metrics on the final configuration of a self-organized timbre map is examined by comparing distance matrices obtained from simulations with a similarity rating matrix, obtained using the same set of stimuli as in the simulations. Two approaches are described. In the static approach, each stimulus is represented as a single multi-component vector. Gradient images, which are intended to represent idealizations of physiological gradient maps in the auditory pathway, are constructed. The optimal auditory image and distance metric, with respect to the similarity rating data, are searched using the gradient method. In the dynamic approach…

Psychological inflexibility explains distress in parents whose children have chronic conditions

2018

Experiential avoidance, cognitive defusion, and mindfulness have all been associated with psychological disorders and well-being. This study investigates whether they predict psychological distress, i.e., symptoms of burnout, depression, stress and anxiety, in parents of children with chronic conditions. We hypothesized that these factors would exhibit a large degree of common variance, and that when compared to mindfulness and defusion, experiential avoidance on its own would predict a larger proportion of unique variance. 75 parents of children with chronic conditions having burnout symptoms who participated in an intervention study completed measures of burnout, stress, anxiety, depressi…

Le procedure di audit della sicurezza sul progetto e sulle infrastrutture in esercizio

2010

End-to-end tests using alanine dosimetry in scanned proton beams

2018

This paper describes end-to-end test procedures as the last fundamental step of medical commissioning before starting clinical operation of the MedAustron synchrotron-based pencil beam scanning (PBS) therapy facility with protons. One in-house homogeneous phantom and two anthropomorphic heterogeneous (head and pelvis) phantoms were used for end-to-end tests at MedAustron. The phantoms were equipped with alanine detectors, radiochromic films and ionization chambers. The correction for the 'quenching' effect of alanine pellets was implemented in the Monte Carlo platform of the evaluation version of RayStation TPS. During the end-to-end tests, the phantoms were transferred through the workflow…

A range of pulses commonly used for human transcranial ultrasound stimulation are clearly audible.

2021

Digitālā komunikācija "Netflix" seriālā "The Circle" 2. sezonā

2022

Bakalaura darba tēma ir “Digitālā komunikācija “Netflix” seriālā “The Circle” 2.sezonā”. Darba mērķis ir noskaidrot, kā atpazīt “catfishinga” manipulāciju formas, kā ar tām cīnīties un saprast, kādi ir šādas darbības galvenie nolūki. Darbā tiek apskatīts amerikāņu realitātes šovs “The Circle” 2. sezona un tā auditorija. Mērķa sasniegšanai tika izmantota teorētiskā literatūra un izvirzītās pētniecības metodes. Teorētiskajā daļā ir aplūkota mediju lietojuma un apmierinājuma teorija, realitātes šova žanrs, mediju auditorija, seriāls “The Circle” un “catfishings”. Pētījuma veikšanai tika izmantotas divas metodes – interneta aptauja un strukturētā/daļēji strukturētā intervija.

Riflessioni sul giudizio di parificazione dei rendiconti regionali

2020

The Italian Court of Auditors (“Corte dei conti”) has jurisdiction and authority to the equalization judgement (“giudizio di parificazione”) of fiscal statements of Italian Regions, which appears as an exam on the legitimacy/rightness of the ways applied by the regional administrations in the construction of their general audit reports taking into consideration the comparison with those decisions assumed in the budget and the adjustments pursuant to the applicable fiscal rules. Therefore, the equalization judgement consists in a check of correspondence, that is to say in the assessment of the variances that, considering the equilibria set forth in the budget, emerge from the final reports, …

Event-related brain potentials of masked repetition and semantic priming while listening to sentences.

2012

We combined for the first time electrophysiological measures and masked priming technique in sentential context, by setting up a cross-modal masked priming paradigm involving the auditory presentation of sentences. ERPs were time-locked to an auditorily presented word that was preceded by a repeated, related or unrelated pattern masked prime. We registered a two-way N400-difference between unrelated and related/repeated primes, followed by a late positive component (LPC) for repetition priming. Related primes appear to facilitate the lexical-semantic processing of the target to the same extent repeated primes do (equally attenuated N400). Repetition priming exerts additional demands (LPC), …

Quels sont les déterminants de la rémunération des auditeurs ? Le cas français.

2005

International audience; A partir de 2003, les entreprises françaises sont tenues de divulguer le montant des rémunérations de leurs auditeurs, mais de nombreuses entreprises ont décidé de divulguer volontairement ces informations dans leur rapport annuel 2002. Dans ce travail, nous tentons d'expliquer le montant des rémunérations des auditeurs perçues au cours de l'exercice 2002 dans 127 entreprises françaises non financières. Nos résultats confirment l'incidence positive de la taille et du risque associé aux entreprises auditées sur la rémunération des auditeurs.

Outside-host phage therapy as a biological control against environmental infectious diseases

2018

Background Environmentally growing pathogens present an increasing threat for human health, wildlife and food production. Treating the hosts with antibiotics or parasitic bacteriophages fail to eliminate diseases that grow also in the outside-host environment. However, bacteriophages could be utilized to suppress the pathogen population sizes in the outside-host environment in order to prevent disease outbreaks. Here, we introduce a novel epidemiological model to assess how the phage infections of the bacterial pathogens affect epidemiological dynamics of the environmentally growing pathogens. We assess whether the phage therapy in the outside-host environment could be utilized as a biologi…