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    INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS INTERESTED IN THE FAMILY COURT REVIEW

    FAMILY COURT REVIEW, Issue 1 2008
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    MIND YOUR ACCRUALS: PERCEIVED USEFULNESS OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION IN THE AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SECTOR UNDER DIFFERENT ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS

    FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2010
    Ralph Kober
    This study examines the usefulness of three accounting systems (cash, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) accrual, and Government Finance Statistics (GFS) accrual) for public sector decision-making. From a survey of internal users, external users, and preparers in Australia, we find that GAAP accrual information is perceived to be relatively more useful and understandable than the other two systems for most decisions examined. The relatively higher ratings for GAAP accrual information differ from earlier studies and may reflect an experience or familiarity effect whereby perceptions of usefulness are enhanced because respondents have become more used to the system. This effect might also explain the lower ratings for GFS accrual. [source]

    NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: PERSPECTIVES ON PERFORMANCE AND THE USE OF PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

    FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2008
    E. Pieter Jansen
    Performance information is a key-element of NPM, but politicians and managers rarely use this information. On the basis of three case studies, this paper seeks to explain the use of the newly developed performance information. The paper argues that there is a distinction between the customer perspective and the citizen perspective on performance. NPM implies a customer and an internal perspective on performance. These perspectives may be relevant to managers, but politicians are primarily interested in a citizen perspective and a financial perspective. Two situations are identified in which governmental organizations more actively use performance information with a customer perspective and an internal perspective (as implied in NPM): (1) a crisis in the organization's internal processes with political and/or financial consequences and (2) loose coupling of the performance reports to politicians and to managers, which stimulates the information use by both politicians and managers. [source]

    SUBMISSION INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

    FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, Issue 1 2009
    Article first published online: 31 MAR 200
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    NEW FLA SUBMISSION INFORMATION

    FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, Issue 1 2005
    Article first published online: 31 DEC 200
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    WORKING WITH PUBLIC LIBRARIES TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO QUALITY-ASSURED HEALTH INFORMATION FOR THE LAY PUBLIC

    JOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION & DIETETICS, Issue 2 2004
    Sara F. L. Kirk PhD RD
    [source]

    FILLING HISTORY OF THE MAUI B FIELD, NEW ZEALAND: NEW INFORMATION FROM OIL INCLUSIONS IN AUTHIGENIC MINERALS FROM THE OIL LEG IN THE MAUI-B1 WELL F SANDS

    JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, Issue 3 2009
    S. D. Killops
    A study of the molecular composition of oil inclusions in the Maui field, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, reveals compositional variation in oil during the filling history of the Paleocene reservoir. The homogenization temperatures of aqueous inclusions in quartz suggest that oil in genetically associated inclusions first reached the proto-Maui structure about 7.0,7.5 Ma ago, and that an effective trap was present at the Paleocene F-sands level, given the abundant oil inclusions. This date coincides with what is believed to represent the early stages of structural development of the trap. The Maui or Pihama sub-basin appears the most likely kitchen for this early charge. The quartz-included oil exhibits a biomarker distribution with a slightly more marine-influenced signature than an oil stain from the same core plug, oil included in authigenic feldspar, and oil-production samples from the overlying Eocene D sands as well as the F sands. The greater similarity of the feldspar-included oil to the production oils together with its possibly slightly lower maturity suggest that the feldspar inclusions formed later than the quartz inclusions. Otherwise, all oil samples examined (inclusion oil, oil / bitumen in sandstones and producible oil) are of similar maturity. [source]

    OBTAINING FRACTURE INFORMATION FOR LOW-PERMEABILITY (TIGHT) GAS SANDSTONES FROM SIDEWALL CORES

    JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, Issue 2 2006
    S. E. Laubach
    We illustrate a fracture characterization technique applicable to all tight gas sandstones. The technique uses microfractures and cements in the rock mass identified using SEM-based cathodoluminescence imaging to provide information on unsampled large fractures, including strike and cross-cutting relationships, intensity, and likelihood of preserved open fractures. We applied the technique in two tight gas sandstone wells in the Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation, Black Warrior Basin, Alabama, USA. In one well, data was obtained entirely from drilled 1,inch diameter sidewall cores that were oriented using image logs and features visible in cores. We predicted fracture porosity preservation in large fractures using late cements in the rock mass as a proxy for fracture observation. Results from the technique are consistent with what is known of large fractures in this area. Where we predicted open, high intensity fractures, substantial gas flares were observed during drilling. By combining microstructural and diagenetic observations, it is possible to overcome the inadequate fracture sampling that plagues evaluation of natural fractures and that relies solely on observations of macroscopically visible fractures. [source]

    OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PRIMERS FOR THE DETECTION OF BIOLUMINESCENT DINOFLAGELLATES REVEAL NOVEL LUCIFERASE SEQUENCES AND INFORMATION ON THE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF THIS GENE,

    JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY, Issue 2 2008
    Andrea Baker
    Bioluminescence is reported in members of 18 dinoflagellate genera. Species of dinoflagellates are known to have different bioluminescent signatures, making it difficult to assess the presence of particular species in the water column using optical tools, particularly when bioluminescent populations are in nonbloom conditions. A "universal" oligonucleotide primer set, along with species and genus-specific primers specific to the luciferase gene were developed for the detection of bioluminescent dinoflagellates. These primers amplified luciferase sequences from bioluminescent dinoflagellate cultures and from environmental samples containing bioluminescent dinoflagellate populations. Novel luciferase sequences were obtained for strains of Alexandrium cf. catenella (Whedon et Kof.) Balech and Alexandrium fundyense Balech, and also from a strain of Gonyaulax spinifera (Clap. et Whitting) Diesing, which produces bioluminescence undetectable to the naked eye. The phylogeny of partial luciferase sequences revealed five significant clades of the dinoflagellate luciferase gene, suggesting divergence among some species and providing clues on their molecular evolution. We propose that the primers developed in this study will allow further detection of low-light-emitting bioluminescent dinoflagellate species and will have applications as robust indicators of dinoflagellate bioluminescence in natural water samples. [source]

    EXCHANGES OF INFORMATION, ENERGY & MATERIALS IN SYMBIOSES

    JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY, Issue 2000
    J.A. Raven
    Symbiosis is important in the cell and environmental biology of algae. Some examples involving the author and numerous collaborators include: 1) chloroplasts of eukaryotic algae arose from endosymbioses. Plastids are incapable of independent existence; most of the genes of the cyanobacterial photobiont have been lost, and the majority of the rest have been transferred to the nuclear genome. Some of the genes retained by the plastid are those whose transcription is controlled by environmental cues transduced by the organelle. The general trend is for organelle genes to be transferred to the nucleus, escaping plastid redox activities generating mutagenic free radicals; 2) symbioses involving potentially free-living photobionts include marine lichens and sponges with cyanobacterial symbionts. For the lichen, Lichina, inorganic carbon acquisition appears to involve inorganic carbon transport by the mycobiont, and for the sponge, Cymbastella, the flagellar activity of the sponge is probably important for inorganic carbon supply to the photobiont; 3) the Australasian fucalean, Notheia, is an obligate epiphyte on the fucaleans, Hormosira and Xiphophora; the four species involved all contain the hexitol, altritol. Notheia anomala is known to be phyletically-distant from the other five altritol-containing species. Can Notheia synthesize altritol, or is it obtained from the phorophyte?; 4) Sacoglossan gastropods retain kleptoplastids (not strictly symbionts) from ulvophycean (or rhodophycean) marine algae. Analyses of the natural abundance of stable carbon isotopes suggest significant contribution of kleptoplastid photosynthesis to the carbon and energy budget of the mollusks. [source]

    CHANNEL STABILITY DOWNSTREAM FROM A DAM ASSESSED USING AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND STREAM-GAGE INFORMATION,

    JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION, Issue 3 2000
    Kyle E. Juracek
    ABSTRACT: The stability of the Neosho River channel downstream from John Redmond Dam, in southeast Kansas, was investigated using multiple-date aerial photographs and stream-gage information. Bankfull channel width was used as the primary indicator variable to assess pre- and post-dam channel change. Five sin-mile river reaches and four stream gages were used in the analysis. Results indicated that, aside from some localized channel widening, the overall channel change has been minor with little post-dam change in bankfull channel width. The lack of a pronounced post-dam channel change may be attributed to a substantial reduction in the magnitude of the post-dam annual peak discharges in combination with the resistance to erosion of the bed and bank materials. Also, the channel may have been overwidened by a series of large floods that predated construction of the dam, including one with an estimated 500-year recurrence interval. [source]

    PRICING CORPORATE SECURITIES UNDER NOISY ASSET INFORMATION

    MATHEMATICAL FINANCE, Issue 3 2009
    Rüdiger Frey
    This paper considers the pricing of corporate securities of a given firm, in particular equity, when investors do not have full information on the firm's asset value. We show that under noisy asset information, the pricing of corporate securities leads to a nonlinear filtering problem. This problem is solved by a Markov chain approximation, leading to an efficient finite-dimensional approximative filter for the asset value. We discuss several applications and illustrate our results with a simulation study. [source]

    THE INVESTMENT GAME WITH ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION

    METROECONOMICA, Issue 1 2006
    Giorgio Coricelli
    ABSTRACT We analyze the effects of introducing asymmetric information and expectations in the investment game (Berg et al., Games and Economic Behavior, 1995, 10, 122,42). In our experiment, only the trustee knows the size of the surplus. Subjects' expectations about each other's behavior are also elicited. Our results show that average payback levels increase with the average amount sent. Asymmetric information does not reduce the amounts sent and returned, as compared with previous experimental studies. The first movers' choices increase with their expectations about the second movers' payback, whose choices depend in turn on the difference between expected and actual amounts received. [source]

    THE EFFECT OF INFORMATION ON A STOCHASTIC, SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED FISHERY

    NATURAL RESOURCE MODELING, Issue 2 2003
    GREG CRIPE
    ABSTRACT. Survival rates and carrying capacities in a fishery may be strongly affected by variations in climatic factors. When the stock is under the control of a single manager, information about the stochastic growth parameters leads to improved economic returns. However, when the stock is transboundary, additional information concerning the stochastic parameters can lead to over harvesting and in turn to lower economic returns. When the harvests are taken sequentially by more than one fleet, additional information will benefit the first harvester while harming those who follow. [source]

    ON OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION AND ENFORCEMENT: INFORMATION, MONITORING AND EFFICIENCY

    NATURAL RESOURCE MODELING, Issue 1 2001
    CARLOS MARIO GÓMEZ GÓMEZ
    ABSTRACT. The purpose of the paper is to contribute to the narrowing of the distance between formal theory and practical environmental policy design. We formulate a general and comprehensive theoretical model in order to take into account the different informational and technological problems which characterize the definition and implementation of environmental taxes in a second best world where there also are distortionary taxes. Having formalized these problems, we present a general model which allows us to discuss the existence of efficient and implementable environmental quality objectives and policy instruments, and to analyze many particular cases. [source]

    MONOPOLY, POTENTIAL COMPETITION AND PRIVATE STOCK INFORMATION IN EXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCE MARKETS

    NATURAL RESOURCE MODELING, Issue 4 2000
    MARK D. AGEE
    ABSTRACT. This paper develops an exhaustible resource model with an incumbent monopolist that faces future potential entry of a single rival or backstop technology. The model is characterized by private stock information in the sense that firms do not know with certainty the size and/or quality of their rival's reserve stock. Results indicate that if such information is private, the strategic response of the monopolist to an entry threat is to extract reserves in the pre-entry era at a rate faster than would a pure monopolist in an uncontested market, and thus could lead to an improvement in economic welfare relative to the situation where entry is restricted. [source]

    An Analysis of the Concept of Organizational Commitment

    NURSING FORUM, Issue 3 2008
    Shwu-Ru Liou MHA
    TOPIC. Building organizational commitment. PURPOSE. This paper aims to analyze the concept of organizational commitment, including its attributes, antecedents, outcomes, and measurements. SOURCES OF INFORMATION. CINAHL, MEDLINE, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Sociological Collection, and PubMed. CONCLUSION. By understanding the concept of organizational commitment, administrators and nurses can become more aware of their levels of commitment, bridge gaps in communication, and eventually provide higher-quality care to clients. [source]

    The Diversity Imperative: Strategies to Address a Diverse Nursing Workforce

    NURSING FORUM, Issue 3 2008
    Joanne Noone PhD
    TOPIC. There has been a call to action for the need to create a more diverse nursing workforce. PURPOSE. The purpose of this article is to outline and review strategies that schools of nursing education can use to increase the recruitment, retention, and success of a diverse nursing student body. SOURCES OF INFORMATION. A review of the nursing literature was performed using CINAHL and hand-searching references. Abstracts were reviewed and articles included if the topic of the article referred to strategies to increase the diversity of nursing students. CONCLUSIONS. A variety of strategies are being used to address this issue. A multifaceted approach is recommended. [source]

    The Benefits of Peer Support With Diabetes

    NURSING FORUM, Issue 4 2004
    Sandra L. MacPherson MSN
    TOPIC. Peer coaching for diabetes support. purpose. To see if peer coaching assists a person with diabetes make the correct diet and activity choices. SOURCES OF INFORMATION. Journal articles, Internet. CONCLUSIONS. Peer support is helpful for people who are struggling to cope with diabetes. If peer support is offered, a structured follow-up program needs to be in place. [source]

    IMPERFECT INFORMATION AND DIFFERENCES IN HOME OWNERSHIP INVESTMENT

    PACIFIC ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 4 2004
    Keiko Nosse Hirono
    We study the advantages accruing to buyers who have complete information and who can pay less than the equilibrium price if sellers undervalue their properties. The reduction in home ownership investment can increase consumption or investment in other assets. We develop an empirical model to capture the gain to such buyers. We estimate this to have been 12.6%,27.6% of the equilibrium price of houses at maximum in the Tokyo metropolitan area during the 1980s. [source]

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND ISSUES

    ACTA ARCHAEOLOGICA, Issue 1 2009
    Article first published online: 5 JUL 2010
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    THE TRANSPORTABILITY OF JOB INFORMATION ACROSS COUNTRIES

    PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 1 2008
    PAUL J. TAYLOR
    Three Occupational Information Network (O*NET) instruments (Generalized Work Activities, Basic and Cross-Functional Skills, Work Styles) were administered to 1,007 job incumbents, from 369 organizations, performing 1 of 3 jobs (first-line supervisor, office clerk, computer programmer) in New Zealand, China, and Hong Kong. Data from these countries were compared with archival data collected from 370 incumbents holding similar jobs in the United States. Hypothesized country differences, derived from cross-cultural theory, received limited support. The magnitude of differences in mean item ratings between incumbents from the United States and the other 3 countries were generally small to moderate in size, and rank-orderings of the importance and level of work activities and job requirements were quite similar, suggesting that, for most applications, job information is likely to transport quite well across countries. [source]

    Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Treatment of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

    PERSPECTIVES IN PSYCHIATRIC CARE, Issue 2 2002
    AP/MHCNS, Deborah L. Finfgeld RN
    TOPIC. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) has reentered the spotlight following the FDA's recent approval of fluoxetine hydrochloride to treat its symptoms. Although the diagnosis and treatment of PMDD has long been a source of contention, the FDA move has heightened the debate over this diagnostic category and the most appropriate treatment. PURPOSE. To explore several diagnoses related to PMDD and review recent research findings pertaining to the effectiveness of SSRIs to treat PMDD. SOURCES OF INFORMATION. Published literature. CONCLUSIONS. Advanced practice nurses need to remain well informed about premenstrual conditions and emerging evidence-based treatment alternatives. In particular, they need to remember that the FDA has approved fluoxetine for the treatment of a very small subset of women with premenstrual complaints, among whom treatment efficacy is limited. [source]

    ONE FIGHT, ONE TEAM: THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE, FRAGMENTATION AND INFORMATION

    PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 2 2006
    HANS DE BRUIJN
    In its report published in 2004, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (known as the ,9/11 Commission') analyses the functioning of the Intelligence Community (ICo). It indicates that the ICo is both over-fragmented and guilty of not sharing enough information. The Commission recommends that central control of the ICo needs to be strengthened and that more incentives for information-sharing should be designed. This article takes a critical look at these two recommendations. Sharing information carries major risks and is therefore not something that can take place as a matter of course. Moreover, information has to be subject to a selection process before it can be shared. This selection cannot be measured objectively, so mistakes in the selection are unavoidable. Strengthening central control also poses risks: it engenders more battles over territory, it does not improve understanding of the capillaries of the organization , the capillaries being where the primary processes of information gathering, validation and assessment take place , and it involves the destruction of checks and balances. Fragmentation may even be functional since it leads to redundancy, itself a safeguard against the risk of misselecting relevant information. [source]

    PRICE-LEVEL DETERMINATION UNDER DISPERSED INFORMATION AND MONETARY POLICY,

    THE JAPANESE ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 3 2006
    KOSUKE AOKI
    This paper considers the determination of aggregate price level under dispersed information. A Central Bank sets policy in response to its noisy measure of the price level, and each agent makes its decisions by observing a subset of data. Information revealed to the agents and the bank is determined endogenously. It is shown that the aggregate state of the economy is not revealed perfectly to anybody but this economy behaves as if it is a representative-agent economy in which the representative agent has perfect information while the Bank has partial information. The Bank's information set affects fluctuations in the price level through its effect on policy. [source]

    TRADER EXPLOITATION OF ORDER FLOW INFORMATION DURING THE LTCM CRISIS

    THE JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2009
    Fang Cai
    Abstract By using a unique data set of audit trail transactions, I examine the trading behavior of market makers in the Treasury-bond futures market during the Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) crisis in 1998. I find strong evidence that during the crisis market makers in the aggregate engaged in anticipatory trading against customer orders from a particular clearing firm (coded PI7) that closely match various features of LTCM's trades through Bear Stearns. I also show that a significant percentage of market makers made abnormal profits during the crisis. Their aggregate abnormal profits, however, were more than offset by abnormal losses following the recapitalization of LTCM. [source]

    INFORMATION AND NOISE IN FINANCIAL MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM THE E-MINI INDEX FUTURES

    THE JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2008
    Alexander Kurov
    Abstract I examine the informational contributions and effects on transitory volatility of trades initiated by different types of traders in three actively traded index futures markets. The results show that trades initiated by exchange member firms account for more than 60% of price discovery during the trading day. These institutional trades appear to be more informative than trades of individual exchange members or off-exchange traders. I also find that off-exchange traders introduce more noise into the prices than do exchange members. My findings provide new evidence on the role of different types of traders in the price formation process. [source]

    DO DEALERS INFER INFORMATION FROM ORDER FLOW?

    THE JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH, Issue 2 2007
    Bidisha Chakrabarty
    Abstract I examine strategic behavior among dealers in the NASDAQ market and document that there is a lead quote-setting dealer in each security and that the quotes posted by this leader are informative. Other dealers free-ride this information by following the lead quote-setting dealer. The lead dealer can be identified by two information signals: (1) percentage of time spent on the inside market (i.e., posting inside quotes), and (2) trade volume transacted. Dealers that free-ride the leader's quotes quickly update their posted quotes in the same direction as the leader's quote change. My findings suggest that directing trade to the lead dealer may be more advantageous than randomly routing trade. [source]

    TWO-STEP EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION UNDER STRATIFIED SAMPLING WHEN AGGREGATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE,

    THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 5 2006
    ESMERALDA A. RAMALHO
    Empirical likelihood is appropriate to estimate moment condition models when a random sample from the target population is available. However, many economic surveys are subject to some form of stratification, in which case direct application of empirical likelihood will produce inconsistent estimators. In this paper we propose a two-step empirical likelihood estimator to deal with stratified samples in models defined by unconditional moment restrictions in the presence of some aggregate information such as the mean and the variance of the variable of interest. A Monte Carlo simulation study reveals promising results for many versions of the two-step empirical likelihood estimator. [source]

    CR11 PATIENT RECALL OF INFORMED CONSENT INFORMATION PRIOR TO COLONOSCOPY

    ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY, Issue 2007
    I. G. Thomson
    Purpose To determine if patients presenting for colonoscopy can remember information discussed in the informed consent process. Focusing on whether patients know of the possible risks. Methodology A prospective study of patients presenting for elective colonoscopy through the Colorectal Unit. Patients were consented in outpatient clinics prior to the procedure using the colonoscopy consent form supplied by Queensland Health. On the day of the procedure a 2 page questionnaire with 13 questions was completed by the patient prior to their colonoscopy. Indications for colonoscopy date of consent & procedure and seniority of consenting doctor were obtained from medical records. Results 100 patients completed the questionnaire. 94% of patients could correctly identify colonoscopy as the procedure being undertaken. 45% of patients were able to identify that there were any risks involved with the procedure. Only 28% of patients could name perforation as a possible risk. h regard to other investigative options 83% could not identify any from a list of three. Despite this 92% felt they were given enough information and were happy to proceed. Conclusion This study highlights room for improvement in the current informed consent process. The current process falls short in educating patients of the possible serious risks involved. Patients do not recall other therapeutic options given. The consent process does convey basic information allowing the patient to identify the name of the investigation and anatomical area investigated. Despite these shortcomings most patients felt they were given enough information to proceed. [source]