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In presenting his report to the congress, Capacity Building Committee (CBC) chair Ahmed El-Midaoui, First President of the Court of Accounts of Morocco and goal 2 chair, noted that capacity building is central to the INTOSAI strategic plan's vision of strengthening SAIs globally. To help achieve this, INTOSAI's strategic goal 2 focuses on institutional capacity building. Its objective is to build the capabilities and professional capacities of SAIs through training, technical assistance, developing advisory and consultant services, promoting best professional practices, peer review, developing partnerships with international development organizations, and other development activities. Since its inception, the CBC has developed six guides that can be found on the committee's Web site (ht...
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ABSTRACT
While there is at least one standardized test available for evaluating the antioxidant capacity of cosmetic formulations, the authors propo...
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NMFS issues this notice to inform persons of their eligibility to vote in the fishing capacity reduction program referendum for the Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery. NMFS will hold a series of public meetings with Southeast Alaska purse seine salmon permit holders and interested individuals.
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There will always be institutions for which implementing a capacity-based costing methodology will not be appropriate. However, for many institutions, the business value created from such a methodology will far outweigh the additional expense of getting there. Financial institutions must balance their need to allocate costs for segment and management reporting with their need to understand the true cost of providing services to customers. Full-absorption costing has historically been utilized to support management and segment reporting, due to its ease of implementation. But this has come with consequences: inaccurate unit costs for pricing decisions that have been the source of endless internal debates over the charge of services. Capacity-based costing can provide a more accurate pict...
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This article presents findings from 45 structured key informant interviews conducted in nine rural Minnesota communities to examine the readiness of r...
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt The United States faces a "diverse set of security challenges"1 and a "wider range of adversaries" than any time in recent history.2 The international environment is characterized by significant instability, insecurity, and uncertainty and America faces substantial strategic challenges as it attempts to maintain an effective international presence in such an environment while facing mounting resource constraints. [...] American leaders must balance national desires, responsibilities, and ideals to meet America's strategic ends while harmonizing the ways and means at their disposal.
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Recent events in the automobile industry have overturned what had seemed to be a relatively predictable set of circumstances. The original U.S. "Big T...
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Introduction
The aging process is associated with a progressive decline in most physiological systems. Among the most important changes with regard ...
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In this Final Rule, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission revises its regulations governing interstate natural gas pipelines to prohibit multiple affiliates of the same entity from bidding in an open season for pipeline capacity in which the pipeline may allocate capacity on a pro rata basis, unless each affiliate has an independent business reason for submitting a bid. The Commission does not find it necessary to adopt its proposal in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that if more than one affiliate of the same entity participates in such an open season, then none of those affiliates may release any capacity obtained in that open season pursuant to a pro rata allocation to any affiliate, or otherwise allow any affiliate to obtain the use of the allowed capacity.