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Political control and bureaucratic autonomy revisited: a multi-institutional analysis of OSHA enforcement.(Author abstract)
INTRODUCTION The proper role of bureaucracy in democratic governance has long been a matter of controversy. One part of the debate on this matter involves the normative and empirical argument that democratic control and bureaucratic autonomy are dichotomous opposites: if there is democratic...
Tags: agency, analysis, autonomy, Barry, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, OSHA, U.S. Senate, variability, Wood
Research articles 2008-01-01
Getting the numbers right: investors and regulators now can estimate the impact of future reserve variability on insurers' earnings.(Property/Casualty: Reserves)
Loss reserves, generally the largest liability on insurers' balance sheets, are the estimated cost of settling unpaid claim liabilities. Under generally accepted accounting principles and statutory accounting principles, changes in reserve estimates are recognized in the year they occur, not the year policies were issued. ...
Tags: accident, adequacy, analysis, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., earnings, Insurance, investor, regulator, reinsurance, reserve, variability
Research articles 2007-10-01
SOI sampling methodology and data limitations: appendix
This appendix discusses typical sampling procedures used in most Statistics of Income SOI programs. Aspects covered briefly include sampling criteria, selection techniques, methods of estimation, and sampling variability. Some of the nonsampling error limitations of the data are also described, as well as the tabular conventions employed. Additional information...
Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, variability
Research articles 2007-09-22
Variability in needle morphology and water status of Pinus cembroides across an elevational gradient in the Davis Mountains of west Texas, USA1
POULOS, H. M. AND G. P. BERLYN (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, Greeley Memorial Laboratory, 370 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511, USA). Variability in needle morphology and water status of Pinus cembroides across an elevational gradient in the Davis Mountains of west Texas, USA. J....
Tags: Arizona, gradient, needle, species, Texas, U.S. Department of Agriculture, variability
Research articles 2007-04-01
SOI sampling methodology and data limitations: appendix
This appendix discusses typical sampling procedures used in most Statistics of Income SOI programs. Aspects covered briefly include sampling criteria, selection techniques, methods of estimation, and sampling variability. Some of the nonsampling error limitations of the data are also described, as well as the tabular conventions employed. Additional information...
Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, variability
Research articles 2007-03-22
Macroeconomic stabilization through an employer of last resort
The employer of last resort ELR policy proposal, also referred to as the job guarantee or public sector employment, is promoted by its supporters as an alternative to unemployment as the primary means of currency stability (see Forstater 1998; Mitchell 1998; Wray 1998; 2000; Mitchell and Wray 2004; Tcherneva and...
Tags: alphA, coefficient, Delta, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Gordon, income, inflation, Labor, Lewis, Lucas, salary, stabilization, stock, tax, variability, worker
Research articles 2007-03-01
Clear Shape, Lightspeed team on mask-reconfigurable IP (Electronic News)
To reduce litho-related variability and stress-related variability in mask-reconfigurable IP at the 65-nm and 45-nm process nodes, Santa Clara, CA.-based variability-aware analysis tool supplier Clear Shape Technologies Inc. http://www.clearshape.co To reduce litho-related variability and stress-related variability in mask-reconfigurable IP at the 65-nm and 45-nm process...
Tags: Clear, IP, team, variability
Research articles 2007-04-16
Nature, not humans, blamed for Australia drought
SYDNEY AFP — Australia's devastating drought is far more likely to be part of a natural cycle than a result of the man-made greenhouse effect, an Australian climate scientist has said. Barrie Hunt, a researcher with government science agency CSIRO, dismissed suggestions that global warming, believed to be caused by...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Australia, scientist, variability
Research articles 2006-12-27
SOI sampling methodology and data limitations: appendix
This appendix discusses typical sampling procedures used in most Statistics of Income SOI programs. Aspects covered briefly include sampling criteria, selection techniques, methods of estimation, and sampling variability. Some of the nonsampling error limitations of the data are also described, as well as the tabular conventions employed. Additional information...
Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, variability
Research articles 2006-12-22
SOI sampling methodology and data limitations: appendix
This appendix discusses typical sampling procedures used in most Statistics of Income SOI programs. Aspects covered briefly include sampling criteria, selection techniques, methods of estimation, and sampling variability. Some of the nonsampling error limitations of the data are also described, as well as the tabular conventions employed. Additional information...
Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, variability
Research articles 2006-09-22
Wet and dry: Europe's weird summers set to become commonplace, says study
PARIS AFP — Continental Europe's extreme summers of recent years, characterized by heavy floods or killer heatwaves, could be commonplace by the turn of the century, a climate study says. Its authors believe that changes in the complex relationship between air temperature and land moisture, driven by global warming, will...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Europe, moisture, variability
Research articles 2006-09-13
AFS addressing aircraft structural casting manufacturing questions
The U.S. metalcasting industry may have hit a bump in the runway. Several questions have been voiced in recent months regarding the applicability of castings in airframe structures. Some of the concerns regard statistical variability, costly quality inspections and late delivery. In response to these concerns presented by the...
Tags: aerospace, aircraft, FAA, Manufacturing, variability
Research articles 2006-09-01
SOI sampling methodology and data limitations: appendix
This appendix discusses typical sampling procedures used in most Statistics of Income SOI programs. Aspects covered briefly include sampling criteria, selection techniques, methods of estimation, and sampling variability. Some of the nonsampling error limitations of the data are also described, as well as the tabular conventions employed. Additional information...
Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, variability
Research articles 2006-06-22
Improving base demand levels using COLT
COLT (customer-oriented leveling technique) is coming to a base near you! Starting in 2006, the Air Force began formally implementing COLT levels, causing many people to ask, "What is COLT, and what will it do for me?" COLT is a relatively new system that determines Air Force base stock...
Tags: Air Force, FINANCE, Investment, stock, variability
Research articles 2006-06-22
SOI sampling methodology and data limitations: appendix
This appendix discusses typical sampling procedures used in most Statistics of Income SOI programs. Aspects covered briefly include sampling criteria, selection techniques, methods of estimation, and sampling variability. Some of the nonsampling error limitations of the data are also described, as well as the tabular conventions employed. Additional information...
Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, variability
Research articles 2006-03-22
Core values: buying software is not the first step in an ABC project plan, or in any other type of upgrading process. Core values are at the heart of any project planning process. The challenge is determining what these are. An example of how Bank of Amer
The activity-based costing ABC failure rate has been significant. There are many factors that contribute to these failures, but none as conspicuous as the tendency of companies to buy software as one of the first steps in the project. It appears that when an individual buys software, that person...
Tags: ABC Inc., Bank of America Corp., FINANCE, software, Software Engineering Institute, team, variability
Research articles 2006-03-01
SOI sampling methodology and data limitations: appendix
This appendix discusses typical sampling procedures used in most Statistics of Income SOI programs. Aspects covered briefly include sampling criteria, selection techniques, methods of estimation, and sampling variability. Some of the nonsampling error limitations of the data are also described, as well as the tabular conventions employed. Additional information...
Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, variability
Research articles 2005-12-22
Development of a conservation-oriented precision agriculture system: water and soil quality assessment.
A comprehensive approach to achieving sustained crop productivity and profitability requires implementation of conservation systems that simultaneously consider soil and water quality. The objectives of this study were to: 1) assess long-term surface and groundwater quality in a conventionally managed field; 2) assess long-term changes in soil quality in a...
Tags: centimeter, Conservation, Donald, Environmental, kilogram, Kitchen, Missouri, quality, soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture, variability
Research articles 2005-11-01
Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2nd ed.).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Introduction to Applied Statistics: A Modelling Approach (2nd ed.). J. K. LINDSEY. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, xiv + 321 pp., $119.50 H, ISBN: 0-19-852894-9; $54.50 P, ISBN: 0-19-852895-7. The second edition of this book, like the first published in 1995, ...
Tags: INTERNET, University of Oxford, variability
Research articles 2005-08-01
Field evaluation of three phosphorus indices on new application sites in Texas (1).
Phosphorus P indices were developed to address nonpoint source P losses from agricultural fields; however, only limited information on P index performance at the field- and watershed-scale is available. Evaluation of P indices is necessary to provide the basis of modification and improvement of their usefulness as P management tools....
Tags: Arkansas, Conservation, Environmental, indice, Iowa, Litter, pasture, poultry, Quality, Texas, U.S. Department of Agriculture, variability
Research articles 2005-01-01
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