144 For Audit's Sake: An Audit of Audits [PDF]
British Journal of Surgery, 2021 Abstract Aim Audit is a mandatory requirement for completion of Dental Core Training. Consequently, many audits undertaken by trainees are to “tick a box”, leading to incomplete or poor-quality audits, with change either not implemented or never measured.
J Wege +3 more
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Depression prediction based on LassoNet-RNN model: A longitudinal study
Heliyon, 2023 Depression has become a widespread health concern today. Understanding the influencing factors can promote human mental health as well as provide a basis for exploring preventive measures.
Jiatong Han +6 more
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Competencies of Effective Managers in the Era of Fourth Industrial Revolution
Naukovij Vìsnik Nacìonalʹnoï Akademìï Statistiki, Oblìku ta Auditu, 2022 The article contains results of an analysis of key competencies required by effective managers in our time of massive digitalization caused by the fourth industrial revolution.
N. HRYNCHAK +3 more
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Feature compensation based on independent noise estimation for robust speech recognition
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2021 In this paper, we propose a novel feature compensation algorithm based on independent noise estimation, which employs a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with fewer Gaussian components to rapidly estimate the noise parameters from the noisy speech and monitor
Yong Lü +3 more
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Internal audit department characteristics/activities and audit fees: Some evidence from Hong Kong firms [PDF]
, 2010 This study provides preliminary support for the notion that internal audit function assists in reducing external audit effort and fees. Data on internal audit characteristics and activities are obtained from survey respondents of Hong Kong companies and ...
Ho, Sandra, Hutchinson, Marion
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Image fusion algorithm in Integrated Space-Ground-Sea Wireless Networks of B5G
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2021 In recent years, in Space-Ground-Sea Wireless Networks, the rapid development of image recognition also promotes the development of images fusion. For example, the content of a single-mode medical image is very single, and the fused image contains more ...
Xiaobing Yu +3 more
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On the structure of the turbulent interstellar atomic hydrogen. I- Physical characteristics [PDF]
, 2006 {We study in some details the statistical properties of the turbulent 2-phase interstellar atomic gas.{We present high resolution bidimensional numerical simulations of the interstellar atomic hydrogen which describe it over 3 to 4 orders of magnitude in
Audit, E., Hennebelle, P.
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021 Background Waterbirth is widely available in English maternity settings for women who are not at increased risk of complications during labour. Immersion in water during labour is associated with a number of maternal benefits.
H. Aughey +8 more
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And then there were four: a study of UK market concentration - causes, consequences and the scope for market adjustment [PDF]
, 2003 While concentration measures are a good indicator of market structure, the link with competitiveness is more complex than often assumed. In particular, the modern theory of industrial organisation makes no clear statement regarding the impact of ...
Alan Goodacre +30 more
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Automatic depression recognition by intelligent speech signal processing: A systematic survey
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, 2023 Depression has become one of the most common mental illnesses in the world. For better prediction and diagnosis, methods of automatic depression recognition based on speech signal are constantly proposed and updated, with a transition from the early ...
Pingping Wu +5 more
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