Anatomy—The Foundation

ASSE Foundation ResearchASSE Foundation Research Safety Incentives

A GREAT DEAL OF UNCERTAINTY exists regarding the effectiveness of safety incentive programs in construction. Most research on incentives involves case studies and theoretical analyses of their advantages and disadvantages. Using primary survey data from construction firms and craftworkers, this article examines the impact of incentives on the safety performance of U.S. construction firms. The s...

Foundation Matters

This talk is meant as a wake-up call ... The foundation of the database field is, of course, the relational model. Sad to say, however, there are some in the database community—certainly in industry, and to some extent in academia also—who do not seem to be as familiar with that model as they ought to be; there are others who seem to think it is not very interesting or relevant to the day-today...

Accounting’s Foundation:

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) regulates financial accounting. FASB issues two kinds of accounting pronouncements. The first kind are Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts (SFACs). They are the theoretical foundation for the regulations which are promulgated in the Statements of Financial Accounting Standards (SFASs). FASB‟s theoretical statements are based on unstated ph...

Foundation Exam

First, we prove the function g is an injection (i.e., g is one-to-one). We need to prove that if g(m) = g(n) --(1), where m and n are two integers, then m = n --(2). Since g(m) (and also g(n)) can be defined by two different formulas depending whether the argument m (and n) is even or odd, we consider the following 3 cases: (Case 1) Both m and n are even. In this case, (1) implies 1 – m = 1 – n...

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