Why must it always be so Real with tax evasion?

Acronyms Must always bE defiNed (AMEN).

To the Editor: In a recent article from a prominent cardiological journal, the authors compared major adverse cardiac event rates between primary coronary angioplasty and thrombolytic therapy. They reported their results for the PCAT collaboration, but never explained what the acronym PCAT stood for. That surprised and disappointed me, because according to the International Committee of Medical...

Why It ’ s So Hard to Be Fair

value added tax and tax evasion

The phenomenon of tax evasion has been always one of the most major issues among economists due to it's devastating effects on the economy and the process of economic development. Many scholars have always sought to provide solutions to reduce and limit tax evasion. The introduction of the VAT system can be seen as a milestone in the area of economic transparency and tax evasion, which refers t...

Must diphone synthesis be so unnatural?

An English utterance was synthesized in four versions using sets of diphones produced under four different prosodic and contextual conditions. The synthesis used either accented diphones only or appropriately located accented and unaccented diphones, with each of these conditions being repeated using neutral-context and differentiated-context diphones. They were presented to two listener groups...

Integrating laboratory robots with analytical instruments--must it really be so difficult?

Creating a reliable system from discrete laboratory instruments is often a task fraught with difficulties. While many modern analytical instruments are marvels of detection and data handling, attempts to create automated analytical systems incorporating such instruments are often frustrated by their human-oriented control structures and their egocentricity. The laboratory robot, while fully sus...