OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of the medical documentation and biological trace evidence in rape cases on the legal process. DESIGN Retrospective descriptive study. SETTING AND SAMPLE Police-reported cases of rape of women ≥16 years old in the Norwegian county of Sør-Trøndelag from January 1997 to June 2003. METHODS Police data were merged with data from the Sexual Assault Center at St O...

In this paper we report the benefits of using eXtended Markup Language (XML) to support financial knowledge management, which include indexing, organizing, association generation, cross-referencing, and retrieval of financial information to support the generation of knowledge. The current searching engines cannot provide sufficient performance, such as, recall, precision, extensibility, etc, to...

This paper estimates the impact of economic conditions in foreign industries on the filing of antidumping petitions by US industries and the US government’s decision in preliminary and final antidumping investigations. Exploiting cross-country variation in economic shocks in manufacturing, I estimate a joint model of filing decisions by the US industry and antidumping decisions by the US govern...

INTRODUCTION Enterococcus (E) faecalis bacteria adhere to dentine of teeth root canals to form the biofilm. E. faecalis has been shown to be resistant to antibiotics. This in vitro study aimed to investigate the efficacy of vancomycin and doxycycline in inhibiting E. faecalis biofilm formation. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 60 extracted human teeth were incubated with E. faecalis (ATCC 355...

This Case Study will be used in order to investigate and establish the importance of role of Management Information System in time saving during the payment of automobile tax in Sindh through e-filling methods. Moreover it will also highlight the important factors which are involved as barriers and limit the role of MIS in time saving techniques. The approach which is used in this case study is...

We document insider opportunism in an insolvency regime that is characterized by weak creditor rights and uses an accounting rule to determine bankruptcy eligibility. Using a unique dataset of bankrupt firms from India, we show insiders manage earnings downward before filing for bankruptcy via inventory and trade receivable accruals. A battery of robustness tests confirm accrual behavior is not...

E-mail has become one of the most important communication media for business and private purposes. Large amounts of past e-mail records reside on corporate servers and desktop clients. There is a huge potential for mining this data. E-mail filing and spam filtering are wellestablished e-mail mining tasks. E-mail filing addresses the assignment of incoming e-mails to predefined categories to sup...

The United States (U.S.) government is one of the largest users of information technology (IT) systems in the world (Evans, 2006). A considerable percentage of the government’s IT investment is allocated to e-government initiatives. E-government in the U.S. provides its citizens with convenient access to government information and services. The electronic filing of income tax returns (the e-fil...