Far too often, there is a gap between research and policy and practice. Too much research is undertaken with little relevance to real life problems or its reported in ways that are obscure and impenetrable. At the same time, many policies are developed and implemented but are untouched by, or even contrary to evidence. An accompanying paper describes an innovative progr...

Auditing standards are undergoing revision in the wake of recent, massive audit failures. Legislative and regulatory bodies are focusing more critically on auditors than ever before. Yet, contemplated revisions to auditing standards leave untouched ambiguities and unresolved issues that have reduced the effectiveness of the authoritative literature for decades. One of the longest-standing issue...

This article deals with automatic parallelization of static control programs. During the parallelization process the removal of arti-cial dependences is usually realized by translating the original program into a single assignment form. This total data expansion has a very high memory cost. We present a technique of partial data expansion which leaves untouched the performances of the paralleli...

Techniques for information hiding have become increasingly more sophisticated and widespread. With high-resolution digital images as carriers, detecting hidden messages has become considerably more difficult. This paper describes a new approach to detecting hidden messages in images. The approach uses a wavelet-like decomposition to build higherorder statistical models of natural images. A Fish...

South America" is considerably more general and simply comments on what is known about what had happened in the past and what has been observed in recent expeditions rather than attempting a compilation. Few aspects of medical investigation are untouched by this book and the discussions and references range from the high estrogen levels in African Bushmen to high altitude performance to the gen...

Focal mediastinal F-18 FDG uptake may be from potential adenopathy requiring biopsy confirmation or benign active brown adipose tissue to be left untouched. Knowledge of this potential pitfall and precise localization with fusion PET/CT are important in preventing misinterpretation as malignancy. Our case report is important in the aspect that CT was not able to confirm the uptake as benign fin...

Luby and Rackoo idealized DES by replacing each round function with one large random function. In this paper, we introduce a primitive-wise idealization in which some of the primitive operations of the round function are left untouched and some of them are replaced with small random functions or permutations. We then prove that a four round primitive-wise idealized RC6 is not a pseudorandom per...

The paper introduces (purely communicative) tissue P systems with conditional uniport. Conditional uniport means that rules move only one object at a time, but this may be with the help of another one acting as an activator which is left untouched in the place where it is. Tissue P systems with conditional uniport are shown to be computationally complete in the sense that they can recognize all...