The United States government financial records have been criticized since the 1970s, as congressional policy-makers have sought to increase the financial accountability and audit readiness on its internal control systems. ... The first strategic goal was to strengthen processes, controls, and systems that produce budgetary information and support the department's Statement of Budgetary Resources (SBR). ... "The Green Book provides financial management personnel criteria for designing, implementing, and operating an effective internal control system [GAO14]. ... Private sector financial...

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There aren't any actual definitions coined by Tocqueville for the 'key' terms he uses, so in "Democracy in America", we get more of a complex, yet focused, personified picture of America as a democratic system, or, as Ryan puts it, "a film rather than a photograph () a narrative of the movement that generated democracy". ... In the United States, Tocqueville notices this stable equation of liberty and equality that transcends the social towards the political into democracy - etymologically translated to 'the rule of the people' – and materia...

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Proponents of the unschooling method frown upon regimented curriculum's and stress-inducing examination systems. ... This presents a fundamental problem with today's traditional schooling system. ... The process becomes quite different when students are forced to learn through processes that stifle their creativity and love of learning by inducing unnecessary stress into the equation. ... In a recent interview, she described listening in on her students as they strategized how the three of them would pool their money to purchase a video game system. ... People were learning to read ...

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These pathways efficiently yield 12 molecules of Hydrogen per molecule of glucose (or equivalent polysaccharide), and the author hints that this could be the key to future transportation systems. ... Such a system design, independent of living cells, not only performs more efficiently, but also is simpler to modify and manipulate than living organisms, given its freedom from physiology, cell maintenance, replication, reaction regulation, membranes, cell walls, etc., etc. ... In order to establish a quantitative standpoint for discussing the potential efficiency of SyPaB, the author presents a ...

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In the 90's, researchers like Blair based their research on the amygdala dysfunction being the core neural system in the pathology of psychopathy. ... Abstract Psychologist have concluded that psychopaths are not developed based on the methods that have helped raised them rather there is more to the equation. ... It is therefore suggested that amygdala dysfunction is one of the core neural systems implicated in the pathology of psychopathy (Patrick, 1994; Blair et al, 1999). ...

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Furthermore, these policies have pushed many students out of schools and into the juvenile justice system for minor behavioral infractions and non-violence offenses. ... While the intention of zero tolerance was to reduce violence and create safer school environments, unintended consequences of these disciplinary rules have made schools less safe for many students by interrupting the learning process and paving a pathway from school into the juvenile justice system. ... Both adult and juvenile offenders were faced with the consequences of the major punitive shift of the U.S. criminal justice s...

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