Audit report on the Department of Management for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Department of Management for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Human Services – Case Management Unit for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Human Services – Case Management Unit for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, Vinton, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, Vinton, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Office of Secretary of State for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Office of Secretary of State for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Workforce Development for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Workforce Development for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Public Safety for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Public Safety for the year ended June 30, 2006

Validation of the New Mix Design Process for Cold In-Place Rehabilitation Using Foamed Asphalt, 2007

Asphalt pavement recycling has grown dramatically over the last few years as a viable technology to rehabilitate existing asphalt pavements. Iowa's current Cold In-place Recycling (CIR) practice utilizes a generic recipe specification to define the characteristics of the CIR mixture. As CIR continues to evolve, the desire to place CIR mixture with specific engineering properties requires the use of a mix design process. A new mix design procedure was developed for Cold In-place Recycling using foamed asphalt (CIR-foam) in consideration of its predicted field performance. The new laboratory mix design process was validated against various Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) materials to determine its consistency over a wide range of RAP materials available throughout Iowa. The performance tests, which include dynamic modulus test, dynamic creep test and raveling test, were conducted to evaluate the consistency of a new CIR-foam mix design process to ensure reliable mixture performance over a wide range of traffic and climatic conditions. The “lab designed” CIR will allow the pavement designer to take the properties of the CIR into account when determining the overlay thickness.

Evaluation qualitative de la compliance médicale [Qualitative evaluation of medical compliance].

OBJECTIVE: The effectiveness of CLP (Consultation and liaison psychiatry) interventions in a general hospital is difficult to evaluate; parameters potentially determinant as to effectiveness are numerous. Effectiveness evaluations are almost exclusively restricted to the duration of hospitalization. Since CLP may and often should be manifest beyond discharge, we intended to determine the agreement between our proposition and its execution as a measure of effectiveness. METHOD: We based our analyses principally on the general practitioner's appreciation of the CLP impact, a measure of effectiveness at distance from the consultation by a judge not directly involved in the consulting process. This qualitative assessment is based on a population of 50 patients. RESULTS: Our results suggest that agreement between our proposal and its complete execution is good concerning medication (90%) and referral rate after the hospitalization (85%), average as to liaison suggestions (65%) and clearly weak as to propositions regarding further investigations (< 30%). CONCLUSION: CLP proposals must be as close as possible to the in-patient physician's preoccupations to enhance the probability that they be executed. The concordance as to the proposal and its execution as well as the CLP impact estimation need be evaluated at distance. This evaluation must imply the general practitioner's assessment.

Audit risk and rent extraction: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Brazil

We report results from a randomized policy experiment designed to test whether increasedaudit risk deters rent extraction in local public procurement and service delivery in Brazil. Ourestimates suggest that temporarily increasing annual audit risk by about 20 percentage pointsreduced the proportion of irregular local procurement processes by about 17 percentage points.This reduction was driven entirely by irregularities involving mismanagement or corruption. Incontrast, we find no evidence that increased audit risk affected the quality of publicly providedpreventive and primary health care services -measured based on user satisfaction surveys- orcompliance with national regulations of the conditional cash transfer program "Bolsa Família".

Audit report on Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa School for the Deaf, Council Bluffs, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa School for the Deaf, Council Bluffs, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Combined audit report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Corrections for the five years ended June 30, 2006

Combined audit report on the institutions under the control of the Iowa Department of Corrections for the five years ended June 30, 2006

Combined audit report on the eight Judicial District Departments of Correctional Services for the year ended June 30, 2006

Combined audit report on the eight Judicial District Departments of Correctional Services for the year ended June 30, 2006