Report of Recommendations to State University of Iowa on the Review of Selected General and Application Controls Over the Purchasing/Accounts Payable System, June 2 to June 27, 2003

State University Audit Report

Report of Recommendations to the University of Northern Iowa on the Review of Selected General and Application Controls Over the Modern Executive Management Financial Information, June 2 to July 17, 2003

State University Audit Report

Report of Recommendations to Iowa State University of Science and Technology on the Review of Selected General and Application Controls over the Tuition System, April 23 to May 23, 2003

State University Audit Report

Report of Recommendations to the State University of Iowa on the Review of Selected General Controls over the University's Accounts Receivable System, June 7th, 2004 to July 23rd, 2004

State University Audit Report

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Transportation on a Review of Selected General and Application Controls Over the Contractor Pay System, April 5, 2004 through May 21, 2004

State Agency Audit Report

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Administrative Services on the Review of General and Application Controls over the HRIS and Payroll Systems, May 10, 2004 through June 4, 2004

State Audit Reports

Report of Recommendations to Iowa State University of Science and Technology on the Review of Selected General and Application Controls over the University's Accounts Payable and Purchasing Systems, March 28 through April 28, 2005

State University Audit Report

Alliance patterns over the course of short-term dynamic psychotherapy: The shape of productive relationships.

The shape of alliance processes over the course of psychotherapy has already been studied in several process-outcome studies on very brief psychotherapy. The present study applies the shape-of-change methodology to short-term dynamic psychotherapies and complements this method with hierarchical linear modeling. A total of 50 psychotherapies of up to 40 sessions were included. Alliance was measured at the end of each session. The results indicate that a linear progression model is most adequate. Three main patterns were found: stable, linear, and quadratic growth. The linear growth pattern, along with the slope parameter, was related to treatment outcome. This study sheds additional light on alliance process research, underscores the importance of linear alliance progression for outcome, and also fosters a better understanding of its limitations.

Frame detection over the semantic web

In the past, research in ontology learning from text has mainly focused on entity recognition, taxonomy induction and relation extraction. In this work we approach a challenging research issue: detecting semantic frames from texts and using them to encode web ontologies. We exploit a new generation Natural Language Processing technology for frame detection, and we enrich the frames acquired so far with argument restrictions provided by a super-sense tagger and domain specializations. The results are encoded according to a Linguistic MetaModel, which allows a complete translation of lexical resources and data acquired from text, enabling custom transformations of the enriched frames into modular ontology components.

Report of Recommendations to the State University of Iowa on the Review of Selected General and Application Controls over the University's Human Resources Information System, June 7, 2005-July 29, 2005

Other Audit Reports - Regent Institutions

Report of Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Transportation on Review of Selected General and Application Controls over the Accounts Payable System, July 11, 2005 to August 3, 2005

State Audit Reports

Monitoring of the Launched Girder Bridge over the Iowa River on US 20, March 2004

The objective of the study presented in this report was to document the launch of the Iowa River Bridge and to monitor and evaluate the structural performance of the bridge superstructure and substructure during the launch. The Iowa Department of Transportation used an incremental launching method, which is relatively unique for steel I-girder bridges, to construct the Iowa River Bridge over an environmentally sensitive river valley in central Iowa. The bridge was designed as two separate roadways consisting of four steel plate girders each that are approximately 11 ft deep and span approximately 301 ft each over five spans. The concrete bridge deck was not placed until after both roadways had been launched. One of the most significant monitoring and evaluation observations related to the superstructure was that the bottom flange (and associated web region) was subjected to extremely large stresses during the crossing of launch rollers. Regarding the substructure performance, the column stresses did not exceed reasonable design limits during the daylong launches. The scope of the study did not allow adequate quantification of the measured applied launch forces at the piers. Future proposed esearch should provide an opportunity to address this. The overall experimental performance of the bridge during the launch was compared with the predicted design performance. In general, the substructure design, girder contact stress, and total launching force assumptions correlated well with the experimental results. The design assumptions for total axial force in crossframe members, on the other hand, differed from the experimental results by as much as 300%.

Report of the Recommendations to the Iowa Department of Workforce Development on a Review of Selected General and Application Controls Over the Unemployment Insurance System, May 1, 2006 to May 24, 2006

State Audit Reports

Report of Recommendations to Iowa State University of Science and Technology on the Review of Selected General and Application Controls over the University's Student Financial Aid System, April 24 through May 12, 2006

State University Audit Report

Audit report on a review of selected general and application controls over the University of Northern Iowa’s Modern Executive Management Financial Information System (MEMFIS) human resources and payroll modules for the period May 22, 2006 through June 12, 2006.

Audit report on a review of selected general and application controls over the University of Northern Iowa’s Modern Executive Management Financial Information System (MEMFIS) human resources and payroll modules for the period May 22, 2006 through June 12, 2006.