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The Importance and Criticality of Spreadsheets in the City of London
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The author suggests that the City of London is presently exposed to significant reputational risk through the continued uncontrolled use of critical spreadsheets in the financial markets and elsewhere.
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Lymph node staging in patients with clinically negative neck examinations by ultrasound and ultrasound-guided aspiration cytology.
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BiEntropy - The Approximate Entropy of a Finite Binary String
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A simple algorithm which computes the approximate entropy of a finite binary string of arbitrary length and successfully test the algorithm in the fields of Prime Number Theory, Human Vision, Cryptography, Random Number Generation and Quantitative Finance.
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A typical model audit approach
Spreadsheet audit and review procedures are an essential part of almost all City of London financial transactions. Structured processes are used to discover errors in large financial spreadsheets…
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A Typical Model Audit Approach: Spreadsheet Audit Methodologies in the City of London
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It is noteworthy that in the United Kingdom, the management of spreadsheet error is almost unheard of outside of the City of London despite the commercial ubiquity of the spreadsheet.
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Spreadsheets in Clinical Medicine - A Public Health Warning
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The use of poorly constructed and/or untested spreadsheets in clinical medicine cannot be tolerated and this article supports this warning by reporting on potentially serious weaknesses found while testing a limited number of publicly available clinical spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets and the Financial Collapse
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There is a link between the use of spreadsheets and the recent collapse of the global financial system, and governments and regulating authorities are provided with some simple recommendations to reduce the risks of continued overdependence on unreliable spreadsheets.
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In Pursuit of Spreadsheet Excellence
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A simple sampling test - The Clean Sheet Test - which can be used to objectively evaluate if an organisation is in control of the spreadsheets it is using in important processes such as financial reporting.
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Some A Priori Torah Decryption Principles
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A simple set of principles that can be developed into a range of algorithms by which means the Torah might be decoded, based upon the use of Equidistant Letter Sequences and the notions of Message Length, Dimensionality, Euclidean Dimension, Topology, Read Direction, Skip Distance and offset.
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Cost and schedule risk analysis in major engineering projects
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The purpose of this paper is to outline the Monte Carlo simulation method as it is currently applied and suggest future directions.
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