Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The paper proposes a general conceptual framework for state fragility that aims to disentangle the identification of ...

The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 85, No. 3 (September 2010), pp. 293-318 (26 pages) ABSTRACT Science progresses faster when researchers operate within an explicit framework of concepts and ...

Studies on invasion of microbial communities are gaining momentum, with a considerable increase in publications on invasion by pathogenic, beneficial or commensal microbes. A better understanding of ...

The US’ Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a new chapter of its Conceptual Framework related to the measurement of items recognised in financial statements. The Conceptual ...

The conceptual framework is a series of Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts (SFACs), taken as a whole, set the objectives, characteristics and other concepts that determine how financial ...

2018 is looking to be a busy year as far as financial reporting changes are concerned. There will be two major new standards adopted this year — one for revenue recognition and another one for ...

This paper introduces a new conceptual framework for studying moral climate in business firms, offering an alternative to other theoretical models currently in the literature. The framework integrates ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added two new chapters to its Conceptual Framework. Issued as “concept statements,” the chapters cover the elements of financial statements, and their ...

Approximately 40% of cancer-related clinical trials terminate prematurely, 1 which results in an immense loss of time, money, and human effort. Failure to optimize clinical trial design, inefficient ...