Professional standards for analytical procedures call for auditors to hypothesize likely causes of unexpected patterns in financial statement balances and to develop plans to investigate (SAS 56).

Pattern recognition is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the automated identification, categorisation, and interpretation of patterns in data. Drawing on methods from computer vision, signal ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Humans are natural pattern recognizers. Whether, as in prehistoric times, we were recognizing danger in a telltale rustle of the bushes or skimming a page of letters and numbers today, we use patterns ...

Researchers describe a new manner of detecting microbial infection that intercepts pathogen-derived signals of growth to assess the relative threat of virulent bacteria. A nuclear hormone receptor in ...