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control gap

control joint

control joint
A groove which is formed, sawed, or tooled in a concrete or masonry structure to regulate the location and amount of cracking and separation resulting from the dimensional change of different parts of the structure, thereby avoiding the development of high stresses.
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The TTOE was developed to close the movement control gap, which was an unintended side effect of the Army's transformation to a modular force.
Although processes are not yet standardized, DON has employed control gap analysis to identify when a command's process and/or controls differ significantly from suggested controls.
A doctrinal or organizational modification cannot completely alleviate the span of control gap, particularly with the modular engineer force requirements.
Part of this stream is to make sure that, if we identify a control gap, management has an action plan in place to address that gap quickly and reduce the risk to what management believes is an acceptable level.
To control gap length, we fabricated electrodes on the cover glass plate.
Now, the development of high-powered engineering workstations is creating an opportunity to leap forward to fill in the control gap between these two extremes: applications more complex than a simple cell but less than one requiring significant vendor-supplied custom engineering.
Even though those individual exceptions may be immaterial, a control gap would still exist, and management would need to go through the process of determining the significance of the gap using A Framework for Evaluating Control Exceptions and Deficiencies, which was published in December 2004 by BDO Seidman, Crowe Chizek and Co., Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, Harbinger, KPMG, McGladrey & Pullen, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
We face a "risk control gap" that, if not addressed and closed, will threaten investor confidence and undermine the world's most effective and powerful capital markets.
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