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Focuses on the response of companies to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as of June 2003, which aims for a more complete financial reporting and real-time disclosure among companies in the U.S. Role of chief information officers in defining the requirements needed by the Act; Efforts to re-establish investor confidence; External pressures and internal realities. INSETS: Sarbanes-Oxley 101;THE 90-DAY PLAN.

The article discusses the state of public-private partnerships or P3s in the U.S. in 2016 as President-elect Donald Trump and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made finance for infrastructure a key part of their campaign and as taxpayers shown their interest to improve infrastructure. Topics mentioned include federal developments for P3s, the initiative of the private sector to enable infrastructure investment and delivery through P3s, and the need to improve the country's infrastructure.

The article discusses the issues surrounding the safety of fiber laser integration into material processing systems. The method of integration has presented various challenges to engineers who wanted to comply with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). These safety issues are concerned on the technology's physical beam stop or attenuator, emission indicator and protective housing.