This article reports on operator compliance with regulations regarding humans swimming with freeranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. The objective of this study was to compare if the level of compliance to three conditions (approach type, swim time, and time in proximity to dolphins) in the tour operators’ permits changed after state government co...

Compliance with new environmental regulations for coal-fired boilers and other industrial sources has become a multi-pollutant effort in which minimizing costs is important. For example, the cost of mercury control chemicals is the largest cost associated with achieving mercury compliance under Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). Reducing the costs associated with maintaining emissions lim...

With the global challenge of climate change, it becomes crucial to understand the factors that can guide carbon intensive companies to comply with environmental regulations through significant reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Using the natural-resource-based view, the argument in this paper is that focusing on sustainability-driven resources by companies is a way to meet environmen...

On August 22, 2005 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued proposed new regulations for radiation releases from the planned permanent U.S. nuclear-waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The goal of the new standards is to provide public-health protection for the next million years - even though everyone admits that the radioactive wastes will leak. Regulations now guarantee individ...

The United States sets fishing regulations to sustain healthy fish populations. The overall goal of the research reported on here is to increase the efficiency of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) when boarding commercial fishing vessels to ensure compliance with those regulations. We discuss scoring rules that indicate whether a given vessel might be in violation of the regulations, depend ...

Maintaining regulatory compliance is an increasing concern. Legal Knowledge Management systems could support the work of compliance managers. However, there are challenges to overcome, of interpreting legal knowledge and mapping it onto business processes. In this discussion paper we determine requirements for Legal Knowledge Management systems that can handle these challenges. We argue that an...

• Understand what the GMP requirements are for the analytical quality laboratory and stability testing laboratory • Identify which GMP regulations govern the analytical quality laboratory • Use a range of information tools, from the contents of this training in support of analytical testing and stability testing auditing. • Recognize compliance or non-compliance of analytical quality laboratory...

Managing business process compliance is an important topic in the financial sector. Various scandals and the financial crisis have caused many new constraints and legal regulations that banks and financial institutions have to face. Based on a domain-specific semantic business process modeling notation we propose generic process compliance business rules that serve as a first step towards the i...

In response to the corporate scandals in 2001-2002, the major U.S. exchanges came up with new regulations which are intended to enhance board oversight. We use this regulation event to shed light on the effect of board oversight on CEO compensation. We find that firms that were not complying with these regulations decreased their CEO compensation by between 20%-25% upon compliance, compared to ...

BACKGROUND The hazards of cigarette smoking and its increasing consumption are well known despite the ongoing tussle between the tobacco industry and global governments. To curb the menace of smoking, anti-smoking laws have been enforced from time to time by various governments. In 2003, Ministry of Health (MoH) Government of Pakistan has imposed certain regulations on cigarette manufacturing i...