Financial conflicts of interest exist between industry and physicians, and these relationships have the power to influence physicians’ medical practice. Transparency about conflicts matters for ensuring adequate informed consent, controlling healthcare expenditure, and encouraging physicians’ reflection on professionalism. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Open ...

Model transparency is a prerequisite in many domains and an increasingly popular area machine learning research. In the medical domain, for instance, unveiling mechanisms behind disease often has higher priority than diagnostic itself since it might dictate or guide potential treatments research directions. One of most approaches to explain model global predictions permutation importance where ...

The wide diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) over the last few decades has modified the way in which individuals and institutions interact and conduct social and business activities. We analyze the importance of a firm’s information transparency, defined as the degree of completeness of information, regarding their own business activities, provided by each company to t...

In this paper, we propose a new 3D visualization technique for hierarchical information. This technique is based on the nested box metaphor, a familiar concept for any users. By using semi-transparent rendering, the system controls the complexity of the information presented to the user. With several 3D interaction techniques provided by the system, the user can recognize and inspect the inform...

As a policymaker, the central bank both observes and shapes the economy. The central bank scrutinizes market activity to assess the state of the economy, and its policy strongly shapes market outcomes. When transparency allows the central bank to shape the economy more effectively, it may also cause the informational role of the economic aggregate to deteriorate. This paper presents a simple mo...

To what extent does the formal institutional environment influence Islamic bank capital decisions? We answer this question by assessing effect of legal rule index on a sample 100 banks in 28 countries from 1999 to 2013. Our econometric analyses show that positively and significantly influences ratios. The results can be explained idea effective rules incentivize hold higher ratios signal better...