According to its many critics, privacy selfregulation is a failure. It suffers from an overall lack of transparency, weak or incomplete realization of the Fair Information Practice Principles, inadequate incentives to ensure wide-scale industry participation, and ineffective compliance and enforcement mechanisms. Rather than attacking or defending self-regulation, this Article explores co-regul...

This article reviews the literature on self-regulation and the development of school readiness and academic competence in early childhood. It focuses on relations between the development of cognitive aspects of regulation—referred to as executive functions and defined as abilities used to regulate information and to organize thinking in goal-directed activities—and the development of reactivity...

the world of the professions is a world of lasting stereotypes, rhetorical claims and deceptive appearances; it is a world where often things are not as they are claimed to be or even as they initially appear to be. in particular, there seems to be a certain gap between public conceptions and imageries of professionalism (often including the professions’ own selfrepresentations) and current rea...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the approach of the food industry to the issue of rising obesity amongst children in the Czech Republic. Generally there are different corporate approaches to the obesity issue. Industry stakeholders consider that young people have a right to obtain information from advertising, and therefore they support selfregulation rather than statutory regulation result...

Title of Document: UTILIZATION OF ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING TOOLS BY SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE CONSTRUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: A DECISION-MAKING MODEL Sam Negahban, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Gregory B. Baecher, Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) utilization in the Construction Industry has been limited to a few large organizations. Signi...

This paper aims to provide a critical contribution to the ongoing discourse on self-regulation with regard to privacy and data protection. This discourse encompasses the amendment of the EU Data Protection Directive and the related discussion about a principle of accountability. Underlying these conceptualisations is the assumption that data protection law is generally observed, but could be si...

In 2000, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) adopted Maintenance of Certification (MOC), as a change in physician selfregulation.1 Specifically MOC is designed to encourage physician self-assessment, lifelong learning and continuous performance improvement. Multiple factors brought about this change, including an increase in the complexity of health care delivery that parallels imp...

This study examined the stability and continuity of early-identified behavior problems and the factors associated with this stability. Children and their mothers (N = 125) were seen when the children were 2 and 4 years of age. Maternal reports of child externalizing behavior and laboratory observations of child noncompliance were stable from age 2 to age 4. Early externalizing behaviors decreas...

Employees in public agencies rarely have pay for performance: instead their incentives are often guided by a sense of professionalism. This paper concerns how organizations should monitor professionals. The primary outcome of the paper is that weak incentives lead public agencies to exhibit bias in their oversight, by rewarding the interests of their employees to the detriment of other constitu...

ITE JOURNAL / AUGUST 1999 PEDESTRIAN ZONES HAVE become a familiar feature in the central areas of European cities. Private cars are always excluded from these zones, while delivery vehicles are permitted during off-peak hours. Bicycles and taxis are typically relegated to a circumferential service road. Some have argued that such rigid traffic separation contributes to economic and environmenta...