The focus of this thesis is on transparency of physiotherapy care. As described in Chapter 1, the need for transparency and accountability in physiotherapy, as in other professions, has been growing in recent decades. This need has been fuelled by changes in the health care system. Under the current system, health care providers themselves are responsible for insight into their quality manageme...

This paper extends the interest of public relations scholars in exploring the conditions for balanced communications between organizations and their stakeholders. To this end, we investigate the concept of transparency. More specifically, we challenge the strategic role and institutionalization of transparency in the context of contemporary corporate communications programs. By providing a subt...

I report some personal views and reflections on transparency experiences and transparency challenges following my first year and a half as Deputy Governor at Sveriges Riksbank regarding (1) flexible inflation targeting, (2) the role of transparency in inflation targeting and committee decisions on instrument-rate paths, (3) the management of interest-rate expectations, and (4) the publishing of...

A brief overview of the status of color transparency experiments is presented. We report on the first complete calculations of color transparency within a perturbative QCD framework. We also comment on the underlying factorization method and assumptions. Detailed calculations show that the slope of the transparency ratio with Q, and the effective attenuation cross sections extracted from color ...

This paper investigates the processing of Italian affixed forms differing for morphotactic transparency. A lexical decision task with immediate priming was used. Following the principles of morphotactic transparency and Natural Morphology, the priming effect was hypothesized to be stronger for items with a higher degree of morphotactic transparency. However, the predictions were not totally met...

The Internet revolution brought about significant changes in the availability of market information to consumers in many industries. This research examines technology-driven changes in market transparency, defined as the ability of market participants to observe information about products and prices. The objective is to develop a modeling and empirical basis for a theory of market transparency ...

The paper considers tacit collusion in markets which are not fully transparent on both sides. Consumers only detect prices with some probability before deciding which …rm to purchase from, and each …rm only detects the other …rm’s price with some probability. Increasing transparency on the producer side facilitates collusion, while it increasing transparency on the consumer side makes collusion...

Transparency is a well-articulated requirement in policy and project development processes. To the present time, we mostly see approaches documenting the workflow or the results of these processes, but lack a representation of the discourse which produced the results. However, the arguments which have been put forward in the development of a policy document the reasoning for the details of the ...

By analogy with the electromagnetic wave, the acoustic transparency phenomenon is analyzed for a multilayered sphere with acoustic metamaterials. The neutral-inclusion concept is used to predict the transparency conditions in the quasistatic case, which are further confirmed by a full-wave analysis. The mechanism of the transparency is based on lowering the total-scattering cross section of the...