This paper aims to diagnose the information culture of university administration. Although administrative work is commonly associated with bureaucracy, it a bureaucracy people in which employees demonstrate set competitive group behavior focused on knowledge sharing and use day-to-day tasks. A 345 respondents, representing office staff from three institutions Poland, answered survey related cul...

Due to the lack of expertise for medical image annotation, investigation label-efficient methodology segmentation becomes a heated topic. Recent progresses focus on efficient utilization weak annotations together with few strongly-annotated labels so as achieve comparable performance in many unprofessional scenarios. However, these approaches only concentrate supervision inconsistency between s...

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Gordon Tullock’s The Politics of Bureaucracy must be considered one of the most important works on bureaucracy ever written. In addition to discussing Tullock’s contribution to our understanding of bureaucracy, I contend that his insights on the topic remain relevant today. To support this claim, I focus on U.S.-led reconstruction efforts which attempt to export liberal democracy via military o...

We present a novel model of corruption dynamics in the form of a nonlinear optimal dynamic control problem. It has a tipping point, but one whose origins and character are distinct from that in the classic Schelling (1978) model. The decision maker choosing a level of corruption is the chief or some other kind of authority figure who presides over a bureaucracy whose state of corruption is infl...

This paper reports experiments of materializing recent new discovered mathematical surfaces, 3D quasi-Fuchsian fractals. Three different models in glass, plastic, and metal are created to realize rich mathematical properties including selfsimilarity, 3-embeddable, simply-connected, and complicated surface consisting of infinite number of cusps. Different models can complementary provide mathema...

A well functioning bureaucracy can promote prosperity, as advocated by Max Weber. But when bureaucracy gets jammed, it causes stagnation, as described by Franz Kafka. We propose a dynamic theory of the interaction between the production of laws and the efficiency of bureaucracy. When bureaucracy is inefficient the effects of politicians legislative acts are hard to assess. Therefore, incompeten...

This article traces the development of Japan’s foreign policy since the end of World War II. It asks whether the concept of a reactive state is still valid as an explanation of Japan’s foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. The article surveys the origins and key features of the Yoshida Doctrine, and discusses the limitations placed on Japan’s Cold War foreign policy. The article introduces t...