A number of studies have emphasized that governance has many components, including accountability, autonomy, role clarity, policy coherence (especially as related to objectives), stakeholder participation/ engagement, professionalism (capacity), and transparency. This study identifies seven elements affecting infrastructure performance: institutions, interests (stakeholders), information, incen...

This thesis examines the factors that influence perceptions of judicial corruption. A statistical analysis using data from such sources as Transparency International, the World Bank, and Freedom House demonstrates that aspects of accountability (the ability to remove judges) and transparency (freedom of the press) are only weakly related to perceptions of judicial corruption. A systematic count...

Full, on-time, and with Quality disclosure of financial information can lead to the transparency of such information and decreases information asymmetry. Among the published information of firms, earnings are of priority importance attended by many users; therefore, the issue of the transparency of accounting earnings is of high importance. The aim of this study is investigating the accounting ...

Biomimetic scaffolds are desirable for 3D cell culture, yet optically transparent, macroporous, polysaccharide hydrogels have been limited. By incorporating soluble monoand disaccharide additives during cryogelation, we synthesized biomimetic scaffolds and gained insight into the mechanism of their formation. The mono/disaccharide additives affect the size of ice crystal porogens and interact w...

WHEREAS CHAPTER 2 OF THIS BOOK analysed directions and varieties of transparency, this chapter addresses a single question. Is transparency to be valued intrinsically or instrumentally, or both? Put differently, is transparency a core concern or is it a building block for other valued objects sought by public policy? There is not necessarily a single answer to this question, but posing it will ...

A previous editorial addressed the importance of honesty (Scanes, 2010). This editorial discusses the issues of transparency. In my opinion, transparency is one of the requirements for engendering trust, and trust is critical to so much of what we do. A culture of transparency is essential for research. The results section of a paper is arguably the most important section. We expect that the re...

What are the possibilities of promoting transparency in the Federal Brazilian Government Portals? The objective of this research is to discover what possibilities exist to promote transparency in the Federal Brazilian Government Portals: ComprasNet (E-procurement Portal) and Transparency Portal. The methodology used was: 1) a literature review about egovernment, transparency and the relationshi...

Transparency can be used to increase the visibility of a user’s workspace in situations where the space is obscured by floating windows and tool palettes. Dynamic transparency takes this approach further by making components more transparent when the user’s cursor is far away. However, dynamic transparency may make palettes and floating windows more difficult to target. We carried out a study t...

Software transparency is a new and important concern that software developers must deal with. This paper reports on initial findings on exploring the obstacles for enabling software transparency. For providing a definition of transparency and understanding the semantics of software transparency, a SIG (Softgoal Interdependence Graph) is used, which has been refined in three versions. Based on t...