While the cause and nature of certain human cancers are known, definitive preventative guidelines still cannot be offered for many types of tumors. This is partly due to the inherent biostatistical and epidemiological limitations involved in the identification and interpretation of complex carcinogenic risk factors and potential low-risk hazards. Two divergent control strategies have emerged: (...

2 QUALITY IN PUBLIC SECTOR .............................................................................................................. 2 2.1 COMMON ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK........................................................................................................ 3 3 INFLUENCES OF IT ON QUALITY IN PUBLIC SECTOR................................................................. 4 3.1 E...

the formation of the expediency council was a new and innovate development which had not been foreseen in the ratified constitution of november 1979, perhaps the legislators of the constitution at that time, had anticipated in all good will, that all responsible executive and legislative authorities of all ranks and responsibilities, would while addressing specific demands inherent in any given...

This paper describes the use of inductive logic programming techniques in a legislative drafting environment. The drafter supplies a set of positive and negative situations. These situations are transformed into normative rules, i.e. rules that oblige, forbid or permit behaviour. Drafters may impose four diierent types of requirements on the rule generation process, in order to obtain alternati...

We describe a method for automated codiication of regulations that is being developed at the University of Amsterdam. The method is based on the distinction between normative knowledge and world knowledge (cf. (Breuker & den Haan 1991)). The world knowledge is used to generate all possible situations, which are in turn divided over a subset of legal situations and illegal situations. This bipar...

The various election systems used throughout the world can be divided into three families: Plurality-Majority, Proportional, and Semi-Proportional. Each family has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. All three families of systems can be used for electing legislative bodies, such as the state legislature, city councils, and school boards. For executive offices, such as governo...

Auditing standards are undergoing revision in the wake of recent, massive audit failures. Legislative and regulatory bodies are focusing more critically on auditors than ever before. Yet, contemplated revisions to auditing standards leave untouched ambiguities and unresolved issues that have reduced the effectiveness of the authoritative literature for decades. One of the longest-standing issue...

A number of reports and commissions have highlighted the crucial role of leaders, governors and managers in tackling equality issues in higher education. As we point out in this article, legislative changes are under way. While the law may be a key driver there is a need to move beyond a compliance approach, as Russell Seal, chair of Council, University of Exeter, said in his foreword to the Eq...

Using Rawls's theory of justice, this paper addresses the empirical question of whether the socially responsible market economy can help explain the current situation in financial freedom, as well as its recent variation across countries. Utilizing annual data from selected countries of Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Oceania, and static panel estimation techniques, we provide evidence whic...