regulation is a modern concept which has emerged out of and evolved in the context of economic development in general and the relationship between market and government in particular. it signifies a different meaning with the past. even nowadays we are faced with various meanings of regulation within the economic legal systems; meanings that have moved away from its early definition, and hence,...

This work was supported by grant from Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India through F.I.S.T. SR/SO/HS/17/2003 and SR/SO/HS/95/2007 to MMG and Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to RAS [10-2(5)/2003(II)-E.U.II] and University Grants Commission to AP [2-89/98(SA-I)] from Government of India, New Delhi. Endocrinology. First published ah...

The objective of this study is to understand why e-government projects are initiated at the first place. I define an e-government project as an effort by a government agency by itself or by partnership with other government agencies, private firms and/or civil societal organizations to use information and communication technologies (hereafter ICTs; they are technologies that capture, transmit a...

This paper was presented at the Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials Conference 2008, held in Monterey, CA, March 30 April 4, 2008, and will be published in the conference proceedings. One or more of the authors is a U.S. Government employee working within the scope of his/her position; therefore, the U.S. Government is joint owner of the work. When published, the publisher may assert copyrigh...

E-Government practices are no longer strange for most local councils. As a consequence, some of them have reached more mature stages in the interaction between technological abilities and organisational processes. Nevertheless, there seems to be a wide gap between what academics say and practitioners do, so it is believed to be necessary to compare theory and facts. The objective of this paper ...