FDA’s commitment to transparency

Persuasion , Transparency , and Commitment

Organizations ranging from small groups to large societies routinely set up committees who lack formal authority but offer policy advice to those with ultimate authority (Shepsle and Weingast, 1987). Some examples of such committees include academic departments who make recommendations to a dean regarding hiring and promotion; advisory committees for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Switching from "absorption within transparency" to "transparency within transparency" in an electromagnetically induced absorption dominated transition.

The absorption of a resonant coupling laser driving a closed degenerate two-level system in an atomic cesium beam was investigated as a function of the detuning of a second laser probing the same transition. The measurements were performed for four different polarization combinations of the two laser beams. Except for the beams of counterrotating polarizations all coupling-laser absorption prof...

Restoring Transparency to Automated Authority

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 235 I. UNHEALTHY SECRETS: PROPRIETARY PRICES AND ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD IMPLEMENTATION ......... 239 II. TRADE SECRECY AS A BUSINESS TOOL IN THE SEARCH INDUSTRY .................................................................................. 244 III. CLANDESTINELY COMMENSURATING COMPUTING IN CO...

Commitment to Priorities ∗

(3) a. Friends, begin your meditation now! ⇒ b. They should begin to meditate now. (4) a. Do not park in the dry cleaner’s lot! ⇐ b. They should not park in the dry cleaner’s lot. ∗I would like to thank audiences at the University of British Columbia and Yale University for very helpful feedback on the material presented here. This research has been supported by NSF award BCS-1053038 ‘The Seman...

The commitment to care.