Regulatory agencies and creative accounting practices in Nigeria

Dynamic Agencies and Creative Scientific Discovery

Among the traditional two approaches to scientific discovery, which assume that scientific discovery is a totally rational or a totally irrational activity, we adopt a third intermediate approach that envisages a bipolar scientific discovery in which man and machine are synergically involved. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the mutual interaction between two interesting roles that ma...

Politics and the Regulatory Agencies

Intake Practices in Local Public Assistance Agencies

THE PROCESS of taking applications for assistance for the needy aged, the needy blind, and dependent children and of determining eligibility today has a meaning quite different from that of 8 or 10 years ago. With the rapid expansion in these programs made possible by the Federal Social Security Act have come many changes in methods of administration. Broader and more flexible policies and proc...

Business Risk Management Practices: The Infl uence of State Regulatory Agencies and Non-State Sources

........................................................................................................................... 1 External influences on business risk management: beyond the state .............................. 1 External influences on business risk management: economic and civil .......................... 2 Management of food safety and food hygiene risks .............................

Epidemiological studies for regulatory agencies.

In regulation of exposures to hazardous environmental agents, epidemiologic evidence is especially important in defining human risk estimates. The process of developing appropriate regulations is complex, however, and depends on many considerations beyond those established to a high degree of scientific certainty. Thus the needs of regulatory agencies are involved in the way epidemiologic data ...