The use of reflexive test selection and patient-specific narrative interpretations in laboratory medicine is associated with a host of compliance issues and government regulations. Reflexive testing is associated with many advantages for patients and their physicians, but if not adequately organized it has the potential for inefficient test ordering and abuse by physicians and laboratories. Pat...

Purpose: This paper addresses whether and how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002(SOX) affects shareholder wealth (firm value) by focusing on the trade-off between improved corporate governance leading to a lower cost of capital and increased managerial compliance costs of regulations. Design/Methodology: We use an analytical model of solving the management utility maximization function and the cha...

Legal compliance in software systems is one of the most important problems in the field of software engineering. Laws, regulations, and organizational policies describe societal values that impose serious challenges and requirements to software engineers building systems. My dissertation examines how software engineers can ensure software requirements comply with relevant laws, regulations, and...

The existence and enforcement of legal regulations is imperative of maritime navigation. All legal regulations relating to maritime security and whose goal is securing the safety at sea, can be divided to regulations relating to navigable vessels, regulations relating to cargo carried by ships; regulations governing maintenance of waterways; regulations relating to human factor (regulations con...

Road traffic accidents are a leading cause of death of children. It is the law that all children should be appropriately secured when traveling in vehicles. The aim of this study was to evaluate parental conformity with these regulations and to test if advice given at a Paediatric outpatient clinic could improve compliance. Two groups were assigned, an intervention group (parents given an infor...

Every day, complaints are filed against the medical staff due to Negligence with health and nervous system inflammation -related issues. Negligence in the legal sense, means that one does not perform assigned task. The task that the legislator has placed on that person. The legislator in the Islamic Penal Code, adopted in 1392, Defines negligence as carelessness or omission and also includes la...

The wide and complex spectrum of regulations, especially in the financial services industry, calls for machine assistance in making sense of, and in consuming, regulatory text. This paper describes an approach to interpreting regulations with SBVR. The purpose is to clarify ambiguity in regulations by developing a shared vocabulary and shared guidance based on the regulatory text. The on-going ...

Developing software systems in heavily regulated industries requires methods to ensure systems comply with regulations and law. An algorithm to generate finite state machines (FSM) from stakeholder rights and obligations for compliance monitoring is proposed. Rights and obligations define what people are permitted or required to do; these rights and obligations affect software requirements and ...

As the economy becomes global and ICT-reliant, approaches practiced in enterprise software product development and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation must cope with increasingly complex situations induced by contemporary supply chain and regulations. Compliance with regulations in the market is one aspect of the requirements that enterprise software must meet. Recent resea...