I love stories. I love hearing them; I love telling them. Stories connect me to ideas in a way that dry recitals of facts and findings never could. Perhaps it’s my love of stories that makes the experience reports track my favorite at conferences. A great experience report is a story: a personal account of what somebody experienced while trying an idea. Of course, there’s more to an experience ...

Under the global pressure of information technology, the adoption of webbased technologies in public administration has created a new governmentand-citizen interface. However, whether e-government will unambiguously lead to a more transparent, interactive, open and hence, accountable, government remains a central question. Applying a framework of global pressure effects on bureaucratic change, ...

China has issued eight mandatory national standards so far to regulate the water efficiency of household products. The State Administration for Market Regulation performs spot checks yearly on products qualities, which includes efficiency, meantime it required market regulation bureaucracies regional levels strengthen inspection energy and labels from 2019. However, those two neither focus nor ...

While populism challenges the pluralism and technocratic expertise on which public bureaucracies are based, extant scholarship has overlooked its effects accountability processes. In particular, it neglects impact of anti-elite rhetoric, characterized by what can be regarded as “emotionalized blame attribution,” thinking behavior actors. Responding to this gap, article examines distinctive form...

A new study in the INFORMS journal Operations Research proposes a data-driven model for conducting strategic workforce planning organizations. The optimizes recruitment and promotions by balancing risks of not meeting headcount, budget, productivity constraints, while keeping within prescribed organizational structure. Analysis using indicates that there are increased faced organizations state ...

neuropsychological studies have demonstrated that preclinical dementia accompanies a decreasing trend in cognitive state a few years prior to clinical diagnosis. sudden decline in episodic memory and semantic knowledge have been found to have the capability to differentiate patients in preclinical state of dementia from those experiencing normal aging. in addition, decline in episodic memory is...

Let R be a commutative ring and M be an R-module. We say that M is fully primary, if every proper submodule of M is primary. In this paper, we state some characterizations of fully primary modules. We also give some characterizations of rings over which every module is fully primary, and of those rings over which there exists a faithful fully primary module. Furthermore, we will introduce some ...