I investigate the relation between firm risk and firm transparency over the period 1992-2006 and find that the level of firm transparency and the level of firm risk are negatively related. I also find that higher CEO pay-performance sensitivity (delta) works to mitigate this inverse relationship. This result is consistent with Hermalin and Weisbach (2007) who suggest that managers reduce risk t...

This paper describes IBIS, a distributed file system for a network. of UNIX machines. IBIS provides two levels of abstraction: file access transparency and file location transparency. File access transparency means that all files are accessed in the same way, regardless of whether they are remote or local. File location transparency hides the location of files in the network. IBIS provides a si...

We examine the welfare implications of two types of central-bank transparency: the publication of the information underlying the central bank’s decision (decision transparency) and the release of the information that the central bank observes afterwards (postdecision transparency). Decision transparency does not make the public better informed in equilibrium. Even so, it may be socially desirab...

This paper provides a short survey on transparency tools for privacy purposes. It defines the term transparency tools, argues why they are important and gives examples for transparency tools. A classification of transparency tools is suggested and some example tools are analyzed with the help of the classification.

A factorial design (2(3)) is applied to study the influence of three of the components of a cosmetic gel (the concentrations of Carbopol ETD 2020, ethanol and glycerine) on flow parameters (Casson's yield value (tau(c)), Casson's viscosity (eta(c)) and apparent viscosity at 125 s-1 (eta(ap.) 125 s-1), spreadability, and transparency. The first-order polynomial equation allowed by the model suit...

Supplier value networks are an emerging inter-organizational form resulting from efforts to integrate across fragmented supply chains, for the purpose of efficiency and performance gains. By proposing value network transparency as a central construct in supplier value networks, this paper identifies the different dimensions of transparency and presents a theoretical framework for achieving valu...

We report on studies of field-effect transistor (FET) and transparent thin-film transistor (TFT) devices based on lightly Ta-doped SnO2 nano-wires. The nanowire-based devices exhibit uniform characteristics with average field-effect mobilities exceeding 100 cm2/V x s. Prototype nano-wire-based TFT (NW-TFT) devices on glass substrates showed excellent optical transparency and transistor performa...

Transparency order is considered to be a cryptographically significant property that characterizes the resistance of S-boxes in opposition differential power analysis attacks. The S-box having low transparency more resistant these Until now, little attempts have been noticed examine theoretically and its relationship with other cryptographic properties. All constructions associated are relying ...

EIT waveforms have components synchronous with cardiac activity, which are often assumed to originate from the blood perfusion. There are numerous other contributions to this signal. The goal of this paper is to provide a list of the factors which could be at the origin of these cardiacrelated components, to help guide future research.

In this paper, a new frequency-based approach to motion segmentation is presented. The proposed technique represents the sequence as a spatio-temporal volume, where a moving object corresponds to a three-dimensional object. In order to detect the “3D volumes” corresponding to significant motions, a new scheme based on a band-pass filtering with a set of logGabor spatio-temporal filters is used....