Public sector agencies are an important front in the day-to-day battle for political supremacy between the executive and the legislature. The executive’s key agents in this conflict are his appointees, who frequently play one of two roles: Congressional allies, where they help Congress implement policy and Congressional adversaries, where they fight with Congress to shift policy strongly toward...

Most of the research in comparative corporate governance has, implicitly or explicitly, taken the US as benchmark. But recent corporate scandals, such as Enron and Worldcom, question this alleged supremacy. What went wrong? In this chapter we claim that the problem is not just lack of appropriate disclosure or legislation, but a more fundamental one: deficient incentives for the media to expose...

Introduction The challenges related to the preservation of Mongolia’s pastureland, its quality and condition are key concerns for the livestock sector. However, scientists, researchers and government agencies tend to focus solely on rangeland ecology and livestock. All too often, herders are overlooked and omitted from the discourse. This is the main reason I want to talk about people of the M...

studying human free will and option in both theoretical and practical aspects of human life has always been of vital importance. the reason why lies in the relation between one`s religious beliefs and practical life. with regard to the effect of free will as the base of human action, knowing the meaning and its essential agents has been necessary.  although most experts and scholars have been a...

Background: There is an interval between clinical and theoretical teachings in nursing which proper teachings during initial courses in nursing. Therefore, the purpose of this process was to comply Log Book in teaching principles and techniques to nursing students. Methods: This mixed study was an exploratory study which was done in three stages on midwifery and nursing students. At first, Log ...

this enigma that “how should tort law assign monetary values to human lives?” has preoccupied many legal scholars. in responding this question, two independent bodies of law try to redress the personal injuries in the united states;1-tort law, in which the courts use a case-specific numbers to assess damages, making individual differences crucial and 2-regulatory policy, that relies on a unifor...

Super eciency data envelopment analysis(DEA) model can be used in ranking the performanceof ecient decision making units(DMUs). In DEA, non-extreme ecient unitshave a super eciency score one and the existing super eciency DEA models do notprovide a complete ranking about these units. In this paper, we will propose a methodfor ranking the performance of the extreme and non-extreme ecient units.

since the report from the national high blood pressure (bp) education program working group on bp in children and adolescents and the introduction of a new description called prehypertension many data have been provided on its rate of progression to hypertension, its prevalence and association with other cardiovascular (cv) risk factors and its therapy. making a diagnosis of prehypertension in ...

magical medicine in shahnameh ferdowsi is briefly examined in the present paper. initially, the magical treatment in general will be explained following which the magical treatments mentioned in particular in the shahnameh will be dealt with. the phoenix is responsible for most of the incredible magical treatments prescribed in the shahnameh. the first part of the paper concerns with topics inc...

The aim of this study is to find the effect of trader’s biorhythmic cycles on their perceptual decisions in Tehran Stock Exchange. According to author’s point of view, decision making is one of the major factors of management skills, and in some cases, it is equivalent of management (Simon’s point of view). Also considering this fact that the knowledge of psychological factors and it’s effects ...