Science topic
Corruption - Science topic
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
Questions related to Corruption
Scientifically, rationally and logically correct measurement and accounting not possible unless unit of measurement/accounting is clearly defined (constant) quantity of what is measured and therefore if law mandates just measurement and accounting it is implied that it mandates that unit of measurement/accounting of wealth must be clearly defined (constant/most stable) quantity of wealth. Further corruption of measurement and accounting not only a serious threat to economic justice but to our civilization.
How and to what extent do corruption and a lack of transparency in public life impede economic and social development, lead to the waste of public funds and erode public trust?
There are many indications that corruption and a lack of transparency in public life are serious problems that hinder economic and social development, lead to the waste of public funds and erode social trust. Corruption, i.e. the abuse of public power for private gain, occurs at various levels of government and affects both the public and private sectors. Lack of transparency, i.e. the concealment of information on decisions made and public funds spent, encourages corruption and hinders public scrutiny. An effective solution to this problem requires strengthening state institutions, enforcing the law, promoting transparency in public life and fighting corruption at all levels. Research plays an important role in solving this problem by providing the knowledge and analysis necessary to develop effective strategies.
What is your opinion on this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Warm regards,
I invite you to scientific cooperation,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Hello dear Researchers,
I hope you are doing well,
Where can find the CPI dataset?
Please share the link with me.
i am using the trjconv command in gromacs
gmx_mpi -debug trjconv -s md.gro -f md.xtc -o utr.xtc -fit rot+trans
and after few steps i got the error
gmx_mpi': corrupted size vs. prev_size: 0x0000000001d1b320 ***
if anyone know how to resolve it , I will be gratefull
thanks you
Teachers are key figures in shaping the moral and ethical frameworks of future generations. Understanding their influence can inform educational practices that promote integrity and accountability.
The China-African trade policy has been one sided since inception. China's main OFDI priority has been to target resource rich African nations with huge markets and very poor institutional quality index.
The policy is mixed and deceptive because it focuses on few resource poor African nations BUT with huge market, highly unskilled-cheap labour workforce with very corrupt leaders.
Most resource rich African nations are indebted to China with repayments plans skewed in China's trade interest.
Thus, making it arguably that China-Africa trade relations will end up with
the economic colonisation of most African nations by China.
Discuss the constitutional and legislative framework mandating the forensic
investigators to investigate fraud and corruption offenses in public and private sectors
as a proactive measure designed to enhance system integrity (prevention measures) and
reactive responses (reporting, detecting and investigative activities) to fight fraud cases
Over the past three years, I have noticed that a considerable number of researchers are publishing more than twenty, thirty, or even forty papers annually. This is a clear indication of academic corruption, and the appropriate response in such cases would be to hold them accountable, not reward them.
What are the suitable procedures to stop such unethical behavior?
This is in preparation for research demonstrating the implications of corruption on the allocation of public resources. I am exploring how clientelism, rent-seeking and other corrupt practices reduce the volume of public resources available to specific sectors, and distort the intended distribution of such resources.
Why I Asked About Democracy
I asked if democracy has really worked for the progress of a country or if it has contributed more to corruption and self-interest because I want to understand if democracy truly benefits people or if it has serious flaws. Democracy is often seen as the best way to govern, but I want to look deeper at both the good and bad sides of it.
Here are some reasons why this question is important:
1. Progress Evaluation
Democracy and Progress:
- Democracies are often praised for promoting economic growth, social development, and political stability. They allow people to participate in government and protect individual rights.
Key Question:
- Do democratic principles like freedom of speech, free elections, and the separation of powers actually help a country progress socially and economically?
2. Corruption in Democratic Systems
Democracy and Corruption:
- Even with checks and balances, democratic systems can still be corrupt. Corruption can weaken democratic institutions and cause people to lose trust in their government.
Key Question:
- How and why does corruption happen in democracies, and how much does it affect a country's progress?
3. Self-Interest and Populism
Self-Interest and Populism:
- Democracies can be vulnerable to populist leaders who exploit people's fears and desires for their own gain. This can lead to short-sighted policies and undermine democratic institutions.
Key Question:
- How can democratic systems protect themselves from the dangers of populism and leaders who act in their own self-interest?
4. Lessons from Different Countries
International Examples:
- By looking at different countries, both successful democracies and those that struggle with corruption and self-interest, we can learn important lessons.
Key Question:
- What can we learn from the experiences of countries like Norway, Brazil, the United States, South Korea, India, South Africa, and even our own Suriname?
5. Specific Context of Suriname
Suriname’s Reality:
- Suriname, like many other countries, has its own unique challenges and context. It's important to understand how democratic principles work within our specific political, economic, and social framework.
Key Question:
- How can Suriname apply lessons from other countries to strengthen its own democratic system and fight corruption?
Is there any impact of the interest rate, corruption perception index, and economic growth on foreign direct investment in developing countries?
Consider the impact of policy stability, corruption levels, and government efficiency on economic performance in both types of governance. Economic growth is a critical indicator of a country's development, and the type of governance can significantly influence this growth. Democracies and autocracies have distinct mechanisms and approaches that affect their economic trajectories. Participants can share empirical data, theoretical insights, and case studies to enrich the conversation and deepen understanding of the complex interplay between governance structures and economic outcomes.
What is the Collective Injustice? Are you going through it?
Would you please read on share with us your opinion?
Platform title - Public opinion issues - Collective injustice
Subtitle: Depends on the field of collective injustice
Announcement: Live Broadcast
On Sundays weekly with the issue of public opinion - collective injustice
Platform link and exact time: in the description attached to the video.
What is meant by collective injustice? What are his scenarios?
Did you know that you live in permanent collective injustice?
Did you know you have the right to expose and hold everyone who participated in your injustice accountable?
How do you deal with everyone who wronged you?
How do you deal with the damage resulting from collective injustice?
How do you demand your rights and the rights of the oppressed?
Please take the platform and join us in collective injustice. Why?
(1)
We all face many collective injustices in all or some aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, collective injustice has become widespread in all parts of the earth, but its severity varies from one place to another.
(2)
We document in articles, stories, books, magazines, videos, and posters, and we present and identify scenes and point out the effects of disasters resulting from collective injustice on all of us, our businesses, and our culture. The focus here will naturally be because I live in the United States of America, Egypt, and Arab countries, and I will be exposed to collective injustice in other places in the world.
We now have more than 12 reform books and more than 36 books that explain the collective injustice to which most Americans, Egyptians, and Arabs, including me, have been subjected.
+ We will show how state governments, federal governments, their various branches, and all civil, service, and volunteer organizations do not listen or care and have become hideously involved in collective injustice against Muslims, the elderly, and African Americans.
+ We will explain, based on more than 45 years of experience in the United States of America, recorded documentary research, and enormous evidence, the corruption from top to bottom in all of our society that exists in (top) state and federal governments and their branches and what they call civil and supportive organizations (to bring down).
All businesses (both for-profit and non-profit) you deal with, including the company or organization you work for
+ Since I am an American of Egyptian origin (the mother of the world) and an Arab, I will share with you some ongoing examples of collective injustice (inflicted on the majority of Egyptians and Arabs, myself included) in all aspects of life, from the failed and corrupt systems, their shameful media, their corrupt institutions, their followers, scholars, and sheiks, and their corrupt treatment in all Human, social, legal, scientific, applied, and other fields.
Some will ask. What are the benefits that accrue to us from this platform:
1. Knowledge
2. Documentation
3. Exposing and holding accountable everyone who participated and contributed to collective injustice
4. How to deal with collective injustice
5. Know how to claim your legal rights.
The question talks about how political actors behave in relation to political arena.
Most of the man-made problems all over the world ~ corruption, injustice, tyranny, oppression, fraud, poverty, unrest, bloodshed etc. are the root cause of people's lack of sufficient knowledge and consciousness and mental illness due to lack of real education. Blind-faith, blind-devotion, superstition, violence- hatred- terror etc. criminal and inhuman activities are all born from them.
Real human development and world peace can only be achieved if proper mind-development education and training is introduced everywhere. If true human development takes place through mind-developmental education, then most human-centered problems and crises will be solved.
The right education is the education to create a sufficiently developed human being. A very advanced education and training called 'Mahamnan' has been prepared, through which the mind and consciousness of the students will be developed considerably. Students will become truth-loving and rational and will be able to perceive the real situation including the people around them. Students will be able and strive to improve the environment and improve the people around them along with their own development. Freed from superstitions, they will rationally understand their own body and mind and political, economic and cultural conditions and try to make positive changes in them if necessary for the sake of living well. A good political party and social system without corruption will not be formed if enough developed people are not formed. People cannot get out of the trap of superstition or blind -faith. Real human development will not happen and real development of the country will not happen if better people are not created. But it will not be possible in a few days to remove the darkness and superstition accumulated from the human mind for thousands of years, it will require a lot of time. After a few generations the full benefits of this reform will be realized.
Equation:
P represent the prevalence of societal problems such as corruption, injustice, tyranny, oppression, fraud, poverty, unrest, and bloodshed. Let \( E \) represent the level of education and consciousness provided to individuals:
P = f(E)
Where:
• f represents the function describing the relationship between education and societal problems.
• E represents the level of education and consciousness provided to individuals.
Furthermore, to capture the impact of proper mind-development education on human development and world peace, we can introduce another variable:
H represent the degree of human development and world peace achieved, influenced by the introduction of mind-development education:
H = g(E)
Where:
• g represents the function describing the relationship between education and human development/world peace.
Could you help me in this regard? I would be very grateful to you.
I thank you in advance for your valuable assistance.
We will illustrate many instances of such. And we will also show the ugly fabrication of made-up laws as needed to satisfy their need for apparent injustice.
First Press Release
November 15, 2023
Documentary Books series: Collective Injustice
SJSU: Violating the regulations and laws that are supposed to be followed within the university.
Reply to: CSU Condemns Antisemitism and Islamophobia
An important message from the CSU Chancellor's Office.
Dr. Mildred García, CSU Chancellor & Wenda Fong, CSU Board of Trustees Chair
It is said:" When your actions contradict your words, your words do not mean anything." San Jose State University (SJSU) has enacted laws and regulations that stand unequivocally against hatred, bigotry, racism, and anti-religion, including "Semitism" and "Islamophobia," and promote the language of dialogue, belonging, and the well-being of society. It includes a commitment to freedom of thought and speech, lawful protest and demonstration, the expression of differing viewpoints, and informed and civil debate. Suppose it runs legally and is compatible with each university's time and place policies and ensures the safety of the university's students, faculty, and staff despite all of that. In that case, unfortunately, it does not adhere to any of these regulations. Instead, it goes the opposite way, with racist violations, harassment, and the language of threats and retaliation. Many faculty members affiliated with the university have these violations and abuses against me, and this is evident from the measures that were taken against me because of my race and religion and without justification. I was exposed to all forms of injustice by the University of California and its faculty members, which caused me many psychological, physical, professional, and other repercussions. We will present here some forms of this injustice. We mention, firstly, that they prevented and suspended me from teaching at the university without a clear justification, reduced my academic rank from permanent professor to lecturer, and accordingly stopped my salary several times; in addition to that, they recruited some students to spy on me and work to destroy my computer system. Not to mention the racism in the treatment and double standards with the department's students and the belittling of my students' legitimate rights by facilitating their affairs in writing their dissertations, supporting them, and providing assistance to them. This bias in treatment and the war they waged against me caused me a lot of trouble, problems, and health, psychological, physical, and professional damage alike.
If you want to know more about that in detail, don't hesitate to contact me at (info.aitg@aeehitg.com) to get the extended stories with much evidence.
Important Alert
The purpose of writing this press release is not to offend any person, institution, group, political party, government, or country in the world. Instead, the purpose is to report and tell what befell me of wrong lest my experience would be repeated with others. It is intended to keep the stability of the community and guarantee the protection of its members, whether native or expatriate. It is a cry from me so that it may reach the ears of the world. Perhaps someone will hear it and help me to restore my lost and stolen rights. I intend to mention the names of some people who have done me wrong. I am not against any person, institution, government, or political party, but I am against any corruption or transgression by some irresponsible individuals who do not fulfill the role assigned to them appropriately. This is only for your information.
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Can someone explain to me how is it possible that the main editor of Physical review D sends her papers to the very same journal she serve as a main editor ?
it is a major contradiction of interest. Even lawyers know that. She only sends to that journal she edits in:
It's only a singular example, but it's just goes to show, which lack of integrity I was talking about within the ST community.
Ideal status quo's are blatantly more harmful to the majority of individuals in today's societies.
Dissemination of Canada's sovereignty is only way truth and reconciliation can occur. This will leave the shared land of the "self determined sovereign allies in the government of the indigenous.
This is possible if we open our minds and shut our egotistical, privileged, systemically biased discrimination impulses aside.
Zane Collins fight for Truth
Do checks & balances work when it comes to the three organs of government, specifically in developing countries?
Corruption has often been a thorn in the development of countries. Brazil is no exception. By some estimates, 7% of the gross domestic product of Brazil is siphoned off yearly in the form of kickbacks. This represents 200 billion dollars that rather than going toward better schools and hospitals is used instead to purchase and furnish lavish villas in the Swiss Alps by unscrupulous officials. It takes a strong and disciplined individual to not accept a bribe. Tribhuvandas Patel, who became a member of Mahatma Gandhi’s Freedom Movement in the 1930’s, was one such individual. He was instrumental in empowered a whole generation of poor Indian farmers through the establishment of cooperatives (Rajaram 2014). Patel had a steadfast rule: never take advantage as a civil servant by redirecting public funds toward one’s family.
Over the course of Brazil’s history this rule continues to be violated such that Lula da Silva who was once considered the new face of Brazil’s empowerment of the poor decided, along with his many colleagues, to enrich himself in the process. He is now serving a twelve-year prison sentence for his transgressions, but many of his associates continue to steal from the public treasury. This fact has put the Brazilian electorate in a tizzy as they go to the polls to vote for a new president. Shortly, they must decide between Fernando Haddad, who has been tainted by his associations with Lula da Silva, and Jair Bolsonaro who is differentially tainted by wanting to empower the military, to bring back torture, and to curtail the civil rights of Women, Blacks, and Gays whom he sees as less deserving. Some have gone as far as to compare Bolsonaro to Hitler. In the 1930’s, Germans had to make a similar choice between candidates and they chose Hilter. This of course was a massive cost not only to German society but also to Europe and the world at large, not to mention the six million Jews who were exterminated. It is unfortunate that Lula da Silva did not turn out to be a better human being, more in the tradition of a true freedom fighter such as Tribhuvandas Patel.
Reference
Rajaram NS (2014) Remembering the father of ‘Milk Revolution’. New Global India, March.
With a view to a work on the mechanisms to combat corruption.
Is there any Interplay between Corruption Perception Index and GDP Growth?
Hi! I am working with MODIS images, I need to estimate EVI, to do it correctly, first I need to evaluate the quality assessment data layer and overlap it with the EVI layer to dismiss those pixels that are corrupted. Any idea of a tutorial to do this with qgis?
If you were in an administrative position, what would be the fastest way for you to eliminate administrative corruption globally and locally?
Often around the world we see nations battling with their own cultural ideologies, particularly between the West and Eastern Nations. Often when one nation sees their policies, humane reforms as valid. It is viewed differently by international community. In most cases excessive ideological beliefs can be a fallacy. The culture, ideological beliefs in the West is different than in other countries. But due to conflicting interests in human rights, we observe the world as divided. A global caste system. The danger stereotypical beliefs is that it is not always right. It is fair to say that all countries have their fair share corrupt leaders ,and mistreatment of local communities. The west have exploited a lot resources from the developing nations. The developing nations have not done much to improve their countries with a much needed exchange diplomacy with the West or maybe due to fallacy of local customs, their development vision is different. I may be wrong. However, many things are not clear when you don't directly observe it. News are businesses and they will often spread misinformation. Ideology nowadays is used as a means to justify political agenda. The line between serving and gaining is not clear. I would like to get your views regarding this matter, but please keep your discussions friendly. Your kind answers are highly appreciated.
I’m searching for modern or contemporary plays which deal with women’s oppression and nature or environment (climate change)‘s corruption. I’m looking for plays by African Women Playwrights and Australian Women Playwright.
I am feeling that academics is corrupted due to the publication requirement for phd graduation in addition to funders driven publication.
The founding leader of an organization enjoys the confidence of their followers. However, when a new leader takes over and directs the organization towards the same goals, the founding leader may face legal repercussions due to involvement in corruption or ethical violations. How would this affect the performance of the current leader of the organization?
"Hello, I'm currently exploring the topic of image inpainting and am particularly interested in methods that utilize autoencoders for regeneration. I'm wondering if there are any recent, efficient techniques that have shown promising results in this area. Specifically, I'm looking for methods that can effectively regenerate images with missing or corrupted parts, while minimizing artifacts or distortion.
Can you recommend any relevant papers or techniques that have shown good performance in this area? I would also appreciate any resources or insights you can provide on this topic. Thank you for your time and expertise."
How can corruption in the national system of awarding non-refundable financial grants for innovative business ventures undermine the development of innovation and science?
In what way can corruption in the national system of granting non-refundable financial subsidies from the public finance system for innovative business ventures be an important element in the decline of the credibility of key public institutions supporting cooperation between business and science, a decline in the level of innovation in the economy, a decline in the effectiveness of the implementation of innovative solutions and patents created during research work, a weakening of the development of national science?
An important factor for the effective economic development of the country is the development of innovativeness, including the creation of new, innovative technologies and their implementation and development in business applications. Important factors for the activation of innovation and entrepreneurship in the economy include efficiently and reliably functioning systems of financial subsidies la innovative startups and companies and enterprises implementing and developing new, innovative technologies in business applications. However, when this system is flawed, does not function efficiently and reliably, is permeated with corruption and the extortion of funds from the state's public finance system, then the process of activating innovation and entrepreneurship in the economy does not work. This is particularly relevant in a paradise where investment banking is underdeveloped and, as a result, the development of innovative startups is, outside of grants from the national public finance system and outside of financial grants from the European Union, financed mainly on the basis of family loans, equity financing provided by business angels, specialised investment funds and crowdfunding available on the Internet. These are therefore not great opportunities to finance the development of innovative startups in a situation where commercial banks avoid lending to this type of entity. Commercial banks are unlikely to grant loans to finance the development of an innovative startup because they assess the credit risk as high for this type of business venture or they are also unable to precisely quantify the credit risk for startups that plan to implement and develop new, innovative technologies. In such a situation, a system of non-repayable financial subsidies coming from the public finance system and distributed systemically to such ventures can be of great help in activating the development of innovation and entrepreneurship. In order for this kind of system of distributing grants for innovative projects to work efficiently and effectively, the process of distributing funds under this kind of non-returnable grant schemes should be conducted in the form of competitions, during which genuinely innovative technological solutions should be selected. The competitions should be carried out taking into account the real expertise in innovation, reliable processes of analysis and evaluation of the level of innovation and determination of the level of usefulness, possibilities of practical applications, improvement of the effectiveness of economic processes, improvement of the level of profitability, obtaining specific positive effects of applying new innovations in a company or enterprise, etc. It is also necessary to carry out a number of market studies and analysis of the demand in specific markets, in specific spheres of economic activity, the demand from specific types of economic entities and/or citizens for products and services that will be created by the implementation and development in business of specific new innovative technologies. However, when corruption, including embezzlement of public money, occurs in this system of distributing financial subsidies then the whole system does not work effectively. When corruption occurs in public institutions distributing financial subsidies then the process of activating innovation and entrepreneurship does not work effectively. In view of the above, corruption in the national system of awarding financial grants from European Union funds for innovative business ventures may be an important element of a decrease in the credibility of key public institutions supporting cooperation between business and science, a decrease in the level of innovation in the economy, a decrease in the effectiveness of implementation of innovative solutions and patents created during research work, a weakening of the development of national science. In the country in which I operate, further cases of this type of corruption have been detected, which has been taking place in the National Centre for Research and Development, i.e. in the institution that distributes European Union financial grants to innovative start-ups and companies and enterprises implementing and developing new, innovative technologies in business applications.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
In what way can corruption in the national system of granting non-refundable financial subsidies from the public finance system for innovative business ventures be an important element in the decline of the credibility of key public institutions supporting cooperation between business and science, a decline in the level of innovation in the economy, a decline in the effectiveness of the implementation of innovative solutions and patents created during research work, a weakening of the development of national science?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this subject?
Please respond,
I invite you all to discuss,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Does the Criminal Justice System show bias towards the upper classes?
Good day for everyone
Kindly, may anyone help me?
I am facing a problem when downloading data about (corruption)
where I need data from 1990- 2020.
Note the data available on the site (Transparency International) is just from 1995, but I have seen some papers that used data from 1990. for example (The Impact of Financial Corruption on Economic Performance The Case of Jordan)
Proponents of gun pocession by citizens claim that it is a neceseccity otherwise it distorts the strong atomism they support, the one that such pocession is a right with political implications (defend from corrupted government).
A majority of these proponents have controversial claims about other civil issues such as IDs necessity, for example.
They might believe that IDs are bad because they make you a number, register your life's dealts etc.
But it has functional roles. How can you be identified as the claimant to a bank if the banker is not a close acquitance?
2 strong arguments agaist popular non hunting gun pocession
People that are proponents of free guns for self Defence right and Defence from corrupted government seizing their state fail to ask important questions. What is the role of police? With regards to corrupted governs there is press power, anti corruption ngo's, institutions to monitor. How can one miss such a big corruption for long enough? One who still holds these arguments in low regard is either is not literate enough of moderncivil political orgamization or undermines its status and wellness of aims to the anarchic level..
This year CEUR-WS.org publisher has changed the requirements to the authors of the papers to be submitted for the conference. As required by CEUR-WS.org, at least one author of the submission must have at least 5 papers listed in DBLP (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#FAQ-DBLPFOOTPRINT). To check the number of your papers in DBLP, please, go to DBLP site: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pid/77/11070.html.
If I 'd like to participate in CEUR-WS.org conference then I need to include in my author list another person that has 5 papers listed in DBLP but not made nothing for preparing the conference paper? I think that such requirements is the base of the corruption in the science world. Is it normal?
I think that in more case new author can give a better results as a person that have more than 5 papers in DBLP. This approach of CEUR-WS.org blocks the development of emerging and disruptive science areas.
Dear colleagues, please help us find the Wallac 1420 program. We use a fairly old but reliable Victor2 Multilabel Counter, however the connected computer crashed and the program was corrupted. Unfortunately, due to a number of laboratory moves, the original CD was lost. We would be very grateful if someone could share the CD image for this program.
In present era of globalization “governance” and “good governance” are being increasingly getting implemented and practiced. Bad governance is considered as one of the major root causes of all irregularities and evil in the society and has a deep impact on economic environment.
International financial body like World Bank and IMF are now facilitating loan and advances to the nations on the conditions that they are practicing “Governance” and “good governance”.
•It is also defined as “the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country’s social and economic resources for development”.
•Governance means “the process of decision making and the process by which decisions are implemented or not implemented.
•It can be viewed as the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country’s affairs.
•It is also been defined as “the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country’s economic and social resources for development.
•It is used in several contexts among them most widely used as corporate governance, national, international and local governance.
•It is well defined mechanism, a establish process and institutions which is been used by the citizens and groups to articulate their interest, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations and mediate their differences.
One of the easiest ways to handle missing or corrupted data is to drop those rows or columns or replace them entirely with some other value.
There are two useful methods in Pandas:
- IsNull() and dropna() will help to find the columns/rows with missing data and drop them
- Fillna() will replace the wrong values with a placeholder value
Setting aside the problems raised by positive conflicts of jurisdiction, does it make any sense that the alleged corruption of MEPs is dealt with under Belgian (or French, or any other national) law, and is thus subject to the definition of the offence and the penalties it provides for?
Hello;
I recently analyzed the video data of climbing assay in drosophila using Fiji. I used a valid plug-in for tracking flies. At the end of the analysis, Fiji converts the results to excel documents (.xls). I suppose to have sequentially decreasing data in the excel files, but I get a series of crazy numbers instead. Besides, some of the data (numbers) are changed to dates. Please find the attached file to have a look at.
When I try to analyse the videos on another computer (Imac), there is no problem with the excel files. I can get the proper results without mistakes. Something seems wrong with my computer (Mac) or program. Everything is updated. Has anybody had a similar problem before, or do you have any idea what's wrong with Fiji on my computer?
I appreciate your help.
Best,
Dilara
Digital slavery, in the form of a central bank digital currency that is programmable, is nothing but master-servant relationship that violates all human rights and is only used to control humanity in ways much worse and more destructive than the slavey by the Egyptians, Europeans, and Chinese, in addition to the Southern Americans pre-1900.
There's no excuse to allow a central bank digital currency , and in fact, the central banking system is more corrupt than any mafia on earth.
Prove me wrong.
Many countries are now facing corruption and money transfer from polliticians and corrupted personal,while peoples of those countries suffering poorness and sickness and less developed accomodations ,how to punish and eliminate those ignorant corrupted peoples ?
I have FiSAT II 1.2.2 software but as I feed the data it either shows a corrupted file or the wrong data format. I have arranged my data as per the manual. What could be the reason behind this? If possible can anyone provide the official link for FiSAT software as maybe I have downloaded the wrong version? Kindly guide
The tragedy of developing countries is that these countries take huge loans to run the country. Then the corrupt leaders there take away money through corruption and invest it in developed countries or deposit it in international banks. But the people here have been bearing the burden of this debt for decades. Because of the countries and international institutions from which loans were taken, the same countries also make the policies of these vulnerable countries. They decide the fate of the people there. Therefore, people suffer inflation in terms of electricity, gas, water, and taxes. Developed countries interfere in developing countries, make policies there, impose corrupt leaders on the people there, and make their lives worse.
There is an upsurge recently in the activities of bandits, militants, and kidnappers in many less developed nations in contemporary time culminating into mirage of socio-ethical problems and insecurity.
This article is relevant to my PhD thesis. I am researching on the topic "African christology and the fight against corruption in Ghana".
I am working on an article on the challenges in the implementation of Pretrial Rights in Afghanistan using Grounded Theory. Open Codes developed like Corruption, Lack of Resources, Security Concerns, etc point to problems in state capacity. I am working on which of the two concepts could better help in explaining my findings.
I want to test the impact that regulation has on the continued struggle that Nigeria is facing with financial exclusion. I want to correlate regulations with corruption and heightened government negligence. What research technique is best to adopt. I intend to use data on the economy, financial inclusion and corruption indexes for the last 10years and the regulatory dynamism of the financial sector over the same period
I do not recommended readings on related subject matter.
Regards
I’m doing a research right now and I’m trying ti find how and to what extent corruption impacts the interest of retail investors in a particular country. After a brief lit review, I tought to correlate and do a regression between the corruption perceptions index and equity shares ownership by households in a given country. Now, I think that If I pop in other control variables it will dilute the significance of this one and I won’t be able to distinguish how high of significance is just corruption. Should I be adding things such as GDP, interest rates, inflation or some other even?
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After running some regression, as well as the correlation matrix, I find that where corruption increase government spending diminishes especially military ones. Yet the literature highlights that we should observe the reversal phenomenon. No matter the regression I run, the result is meaningful. I'm finding explanation to this result
In many occasions recruitment panel members are biased on their own Ph.D students, political pressures etc. Some times low quality candidates are selected as they offers huge black money. There is no value of quality research in India. University level educational system is suffering. Not a single University get chance in the Top 300 institutions in the world. Recruitment procedures mentioned by UGC are not monitoring at all.
I am writing a dissertation on the topic of sex trafficking. Having read Siddharth Kara's book i wanted to explore the topic more however, it has proven to be difficult to narrow down the specifics of such a huge topic. I am particularly interested in police corruption which facilitates exploitation, vague laws on prevention of sex trafficking, psychological trauma of survivors and traffickers understanding of their role in this illegal market. Any help with sources, research methods or discourses would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know your thoughts
I think the title completely describes the question.
when make a study of corporate frauds and crimes , one notices always that corruption takes place when when one faces threat of punishment due to non compliance’s of laws .In india Satyam , Enron or ILFS are examples of corporate crimes arising out of non compliance’s .
I'm looking at the relationship between silence and corruption and how these are used to marginalize the Other
Hello,
I recorded a 2D HN spectrum on Bruker TopSpin 4.1.3 on a 800 MHz spectrometer and when changing the referencing I accidentally set the Spectrometer Frequency SF to 0 Hz in the nitrogen dimension. Now the data cannot be opened and when I try to display it, there is an error message indicating that "Data set doesn't exist, or is not accessible or is corrupt. Illegal parameter value: resolution[2] = -infinity." Does anyone know how can this be fixed ? I cannot correct the SF since the data won't be displayed, so I cannot access the PROCPARS. Is there a command which can change the PROCPARS of a dataset which is not currently displayed on the software ?
Thanks a lot for any advice,
Louis Brigandat
Hi, I am interested in focusing my dissertation on corruption (specifically in Colombia or Latin America). As the theme is very broad, I would really appreciate if you could give me some suggestions on what to focus my research on so that I can come up with a narrowed research question. Also, if you have specific corruption theories I could look into that would be great. (I already looked into underdevelopment theories such as neo-patrimonialism and dependency theory).
I have brainstormed some ideas that can be linked to corruption:
- underdevelopment (health, education, infrastructure)
- as a threat to democracy (institutions, transparency, public policy, unpunishment)
Thank you!
(International Political Economy)
I need the data to perform OLS where the dependent variable will be the shadow economy in Greece and the independent the corruption in Greece and the amount of e-transactions per person in the country, but I can't find the data, can someone help me please?
Dear professors,
I am looking for a global database for any of the aspects of the quality of the institutions with yearly data since 1995 or earlier. I need it to be freely accessible. I know about the Corruption Perception Index from Transparency international and the Freedom of Press from the Freedom House.
Very much thank you in advance!
Background:
That in observed instances and Perception of Corruption index reports, Police have detained motorists or coerced them into parting with bribes. That in many countries, Police lack the necessary tools for on-the-spot inspection and preservation of evidence e.g cameras or online mobile devices. That even when the Police cause a vehicle to be driven to Police stations, the Police stations lack the necessary equipment to provide Inspection as anticipated in respective Traffic Acts. That on matters Traffic, the Police stations become centers of extortion, frustration and inconvenience as opposed to service and facilitation for the benefit of motorists. That in many countries, there is no tracking of how many stops and inspections Police conduct in their daily routine thus leaving room for abuse of these random checks and stops.
This project seeks to establish the circumstances that lead to the lack of transparency in Traffic policing activities
References:
1. Police Corruption Perceptions Index: https://www.indexmundi.com/surveys/results/1
2. Police Corruption is becoming a Pandemic too: https://www.transparency.org/en/news/police-corruption-is-becoming-a-pandemic-too
3. Crime, Poverty and Police Corruption in Developing Countries: https://www.cmi.no/publications/file/3078-crime-poverty-and-police-corruption.pdf
4. Core Factors of Police Corruption Across the World: https://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/publications/core_factors.pdf
5. Australia struggles to improve global corruption perception ranking: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7b4c3fea-fd7b-47f0-a455-29b047413c7e
6. To Serve and Collect: Measuring Police Corruption: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1144321?seq=1
7. Measuring Corruption: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9781137023865_3
8. What Do Corruption Indices Measure?: https://uh.edu/~gujhelyi/corrmeasures.pdf
9. Police (mis)behavior: a cross‐cultural study of corruption seriousness: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/13639510510614609/full/html?skipTracking=true
10. WHAT DETERMINES CORRUPTION? INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE FROM MICRO DATA: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10460/w10460.pdf
I need an existing research work on the role of EFCC on assest recovery and return in Nigeria especially during Muhammadu Buhari led administration who is Keen toward fighting corruption.
How do we install Caver 1.0 as a standalone application on our laptop? I tried download as usual, but the system keeps telling me the executable jar file is corrupted or invalid after I extracted from the zip file. What should I do regarding this matter ?
I designed an algorithm for MRI data denoising which has good properties under heavy Rician noise (sigma is greater than 80). The method was tested on Brainweb's phantom and Matlab's ricernd() function. Now I want to test the algorithm on real MRI data. Could I ask you to recommend free datasets of MRI data where images are disturbed by heavy Rician noise (sigma is greater than 80)?
Are there any study about these issues?
Many experts believe that the impact of corruption and other unethical practices in modern society are worse than COVID-19, Ebola, cancer, etc.
Arguably, corrupt activities in the construction and infrastructure sector are difficult to predict and control because of its secret nature, subtleness, characteristics of mega projects, complex procurement strategies, human/organisational involvement, nature of clients, etc.
Though, to a certain degree we can predict many things about human being and organisations such as performance, finance, profit, progression rates, mobility, culture, etc. But there is no agreed or empirical method(s) for predicting and controlling corrupt activities particularly in mega construction projects.
Indeed, the idea of corruption in the construction industry plays a powerful role in thinking about organisations and the behaviour of those entrusted with commercial responsibilities. According to the United Nation “nowhere is corruption more ingrained than in the construction sector”. The problem of corrupt practices in the sector seems to be exacerbated by the culture (the characteristics, knowledge of groups of people and organisational values) in the industry.
Therefore, devising competent methods on how to predict and control corrupt activities in mega construction projects will certainly be a significant development; because you cannot manage what you cannot measure.
The simple research question up for discussion is: What are the most effective and efficient methods for predicting and controlling corrupt activities in mega construction projects?
Financial corruption resulted in the undermining of the economic organization and thus the failure of building the state of law.
I have the Corruption perception index as a control variable in my study and i'm not sure what i have use the score or the rank of the country ? please advice what i have to use in the data entry and how .
In this article we pose the dilemmas of international NGOs in terms of whether their influence has been positive or negative in developing countries. While going for the negative side ourselves we would welcome more positive readings. This is an important debate though much neglected.
While availing any governmental or non governmental service, have you been part of any type of corruption or have you paid in any sort to public servant while try to get any public service done?
Based on empirical observation, I assume that there is some correlation between corruption and households. How to measure?
I just want to think funny. What could be the impact of corruption, bribery and nepotism on agricultural production and food security in Africa?
The formation of citizens with strategic thinking, solidarity and equitable access to decisions making (citizenship) is increasingly seen as a practical solution to face the consequences of Covid 19, corruption and biases in local/regional development. Your valuable contributions are welcomed.
In the criteria for selecting marketing channels: the geographical of the market, demand, control and supervision, corruption, etc. are effective. Can it be claimed that Covid-19 has led us to online distribution? Or the type of product is still effective, such as FMCG product.
Of course, I still think hybrid channels are the key to success.
What is the role of the United Nations in the world?
Do believe the United Nations play the right role with Iraqi protesters?
Every day the Iraqi corrupt government and their corrupt parties kill Iraqi protesters, with the silent of all glob including UN.
(Please recommend this question to broaden this debate)
MINOR POWER PLAY
research problem
Being creative in Morocco comes with a few ‘pushbacks’; certain constraints and issues to deal with, which are specifically bound to this country. These constraints derive from religion (which is embedded in) politics (and creates) corrupted institutions (and more separation in) social classes. Also because of the arrival of the internet another gap is created between generations.
Religion; e.g. Figurative prohibition
(corrupted) Politics; no true freedom of speech, no governmental support in the prosperity of the creative scene.
Corrupted institutions; little funding within the creative field, not enough platforms for dispersion and publicity.
Social classes; inequality in professional possibilities; “A country that still regards Artistic expression as a luxury rather than being functional in the construction of cultural identity”
Generations; lack of understanding and support in personal surroundings.
I am researching with mainly a positive attitude, trying to listen and read in a decolonial way.
Refrences:
- Personal perspectives and experiences from Moroccan friends
- Amine, Khalid ; Theatre in Morocco and the postcolonial turn 2009
- El Maarouf, Moulay Driss ; Undressing the System: The Rituals of Madness and Badness in Moroccan Music Festivals
- OZY article ; The Man Modernizing Morocco Through Art 2020.
- Boujemi, Hanane ; Global Information Society Watch, Morocco, The internet and corruption 2012
- Richards, Greg ; Desiging creative places: The role of creative tourism 2019
I am looking for a Likert scale to assess the intensity of corruption among general public.
I have searched a lot, but couldn't succeed. Therefore, if there's one.
Thank you in advance.
What are some of the factors that promote corruption in developing countries?
How can we minimise the rate of corruption in developing countries or while availing any other public services?
What according to you can be the best remedies through which it's growing rate can be reduced or minimised?
I would like to get corruption data for these four countries: Greece Albania Romania and Bulgaria. Any database you can refer to?
In his prominent book "The Problem of Corruption", Syed Hussein Alatas argues that no structural, legal or administrative changes will succeed in the fight against corruption unless societies ensure a sufficient supply of individuals of high moral calibre into vital positions of power.
The question is how can societies supply and facilitate the rise of these "good individuals" to positions of power so they can play a decisive role in getting rid of corruption?
If your country is already in debt close to depression, corruption on it's peak, and has lack of maintained basic services throughout it's rural parts of the country, how do you increase it's currency value when one of it's major source of revenue is government loans?
I am currently looking for drivers of corruption in infrastructure projects. However, other than Stansbury's Exposing the Foundations of Corruption in Construction, I have not been able to find a good source for this topic. Do you know any sources that could help me? Or, do you have any proposals?
Here is a small challenge:
In a research community (e.g., uni faculty, conferences) consisting of researchers (e.g., professors, etc), every researcher knows each other. There are good researchers and a corrupt one. Each researcher knows about some other researchers and whether each of them is good or corrupt, but s/he doesn't know whether her/himself is corrupt or not. One day, a queen who has the power to know everything about all communities, came to the research community and told that "there is one corrupt researcher in this community. You should not exchange with each other what you already know about the corruption. I ask any of you to leave in the midnight of the day once you know that yourself is corrupt."
- Question: how many days will it take to get rid of the corrupt researcher? in what condition? How many possible answers? Can the community get rid of the corrupt one at all? If not, what is academia pursuing?
- Context: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_is_more_important_for_a_good_professor_citations_ethics_or_morals
Edit: Readers may find the definition of 'corrupt': https://www.dictionary.com/browse/corrupt
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Corruption detection in Distributed Network
In computer science, if a 'good entity' doesn't act under the rule nor communicate their knowledge, it is said malfunctioned, compromised or corrupted. Theoretically, those entities actually become no different from the corrupt ones who actually targets the network. Mathematically, if many such 'good' entities existed, the whole network is compromised, it can no longer distinguish what is good or not. When the network comes to that state, it is irreversible. Detected corruption is as important as the knowledge, and sharing detected corruption must be part of the rules.
Only computer science is given in this example, readers may get their own intuition in the matters they are concerned.
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Conjecture 1:
Given: there are rules (law) for every good entity to follow, and assume they all follow.
Conjecture: If all good entities still act (do, follow, obey) based on the common rules (law) and share knowledge (truth, facts) via communication, then corruption can be uncovered if not dominant.
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Truth, Majority, Transparency and Education
For any sample of population and any person in the sample has an equal chance to access to or deduce the truth, then majority is likely to get closer to the truth than the remainder. In practice, the chances vary and truths sometimes are restricted to only a small portion. That's why majority may not work in such setting. Transparency and education help.
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Summary of discussions
Knowledge and communication may be not sufficient to stop corruption. It needs rules and transparency.
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Version 2: In a committee of n researchers, each researcher interacts with exactly k other researchers each day and finds out whether any of the k is corrupt. The researcher then gossips the new finding with 1 other research on that day. Note that, the corrupt researcher can also gossip, but his/her message can be true/wrong each time. If the queen comes and tells that there is one corrupt researcher, can the committee spot it out? in how many days? if there is no such queen, can the committee still find it out?
" Picture a world where every product and appliance is environmentally friendly, where every supermarket item is fair trade, where corruption is an urban myth and poverty a long-distant memory. Hard to imagine?
Technically, it is possible… if everyone adhered to sustainable procurement."
Recently, I found this statement on this website: https://www.csr-company.com/our-services/iso-20400-sustainable-procurement-%E2%80%93-implementation-and-auditverification. Seems like an organisation with a serious mission.
I wondered whether creating this ideal world was really this simple. If yes, why do we not spend MUCH MORE attention to ethics in supply chains, that is with the selling and the buying side. And consider the financial and societal benefits more ethical supply chains would bring. Looking forward to a good discussion. BR Anne Staal
As an example, the human trafficking phenomenon has been dismissed by a handful of researchers/critics in South Africa who claims that there is "little evidence to substantiate" that the issue is a widespread 'problem'. Rigorous, quantitative data is scarce as the South African government has been very slow to respond to the call for national-level, standardized and statistical data. Moreover, huge gaps in identifying cases by frontline law enforcement officials continue, whilst some cases are not reported (corruption) and others are subsumed under other crimes. In addition to the crime being a hidden crime, and victims not self-identifying, the aforementioned reasons are but some which underpin the lack of 'data' or 'evidence' (using the terms employed by skeptics).
On the flip side, a number of national studies (at least 7) have been done over the past 20+ years, all of which used a well-explicated methodology, and interviews with practitioners and experts (including perpetrators and victims of the crime) from which clear/vivid insights can be drawn. It does not provide a statistical/quantifiable scope of the problem, but surely suggest that the problem is systemic and inextricably linked to South Africa's multiple systems of violence, corruption, impunity, and structural inequalities. An increasing number of cases are currently being prosecuted in our courts, and more than 2000 cases have been reported to the police in a matter of 2 years (between 2015 and 2017). At least four unpublished doctoral studies in recent years provide similar insights and 'evidence' that are consistent and coherent with previous 'findings' that South Africa indeed does have a trafficking 'problem'.
So, what is 'evidence'? Some politicians frequently make reference to 'anecdotal evidence' when subtly dismissing the reality of the crime. Surely, when a clearly explicated methodology is followed and data is systematically collected which include first-hand lived experiences of practitioners and survivors of the crime, there exists empirical 'evidence'? Even more so when multiple studies confirm these findings? Practitioners whom I've interviewed (police, prosecutors, magistrates, social workers, survivors, and convicted traffickers) find the 'little evidence to substantiate' claims by a handful of researchers quite bizarre...
Any insights will be much appreciated!
Marcel
where to find data of corruption types such as Corruption in judiciary, Business corruption, Political corruption ,Corruption in government?
network has been widely used to achieve some complex programs. however, the dark side of networks has not been fully explored. we can see that network can be a useful tool to control corruption ,while network itself can be a source of corruption. so anyone can recommend me some related works?
After installing the latest update of Gromacs i.e. 2020 beta2 version, a MDrun of a peptide sequence of 86 residue was initialised. The run was successfully completed.
While analysing the protein a few successive error were acknowledged.
1) After I entered the command for the dssp secondary structure calculation a message appeared which refers to a segmentation error. Not basically an error but a non-compiling argument.
Command:
gmx do_dssp -f md_0_1.xtc -s md_0_1.tpr -o secondary-structure.xpm -sc secondary-structure.xvg -dt 10
Output: Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
2) And while entering the command for energy calculations. A fatal error occured i.e.
Command:
gmx energy -f md_0_1.edr
Fatal Error:
"Energy header magic number mismatch, this is not a GROMACS edr file
If you want to use the correct frames before the corrupted frame and avoid
this fatal error set the env.var. GMX_ENX_NO_FATAL"
All these command works efficiently for the previous versions but not for the 2020 beta2.
The outputs are attached, any advice would be really appreciated.
Thank you
In exploring the role of civil society organizations in the fights against corruption (public and private, grand and petty) I could not find a comprehensive theoretical framework that can be appropriate for a qualitative study.
state the effects
empirical framework
Just recently Transparency International released its Corruption Perception index. The index used scoring from multiple sources. In case of Pakistan it takes 8 different sources and the avg. score in 2019 is 32.04 with SD 2.46 while in 2018 the avg. score was 33 with SD 2.06.
The change in average overall score from 2018 to 2019 is 1.00. But suppose that the change of scoring of individual 8 sources varies with an average of 0.83 and SD is 6.87.
Is this change (2018 to 2019 is 1.00) significant when change in 8 individual sources has a SD 6.87???
In this case, are the individual 8 sources consistent?
Is a top-down approach (government approach) more effective in the fight against corruption or is it better to engage in social initiatives and involve civil society organizations in exerting external control on government activities?
I am organising a database of ACAs around the world who have the power to conduct public hearings as part of their corruption investigation. I am aware most Australian ACAs have such powers but is Australia an isolated case or same can be found elsewhere?
