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Buell, Ryan W. Creating reciprocal value through operational transparency. Harvard Business School, 2014.

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Uganda. Office of the President. Directorate for Ethics and Integrity. The national ethical value policy implementation plan. Office of the President, Directorate for Ethics and Integrity, 2015.

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Marcel, Fratzscher, and European Central Bank, eds. Social value of public information: Testing the limits to transparency. European Central Bank, 2007.

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Svensson, Lars E. O. Social value of public information: Morris and Shin (2002) is actually pro transparency, not con. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005.

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C, Havens John, ed. Tactical transparency: How leaders can leverage social media to maximize value and build their brand. Jossey-Bass, 2009.

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Uganda. Office of the President. Directorate for Ethics and Integrity. The national ethical values policy. Office of the President, Directorate for Ethics and Integrity, 2013.

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Molenaar, Keith R., and Daniel Tran. Practices for Developing Transparent Best Value Selection Procedures. Transportation Research Board, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.17226/22192.

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Méndez, Arturo Ortiz. Visión de Zacatecas: Ensayos para construir el futuro. Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, 2002.

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Gebler, David. The 3 power values: How commitment, integrity, and transparency clear the roadblocks to performance. Jossey-Bass, 2012.

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González Camarena, Gerardo, 1952- author, ed. El cansancio ciudadano de la corrupción en México: Instituciones líquidas y garantismo. Editorial Fontamara, 2014.

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Ind, Nicholas. Beyond branding: How the new values of transparency and integrity are changing the world of brands. Kogan Page, 2005.

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author, Pellini Arnaldo, Nurhidayat Yenti 1973 author, and Knowledge Sector Initiative, eds. Linking values and research evidence for policy advocacy: The journey of the Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency. Knowledge Sector Initiative, 2017.

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Kenya. Directorate of National Cohesion and National Values and Kenya. Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government, eds. Report on the status of national values and principles of governance in Kenya, 2015. KIPPRA, the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2017.

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Novoa Palacios, Amparo. El exilio. Universidad de La Salle. Ediciones Unisalle, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.19052/9789588572925.

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Este libro contribuye a bosquejar una antropología teológica contemporánea a partir del aporte filosófico existencial de María Zambrano, en quien se inspira la autora para plantear algunos elementos clave que posibiliten una lectura renovada de la antropología teológica. Para ello, se vale de cuatro categorías: exilio, vocación, transparencia y verdad, a partir de las cuales va tejiendo los diversos argumentos que encuentran su nicho en la antropología filosófica zambraniana y en su método razón poética, para llegar a construir una antropología teológica que asuma la condición humana en su riqueza e indigencia, favoreciendo así una comprensión que conduzca a liberar la vida de cualquier reduccionismo. La vocación a la transparencia y a la verdad definen el exilio como un camino progresivo que muestra la condición misma del ser humano: Yo soy exilio.

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Instructor's Manual with Transparency Masters. Selling Today: Creating Customer Value. Ninth Edition. Pearson Prentic Hall, 2004.

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Accelerating Action for a Sustainable and Circular Garment and Footwear Industry: Which Role for Transparency and Traceability of Value Chains. United Nations, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18356/9789210047692.

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Romsom, Etienne, and Kathryn McPhail. Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: solutions and actions. 6th ed. UNU-WIDER, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2021/940-2.

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This second paper on hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting builds on our first, which evaluated the economic and social cost (SCAR) of wasted natural gas. These emissions must be reduced urgently for natural gas to meet its potential as an energy-transition fuel under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and to improve air quality and health. Wide-ranging initiatives and solutions exist already; the selection of the most suitable ones is situation-dependent. We present solutions and actions in a four-point (‘Diamond’) model involving: (1) measurement of chemicals emitted, (2) accountability and transparency of emissions through disclosure and reporting, (3) economic deployment of technologies for (small-scale) gas monetization, and (4) an ‘all-of-government’ approach to regulation and fiscal measures. Combining these actions in an integrated framework can end routine flaring and venting in many oil and gas developments. This is particularly important for low- and middle-income countries: satellite data since 2005 show that 85 per cent of total gas flared is in developing countries. Satellite data in 2017 identified location and amount of natural gas burned for 10,828 individual flares in 94 countries. Particular focus is needed to improve flare quality and capture natural gas from the 1 per cent ‘super-emitter’ flares responsible for 23 per cent of global natural gas flared.

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H.R. 1869, Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2014: Report of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives to accompany H.R. 1869 together with additional views. U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.

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Budget and Accounting Transparency Act of 2012: Report of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, to accompany H.R. 3581, together with minority views. U.S. G.P.O., 2012.

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Sànchez, Paloma. Transparent Enterprise: The Value of Intangibles. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2003.

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Decision Making, Politics And Quality Of Life: How to solve problems without creating larger ones. Edgar Hartel, 2013.

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H.R. 1872, Budget and Accounting Transparency Act of 2014: Report of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, to accompany H.R. 1872, together with minority views. U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.

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Tyler, Tom R., and Rick Trinkner. Legal Socialization in the School. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190644147.003.0008.

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Chapter 8 focuses on schools. Traditionally schools sought to socialize children into the values they would need to have to be future citizens. More recently schools have been seen as institutions whose mission is skill acquisition, and the value socialization role has been minimized. Studies make clear that schools do shape values and that the type of classroom and school authority that children experience shapes the degree to which their initial consensual or coercive orientations toward rules strengthen or decline. If children experience transparency in the rules implemented by authorities they believe are concerned about them and their welfare, they increasingly define their relationship to rules as consensual and view the authorities as legitimate. Coercive approaches, in contrast, develop when these legitimating characteristics are absent. Coercive orientations are associated with higher levels of rule-breaking, bullying, gang activity, and criminal behavior. Despite these findings, recent developments in the school environment have increased the coerciveness of school environments.

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Verstraten, Frans A. J., and Peter J. Bex. The Motion Aftereffect. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794607.003.0082.

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The aftereffect of motion is one of the oldest known illusions. It refers to the illusory motion of a stationary scene after some time of adaptation to real motion. While it is still unknown whether this adaptation effect has any functional value, it surely has served well as a tool to investigate the functional organization of the visual system. In this chapter some of the classic findings are discussed. More recent work using complex stimuli, attentional modulation, higher order motion, as well as modern neuro-imaging techniques has provided vision scientists with surprising new insights. Discussion of the related concepts of motion perception, motion transparency, and interocular transfer are included.

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Martin, Mike W. Mindfulness in Good Lives. Lexington Books, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666997590.

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Mindfulness is celebrated everywhere—especially in health psychology and spiritual practices, but also in the arts, business, education, environmentalism, sports, and the use of digital devices. While the current mindfulness movement may be in part the latest fad in a narcissistic and therapeutic culture, it is also worthy of greater philosophical attention. As a study in ethics and moral psychology, Mindfulness in Good Lives remedies the neglect of this subject within philosophy. Mike W. Martin makes sense of the striking variety of concepts of mindfulness by connecting them to the core idea of value-based mindfulness: paying attention to what matters, in light of relevant values. When the values are sound, mindfulness is a virtue that helps implement the kaleidoscope of values in good lives. Health psychologists, who currently dominate the study of mindfulness, often present their research as value-neutral science. Yet they invariably presuppose moral values that should be made transparent. These values, which lie at the interface of morality and mental health, form bridges between philosophy and psychology, and between literature and spirituality.

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Catanzaro, Michael P., and Rachel J. Kwon. Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome. Edited by Rachel J. Kwon. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199384075.003.0050.

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This chapter provides a summary of a landmark historical case study in surgery involving Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. It describes the history of the disease, gives a summary of the study including study design and results, and relates the study to a modern-day principle of evidence-based medicine: case reports in study design. The EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) network endorses structured case reports according to the CARE (CAse REport) framework, a checklist of 13 items as well as a writing template. More recently, the surgery-specific SCARE (Surgical CAse REport) framework has been developed. Overall, while Zollinger-Ellison syndrome remains an exceedingly rare clinical entity, its initial description by Zollinger and Ellison underscores the value of case reports for identifying rare but important medical conditions.

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Aligning Values and Politics: Empowerment Versus Entitlement. University Press of America, Incorporated, 2016.

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Gebler, David. 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.

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Gebler, David. 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.

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Gebler, David. 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.

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Jia zu qi ye dong shi hui zhi li, xin xi tou ming du yu qi ye jia zhi: Ji yu Zhongguo shang shi gong si de shi zheng yan jiu = Directorate governance, information transparency and family firm value : based on Chinese listed companies. Zhongguo jing ji chu ban she, 2011.

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Chaisty, Paul, Nic Cheeseman, and Timothy J. Power. Budgetary Authority and Coalition Management. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817208.003.0008.

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This chapter considers how presidents use their budget powers and the allocation of targeted discretionary spending to manage their coalitions. It considers the costs of budget tool deployment (in terms of time, controversy, and economic resources), and the factors that affect these costs: system-level factors (government transparency, federalism, personal-vote elections), coalition-level factors (coalition size, fragmentation, and heterogeneity), and conjunctural factors (economic crises and energy prices). It explores these factors with cases of budget tool deployment in Ukraine, Ecuador, and Russia. The Ecuadorean and Russian cases illustrate the divergent effects of resource dependence on the cost of budget tool dependence. Finally, it uses data from MP surveys to show the high value that legislators attribute to budget tools, and to illustrate how the composition of coalitions affects the costs that presidents are likely to face.

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Johanson, Ulf, and Per Nikolaj Bukh. Transparent Enterprise Vol. 4, Issue 4: Value of Intangibles. Journal of Intellectual Capital. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2003.

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Trepulė, Elena, Airina Volungevičienė, Margarita Teresevičienė, et al. Guidelines for open and online learning assessment and recognition with reference to the National and European qualification framework: micro-credentials as a proposal for tuning and transparency. Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7220/9786094674792.

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These Guidelines are one of the results of the four-year research project “Open Online Learning for Digital and Networked Society” (2017-2021). The project objective was to enable university teachers to design open and online learning through open and online learning curriculum and environment applying learning analytics as a metacognitive tool and creating open and online learning assessment and recognition practices, responding to the needs of digital and networked society. The research of the project resulted in 10 scientific publications and 2 studies prepared by Vytautas Magnus university Institute of Innovative Studies research team in collaboration with their international research partners from Germany, Spain and Portugal. The final stage of the research attempted creating open and online learning assessment and recognition practices, responding to the learner needs in contemporary digital and networked society. The need for open learning recognition has been increasing during the recent decade while the developments of open learning related to the Covid 19 pandemics have dramatically increased the need for systematic and high-quality assessment and recognition of learning acquired online. The given time also relates to the increased need to offer micro-credentials to learners, as well as a rising need for universities to prepare for micro-credentialization and issue new digital credentials to learners who are regular students, as well as adult learners joining for single courses. The increased need of all labour - market participants for frequent and fast renewal of competences requires a well working and easy to use system of open learning assessment and recognition. For learners, it is critical that the micro-credentials are well linked to national and European qualification frameworks, as well as European digital credential infrastructures (e.g., Europass and similar). For employers, it is important to receive requested quality information that is encrypted in the metadata of the credential. While for universities, there is the need to properly prepare institutional digital infrastructure, organizational procedures, descriptions of open learning opportunities and virtual learning environments to share, import and export the meta-data easily and seamlessly through European Digital Hub service infrastructures, as well as ensure that academic and administrative staff has digital competencies to design, issue and recognise open learning through digital and micro-credentials. The first chapter of the Guidelines provides a background view of the European Qualification Framework and National Qualification frameworks for the further system of gaining, stacking and modelling further qualifications through open online learning. The second chapter suggests the review of current European policy papers and consultations on the establishment of micro-credentials in European higher education. The findings of the report of micro-credentials higher education consultation group “European Approach to Micro-credentials” is shortly introduced, as well as important policy discussions taking place. Responding to the Rome Bologna Comunique 2020, where the ministers responsible for higher education agreed to support lifelong learning through issuing micro-credentials, a joint endeavour of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and DG Research and Innovation resulted in one of the most important political documents highlighting the potential of micro-credentials towards economic, social and education innovations. The consultation group of experts from the Member States defined the approach to micro-credentials to facilitate their validation, recognition and portability, as well as to foster a larger uptake to support individual learning in any subject area and at any stage of life or career. The Consultation Group also suggested further urgent topics to be discussed, including the storage, data exchange, portability, and data standards of micro-credentials and proposed EU Standard of constitutive elements of micro-credentials. The third chapter is devoted to the institutional readiness to issue and to recognize digital and micro-credentials. Universities need strategic decisions and procedures ready to be enacted for assessment of open learning and issuing micro-credentials. The administrative and academic staff needs to be aware and confident to follow these procedures while keeping the quality assurance procedures in place, as well. The process needs to include increasing teacher awareness in the processes of open learning assessment and the role of micro-credentials for the competitiveness of lifelong learners in general. When the strategic documents and procedures to assess open learning are in place and the staff is ready and well aware of the processes, the description of the courses and the virtual learning environment needs to be prepared to provide the necessary metadata for the assessment of open learning and issuing of micro-credentials. Different innovation-driven projects offer solutions: OEPass developed a pilot Learning Passport, based on European Diploma Supplement, MicroHE developed a portal Credentify for displaying, verifying and sharing micro-credential data. Credentify platform is using Blockchain technology and is developed to comply with European Qualifications Framework. Institutions, willing to join Credentify platform, should make strategic discussions to apply micro-credential metadata standards. The ECCOE project building on outcomes of OEPass and MicroHE offers an all-encompassing set of quality descriptors for credentials and the descriptions of learning opportunities in higher education. The third chapter also describes the requirements for university structures to interact with the Europass digital credentials infrastructure. In 2020, European Commission launched a new Europass platform with Digital Credential Infrastructure in place. Higher education institutions issuing micro-credentials linked to Europass digital credentials infrastructure may offer added value for the learners and can increase reliability and fraud-resistant information for the employers. However, before using Europass Digital Credentials, universities should fulfil the necessary preconditions that include obtaining a qualified electronic seal, installing additional software and preparing the necessary data templates. Moreover, the virtual learning environment needs to be prepared to export learning outcomes to a digital credential, maintaining and securing learner authentication. Open learning opportunity descriptions also need to be adjusted to transfer and match information for the credential meta-data. The Fourth chapter illustrates how digital badges as a type of micro-credentials in open online learning assessment may be used in higher education to create added value for the learners and employers. An adequately provided metadata allows using digital badges as a valuable tool for recognition in all learning settings, including formal, non-formal and informal.

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The 3 power values: How commitment, integrity, and transparency clear the roadblocks to performance. Jossey-Bass, 2012.

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Hoff, Timothy J. Retail Thinking Comes to Health Care. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626341.003.0003.

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Retail thinking and tactics are beginning to find their way into health care delivery, further impacting the ability to have strong, dyadic doctor-patient relationships. External forces described in Chapter 2 and poor patient experiences provide fertile soil for their growth. The retail rhetoric consists of heavy emphasis on “value,” “transparency,” “branding,” and “consumer activation.” The implementation of retail tactics into health care shifts the emphasis from relational to transactional forms of exchange, the latter emphasizing short-duration exchanges between buyer and seller, standardized obligations, and economic satisfaction. Retail approaches give large health care organizations greater power given their scale and resources to engage in key retail tactics such as data analytics, market segmentation, marketing, and price competition. There are tangible reasons for bringing some aspects of retail thinking into health care. Their application, however, brings risks for patients and their care, and threatens to undermine doctor-patient relationships further.

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Stirling, Andy. Precaution in the Governance of Technology. Edited by Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford, and Karen Yeung. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199680832.013.50.

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Strong political pressures mean that few issues in international governance of science and technology are more misunderstood than the precautionary principle. Often accused of being ‘anti-science’, precaution simply acknowledges that not all uncertainties can be artificially aggregated to ‘risk’. ‘Real-world’ imperatives for justification, acceptance, trust, and blame management unscientifically suppress the indeterminacies, complexities, and variabilities of the ‘real’ real world—and so reinforce attachments to whichever innovation trajectories are most powerfully backed by default. Resisting these pressures for circumscribed ‘risk assessment’, precaution explicitly emphasizes health and environment—and challenges pretence that technology choices can be value-free. Additionally, precaution points to a host of normally-excluded methods that allow greater rigour, balance, completeness, transparency, and accountability in evaluating priorities and interpreting evidence. This chapter reviews key associated issues in technology governance, and highlights practical ways to help more deliberate social steering of the directions taken by science and technology.

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de Melo-Martín, Inmaculada, and Kristen Intemann. Values in Science and the Erosion of Trust. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869229.003.0009.

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This chapter considers another factor that plays a role in eroding the public’s trust in science: concerns about the negative influence of nonepistemic values in science, particularly in controversial areas of inquiry with important effects on public policy. It shows that the credibility of scientists can be undermined when the public perceives that scientists have a political agenda or will be biased by their own personal or political values. However, to assume that the best way to address this problem is try to eliminate such values from science altogether would be a mistake. Ethical and social values are necessary and important to knowledge production. Consequently, the chapter explores alternative strategies to increase transparency and stakeholder involvement so as to address legitimate concerns about bias and sustain warranted trust in scientific communities.

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Beyond Branding: How the New Values of Transparency and Integrity Are Changing the World of Brands. Kogan Page, 2006.

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Ind, Nicholas. Beyond Branding: How the New Values of Transparency and Integrity Are Changing the World of Brands. Kogan Page, 2004.

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Codes of Conduct on the Rise: Fair and Ethical Political Campaigning Online. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2024.23.

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In an era where digital platforms have become arenas for political discourse, fuelling the use of unethical campaigning and the spread of disinformation, trust in the legitimacy of election campaigns grows in importance. This Policy Brief delves into soft law solutions as a means to rebuild trust in political parties' digital campaign practices while navigating the tensions between balancing freedom of expression and ethical campaign conduct, underscoring the role of voluntary codes of conduct and offering practical insights and recommendations for stakeholders. Focusing on the European context, the Brief explores the use of codes of conduct to steer online political campaigning. Drawing on insights from the negotiation process behind the Dutch Code of Conduct on the Transparency of Online Political Advertising, it offers perspectives aimed at inspiring similar codes through processes of co-creation with peers. The Brief emphasizes the value of co-created codes of conduct tailored to unique electoral contexts and the specific requirements of stakeholders such as political parties, electoral authorities, and civil society. Leveraging its expertise in facilitating and researching codes of conduct for online political campaigning, the author proposes a comprehensive 15-step checklist to aid in their development.

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Joshi, Mahesh K., and J. R. Klein. Africa and the Curse of Natural Resources. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827481.003.0011.

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Africa is flush with natural resources, a population over one billion, a rich cultural history, and all the elements of a robust economy that still struggles with the basics. Its reliance on natural resources and the lack of resource management in a transparent and acceptable manner has led to discontent and conflict. It has the opportunity to reboot its economies by embracing value-added positions in the natural resources value chain by providing finished products instead of just the raw material. It could also offer itself as a low-cost manufacturing location to the rest of the world. Signs of more transparent governance and management of resources are being seen which will eventually lead to a path of growth. Africa’s geographical location, in the middle of three major markets; Asia, America, and Europe, gives it an attractive competitive advantage. Africa is poised to drive its emerging economy soundly on to the world stage.

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Oortwijn, Wija, and Laura Sampietro-Colom, eds. The VALIDATE handbook. An approach on the integration of values in doing assessments of health technologies. Radboud University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54195/ckhb1659.

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Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is defined as a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its lifecycle. The purpose is to inform decision-making in order to promote an equitable, efficient, and high-quality health system. The definition reflects that facts and values are intertwined in HTA. This means that HTA should be considered as a type of policy analysis, wherein the assessment of safety, clinical and cost implications of health technologies, as well as their wider ethical, legal, social, organizational, environmental and other implications is conducted from the view that these aspects are closely interrelated, and wherein stakeholders are involved in a more productive way throughout the process of HTA. Acknowledging this holds the potential of conducting assessments of health technologies in a way that supports deliberative democratic decision making. In the 2018-2021 EU Erasmus+ strategic partnerships project “VALues In Doing Assessments ofhealthcare TEchnologies” (VALIDATE), a consortium of seven academic and HTA organizations have developed an approach to HTA that allows for the integration of empirical analysis and normative inquiry. The VALIDATE handbook: an approach on the integration of values in doing assessments of health technologies offers the reader an opportunity to get acquainted with the theoretical considerations and apprehend the associated practical and organizational implications of this approach. It offers those interested in HTA to integrate empirical analysis and normative inquiry in a transparent way.

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Schindel, David E., Diane C. DiEuliis, and Bruce Geyman. The Unique Role of Federal Scientific Collections: Infrastructure Generating Benefits, Serving Diverse Agency Missions. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.24559996.

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<p dir="ltr">Scientific research and development are essential in the government, private, and academic sectors of American society. Scientific collections, both living and non-living, are critical components of the U.S. government’s R&D infrastructure, essential for ensuring national security, protecting the public’s health and safe food supply, promoting innovation and economic growth, and protecting the environment. To pursue their diverse long-term missions, U.S. departments and agencies have created and preserve scientific collections to address new and unpredictable challenges to society and to establish long-term baseline histories for the analysis of change, often using new analytical technologies. Federal scientific collections serve the public good by providing access to objects of scientific value regardless of where, when, by whom, or for what reasons they were originally collected and preserved. </p><p dir="ltr">The White House National Science and Technology Council’s Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections (IWGSC) has, since 2005, convened representatives from 24 Federal departments and agencies that rely on scientific collections. IWGSC has produced a series of studies, reports, and other information resources aimed at improving policies, transparency, accessibility, management, and the assessment of costs and benefits related to Federal scientific collections. This report summarizes these achievements and the IWGSC's future directions, and presents 21 case studies showing how Federal scientific collections have served the nation in diverse areas of American life. </p>

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Nass, Elmar. Christian Social Ethics. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881813635.

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World events have made clear that liberal society must become more resilient in the face of totalitarian challenges. But how is liberal society to do that? In this groundbreaking work, social ethicist Elmar Nass presents the ethical and anthropological foundations of a liberal social order within a Christian conception of humanity and society in an ecumenical spirit. In doing so, Nass revives the long-neglected discussion on the ethics of order. Christian foundations and claims are currently confronted with alternative social-ethical concepts from other religions, traditions, and social philosophies. Nass argues that Christian social ethics has a critical role to play as it engages the world. Nass vividly discusses fundamental and concrete social challenges for human dignity, freedom and justice (such as peace, integrity of creation, euthanasia, family, social justice, digitalization, behavioral economics, and many more) in the light of the threefold Christian responsibility (before God, before oneself, before one another). He articulates ethical orientations derived with clarity from a Christian foundation of values. The Christian social ethics system presented by Nass is a transparent value template that can be applied to ever new challenges in the present and in the future. With this understanding of social responsibility, questions of racism, migration, gender and sexuality, the environment, and public health and pandemics, among many others, can thus be addressed and answered. Nass offers a full-throated and robust Christian position for the value discussions of our time.

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Mysoor, Poorna. Implied Licences in Copyright Law. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858195.001.0001.

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Implied licences can serve as a flexible and targeted mechanism to balance competing interests, including those of copyright owners and content users, especially in today’s dynamic technological environment. However, implication as a process is contentious and there are no established principles for implying copyright licences. The resulting uncertainty has led to incoherence, diminishing the value of implied licences in judicial reasoning. This book develops a methodical and transparent way of implying copyright licences, based on three sources: the consent of the copyright owner; an established custom; and state intervention to achieve policy goals. The frameworks proposed are customised separately for implying bare and contractual licences, where relevant. The book goes on to analyse the existing case law methodically in the light of these frameworks to demonstrate how the court’s reasoning can be made transparent. Underscoring the contemporary relevance of implied licences, the book tests and validates the methodology in relation to three essential and ubiquitous functions on the internet—browsing, hyperlinking, and indexing.

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Miksza, Peter, and Kenneth Elpus. Characteristics of Scientific Inquiry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199391905.003.0002.

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This chapter introduces the reader to basic characteristics of science and situates the design and analysis considerations presented throughout the book within the context of scientific inquiry. A brief description of key historical developments regarding the philosophy of science is provided. An overview of the fundamental aspects of inductive and deductive scientific reasoning and the importance of falsification to scientific progress is presented. In addition, the values of objectivity and transparency as well as the importance of scientific community are stressed. The usefulness of statistical tools for helping researchers clarify their questions, establish criteria for their judgments, and communicate evidence for their claims is also discussed.

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Daum, Andreas W. The Two German States in the International World. Edited by Helmut Walser Smith. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199237395.013.0032.

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This article centers on the two German states in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1972, however, détente — the period of relaxation, openness, and communication between the two antagonistic superpowers and their allies — had reached its height. Many in the West no longer saw the border that separated the Germans into antagonistic political blocs as an insurmountable ‘Iron Curtain’. The building of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 had been a brutal act. Ironically, its existence opened new opportunities for encounters between West and East. Dialogue, openness, and transparency were values that many in the Federal Republic cherished in 1972. These, too, were values that West Germans wanted others to associate with their country. They were meant to articulate — at home and abroad — that West Germany had developed into a knowledge-based, technologically-advanced, internationally minded, and peaceful consumer society. Finally in 1989 both the Germanies were united on the basis of unanimous international agreements.

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Barth, Winfried. Pulp Production by Acetosolv Process. Technische Universität Dresden, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25368/2022.415.

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Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer on Earth and a fascinating compound for a vast variety of applications. It is mostly received from wood, thus it is a renewable resource and a CO2 storing material. One of the most important cellulose products are pulp and paper. The major goal of this work was to obtain a material with a high amount of cellulose through a pulping process of wood. Therefore, it is necessary to separate the wood bers and to remove a component of wood, which is called lignin (deligni cation). The conventional way to delignify wood is the Kraft process that causes serval problems like contamination of lignin with sulfur and the emission of toxic volatile sulfur compounds. Hence, there are alternative processes without sulfur, such as the Acetosolv process. It uses simple chemicals like acetic acid and is easy to handle. After cutting a spruce tree (Picea abies L. Karst.), debarking and chipping, the wood chips were cooked in the laboratory. The research included the chemical analysis of the obtained pulp and the manufacturing and testing of paper sheets. The yield of pulp ranged widely due to the di erent parameters of the cooking. FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy were used to observe the decrease of aromatic substances (lignin) and the acetylation of the pulp. With the means of Design of Experiments and statistical analysis the most important factors were identi ed and a mathematical regression model was calculated. The manufactured paper sheets showed good mechanical properties and high transparency. Finally, the Acetosolv process could be considered as a contribution to the upcoming bio-based economy because, in addition to the cellulose bers, the industry would be capable of adding value utilization of the separated lignin. It could be one step to a more sustainable paper and pulp production.

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Morton, Jonathan. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816669.003.0001.

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The introduction puts forward the case that the Roman de la rose’s deliberate deceptions serve a discursive strategy by which its philosophical statements can never be taken at face value. It considers textual deceptions carried out by both authors of the Rose that show their words to be fundamentally unreliable. Accordingly, it asks what kinds of epistemologies are made possible by the Rose’s opaque utterances, ones that are not possible in more transparent philosophical discourse. After offering a brief introduction to the philosophical context, more textual than institutional, against which the Rose should be read, and the importance of its poetic difficulty, it summarizes the chapters to follow.

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