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	home - Transparency International UK
		The Transparency International Secretariat's news room reports on the latest news and issues.
		According to a Control Risks/Simmons and Simmons 2006 survey of international business attitudes to corruption, a quarter of UK-based international companies said they had lost business to corrupt competitors in the last 5 years.
		Transparency International's working paper on "Addressing corruption and building integrity in defence establishments" was prepared by the TI(UK) Defence Against Corruption team and coordinated by TI Secretariat's Policy and Research Department.
	www.transparency.org.uk (205 words)

	Transparency (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In human-computer interaction, computer transparency is an aspect of user friendliness which prevents the user from worrying about technical details (like installation, updating, downloading or device drivers).
		For instance, a program that automatically detects the monitor resolution is more transparent compared to one that requests the user to enter it manually.
		In object-oriented programming, transparency is facilitated through the use of interfaces or header files with different implementations.
	wikipedia.lotsofinformation.com /wiki/index.php/Transparency_(computing) (197 words)

	Baikal Explorer - Baikal lake water transparency - The Face of Baikal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The transparency of water is usually measured with a white metal disc lowered horizontally into the water on a line.
		Such a high degree of transparency is usually typical of mountain lakes, situated amongst rocks with small quantities of easily dissolved substances.
		Over the summer period the transparency of Baikal changes depending on the quantity of sediment brought to the lake by rivers and the growth of plankton.
	www.baikalex.com /info/water/watertransparency.html (620 words)

	Transparency and International Investor Behavior (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rather, lower transparency means that less information is made publicly available, which in turn implies that the gap between those who know and those who do not becomes larger.
		The notion that transparency may not necessarily reduce volatility is reflected in the recent literature on corporate transparency.
		For example, the correlation between corporate transparency and government data transparency is 0.02, and the correlation between corporate and government macropolicy transparency is 0.54.
	www.brook.edu /views/papers/wei/20021016.htm (1116 words)

	The IMF Fiscal Transparency Code, by Barry Potter and Richard Humphreys, February 23, 1999
		And then thirdly I'll try to explain why the Fund's role in transparency is to some extent limited and that in a very deliberate way we have tried to set this initiative up as something that other organisations and other people could seize upon and build upon in its different dimensions.
		I should have made clear at the beginning that while obviously this question of markets and the influence that they have is important, the fundamental reason for transparency is of course internal accountability between governments and their electors, between governments and their legislature, between officials and their ministers that they work for.
		Transparency is not about trying to impose some particular set of judgements about the priority that should be followed.
	www.internationalbudget.org /conference/2nd/imf.htm (10784 words)

	Chevron - Speeches: Serving Stockholders, Sustaining Partnerships: A ChevronTexaco Perspective on Transparency
		So while transparency is something we believe in, we also understand that many of the energy-producing countries are reluctant to immediately embrace this demanding standard for doing business.
		The initiative also says transparency should be inclusive, with disclosure standards applying to all countries and companies, regardless of national origin.
		Transparency is a very tough issue, but we have to work on it, and we have to work on it together.
	www.chevrontexaco.com /news/speeches/2004/25feb2004_robertson.asp (1079 words)

	WTO - Official ministerial website - about the ministerial - procurement (transparency)
		Transparency is often referred to as one of the three fundamental principles of the WTO, the others being most-favoured-nation and national treatment.
		The role of transparency is perhaps of greatest importance in situations where the extent to which rules of general application determine trading conditions is limited and the scope for discretionary decision-making is greatest.
		The object of the transparency provisions in this Agreement is not only to ensure that adequate information on procurement opportunities is made available and that decisions are fairly taken, but also to facilitate monitoring of the commitments made under that Agreement not to discriminate against suppliers and supplies from other Parties.
	www.wto.org /english/thewto_e/minist_e/min99_e/english/about_e/17proc_e.htm (690 words)

	Mineral Resources: Transparency
		A specimen with such characteristics is said to be transparent in thin splinters or transparent in thin sections.
		Transparency isn't normally used as an identification mark, but is just noted as a mineral property.
		Some minerals that are normally transparent may be clouded by inclusions and appear partially or fully opaque.
	www.minerals.net /resource/property/transpar.htm (292 words)

	Transparency Basics
		Transparency is an attribute that is added to the tag you're using to set a background color, specify a font, or call an image.
		All of the transparency attributes work exactly this way -- that is, they do not stand alone, but are added to a tag modify the tag.
		Transparency can be used in both table backgrounds, and in the backgrounds of individual table cells.
	www.net4tv.com /net4TV/u2u/TRANSP1.HTM (395 words)

	RFC 2775 (rfc2775) - Internet Transparency (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the purposes of this document, "transparency" refers to the original Internet concept of a single universal logical addressing scheme, and the mechanisms by which packets may flow from source to destination essentially unaltered.
		The causes of this loss of transparency are partly artefacts of parsimonious allocation of the limited address space available to IPv4, and partly the result of broader issues resulting from the widespread use of TCP/IP technology by businesses and consumers.
		In particular, the decline of transparency is having a severe effect on deployment of end-to-end IP security.
	www.faqs.org /rfcs/rfc2775.html (5146 words)

	The Gnomon Workshop - Transparency Shadows (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This creates problems if you have transparency mapped objects, as is the case with the wall.
		A transparency mapped object casting Dmap shadows which can be efficiently managed in regards to quality and render time.
		While the focus of our discussion was transparency shadows, the concept of having a 'shadow object' is a common production technique used to speed up render time.
	thegnomonworkshop.com /tutorials/transparency_shadows/trans_shadow.html (859 words)

	Global Witness: Reports (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Transparency should also be a condition of resource-backed loans from private banks.
		The monitoring of revenues could be improved by amending the operational parameters of the World Bank and the IMF to mainstream revenue transparency across their lending and technical assistance portfolios, by making it a condition of all aid and loans, and national poverty reduction strategy consultations.
		But without transparency, there can be no accountable government, and efforts to ensure that resource revenues are well spent are likely to fail, with the effect of deepening poverty, instability, conflict and state failure.
	www.globalwitness.org /reports/show.php/en.00049.html (1985 words)

	The IMF and Good Governance--Address by Michel Camdessus
		By helping to enhance public sector accountability and transparency and developing greater public awareness about the need for and requirements of good governance, your organization is performing a vital service to individual countries and the global economy.
		Broadly speaking, our approach is to maximize the transparency of government financial operations and create systems that minimize the scope for making decisions on an ad hoc basis and for giving preferential treatment to individuals and organizations.
		Likewise, we are working with countries to strengthen and increase the transparency of budgetary procedures to ensure that government revenues are fully accounted for and used as agreed in the budget.
	www.imf.org /external/np/speeches/1998/012198.htm (2319 words)

	AudioVideo101.com - Audio/Video Dictionary
		Transparency simply means that the electronics used to reproduce the sound do not discolor it with their own sounds but instead "move out of the way" to let the sound of the event come through.
		Transparency is a combination of all the components in an audio system working in concert to achieve an end result.
		Think of transparency as looking through a window - on the other side of the window is the band; with a transparent system you can easily see the band and watch them play in full detail, however, with a dirty window (less transparency) it is more difficult to make out the band and the details.
	www.audiovideo101.com /dictionary/transparency.asp (263 words)

	Panarchy - View Document (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In society, transparency means that elites can no longer hide behind a cloud of anonymity.
		Reciprocal transparency means simply that you can see them and they can see you.
		Interestingly, transparency as a governor of behavior works best in groups where the relations among members are manifold.
	www.panarchy.com /Members/PaulBHartzog/Writings/Transparency (551 words)

	Transparency
		In addition to adding transparency to the agenda, members published the "Guidelines for Arrangement on Relations with NGOs" as a model for interactions between the WTO and NGOs.
		Also, negotiations on external transparency will have to tread carefully to make sure that non-governmental groups do not acquire greater access and influence in the dispute settlement process than WTO members have.
		In preparation the WTO held a symposium on transparency in government procurement in October 2002 in which nations gave first hand accounts of attempting to increase public awareness in their countries.
	www.cid.harvard.edu /cidtrade/issues/transparency.html (1034 words)

	The Transparency of Experience
		But the naïve realist may claim that we should explain the phenomenal transparency in terms of the objects of perception, and not in terms of the experience's representational content: the objects have actually to be there for one to have the experience, and indeed one may claim that they are constituents of the experiential situation.
		My claim will be that there is an analogue to the phenomenal transparency and immediacy of visual experience in the case of visualising, and this aspect of visualising is as hard for the intentional theory to explain as the phenomenal transparency of experience is for a sense-datum theory to explain.
		The transparency argument provides only limited support for such a view: that a few choice examples of visual experience do not definitely reveal the presence of qualia or sense-data does not show that no experience possesses qualia or involves the awareness of sense-data, yet this latter claim is what pure intentionalists are committed to.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/philo/courses/concepts/martin.html (17974 words)

	Sky transparency forecast for astronomical purposes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At mid-latitudes and in the more humid eastern regions, sky transparency is limited to the 5.5-6.5 range in the countryside.
		With a humid airmass the transparency is reduced significantly.
		With a continental airmass from the arctic, relatively cold and dry conditions prevail, allowing the sky transparency to be at times be as good as in the semi-desertic regions.
	www.cmc.ec.gc.ca /cmc/htmls/transparence_e.html (615 words)

	Java2D: An Introduction and Tutorial
		Transparency is not set in the Paint object, rather separately via an AlphaComposite object that is applied via setComposite.
		Java2D permits you to assign transparency (alpha) values to drawing operations so that the underlying graphics partially shows through when you draw shapes or images.
		You set transparency by creating an AlphaComposite object then passing it to the setComposite method of the Graphics2D object.
	www.apl.jhu.edu /~hall/java/Java2D-Tutorial.html (3663 words)

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		EU Asks 7 Countries To Defend Financial Transparency Rules
		BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Commission Friday said it has asked seven European Union member countries to defend their financial transparency rules and justify why they don't comply with E.U. law.
		The countries are Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Slovakia and the U.K. They now have two months to reply to the commission's request for information, the Brussels-based executive and regulatory arm of the E.U. said.
	www.nasdaq.com /aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20071109\ACQDJON200711090642DOWJONESDJONLINE000496.htm& (107 words)

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