PowerPub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.14426/jacl.v4i1.1249
B. Sihanya, Eric Ngumbi
{"title":"The Viability of Lifestyle Audits as an Emerging Anti-Corruption Tool in the Public Sector: Concepts, Essentials and Prospects","authors":"B. Sihanya, Eric Ngumbi","doi":"10.14426/jacl.v4i1.1249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14426/jacl.v4i1.1249","url":null,"abstract":"Lifestyle audits are viable tools in the fight against corruption. Unfortunately, they have not been sufficiently developed or adopted despite their effectiveness in combatting corruption. For long, countries have deployed diverse anti-corruption strategies under various international, regional and national legal frameworks. Despite these efforts, corruption continues to permeate every sector of national economies, with debilitating effects on development goals and the well-being of populations. Most of the anti-corruption strategies adopted, focus on the integrity of the operational systems of public institutions on the one hand, and personal integrity of their public officials on the other.","PeriodicalId":54593,"journal":{"name":"Power","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66976924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PowerPub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.4324/9781003034100-6
R. Bosch
{"title":"Strategy","authors":"R. Bosch","doi":"10.4324/9781003034100-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003034100-6","url":null,"abstract":"Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy (NRC, 2007) presents a bold plan for chemical toxicity testing that replaces whole-animal tests with cell-culture, genetic, other in-vitro techniques, computational methods, and human monitoring. Although the proposed vision is eloquently described, and recent advances in in-vitro and in-silico methods are impressive, it is difficult believe that replacing in-vitro testing is either practical or wise. It is not clear that the toxicity-related events that occur in whole animals can be adequately replicated using the proposed methods. Protecting public health is a serious endeavor that should not be limited by deny-ing animal testing. Toxicologists and regulators are encouraged to read the report, carefully consider its impli-cations, and share their thoughts. The vision is for too important to ignore.","PeriodicalId":54593,"journal":{"name":"Power","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46163118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}