Free text entries (mainly verbatim quotes) were allowed to ensure rating transparency.
To enhance the rating transparency of each criterion, space for free text is provided for verbatim quotes or reported numbers, to document whether a number was presented as a natural frequency [ 42, 43], and to specify whether a denominator was included, etc. Elements of the four domains are explained in detail below, including assessment examples, where appropriate.
The deposition rate, hydrophobicity, transparency, band gap and particle size are better for the films deposited in argon atmosphere in comparison to helium.
In a country where people are still struggling to embrace democracy after nearly 50 years of Communist rule, and where EU membership, which the country obtained in 2007, hasn't significantly improved the poverty rate or transparency in government, self-immolation remains one of few available forms of critique in Bulgaria.
"One significant concern is whether the S.E.C. will follow up on this rule-making by actively pushing back at rating agencies if these attempts at mandating greater rating agency transparency turn out to produce opaque or formalistic disclosures in practice," said Jeffrey Manns, a professor at George Washington University law school, who is an expert in credit rating agencies.
New York and London are highly rated for transparency and tough requirements.
This is a country rated by Transparency International as the most corrupt in Europe and top of the table for tax evasion.
In response, FOE introduced a fourth rating category – transparency – which addresses a cruise line's willingness to divulge information about its environmental record.
A study last year of 169 think-tanks by the Transparify campaign group gave the IEA the lowest rating for transparency of its donations, describing it as "highly opaque".
Bulgaria is the black sheep of the European Union: Brussels froze millions in aid last year over fraud, and the country is rated by Transparency International as the most corrupt EU nation.
