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Harnessing the temporal and projective attributes of human agency to promote anticipatory climate change adaptation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Human agency is seen as a critical component of adaptive capacity concerning environmental change. This capacity may entail social actor's ability to learn from past experience, and create opportunities in the present for dealing with uncertainty and ...
Mackey, Brendan   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Financial Independence and Academic Achievement: Are There Key Factors of Transition to Adulthood for Young Higher Education Students in Colombia?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Autonomy is conceptualized as the need for agency, self-actualization, and independence. Nowadays, financial independence and academic achievement for young populations may be considered as key aspects in the transition to adulthood in response to some ...
Mónica-Patricia Borjas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of Regulatory Policy in Government Agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
 Legal reform is a necessity. Regulatory arrangement is one aspect of the legal reform program within the framework of national legal development. Regulation is the solution and foundation of law enforcement and government policies, thereby creating ...
Sinaga, Edward James
core   +1 more source

Perspectives on Moral Agency in Human-Robot Interaction

open access: yes, 2023
Establishing when, how, and why robots should be considered moral agents is key for advancing human-robot interaction. For instance, whether a robot is considered a moral agent has significant implications for how researchers, designers, and users can ...
Kim, Boyoung   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Modulating the sense of agency with external cues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We investigate the processes underlying the feeling of control over one's actions ("sense of agency"). Sense of agency may depend on internal motoric signals, and general inferences about external events.
Moore, James W.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

‘Human-centred development? Rethinking “freedom” and "agency" in discourses of international development

open access: yes, 2013
Today’s dominant discourses of international development increasingly focus on human agency as the measure of development in terms of individual capabilities.
Chandler, D.C.
core   +1 more source

Human, All Too Human: Do We Lose Free Spirit in the Digital Age?

open access: yesHumanities
This article engages in a philosophical dialogue with Nietzsche’s views on the discourse of power, examining the rising concerns surrounding the digitization and algorithmization of society in the context of advancements in robotics and AI. It highlights
Aleksandra Sushchenko, Olena Yatsenko
doaj   +1 more source

Habitus, reflexivity, and the realization of intercultural capital: The (unfulfilled) potential of intercultural education

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2016
Nowhere does the need to appreciate a diverse range of different intercultural experiences appear more obvious than in the context of intercultural education.
Andreas Pöllmann
doaj   +1 more source

Global Future: Low-Carbon Economy or High-Carbon Economy?

open access: yesWorld, 2021
This study critically examines the decarbonization of development in the context of the Anthropocene at the global level. A literature review is conducted that emphasizes the rationality of human beings to harmonize with the planet due to the low ...
Diosey Ramon Lugo-Morin
doaj   +1 more source

Venous Thromboembolism in Pediatric Bone Sarcoma Patients: A 10‐Year, Single‐Institution Experience Encompassing the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Osteosarcoma (OS) and Ewing sarcoma (EWS) are the most common primary bone cancers in children, but acute thrombosis is poorly characterized in this population. Our study evaluated the rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and associated risk factors in pediatric patients with bone sarcomas treated over a 10‐year period encompassing
Sarah Kappa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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