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Animal agency, animal awareness and animal welfare

Animal Welfare, 2019
In nature, animals need to actively engage with the environment in order to prosper in survival and reproduction. Hence, agency is a central adaptive characteristic of animal life. In this paper, I propose that from the adaptive/functional point of view,
M. Špinka
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UK plan for Food Standards Agency

BMJ, 1999
The British government has resuscitated its plan for an independent Food Standards Agency designed to improve nutrition and food safety. A draft bill setting up the agency was published last week for consultation, along with the government's stated intention to pass the necessary legislation this year.
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Planning for student-driven discussions: A revelatory case of curricular sensemaking for epistemic agency

, 2022
Kevin Cherbow, Katherine L. McNeill
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Mental health in health planning agencies

Social Science & Medicine, 1985
Two models of organizational behavior were tested using a population of 200 Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) in the U.S.A. A 'needs' model, based on mental health high-risk sociodemographic indicators, and a 'resources' model, based on a mental health manpower, facilities and system-activation indicators, were used to predict 1978 HSA activities in ...
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The Central Planning Agencies

1983
In the first chapter we identified three central agencies that are primarily responsible for coordinating the physical flows of resources, goods, and services through the Soviet economy—the State Planning Committee, the State Committee for Material and Technical Supply, and the State Committee for Science and Technology—and three central agencies whose
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Agency as Planning for Known Unknowns

2022
The utility of a given experience, like interacting with a particular friend or tasting a particular food, fluctuates continually according to homeostatic and hedonic principles.  Consequently, to maximize reward, an individual must be able to escape or attain outcomes as preferences change, by switching between actions.
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Learner agency in language planning

Language Problems and Language Planning, 2015
The role of language teacher agency in language policy and planning (LPP) enactment and implementation at the micro-level has received increasing treatment in the literature. Under-addressed in this context, however, is the role of the learner and the extent to which learner activity can be agentive.
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Rational Planning Agency 1

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2017
M. Bratman
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Agency Decentralization: Planning and Assessment

The British Journal of Social Work, 1973
SUMMARY Criteria are examined for the location of area offices in Social Services Departments, drawing on the monitored experience of dealing with voluntary callers to an area office in the Probation Service. Changes were observed in numbers of voluntary callers and the kinds of problems presented, together with developments in inter-agency ...
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Variations in Behavior of Planning Agencies

Administrative Science Quarterly, 1971
An empirical model of metropolitan planning agencies is constructed to study variations in planning behavior. Factor analysis is employed in defining the dimensions of agency input and output. These dimensions are used to cluster the agencies into input and output types.
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