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Showing 1 to 20 of 6479 for “"Agency"”.
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Playing with agency: how player agency affects game retention
… to behavioural biases and explores the nature of agency in games. The ‘Shooty Blocks’ video game with its control and experimental versions is designed to collect retention data using common games industry tools and methods, comparing variation of player agency with retention …
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The Power of Agency
… that demonstrates the extent of our powers of agency within the domain of the mental.
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Agency and the Self
… to show that an adequate account of human agency requires postulation of a substantial self that is intrinsically active. It proposes and defends a coherent picture of this self's relation to its states, notably, to its motives; and it tries to establish the conditions for …
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Alienation, agency, and identity
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Agents of Agency: Identifying Teacher Traits and Trainings Associated with Promoting Student Agency
… traditional metric of test scores to “student agency,” defined as a learner's capacity to access power, make decisions, and take ownership of their learning process. While the literature on student agency provides ample qualitative insights, it is largely composed of small-scale studies. This …
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Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency
… articulate an Arendtian conception of feminist agency, that is, agency that aims at resistance from within oppressive situations. There is a tendency in feminist literature to depict women in the global south as if they are passive victims of their oppression, with no opportunities to resist. …
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Influencing the sense of agency
Contains fulltext : 139908.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Contains fulltext : 139908_abstract.docx (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Agency of Food Waste
This thesis examines the agency of food waste in the context of food waste management in South Australia, Australia. Approaches to food waste management have long framed food waste as inert matter to be acted upon, where human intent and action determine how food waste is understood and managed. By …
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Food Agency and Health Habits
… all-cause mortality, and type 2 diabetes. "Food agency" refers to an individual's food preparation attitudes and capabilities within a given social and physical food environment. Although there is an association between the ability to prepare certain dishes and higher cooking frequency with lower …
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The Defense Intelligence Agency: An in-depth study of the development of the intelligence agency
… emerging roles, its missions and organization, agency contribution during military operations, criticisms of the agency, and lastly the intelligence outlook for the future of DIA. Since its creation in 1961, DIA has undergone numerous reorganizations and this thesis will examine the history of …
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Neoliberal agency, relational agency, and the representation of the agentic child in the Sociology of Childhood
… works I interrogate the canonical concept of agency and I argue that the inherent contradictions of how agency is conceptualised, has more to do with the neoliberal model of agency being applied than whether children can and do exercise agency. The spaces of popular culture and of research …
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CEO succession processes and agency costs
In the 'passing the baton' succession process, the incumbent CEO/Chairman relinquishes the CEO title, but retains the Chairman title to facilitate monitoring the new CEO during a probationary period. The new CEO eventually wins the Chairman title if he is successful during the probationary period. …
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Human trafficking : women's stories of agency
This thesis is about women’s stories of agency in a trafficking experience. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the unscrupulous acts and exploitative practices which demarcate and define trafficking. In response to the three Ps of trafficking policy (prevention and …
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Cooperation: The Ethics of Shared Agency
… activity</em>.</p> <p>Our capacity for shared agency is fundamental to our social lives. We make movies, sit in Parliament, and fight pandemics <em>together</em>. In my thesis, I first offer a novel theory of what is required for collections of activities to count as shared. I then develop an …
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Electroacoustic composition indicative of human agency
… works which examine the expression of human agency within electroacoustic music. 'The Voice', Noise and Metaphorh ave been used as chapter headings within which kinetic gesture, phonemic association, identity and gendered space are examined. Seven original works are presented: Moyle, …
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Probing the Boundaries of Human Agency
… I aim to advance our understanding of human agency and how it is computed. First, I probe the limits of what behavior we can and cannot produce agentically. Secondly, I explore microdosing with psychedelic drugs as a method of perturbing and studying changes to the sense of agency. Thirdly, I …
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A budget for an advertising agency.
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University
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An Anscombean Approach to Animal Agency
… deliver a plausible account of non-human animal agency (henceforth, animal agency). More specifically, it is an attempt to develop her account in a way that respects the Aristotelian insight that animals act in ways that differ, in certain fundamental respects, from the processes of growth and …
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Investigating Implementation of Federal Agency Reorganization
… reports say about the implementation of federal agency reorganization? More specifically this study explores what portion of reorganization plans are implemented, what are both expected and unexpected costs, and what issues occurred during the implementation process. GAO reports on reorganization …
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