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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"voluntariness"”.
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A Legal Framework for the Assessment of a Voluntary Request for Medical Assistance in Dying
… include who should be involved in assessing voluntariness and how this is best achieved. Recently this has expanded to include the extent to which psycho-social-economic concerns, factors that may be beyond the control of the individual requesting MAID and the health care team, influence the …
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Balancing state sovereignty and the protection of human rights: a case study on the impact of the requirements of state consent and the exercise of political will on the functioning of the human rights systems of the African Union and the Southern African Development Community
… drive multilateralism, and the requirement of voluntariness in these forms has been utilised as a means of respecting the internationally recognized legal principle of state sovereignty. Consequently, voluntariness has impacted the effective functioning of organizations such as the African …
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On the concept of a heedful frame of mind in the work of Gilbert Ryle : the problems of its episodic nature and its relation to the issue of voluntariness
… will allow for an inquiry into the notion of 'voluntariness', whose characterization the Concept appears to be contradicted elsewhere in Ryle's work. The reconciliation of these characterizations will invoke the question of that which underlies our sense of a situation as 'moral'. Finally, the …
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Investigating the Faculty Behavioral Intentions to Adopt Learning Management Systems (LMSs) in a Higher Education Institution in Saudi Arabia
… roles of age, gender, experience, perceived voluntariness, and computer self-efficacy on Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort Expectancy (EE), Social Norms (SN), and Facilitating Conditions (FC). The results of the study revealed a strong and positive correlation between performance expectancy …
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Measuring the perceived attributes of innovation: A study of capacitive switch technology in industrially designed user interface controls
… demonstrability, visibility, ease of use, image, voluntariness, perceived risk, and perceived resources as outlined by Rogers (1995), Moore and Benbasat (1991), and Dupagne and Driscoll (2005). Results indicated whether a consumer is willing to accept capacitive switch innovation in industrially …
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IT adoption in the Construction Sector in Libya
… norms. While the moderator variables were voluntariness, external orientation, achievement orientation, company slack, pro-activity, environmental dynamism, business-level attitude toward IT adoption, number of employees, business type, time in business, type of organisation, availability …
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The role of law in corporate human rights due diligence
… in human rights compliance, many connected to voluntariness, and how this interacts with laws in the influence on Canadian MNCs. Finally, we looked from the perspective of the entire global value chain, including all operations and all suppliers, up to the original source of all goods and …
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A Revised Model for Informed Consent in Predictive Genetic Testing
… of consent (understanding, disclosure, and voluntariness) that represent the current model. The third chapter explains the revised model by aligning the three distinguishing characteristics of PGT with the three widely recognized components in the current model. At the end, the revised model …
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A framework of individual consumer's acceptance of online shopping
… the compatibility of online shopping, the voluntariness of individual consumer's doing online shopping, customers' prior experience, and consumer innovativeness are positively correlated with individual consumer's intention of adopting online shopping. On contrary, both the transaction cost …
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Could Mary have said “no?” a contemporary feminist analysis of consent, examined through the context of Marian representations that originate from the Annunciation
… focus on limitations to an agent’s autonomy and voluntariness. Specifically, this study emphasises the significance of characterising interactions between agents as competitive or non-competitive. This research indicates that in situations where interactions between agents are competitive, the …
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Explainable Persuasion for Persuasive Interfaces: The Case of Online Gambling
… to addictive behaviour. Transparency and user voluntariness are proposed to be the building blocks of ethical persuasive systems. However, to date, the concept of transparent persuasive technology mainly remained philosophical in academia. One approach to designing persuasive systems that …
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Police officers' adoption of information technology: A case study of the Turkish POLNET system.
… while adding two other factors, facility and voluntariness, to better determine the factors affecting the implementation and adoption of the POLNET software system used by the Turkish National Police (TNP). The integrated model used in this study covers not only basic technology acceptance …
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The Ethically Required Level of Mental Capacity Needed for Consent to Participate in Clinical Research on the Terminally Ill
… understanding, appreciation, reasoning, and voluntariness. With the proper depiction of competence, the remainder of this work will contend that current approaches to determine competency requirements are flawed, that the medical research context ought to require more stringent competency …
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A Focused Evaluation of Sales Employees' Ethics Training and Its Effect on the Diffusion of Ethics in a Financial Organization
… research—image, result demonstrability, and voluntariness. </p> <p>This paper serves as a new starting point for diffusion studies because the current body of research is silent in how diffusion of innovations theory informs the effectiveness of ethics training. It provides recommendations …
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Adaptation to Athletic Career Termination in Male Professional Sport
… to examine: (1) the conceptualisation of the voluntariness of retirement and its impact on adaptation to athletic career termination, (2) the conceptualisation of the outcome of athletic career termination and (3) the temporal nature of patterns of adaptation in this sample in three …
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Oxford City PCG and PCT : a case study of collaboration
… of governance: trust, loyalty, reciprocity and voluntariness. Inductive and deductive approaches were combined to test and develop theory about the interactions between context and organisational form, using multiple qualitative methods within a longitudinal nested case study. The study …
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Causes and Consequences of Displacement Decision-making in Banhine National Park, Mozambique
… be concentrated; diverging perceptions of the voluntariness of government resettlement efforts; rapid decentralization of decision-making to the district level; and a dominant idea that wildlife would be introduced to BNP, that human-wildlife conflicts were inevitable, and that residents would, …
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Causes and Consequences of Displacement Decision-making in Banhine National Park, Mozambique
… be concentrated; diverging perceptions of the voluntariness of government resettlement efforts; rapid decentralization of decision-making to the district level; and a dominant idea that wildlife would be introduced to BNP, that human-wildlife conflicts were inevitable, and that residents would, …
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Testing the Technology Acceptance Model 3 (TAM 3) with the Inclusion of Change Fatigue and Overload, in the Context of Faculty from Seventh-day Adventist Universities: A Revised Model
… usefulness of the LMS, perceived ease of use, voluntariness, and change fatigue in selecting and implementing any new system and in seeking to increase adoption of the current system.</p>
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Eco-compensation, Water Management and Political Power in China
… for focusing on eco-compensation by examining voluntariness, project types, payment, actors, and scales. A broad-scale analysis of 19 Chinese schemes is then undertaken, and this reveals that eco-compensation projects predominantly involve government agents, often with different levels of …