Introduction The collection, use and disclosure of information in the context of assisted human reproduction warrant careful consideration. Consider the stories of Charles and Meera. Charles is interested in donating sperm anonymously. Charles’ sister and her partner used anonymous sperm to create their family, and he wants to help someone else do the same. But when he learns of the information...

Is dishonesty more prevalent in interaction with a machine as opposed to human? We analyze this question using an innovative experimental setup involving the reporting of unobserved payout-relevant random draw either chatbot or another human chat while also varying degree agency. find that is unable demonstrate agency induces lowest levels honesty, whereas human, which can such agency, generate...

Led by the agency director, the agency engaged in a Strategic Review, based on a comprehensive assessment of agency performance that identified strategies to improve organizational effectiveness through increased data-informed practice and knowledge management. The Strategic Review gathered information on staff perceptions, perceptions of external stakeholders, changing citywide and neighborhoo...

We live in an emerging hyper-connected era in which people are in contact and interacting with an increasing number of other people and devices. Increasingly, modern IT systems form networks of humans and machines that interact with one another. As machines take a more active role in such networks, they exert an increasing level of influence on other participants. We review the existing literat...

The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the essence of humanness. Human agency is characterized by a number of core features that operate through phenomenal and functional consciousness. These include the temporal extension of agency through intentionality and forethought, self-regulation by self-reactive influence, and self-reflectiveness about one's capab...

One of the challenges of artificial life is to implement agency in the creature. This paper is going to argue for the concept of agency existing in linguistic communication. It is usual and normal to see that agency exists outside of language: it is the user of the language who is equipped with agency, and language is not ostensibly related to it. On the other hand, since the invention of the T...

Behavioural studies suggest that the processing of movement stimuli is influenced by beliefs about the agency behind these actions. The current study examined how activity in social and action related brain areas differs when participants were instructed that identical movement stimuli were either human or computer generated. Participants viewed a series of point-light animation figures derived...

The study addresses two current issues in social geography: the modern reflection on topic of agency and possibility introducing notion place agency. When discussing human-environment relations, geographers more often use terms more-than-human or non-human beings focus animal plant worlds. However, symmetrical mutual relationship between humans natural environment can be linked to a question ar...

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element and anthropogenic contaminant present in 2 general forms: inorganic and organic. Inorganic arsenic is considered highly toxic to humans.1 The International Agency for Research on Cancer, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) all classify inorganic arsenic as a human carcinogen.2–4 The health ef...

Game studies has yet to engage with a sustained debate on the implications of its fundamentally technologically based foundation – i.e. the ‘digitality’ of digital games. This paper calls for such a debate and offers some initial thoughts on issues and directions. The humanities and social sciences are founded on the principle that historical and cultural agency reside solely in the human and t...