It has been pointed out that gaze alternation by infants, which is a basis for social communication, is related to the process of the development of intentional agency. Intentional agency is defined as an act with a desired goal and a means. It has been pointed out that infants understand others’ intentions based on intentional agency. In our recent work, we constructed a computational model wh...

Agency, being one’s ability to perform an action and have some influence over the world, is fundamental to interactive entertainment. Although much of the games industry is concerned with providing more agency to its players, what seems to matter more is how much agency each player will actually perceive. In this paper, we present a computational model of this phenomena, based on the notion tha...

The building of cooperative multi-agent systems is an issue of growing importance in the field of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. We introduce a type of agency, called dynamic agency, that overcomes the critical problem of having agents that have both several specific operation functions, and one uniform cooperation ability. A dynamic agency is also suited to give flexibility with respect ...

background: taxi drivers have the most important role in the public transport services. they are exposed to various harmful agents and occupational hazards. noise is a harmful occupational factors and hearing loss is its most important effect. protection of drivers against hearing loss is essential. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss among taxi and agency drive...

In their paper entitled ‘Rose’s population strategy of prevention need not increase social inequalities in health’, McLaren et al. offer a cogent response to our earlier paper ‘The inequality paradox: the population approach and vulnerable populations’. It is a pleasure, and was indeed our goal, to see a lively debate sparked by our initial musings. It is therefore an equal pleasure to respond ...

Theories of collective intentionality and theories relational autonomy share a common interest in analyzing the social dynamics agency. However, whereas conceive groups primarily as intentional voluntarily willed, claim that autonomous agency is both scaffolded constrained by forces structures, including constraints imposed nonvoluntary group membership. The question raised this difference view...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore how agency distributed between human actors and nonhuman elements in entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach It based on an inductive longitudinal case study a garden rural community northern Sweden. methodology includes ethnography the garden, spanning course 16 years, careful investigation entrepreneurial processes contained within it. F...

this study attempts to investigate the impacts of severalcorporate governance mechanisms on two alternative proxies for agencycosts, namely the ratio of total sales to total assets (asset turnover) and theratio of selling, general and administrative expenses to total sales(sg&a;). agency costs, non-executive directors on the board, andinstitutional investors are dependent variables. the analysi...