The subject . Study focuses on the problem of conservation and efficient use agricultural land. It is important for any state, but it especially relevant Russia, given size country’s territory large proportion arable Statistics shows a tendency to reduce total area This trend alarming Krasnodar Region, granary Russia. In this regard, scientific analysis judicial arbitration practice in cases re...

I explore various ways of integrating the framework for predeterminism, agency, and ability in [P. McNamara, Nordic J. Philos. Logic 5 (2) (2000) 135] with a framework for obligations. However, the agential obligation operator explored here is defined in terms of a non-agential yet personal obligation operator and a non-deontic (and non-normal) agency operator. This is contrary to the main curr...

BACKGROUND Social support is, in general, positively associated with exercise behavior. However, social influence may not always be helpful and may sometimes lead to obligation or a sense of intrusion rather than encouragement or assistance. PURPOSE The objective was to determine relationships among different types of social influence (social encouragement and social constraint) and exercise ...

Collective action and protest have become a normalized political behavior that in many cases defines the political agenda. The reasons why people take to the streets constitute a central subject within the study of social psychology. In the literature, three precedents of protest that have been established as central to the study of this phenomenon are: injustice, efficacy, and identity. But po...

This paper is about control mechanisms for virtual organizations. As a case study, we discuss the Renewables Obligation (RO), a control mechanism that was introduced in the United Kingdom to stimulate the production of renewable energy. We apply a conceptual model based on normative multiagent systems (NMAS). We propose to model both the participants and the normative system as autonomous agent...

In this essay, I will evaluate the arguments put forth on the subject of “maternal obligation,” or those actions that a pregnant mother may (or may not) owe to the de­ veloping fetus within her body. I will compare those arguments of Margaret Little, who claims that mothers deserve more autonomy in determining maternal obligation based on the principles of stewardship and the norms of creation;...

This study examined the size and composition of older adults' social control networks and investigated behavioral and affective responses to the experience of social control. Social control in the health domain refers to regulatory attempts by others (direct), and feelings of obligation and responsibility to others (indirect), that encourage engagement in a healthy lifestyle. Participants were ...

the advent of an economy based upon socioeconomic capabilities and obligation, along with move in the direction of such knowledge oriented concepts as social investments makes one consider other such theries as social capital in an analysis of basic skill formations, and as well in the development and application of these skills in higher education and curricula. the main purpose of this study ...