Learner autonomy has been described as the ultimate objective in many language teaching programs since the third quarter of the twentieth century and educators have highlighted the significant role of promoting learner autonomy in the process of language learning and teaching. However, only limited number of studies has been awarded to what leaner autonomy mean to teachers. This study addressed...

This paper points to the poor state of empirical measures of the quality of states, that is, executive branches and their bureaucracies. Much of the problem is conceptual, since there is very little agreement on what constitutes high-quality government. The paper suggests four approaches: (1) procedural measures, such as the Weberian criteria of bureaucratic modernity; (2) capacity measures, wh...

Village autonomy is one of the urgencies for village government. This in line with reform mandate which emphasizes spirit regional autonomy. expected to increase independence. The legal issue this research vacuum related regulation study aims construct idea within framework Unitary State Republic Indonesia. a juridical-normative three materials, namely primary materials including: 1945 Constitu...

AI seems to be developing toward a theory of intelligent agents (IA), however, the theoretical basis which should underly the notion of agency has remained strikingly underdeveloped. This paper is intended to improve on this situation, by analysing the most basic notions necessary for a theory of agency: action, self, control, autonomy and adaptivity. Our main thesis is that autonomy is the ess...

The object of this study was the nurse's professional autonomy and had the following specific objectives: describe and analyze the social representations of the nurses 'professional role and analyze the professional autonomy-dependence binomial. As theoretical methodological reference it was chose the Social Representations Theory It was proceeded in-depth interviews with 30 nurses of the basic...

Healthcare decision-making has traditionally focused on individual autonomy, but there is now a change occurring in which the involvement of families is gaining prominence. This appears to stem from an increasing emphasis on relational aspects of autonomy which recognises the individual's connectedness to their family, and also state reliance upon families to share the burdens and costs of cari...

AI seems to be developing toward a theory of intelligent agents (IA), however, the theoretical basis which should underly the notion of agency has remained strikingly underdeveloped. This paper is intended to improve on this situation, by analysing the most basic notions necessary for a theory of agency: action, self, control, autonomy and adaptivity. Our main thesis is that autonomy is the ess...

Explanations of the emergence of regional autonomy movements political organizations seeking to express sub-state affinities and interests often highlight cultural differences and economic incentives as important reasons driving regional elites and local politicians to form such organization and explain the support regional autonomy movements receive. In this paper I employ a specialized agent-...

Background: World Health Organization (WHO) defines three goals to assess the performance of a health system: the state of health, fairness in financial contribution and responsiveness. We assessed the responsiveness of health system for patients with diabetes in a defined population cohort in Tehran, Iran. Methods: Total responsiveness and eight domains (prompt attention, dignity, communica...