Industrial, academic, activist, and policy research advocacy movements formed around resisting ‘machine bias’, promoting ‘ethical AI’, ‘fair ML’ have discursive implications for what constitutes harm, resistance to algorithmic influence itself means, is deeply connected which actors makes epistemic claims about harm resistance. We present a loose categorization of kinds systems: dominant mode a...

Following Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz’s (1990) classification, this study examines the relationship between power and gender of the addressees and the type and number of refusal strategies employed by Sarawani Baloch male university students (SBMUS). Fifty SBMUS studying in Azad University of Sarawan were randomly chosen as the participants of the study. Data collection was accomplished t...

the technical term of acceptance and refusal in the case of patrimonium (the estate of deceased); which has been used in inheritance procedure act; dose not mean; automatically; the acceptance and refusal of inheritance; because it is occurred by the law and; inheritance; acceptance and refusal of the estate deceased has no role in its occurrence. however; the existence of the principle of acce...

This study aimed to determine the relationship of intelligence beliefs, academic self-regulation, and metacognition with school refusal behavior in female secondary high school students in Amol. This study was a descriptive one with correlational design. The statistical population consisted of all the female secondary high school students of which 214 students were selected using multistage ran...

More knowledge on the reasons for refusal of the influenza vaccine in elderly patients is essential to target groups for additional information, and hence improve coverage rate. The objective of the present study was to describe precisely the true motives for refusal. All patients aged over 64 who attended the Medical Outpatient Clinic, University of Lausanne, or their private practitioner's of...

This study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between Persian native speakers (PNSs) and English native speakers (ENSs) in terms of the frequency of the semantic formulas. Also examined in this study was whether Persian EFL learners would transfer their L1 refusal patterns into the L2, and if there would be a relation between their proficiency level an...