BACKGROUND Patient autonomy is a fundamental, yet challenging, principle of professional medical ethics. The idea that individual patients should have the freedom to make choices about their lives, including medical matters, has become increasingly prominent in current literature. However, this has not always been the case, especially in communist countries where paternalistic attitudes have be...

BACKGROUND Respect for autonomy is a key principle in bioethics. However, respecting autonomy in practice is complex because most people define themselves and make decisions influenced by a complex network of social relationships. The extent to which individual autonomy operates for each partner within the context of decision-making within marital or similar relationships is largely unexplored....

Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine potential moderating effect of autonomy on this relation also consider corresponding role gender. First, individual fixed effects panel estimations reaffirm both negative link h...

Recent exciting, ambitious applications in agent technology involve agents acting individually or in teams in support of critical activities of individual humans or entire human organizations. Applications range from intelligent homes [13], to "routine" organizational coordination[16], to electronic commerce[4] to long-term space missions[12, 6]. These new applications have brought forth an inc...

the purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the perception of managers and talents of perceived retention factors in the textile industry in yazd province, iran. in this regard, phenomenography is used to map the different perceptions of both talents and their managers. data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 22 talented individuals who were selected according to an ...

The Seven Deadly Myths of " Autonomous Systems " department, 1 is a recent US Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force Report on " The Role of Autonomy in DoD Systems. " This report affords an opportunity to examine the concept of autonomous systems in light of the new DSB fi ndings. This theme will continue in a future column, in which we'll outline a constructive approach to design autonomous c...

Behavior is a major determinant of health, but changes in individual conduct are difficult, and health promotion lacks effectiveness. State intervention in the last century, rooted in the modernist movement, went far beyond dealing with externalities and built the framework of the welfare state. The crisis of the welfare state and post modernity after the 1970s led to a weakness of ideologies a...

After a generation of partial neglect, renewed attention is being paid to population and voluntary family planning. Realistic access to family planning is a prerequisite for women's autonomy. For the individual, family, society, and our fragile planet, family planning has great power.