OBJECTIVE To describe perceived participation and autonomy among a sample of persons with stroke in Iran and to identify different aspects of functioning and contextual factors predicting participation after stroke. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A total of 102 persons, between 27 and 75 years of age, diagnosed with first-ever stroke. METHODS Participants were assessed for diffe...

This report provides an overview of the current state of autonomous system testing and evaluation methodologies and levels of autonomy for intelligent unmanned systems (UMSs). It is meant to be an extensive review of all past and ongoing efforts to define autonomy and set levels of autonomy for unmanned systems as related to military applications. Presented within are the current performance me...

Using data from a recent national survey of the ownership reform of state-owned enterprises in China, we study the effects of politician control and agency problems on the performance of the reformed firms. Taking into account of the endogenous nature of the reform, we find that firm performance is positively affected by the lessening of politician control through increasing the firm’s flexibil...

Nepal’s political system is in rapid transition following the end of the Maoist People’s War and overthrow of the King in 2006, and the subsequent formation of a Federal Democratic Republic in 2007. A radical-left coalition, led by a Maoist party in 2008, won an electoral majority (surpassing the two biggest parties that ruled the country in the post 1990 period). The conflict period animated t...

This article seeks to analyze the foundations of idea ​​teaching autonomy today, in neoliberal context alienation, exploitation, worker accountability and how this concept has been used capitalist society from point view reorganizing teaching work. To end, bibliographical research was used, supported by discourse analysis Fairclough (2001), with emphasis on historical, political social ​​autono...

The purpose of the present study (N=80 undergraduate students) was to examine two issues: first, does external control lead to an increase in resistance to temptation more than the use of autonomy support? Second, what are the long-term effects of these types of educational style? Based on the Personality Systems Interaction (PSI) theory, external control was expected to increase resistance to ...

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte has a key place in debates over Marx's theory of the state and his account of political representation. For some critics, this text provides evidence for two Marxian theories of the state: whereas Marx normally saw the state as the executive committee or direct instrument of the ruling class, in other contexts he argued that it can become relatively au...