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Shin, Sangkyu. "Infosphere, Humans as Inforgs, and Human Agency." Center for Asia and Diaspora 13, no. 2 (August 31, 2023): 6–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15519/dcc.2023.08.13.2.6.

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This paper is an attempt to shed light on the nature of the information revolution we are facing by focusing on Floridi’s philosophy of information, specifically his book The Fourth Revolution. I will first briefly explain the concepts of hyperhistory and the infosphere, and then identify the core claim of the Fourth Revolution in anthropology, along with the concept of the “inforg.” Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud each contributed in different ways to the rupture of anthropocentrism and the decentering of the human subject. In Floridi’s Fourth Revolution, the decentering of the human subject is related to the fact that we understand ourselves as inforgs, or information organisms. Focusing on the role of technology in mediating the relationship between human perception (experience), action, and reality (the world), I argue that the decentering of the human subject in the Fourth Revolution can be found in a shift in our perception of human agency.
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Gardner, Susan T. "Human Agency." International Journal of Applied Philosophy 31, no. 2 (2017): 207–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ijap20181485.

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Let us suppose that we accept that humans can be correctly characterized as agents (and hence held responsible for their actions). Let us further presume that this capacity contrasts with most non-human animals. Thus, since agency is what uniquely constitutes what it is to be human, it must be of supreme importance. If these claims have any merit, it would seem to follow that, if agency can be nurtured through education, then it is an overarching moral imperative that educational initiatives be undertaken to do that. In this paper, it will be argued that agency can indeed be enhanced, and that the worldwide educational initiative called Philosophy for Children (P 4C), and others like it, are in a unique position to do just that, and, therefore, that P4C deserves our praise and support; while denigrations of such efforts for not being “real philosophy” ought to be thoroughly renounced.
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Rees, William E. "Human Agency Gone Awry." BioScience 57, no. 9 (October 1, 2007): 788–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1641/b570913.

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Kuchinke, K. Peter. "Human Agency and HRD." Advances in Developing Human Resources 15, no. 4 (August 22, 2013): 370–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1523422313498563.

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Cavallo, A. J. "Copper Limits: Human Agency." Science 344, no. 6184 (May 8, 2014): 578. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.344.6184.578-d.

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LIAO, S. MATTHEW. "Agency and Human Rights." Journal of Applied Philosophy 27, no. 1 (February 2010): 15–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2009.00470.x.

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Mele, Alfred R. "Libertarianism and Human Agency." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 87, no. 1 (October 24, 2011): 72–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00529.x.

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Bleiker, Roland. "Discourse and Human Agency." Contemporary Political Theory 2, no. 1 (March 2003): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300073.

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Chen, Charles P. "Strengthening Career Human Agency." Journal of Counseling & Development 84, no. 2 (April 2006): 131–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6678.2006.tb00388.x.

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Alfaiz, Alfaiz, Asroful Kadafi, Yuzarion Yuzarion, Rahmadianti Aulia, Septya Suarja, Rila Rahma Mulyani, Yasrial Chandra, and Joni Adison. "Memahami perilaku kemandirian belajar Siswa melalui perspektif Human Agency: Sintesis perspektif Human Agency." Counsellia: Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling 10, no. 2 (November 24, 2020): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.25273/counsellia.v10i2.6761.

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<p class="Normal1"><em>Human agency</em> adalah konsep bahwa seorang individu memiliki kompetensi dalam perencanaan, disiplin, realisasi dan mengevaluasi perilaku mereka sendiri dalam keadaan hidup termasuk dalam pembelajaran. Ini telah dipelajari dalam pendidikan dengan empat sifat inti seperti sengaja, pemikiran, reaktivitas diri, dan reflektifitas diri membentuk individu sebagai aktor, bukan reaktor. Hal ini dapat digunakan untuk memahami pembelajaran mandiri siswa, karena konsep pembelajaran mandiri memiliki kesadaran diri secara sengaja. Jika individu selalu bergantung pada lingkungannya, itu karena ia tidak memiliki agen dalam keadaan hidupnya. Menurut sebuah penelitian terbaru yang dilakukan pada tahun 2012, telah menemukan bahwa seorang siswa memiliki kurang otonom dalam belajar, dan juga dari survei yang dilakukan pada 2017-2019 ditemukan bahwa 61,50% siswa di 4 sekolah menengah atas memiliki pembelajaran mandiri yang lebih rendah. Fenomena ini mempengaruhi perilaku selingkuh dan menunda-nunda mereka. Pada artikel ini akan membahas kondisi siswa dalam belajar dan memberikan rekomendasi baru dalam perspektif tentang intervensi alternatif dalam praktik bimbingan dan konseling tentang agensi manusia untuk membentuk dan memahami perilaku belajar mandiri dan juga sifat internalisasi agensi manusia dalam proses konseling dalam konteks dalam belajar.</p><p align="center"><em></em><strong><em><br /></em></strong></p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong><em><em>: Human agency is a concept that an individual has a competencies in planning, discipline, realization and evaluate their own behavior in life circumstance including in learning. It has been studied in education with four core properties such intentionally, forethought, self-reactiveness, and self-reflectiveness shape an individual as an actor, not a reactor. It can be used to understanding a student autonomous learning, because the concept of autonomous learning has a self-cognition purposely. If individual always depends on their environment, that because he does not have an agentic in his life circumstance. According a latest research that conducts in 2012, has found that a student has a lack of autonomous in learning, and also from survey that conduct in 2017-2019 it’s found that 61,50% students in 4 senior high school has lower autonomous learning. This phenomena influence to their cheating and procrastination behavior. On this article will discuss a student’s condition in learning and gives a new recommendation in perspective about alternative intervention in guidance and counseling practice about the human agency to shape and understanding an autonomous learning behavior and also internalization properties of human agency in counseling process in the context in learning.</em><br /></em><strong><em></em></strong>
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Human agency"

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Peacock, Mark S. "On human agency." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389884.

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Laub, H. Joan. "Transformation of human agency." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32276.

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The general purpose of this study was to examine transformations of human agency in natural contexts. Existing theoretical formulations have primarily been confined to laboratory investigations. Moreover, the principles generated by such theories have not been validated beyond the laboratory setting. With this purpose in mind, there were two immediate aims of the study. The first aim was to contribute to counselling theory by assessing five prominent theories of human agency and providing a basis from which to potentially establish more adequate theoretical formulations. The second aim was to contribute to counselling practice by providing concrete information and a more informed basis through which to enhance agency in clients. A multiple case study design integrating intensive interviewing and Q-methodology was utilized for the study. Ten individuals, five women and five men, ranging in age from 28 to 64, were identified through a network of contacts for participation in the study. Based upon convergence of qualitative evidence from interviews and quantitative evidence from Q-sorts, rich, detailed narrative accounts of transformation were constructed for each individual. Each account was validated by the individual for whom each was written and by an independent reviewer. Through a comparative analysis of the ten diverse accounts of transformation, extensive commonality was identified. Twenty-two common themes were extracted from the accounts that portrayed significant features of the transformation. Based on these themes, an abstract story of the common pattern revealed in the transformation was plotted. Individual aspects of each of the theories of agency were validated as well as qualified in some important ways. In addition, the results extended these theories in three main ways. First, the results indicated that transformations of human agency were complex wholes that involved a configuration of features rather than any one or two isolated features. Second, the findings indicated that context played a critical role in transformations of agency. And third, the results emphasized the important role of powerful emotions in the process of transformation. The results of this study also generated a beginning holistic portrait of transformation which has implications for counsellors in terms of understanding and facilitating transformations of agency in clients.
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Paraskevaides, Andreas. "Social constraints on human agency." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5655.

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In this thesis, I present a view according to which folk psychology is not only used for predictive and explanatory purposes but also as a normative tool. I take it that this view, which I delineate in chapter 1, can help us account for different aspects of human agency and with solving a variety of puzzles that are associated with developing such an account. My goal is to examine what it means to act as an agent in a human society and the way in which the nature of our agency is also shaped by the normative constraints inherent in the common understanding of agency that we share with other agents. As I intend to demonstrate, we can make significant headway in explaining the nature of our capacity to express ourselves authoritatively in our actions in a self-knowing and self-controlled manner if we place this capacity in the context of our social interactions, which depend on a constant exchange of reasons in support of our actions. My main objective is to develop a promising account of human agency within a folk-psychological setting by mainly focusing on perspectives from the philosophy of action and mind, while still respecting more empirically oriented viewpoints from areas such as cognitive science and neuroscience. Chapter 2 mainly deals with the nature of self-knowledge and with our capacity to express this knowledge in our actions. I argue that our self-knowledge is constituted by the normative judgments we make and that we use these judgments to regulate our behaviour in accordance to our folk-psychological understanding of agency. We are motivated to act as such because of our motive to understand ourselves, which has developed through our training as self-knowing agents in a folk-psychological framework. Chapter 3 explores the idea that we develop a self-concept which enables us to act in a self-regulating manner. I distinguish self-organization from selfregulation and argue that we are self-regulating in our exercises of agency because we have developed a self-concept that we can express in our actions. What makes us distinct from other self-regulating systems, however, is that we can also recognize and respond to the fact that being such systems brings us under certain normative constraints and that we have to interact with others who are similarly constrained. Chapter 4 is mainly concerned with placing empirical evidence which illustrate the limits of our conscious awareness and control in the context of our account of agency as a complex, emergent social phenomenon. Finally, chapter 5 deals with the way in which agentive breakdowns such as self-deceptive inauthenticity fit with this account.
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Thomas, Joanne May. "Electroacoustic composition indicative of human agency." Thesis, City University London, 2005. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8482/.

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The aim of this PhD is to present works which examine the expression of human agency within electroacoustic music. 'The Voice', Noise and Metaphorh ave been used as chapter headings within which kinetic gesture, phonemic association, identity and gendered space are examined. Seven original works are presented: Moyle, Unconditional is the Dalvil, Dark Noise, Angel, Night Music for Radio, Glitch and the mixed clectroacoustic and instrumental works Red Ganies and Less. Angel was written as a work for film and clectroacoustic sound and also as a work for pure clectroacoustic sound. Both versions arc included within this portfolio. Chapter I (Voice) explores issues of 'voice" and 'the voice' within the works Woffle, Dark Noise and Angel. In this chapter is an exploration of Woulle and its relationship to the narrative of Red Riding Hood. The role of imaginary space, phonetic content and physical behaviour of an electroacoustic sound world are issues which are discussed in relation to Dark Noise. Chapter 2 (Noise) is a detailed examination of the methodology of my compositional approach towards the use of micro-sounds, and the poetic implication of the glitch and the digital click. In this chapter there is also a poetic examination of the approach towards the use of noise as a 'skin of sound' where musical expression is captured within 'fissures of glitch' which perforate the surface. Chapter 3 (Metaphor) presents an examination of how metaphor is used throughout my music. The works Woffle, Dark Noise and Angel are examined. A poetic exploration of Michel Chion's theory of 'synchresis' is presented in relation to the work Angel.
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De, Angelis Maria Ivanna. "Human trafficking : women's stories of agency." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5823.

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This thesis is about women’s stories of agency in a trafficking experience. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the unscrupulous acts and exploitative practices which demarcate and define trafficking. In response to the three Ps of trafficking policy (prevention and protection of victims and the simultaneous prosecution of traffickers) official discourse constructs trafficking agency in singular opposition to trafficking victimhood. The ‘true’ victim of trafficking is reified in attributes of passivity and worthiness, whereas signs of women’s agency are read as consent in their own predicament or as culpability in criminal justice and immigration rule breaking. Moving beyond the official lack or criminal fact of agency, this research adds knowledge on agency constructed with, on, and by women possessing a trafficking experience. This fills an internationally recognised gap in the trafficking discourse. Within the thesis, female agency is explored in feminist terms of women’s immediate well-being agency (their physical safety and economic needs) and their longer term requirements for agency freedom (their capacity to construct choices and the conditions affecting choice). This feminist exploration of the terrain on trafficking found ways in which female agency takes shape in relationship and in degrees to women’s subjective and structural victimisation. Based upon the stories of twenty six women gathered through an in-depth qualitative study, agency is visible in identity, decision making and actions. Women fashioned individual trafficking identities from their subjective engagement with the official trafficking descriptors. Additionally, their identification with ties to home (expressed via family relationships, occupational roles, national dress and ethnic food) helped to sustain their pre-trafficking personas. Women exhibited agency in risk taking and choices (initial, shared, constrained and precarious), which characterised their journeys and explained their grading of trafficking ‘pains’. Significantly, the fieldwork raised women’s engagement with ‘the rules’ and practices of the host society, as a way of realising new social, recreational, educational, employment, sexual and consumer related freedoms. Acknowledging the international and UK serious organised crime frame on trafficking, the fieldwork also included fifteen interviews with anti-trafficking professionals involved in delivering the three Ps of trafficking policy. This complementary standpoint to women’s stories presents ways in which official actors helped and hindered women’s achievement of well-being and agency freedoms. Crucially, in addressing trafficking as an evolving and integral aspect in contemporary global movement - displaying similarity and cross over with migration, smuggling, asylum and refugee accounts - this research unearthed trafficking exploitations and experiences around transnational marriage, which have been traditionally isolated and overlooked by UK trafficking discourse and policy platforms.
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Wells, Cecilia Emily. "Institutional racism : human agency or structural phenomenon?" Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430888.

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Miranda, Alvaro. "Agency, human dignity and subjective well-being." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2015. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/134489.

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Over the last two decades there has been an important shift in the way economists understand welfare and development. The discipline has gone from assessing wellbeing in terms of an unideminsional measure like income, to multidimensional measures that take into account non-economic variables such as what individuals do and can do, how they feel, and the natural environment they live in (Alkire, 2002; Stiglitz et al., 2009; Alkire and Foster, 2011; Alkire and Santos, 2014). In the vein of Amartya Sen's in uential work, development is seen as the process of expanding freedoms that people value and have reason to value (Sen, 1999). Two important aspects of this freedom linked to the basis of social rights are agency and human dignity (Gauri, 2004). Agency freedom refers to what the person is free to do and achieve in pursuit of whatever goals or values he or she regards as important (Sen, 1985). On the other hand, dignity is related with social inclusion, taking part in the life of the community (Sen, 1999).1 This paper explores the importance of agency, and dignity in explaining subjective well- being. We are speci cally interested in measures of life satisfaction and job satisfaction. Our work uses a unique dataset of Chilean households, the \Other Dimensions of Household Quality of Life" survey, especially designed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) to gather internationally comparable indicators on employment quality, empowerment, physical safety, human dignity and psychological and subjective wellbeing, sometimes referred as the missing dimensions of poverty (Alkire, 2007). Our hypothesis is that agency is positively correlated with individual's subjective wellbe- ing, because it re ects the capacity the individual has to do what he values. The measure we use for agency is related with the individual's perception of freedom to decide for himself how to lead his life. A natural interpretation of the hypothesis is thus that the more freedom an individual has to decide how to lead her life, more wellbeing she experiences. On the other hand, our hypothesis is that individuals less likely to regularly experience shame in public are associated with higher subjective wellbeing. In particular, we focus on two aspects of dignity: shame proneness and discrimination. Therefore, individuals that experience more shame or feel discriminated should experience less wellbeing. Our rst set of results provides correlational evidence on the importance of agency, shame and discrimination in life satisfaction. The results suggest that agency, shame and discrimi- nation are correlated with life satisfaction. Next, we explore if agency and discrimination at work are correlated with job satisfaction. The results show that both agency and discrimi- nation at work explain job satisfaction. An important potencial source of bias in our estimates is the absence of personality traits. It has been shown that genetics factor are strongly correlated with happiness (Lykken and Tellegen, 1996; Inglehart and Klingemann, 2000). Moreover, personality traits as repressive- defensiveness, trust, emotional stability, locus of control-chance, desire for control, hardiness, positive a ectivity, private collective self-esteem, and tension have been linked to subjective wellbeing (DeNeve and Cooper, 1998; Diener et al., 2003). In order to attenuate the potencial bias for omitting personality traits, we follow Van Praag and Ferrer-i Carbonell (2008) and we construct a measure of personality traits that we in- clude in our regressions.The results show an important positive bias in the estimates of the relationship between subjective wellbeing, agency, shame and discrimination. In particular, after controlling by personality traits the OLS parameters associated with agency and shame decrease their magnitude in nearly 50% in the life satisfaction estimates. Also, the parameter associated with discrimination decreases in magnitude and becomes statistically insigni cant. On the other hand, the bias is less important in the estimates of job satisfaction, agency and discrimination. Overall, our results show that the di erence in life satisfaction between individuals who feel they have freedom to decide for themselves how to lead their life in comparison with the individuals that don't, has the same magnitude as the di erence in life satisfaction between people from the rst and fth quintile of income. Also, being in the fth quintile of the shame proneness index in comparison with the rst quintile has the same e ect on life satisfaction as the di erence in life satisfaction between the people from the second and fth quintile of income. Finally, perceived discrimination is not associated with life satisfaction. On the other hand, individuals with more agency at work are more satis ed with their job. In particular, individuals that do their job only because they need the money are less satis ed with their job in comparison with the individuals that do their job because they find almost twice the e ect related with working part-time. This study contributes to the recent but vast literature on subjective wellbeing and the literature on multidimensional wellbeing in development, more speci cally to recent studies emphasizing the importance of measuring dimensions of wellbeing that seem central to human development traditionally ignored in empirical work. Our results related with the relationship between agency and subjective wellbeing are consistent with international evidence (Veen- hoven, 2000; Welzel et al., 2003; Inglehart et al., 2008; Verme, 2009; Welzel and Inglehart, 2010; Fischer and Boer, 2011; Victor et al., 2013). The same can be said with respect to the results related with the relationship between perceived discrimination and subjective well- being (Werkuyten and Nekuee, 1999; Pascoe and Smart Richman, 2009). To our knowledge the association between subjective wellbeing and shame proneness has not been explored before. More closely related to our paper, Inglehart et al. (2008) and Welzel and Inglehart (2010) provide cross country evidence of the link between subjective wellbeing and freedom. In particular, Welzel and Inglehart (2010) presents a human development model that links agency to subjective wellbeing. Using data form the World Values Survey, they show that people that have more opportunities in life put more emphasis on emancipative values, and, in turn, their gains in agency have a greater impact in their subjective wellbeing. On the other hand, Verme (2009) tries to address the role of personality traits in the relationship of agency and subjective wellbeing. He argue that the locus of control plays an important role in how humans value freedom of choice. Using a combination of all rounds of the World and European Value Surveys, he nds that the variables that measures freedom of choice and the locus of control predicts life satisfaction better than any other factors included in the study. In particular, people who believe that the outcome of their actions depends on internal factors appreciate more having freedom than people who believe that the results of their actions are determined by external factors. This work, highlights the importance of taking into account personality traits when analyzing the relationship between agency and subjective wellbeing. Our paper contributes to the literature mainly in three ways. First, alongside with Verme (2009) we make a special e ort in order to control by personality traits which allow us avoid bias in the estimates of the relationship between subjective wellbeing, agency, shame and discrimination. Second, we explore the relationship between subjective wellbeing and shame. Third, we analyze the relationship between job satisfaction, agency and discrimination. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 describes the data and introduces our measures of agency and dignity. Section 3 presents the empirical strategy. Section 4 presents the estimation results. Section 5 concludes.
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Taylor, Teresa Brooks. "Agency Training 101." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3640.

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Apeldoorn, Laurens van. "Human agency in Hobbes's moral and political philosophy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543598.

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ROSELLI, CECILIA. "Vicarious Sense of Agency in Human-Robot Interaction." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1070568.

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Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of having control over one’s actions and outcomes. In humans’ daily life, SoA shapes whether, and how, people feel responsible for their actions, which has profound implications for the organization of human societies. Thus, SoA has received considerable attention in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, which tried to identify the cognitive mechanism underlying the emergence of the individual experience of agency. However, humans are inherently social animals, who are deeply immersed in social contexts with others. Thus, investigations of SoA cannot be limited to understanding the individual experience of agency, as SoA also affects the way people experience others’ actions: this is how SoA becomes “vicarious”. Humans can experience vicarious SoA over another human’s actions and outcomes; however, the mechanisms underlying the emergence of vicarious SoA are still under debate. In this context, focusing on artificial agents may help shed light on the vicarious SoA phenomenon. Specifically, robots are an emerging category of artificial agents, designed to assist humans in a variety of tasks- from elderly care to rescue missions. The present Ph.D. thesis aimed at investigating whether, and under which conditions, robots elicit vicarious SoA in humans in the context of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Moreover, we aimed at assessing whether vicarious SoA may serve as an implicit measure of intentionality attribution towards robots. The link between vicarious SoA and intentionality attribution was based on the idea that, in some contexts, humans can perceive robots as intentional agents, and it may “boost” the “vicarious” control that they experience over robot’s actions and outcomes- as well as it happens with other humans. In three studies, we employed the Intentional Binding (IB) paradigm as a reliable measure of implicit SoA. Participants performed an IB task with different types of robots varying in their degree of anthropomorphic features and human-like shape (i.e., the Cozmo robot and the iCub robot). Specifically, our goal was to assess whether the emergence of vicarious SoA in humans was modulated by (1) the possibility to represent robot’s actions using one’s own motor schemes, (2) the attribution of intentionality towards robots, and (3) the human-like shape of the robot. Our results suggested that the interplay of these three factors modulates the emergence of vicarious SoA in HRI. In conclusion, the findings collected in the present thesis contribute to the field of research on the vicarious SoA phenomenon in HRI, providing useful hints to design robots well-tailored to humans’ attitudes and needs.
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Books on the topic "Human agency"

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Understanding human agency. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Goller, Dr Michael. Human Agency at Work. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18286-1.

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Human agency and language. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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Runyan, J. D. Human Agency and Neural Causes. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137329493.

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Sunstein, Cass R. Human Agency and Behavioral Economics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55807-3.

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Gozli, Davood. Experimental Psychology and Human Agency. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20422-8.

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Zacarias, Marielba, and José Valente de Oliveira, eds. Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25691-2.

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Zacarias, Marielba. Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.

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Human trafficking: Women's stories of agency. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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Great Britain. National Audit Office. The Assets Recovery Agency. London: Stationery Office, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Human agency"

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Reader, John. "Human Agency." In Theology and New Materialism, 41–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54511-0_3.

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Paternoster, Raymond, and Ronet Bachman. "Human agency." In The Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology, 29–42. 1 Edition. | New York: Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge international handbooks: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315747996-3.

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O’Brien-Olinger, Sam. "Human Agency." In Police, Race and Culture in the ‘new Ireland’, 45–70. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137490452_3.

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Sharov, Alexei, and Morten Tønnessen. "Human Agency." In Biosemiotics, 59–94. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89484-9_3.

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Peyton, Will. "Human(ist) Agency." In Studies in Global Science Fiction, 53–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79315-9_4.

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White, Michael J. "Plotinus and Human Autonomy." In Agency and Integrality, 215–45. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5339-0_7.

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Deci, Edward L., and Richard M. Ryan. "Human Autonomy." In Efficacy, Agency, and Self-Esteem, 31–49. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1280-0_3.

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Hadjisergis, Kyros. "Multi-Agency Work." In Human Rights in Probation, 105–18. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003224679-12.

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Smith, Roger. "Agency." In Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience, 115–21. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003368021-15.

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Jones, Owain, and Paul Cloke. "Non-Human Agencies: Trees in Place and Time." In Material Agency, 79–96. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74711-8_5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Human agency"

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Jia, Haiyan, Mu Wu, Eunhwa Jung, Alice Shapiro, and S. Shyam Sundar. "Balancing human agency and object agency." In the 2012 ACM Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370470.

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Osawa, Hirotaka, and Michita Imai. "Morphing agency." In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468745.

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Maia, Sara Costa, and AnnaLisa Meyboom. "Researching Inhabitant Agency in Interactive Architecture." In ACADIA 2016: Post-Human Frontiers. ACADIA, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.372.

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Voorend, Roos, Jan Derboven, Karin Slegers, Anneleen Baert, and Els Clays. "Human Agency in Self-Management Tools." In PervasiveHealth'19: The 13th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3329189.3329242.

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Aoki, Paul, Allison Woodruff, Baladitya Yellapragada, and Wesley Willett. "Environmental Protection and Agency." In CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025667.

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Mattila, Susanna, Kati Ylikahri, Leena Rekola, and Niko Cajander. "Strengths and Development Needs in Temporary Agency Work: Temporary Work Agency Managers’ Perspective." In Human Systems Engineering and Design (IHSED 2021) Future Trends and Applications. AHFE International, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001117.

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In temporary agency work (TAW), the temporary work agency and the user company have employer responsibilities related to the occupational safety and health of the temporary agency workers. The aim of the study was to investigate strengths and development needs in TAW as perceived by managers of temporary work agencies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data from 19 managers at 10 temporary work agencies. The data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The results show that TAW is a flexible and valuable option for facilitating employment. However, there is room for developing TAW practices and procedures with the co-operation of temporary work agencies, temporary agency workers, and user companies. The findings of this study contribute to development of the occupational safety, health, and well-being of agency workers, and sustainable TAW.
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Fanni, Rosanna, Valerie Eveline Steinkogler, Giulia Zampedri, and Jo Pierson. "Active Human Agency in Artificial Intelligence Mediation." In GoodTechs '20: 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3411170.3411226.

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Takayama, Leila. "Perceptions of Agency in Human-robot Interactions." In HAI '16: The Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2974804.2993928.

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Cornelio Martinez, Patricia Ivette, Silvana De Pirro, Chi Thanh Vi, and Sriram Subramanian. "Agency in Mid-air Interfaces." In CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025457.

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Pal, Joyojeet, Anandhi Viswanathan, Priyank Chandra, Anisha Nazareth, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Hariharan Subramonyam, Aditya Johri, Mark S. Ackerman, and Sile O'Modhrain. "Agency in Assistive Technology Adoption." In CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025895.

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Bolton, Laura. Donor Support for the Human Rights of LGBT+. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.100.

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This rapid review synthesises evidence on the bilateral and multilateral donors promoting and protecting the human rights of LGBT+ people on a global scale. It focusses on those donors that have policies, implementation plans and programmes on LGBT+ rights. This review also examines the evidence on the impact of their work. The bilateral donors providing the most support for LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, +) communities in 2017-18 are the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), UK Department for International Development (DFID), The Netherlands Development Cooperation, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), and the European Commission (EC). Whilst the multilateral donors providing the most support for LGBT+ are the UN and World Bank. The United Nations (UN) is doing a huge amount of work on LGBT+ rights across the organisation which there was not scope to fully explore in this report. The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNOCHR) in particular is doing a lot on this theme. They publish legal obligation information, call attention to rights abuses through general assembly resolutions. The dialogue with governments, monitor violations and support human rights treaties bodies. The work of the World Bank in this area focuses on inclusion rather than rights. A small number of projects were identified which receive funding from bilateral and multilateral donors. These were AMSHeR, International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), and Stonewall. This rapid review focused on identifying donor support for LGBT+ rights, therefore, searches were limited to general databases and donor websites, utilising non-academic and donor literature. Much of the information comes directly from websites and these are footnoted throughout the report. Little was identified in the way of impact evaluation within the scope of this report. The majority of projects found through searches were non-governmental and so not the focus of this report.
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Findlay, Trevor. The Role of International Organizations in WMD Compliance and Enforcement: Autonomy, Agency, and Influence. The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.37559/wmd/20/wmdce9.

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Major multilateral arms control and disarmament treaties dealing with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) often have mandated an international organization to monitor and verify State party compliance and to handle cases of non-compliance. There are marked differences in the mandates and technical capabilities of these bodies. Nonetheless, they often face the same operational and existential challenges. This report looks at the role of multilateral verification bodies, especially their secretariats, in dealing with compliance and enforcement, the extent to which they achieve “agency” and “influence” in doing so, and whether and how such capacities might be enhanced. In WMD organizations it is the governing bodies that make decisions about noncompliance and enforcement. The role of their secretariats is to manage the monitoring and verification systems, analyse the resulting data – and data from other permitted sources – and alert their governing bodies to suspicions of non-compliance. Secretariats are expected to be impartial, technically oriented and professional. It is when a serious allegation of non-compliance arises that their role becomes most sensitive politically and most vital. The credibility of Secretariats in these instances will depend on the agency and influence that they have accumulated. There are numerous ways in which an international secretariat can position itself for maximum agency and influence, essentially by making itself indispensable to member States and the broader international community. It can achieve this by engaging with multiple stakeholders, aiming for excellence in its human and technical resources, providing timely and sustainable implementation assistance, ensuring an appropriate organizational culture and, perhaps most of all, understanding that knowledge is power. The challenge for supporters of international verification organizations is to enhance those elements that give them agency and influence and minimize those that lead to inefficiencies, dysfunction and, most damaging of all, political interference in verification and compliance judgements.
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Ehlschlaeger, Charles, Jeffrey Burkhalter, Imes Chiu, Igor Linkov, Jeffrey Cegan, Olaf David, Yanfeng Ouyang, et al. Resilience modeling for civil military operations with the framework incorporating complex uncertainty systems. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), September 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/47562.

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Framework Incorporating Complex Uncertain Systems (FICUS) provides geographic risk analysis capabilities that will dramatically improve military intelligence in locations with the Engineer Research and Development’s (ERDC) demographic and infrastructure models built and calibrated. When completed, FICUS would improve intelligence products by incorporating existing tools from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, ERDC, and FICUS prototype models, even in places without demographic or infrastructure capabilities. FICUS would support higher-fidelity intelligence analysis of population, environmental, and infrastructure interaction in areas with Human Infrastructure System Assessment (HISA) and urban security models built and calibrated. This technical report will demonstrate FICUS prototype tools that allow Civil Affairs Soldiers to provide situational awareness information via a browser interface.
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Quak, Evert-jan, Iana Barenboim, and Luize Guimaraes. Female Entrepreneurship and the Creation of More and Better Jobs in sub-Saharan African Countries. Institute of Development Studies, April 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/muva.2022.002.

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Female entrepreneurship programmes often seek women’s economic empowerment through opportunities and skills to generate higher-paid and more stable jobs. Income and jobs do not automatically empower women but can contribute as they generate the necessary resources that support agency. It is important that sufficient and decent jobs, and other employment and income opportunities, are created and made accessible for women. This paper is part of the MUVA Paper Series on female entrepreneurship. The question that it tries to answer is how to do this through the means of female entrepreneurship programmes within the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It analyses the case of MUVA, a social incubator based in Mozambique that aims to increase female economic empowerment through targeted and tailored innovative human-centred approaches.
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Terzyan, Aram. http://eurasiainstitutes.org/files/file/psrp_2024_number_1.pdf. Eurasia Institutes, January 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.47669/psprp-1-2024.

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This paper delves into the political landscape of post-war Armenia, focusing on both domestic and foreign policy implications of the 2020 war. While Nikol Pashinyan’s government has not delivered its promises of bringing peace and prosperity to the country, Pashinyan managed to win the 2021 snap parliamentary elections. Nevertheless, the elections have not resolved Armenia’s political crisis, one in which it has found itself since 2020. Combined with the war and its aftermath, the COVID-19 pandemic has also invited challenges, which resulted in an increased human toll, slowdown of economy, and deepened public anger and mistrust of the authorities. In effect, Armenia is faced with a myriad of challenges, ranging from unresolved issues with neighboring countries to the Armenian government’s limited agency in terms of redefining relations with increasingly coercive Russia.
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Rycroft, Taylor, Sabrina Larkin, Alexander Ganin, Treye Thomas, Joanna Matheson, Tessa Van Grack, Xinrong Chen, Kenton Plourde, Alan Kennedy, and Igor Linkov. A framework and pilot tool for the risk-based prioritization and grouping of nano-enabled consumer products. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41721.

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The use of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in consumer products has expanded rapidly, revealing both innovative improvements over conventional materials, and the potential for novel risks to human health and the environment. As the number of new nano-enabled products and the volume of toxicity data on ENMs continues to grow, regulatory agencies like the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) – a small, independent federal agency responsible for protecting consumers from unreasonable risks associated with product use – will require the ability to screen and group a diverse array of nano-enabled consumer products based on their potential risks to consumers. Such prioritization would allow efficient allocation of limited resources for subsequent testing and evaluation of high-risk products and materials. To enable this grouping and prioritization for further testing, we developed a framework that establishes a prioritization score by evaluating a nano-enabled product's potential hazard and exposure, as well as additional consideration of regulatory importance. We integrate the framework into a pilot version software tool and, using a hypothetical case study, we demonstrate that the tool can effectively rank nano-enabled consumer products and can be adjusted for use by agencies with different priorities. The proposed decision-analytical framework and pilot-version tool presented here could enable a regulatory agency like the CPSC to triage reported safety concerns more effectively and allocate limited resources more efficiently.
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Committee on Toxicology. New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) In Regulatory Risk Assessment Workshop Report 2020- Exploring Dose Response. Food Standards Agency, March 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.46756/sci.fsa.cha679.

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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) held an “Exploring Dose Response” workshop in a multidisciplinary setting inviting regulatory agencies, government bodies, academia and industry. The workshop provided a platform from which to address and enable expert discussions on the latest in silico prediction models, new approach methodologies (NAMs), physiologically based pharmacokinetics (PBPK), future methodologies, integrated approaches to testing and assessment (IATA) as well as methodology validation. Using a series of presentations from external experts and case study (plastic particles, polymers, tropane alkaloids, selective androgen receptor modulators) discussions, the workshop outlined and explored an approach that is fit for purpose applied to future human health risk assessment in the context of food safety. Furthermore, possible future research opportunities were explored to establish points of departure (PODs) using non-animal alternative models and to improve the use of exposure metrics in risk assessment.
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Dove, Jenny, Mardi Stewart, Grant Solomon, Charlotte Wood, and Jessica Ziersch. Leadership Capabilities Needed to Support Hybrid Work in NSW Government. Australia and New Zealand School of Government, October 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54810/zpjf7716.

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As part of ANZSOG’s Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) program, five public servants from State and Commonwealth Government departments across NSW have created a Work Based Project on Leadership capabilities needed to support hybrid work in NSW Government. The agency sponsor for this project was the NSW Public Sector Commission. The NSW Government positions hybrid work as the preferred and expected model of work for many of its employees. Hybrid work is central to its employee value proposition. This research project explored what new approaches, skills, and resources leaders need in order to meet the challenges and opportunities of hybrid organisational models. The research adopted a mixed methods approach including gathering information from an extensive literature review that consisted of contemporary articles in human resource, business, and public service publications as well as recent media editorials on hybrid work and leadership capabilities. The research also involved qualitative data collection of interviews and focus groups, allowing for detailed insights about hybrid leadership experiences.
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Mulvehill, Alice M., and Randall Whitaker. Human Interaction With Software Agents (HISA). Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, November 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada400412.

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Kirsten, Ingrid, and Mara Zarka. Balancing the Three Pillars of the NPT: How can Promoting Peaceful Uses Help? Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55163/shzz2322.

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The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is the cornerstone of the non-proliferation regime and the centrepiece of global efforts to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and further the goal of general and complete nuclear disarmament. Although there is no implementation body for the NPT, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been entrusted with key verification responsibilities under Article III of the treaty, where it plays an important role in achieving the objectives under Article IV to foster international cooperation for peaceful uses of nuclear energy. This paper argues that peaceful uses of science, technology and applications have an important role to play in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Noting that the European Union (EU) is the biggest donor of development assistance, the paper suggests that the EU enhance its contribution to peaceful uses of nuclear science, technology and applications through supporting the IAEA’s technical cooperation activities. This will contribute to delivering the EU’s nonproliferation goals, thus strengthening global human security.
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