Location Estimation in a Smart Home: System Implementation and Evaluation Using Experimental Data by Youcef Rahal, Hélène Pigot, Philippe Mabilleau

“…In the context of a constantly increasing aging population with cognitive deficiencies, insuring the autonomy of the elders at home becomes a priority. …”
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From the Reindeer Path to the Highway and Back – Understanding the Movements of Khanty Reindeer Herders in Western Siberia by Stephan Dudeck

“…Khanty reindeer herders try to build up a distance from the world of intruders and try to defend their autonomy in the forest. By accessing everyday practices and motivations instead of ready-made explanations it is revealed that the Khanty are not doomed to adapt to new situations, but they try to negotiate and manipulate them in their favour. …”
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Research on Indoor Positioning Systems and Autonomous Mechatronic Systems for Surveillance of Intrabuilding Zones by Alexandru Vlăsceanu, Mihai Avram, Victor Constantin, Edgar Moraru

“…Designing such a system is challenging due to the need for continuous monitoring, raising issues around autonomy, as well as the design of the navigation and command and control systems. …”
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DARE: A decentralized association rules extraction scheme for embedded data sets in distributed IoT devices by Márcio Alencar, Raimundo Barreto, Horácio Fernandes, Eduardo Souto, Richard Pazzi

“…Finding these patterns and using them for decision-making can provide ease, comfort, practicality, and autonomy when executing daily activities. Performing knowledge extraction in a decentralized approach is a computational challenge considering the tight storage and processing constraints of IoT devices, unlike deep learning, which demands a massive amount of data, memory, and processing capability. …”
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Invert classroom method for gerontogeriatric training in Medicine students by Juan Carlos Baster Moro, Luis Aníbal Alonso Betancourt, Silvia María Pérez Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the inverted classroom is a context that favors the gerontogeriatric training of the Medicine student since it revitalizes and transforms the traditional conceptions and approaches of teaching-learning, by achieving a greater student role, increased autonomy, instantaneous, interconnection, multimedia and the creativity and innovation of the student in the solution of health problems of the elderly, as well as the use of the resources and virtual learning environments’ potential that it possesses, combining face-to-face and virtual teaching modalities.…”
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A resilience‐oriented restoration framework for multi‐area active distribution network following a disaster by Hekmat Beiranvandi, Amin Samanfar, Meysam Doostizadeh, Reza Saki

“…In this regard, a new three‐level resilience‐oriented restoration (TLROR) framework is proposed to optimally schedule available tie‐lines, and distributed energy resources (DERs) in the MA‐ADN, considering the autonomy and privacy of their ownership. In the first level of the proposed TLROR, an electrical price vector (EPV) is created with the contribution of different areas. …”
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A Study on the Impact of Agile Leadership and Innovative Behaviors on Psychological Empowerment by Vildan Bayram, Mesut Öztırak

“…The analysis showed that agile leadership and innovative behaviours affect psychological empowerment and the dimensions of competence, autonomy and impact. However, no effect on the meaning dimension can be found. …”
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Autonomia świata a podmiotowość człowieka w ekoteologii by Jarosław Horowski

“…The author considers also what is the human subjectivity in behaving towards the environment and what is the dependence between the autonomy of the world and the subjectivity of man in ecotheology. …”
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Knowledge and Perceptions of Stakeholders on the National Dental Commission Act, 2023 in India: A Cross-sectional Study by Gadde Praveen, Anitha Akkaloori, Divvi Anusha, Shivashankar Kengadaran, Kalava Bhavana, Anil Budumuru

“…However, 60.2% of the participants were uncertain about whether the NDC would operate with sufficient autonomy and independence in decision-making. The National Exit Test (Dental) was perceived as the ideal method to get a practicing license and to apply for postgraduate courses by 68.8% of the participants. …”
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Challenges in the Implementation of Fiscal Decentralization and It’s Effects on the Health Sector in Uganda by George Stanley, Kinyata, Siraje, Kaaya

“…The article discusses how abolition of graduated personal Tax left local governments with limited finances to deliver services. This reduced the autonomy of local governments and health care services in rural areas remain out of reach of the people and fiscal decentralization has not led to improved services. …”
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Decentralization Policy and Economic Development in Nyarusiza Sub-County Kisoro District. by Kwizera, Jemimah

“…Findings revealed that educational decentralization has contributed to improved academic achievement by granting increased autonomy to communities and teachers. Respondents noted that the government, through the Ministry of Health, has emphasized prevention through mass sensitization campaigns on personal hygiene and healthy lifestyles, accounting for 25% of responses. …”
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PrEP15-19 Choices: an implementation study protocol of HIV prevention with oral and long-acting injectable cabotegravir PrEP in real-world settings among sexual and gender minority... by Inês Dourado, Eliana Miura Zucchi, Laio Magno, Alexandre D Grangeiro, Márcia Thereza Couto, Mateus Westin, Eduardo Oliveira, Maria Mercedes Escuder, Dirceu Greco, Thais Regis Aranha Rossi, Fabiane Soares, Lorenza Dezanet, Paula Massa, Priscilla Caires, Ricardo de Paula Vasconcelos, Unaí Tupinambas, Beo Leite, Joilson Nascimento Paim, Guilherme Barreto Campos, Lucas Miranda Marques, Nathalia Suzart, Suilan Pedreira, DulceAurélia deSouza Ferraz, Dyemison Pinheiro, Eliane Sala, Raphaella Goulart, Ana Paula Silva, Erica Dumont Pena, Gabriella Jomara daSilva, Marília Greco, Matheus dePaula Alves

“…Adolescents aged 15–17 years will sign an informed assent form, waiving the need for the approval of a legal guardian, except in cases where the adolescent is found not to have the necessary autonomy. The study was approved by the WHO Ethics Review Committee and by the local IRBs from the universities coordinating the study, the University of São Paulo, the Federal University of Bahia and the Federal University of Minas Gerais. …”
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Toward trustworthy COVID-19 interventions: Building vaccine trust through community-university partnerships. by Laura A Bray, Lori L Jervis, Amanda E Janitz, Laura Ross, Gloria Tallbull, Timothy M VanWagoner, CATCH-UP Vaccines Team

“…The most promising intervention strategies for building interpersonal trust included engaging in one-on-one dialogue and using autonomy enhancing approaches. Finally, interventions that successfully encouraged vaccine trust did so by incorporating personalized health information about individuals' potential level of protection and susceptibility to the COVID-19 virus. …”
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Philosophy as a Way of Life, the System, and the Advent of the Research University: Contributions Toward an Unwritten Chapter of the History of PWL by Matthew Sharpe

“…What stands out is rather the attempt, sketched already in Kant (1794), of trying to grant philosophy a new autonomy within the modern university, as the sole faculty ideally governed by reason alone, not by external authorities. …”
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Balancing Power and Resolving Conflicts in the Collaboration between Regional Heads and DPRD in Indonesia's Decentralized Governance by Fauzan Muhammad, Prasojo Hermawan, Ardhanariswari Riris, Elfudllatsani Bahar

“…Despite Law No. 23 of 2014 aiming to enhance regional autonomy and collaboration, political conflicts, stemming from differing affiliations and agendas, often hinder this relationship. …”
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Trust in AI: progress, challenges, and future directions by Saleh Afroogh, Ali Akbari, Emmie Malone, Mohammadali Kargar, Hananeh Alambeigi

“…Moreover, we examine major trust-breakers in AI (e.g., autonomy and dignity threats) and trustmakers; and propose some future directions and probable solutions for the transition to a trustworthy AI.…”
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Emergence of Coordination in Growing Decision-Making Organizations: The Role of Complexity, Search Strategy, and Cost of Effort by Friederike Wall

“…However, the search strategy shapes the predominance of hierarchy in favor of granting more autonomy to decentralized decision-makers. Moreover, the study reveals that the cost of effort for implementing new solutions in conjunction with the search strategy may remarkably affect the emerging form of coordination. …”
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Theoretical and legal features of key institutions in Municipal Law by O. O. Kolobylina

“…The division into institutes helps to group legal norms that are homogeneous in terms of subject matter and methods of regulation, which contributes to a clearer definition of the main directions of the regulatory impact of Municipal Law and ensures more meaningful and efficient regulation of relevant legal relations, as well as the internal integrity and autonomy of the Municipal Law system. The following are proposed to be classified as the institutions of Municipal Law: general principles of local self-government (constitutional and legal norms); guarantee of local self-government; exercise of power by the people through local self-government bodies; principles of organisation and operation of local self-government entities; local elections and referendums; various forms of direct participation of citizens in resolving local issues; territorial communities; executive bodies of village, town, city, district and city councils; village, town and city heads; institution of representative bodies of local self-government; communal property; local budget and local finance; responsibility of local self-government bodies and officials. …”
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Le sol, une ressource à considérer dans les stratégies d’aménagement des villes : mise en place d’une démarche collaborative pour construire un outil d’aide à la décision d’affecta... by Jean-Noël Consalès, Anne Blanchart, Geoffroy Séré, Laure Vidal-Beaudet, Christophe Schwartz

“…Although recent projects and landscape architecture designs attempt to address a variety of environmental issues relating to food autonomy, cooling, and water management, it is clear that they still give little consideration to the multifunctionality of urban soils regarding biomass, the water cycle, carbon storage, and biodiversity, and their role in the sustainability of the urban ecosystem. …”
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A Brain-Computer Interface for Teleoperation of a Semiautonomous Mobile Robotic Assistive System Using SLAM by Vidya Nandikolla, Bryan Ghoslin, Kevin Matsuno, Daniel A. Medina Portilla

“…Successful virtual demonstrations of the assistive robotic arm show the feasibility of restoring movement capability and autonomy for a disabled user.…”
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