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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,656 Views
12 Pages

Research on autonomy exhibits a constellation of variegated perspectives, from the problem of the crude deprivation of it to the study of the distinction between personal and moral autonomy, and from the problem of the role of a “self as narrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,912 Views
18 Pages

Key Maternity Care Stakeholders’ Views on Midwives’ Professional Autonomy

  • Joeri Vermeulen,
  • Ronald Buyl,
  • Ans Luyben,
  • Valerie Fleming and
  • Maaike Fobelets

Advancement towards the professionalism of midwifery is closely linked to midwives’ professional autonomy. Although the perspectives of Belgian midwives on their professional autonomy have been studied, the views of other maternity care stakeho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,209 Views
16 Pages

How Do Midwives View Their Professional Autonomy, Now and in Future?

  • Joeri Vermeulen,
  • Maaike Fobelets,
  • Valerie Fleming,
  • Ans Luyben,
  • Lara Stas and
  • Ronald Buyl

Background: Internationally, midwives’ professional autonomy is being challenged, resulting in their inability to practice to their full scope of practice. This situation contrasts with the increasing international calls for strengthening the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,595 Views
17 Pages

12 March 2025

This study examines how performance pressure influences the complex relationships between job autonomy and critical employee outcomes in contemporary organizations. Specifically, we investigate the relationships between employees’ job autonomy,...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,755 Views
3 Pages

I’ll follow a line of thought that suggests to intend “personal autonomy” in a social sense. The urgency to undertake this move arises because of the wide variety of informational sources we are exposed which influence our behavior. Social background...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,231 Views
20 Pages

25 November 2025

Homework is a key learning activity that promotes students’ self-regulation, motivation, and academic achievement. Previous studies highlight the importance of parental and teacher autonomy support in fostering these outcomes, but the mechanism...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,777 Views
21 Pages

Assessment of the Financial Autonomy of Rural Municipalities

  • Astrida Miceikienė,
  • Laima Skauronė and
  • Ričardas Krikštolaitis

The present study demonstrates the possibilities for assessment of the financial autonomy of rural municipalities using the TOPSIS method. The study aimed to design and empirically verify the model for assessment of the financial autonomy of rural mu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,439 Views
23 Pages

A Programming Approach to Collective Autonomy

  • Roberto Casadei,
  • Gianluca Aguzzi and
  • Mirko Viroli

Research and technology developments on autonomous agents and autonomic computing promote a vision of artificial systems that are able to resiliently manage themselves and autonomously deal with issues at runtime in dynamic environments. Indeed, auto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,018 Views
24 Pages

Using Creative Dance to Promote Autonomy Development in Young Children in China: An Intervention Study

  • Xin Lin,
  • Chan Zhou,
  • Longqi Yu,
  • Xinyue Zhang,
  • Xiaofan Cao and
  • Chenyang Guan

3 November 2025

Introduction: Creative Dance, as an educational approach to physical activity emphasizing autonomous exploration and creative expression, has demonstrated significant benefits for children’s cognitive development and independent learning. This...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,589 Views
5 Pages

Whichever definition of autonomy is used, it is usually formulated in a negative way by the absence, rather than presence, of the defining factors. Some definitions refer to the absence of external causes, physical determination, coercion or control....

  • Essay
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,981 Views
16 Pages

17 August 2022

In this essay, we appeal to conceptual and empirical research to establish that autonomy and meaningfulness, when understood concretely and realistically, remain possible for frail and dependent elders. Contrary to ageist cultural attitudes, relation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,417 Views
21 Pages

Empowerment of Rural Women Through Autonomy and Decision-Making

  • Neida Albornoz-Arias,
  • Camila Rojas-Sanguino and
  • Akever-Karina Santafe-Rojas

28 July 2025

The empowerment of women in rural areas implies that they have power and control over their lives and participate in individual and collective decision-making. Empowerment depends on autonomy or the ability to act independently. The lack or weakness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
485 Views
24 Pages

Human Machine Autonomy in Medical and Humanitarian Logistics in Remote and Infrastructure-Poor Settings

  • Martha R. Grabowski,
  • Gwendolyn Morgan,
  • James McGarvey,
  • Steve Roberts,
  • Robert Squire,
  • Sebastian Ibanez,
  • Selmer Bringsjord and
  • Aaron Rowen

5 December 2025

Human–autonomy teams (HATs) incorporating uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) play critical roles in a variety of safety-critical systems. Increased autonomy in HATs in beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) UAS operations introduces new mission, safet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,002 Views
13 Pages

Learner Autonomy between Students and Teachers at a Defence University: Perception vs. Expectation

  • Emily Abd Rahman,
  • Melor Md Yunus,
  • Harwati Hashim and
  • Nur Khadirah Ab. Rahman

17 May 2022

The success of nurturing learner autonomy lies in the collaboration between two parties—teachers and students. A mismatch of perception and expectation of the desirable level of learner autonomy that should be given in class may lead to failure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,968 Views
14 Pages

Effectiveness and Challenges in Local Self-Governance: Multifunctional Autonomy in Japan

  • Ryuichi Ohta,
  • Yoshinori Ryu,
  • Daisuke Kataoka and
  • Chiaki Sano

Community organizing with government support, termed local self-governance (LSG), is a form of policy decentralization for community wellbeing through solutions tailored to local issues. One form of LSG is multifunctional autonomy, in which citizens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,020 Views
19 Pages

Perception and Deception in Nurses’ Clinical and Work-Related Professional Autonomy: Case Study for a Hospital in Romania

  • Marina Bădileanu,
  • Ileana Paula Ionel,
  • Justin Aurelian,
  • Daniel Alin Cristian,
  • Cornelia Jude,
  • Luminița-Izabell Georgescu and
  • Ivona Răpan

26 December 2022

The continuous expansion of the nursing scope of practice, the undeniable growth of the nurses’ role in the healthcare crisis, the shortage of labor, especially in rural areas and marginalized urban csommunities, and last but not least, the lac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,839 Views
33 Pages

Embedded Computation Architectures for Autonomy in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

  • Luis Mejias,
  • Jean-Philippe Diguet,
  • Catherine Dezan,
  • Duncan Campbell,
  • Jonathan Kok and
  • Gilles Coppin

5 February 2021

This paper addresses the challenge of embedded computing resources required by future autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Based on an analysis of the required onboard functions that will lead to higher levels of autonomy, we look at most comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,819 Views
14 Pages

The purpose of this study was to examine the utilization of the opportunities offered by teacher and school autonomy in entrepreneurship education with companies involved. The research question was: How do schools and teachers use their autonomy in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,672 Views
14 Pages

16 May 2023

According to many, human autonomy is necessary for moral action and yet incompatible with being morally accountable to God’s divine commands. By issuing commands that ground normative facts, God demands our accountability without understanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,243 Views
10 Pages

Enhancing Autonomy in Preschoolers: The Role of Motor Games in Development

  • Sara Gomes,
  • Raúl Antunes,
  • Inês Sales,
  • Regina Marques and
  • Ana Oliveira

This paper is based on a project which aims to understand the contribution of motricity—in particular, motor games—to the development of autonomy in preschool children, with or without special education needs. A group of 18 children, with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,018 Views
18 Pages

In applied linguistics, teacher professional development and teacher autonomy have long been hot research topics. However, little attention has been paid to the issue of what attitudes teachers hold toward their professional development. Furthermore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,780 Views
15 Pages

Teachers’ autonomy support (AS) in physical education (PE) has positive effects on students’ affective and behavioral outcomes in PE. Even though the existence of three different dimensions of AS, namely cognitive, organizational and proc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,681 Views
20 Pages

19 September 2025

This article analyzes the significance of regional autonomy in Nigeria and its impact on both national integration processes and governance issues, based on the empirical argument for the autonomy of ethnically diverse regions. This study entails a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,479 Views
13 Pages

Web Search Trends of Implementing the Patient Autonomy Act in Taiwan

  • Po-Chin Yang,
  • Mei-Ju Shih,
  • Ya-An Liu,
  • Ya-Chuan Hsu,
  • Hsiao-Ting Chang,
  • Ming-Hwai Lin,
  • Tzeng-Ji Chen,
  • Li-Fang Chou and
  • Shinn-Jang Hwang

21 September 2020

Background: The Patient Autonomy Act was implemented in Taiwan on 6 January 2019. It is the first patient-oriented act in Taiwan, and also the first special act to completely protect patient autonomy in Asia. Our study aimed to investigate the web re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,553 Views
20 Pages

Virtual Light Sensing Technology for Fast Calculation of Daylight Autonomy Metrics

  • Sergey Ershov,
  • Vadim Sokolov,
  • Vladimir Galaktionov and
  • Alexey Voloboy

17 February 2023

Virtual sensing technology uses mathematical calculations instead of natural measurements when the latter are too difficult or expensive. Nowadays, application of virtual light sensing technology becomes almost mandatory for daylight analysis at the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,085 Views
13 Pages

11 March 2021

Urban agriculture is often advanced as a sustainable solution to feed a growing urban population, offering a number of benefits: improved fresh food access, CO2 absorption, social justice and social cohesion among others. Going beyond these direct ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,604 Views
26 Pages

2 February 2024

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, AI educators have become a reality. The advancement and increasing applications of AI technology in higher education not only provide more efficient tools for teachers in long-ter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,289 Views
19 Pages

Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Teaching in the Classroom: A Video-Based Case Study

  • Jingwen Jiang,
  • Marja Vauras,
  • Simone Volet,
  • Anne-Elina Salo and
  • Anu Kajamies

29 August 2019

This study explored teachers’ autonomy-supportive and controlling behaviors through video-taped observation in the classroom. Four lessons by two teachers from a secondary school in Finland were videotaped and analyzed using a rigorous coding p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,064 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2016

The development of renewable energy is one of the aspirations of the European Union energy policy, being generated by the struggle against climatic changes and by the intention of achieving a high rate of energy autonomy. In this context, geothermal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,714 Views
16 Pages

28 August 2023

The universalization of schooling has triggered issues about the organization and management of more inclusive education systems. Several transnational organizations have produced guidelines that have contributed to the concept of inclusive education...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,076 Views
22 Pages

Relationship Between Ethical Climate and Burnout: A New Approach Through Work Autonomy

  • Carlos Santiago-Torner,
  • Mònica González-Carrasco and
  • Rafael Miranda-Ayala

24 January 2025

Burnout is a factor that affects organizational performance. Researchers have not determined whether an ethical climate and adequate work autonomy provide sufficient emotional stability to dampen burnout or, conversely, increase it. In addition, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,983 Views
14 Pages

Effects of a Web-Based Autonomy-Supportive Intervention on Physical Education Teacher Outcomes

  • Henri Tilga,
  • Hanna Kalajas-Tilga,
  • Vello Hein,
  • Lennart Raudsepp and
  • Andre Koka

The current study tested the efficacy of a web-based autonomy-supportive intervention program on changes in physical education (PE) teachers’ self-reports of autonomy support, psychological need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and teaching effica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,081 Views
26 Pages

Coordinated Ramp Metering Considering the Dynamics of Mixed-Autonomy Traffic

  • Hongxin Yu,
  • Lihui Zhang,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • Fengyue Jin and
  • Yibing Wang

18 November 2024

The introduction of connected autonomous vehicles may bring opportunities and challenges to traditional traffic control instruments, like ramp metering. This paper starts by constructing the fundamental diagram for mixed-autonomy traffic based on the...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,452 Views
15 Pages

Beyond Diagnosis: Exploring Residual Autonomy in Dementia Through a Systematic Review

  • Anna Anselmo,
  • Francesco Corallo,
  • Maria Pagano,
  • Davide Cardile,
  • Angela Marra,
  • Giuseppa Maresca,
  • Rosaria De Luca,
  • Antonella Alagna,
  • Angelo Quartarone and
  • Rocco Salvatore Calabrò
  • + 1 author

Background and Objectives: The connection between cognitive decline and autonomy represents a complex and multifactorial area of research. Cognitive decline manifests as a progressive impairment of higher mental functions and is typical of neurodegen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,029 Views
14 Pages

Learner Autonomy and Learning Strategy Use before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Aydan Irgatoğlu,
  • Arif Sarıçoban,
  • Murat Özcan and
  • Gürkan Dağbaşı

18 May 2022

This study aims to explore the autonomy level and use of language learning strategies in a preparatory school of a state university before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. One hundred fifty-five preparatory school students from a state university pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,864 Views
12 Pages

2 August 2022

How do changes in the perception of the arts stemming from activism, government policies, precarity and the ongoing crises unfolding in the world affect the autonomy of the artist? In this article, I analyse three cases of young and emerging theatre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,150 Views
16 Pages

13 December 2024

The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) raises critical questions about learner autonomy and agency. This exploratory case study examines how four university-level German language learners with diverse backgrounds developed autono...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,781 Views
14 Pages

15 November 2019

In the rapidly changing business world, improving employee’s self-development level is of great importance for organizations to pursue sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to examine how and when job autonomy promotes employee&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,585 Views
15 Pages

Growth Mindset and Job Crafting: A Trait Activation Perspective with Job Autonomy as Moderator

  • Tao Yu,
  • Lidong He,
  • Hu Ying,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Yuzhen Wu,
  • Yun Wang and
  • Xiaofu Pan

18 December 2024

Job crafting benefits both employees and organizations by enhancing employees’ health, well-being, and performance. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the individual factors that encourage job crafting and the conditions under which they o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,299 Views
19 Pages

Identification of Perception Differences in Personality Factors and Autonomy by Sporting Age Category in Competitive Bodybuilders

  • Elena Mihăiță,
  • Dana Badau,
  • Marius Stoica,
  • Georgeta Mitrache,
  • Monica Iulia Stănescu,
  • Ioszef Laszlo Hidi,
  • Adela Badau,
  • Cosmin Damian and
  • Mirela Damian

Knowing the personality and autonomy factors of bodybuilders is a necessity in order to improve sports training, which would lead to the development of mental skills specific to competitive bodybuilding. The purpose of the study was to identify perce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,197 Views
30 Pages

Human–Robot Interface for Embedding Sliding Adjustable Autonomy Methods

  • Piatan Sfair Palar,
  • Vinícius de Vargas Terres and
  • André Schneider de Oliveira

21 October 2020

This work discusses a novel human–robot interface for a climbing robot for inspecting weld beads in storage tanks in the petrochemical industry. The approach aims to adapt robot autonomy in terms of the operator’s experience, where a remo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,865 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision aids are increasingly employed by businesses to assist consumers’ decision-making. Personalized content based on consumers’ data brings benefits for both consumers and businesses, i.e., with regards to more...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
17,576 Views
19 Pages

17 May 2018

This paper tries to resolve a tension in popular conceptions of intimate partner violence (IPV). On the one hand, we correctly assume that all abused persons are not the same: they have irreducibly plural personalities. On the other hand, we correctl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,691 Views
7 Pages

29 April 2016

This study sought to examine tenets of Self-Determination Theory by testing a mediation model of physical activity and personality via autonomy. A total of 290 adults were recruited to complete a one-time online survey of exercise habits and individu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,470 Views
13 Pages

Women’s Autonomy and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru: Analysis of a National Health Survey

  • Francisco A. Barón-Lozada,
  • Gianfranco W. Basualdo-Meléndez,
  • Rodrigo Vargas-Fernández,
  • Akram Hernández-Vásquez and
  • Guido Bendezu-Quispe

To assess the association between women’s autonomy and intimate partner violence (IPV) against women of childbearing age. Secondary analysis of the 2019 Demographic and Family Health Survey (ENDES-acronym in Spanish) was carried out. The study popula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,633 Views
13 Pages

16 November 2022

This study investigates the relationship between digital capabilities and the performance of MNC Korean subsidiaries and the moderating effect of subsidiaries’ autonomy. We examined the effect of digital capabilities of MNC subsidiaries on fina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,390 Views
14 Pages

The results regarding the relationship between creativity in virtual work environments and its influence on emotional exhaustion are inconclusive. Furthermore, autonomy, when it loses its original purpose of acting as a job resource, takes on an ambi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,241 Views
25 Pages

13 March 2022

Intuitively, the level of autonomy of an agent is related to the degree to which the agent’s goals and behaviour are decoupled from the immediate control by the environment. Here, we capitalise on a recent information-theoretic formulation of a...

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