Some authors assigned agency to a risk score that is, they stated, perhaps inadvertently, that the score itself had the potential to prevent diabetes, change behaviour, or reduce health inequalities.
The unit would assign agencies to rate new issues.
Based on linguistic agency and disease causality, participants with mild depression read messages assigning agency to depression or to humans and depicting depression as external or internal before accessing a video game designed for handling depression symptoms.
For example, students may assign agency to organisms, suggesting that they can intentionally change themselves in response to changes in their environment, or they may confuse the concept of biological fitness with everyday meanings of the term (Bishop and Anderson 1990).
For each of these four categories we created contrasts for animals versus plants, hypothesizing that students might be more likely to select distractors related to transformationist ideas or to assign agency to organisms when the item was framed in the context of an animal versus a plant.
Hence, the context under which decisions are made can be differentiated into a free context, where we can choose to take up or decline agency in the decision process, and a determined context, where it is up to others to assign agency.
He foresees a day when game development will be assigned to agencies, not done in house.
Management should have ensured that information was shared and duties were clearly assigned across agencies, and across the foreign-domestic divide.
Investors bought the safer tranches because they trusted the triple-A credit ratings assigned by agencies such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's.
When Kennedy visited Mexico, in June of 1962, and the issue of the Chamizal was raised, he and Mexico's President, Adolfo López Mateos, initiated talks and assigned their agencies the task of exploring feasible solutions.
