Arguably the biggest surprise would have been if he had turned up, but David Bowie proved some stars are big enough not to have make themselves available when he won the British male solo artist award at the Brits – and used his proxy acceptance speech to ask: "Scotland, stay with us".
However, a re-enactment of Sacheen Littlefeather's proxy acceptance — and rejection — of Marlon Brando's leading actor award at the 1973 Oscars, which Brando boycotted to protest treatment of Native Americans, feels wedged in.
Taking no chances, the Academy ruled out proxy acceptances in future.
"If the 60percentt is to be used as a proxy of acceptance of Muslims, I am encouraged by an upward trajectory," wrote Saud Anwar, the mayor of South Windsor, Conn., and that state's first Muslim mayor.
Naturalistic studies, i.e. studies carried out under real-world conditions have a special value in so far as they can provide answers concerning treatment acceptability by giving information about dropout from treatment, which may be seen as a proxy for acceptance of treatment.
For the purpose of these analyses, ongoing attendance at the study clinics after gel discontinuation was used as a proxy measure of acceptance that the information provided was accurate and that the gel had not caused harm.
This is acceptance by proxy.
Using alcohol, tobacco, and gaming consumption data and people's attitudes toward these sin products to proxy for social norm acceptance levels, we show a strong interaction effect between social norms and financial incentives, which significantly influence the behavior of market participants.
Our results showed a mixed reaction regarding the acceptance of proxy consent for research participation when in a critically ill state and one could not decide for themselves.
We used vaccination history to assess a parent's tendency to accept publicly funded immunization programs on behalf of their child (i.e., a proxy for general vaccine acceptance).
Results showed a strong gradient in smoking social norms by acculturation proxies, with significantly less acceptance of smoking reported among the foreign-born and increasing acceptance among those speaking only/mostly English at home and third-generation individuals.
