... the coasts of Genoa, which had to be sold and resold several times along the Silk Road before reaching its destination, has in our time been replaced by businesses that are capable of moving thousands ... societies take place on a much larger scale and in a much shorter time frame makes societies prone to tension Cultures don’t find enough time to adjust themselves to changes dictated by modern-day ... rationality and rational thinking There was a time in the history of mankind when undesirables were attributed to evil forces of nature In the course of time man distanced himself from this notion...
... disciplinary juxtaposition and integration and the 1990s a time for mapping a half-seen world of shifting continents and emerging countries, then in our time the field of science and technology studies (STS) ... field, she observed, tends to be humanistic in its focus on real, acting human beings; relativistic in its systematic attention to place, time, and history; reflexive in its critical selfawareness ... Handbook illustrate, STS interest in politics has never been more pervasive than at the present time a time characterized by paradoxical developments calling for nuanced treatments Lucy Suchman observes...
... Increasingly, these traces are embedded in a digital medium that is itself composed of the same type of inscriptions, produced by similar labor at an earlier point in time Therefore, institutionalization ... the XVI Conference of the Association for History and Computing, 2005 (Anon., 2005b) 14 For example, the consequences of e-research for time management and speed control in research may be an ... http://www.wtcw.nl/nl/projecten/eScience.pdf Berman F., G Fox, & T Hey (eds) (2003) Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality (Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley): 9–50 Bijker, W E., T P Hughes,...
... Conceptualizing Use and Non-use of the Internet,” in S Woolgar (ed), Virtual Society? Get Real! Technology, Cyberhole, Reality (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 23–41 23 STS and Ethics: Implications ... transformed from being unfamiliar, exciting, and possibly threatening things to familiar objects embedded in the culture of society and the practices and routines of everyday life (Silverstone ... attention on These are factory workers and people who are users of machines and processes in the realm of production Nearly all the recent STS work on users has been on technologies of consumption...
... captures of reality but mathematically constructed representations of structures or metabolic functions Image interpretation requires considerable skill and agreement on what the images really show ... political, cultural, and behavioral realities that affect interactions among patients, physicians, the health care system, and the environment At the same time, the way evidence about bodily ... A Martin citizenship While the origins of these ideas may be see as formally lying outside the realm of STS, they have shaped much of the debate on the creation of new genomic identities The...
... and scientific, 270–271 distributed, 261–266 information vs., 903 physical embodiment and cultural embeddedness of, 263 cognition is computation, 261 cognitive labor, distribution of, 244–247 cognitive ... 660–661 restructuring, 655–658 universities and, blurring of boundaries, 643–649, 665–673 corporeal fetishism, 860 correspondence theory of truth, 95–96, 105 countervisualizations/counterimages, ... 516–519, 589–590 data as, 303 dispersion of, 390–391 distinguishing the knowing and the known, 100–104 embeddedness in social contexts, 704 epistemological questions raised by, 94–99 experiential vs...
... production of some substrates at a given retention time at 30oC The values indicate that the longer the retention time, the higher the yield A 60-day retention time for human waste will produce a yield ... retention time However, biogas production at the highest speed is at 10-day and 20-day retention time but with low yield Table Percentage recovery for different feedstock at different retention times ... retention times (3) where AMETHANE is the annual methane generated (m /year) from the sludge with specific reference to the retention time Table Annual methane estimation based on the retention time...