model description and results for the eea icf model

... the wind- and sand-stricken drylands have to protect themselves from the scorching sun of their habitat by covering virtually all parts of their bodies On the other hand, the inhabitants of the ... science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal ... Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... for Social Studies of Science (4S) The Society selected the proposal by the editorial team and constituted the Handbook Advisory Board to monitor and assist in the process Most importantly, the ... the members of the Advisory Board, and the staff at MIT Press First and foremost, however, the Society is indebted to the editors Ed Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Mike Lynch, and Judy Wajcman They ... Establishing and holding the right balance will be challenging, with the risk of irrelevance and disengagement on the one side and cooptation and loss of prestige and resources on the other Through...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:31

... science and technology come to the fore THE LANGUAGE OF STS AND THE LANGUAGE OF POLICY The broad context of the crisis of representation, and the question of whether institutional reforms can ... out there Not because there is no “out” and no “there,” but because the “out” and the “there” are not facing the mind: “out” and “there” are designating nothing more than stations along the chain ... conception of the scientific community as a model polity was, in part, an argument against the proposals for the planning of science put forward in the 1930s and 1940s in Britain by J D Bernal and other...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... project The project brought together Big Pharma (Merck) and an international health organization (the Task Force for Child Survival and Development) to organize the donation by Merck of a drug for the ... the artificial but also of the human sciences.19 But despite efforts by sympathetic critics such as Adam and Kember to draw attention to the relevance of feminist theory for AI and robotics, the ... truth and falsity What we take to be nature is the result and not the cause of a statement becoming a true fact Distinction between the “technical” and the “social” is the result and not the cause...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... questions about the social persuasiveness and power of images and about the role of science in the constitution of identity and seeing As Burri and Dumit remind us in their work on images and the authors ... speaker, and a subject on which he speaks, and someone addressed, and the objective [telos] of the speech relates to the last [I mean the hearer] Now, it is necessary for the hearer to be either ... of the U.S military (and its arm, the RAND corporation) for mathematical models based on finite sets of axioms (i.e., the “closed-world” assumption that everything relevant to the problem at hand...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... All these new and dangerous-to -the- old-guard studies were lauded for their epistemic derring-do as well as their attention to the details of laboratory activity The care and love that they had for ... personhood (Hartouni, 1997) and creating the image of the fetus as a patient and the mother therefore as womb and incubator (Casper, 1998) These brief examples show the importance of treating ... are visual models, and she emphasizes the relationship between visual models and mental models Visual models facilitate the process of developing analogies and constructing new generic models Nersessian...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences @ the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Wouters, P (2005) The Virtual ... traders and sailors who procured the plants and got them safely to Holland, and there is little merit in diminishing the consequentiality of the former just to raise curiosity about the latter ... the large-scale, routinized production of these traces Yet, the scientists themselves and their institutions were still separate from these inscriptions, although they derived their meaning and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... and the like We learn that the formation and continuity of health social movements are influenced by the density of social interaction, circumstances of the group and its social context, and the ... transformed the understanding and management of diseases, shaped research and technologies, and influenced policies and markets Comparisons across cases and cultures, studies of the life course and ... Philosophy was understood as the search for Truth, for the realities behind appearances, for the real causal structure of the world Mathematics, by contrast, was taken as the quest for regular patterns...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... Against the Future: The Luddites and their War on the Industrial Revolution— Lessons for the Computer Age (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley) Scalmer, Sean (2002) Dissent Events: Protest, the Media, and the ... Thus, the recent scholarly interest in patient groups and health movements reflects both the growing salience of the analytical object and the larger transformations of the biosciences and the political ... expanding variety of ways—indeed, there is probably a complex interaction between the spread of analytical categories, on the one hand, and of the selfdescriptions mobilized by the groups and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... concepts and theory could inform, enlighten, and transform the field of engineering ethics in significant ways To illustrate the links between STS and engineering ethics and the potential for crossfertilization, ... nonhuman, the political and the scientific, government and the public, the EEA concept is to be open to the transgression of boundaries and the flexible construction of actants In that sense, EEAs “are ... War II, continuing with the Three Mile Island disaster, the Ford Pinto case, and the explosion at Bhopal, generated a significant concern in the media and the public about the effects of technology...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... that the other historical trends described above of the globalization of corporate trade and investment, and the crisis of the research universities, come into their own The breakdown of the Chandlerian ... the height of the Cold War, in 1954, in an effort to rebuild European physics to its former grandeur, to reverse the putative brain drain of the brightest and the best to the United States, and ... of the classroom and into the workforce On the research front, the avowed aim of the European Union has been to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world These...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... able to sort out the relationships between causes and effects, and between policies and their implementation, and continue the interrogation of framing assumptions For example, for the proactive ... about the issues associated with science, technology, and the military, rather than problematizing science and technology themselves, and their boundaries with society, economy, politics, and the ... understand the intertwining of the technical, the political, and the social (Edwards, 1996); to question the distinctions drawn between modernism and postmodernism (Law, 2002); and to map the peculiarities...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... in the 1950s noted that the combination of these three did not explain Knowledge and Development 791 all the variance in growth, and Solow added the hypothesis that the rest of the variation (the ... Note We define the global South as the middle- and low-income countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the global North as the high-income nations of the world For the former group, we ... rather than analyzing it, most people in the South ask primarily how it helps them, their families, their regions, and their countries What the published literatures on science and technology for...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... implications for transnational and local governance and for the role of democratic participation in science and medicine The neologism regenerative medicine (RM) stands for the set of sciences and technologies ... discomfort and mobility needs and the practitioner’s analysis of gait and the biomechanics of the adapted device, tacit knowledge and a mutual reading of body signs work together to align the body ... eligible for the trial, and the mechanical heart could have outlasted the patient), Fox and Swazey raised the question of what “success” means in the attempt to create synthetic substitutes for vital...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... Although the prehistory of financial theory traced these cultural and conceptual boundaries, the theory’s growth into a full-blown deductive, formal model took place between the 1950s and the early ... The growth of financial theory into the dominant academic model, however, required further boundary work, concerning (1) theorists and practitioners of formal pricing models and (2) financial theorists ... expertise, the relationship between formal financial models and vernacular economics, the relationship between academic theories and nonacademic ones, and vernacular forms of financial knowledge and theories...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... engagement, foresight, and imagination and of identifying and analyzing ethical and societal issues What stands out as characterizing many of these efforts is the interest in increasing the reflexivity ... Health, and Policy Studies at the University of Twente in The Netherlands Her research interests and publications include the co-construction of users and technologies She is the author of Beyond the ... technology, and cognitive science The magnitude and speed of such transformations demand critical reflection on the role of technology in society and the composition of desirable futures The presumed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... 326, 334–335 information and media reform movements, 485–486 information concept in SSF, 903 information infrastructures, 122 information technology industry, 698 See also media and information technologies ... response/responders, 750–752, 754 proving efficacy, impediments to, 750 the re-codification of illness for, 746–748 and the search for authenticity and identity, 858 target populations, marketing to, 753 pharmacogenomics, ... political theory communitarianism, conservatism, and the sociology of science, 69–71 critical theory, multiculturalism, feminism, 71–73 language of STS and the language of policy, 78–79 liberalism and, ...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... pumped into Sand Filters (SF) for further filtration From the SF, the liquid portion is discharged into a nearby river The gravels in the SF and PF are occasionally removed and cleaned There are ... screen The sewage is then pumped into the PST for dewatering as shown in Figure The sludge (solid portion) settles at the bottom whiles the liquid remains on top The liquid is channelled into the ... present in the liquid settles at the bottom The sludge present in SST is channelled to the Sludge Pumping Station (SPS) where it is pumped back into the PST for recycling whiles the liquid from the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11