the compelling tangle of modernity and technology

... the operational status of the system The types of tests selected and the frequency in which they are conducted depend on the importance of the system and the resources available for testing These ... fill the gap between the state of the art in system development and actual operation of these systems Two, security testing is important for understanding, calibrating, and documenting the operational ... Reports on Computer Systems Technology The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S economy and public welfare by providing...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 08:20

... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... the Department of State and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in the establishment in Washington of an effective interagency committee to coordinate the overlapping S&T interests of ... setting the stage for another swing of the pendulum back to the latter as a result of disappointments with the results of diffuse grassroots investments of the 1970s In the early 1980s the USAID...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress ... predicted the invention of the World Wide Web and its impact on the development of the Internet? (Who before September 2001 would have predicted the impact of terrorism on the homeland of the United ... identifying genes and their chromosomal location, the breakthroughs that allowed, in the brief span of a few years, the sequencing of the human genome and the genomes of other plant and animal species...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... at the end of the handle The advantages claimed by the inventor were ease in handling, ease in cleaning, and the diagonal cut of the blades that allowed the blood to flow more freely and the ... lever on the outside of the case The blade was positioned at right angles to the spring and case, thus adopting the basic shape of the fleam The case of the spring lancet was usually made of copper, ... the first exposing the blades, and the second rotating them a full 180 degrees Pressure on the release lever pushed the catch off the tooth on the cocking lever, thereby releasing the lever and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... attempts, the ‘hands-off’ intervals between interruption of chest compressions and the delivery of the countershock should be limited to only a few seconds [8,20] In all of these areas of concern, ... mechanical ventilation, therapeutic hypothermia, and various intravenous pharmacological infusions [10,11] Therefore, with the rapid use of AEDs by random bystanders, the usual scenario of aggressive ICU ... fibrillation is one of the greatest causes of premature mortality in many societies, the magnitude of the public health impact of AEDs is potentially dramatic, in terms of both life-saving and ICU resources...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... a candidate for the degree of Master of Arts (TEFL) accept the requirements of the College relating to the retention and use of Master of Arts Thesis deposited in the library In terms of these ... students reduce the reliability of the test scores On the basis of these results, the author provides some suggestions towards the improvement of the test quality The reliability of the final achievement ... objectives and the syllabus 5.1.1 The test objectives and the course objectives 5.1.2 The test item content in four sections and the syllabus content 5.1.3 The skill weight format in the test and the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... During these periods the university is on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of ... halls of residence, main library and faculty buildings on campus are connected as shown in Figure 1, the same cannot be said of the residential apartment of lecturers and other staff of the university ... Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana He is the Acting Director of The Energy Centre, College of Engineering,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 11:22

... in the editing The council and the Methods Panel greatly appreciate the willingness of the authors to produce their chapters promptly and their help throughout the editing of the monograph The ... 0552602) The opinions and conclusions expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Academy of Sciences, ... 100-177) The goals and objectives of the council, as stated in the report of its first two years of operation, are "to promote the development and application of technology assessment in medicine and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... to the study of technology, under the title “social construction of technology (SCOT), argued that the success of a technology depends on the strength and size of the groups that take it up and ... science and technology often contribute to projects the benefits, costs, and risks of which are very unevenly distributed In recognition of this fact, and in the context of a critique of the idea of ... itself and its effects on, for example, lung tissue and global climate Consequently, the politics of science and technology the subject and agenda of so many of the chapters in this Handbook—becomes...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:31

... democratization of 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 ... to a state of affairs, and so on; (6) direct perception is the end and not the beginning of the process of fact genesis Fact is the provisional end of the vector and all the questions of correspondence ... both elicit, they are rendered comparable by the process of time to which they both submit The great virtue of the innovative directors and designers of the gallery, on the top floor of the Museum,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... examines the relations between two broad arenas of scholarship and technology building at the intersection of femi- Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 153 nism and the sciences of the ... from the point of view of the AI prac- Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 145 titioners studied by Forsythe is imagined in terms of process engineering, the design and management of ... ways of understanding the world of social actors, they also need to understand the ways in which their theories of the social world are interpreted by those social actors In other words, the ideas,...

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 ... Giere and Miriam Solomon, both of whom investigate the intersection between STS and the new practice-oriented philosophical studies of science In philosophy, the abandonment of the grand project of ... attention to the exigencies of goals, modalities, and audiences In all these respects, these studies share the concerns and approaches of STS studies of discourse, yet at the same time they offer us...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... at the end of the account of the emergence of TRF(H), when Latour and Woolgar describe the key episode in the making of the fact as fact the point at which TRF(H) becomes Pyro-Glu-His-Pro-NH2 The ... Burri and Joseph Dumit The practice turn in STS taught us to attend to the work of science and technology in terms of both the processes of production and the resulting products The challenge of ... Lynch, any claims about the relation between the endurance of the factual products of the laboratory and the practice at the lab are not actually part of his project At the end of his ethnography,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... embodiment and proof of the thesis of the network society (Castells, 2001) Vann (2004) has identified a similar “technicism” and analytical reduction on the part of some contemporary theorists of “immaterial” ... Wouters, P (2004) The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences @ the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the boundaries of science put them on the outside—not just because of their...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... between the abstract and formalized estimates of the experts and the perception of risk by the farmers caused a loss of confidence by the latter in the government experts and their conviction that of cial ... science and technology and between the role of the scientist and that of the engineer It’s a distinction that now makes less and less sense: we’re all engineers now, and the authority of science ... bits of the world but to the right thing? The scientist is not a priest.” That’s another way of identifying the limited authority of the modern scientist, and the nonpriestly status of the scientist...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... range of factors, including the epidemiological significance of the condition, the availability of an unequivocal diagnostic test, the social class of the sufferers, the degree of activism, and the ... the state,” and the market,” and of course—between “science” and “politics” (Epstein, 2001) Observation of patient groups and health movements reveals, on the one hand, cases of patients and ... 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