ANT has been questioned for its lack of interest in uneven power relations and thus in victimization. Nigel Thrift, while acknowledging its insights, has suggested that it fails to deal with ideas of place. Nick Bingham with Thrift suggest that it misses ‘the sizzle of the event’, that is...
Some authors, such as Marques (2016), have underlined that business planning and promotion of competition of ideas have functioned as boundary objects with a relevant impact in the number of “traditional” science commercialisation outputs, such as registered patents, but were simultaneously a means...
iACToR is an international non-profit association designed to promote Virtual Reality, DTx and other advanced technologies as adjuncts to more traditional forms of therapy, training, education, and rehabilitation. We also investigate the impact, positive and negative, of Social Networking on individual ...
It's very frustrating to text a friend who takes a long time to reply, yet 5 to update their statuses(状态)on their social networking sites in the meantime. You should pick a nice ringtone. No one appreciates it when an annoying ringtone breaks into what they're doing. 13 华询教育 ...
A number of approaches related to the main ideas of autonomic networking, i.e. the development of self-managing networks, have recently been proposed. One idea is to cluster the available sensor and actor systems into groups that enable simple coordination and control strategies. An example is ...
Veteran Malayalam actor Mamukoya died here on Wednesday, film industry sources said. He was 77. Following his death, messages poured in on social media from actors and members of the general public expressing grief and conveying their condolences. He was recently hospitalized following a stroke. ...
Formula (5) specifies that in the event of a workstation w being operational on disassembly line l (i.e., 𝑢𝑙𝑤=1ulw=1), the corresponding disassembly line must also be operational (i.e., 𝑦𝑙=1yl=1). 𝜉𝑙𝑤𝑛≥𝛼𝑙𝑤𝑛,∀𝑙∈𝕃,∀𝑤∈𝕎𝑙,...
Consequently, the incidence of drought could increase due to changes in the frequency of the physical event, societal vulnerability to water shortages, or both [5,13,16,18,19,20]. More recently, additional terms have emerged, such as “human-modified drought” [21] and “ecological drought”...
an event-based actor-network approach Constructing participation practice: ANT account An Actor Network Theory (ANT) approach to Malaysian e-participation framework Modernisation through ICTs: towards a network ontology of technological change The mobile media actor-network in urban India Actor-Network The...
Michael G. Miceli understands buying a sex doll by Lars “as a ‘rational’ response to the trauma of losing his parents and the feelings of unresolved grief attached to such an event” (Miceli 2016, p. 163). Upon seeing Lars with the doll, Gus believes that he has gone completely ...