Challenging the Busterspeed: Technological Artifacts and Working Practices in a Sanitary Organization

In organization studies, technology has often been viewed as a helping (if not \u27resolving\u27) factor, especially from those who identify humans as non-reliable actors. Technologies have often been invoked for their potential in automatizing and standardizing activities, reducing the possibilities of casual errors and enabling a closer control of individual action. The diffusion of information and communication technologies in the sanitary sector, in particular, has led to the construction of a certain number of technologies for the support of medical decision making that standardize medical practice in a \u27correct\u27 sequence of actions, improving individual and organizational accountability. At the same time, even if these technologies seem to have improved the quality and safety of healthcare, it remains unexplored whether and how these technologies facilitate interaction and collaboration within the actors involved and what they imply in terms of coordination in everyday work.Referring to the introduction (in an Italian hospital) of a new technology for the automatic delivery of pharmacological therapy (the Busterspeed), the paper aims to unlock the process that took to the introduction of this new technological system, showing how its adoption can be seen as the result of heterogeneous organizational processes, involving a plurality of actors and requiring a reconfiguration of collective work. Coherently with a framework that looks at organizations as open-ended processes and at technology as social practice, the paper the paper highlights the reciprocal influence between everyday organizational practices and work instruments, and their constant relation to (and translation in) other technologies, practices and actors

It Obliges You to Do Things You Normally Wouldn't: Organizing and Consuming Private Life in the Age of Airbnb

In what ways do everyday life and private spaces become productive elements for platform organizations? Referring to a research on Airbnb (a platform-based company and current leader at the global level in the online hospitality industry) recently conducted in a touristic north-eastern Italian province, this paper critically explores to what degree and how Airbnb pervades, changes and controls the Hosts' domestic space and spare time. To do so, first we will concentrate on the elements that regulate the relationship between the user and the platform and on some of the processes and mechanisms implied by the platform architecture. Then, by describing the everyday practices of "house-management" enacted by the Hosts, we will highlight the invisible work involved in 'performing the platform'. From this point of view, it is worth noticing how, although Airbnb does not aim to create a parallel labour market, it produces 'platform workers' anyway, in that it implies the active engagement of its users in concrete activities. Airbnb is thus a perfect case to look at the ways in which platform organizations engage users in forms of production previously unknown, turning private goods and time into productive elements

Liberare i suoni. Per una visione ecologica del sociale

C’è un ponte. Sotto il ponte c’è un tubo. Sopra il ponte passano le macchine. Le vibrazioni prodotte dalle macchine vengono raccolte all’interno del tubo, armonizzate e re-immesse nell’ambiente attraverso alcuni amplificatori. E l’ambiente circostante prende una forma melodica. Attraverso questa ed altre installazioni, a partire dal 1987, Bruce Odland e Sam Auinger si propongono di mostrare le armonie e le voci che fanno da sfondo (o da eco) agli spazi che abitiamo quotidianamente

Population-based prevalence of cervical infection with human papillomavirus genotypes 16 and 18 and other high risk types in Tlaxcala, Mexico

This study was supported by the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, the Coordinación de Investigación en Salud del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, the Secretaría de Salud Tlaxcala, the Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres, and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología [FOSISS 2013 202468]. Additional support has been provided by Roche Diagnostics, BD Diagnostics, DICIPA and Arbor Vita Corporation. The study sponsors did not played a role in designing the study, collecting, analyzing or interpreting the data, writing the report, or submitting this paper for publication. UC Berkeley Center for Global Public Health, Schoeneman Grant, Joint Medical Program Thesis Grant, and Cancer Research UK (C569/A10404)

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements