303 research outputs found

    Assessing nanotechnologies: the future of reflexive co-evolution

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    Кьороглу і Худий Мемед: парадигма національного героя та авторська свідомість

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    Стаття присвячена висвітленню загальних тенденцій використання продуктивного фольклоризму відомим турецьким письменником Яшаром Кемалем у його романі “Худий Мемед” та оповіданні “Поява Кьороглу”.Статья посвящена исследованию общих тенденций использования производительного фольклоризма известным турецким писателем Яшаром Кемалем в его романе “Тощий Мемед” и рассказе “Появление Кёроглу”.The following article is devoted to illustrate general tendencies of the usage of productive folklore by the well-known Turkish writer Yashar Kemal in his novel “Memed, My Hawk” and his story “Appearance of Köroğlu”

    Closure of a human tissue biobank: Individual, institutional, and field expectations during cycles of promise and disappointment

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    Biobanks are increasingly being established to act as mediators between patient-donors and researchers. In practice, some of these will close. This paper details the experiences of one such bank. We report interviews with the bank's staff and oversight group during the period when the bank ceased biobanking activity, reconfigured as a disseminator of best practice, before then closing altogether. The paper makes three distinct contributions: (i) to provide a detailed account of the establishment, operational challenges, and eventual closure of the bank, which makes clear the rapid turnover in a cycle of promise and disappointment; (ii) to explore this in terms of a novel analytical focus upon field, institutional, and individual expectations; and (iii) to use this typology to demonstrate how, even after the bank's closure, aspects of its work were reconfigured and reused in new contexts. This provides a unique empirical analysis of the under-reported issue of biobank closure.The Cesagen journal club and an anonymous reviewe

    De ruimtetoerist : vragen over technologie en toekomst

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    Arenas of expectations for hydrogen technologies

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    Technological development is often described as an evolutionary process of variation, selection and retention. Different technologies are seen as variations, while the market and other institutions operate as a selection environment. It is less understood, however, how variation and selection relate in the case of emerging technologies. In this paper we introduce the concept of arenas of expectations to examine the relationship between variation and selection processes. Expectations are of particular interest in a pre-market phase of innovation, when performance, cost and other market criteria are less articulated and not stable. In arenas of expectations ‘enactors’ of particular technological variations voice and maintain expectations, while ‘selectors’ will compare and assess the competing claims. We analyse the expectations work of both parties in a case study on metal hydrides for the on-board storage of hydrogen for automotive applications. The paper concludes with a framework of ‘arenas of expectations’ as the linchpin between the processes of variation and selection of emerging technologies

    Credible Expectations – the US Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Program role as enactor and selector of hydrogen technologies

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    The importance of expectations in sociotechnical transitions is widely recognized. However, there are many competing transition paths and even more competing visions and expectations, while only a limited of number of paths can be supported. In the literature so far, not much attention has been paid to the actual assessment of expectations and their role in the selection of promising technologies; what makes one expectation more credible than another and, furthermore, who voices the expectations and who assesses them
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