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Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies: International Workshop Proceedings doc

... Science and Society Issues: Summary of Discussion Norman Neureiter 14 THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IN DEVELOPMENT Women in Academic Science and Engineering in the United States: Challenges and ... establishment, and they are often the source of the most current scientific information, information that is increasingly important for policy decisions Communicating that information in an effective and ... recommendations found in that study The following charge was given to the committee: Review and assess the research on gender issues in science and engineering, including innate differences in cognition,...

the handbook of science and technology studies

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... de-simplifying in its commitment to “un-blackboxing” phenomena, understanding mechanisms, and delineating reciprocal in uences; and normative in its commitment to understanding the ethics and values ... categories and dichotomies, and its attention to places, practices, and things STS has become an interdisciplinary ﬁeld that is creating an integrative understanding of the origins, dynamics, and consequences ... the one side and cooptation and loss of prestige and resources on the other Through three decades of interdisciplinary interaction and integration, shifting intellectual continents and cataclysmic...

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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 6 doc

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... “STM Information on the Web and the Development of New Internet R&D Databases and Indicators,” in Proceedings Online Information Meeting 98, London, Learned Information 1998: 239–43 Almind, T & Ingwersen, ... of information, labor, and its material forms in digital practices and tools is, we think, an interesting emerging line of work in the history and sociology of science (Lenoir, 1997, 2002; Rheinberger, ... Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology,” Social Studies of Science 24: 641–72 Müller-Wille, Staffan (2003) “Joining Lapland and the Topinambes in Flourishing Holland: Center and Periphery in Linnaean Botany,”...

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 9 doc

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... actors and groups including engineers and nonengineers.12 Using the notion of sociotechnical system, engineers are framed as critical nodes in networks of people and things that in uence and are in uenced ... studies, and theories developed in STS can play an important role in expanding the scope and insights of engineering ethics STS opens up new ways to understand the processes of engineering and the ... scholars in the ﬁeld are beginning to think about the ethical implications of engineering through new lenses and in new places Topics such as the public understanding of engineering and the value-laden...

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 13 ppt

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... Similarly, practices involved in categorizing pathologies, handling data, establishing testing or treatment protocols, and determining where patients will be treated (and by whom) are all linked to assumptions ... for cancer The coordinating and negotiating activities that take place across disciplines and domains have become a key to understanding innovation and knowledge production In her work on cancer ... interpretation tools to aid in classifying ailments and rationalizing variant and costly practices, they function in multiple roles, including reordering work patterns in the clinic, changing the content...

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 16 ppsx

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... 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 ... geographic patterns in knowledge construction, 355–359 introduction, 353–355 in legitimizing knowledge, 359–360 in materializing science, 359–365 scientiﬁc inquiry and, 369 training and, 379–380 truth ... in decision-making, 75–77 depoliticization of, 76 formal initiatives promoting, 457–459 home diagnostic testing, 852–853 in uence on policy formulation in determining science policy and funding,...

Potential biogas production from sewage sludge: A case study of the sewage treatment plant at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, Ghana

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... biogas in Brazil Biomass and Bioenergy 2009; 33 (9) 1101- 1107 Richard Arthur had both his MSc (Mechanical Engineering – Thermofluids and Energy Systems) and his BSc (Chemical Engineering) from ... rural areas and related technoeconomic analysis, and policy studies including analysis of energy access in developing countries E-mail address: abeeku@brewhammond.com ISSN 2076-2895 (Print), ISSN ... estimated using equation (2) (2) ISSN 2076-2895 (Print), ISSN 2076-2909 (Online) ©2010 International Energy & Environment Foundation All rights reserved International Journal of Energy and Environment...