... the main learning load for language users There is, also, another categorization that there are two basic kinds of collocations: lexical collocations and grammatical collocations (Benson et al, ... essays The emphasis of collocation instruction in week and week 10 was on grammatical collocations The materials for teaching grammatical collocations included: a short summary of grammatical ... he‟s a good age” Medium-strength collocations are in the middle ofthe collocational continuum and they make up a large part of what is said and written “Hold a conversation”, and “make a mistake”...
... Laboratory phenomena, then, are not in themselves natural but are made to stand in for nature; in their purity and artificiality they are typically seen as more fundamental and revealing of nature ... in their studies ofscienceand technology, and between STS and policy-relevant research; a lack of comparative research across disciplines and nations; anda bias toward studying the bigger and ... and place matter more than ever, and not only atthe level of individual action the individual scientist in organizational and historical context—but also atthe larger scales of institutional...
... that they have been fabricated or have to be carefully maintained The double nature of facts—as fabricated and as unfabricated—has become a cliché of history ofscienceandofscience studies The ... questions ofthe democratization ofscienceandtechnology come to the fore THE LANGUAGE OF STS ANDTHE LANGUAGE OF POLICY The broad context ofthe crisis of representation, andthe question of whether ... controversial matters of fact before they can be treated matter of factually that we can witness the obvious phenomenon ofthe pathways—what I call networks9—in plain light before they disappear and leave...
... Unfortunately, Adam reiterates a prevalent misreading of my argument in Plans and Situated Actions (1987), stating that I propose that people not make plans but rather act in ways that are situated and ... critique The first, named “State, Operator, and Result” or Soar, was initiated by AI founding father Feminist STS andthe Sciences ofthe Artificial 143 Allen Newell in the late 1980s The aim ofthe ... automata or the creation of machines in (a certain) image ofthe human and human capacities, and (4) analysis informed by, or on my reading resonant with, feminist theorizing I take it that a...
... universal, at least translocal or global and that the focus on local practice concealed that fact How then can the conceptual and methodological toolbox of STS be adjusted and expanded to accommodate ... critique so long as they adopt the attitude of participants and contextualize argumentative norms Ata minimum, they may view idealized norms in pragmatic and rhetorical, rather than legislative, terms; ... and explanatory analyses of argumentation can nonetheless engage interdisciplinarily with a critical project committed to normative standards of reasonable argument If argumentation theory can...
... spatial and measurable, “mathematized.” As this requirement is formalized, “mathematization” becomes a necessary assumption ofthescienceand image that depends on it We can thus attend to the ... Lynch, any claims about the relation between the endurance ofthe factual products ofthe laboratory andthe practice atthe lab are not actually part of his project Atthe end of his ethnography, ... Latour and Woolgar (1979: 257) said that the difference between their work andthe work ofthe subjects of study was that the latter had a laboratory But of course, Latour and Woolgar did have...
... collections; clinical trial databases; Crackberry databases; specialized databases of annotated and standardized raw research data; ontologies; robotic agents; text parsing; artificial life forms; ... of these disparate states depends on architectural manipulations and stabilizations of three apparent antinomies: public and private, visible and invisible, standardized and differentiated Laboratory ... sure, ANT directs attention to the nonhuman materialities at “centers of calculation” such as Pasteur’s Parisian laboratory andthe public arenas where he demonstrated his anthrax vaccine (Latour,...
... to what they say, that we can and should trust them in their proper domains Pragmatically, there’s a lot to recommend this state of affairs: it’s unfortunate that the ideas of both Darwinian evolution ... summary ofthe attitudes of AAAS members in 1905; his second, which also included the corollary that women may have lesser innate mathematical abilities than men, replicates Hall’s analysis Finally, ... identifying, celebrating, and propagating the scientific method for a long time—arguably at least as far back as the time of Descartes, Newton, and Boyle It’s that universal, rational, and effective...
... social inequalities that characterize the field of health and health care? What conceptions of medical science patient groups promote and contest, and what visions they articulate of what it means ... biomedical data and frameworks as part of their political argu- Patient Groups and Health Movements 511 mentation a tension that Heath, Rapp, and Taussig rightly label productive (Heath et al., ... the process of partial implementation of their concerns—for example, as Natalie Boero Patient Groups and Health Movements 523 has analyzed, surgeons’ adaptations ofthe arguments ofthe fat acceptance...
... abstract it from reality Focusing on an artifact alone can cause us to bracket and black-box (and push out of sight) all the social practices and social meanings that pragmatically make the artifact ... contends that engineers have a good deal of latitude (power, influence, discretion) in what they create They manipulate nature, but they can and manipulate it in this or that way because they are pursuing ... between a centralized European superstate with requirements for standardization and harmonization across cultures andthe more exploratory aspiration for a European state where the uncertainties and...
... commercialization ofscienceThe Genealogy ofthe American Laboratory Laboratories were not something that just naturally appeared in the American landscape: they had to be built, and to be able ... avoid corporate taxation Approaching the commercialization ofscience from this angle profoundly revises the usual narrative ofthe privatization of modern academic science as a straightforward ... into an era that appreciates the compelling logic oftechnology transfer.” Atthe risk of caricature, one might summarize their central task as the gathering of empirical data in order to argue...
... implementation through national or military laboratories.3 We treat 1980 andthe passage ofthe 1980 Patents and Trademark Law Amendments Act, known as Bayh-Dole, as the third pivotal phase Although the ... work; the history of various research locations, whether industrial or national laboratories or out in the field; international historical and comparative investigations; and also a history of state ... establishment ofthe contemporary federal research administration (see Geiger, 1993) The span ofa generation saw the founding ofthe National Science Foundation (NSF; 1950), the National Laboratory...
... of education and training but should also facilitate and encourage the private sector to play active roles, as several model economies in Asia have done The educational strategies ofthe Asian ... generally, social understandings of evidence and proof, the aims of advocacy, the nature of expertise, and indeed the status ofscience in relation to politics and power are all refracted through the lenses ... disregard ofthe other The lack of contact is especially notable given that assumptions about nature andscience have long underwritten the authority ofthe law, just as legal ideas about codes and...
... forward and backward in time and spatial functions of attracting and activating proteins in non-native patterns The ability to arrest and pace the development and proliferation of cells according ... production based on bodily materials also has significant implications for transnational and local governance and for the role of democratic participation in scienceand medicine The neologism regenerative ... other forms of capital in a way that reveals both the articulation points with national economic projects and private commercial interests, locates the gaps and volatility in market support, and...
... accounting for financial data, and practical rules for the classification of these data Observation, representation, and calculation of financial data are approached as epistemic themes, in a manner ... with the help of complex mathematical models, software programs for the instant display and analysis of financial data, and much more Against the background ofa global expansion, this massive ... (3) the narrative framing of pricing formulas A complementary aspect of standardization is how price data—made abstract and taken out ofthe concrete contexts of their generation—are used by financial...
... and Social Change at Arizona State University and Director ofthe Division of Social and Economic Sciences atthe National Science Foundation He studies the social organization and dynamics of ... Ethical, Social, and Legal Impacts of Nanotechnology.” Available at: www http://www.nanologue.net/ National Nanotechnology Initiative (2007) “What Is Nanotechnology?” Available at: http://www nano.gov/html/facts/whatIsNano.html ... Frontier: A Review ofthe National Nanotechnology Initiative (Washington, DC: National Academies Press) National ScienceandTechnology Council (NSTC) (2004) “National Nanotechnology Initiative: Strategic...
... 776 the language of, 762 making science in the court, 455–456 morality of the, 764 natural law and judicial decision-making, 765–766 patent law rulings, 657, 705 regulating commodification and ... 515 language as a cultural artifact for, 263 1049 patenting and information sharing, 253, 661, 700, 705 via contact language or pidgins, 358 communication studies See also media and information ... private aspects of inquiry, 361–363 research as labor, 324–328 research facilities, global standardization of, 353 See also place research organizations, capitalism models of, 667–671 research...