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(un)Doing standards in education with actor-network theory [PDF]
, 2010 Recent critiques have drawn important attention to the depoliticized consensus and empty promises embedded in network discourses of educational policy.
Tara Fenwick, Fenwick, Tara
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Actor-network Theory and cartography of controversies in Information Science
TransinformaçãoThe present study aims to discuss the interactions between the Actor-network Theory and the Cartography of Controversies method in Information Science research.
Ramon Fernandes LOURENÇO +1 more
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2015 This article contends that many critics of social capital have failed to note a gradual but significant evolution taking place at the fringes of the theory.
Laurie Parsons
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Actor-network theory-based applications in sustainability: A systematic literature review
Cleaner Production LettersSustainability is a multifaceted endeavor that underscores the interdependence between society and nature. Its complexity arises from a delicate balance among four sustainability dimensions: economic, environmental, social, and durational. Achieving this
Kadia Georges Aka
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Tourism Space Through the Lens of Actor-Network Theory [PDF]
International Journal of Tourism, Culture and SpiritualityIn the philosophy of science and especially in the humanities, the definition and recognition of the studied concepts and subjects can have a different or even contradictory ontological, epistemological and methodological basis.
Ahmad Hajarian
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2004 O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as conseqüências filosóficas da teoria ator-rede para os estudos acerca das ciências. Esta teoria tem renovado o debate em torno das ciências, por enfatizar a investigação da ciência em ação, isto é, tal como ela é ...
Marcia Moraes
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee +3 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Toward and Analytical and Methodological Understanding of Actor Network Theory [PDF]
, 2015 Actor-network theory (ANT) is well developed within social studies of science and technology. The last two decades have seen an increasing awareness and interest in ANT within the social sciences and it has increasingly been invoked to theorise the role ...
Jackson, Sharon
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Live Online Education Efficiency Mediators From the Actor Network Theory Perspective
Frontiers in Education, 2022 PurposeThe purpose of this research was to explore the conceptual network of live online education efficiency from the Actor Network Theory perspective to reveal different aspects influencing the quality of online training less accounted for in previous ...
Radoslaw Czahajda +2 more
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