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Teacher Mentoring: Histories, Translations, and Reforms in Romaniaand the Republic of Moldova [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Știinţe Educaţiei
This paper re-examines the historiography of teacher mentoring in Romania and the Republic of Moldova through the lens of Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT). In ANT, an actor-network refers to a material–semiotic assemblage in which agency emerges
Mihaela MITESCU-MANEA
doaj   +1 more source

Restoring balance : how history tilts the scales against privacy : an actor-network theory investigation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper we problematize the metaphor of balance employed in the area of information privacy. Using Actor-Network Theory we conduct an historical investigation into the continuous release of the same personal data over the course of eight decades ...
Bonner, Bill   +2 more
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Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oropharyngeal food processing exhibits a remarkable diversity among vertebrates, reflecting the evolution of specialised ‘processing centres’ associated with the mandibular, hyoid, and branchial arches. Although studies have detailed various food‐processing strategies and mechanisms across vertebrates, a coherent and comprehensive terminology ...
Daniel Schwarz   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

State-led or grassroots innovation? Comparing the transformation of two typical villages in southern China’s metropolitan hinterland

open access: yesFrontiers of Urban and Rural Planning
Unlike the rural transition models in other Global South countries, China's rural transformation is deeply embedded within a distinctive institutional framework.
Xiuqiong Liu, Chen Chen
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Do Corporate Strategies in Fintech and Green Finance Enhance ESG Performance? The Moderating Role of Government Policies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the growing interest in ESG performance, limited research explores the mediating role of government policy in the relationship between Fintech, green finance and ESG outcomes. We address this gap by examining how Fintech and green finance influence ESG performance through government policies.
Mandella Osei‐Assibey Bonsu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cartographies from the Margins: Outline of the Development and Applications of Actor-Network Theory in Spain

open access: yesTecnoscienza, 2011
In Spain, since the start of the 1990s, there has arisen a joint movement of recognition, production and hybridization in the social sciences with one of its apexes being the field of STS.
Jorge Castillo Sepúlveda
doaj   +1 more source

Opening the black box of commodification: A philosophical critique of actor-network theory as critique [PDF]

open access: yes
This article argues that actor-network theory, as an alternative to critical theory, has lost its critical impetus when examining commodification in healthcare.
Hvid, Henrik Rude
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Combining Luhmann and Actor-Network Theory to see Farm Enterprises as Self-organizing Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
From a rural, sociological point of view no social theories have so far been able to grasp the ontological complexity and special character of a farm enterprise as an entity in a really satisfying way.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

La virtualización de la fotografía digital

open access: yesAthenea Digital, 2002
¿Cómo los humanos se relacionan con su tecnología? No se trata de una cuestión nueva, y muchos han lidiado con ella. Lo que queremos hacer aquí es hacerla visible mediante otro vocabulario, el virtual.
Jonathan Woodrow
doaj   +1 more source

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