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Reassembling nursing in the digital age: An actor-network theory perspective.

Nursing Inquiry
This article explores the application of actor-network theory (ANT) to the nursing profession, proposing a novel perspective in understanding nursing in the context of modern digital healthcare.
M. Wynn, Lisa Garwood-Cross
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

, 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, Chiasson, Mike, Gopal, Abhijit   +2 more
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Executive functions and self‐limited epilepsy with centro‐temporal spikes: A scoping review

Epileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Executive functions are a set of high‐level cognitive processes necessary for planning, organization, decision‐making, self‐control, and attention, and are carried out in the anterior frontal lobes. An impairment in executive functioning might present as difficulties in planning and organizing activities, in attention and concentration, in ...
Edoardo Fino, Martina Calì, Sara Senese, Simona Pellacani, Viola Margheri, Chiara Pecini, Carmen Barba   +6 more
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State-led or grassroots innovation? Comparing the transformation of two typical villages in southern China’s metropolitan hinterland

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

Revista 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
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Actor-network theory as a new direction in research on educational dialogues

Instructional Science
We compare the scheme for educational dialogue analysis (SEDA) to the actor-network theory (ANT) for the analysis of educational dialogues. We show that ANT unearths the socio-material structure of classroom talk as networks in which human and non-human ...
Baruch B. Schwarz, Udi Tsemach, Mirit Israeli, E. Nir   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Actor-networks and the diffusion of management accounting innovations : a comparative study. [PDF]

This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change.
Alcouffe, Simon, Berland, Nicolas, Levant, Yves   +2 more
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Combining Luhmann and Actor-Network Theory to see Farm Enterprises as Self-organizing Systems [PDF]

, 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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Connectivity between the seizure onset zone and the thalamus correlates with seizure outcomes in thalamic responsive neurostimulation

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Thalamic responsive neurostimulation (RNS) is a surgical option for patients with drug‐refractory epilepsy. However, it is unclear whether thalamic connectivity with the seizure onset zone (SOZ) has a role in clinical outcomes. Here, we aim to investigate the clinical utility of the connectivity between the SOZ and the thalamus for ...
Varun R. Subramaniam, Andy Ho Wing Chan, Lara Marcuse, Madeleine Fields, Maite La Vega‐Talbott, Daniel D. Cummins, Juan A. Barcia, Hesham T. Ghonim, Lakshman Arcot Jayagopal, Yunju Im, Saadi Ghatan, Fedor Panov, Josue M. Avecillas‐Chasin   +12 more
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Cartographies from the Margins: Outline of the Development and Applications of Actor-Network Theory in Spain

Tecnoscienza, 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
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