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ICT - an ally and an alien The role of ICT in Swedish popular adult education organisations

open access: yesSeminar.net, 2009
This article is focused on Swedish folk high schools and study associations as organisational settings (and not explicitly at teaching efforts and educational activities).
Gunilla Jedeskog, Inger Landström
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Baicalein Sensitizes Radioresistant BT549 and MCF7‐R Breast Cancer Cells by Modulating Rac1 Signaling

open access: yesPhytotherapy Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Radioresistance remains a key barrier in breast cancer (BC) treatment. Baicalein, a flavonoid from Scutellaria baicalensis, has shown potential to enhance radiosensitivity. This study investigates its efficacy and mechanism in radioresistant BC models. Radioresistant BC cell models were established via fractionated irradiation and validated by
Zitong Zhao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Universities and institutionalization of regional innovation policy in peripheral regions: Insights from the smart specialization in Portugal

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Regional innovation policies are currently influenced by a series of territorial innovation models, with the regional innovation system (RIS) approach being one of the prominent examples. The rationale of smart specialization strategies (S3s) is deeply influenced by the RIS concept and highlights the importance of entrepreneurial discovery and
Hugo Pinto
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising a Web of Linked Actors

open access: yes, 2011
Whilst it is widely understood that the Web is a socio-technical phenomenon – produced by both human and non-human actors – existing research tends to emphasize either the social or the technical rather than offering an integrative analytical framework ...
Carr, Leslie   +3 more
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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
wiley   +1 more source

Key Technical Fields and Future Outlooks of Space Manipulators: A Survey

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
This paper systematically reviews the technological development of space manipulators, emphasizing the unique challenges posed by space environments. It examines four areas: structural design, modeling, planning, and control, while introducing typical ground test platforms.
Gang Chen   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information infrastructure: an actor-network perspective

open access: yes, 2010
Recent work on information systems has discussed the nature and the complexity of the Information Infrastructures (II) concept. This research has mainly focused on two aspects: studying the process that both shapes and stabilizes information ...
Cordella, Antonio
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Building Collaboration Theory Across Education Science and Systems Engineering—The FINDUS Process for Collaboration

open access: yesSystems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems Engineering (SE) relies on industry–academia collaboration for much of its research. Such collaborations are frequently described valuable in practice. At the same time, there is a need to align between partners to maximize the value of collaboration through acknowledging and working with nuances between parties to share and develop ...
Johan Cederbladh, Simon Sjölund
wiley   +1 more source

Repair Cafés – Applying the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to Understand Repair Initiatives as Elements of Social Innovation

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia
As civil society initiatives, repair cafés make an important contribution to the circular economy and to social change. With more than 3,500 worldwide, the number of repair cafés in practice is high, but the conceptual basis for their analysis is still ...
Kusch-Brandt Sigrid
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the UK Open-PSI community

open access: yes, 2011
This paper examines the process of adoption of ‘Linked Open Data’ within the UK Open Public Sector Community. We use a social science approach – Actor Network Theory (ANT) – as an analytical framework which enables us to explore the formation and ...
Carr, Leslie   +3 more
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