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Reassembling scholarly publishing: Institutional repositories, open access, and the process of change

open access: yes, 2007
The domain of scholarly publishing is undergoing rapid change. Change has been instigated and produced by the Internet and open access systems – such as disciplinary and institutional repositories and open access journals.
Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Evolution of Physical Intelligence Across Scales

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
By following the evolution of physical intelligence across scales, this article shows how intelligence arises from materials, structures, physical interactions, and collectives. It establishes physical intelligence as the evolutionary foundation upon which embodied intelligence is built.
Ke Liu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Unifying Approach to Self‐Organizing Systems Interacting via Conservation Laws

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
The article develops a unified way to model and analyze self‐organizing systems whose interactions are constrained by conservation laws. It represents physical/biological/engineered networks as graphs and builds projection operators (from incidence/cycle structure) that enforce those constraints and decompose network variables into constrained versus ...
F. Barrows   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging the User-Avatar Dichotomy in Avatar Customization Research

open access: yesEludamos, 2018
The work presented here represents an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) approach to the study of self-representation in games. Though the development of a novel analytical framework we aim to challenge the anthropocentric approach that is all too common to ...
Victoria McArthur
doaj   +1 more source

SME leaders’ learning in networked learning : an actor-network theory and communities of practice theory informed analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis brings a Communities of Practice perspective together with Actor-network theory to provide a rich understanding of the social learning processes of SME leaders within a networked learning programme.
Hodgson, Vivien   +3 more
core  

Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The use of Actor-Network Theory and a Practice-Based Approach to understand online community participation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Participation in online communities is problematic. Take up of community technologies is often patchy and subject to resistance, particularly in organisational settings.
Rivera, Gibran
core  

NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Donors Do Not Trust

open access: yesNordicom Review, 2017
Focusing on a story exposing Donors Trust (DT) as a funding source for climate denial campaigns, we introduce actor-network theory (ANT) as a methodological tool for studying online intermedia agenda-setting.
Yagodin Dmitry, Tegelberg Matthew
doaj   +1 more source

An Actor-Network Theory of Cosmopolitanism

open access: yes, 2011
A major problem with the emerging sociological literature on cosmopolitanism is that it has not adequately theorized mechanisms that mediate the presumed causal relationship between globalization and the development of cosmopolitan orientations. To solve
SAITO, Hiro, Hiro Saito
core   +1 more source

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