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How actors move from primary agency to institutional agency: A conceptual framework and empirical application [PDF]
, 2021 This article contributes to the understanding of actors and agency in the theorization of institutional work. We analyse institutional work as a specific kind of social action that involves exercising institutional agency (with an articulate awareness of
Maier, Florentine, Simsa, Ruth
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Ontology-based data semantic management and application in IoT- and cloud-enabled smart homes [PDF]
, 2017 The application of emerging technologies of Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing have increasing the popularity of smart homes, along with which, large volumes of heterogeneous data have been generating by home entities.
DONG Mianxiong, OTA Kaoru, TAO Ming
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Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетіїThe article examines the terminological challenges that any future translation project of the works of the semi-forgotten German philosopher N. Hartmann, specifically Zur Grundlegung der Ontologie, into Ukrainian may encounter.
Marko Mushenko, Hanna Dubova
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Mediatization Research and Causality: Toward a Critical Realist Ontology
International Journal of Communication, 2022 Mediatization research has been identified as an influential new approach in media and communication studies. However, being a theory of change, a proper discussion about causality and its correlated ontology foundations must be fundamental.
Sebastián Ansaldo
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An Ontology-Based Approach to Aid STPA Analysis
IEEE Access, 2023 The safety-critical systems we are building today employ software, use physical and cybernetic components, and have more interactions (including hierarchical controllers). Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) is a hazard analysis method that is used
Andrei Carniel +2 more
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Ontology-Based Critical Infrastructure Modeling and Simulation [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes a knowledge-based system (KBS) designed to support a federated environment for simulating critical infrastructure models. A federation of simulators is essentially a “system of systems,” where each simulator represents an entity that operates independently with its own behavior and purpose.
Masucci V. +4 more
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Context modeling and constraints binding in web service business processes [PDF]
, 2009 Context awareness is a principle used in pervasive services applications to enhance their exibility and adaptability to changing conditions and dynamic environments. Ontologies provide a suitable framework for context modeling and reasoning.
Bandara, Kosala Yapa +2 more
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Function‐driven design of a surrogate interleukin‐2 receptor ligand
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Interleukin (IL)‐2 signaling can be achieved and precisely fine‐tuned through the affinity, distance, and orientation of the heterodimeric receptors with their ligands. We designed a biased IL‐2 surrogate ligand that selectively promotes effector T and natural killer cell activation and differentiation. Interleukin (IL) receptors play a pivotal role in
Ziwei Tang +9 more
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Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2018 Ontologies are critical to data/metadata and knowledge standardization, sharing, and analysis. With hundreds of biological and biomedical ontologies developed, it has become critical to ensure ontology interoperability and the usage of interoperable ...
Yongqun He +5 more
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Research Methodology of Critical Realism: Theoretical Foundations, Process and Implementation [PDF]
روش شناسی علوم انسانی, 2020 Criticisms of the dominant paradigms of the science, especially the positivism and the interpretive paradigms, have intensified efforts to find alternative paradigms. One of the paradigms that has emerged in this regard is critical realism. This paradigm
Neda Ehsani Moghadam +3 more
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