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« Les philosophes de l’expérience » (Philosophers of Experiment)
Tracés, 2005 Ian Hacking
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
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Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
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Entrevista com Ian Hacking: (por Paul Kennedy e David Cayley)
Psicologia & Sociedade, 2009 Ian Hacking
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A HYBRID ELLIPTIC CURVE AND DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD ALGORITHM FOR SECURE DATA COMMUNICATION
Academy Journal of Science and Engineeringn the rapidly evolving landscape of digital communication, ensuring data security remains a paramount concern. This research proposes a hybrid encryption technique that combines the strengths of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and the Data Encryption ...
Samuel N. John +5 more
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Teaching Through Hack, Play and Game-Design
Journal of the European Honors CouncilStudents engage most with complex problems when they learn to hack existing systems instead of building solutions from scratch. In my teaching, hacking means critically engaging with what already exists: repurposing, questioning, and reshaping ...
Sarit Youdelevich
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Informed Trade of Earnings Announcements
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how market participants trade on private information about firm fundamentals using the largest known case of informed trade of earnings announcements. From 2011 to 2015, a cartel of sophisticated traders illegally obtained early access to and traded on over 1,000 firm earnings announcements.
CHLOE XIE
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are causal in nature: they study how changes in one or more variables (such as policies, prices or weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., income, crop yields or pollution).
Arne Henningsen +6 more
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