Quantifying the Fraction of Missing Information for Hypothesis Testing in Statistical and Genetic Studies [PDF]
, 2008 Many practical studies rely on hypothesis testing procedures applied to data sets with missing information. An important part of the analysis is to determine the impact of the missing data on the performance of the test, and this can be done by properly ...
Kong, Augustine +2 more
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Making sense of Nordicness, or making Nordicness?
Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2016 What is Nordic? Does it make sense to talk about Nordic Science and Technology Studies (STS)? If so, what kind of contributions could Nordic perspectives give to global STS and other disciplines?
Kristine Ask +2 more
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Why designers and philosophers should meet in school [PDF]
, 2014 Many scholars who study user-technology relations have shown from different perspectives that such relations are mutually constructive: users shape technology, and technology shapes users.
Eggink, Wouter, Stam, Liesbeth
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Open Science and Open Innovation in Socio-Political Context: Knowledge Production and Societal Impact in an Age of Populism [PDF]
, 2019 This conceptual paper traces the origins and progress of Open Science and proposes its generative coupling to Open Innovation in the contemporary socio-political context; where universities are re-imaging their civic missions in the face of anti ...
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Cracking the Crystal in STS: Marcelo Fetz Talks with Harry Collins
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2018 In this interview, Harry Collins and Marcelo Fetz discuss Collins’ early work on the importance of tacit knowledge in laboratory research, the revolutionary spirit of early Science and Technology Studies (STS) research, and his concerns about its current
Marcelo Fetz,, Harry Collins
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Trayectorias de los estudios sobre Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, y de la política científica y tecnológica en Ibero-América [PDF]
, 2010 Este artículo realiza un recorrido histórico por la política científica de los Estudios sobre Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad (ECTS) en el marco iberoamericano (fundamentalmente Argentina, Brasil y España).
Dagnino, Renato
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Alarm pendants and the technological shaping of older people's care: Between (intentional) help and (irrational) nuisance [PDF]
, 2015 Alarm pendant use among older people is often framed as one of the rational responses needed to alleviate the escalating costs of an aging population.
Brittain, Katie, Pritchard, Gary
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Epistemological foundations of STS relations in science education
Amazônia, 2012 We aim to discuss the epistemological foundations of the STS (Science, Technology and Society) relations present in issues considered socially relevant in science education.
Luciana de Nazaré Farias +2 more
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Science and Technology Studies (STS), modern Middle East History, and the infrastructural turn [PDF]
History Compass, 2019 Abstract This article critically surveys the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and modern Middle East History. Scholarship in STS has helped transform the writing of history by developing new ways of thinking about what the political and the technical are and how they work.
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Micro-microcelebrity: famous babies and business on the internet [PDF]
, 2017 Crystal Abidin explores lifestyle Influencers and babies as the new ‘micro-microcelebrity’. Crystal is an anthropologist and ethnographer who studies vernacular internet culture.
Abidin, Crystal
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