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Making Soils into Carbon Sinks: A Sociology of Soil Carbon Quantification Through a French Model

Science, Technology, & Human Values
Since COP21 in 2015, carbon neutrality targets have emphasized the enhancement of various carbon sinks, including soils, to help sequester carbon away from the atmosphere. What does it take to make soils into carbon sinks? This article focuses on a French digital model of soil carbon cycling named AMG, which quantifies soil carbon stocks and their ...
Granjou, Céline, Guillemot, Hélène, Manach, Laure, Leclerc, Robin, Doré, Antoine, Magnin, Léo, Barral, Stéphanie   +6 more
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Survey of Quantification and Distance Functions Used for Internet-based Weak-link Sociological Phenomena

2013
Abstract : The PI studied all mathematical literature he can find related to the Google search engine, Google matrix, PageRank as well as the Yahoo search engine and a classic SearchKing HIST algorithm. The co-PI immersed herself in the sociology literature for the relevant studies on social network, strong and weak social ties and measures of ...
Dawn Robinson, Ming-Jun Lai
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Quantification Machines and Artificial Agents in Global Finance: Historical-Phenomenological Perspectives from Philosophy and Sociology of Technology and Money

2016
ABSTRACT: This paper raises questions regarding the societal, cultural and ethical significance of finance, mathematics, and financial-mathematical technologies, discussing in particular the phenomenon of quantification as mediated by contemporary electronic information and communication technologies (ICTS).
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From dashboards to Big Data in HR: three uses of quantification in HR, in the light of sociology of quantification

2018
Human Resources use quantification in several ways. This paper defines and addresses the three main ways: HR dashboards and reports, HR analytics, and Big Data in HR. As those uses are increasingly important with the raise of Big Data or analytics in HR, it seems important to better understand them. The sociology of quantification helps to characterize
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Quantification and classification in education: What is at stake?

Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Ann Christin Nilsen
exaly  

Making soils into carbon sinks. A sociology of soil carbon quantification

Since COP21 in 2015, carbon neutrality targets have emphasized the enhancement of various carbon sinks, including soils, to help sequester carbon away from the atmosphere. What does it take to make soils into carbon sinks? This article focuses on a digital model of soil carbon cycling (AMG), which quantifies soil carbon stocks and their evolution under
Granjou, Céline, Guillemot, Hélène, Manach, Laure, Leclerc, Robin, Magnin, Léo, Doré, Antoine, Barral, Stéphanie   +6 more
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Ranking Art: Paradigmatic Worldviews in the Quantification and Evaluation of Contemporary Art

Theory, Culture and Society, 2021
Paul Buckermann
exaly  

‘To assign people their place in society’: School grades and the quantification of merit

Economy and Society, 2023
Noelle Rohde
exaly  

Quantifying Human Resources: The Contributions of Economics and Sociology of Conventions

2023
Clotilde Coron
exaly  

Self-quantification and the datapreneurial consumer identity

Consumption Markets and Culture, 2020
John Schouten
exaly