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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Unrestricted Analysis of the COVID Narrative in Africa: Emphasis on the Ghanaian Medical Context in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe COVID-19 pandemic with its concomitant lockdown policies exacerbated the worst living conditions in different regions of the world, Africa and Ghana in particular. The major discursive issues concerning the pandemic has glaringly or cunningly ignored the lack of emphasis on local dynamics concerning what ought to be or could have been done…[Read more]
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited The Antipodes of Tropical Medicine: The Social Factors Affecting the Diffusion of Parasitology to Puerto Rico and Hong Kong in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis study seeks to understand the role played by social factors in the diffusion of parasitology to Puerto Rico, in particular those affecting the work of Bailey K. Ashford between 1898-1934. Most studies of Ashford to date focus mainly on the intellectual framework per se, and rarely on the surrounding social environment. In order to achieve…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Under the Standard: MGM, AT&T, and the Academy’s Regulation of Power in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Under the Standard: MGM, AT&T, and the Academy’s Regulation of Power in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]
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Thobias Sarbunan deposited Draft Framework for Comparative and Pre-Test-Post-Test Methods (Dataset) in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe dataset aims to guide undergraduate students, particularly those in the music
department, who complete proposals and theses in their final year of study. Its purpose
is to enable students to replicate and reconstruct research with appropriate scientific
value. The dataset was created based on the author’s scientific experience from…[Read more] -
Anne Pasek deposited The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology’s climate impacts in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe climate impacts of the information and communications technology sector—and Big Data especially—is a topic of growing public and industry concern, though attempts to quantify its carbon footprint have produced contradictory results. Some studies argue that information and communications technology’s global carbon footprint is set to rise dra…[Read more]
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JOVENIL BACATAN deposited Students and Teacher’s Perception on the Effectiveness of Using Strategic Intervention Material in Science in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis study aimed to determine the perceptions of the selected students who have learning difficulties in science and their teachers regarding the effectiveness of using Strategic Intervention Material (SIM) in science. A qualitative phenomenological approach was employed to explore and describe the perceptions of the teacher and students. There…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Labor Power in the Repair Shop: Circuits of Repair Between Solidarity and Poor Economy in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis paper presents the findings of comparative research into the labor, organizational and spatial practices of a new kind of hybrid civic spaces that we refer to as “social impact-driven repair shops.” These are an emerging typology of urban spaces dedicated to repaired and up-cycled items that also go beyond the functions of a traditional sho…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited COVID-19 In Africa: An Economic and Social Interpretation (2019-2022) in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of challenges to the globalized world. Globally, it has decimated over six million lives. Since 2019, it has shook the world in many respects, especially, it disrupted economies and societies and halted the majority of human endeavor. Commentaries and reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the…[Read more]
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Taylor R. Genovese deposited Мультимодальные подходы к изучению музеев космоса in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoХотя этнографические режимы, отличные от письма, всегда существовали в антропологических исследованиях, в рамках дисциплины уже давно растет эпистемологическое напряжение между текстовыми и “иными методами” – использующими фотографии, движущиеся изображения, звук, рисунки, движение тела и т.д. Сторонники этих альтернативных мето…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Medical Tourism in Ghana: A History in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoMedical tourism can be defined as the process of travelling outside of an individual’s country to another to seek medical care. The current research studies medical tourism in Ghana historically, focusing on Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumase. Using a qualitative research approach, the study p…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoLynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]
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Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2022 Conference Proceedings in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoAs the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to s…[Read more]
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Sarah Middle deposited Survey: Using Digital Tools and Resources for Ancient World Research in the group
Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoMy CHASE-funded PhD in Classical Studies at the Open University, in which this survey played a crucial role, investigated Linked Ancient World Data usability. The survey took place during April-May 2018 and was aimed at anyone involved in Ancient World research, with any level of digital expertise. Questions related to participants’ experiences of…[Read more]
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Bethany Laursen deposited DIY Boundary Spanning Field Notebook in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe DIY Boundary Spanning Field Notebook is your own guide to what works–and what doesn’t–in working across group boundaries. Version 1.0 focuses on boundary spanning tools. Download the Field Notebook and then complete it on your own, documenting your own understanding of the state of the art and of your personal practice.
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Thobias Sarbunan deposited Whether you know it or not; applied Research is the Boss in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoScience was required to develop mankind more compassionate. The research method is a sort
of practical philosophy that seeks to establish a flexible path between the cosmos and its
surrounds, as well as the living phase. The purpose of applied research is to solve difficulties
in order to establish and offer more quantifiable outcomes. The goal…[Read more] -
Ilse Jacoba Dijkstra deposited “Known to be unhealthy” – How social epidemiology produces health differences in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years agoInspired and informed by contemporary research within Science and Technology Studies (STS), this essay discusses how social epidemiological research serves to create and produce health inequalities in society. Focusing in particular on how social epidemiology establishes the relationship between socio-economic status and health, it examines how…[Read more]
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Thobias Sarbunan deposited Transcript of Writing Review Article in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThis data collection comprises a YouTube video transcript demonstrating how to write a review article in accordance with scientific principles.
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Rodrigo Fernos deposited Presentación del libro “Atomic Surfer in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoPresentación del libro “Atomic Surfer” [CANCELADA] Librería Mágica
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