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Chapter 1 FAIL! Are We Headed towards Critical Failure Studies?
The chapter outlines the scope and structure of the Routledge International Handbook of Failure. It makes a point about the tendency in recent works on failure to advance critical rhetoric and provides a genealogical scrutiny that goes beyond the episodic materialization of failure, that is, failure as an event. This analysis further aims to reveal the complexity of relations, institutions and …
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Byproducts, Waste Biomass and Products to form Green Diesel and Biocrude Oils
This book provides a collection of research and review articles useful for researchers, engineers, students and industry experts in the bioenergy field. The practical and valuable information can be utilized for developing and implementing renewable energy projects, selecting different waste feedstocks, technologies, and products. A detailed insight into advanced technologies such as hydrotherm…
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Social Credit System and Privacy
The SCS, as a rapidly evolving social crediting system, is a critical example of societal transformation, but it also raises significant privacy concerns. This problem space is discussed from three perspectives in this chapter
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By Kelman Out of Pessoa
In 2002, Doug Nufer wrote a story narrated by a tout, who proposed a novel way to beat the races. It was so absurd and ludicrous it gave him an idea. So Nufer went to Emerald Downs, home of thoroughbred racing in the Northwest. There, he split himself into three characters modeled on the heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa. Using a money management plan from a James Kelman short story, Nufer gave the…
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Simulation Modeling as a Policy Tool
This chapter describes the use of the agent-based model as a scenario tool to aid policymakers anticipate effects of policy intervention. The text frames policy as a complex system and presents the concept, advantages and limitations of ABM as a tool. We present a few applications of ABM for policy that were useful.
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Phase IV studies
For new drugs or vaccines, the evidence from one or more Phase III trials, taken together with the results of the Phase I and II trials, will be presented to licensing authorities to register the product for clinical or public health use. However, the total number of participants included in Phase I to III trials of a new product will often be no more than a few thousand, and there are usual…
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Learning from Sports
This study shows some generic characteristics from sports that are of relevance to samhandling structures under risk. The findings are based on a case study of the concept of “Total Football” and the Rosenborg Football Club (RBK) in Norway. Football is a dynamic sport with several factors that come into play and where flexible solutions are demanded.
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FEMINIST BIOETHICS AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
Our use of the term perspective here is shaped by mid-20th century symbolic interactionism. In this theorization of the social world, all people have a perspective. These perspectives are somewhat shared and malleable, are constructed through interaction, and shape the way the social world is perceived. This means the same objects, while they may have similar meanings for some social actors,…
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Competing Ontologies of Musical Improvisation
The idea of improvisation, broadly defined, has been integral to our imagination of the medieval musical past. It can be related to many elements of production: to the act of un-notated creation; to the manipulation and amplification of notated materials; to our observance of rigid rules and formulae; or to spontaneous freedom
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Fighting a hard battle with a soft weapon: is international climate change la…
Is international climate change law softening? Our analysis of this question takes place against the backdrop of commentaries on the 2015 Paris Agreement as a hallmark of a new era whereby the legally binding structures of the top-down Kyoto Protocol are replaced by a softer, bottom-up framework for global climate governance
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