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Score, rank and number are always become our concern rather to decide something is good or bad. The question is how this score, rank, and number been accepted and constructed? Moreover, who have the ‘right’ to do that and what aspects need to be highlighted? As mentioned earlier, Latour pointed four professionals to be taken […]

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In history, there are several similar events occurred independently. For example, Leibniz developed the calculus independently of Newton, at almost in the same time. Wallace developed the theory of natural selection independently of Darwin, though later. Because of a paper by Wallace, Darwin found the energy to write Origin of Species so he would receive […]

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Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is an intergovernmental means of governance in Europe Union, based on the voluntary cooperation of its member states. In its implementation, OMC is divided into two steps: initiated by ‘the government’, a top-down approach, and the second, initiated by its member states towards experimental dynamic with the involvement of local […]

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From Genevieve teil & Bruno Latour, “the hume machine: can association networks do more than formal rules?”
Is there something beyond text? What do someone refer when they talk about in-formation? Is it in our mind or it is related with the reality? Does degree tell something about meaning?
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How can someone judge rather something is good or bad? Moreover, how can we quantify it? Latour (1987), Callon & Muniesa (2003), proposed three-step process of calculation:

In order to be calculated, the entities taken into account have to be detached. A finite number of entities are moved, arranged and ordered in a single space. This […]

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Most collaborations between companies and academic researchers are initiated by industry scientists looking for specific technologies or expertise, notes Anthony Boccanfuso, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP), a consortium aimed at improving collaboration between universities and industry. But that doesn’t mean university researchers have to sit and wait for the phone […]

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“FOR the sake of basic human interests, the Indonesian government declares that genomic data on bird-flu viruses can be accessed by anyone.” With those words, spoken on August 3rd, Siti Fadilah Supari started a revolution that could yet save the world from the ravages of a pandemic disease. That is because Indonesia’s health minister has […]

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“We have to launch “New Deal” to create jobs, and to rescue the suffering from the crisis (which is partially caused by wrong approach, wrong prescription and wrong policies), including the weakening of the purchasing power because
of fuel price increase. We have to bring hope to our people, and
free them from fear and insecurity for […]

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A pamphlet distributed recently by the Indonesian Palm Oil Commission (IPOC) states: “Compared to tropical forest, oil-palm plantations possesses several environmental advantages, it consumes more carbon dioxide (CO2) and releases more oxygen (O2) than tropical forest, which is beneficial to the environment.”
Few serious scientists would support the claim that oil-palm plantations store more carbon than […]

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“Bioenergy markets are largely policy dependent in most of the world, as the production of biofuels in most countries is not at this point competitive with fossil fuels. Nearly all countries reported that energy security and climate change are the most important drivers of their bioenergy development activities. Overall there are few differences between the […]

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