Living in a material world

(BQ) In this book, an attempt is made to reconceptualize the meeting between the economy and technology with the help of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and economic sociology. Both of these approaches are relatively young and have developed new sets of ideas and concepts that have not yet been assimilated into mainstream social science. The theoretical point at which we suggest that economic and technological analysis may come together is in the idea of materiality, or the notion that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects.

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(BQ) Living in a material world: Economic sociology meets science and technology studies – Part 2, the following will be discussed in this part: Technology, agency, and financial price data; tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a wall street trading room; trading-room telephones and the identification of counterparts; understanding and reframing the electronic consumption experience: the interactional ambiguities of mediated coordination.

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Agriculture is the basis of rural economy and livelihood of developing nations where most of the farmers belong to small and marginal categories. Agriculture in developing nations had three contrasting divergence viz. Irrigated agriculture, Rainfed agriculture and Dryland agriculture, however, agriculture is considered as the best mean to reduce the rural poverty. According to Wikipedia, Poverty is not having enough material possessions or income for a person's needs. Poverty may include social, economic, and political elements.

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Popular culture integrates people in diverse settings. Individuals share ideas through materials they use, including food, dresses, movies, magazines, and holiday spots. In the past, people set for pilgrimage to holy sites; these days, they go on trekking through hills. Pilgrimages to consecrated sites have been replaced by people's journey to discotheque, fashion center and shopping complex in the modern time corporate world. What binds them together is the transformation of consciousness in line with the journey from the terrestrial to the celestial sphere.

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There are conditions to be met without which an experience cannot come to be. The outline of the common pattern is set by the fact that every experience is the result of interaction between a live creature and some aspect of the world in which he lives. A man does something; he lifts, let us say, a stone. In consequence he undergoes, suffers, something: the weight, strain, texture of the surface of the thing lifted. The properties thus undergone determine further doing. The stone is too heavy or too angular, not solid enough;...

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We are living in a risky world, and it is getting riskier and riskier. As one of my fundamental claims that have been delivered to various audience including scho-lars, practitioners and government officers, first, risk avoidance system in today’s world is becoming so interconnected; second, it is fully supported by a great of risk issues that have been addressed in this edited volume.

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In 2007, a UNICEF report on the well-being of children around the world, ranked the UK at the bottom of the world’s 21 richest countries. For all six parameters: material well-being, health and safety, educational well-being, family and peer relationships, behaviour and risks and subjective well-being, the UK was amongst the bottom five countries (UNICEF 2007). Since then, there has been considerable debate in the UK about ways to measure and enhance children’s well-being.

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Satellites have already been accepted as an effective medium for the communication of education and health services. For example, The Rural Health Education Foundation of Australia broadcasts distance education programs using digital satellite technology, the Internet including live webcasting, “enduring” materials (DVDs), other television services and new technologies as they become available. The Foundation operates a continually expanding network of more than 660 satellite receiving sites throughout rural and remote Australia, called the Rural Health Satellite Network.

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Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials, Striphas tells a story of modern publishing that proves, even in a rapidly digitizing world, books are anything but dead.

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For solid lesions multiple passes with separate needles are performed. Staying within the lesion, the needle is moved in a cutting motion withdrawing cells into the needle hub. The force of the cutting motion needed to obtain an adequate sample must be adjusted for the body site and characteristics of the lesion. These biopsies may be performed with suction or by the “non- suction” technique. 17 There are many styles of handles, syringes and needles that may be used, depending upon the operator’s preference. Once the cellular material is seen in the needle hub, suction...

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Minerals are basic to our way of living. Essentially everything we use in modern society is a product of the mining, agriculture, or oil and gas industries. Mining is the process of extracting raw materials from the Earth’s crust.1 In fact, mining contributes much in the way of raw material to the other two industries. Mining is important to the United States, which is both a major producer and a major consumer of mineral commodities.

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In a world immersed in readymade images, consumer advertising and the bureaucratised language of institutions, Kristeva’s work explains how art or aesthetic experience is one of the few means by which we can generate and access images that are linked to our vital and lived experiences and that have the capacity to engender personal, political and social renewal.

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It has been stated that our knowledge doubles every 20 years, but that may be an understatement when considering the Life Sciences. A series of discoveries and inventions have propelled our knowledge from the recognition that DNA is the genetic material to a basic molecular understanding of ourselves and the living world around us in less than 50 years. Crucial to this rapid progress was the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, which laid the foundation for all hybridization based technologies...

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Biometrics-Unique and Diverse Applications in Nature, Science, and Technology provides a unique sampling of the diverse ways in which biometrics is integrated into our lives and our technology. From time immemorial, we as humans have been intrigued by, perplexed by, and entertained by observing and analyzing ourselves and the natural world around us.

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Energy and human life are closely liked. Civilization, present and future, depends on energy to provide the facilities the human race needs. The world being created today will determine the outcome of a number of issues and conflicting demands, which we only now beginning to identify. Whilst their resolution will fashion the future world, the immediate challenge is to provide enough energy, water and food, to raise the standard of living of the ever-increasing world population without “imperiling our irreplaceable environment”....

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The world of the twenty first century is an energy consuming society. Due to increasing population and living standards, each year the world requires more energy and new efficient systems for delivering it. Furthermore, the new systems must be inherently safe and environmentally benign. These realities of today’s world are among the reasons that lead to serious interest in deploying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source.

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Manufacturing can be said in a broad sense to be the process of converting raw materials into usable and saleable end products by various processes, machinery, and operations. The important function of manufacturing is, therefore, to add value to the raw materials. It is the backbone of any industrialized nation. Without manufacturing, few nations could afford the amenities that improve the quality of life. In fact, generally, the higher the level of manufacturing activity in a nation, the higher is the standard of living of its people.

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