Looming struggles over technology for border control

Struggles for Meaning and Struggles for Control: The Diffusion of Bandwagon Technology in Two Institutional Environments

Using comparative case studies, this paper shows how institutional contexts influence the process of diffusion of a complex technology by determining the pattern of material resources and authority available to actors in their struggles to control the technology, and by constituting the discursive resources that may be mobilized in their struggles to shape its meaning in preferred ways. The pap...

On Conceptual Struggles over “Testing”

Testing, one of the key activities in engineering, is full of preconceptions. The general concept of testing is not clear, both for professionals and for educators, as “testology” has not established itself as a science yet. It is thus possible that, at the university level, the wrong concept of testing is being taught. We identify the main preconceptions (including the one that conflates testi...

SNARC struggles: Instant control over spatial-numerical associations.

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 39(6) of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (see record 2013-39107-001). In the article, incorrect values appeared for the number of trials in the experiment (section: Procedure) and for the intercepts of four regression lines (section: Regression Coefficient Analysis). The correct number of tri...

Border Disease Control Checkpoints: Are They Sufficient for Disease Control? The Present Situation in Thailand

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition SNARC Struggles: Instant Control Over Spatial–Numerical Associations