The aim of the research was to establish the infl uence of techno music on the reaction times of participants in the research. Our hypothesis was that stimulating music, such as techno, would shorten the participants’ reaction time to visual stimuli while, without music, the reaction time would be longer. To defi ne the reaction time to expected light stimuli we used a special apparatus for mea...

Technological determinism is the belief that science and technology are autonomous and the main force for change in society. It is neither new nor particularly original but has become an immensely powerful and largely orthodox view of the nature of social change in highly industrialised societies. In this paper I analyse the presence of technological determinism in general discourses about the ...

We have studied the impacts of polypropylene (PP) and poly lactic acid (PLA) to quantify differences between fossil-based first generation biosourced plastics. Preliminary results on impact assessment from manufacturing stages suggested that smaller lot size part weight each injection molded plastic material, higher economic environmental impacts. When were equal, PLA performed better than PP. ...

There is an endogenous response process between common technology innovation and new energy industrial development. This article proposed the concept of common techno-innovation response to the new energy industrial development and comprehensive response degree model of common techno-innovation response to the new energy industrial development.

Summary With more than 50% of the primary energy consumed worldwide currently lost as waste heat, waste-heat conversion (WHC) should be considered a promising zero-carbon source electricity. Despite significant research on WHC, market penetration such technologies remains limited, in large part because R&D; community has primarily focused development new WHC heat engines with limited at...

Abstract—This paper presents a desktop study of comparing two different wave energy to electricity technologies (WECs) using a techno-economic approach. This techno-economic approach forms basis of a framework for rapid comparison of current and future technologies. The approach also seeks to assist in investment and strategic decision making expediting future deployment of wave energy harvesti...

One of the greatest contributions of Science and Technology Studies (STS), in the last 30 years, has been to show that the contours of science/technology and society are inextricably interwoven (Bloor [1976] 1991, Latour & Woolgar [1979] 1986; Knorr Cetina 1981; Shapin & Schaffer 1985; Latour 1987; Haraway 1991). These studies have highlighted that techno-scientific developments are path-depend...

Owing to the stringent regulations on pollutant emissions that are imposed by International Maritime Organization and increasing fuel prices, there has been significant research developing cleaner fuels novel propulsion systems. This study presents a techno-economical risk assessment method for evaluating alternative technologies as substitutes heavy oil two-stroke diesel engines in marine tran...