Focusing on the construction of Lamu Port as a focal point Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor in Kenya, this article explores how megainfrastructures are entangled with processes life-making and -unmaking, thus producing specific subject dispositions within state’s infrastructural biopolitics infrastructure-based capacitation control national populations. Analyzing sociopoli...

The article introduces a control model of company’s market value factors on the basis of infrastructural representation of an innovative enterprise. In this model, factors are compared to indices that are used in strategic development decision-making. Infrastructural representation of the control object of an enterprise’s innovative activities (EIA) is implemented with the value maximization co...

Generic middleware can often not provide satisfactory solutions, but neither is it acceptable to let the application developer reinvent the wheel each time. Therefore, middleware shall support reuse of infrastructural services while leaving the application in control. In particular, we contribute with a middleware approach to support adaptive dependability by balancing integrity and availabilit...

Between 1700 and 1870 Britain’s transport sector improved dramatically. This paper surveys the literature on Britain’s transport revolution and examines its contribution to economic growth during the Industrial Revolution. It reviews the important infrastructural and technological developments, documents the evolution of transport markets, and examines the developmental effects of transport. Th...

Recent World Health Organization data show that while cigarette consumption has been decreasing in the advanced countries over the last decade the worldwide number of smokers is still increasing. The rate of tobacco use has not declined among the youth and young adults in the lower to middle income countries mainly due to aggressive tobacco industry marketing practices. Smoking is a major risk ...

The paradigm shift to e-commerce in business transactions provides significant advantages such as expanding markets, improving customer services, reducing costs, and enhancing productivity. The global phenomenon is less aggressive in developing economies where small and medium enterprises struggle to provide internet services at their own expense due to limited government support and infrastruc...

Our study investigates the role of infrastructures in shaping online news usage by contrasting use patterns of two social groups—millennials and boomers—that are specifically located in news infrastructures. Typically based on self-reported data, popular press and academics tend to highlight the generational gap in news usage and link it to divergence in values and preferences of the two age co...

Understanding the contextual factors affecting user experience is essential in designing and evaluating mobile systems for mobile work. The aim of this paper is to explore these contextual factors through three case studies: of safety observation at construction sites, passenger transportation with taxis, and mobile news journalism. For each case study we describe the nature of the mobile work ...