This article discusses the possibilities that a deeper engagement with the work of Gabriel Tarde opens for Actor-Network Theory (ANT). It argues that the combination of ANT’s methodological and analytical orientation and Tarde’s neo-monadology offers an appropriate framework for the study of new forms of political activism. Findings from an ethnographic research on the conflict surrounding the ...

Until the advent of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in the 90’s of the last century, the only efficient means to find out whether an offspring has inherited a genetic disease from a couple who are carriers of the defective gene is through prenatal diagnosis (PND). However, if the fetus is found to have the genetic disease, presently the only available treatment is to abort the fetus, an...

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due to the high penetration of wind farms in the networks, they can have a significant role in the control of power systems. in this paper, wind farms (wfs) are used to improve the static security margins of the power system. generation rescheduling is one of the remedies to improve the static security margins of the power system. in this paper, the generation rescheduling is presented based on...

This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions from the economic effects of party control of government to the importance of complex rules in congressional committees. However, the results of event studies a...

We have deened a new network programmingmodel called Mobile Assistant Programming (MAP) for development and execution of communication applications in large scale networks of heterogeneous computers. MAP assistants are high-level interpreted programs that can move between nodes, create clones and report results. Their execution is asyn-chronous and persistent to allow client disconnections and ...

The Centurion 18 inch Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope (TEST) with a focal ratio F2.8 located on Gaomeigu campus at the Lijiang station of Yunnan Observatories, China, since 2016 is shown its dome completely opened dusk.TEST employed for Yunnan-HongKong wide field photometric survey which has precision better than 0.01 mag stars brighter 13.8 in V band. already identified about thousand va...

A general theory is developed for constructing the asymptotically shallowest networks and the asymptotically smallest networks (with respect to formula size) for the carry save addition of n numbers using any given basic carry save adder as a building block. Using these optimal carry save addition networks the shallowest known multiplication circuits and the shortest formulae for the majority f...

"Save paper, save trees" is a hot agenda in today's world. This paper presents an ingenuous approach to achieve the motto, by proposing a software-only design, through modeling a paper notepad digitally. It describes the financial and social significance of this model underlining its implementation. The paper also briefs about the underlying hardware selected for the design implementation. The ...