Objectivity to order

Foreword to ‘Objects of Objectivity’

Taylor and Francis Ltd SEP_Foreword.sgm 10.1080/ 0 00-0 00 (pri t)/0000-0000 (online) Original Article 2 4 & Francis Ltd 8 002004 Objectivity has fruitfully been explored in last two decades, manifested by the many studies on ‘objectivity’ in various scientific disciplines. Due to the variety of contexts studied, the focus on where claims of objectivity can be found varies in each case: canon, ...

Insulin initiation: bringing objectivity to choice

The choice of initial insulin is often dictated by subjective criteria: the "severity" of diabetes, the ability of the person with diabetes to self inject, at specific times of the day, and the physician's personal experience. No objective criteria have been evolved by any expert body so far to help guide clinicians make an appropriate, and accurate, choice of initiating insulin. Neither have l...

Objectivity in Historical Studies

  Methodological restriction brings in its wake invalidity and objectivity in various branches of human seiences. By study the objections concerning the objectivity in historical studies and historiography and contemporary version of science as the background of such objections makes clear that this version of induction and objectivity mingled with bigoty and exteoimism. As it is conceived no ...

Assurances of Objectivity

Objectivity Data Migration

In this article we describe the migration of event data collected by the COMPASS and HARP experiments at CERN. Together these experiments have over 300TB of physics data stored in Objectivity/DB that had to be transferred to a new data management system by the end of Q1 2003 and Q2 2003 respectively. To achieve this, data needed to be processed with a rate close to 100MB/s, employing 14 tape dr...