Strategic Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?

Designing Complex Systems A Contradiction in Terms

Networked infrastructures are complex socio-technical systems. The complexity shows in the physical networks, in the actor networks, and in their combination. This paper addresses the question how these systems should be designed. For the physical networks as well as the actor networks, design processes exist that could be applied separately. However, for these integrated networks an integrated...

Activist Pensioners, a Contradiction in Terms? Argentina’s Jubilados

I found just the place for me...even though one doesn’t accomplish great things. But we know what we want. We chose this...We aren’t going to give in to power, staying home. It’s good for us to be out in the street, doing something, awakening the recognition of folks. It’s tied to the solidarity of others with you... It comes from my father and sharing a plate of food, and the neighbours...You ...

Professional Workers and Fixed Term Contracts: a Contradiction in Terms?

Overlay-Friendly Native Network: A Contradiction in Terms?

It is a widely accepted notion that the native layer of the current Internet has begun to stagnate in terms of the services offered. Consequently, overlay networks have gained attention as a viable alternative to overcome functionality limitations of the Internet. A common approach to overlay network design holds the native network inviolable, implying that the overlay has to take on all the ta...

Evidence-based complementary medicine: a contradiction in terms?

Complementary medicine (CM) has been defined as: " diagnosis, treatment and/or prevention which complements mainstream medicine by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy or by diversifying the conceptual frameworks of medicine. " 1 It comprises well over 100 diVerent therapies, each of which has little in common with the others, and proclaims to be a veritab...