Karen Knorr's sumptuous composed `tableaux' photographs are the subject of this book, accompanied by three essays, the most useful of which takes the form of a conversation between the photographer and Rebecca Comay. They discuss aspects of Knorr's work, notably her interest in the preservation of cultural heritage and the ways in which the animal is separated from the human in museums. Thus na...

This research aims to analyze and describe the implementation of “Kotaku” policy in Perkamil Village, Paal Dua sub-District, Manado City, terms Adequate resources, How many causal relationships occur and, Authority/power. The method used this study is descriptive qualitative collection technique by observation, interviews documentation. informants were Head Residential Area City Devision , Mand...

Knowledge discovery in databases, commonly referred to as data mining, has attracted enormous research efforts from different domains such as database, statistics, artificial intelligence, data visualization, etc, in the past decade. Most of the research work in data mining such as clustering, association rules mining and classification focus on discovering the “large patterns” from databases (...

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...

For many applications in knowledge discovery in databases finding outliers, rare events, is of importance. Outliers are observations, which deviate significantly from the rest of the data, so that it seems they are generated by another process (Hawkins, 1980). Such outlier objects often contain information about an untypical behavior of the system. However, outliers bias the results of many dat...