The patients of today are more often than previously said to act as consumers towards healthcare. However, the definition of the concept of consumer is often unclear and not based on theory. The present paper applies a theoretical framework that emphasizes the role of technological devices for the construction of calculating consumers as outlined by Michel Callon. The focus is on to what extent...

This paper explores the different yet complementary aspects of the panopticon and the panspectron using the case study of the Israeli controlled Palestinian territory, the Gaza Strip. Beginning with a brief theoretical discussion of the concept of panopticon and panspectron expanding on the existing literature, the paper moves on to discuss the implementation of panoptical and panspectral techn...

This chapter focusses on Foucault, Butler, and video-sharing on sexual social networking sites. It argues that the use and prevalence of video-sharing technologies on sexual social networking websites, has a direct impact on our notions of sexual identity. Though sometimes pitted against one another and at times contradictory, the ideas of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler on the nature and exp...

Purpose – Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia as a guide, the purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of considering the library as place, and specifically as a place that has the “curious property of being in relation with all the other sites, but in such a way as to suspect, neutralize, or invent the set of relations that they happen to designate, mirror, or reflect” (F...

I examine the debate between Michel Janssen and Harvey Brown over the arrow of explanation in special relativity. Brown argues that the symmetries of the dynamical laws explain the symmetries of space-time, whereas Janssen argues for the converse. Janssen has recently argued against Brown’s position on the grounds that it recommends trying to infer information from the relativistic effects, e.g...

Michel Planat, Peter Levay and Metod Saniga 1 Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS, 32 Avenue de l’Observatoire, F-25044 Besançon, France. 2 Departement of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary 3 Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK-05960 Tatranskà Lomnica, Slovak Republic. 4 Center for Interdisciplinary Researc...

-In this paper, we investigate some properties of Michel Penot subdifferentials of locally Lipschitz functions and establish Lagrange multiplier rule in terms of Michel-Penot subdifferentials for nonsmooth mathematical programming problem. Key-Words: Nonsmooth optimization; approximate subdifferentials; generalized gradient; Michel Penot subdifferential; Banach space.

We are going to discuss enumeration problems, and how to solve them using a powerful tool: generating functions. What is an enumeration problem? That’s trying to determine the number of objects of size n satisfying a certain definition. For instance, what is the number of permutations of {1, 2, . . . , n}? (answer: n!), or what is the number of binary sequences of length n? (answer: 2n). Ok, no...

Procurement is an important but neglected issue within the social science analysis of technology. Where studies have been conducted, they are typically marked by a schism between rationalist (e.g. economic) forms of analysis, where the assumption is that choice is the outcome of formal assessment, and cultural sociological approaches, which see choice as driven by the micropolitics of the organ...

The tunability of the DPIC mechanism. A yellow-emitting coumarin is connected to a “conversion meter” indicating efficiency conversion. needle points at different groups that have been attached pyrrole moiety. These are sorted from left right according conversion yield, with corresponding background ranging dark illustrate photo-bleaching blue photo-conversion. More information can be found in ...