This paper looks at the fateful 1988 fuselage failure of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 to suggest and illustrate a new perspective on the sociology of technological failure and the question of whether such failures are potentially avoidable. Drawing on core insights from the sociology of scientific knowledge, it highlights, and then challenges, a fundamental principle underlying our understanding of technological risk: idea that 'failures' always connote 'errors' and are, in principle, foreseeable. From here, it suggests a new conceptual tool for Disaster Theory, by proposing a novel category of man-made calamity: what it calls the 'Epistemic Accident'. It concludes by exploring the implications of Epistemic Accidents and sketching their relati...
Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious and potentially fatal complication after surge...
Objectives: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (prognosis). The objectives are as follows: / P...
Käesolev bakalaureusetöö küsib, kas autonoomsed masinad suudavad teha eetilisi otsuseid. Autonoomse ...
In psychological and economic experiments, systematic deviations from rationality - so-called biases...
Prehospital, unexpected cardiac arrest is a major cause of death within emergency medicine, with mor...
The synopsis: The present thesis is titled "Workplace bullying. Antecedents and outcomes". Hence, it...
The inclusion of interesting but irrelevant details in instructional materials may result in the sed...
In this project I sought to analyse the effects of different free fatty acids (FFAs) on INS-1E β-cel...
Cryptogenic strokes represent approximately a 15% of all ischemic strokes and have a 3 to 6% recurre...
Objectives: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows:....
This Dictionary is intended for a broad readership including practising naval architects who wish to...
Summary: Background: This study aimed to evaluate the differences between the outcomes of patients w...
Over the past several decades the entire world has experienced both the positive and negative effect...
In aviation safety incident reports, lack of situation awareness (SA) is often attributed as the cau...
Neurodevelopment of preterm children has become an outcome of major interest since the improvement i...
Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious and potentially fatal complication after surge...
Objectives: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (prognosis). The objectives are as follows: / P...
Käesolev bakalaureusetöö küsib, kas autonoomsed masinad suudavad teha eetilisi otsuseid. Autonoomse ...
In psychological and economic experiments, systematic deviations from rationality - so-called biases...
Prehospital, unexpected cardiac arrest is a major cause of death within emergency medicine, with mor...
The synopsis: The present thesis is titled "Workplace bullying. Antecedents and outcomes". Hence, it...
The inclusion of interesting but irrelevant details in instructional materials may result in the sed...
In this project I sought to analyse the effects of different free fatty acids (FFAs) on INS-1E β-cel...
Cryptogenic strokes represent approximately a 15% of all ischemic strokes and have a 3 to 6% recurre...
Objectives: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows:....
This Dictionary is intended for a broad readership including practising naval architects who wish to...
Summary: Background: This study aimed to evaluate the differences between the outcomes of patients w...
Over the past several decades the entire world has experienced both the positive and negative effect...
In aviation safety incident reports, lack of situation awareness (SA) is often attributed as the cau...
Neurodevelopment of preterm children has become an outcome of major interest since the improvement i...
Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious and potentially fatal complication after surge...
Objectives: This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (prognosis). The objectives are as follows: / P...
Käesolev bakalaureusetöö küsib, kas autonoomsed masinad suudavad teha eetilisi otsuseid. Autonoomse ...