…plotted on map inserts, and each target was assigned a number. Then, information on each target—“all necessary detailed facts that will be needed later to make a target analysis”—was punched…

…role in the piecemeal global public health mapping[2] of a diabetes epidemic rising worldwide. Even with increasing bureaucratic recognition, the number of people with diabetes remains debated by major policy…

…colorless, translucent oil developed to meet Europe’s (chiefly Britain’s) demand for tin cans, cheap margarine, and cheap soap (Billows and Beckwith 1892:3). Soft palm oil, low in free fatty acids,…

…of passion, desperation, boredom, horniness, obsession, and jubilation on your computers, phones and the internet. Maybe you’re the government, maybe you’re just some innocent schmuck—maybe you’re both. Maybe you don’t…

…that, as one informant told us while patting his pocketed phone, “has an intimate relationship with millions of Kenyans.” In his influential account of the aesthetics of postcolonial power, Achille…

Across rural India the hand-crafted, biofuel cookstove, or chulha, has remained a ubiquitous feature of domestic life. Chulhas are generally cheap or free to construct and repair, are typically hand…

…menhaden. By 2006, that number had fallen to 27 percent, and the survival of osprey nestlings in Virginia had fallen to its lowest levels since the 1940s, when the insecticide…

…translate this potential into a stable consumer base. A set of field trials and experiments in a number of sites, including Bangladesh, Haiti, and Pakistan, finally yielded a couple of…

…that get through will be triaged over the phone by France’s unique emergency medicine system before they arrive at health care facilities. At Hospital A, preparations for handling Ebola cases…

…of technology that is paradigmatic for alternative and environmentalist movements of the late twentieth century. Members of the anti-nuclear movement and a number of associated critical intellectuals explicitly drew connections…

…actually setting strategy.”[2] Staffers crafted a number of rhetorical, organizing, and technical practices that negotiated this dilemma on a daily basis and proved markedly durable for much of the campaign….

…as laboratory based microscopy and, as the number of tests available on the market proliferated, concerns about disparity in the quality of devices and a lack of regulation in many…

…and economic sustainability aside for the moment. The scientists involved present these numbers in literature and conferences, often in percentages of reduced carbon dioxide, liters of wastewater, and kilowatt-hours of…

…local units than do boundary lines” and determine “the most significant constituents of the public and the residence of power” (Dewey 1927: 107). As a number of recent commentators have…

…sense of what’s changed, and when, over the last, say, decade or so? Kim Zetter: I think we have a number of thresholds in the last decade. And the DNC…

…and supermarket employees, note increasing numbers of shoppers pushing their carts along the edges of the center store, pausing at the edge of each aisle to peer down. Without much…

…Prize diagram. A common approach to recommendation is illustrated in this diagram from a recent article: the numbers from the matrix are statistically analyzed and their variance is mapped to…

…unlimited and unrestricted access to them. The support for a freely accessible scholarly knowledge commons takes many different forms. A growing number of academics publish in open access journals, and…

…order, number, and arrangement of options, can most effectively promote public welfare, as appropriate, giving particular consideration to the selection and setting of default options.” At the time, I was…

…in America. By 1909 the number would climb to 2000 plants producing over 15 million tons of ice. 1885: Colonel John Pemberton registers his coca wine nerve tonic, the non-alcoholic…

…the outbreak was first reported to WHO. Why, a number of critics have asked, did the agency not immediately declare a global health emergency and seek to galvanize international response…

…researchers understand the nature of the risk of a virus or worm to be simply the risk posed by a virus to a particular computer multiplied by the number of…

…limited number of possibilities: the past contained the elements of what was to come. If this form of future-orientation was thus a “static movement,” the next stage—the emergence of a…

…risk management issues was occasioned by a number of events such as severe storms, the BSE crisis, major blackouts, and last but not least 9/11. It is influenced by the…

…in a number of places. In most accounts, the chemical compounds or the scientist-investigators who study its health effects are the main characters (Vogel 2012). Here the story is retold…

…particular age group. It combined national census data and parish death registers to track a group of infants of the same age through life, recording the numbers still alive at…

…everything, is enlisted in the monitoring system. Acting like surveillance towers, the stations allow us to “see” a great number of things: ventilation that comes in and comes out, but…