Concrete is one of the most widely used materials in various civil engineering applications.
Its global production rate is increasing to meet demand. Mechanical properties of concrete …

Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly
is it, and how do professors identify it? In the academic evaluation system known as “peer …

Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and
are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post …

This paper develops a social-theoretical approach to public demonstrations (eg, software
demos, the performances of “market pitchers,” even street protests). Public demonstrations …

It might be assumed that when political officials and experts try to envision the future, they do
so in order to predict the outcomes of their actions in the present. And indeed this is often the …

Mathematics is often treated as different from other disciplines, since arguments in the field
rely on deductive proof rather than empirical evidence as in the natural sciences. A …

It can be said that reasoning introduces some kind of organization in thinking for directing it
to a goal. What is required for a theoretical study of ordinary reasoning is to establish as …

This chapter¹ analyzes the circulation of a financial product in and out of an investment bank.
It uses the notions of articulation and liquidity to characterize the process of products' …

In this paper we re-examine the implications of the differences between 'doing'and
'writing'science and mathematics, questioning whether the way that science and …

Current sociology of knowledge tends to take for granted Robert K. Merton's theory of
cumulative advantage: successful ideas bring recognition to their authors, successful …