Shapeshifting as Infrastructural Storytelling: Comics about the Taxibot’s Conflicting Narratives

Giada Peterle and Tina Harris Academy of Mobility Humanities 2024 Mobility Humanities Vol.3 No.1

What are the stories we tell about infrastructures and what stories do infrastructures tell (about) us? We propose a paper in a hybrid verbo-visual format, including comic-pages created by Giada Peterle and based on Tina Harris’s keynote at the 2022 GMHC conference, autoethnographic notes, and visuals collected during fieldwork. Through experimenting with graphic storytelling, we highlight examples of infrastructural revelation and concealment, drawing on the figure of the shapeshifter as both a metaphor and a method for mobilising infrastructural imagination. What unites shapeshifters in many of the stories and myths we read is how they are taken up in different ways; how they simultaneously present both the potential to improve human lives as well as produce fear due to their unpredictability. By focusing specifically on the narrative of one shapeshifting infrastructure—the Taxibot, a vehicle designed to cut down on carbon emissions and improve efficiency at airports—we use comics as a research practice for exploring this metaphor and developing a broader understanding of how mobile lives and imaginaries shape infrastructure (and vice versa). We argue that paying closer attention to storytelling can generate new understandings of the uneven nexus between infrastructures and mobile lives, weaving in our understanding of infrastructural im/mobilities.

Exchange: Explaining the Passage of Universal Healthcare in Thailand

Joseph Harris,Joel Sawat Selway 동아시아연구원 2020 Journal of East Asian Studies Vol.20 No.1

What explains the passage of Thailand's landmark universal healthcare (UHC) policy? In separate contributions, Selway and Harris emphasized the role of electoral rules and political parties, on one hand, and “professional movements” of developmentally minded state bureaucrats on the other. Which is correct? In this article, Selway and Harris respond to each other's work. While Selway agrees that the actions of the professional movement constitute an underappreciated necessary condition for universal healthcare in Thailand, he argues that Harris overstates the role of the movement in implementation. Harris defends his position and maintains that an institution-focused account is insufficient, arguing that the actions of Thailand's Rural Doctors’ Movement not only explain universal healthcare but also gave rise to the very electoral rule changes that Selway argues were so critical to facilitating universal coverage. Selway responds to these criticisms, and the two researchers jointly consider implications for causation, qualitative research, and policymaking theory.

Artificial intelligence in inflammatory bowel disease: implications for clinical practice and future directions

( Harris A. Ahmad ),( James E. East ),( Remo Panaccione ),( Simon Travis ),( James B. Canavan ),( Keith Usiskin ),( Michael F. Byrne ) 대한장연구학회 2023 Intestinal Research Vol.21 No.3

Inflammatory bowel disease encompasses Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and is characterized by uncontrolled, relapsing, and remitting course of inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract. Artificial intelligence represents a new era within the field of gastroenterology, and the amount of research surrounding artificial intelligence in patients with inflammatory bowel disease is on the rise. As clinical trial outcomes and treatment targets evolve in inflammatory bowel disease, artificial intelligence may prove as a valuable tool for providing accurate, consistent, and reproducible evaluations of endoscopic appearance and histologic activity, thereby optimizing the diagnosis process and identifying disease severity. Furthermore, as the applications of artificial intelligence for inflammatory bowel disease continue to expand, they may present an ideal opportunity for improving disease management by predicting treatment response to biologic therapies and for refining the standard of care by setting the basis for future treatment personalization and cost reduction. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the unmet needs in the management of inflammatory bowel disease in clinical practice and how artificial intelligence tools can address these gaps to transform patient care. (Intest Res 2023;21:283-294)

Errors in GEV analysis of wind epoch maxima from Weibull parents

Harris, R.I. Techno-Press 2006 Wind and Structures, An International Journal (WAS Vol.9 No.3

Parent wind data are often acknowledged to fit a Weibull probability distribution, implying that wind epoch maxima should fall into the domain of attraction of the Gumbel (Type I) extreme value distribution. However, observations of wind epoch maxima are not fitted well by this distribution and a Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) analysis leading to a Type III fit empirically appears to be better. Thus there is an apparent paradox. The reasons why advocates of the GEV approach seem to prefer it are briefly summarised. This paper gives a detailed analysis of the errors involved when the GEV is fitted to epoch maxima of Weibull origin. It is shown that the results in terms of the shape parameter are an artefact of these errors. The errors are unavoidable with the present sample sizes. If proper significance tests are applied, then the null hypothesis of a Type I fit, as predicted by theory, will almost always be retained. The GEV leads to an unacceptable ambiguity in defining design loads. For these reasons, it is concluded that the GEV approach does not seem to be a sensible option.

온타리오 하이드로사 원전의 가동 중단과 과제 - 성능 개선대책과 앞으로의 전망 -

Harris D.S. 한국원자력산업회의 1997 원자력산업 Vol.17 No.10

전기음향공업의 최근의 전망

Harris, Cyril M. 대한전자공학회 1968 전자공학회지 Vol.5 No.1

Determinants of Individual Voting Behavior: The Role of Social Capital, Free-Riding Tendencies and Nationalistic Sentiments

Harris Hyun Soo Kim 이화여자대학교 이화사회과학원 2013 사회과학연구논총 Vol.29 No.2

The aim of this study is to examine some key determinants of formal political participation, namely voting behavior in local and national elections. In analyzing “who participates,” social scientists have increasingly relied on the role of social capital. This study applies two major social capital concepts, i.e., generalized trust and voluntary organizational membership, in investigating the conditions under which people are more likely to cast a ballot during election times. In addition, it introduces two new concepts which have not received systematic attention in the extant scholarship: the level of national pride and free-riding tendencies, which are both hypothesized to affect the probability of individual political involvement. The data come from the Korean subsample of the Asian Barometer Survey (2003), the largest cross-national general social science survey covering Asian countries. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the current research examines simultaneously at individual and contextual (regional) levels how these four main independent variables are associated with the outcome variables (voting in local and national elections). Ceteris paribus, generalized trust increases the likelihood of participation in the national, but not local, election. Organizational membership has no significant effect on both types of voting at the individual level. But, at the regional level, it is negatively associated with voting behavior during times of national election. Nationalism raises the chances of getting involved in the local election only, while free-riding tendency is found to decrease the probability of casting a vote during national elections. These findings suggest that political consequences of social capital are not uniform but contingent upon contextual factors.

Immigrant Network Structure and Perceived Social Capital

Harris Hyun-soo Kim(김현수) 서울대학교 사회발전연구소 2014 Journal of Asian Sociology Vol.43 No.2

The main purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between (objective) network structures of individual immigrants and their (subjective) expectations regarding access to social capital. Based on a government-funded original dataset collected on ethnic Koreans living in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, this study probes into how the way in which an individual (i.e., ego) is tied with his or her close social contacts (i.e., alters) is associated with perceived social support from them. In highlighting this causal linkage, two network concepts are explored as possible mechanisms: closure (Coleman 1988) and brokerage (Burt 1992). The findings from empirical analyses lend support for the brokerage argument. Ceteris paribus, immigrants whose egocentric networks are characterized by openness and disconnectedness (i.e., filled with more ‘structural holes’ or nonredundant contacts) are more likely to believe that they can receive assistance from their close friends and relatives in times of need.

Electrical characterization studies of p-type Ge, Ge1−ySny, and Si0.09Ge0.882Sn0.028 grown on n-Si substrates

Harris, Thomas R.,Ryu, Mee-Yi,Yeo, Yung Kee,Beeler, Richard T.,Kouvetakis, John Elsevier 2014 CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS Vol.14 No.1

The electrical properties of p-type Ge, Ge1-ySny, and Si0.09Ge0.882Sn0.028 samples grown on n-type Si substrates using ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition have been investigated as a function of temperature. Degenerate parallel conducting layers were found in all Ge/Si, Ge1-ySny/Si, and Si0.09Ge0.882Sn0.028/Si samples, which are believed to be associated with dislocation defects at the interface produced by the lattice mismatch between the two materials. These degenerate conducting layers affect the electrical properties of all the thin epitaxial films. Additionally, temperature dependent Hall-effect measurements show that these materials exhibit a conductivity type change from p to n at around 370-435 K. The mobilities of these samples are generally lower than that of bulk Ge due to carrier scattering near the interface between the epitaxial layer and the Si substrate and also due to alloy scattering. Detailed behavior of temperature-dependent conductivity of these samples is also discussed. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

제3국 프로젝트를 위한 한 $\cdot$ 캐 국제 협력

Harris D.S. 한국원자력산업회의 1998 원자력산업 Vol.18 No.10