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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"metrication"”.
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Miles to meters an examination of public attitudes towards metric conversion: The 1977 FHWA Highway Metrication Proposal
Using letters written to the federal government in opposition to conversion to the metric system, this paper examines the phenomenon of fierce opposition to standards change, focusing on the types of reasoning used. I evaluate the presence of both economic and normative reasoning and identify six …
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Metric reform as a workshop of scientific and economic governance in revolutionary France
… and all places. As they contributed to shape metrication, they were simultaneously constructing the new political regime and their place within it. This dissertation considers the early history of the metric system as a testing ground to investigate how the scope and reach of both scientific …
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To our health : the role of IT in healthcare
… that improvements can be made through the metrication of personal health statistics, the use of electronic medical records, and the conversion of American healthcare into a market-based system with widely accessible quality ratings. These recommendations are targeted to voters and …