Indeed, because evolution is a highly contingent process, it is difficult to predict the fate of each single lineage.
(Interview 20) Although this participant describes her experience of ultrasound using an interpretative repertoire of medical objectification, her account also locates medical objectification as a socially contingent process.
Though similar to what was found in India as part of the wider study, evidence use is being progressively recognized as a highly contingent process that varies across settings and time [ 41, 42].
One of the most striking findings was that diagnosis was not a discrete act that took place at a particular moment in time, but a collective, cumulative, contingent process.
Our synthesising argument runs as follows: candidacy is a dynamic and contingent process, constantly being defined and redefined through interactions between individuals and professionals, including how "cases" are constructed.
Three interlinked analytical themes were identified: (1) diagnosis as a collective, cumulative, contingent process; (2) taking care to ensure that diagnosis if reached at all is opportune; (3) diagnosis of dementia as constitutive or consequential, but also a diagnosis whose consequences are unpredictable.
The model described in Figure 2 identifies candidacy as a core issue, which is defined as 'how people's eligibility for healthcare is jointly negotiated in interaction between individuals and health services', and as a 'dynamic and contingent process, constantly being defined and redefined through interactions between individuals and professionals'.
I conclude by outlining principles for theoretically and computationally approaching use as an embodied and temporally contingent process – as a form of 'making'making
Accumulation of a rich cassette metagenome will likely prove to be a complex and historically contingent process, and further metagenomic investigation of our samples may provide insights into this history as well as the role of LGT processes in bioremediation.
We conclude that the building of trust is a necessary but always vulnerable and contingent process.
J. B. S Haldane and John Bernal [27] where among the first authors to see that science can become one of the causal powers that purposefully directs the otherwise slow and contingent process of Darwinian evolution.4 What underlies the notion of the cyborg is the idea that science can provide some kind of "clean slate" or cleared space for a radical change of humans and their future [28].
