Later Saturday night and early Sunday morning, Orellana and the rest of the team canvassed an array of public and private institutions, gathering information to take, in effect, before and after photos of the affected areas.
In recent years, biobanks have evolved from centres collecting tissues and blood samples, to institutions gathering also a whole spectrum of information including social, clinical, and pathological records together with genomic profiles.
The initial telephone call is very much about the institution gathering information about you, answering your queries, and deciding whether a visit is worthwhile.
Frankly, it's not as though the institutions currently gathering our data do a bang-up job protecting privacy, either.
What is most concerning is that the internet has become an online institution for gathering and coordinating these marginalized individuals.
The Interference Archive, a volunteer-run institution dedicated to gathering "the cultural ephemera of social movements," sits across the street from a trendy pie shop and around the corner from the Morbid Anatomy Museum, in the spartan, brick-heavy confines of Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Accordingly, faith-based humanitarian organizations can be described as civil society institutions or charity societies gathering people of particular Islamic ideology around a religiously oriented mission statement, generally to contribute to social welfare.
The institution has quietly been gathering financial support for the $680 million project, which would involve a new 185,000-square-foot building on a city-owned site at Washington and Gansevoort Streets in the meatpacking district.
Many institutions and organizations are increasingly gathering intelligence by processing and analyzing massive amounts of data that is in textual format and collected from multiple sources and languages.
Also, 'acquaintance with local context enhances foreign firms' capacity to select, and interact with, local partners and institutions, as a means of gathering further stimuli and innovative ideas, and of exploiting effectively opportunities emerging from local contexts' (page 20).
More recently, researchers and institutions have put some effort in gathering comparable bilateral migration data across destination countries.
