Exploring SuitNanoMusic Project: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on “Ratinhos” Faience Plates

<p><em>Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective</em> gathers contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive assessment of the importance of dogs through history. Over the last decades, countless studies have examined the lives of dogs and their current place in our societies as well as their crucial part in human life and history. Data and hypotheses have progressively increased, sometimes controversially, in each field of investigation. The domestication of dogs and its success during prehistory is a fascinating theme that scholars of various disciplines are involved with. However, there has not been a real exchange between those approaches and it is extremely complex to reach a complete view of the thousands of texts which are published every year. By contrast, this volume is entirely dedicated to dogs and it is focused on the necessity of an ‘interdisciplinary perspective’ to fully understand the fundamental role that dogs have played in our past. When, where, how and why were dogs domesticated? What is their story? What was their role in the history of humankind? What is their role in traditional and non-traditional societies today? The book originated from the conference ‘Dogs, Past and Present – an Interdisciplinary Perspective’ held at CNR (National Scientific Council) and at Sapienza University in Rome (14–17 November 2018), promoted by the Italian Association for Ethnoarchaeology and organised by the editors.</p>

Disaster related research has its own interdisciplinary perspectives connected to the disaster cycle (response, recovery, prevention, and preparedness). This special issue focuses on interdisciplinary geosciences perspectives of tsunami that cover the whole process of tsunami disasters (generation, propagation, impact assessment, psychological perspectives, and planning). This special issue collects tsunami research papers not only as lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami, but also from other areas in Japan (coastal defense structures, tsunami fires, economic loss assessment, and emergency planning) as well as other countries (morphological changes in Indonesia and building risk assessment in New Zealand. The order of the paper follows the tsunami disaster process and the connections between each paper show the interdisciplinary perspectives of tsunami research, which can also be used as a framework for other types of disaster research.

In annually published focused volumes, the series ‘Health Research. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (G.IP)’ deals with questions and problems in the field of health. The aim is to take the claim of interdisciplinary re-search seriously and to present the latest results from health research on current topics for discussion across disciplines and professions. This current volume is dedicated to the highly topical subject of ‘Digitalisation and Health’ from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective. The latest innovations in AI research are discussed (e.g. digital pain recognition) as well as the social consequences of digitalised health services and, last but not least, the ethical and legal challenges posed by the formalisation of medical and nursing practice. With contributions by Elisabeth André, Ann Kristin Augst, Katrin Bartl-Pokorny, Alexander Brinks, Magdalena Eitenberger, Benigna Gerisch, Henner Gimpel, Marc Jungtäubl, Vera King, Sebastian Kluckert, Bettina-Johanna Krings, Miriam Kunz, Julia Lanzl, Tobias Manner-Romberg, Arne Manzeschke, Manuel Milling, Christian Montag, Niclas Nüske, Florian Pokorny, Benedikt Salfeld, Micha Schlichting, Julia Schreiber, Björn Schuller, Cornelia Sindermann, Maike Stenger, Margit Weihrich, Nora Weinberger, Jennifer Wernicke and Lisa Wiedemann.

Book Review| October 01 2003 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 2, the New Immigrant in the American Economy Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 2, the New Immigrant in the American Economy, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desirée Qin-Hilliard. Ivan Light Ivan Light Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 23 (1): 102. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501383 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ivan Light; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Volume 2, the New Immigrant in the American Economy. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2003; 23 (1): 102. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/27501383 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2003 Immigration and Ethnic History Society2003 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

J. Michael Spector's Foundations of Educational Technology: Integrative Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives is intended as an introductory-level textbook for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates seeking an orientation to foundational principles in educational technology. The book is successful in its intended purpose, but Spector's presentation of educational technology as a non-reductive and cross-disciplinary field creates structural tensions between the text's intended role as introductory survey and the underlying complexity of its philosophical hermeneutic.

To facilitate the rapid and large-scale developments of offshore wind energy, scholars, policymakers and infrastructure developers must start considering its integration into the larger onshore energy system. Such offshore system integration is defined as the coordinated approach to planning and operation of energy generation, transport and storage in the offshore energy system, across multiple energy carriers and sectors. This article conducts a systematic literature review to identify infrastructure components of offshore energy system integration (including alternative cable connections, offshore energy storage, and power-to-hydrogen applications) and barriers to their development. An interdisciplinary perspective is provided where current offshore developments require not only mature and economically feasible technologies, but equally strong legal and governance frameworks. The findings demonstrate that current literature lacks a holistic perspective on the offshore energy system. To date, techno-economic assessments solving challenges of specific infrastructure components prevail over an integrated approach. Nevertheless, permitting issues, gaps in legal frameworks, strict safety and environmental regulations, and spatial competition also emerge as important barriers. Overall, this literature review emphasizes the necessity of aligning various disciplines to provide a fundamental approach for the development of an integrated offshore energy system. More specifically, timely policy and legal developments are key to incentivize technical development and enable economic feasibility of novel components of offshore system integration. Accordingly, to maximize real-world application and policy learning, future research will benefit from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Ethnic and racial identity (ERI) is a topic studied within numerous disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts, but there are relatively few attempts to bridge across disciplines. The purpose of the current special issue was to provide a forum for understanding ERI from an interdisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars from different disciplines into the same space. This article introduces the historical and conceptual background for the special issue, reviews some of the major contributions of the seven articles included in the issue, and highlights future directions for continuing to examine ERI from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Current global agriculture faces multiple dilemmas including "large population, high risks, high costs, severe pollution, and strong demand". Different regions in China also have their own challenges: poor water quality in the river network area of the Yangtze River Delta affects food security, insufficient groundwater in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, and low crop yields on sloping land in the southwest mountainous areas. This study optimizes the "Agricultural Mega-Synthesis and Interdisciplinarity (AMS)" framework, adds 4 specific research directions and 3 regional adaptation schemes, and constructs a six-layer practical model from "gene to food system". Through an interdisciplinary approach of "explainable artificial intelligence + scientific principles + farmer training", the goals are to increase grain yield per unit area by more than 20%, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30%, enable more than 70% of farmers to use new technologies, and formulate carbon sink trading guidelines and a technical applet for farmers, providing practical solutions to the agricultural problems of "high yield, risk resistance, and low carbon".

Tools have coined human life, living conditions, and culture. Recognizing the cognitive architecture underlying tool use would allow us to comprehend its evolution, development, and physiological basis. However, the cognitive underpinnings of tool mastering remain little understood in spite of long-time research in neuroscientific, psychological, behavioral and technological fields. Moreover, the recent transition of tool use to the digital domain poses new challenges for explaining the underlying processes. In this interdisciplinary review, we propose three building blocks of tool mastering: (A) perceptual and motor abilities integrate to tool manipulation knowledge, (B) perceptual and cognitive abilities to functional tool knowledge, and (C) motor and cognitive abilities to means-end knowledge about tool use. This framework allows for integrating and structuring research findings and theoretical assumptions regarding the functional architecture of tool mastering via behavior in humans and non-human primates, brain networks, as well as computational and robotic models. An interdisciplinary perspective also helps to identify open questions and to inspire innovative research approaches. The framework can be applied to studies on the transition from classical to modern, non-mechanical tools and from analogue to digital user-tool interactions in virtual reality, which come with increased functional opacity and sensorimotor decoupling between tool user, tool, and target. By working towards an integrative theory on the cognitive architecture of the use of tools and technological assistants, this review aims at stimulating future interdisciplinary research avenues.

Under the premise of emphasizing interdisciplinary learning and reference, the sociology of sports course from an interdisciplinary perspective needs to trace the historical trajectory of the interactive development of the sociology of sports course and other disciplines and grasp the law of the cross-development of the sociology of sports course and other disciplines. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate the need for interdisciplinary research in sports science in China, based on the overall concept of complexity of sports, completeness of sports science, the intersection of sports science research, and interdisciplinary needs of sports scientific research innovation. The innovation ability is taken as the research object, and the important influencing aspects of sports scientific research innovation ability are investigated. An index system of sports scientific research innovation ability is developed, and qualitative research is applied to examine the impact of interdisciplinary research on sports scientific research innovation. The impact of ability is exposed by quantitative analysis to explore the association between the relevant factors in scientific research innovation ability and carefully understand the important role of interdisciplinary research in Chinese sports scientific research innovation.

Book reviewed in this article:Psychiatric Illness in General Practice, 2nd ed. By M. Shepherd, B. Cooper, A. C. Brown & G. Kalton (with new material for this edition by M. Shepherd and A. Clare).Mental Illness in the Community ‐ The Pathway to Psychiatric Care. By D. Goldberg & P. Huxley (foreword by M. Shepherd).What is a Case? ‐ The Problem of Definition in Psychiatric Community Surveys. Edited by J. K. Wing, P. Bebbington & L. N. Robins.Phenomenology and Treatment of Psychophysiological Disorders. By W. E.Letting Go ‐ Caring for the Dying and Bereaved. By I. Ainsworth Smith & P. Speck.Psychological Skill Training‐The Structured Learning Technique. By A. P.The Behavioural and Brain Sciences ‐ An International Journal of Current Research and Theory with Open Peer CommentaryPsychotherapy ‐ An Eclectic Approach. By S. L. Garfield.Epilepsy and Psychiatry. By E. H. Reynolds & M. R. Trimble.Cognitive Social Psychology. Edited by A. H. Hastorf & A. M. Isen.Concepts of Health and Disease ‐ Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by A. L. Caplan, H. T. Englehardt, Jr & J. J. McCartney.Agoraphobia ‐ Nature and Treatment. By A. M. Mathews, M. G. Gelder & D. W.

"Seeing the city: interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of the urban." European Planning Studies, 30(4), pp. 789–790

Using counterdiabatic (CD) driving-aiming at suppression of diabatic transition-in digitized adiabatic evolution has garnered immense interest in quantum protocols and algorithms. However, improving the approximate CD terms with a nested commutator ansatz is a challenging task. In this work, we propose a technique of finding optimal coefficients of the CD terms using a variational quantum circuit. By classical optimization routines, the parameters of this circuit are optimized to provide the coefficients corresponding to the CD terms. Then their improved performance is exemplified in Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state preparation on the nearest-neighbour Ising model. Finally, we also show the advantage over the usual quantum approximation optimization algorithm, in terms of fidelity with bounded time. This article is part of the theme issue 'Shortcuts to adiabaticity: theoretical, experimental and interdisciplinary perspectives'.

BackgroundThe terms health app and medical app are often used interchangeably but do not necessarily mean the same thing. To better understand these terms and better regulate such technologies, we need distinct definitions of health and medical apps.ObjectiveThis study aimed to provide an overview of the definitions of health and medical apps from an interdisciplinary perspective. We summarized the core elements of the identified definitions for their holistic understanding in the context of digital public health.MethodsThe legal frameworks for medical device regulation in the United States, the European Union, and Germany formed the basis of this study. We then searched 6 databases for articles defining health or medical apps from an interdisciplinary perspective. The narrative literature review was supported by a forward and backward snowball search for more original definitions of health and medical apps. A qualitative analysis was conducted on the identified relevant aspects and core elements of each definition. On the basis of these findings, we developed a holistic definition of health and medical apps and created a decision flowchart to highlight the differences between the 2 types.ResultsThe legal framework showed that medical apps could be regulated as mobile medical devices, whereas there is no legal term for health apps. Our narrative literature review identified 204 peer-reviewed publications that offered a definition of health and medical apps. After screening for original definitions and applying the snowball method, 11.8% (24/204) of the publications were included in the qualitative analysis. Of these 24 publications, 22 (88%) provided an original definition of health apps and 11 (44%) described medical apps. The literature suggests that medical apps are a part of health apps. To describe health or medical apps, most definitions used the user group, a description of health, the device, the legal regulation, collected data, or technological functions. However, the regulation should not be a distinction criterion as it requires legal knowledge, which is neither suitable nor practical. An app’s intended medical or health use enables a clear differentiation between health and medical apps. Ultimately, the health aim of an app and its main target group are the only distinction criteria.ConclusionsHealth apps are software programs on mobile devices that process health-related data on or for their users. They can be used by every health-conscious person to maintain, improve, or manage the health of an individual or the community. As an umbrella term, health apps include medical apps. Medical apps share the same technological functions and devices. Health professionals, patients, and family caregivers are the main user groups. Medical apps are intended for clinical and medical purposes and can be legally regulated as mobile medical devices.

Theology and the Experience of Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down Under A. Picard and M. Habets (eds) (2016)London: Routledge, 282pp.