Blurring the boundaries

Blurring the Disciplinary Boundaries

Blurring disciplinary boundaries.

he ambitious and integrated framework of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demonstrates that complex global problems span the natural and social sciences and that solutions to such problems demand a joint approach of the two. Despite decades of efforts toward better integration, much of society still presumes a stark divide between the disciplines, and most scientists...

Blurring the Boundaries: Disentangling the Implications of Virtual Space

Virtual space provides more challenges to business organizations than simply its status as a new spatial phenomena. The conceptualization of traditional organizational structures is altered within virtual space. The significance of this observation is compounded when traditional operational forms of organization continue to maintain fixed or inpenetratable boundaries. Virtual space enacts a blu...

The Internet and science communication: blurring the boundaries

Scientific research is heavily dependent on communication and collaboration. Research does not exist in a bubble; scientific work must be communicated in order to add it to the body of knowledge within a scientific community, so that its members may 'stand on the shoulders of giants' and benefit from all that has come before. The effectiveness of scientific communication is crucial to the pace ...

Blurring the boundaries: technology and the nurse-patient relationship.

Nurses, like the rest of the world's population are increasingly participating in online social media. Nurses must be mindful to avoid situations that could ultimately compromise past, present and future patient health and wellbeing, as well as their professional identities and reputations and that of the nursing profession. Unprofessional uses of social networking tools are common. This articl...