Experiments in interdisciplinary capacity-building: The successes and challenges of large-scale interdisciplinary investments

Building interdisciplinary frameworks: The importance of institutions, scale, and politics.

An interdisciplinary approach to capacity building in applied research.

The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) has contributed to applied health and nursing services research in Canada by establishing the Regional Training Centres (RTCs). The interdisciplinary education and experience in applied health and nursing services research that the RTCs offer has produced graduates who are highly sought after by both academic and key health services decis...

Medical Humanities; Study on the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Training in Medical Sciences in Iran

Medical Humanities; Study on the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Training in Medical Sciences in Iran Ahmad Kalateh Sadati 1, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani 2* 1Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran 2Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Abstract Introduction: Medicine and related subjec...

Grand challenges in interdisciplinary physics

The dictionary definition of physics is the study of matter, energy, and the interaction between them1. There is no doubt that this definition does describe the core of physics. However, over the last three decades, a shift has occured. Physics has spilled over its boundaries set by the definition quoted, and we now have fields such as econophysics, sociophysics, biological physics, and geologi...

Simulations of Large-scale WiFi-based Wireless Networks: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Applications

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) is the fastest growing wireless technology to date. In addition to providing wire-free connectivity to the Internet WiFi technology also enables mobile devices to connect directly to each other and form highly dynamic wireless adhoc networks. Such distributed networks can be used to perform cooperative communication tasks such ad data routing and information disseminati...