Interdisciplinary Research in Meteorological Sciences

The Emotion Ontology: Enabling Interdisciplinary Research in the Affective Sciences

Affective science conducts interdisciplinary research into the emotions and other affective phenomena. Currently, such research is hampered by the lack of common definitions of terms used to describe, categorise and report both individual emotional experiences and the results of scientific investigations of such experiences. High quality ontologies provide formal definitions for types of entiti...

Solar Energy Prediction: An International Contest to Initiate Interdisciplinary Research on Compelling Meteorological Problems

AFFILIATIONS: mcGovern—School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; GAGne ii AnD bAsArA—School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; hAmill—NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado; mArGolin—EarthRisk Technologies and Solutions, San Diego, California CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Amy McGovern, 110 W. Boyd St., Norman, OK 73019 E-mail: amcgover...

A meeting of minds : interdisciplinary research in the health sciences in Canada R eview

What do avian influenza, obesity, breast cancer and SARS have in common? They are all major and complex Canadian public-health issues that require significant effort on the part of multiple health-science disciplines. Their characteristics and contributing factors are not bound by any disciplinary borders. In the face of these issues and others like them, health researchers and practitioners al...

Types and Levels of Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research in the Sciences

It is common today for scientists to conduct research in 20th century, significant research on this phenomenon collaboration with their colleagues from different institudid not begin until the 1950s. Researchers in sociology, tions and disciplines. This study collected a sample of psychology, and the history of science have initiated in846 scientific research papers published in 1992 and vestig...

Interdisciplinary Research in Physics