“Pro-disciplinary” and “Anti-disciplinary” Networks in Late Soviet Society

ISVH – A multi-disciplinary society

The International Society for Vascular Health (ISVH) was established in June 2005 as a non-profit making society under French Law (1901). Publication of ISVH bylaws and establishment of the Executive Committee were achieved in August 2005. The first question posed by the Board was: “Why yet another International Society?” The unanimous conclusion of the ISVH Board was that there exists an urgen...

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...

Bridging the Disciplinary Divide

Academic disciplines see research questions through the biases created by their presuppositions and preferred methods. Political science and communication are no different. In the past, political scientists more often focused on outcomes and the social and economic judgments that seemed to shape them while communication researchers have focused more intensely on the structure and content of the...

Professing Performance: Disciplinary Genealogies

Cross-Disciplinary Design Methodology

Is there a cross-disciplinary design theory and methodology? This special issue includes three contributions from disciplines that are not typical engineering fields where design theories and methodologies have intensively applied and well received. The first paper, titled “Agile Forward-Reverse Requirements Elicitation as a Creative Design Process: a Case Study of Illimitable Space System v2” ...