Training for Cross-Disciplinary Research and Science as a Team Sport

Cross - Disciplinary Research as a Platform for Philosophical Analysis

• How can different and potentially incommensurable disciplinary ontologies be synthesized into an integrated set of metaphysical commitments? • How can different technical meanings be negotiated to yield a common understanding of the research landscape? • How can normative questions about intellectual and social virtue be answered in the multicultural context of cross-disciplinary research? • ...

Challenges of team-sport research.

Networking academia: Categories as a cross-disciplinary research language

A network culture is emerging in human society. It takes on a wide variety of forms, from the online social networks between individuals, to information networks (e.g. Lokey's Business Wire), to virtual trading floors for financial securities, to global delivery networks of goods and services: everyone is linking up. In order to efficiently study this phenomenon, one must construct rigorous def...

Determinants of team-sport performance: implications for altitude training by team-sport athletes

Team sports are increasingly popular, with millions of participants worldwide. Athletes engaged in these sports are required to repeatedly produce skilful actions and maximal or near-maximal efforts (eg, accelerations, changes in pace and direction, sprints, jumps and kicks), interspersed with brief recovery intervals (consisting of rest or low-intensity to moderate-intensity activity), over an...

Nominalization in Academic Writing: A Cross-disciplinary Investigation of Physics and Applied Linguistics Empirical Research Articles

The present study aimed to explore how nominalization is manifested in a sample of Physics and Applied Linguistics research articles (RAs), representing hard and soft sciences respectively. To this end, 60 RAs from discipline-related professional journals were randomly selected and analyzed in light of Halliday and Matthiessen’s (1999) taxonomy of nominalization. Comparing the normalized freque...