What life-course research can contribute to futures studies

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America: What Happiness Research Can (and Cannot) Contribute

Econophysics: What Can Physicists Contribute to Economics?

In recent years, a considerable number of physicists have started applying physics concepts and methods to understand economic phenomena. The term “Econophysics” is sometimes used to describe this work. Economic fluctuations can have many repercussions, and understanding fluctuations is a topic that many physicists have contributed to in recent years. Further, economic systems are examples of c...

What Can Synergetics Contribute to Embodied Aesthetics?

I deal with perception and action (e.g., movements) using results from synergetics, a comprehensive mathematical theory of the self-organized formation (emergence) of spatial, temporal, or functional structures in complex systems. I illustrate basic concepts such as order parameters (OPs), enslavement, complexity reduction, circular causality first by examples of well-known collective, spontane...

What can linguistics contribute to event extraction?

This paper examines the question of how a linguistic analysis of a written document can contribute to identifying, tracking and populating the “eventualities” that are presented in the document, either directly or indirectly, and representing degrees of belief concerning them. It is our view that the role of lexical analysis (as exemplified in the research carried out in the FrameNet project) i...