– This essay was written in response to an invitation by the editors of NSS issued after the author had reviewed the paper entitled " Methodological challenges of trans-disciplinary research " submitted by Christian Pohl and Gertrude Hirsch-Hadorn (see Pohl and Hirsch Hadorn, 2008). The essay provides an accounting for the transformation in my emotioning as I read the submitted paper by introdu...

DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) is an infrastructure developed under the auspices of the European Commission, it aims to organize communities in those fields, to develop interdisciplinary projects, promoting in particular the digital dimension of humanities and arts research by disseminating good practices, and providing tools and services. In legal terms, i...

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The Hirsch index (commonly referred to as h-index) is a bibliometric indicator which is widely recognized as effective for measuring the scientific production of a scholar since it summarizes size and impact of the research output. In a formal setting, the h-index is actually an empirical functional of the distribution of the citation counts received by the scholar. Under this approach, the asy...

In 1957 W.M. Hirsch conjectured that every d-polytope with n facets has edge-diameter at most n ? d. Recently Holt and Klee constructed polytopes which meet this bound for a number of (d; n) pairs with d 13 and for all pairs (14; n). These constructions involve a judicious use of truncation, wedging, and blending on polytopes which already meet the Hirsch bound. In this paper we extend these te...

With empowering stories and histories from twelve Aboriginal women who are leaders in different contexts and communities, the book acknowledges and celebrates the contributions of Aboriginal women to diverse fields of work and disciplines such as art, culture, politics, language, law, community, education, and social activism. About the Authors Eric Guimond is an assistant director at the Strat...

My primary research focus is in commutative algebra and its applications. I am especially interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying various well known asymptotic stability phenomena from representation theory, topology, and combinatorics using the language of commutative algebra. In the following sections I will spend time outlining much of my work in this direction. A particular fo...