Traditionally considered a deficiency in will power and rationality, suggestibility has proven a troublesome concept for psychology. It was forgotten, rediscovered, denounced, undermined experimentation and recently became the ambiguous issue at the centre of concern about child witness’ credibility in sexual abuse cases. This paper traces the history of suggestibility to show how it raises the...

Modern parallel supercomputing systems give scientists the power to model and visualize physical phenomena and chemical processes at a stunning degree of precision and sophistication leading to profound levels of insight and understanding. This paper samples new techniques and concepts promising scientists to visualize and explore large-scale data to its full extent, and show the impact of thes...

What is Interactive Art? What is Programming? For the purposes of this paper, interactive art is an art system that changes as a result of the presence of or action by the audience-participant. Viewing interactive art as an art system shows us that it is actually quite a complex field, involving various creators and audiences, not just a set of computational artefacts with an 'optimal' configur...

Traditionally considered a deficiency in will power and rationality, suggestibility has proven a troublesome concept for psychology. It was forgotten, rediscovered, denounced, undermined experimentation and recently became the ambiguous issue at the centre of concern about child witness’ credibility in sexual abuse cases. This paper traces the history of suggestibility to show how it raises the...

Traditionally considered a deficiency in will power and rationality, suggestibility has proven a troublesome concept for psychology. It was forgotten, rediscovered, denounced, undermined experimentation and recently became the ambiguous issue at the centre of concern about child witness’ credibility in sexual abuse cases. This paper traces the history of suggestibility to show how it raises the...

It is increasingly apparent that global capitalism is not capable of generating fair and sustainable development. This has been criticized by system perspectives in natural as well as social sciences. General Systems Theory (GST) emphasizes flows of energy and materials between systems, and enables descriptive quantification of North-South relations. Meanwhile, World System Theory (WST) is more...

Arnim Wiek, Michael J. Bernstein, Manfred Laubichler, Guido Caniglia, Ben Minteer, Daniel J. Lang School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Faculty Sustainability, Leu...

T Uezu, K Abe, S Miyoshi and M Okada 1 Graduate School of Sciences and Humanities, Nara Women’s University, Nara 630-8506 2 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science, Kansai University, Osaka, 564-8680 3 Devision of Transdisciplinary Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8561 4 RIKEN Brain Science Institute,...

Emerging molecular mechanism for cerebral small vessel disease: Lessons from hereditary small vessel disease Osamu Onodera, Yumi Sekine, Taisuke Kato, Akihide Koyama, Hiroaki Nozaki and Masatoyo Nishizawa Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Resource Branch for Brain Disease Research, Center for Bioresource-based Research, Department of Neurology, Clinical Neuroscience Branch, Brain Research I...

This essay examines the challenges and opportunities provided by transdisciplinarity from point of view medieval literature. approach is situated within universal framework General Education or Liberal Arts, which in turn derives its essential inspiration ancient learning. On one hand, various recent efforts to work transdisciplinarily are outlined discussed; on other, a selection narratives mo...