Problem statement: This study described the process and experience of designing and developing an embedded systems first course that serves different disciplines at the University of Jordan together with its associated laboratory. The course serves three different departments with varying requirements and varying student initial background. The stages of the design process of the course and ass...

Language and Learning Across the Disciplines is a joint publication of Georgia Southern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and follows the NCTE guidelines for non-sexist language. Major funding for LLAD is provided by the Academic Resource Center of the Illinois Institute of Technology; additional support is provided by Georgia Southern University and Washington State Universi...

GERALD LEMAINE, ROY MACLEOD, MICHAEL MULKAY and PETER WEINGART (editors), Perspectives on the emergence of scientific disciplines, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, (West Berlin, W. de Gruyter), 1976, 8vo, pp. xi, 281, DM.50.00. The disciplines represented in the twelve essays which comprise this book include agricultural chemistry, thermodynamics, physical chemistry, biophysics, x-ray protein cryst...

This paper examines the effective deployment of conversational agents in virtual worlds from the perspective of researchers/practitioners in cognitive psychology, computing science, learning technologies and engineering. From a cognitive perspective, the major challenge lies in the coordination and management of the various channels of information associated with conversation/ communication and...

Biochemical information has been crucial for the development of evolutionary biology. On the one hand, the sequence information now appearing is producing a huge increase in the amount of data available for phylogenetic analysis; on the other hand, and perhaps more fundamentally, it allows understanding of the mechanisms that make evolution possible. Less well recognized, but just as important,...

We propose a theoretical framework for the optimal collaboration among researchers in a knowledge network in which researchers are not limited to a single discipline and in which multiple modes of communication, including communication via the Internet, are available. We introduce a novel concept of distance to measure not only the communication distance but also the distance between discipline...

Since the cognitive revolution, a widely held assumption has been that—whereas content may vary across cultures—cognitive processes would be universal, especially those on the more basic levels. Even if scholars do not fully subscribe to this assumption, they often conceptualize, or tend to investigate, cognition as if it were universal (Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010). The insight that uni...