The Kiev Folia: An interdisciplinary approach to unravelling the past of an ancient Slavonic manuscript

Since the first identification of the silkworm moth sex pheromone in 1959, significant research has been reported on identifying and unravelling the sex pheromone mechanisms of hundreds of insect species. In the past two decades, the number of research studies on new insect pheromones, pheromone biosynthesis, mode of action, peripheral olfactory and neural mechanisms, and their practical applications in Integrated Pest Management has increased dramatically. An interdisciplinary approach that uses the advances and new techniques in analytical chemistry, chemical ecology, neurophysiology, genetics, and evolutionary and molecular biology has helped us to better understand the pheromone perception mechanisms and its practical application in agricultural pest management. In this review, we present the most recent developments in pheromone research and its application in the past two decades.

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INTRODUCTION

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.90.3.v ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 90 (3) ◽

pp. V-V

Author(s):

ROBERT J. HAGGERTY

Keyword(s):

Animal Models ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Developmental Psychobiology ◽

Research Projects ◽

Older Children ◽

Pediatric Practice ◽

The Past ◽

Scientific Disciplines ◽

And Child Health ◽

Made In

The William T. Grant Foundation supports eight consortia, each devoted to a specific issue, and each consisting of ten to twenty members from a Variety of scientific disciplines. Our purpose is to provide a forum for discussion of ideas, research, and conceptual and theoretical bases of that research to individuals who work in related areas, but who might not under other circumstances have easy communication with each other, especially in the preliminary stages of the development of their research projects. By the time national meetings occur, projects are of necessity completed, and there is no chance for modification using an interdisciplinary approach. We have been very pleased with this device to bring research workers of different disciplines together. The newest of these consortia is devoted to the Developmental Psychobiology of Stress and includes pediatricians, psychologists, and anthropologists who work on both human and animal models. This group moved promptly in their first meeting to bring together a talented group of researchers from different disciplines; the results of their research are presented in this supplement. They well exemplify the advances that have been made in recent years in methodology to study mind-body interactions in infants and older children. Methodologic barriers in the past have limited research on stress in humans. It is stimulating and exciting to see that these barriers are beginning to be overcome, and that research such as is presented here is illuminating this exciting new field. It has enormous application to pediatric practice and child health in the future.

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Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History

10.3828/liverpool/9781904113300.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jane S. Gerber

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Tenth Century ◽

The Past ◽

The Many ◽

At Home

Sephardi identity has meant different things at different times, but has always entailed a connection with Spain, from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. While Sephardi Jews have lived in numerous cities and towns throughout history, certain cities had a greater impact on the shaping of their culture. This book focuses on those that may be considered most important, from Cordoba in the tenth century to Toledo, Venice, Safed, Istanbul, Salonica, and Amsterdam at the dawn of the seventeenth century. Each served as a venue in which a particular dimension of Sephardi Jewry either took shape or was expressed in especially intense form. Significantly, these cities were mostly heterogeneous in their population and culture — half of them under Christian rule and half under Muslim rule — and this too shaped the Sephardi worldview and attitude. While Sephardim cultivated a distinctive identity, they felt at home in the cultures of their adopted lands. The book demonstrates that Sephardi history and culture have always been multifaceted. The book's interdisciplinary approach captures the many contexts in which the life of the Jews from Iberia unfolded, without either romanticizing the past or diluting its reality.

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Built Objects

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.013.0025 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Douglass Bailey ◽

Lesley McFadyen

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Case Studies ◽

Architectural History ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Architectural Form ◽

The Past ◽

Neolithic Europe ◽

Two Bodies ◽

European Architecture

This article presents two bodies of work, both of which take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of buildings from Neolithic Europe. The first connects archaeology to theories in architectural history, while the second creates links between archaeology and art. This article works through four ideas about architecture which the article offers as disconnected propositions. There is no easy narrative for this article, just as there is none for the living built environment of the past or the present. This article proposes that archaeologists step away from accepted and comfortable knowledge of architectural form and interpretation. The aim of this article is to work through four case studies from our work on prehistoric European architecture. The case studies illuminate four propositions, which are offered as provocations for further work on architecture by archaeologists but also by anthropologists and other social scientists and humanities scholars whose work engages architecture concludes this article.

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Multiple Stimuli Dlsorganlsatlon Syndrome: Treatment and Management of Children with Attentional Disorders

The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist ◽

10.1017/s0816512200027401 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 56-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Trevor Parry

Keyword(s):

Child Development ◽

Western Australia ◽

Attention Deficit ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Developmental Problems ◽

The Past ◽

Attentional Disorders ◽

State Child ◽

Child Development Centre ◽

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders

AbstractThe State Child Development Centre (SCDC) of Western Australia has been involved in the assessment and management of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders over the past twenty years. It is a Centre committed to the multimodal interdisciplinary approach to this and related developmental problems. Incorporated in this approach is the recognition that medication is likely to be an essential component in order to facilitate other measures being effective for a majority of children with well established attentional disorders. However, the Centre recognises that the concept of ADHD is not adequate to explain all the developmental problems of children, An alternative conceptualisation of ADHD as multiple stimuli disorganisation syndrome (MSDS) is proposed.

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Beyond the Big Five: Extinctions as Experiments in the History of Life

The Paleontological Society Papers ◽

10.1017/s1089332600001716 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 249-270 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Rowan Lockwood

Keyword(s):

Mass Extinction ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Future Research ◽

Past Century ◽

Natural Experiments ◽

Evolutionary Patterns ◽

The Past ◽

Research Areas ◽

History Of ◽

Extinction Events

The past century has witnessed a number of significant breakthroughs in the study of extinction in the fossil record, from the discovery of a bolide impact as the probable cause of the end-Cretaceous (K/T) mass extinction to the designation of the “Big 5” mass extinction events. Here, I summarize the major themes that have emerged from the past thirty years of extinction research and highlight a number of promising directions for future research. These directions explore a central theme—the evolutionary consequences of extinction— and focus on three broad research areas: the effects of selectivity, the importance of recovery intervals, and the influence of spatial patterns. Examples of topics explored include the role that trait variation plays in survivorship, the comparative effects of extinctions of varying magnitudes on evolutionary patterns, the re-establishment of macroevolutionary patterns in the aftermath of extinction, and the extent to which spatial autocorrelation affects extinction patterns. These topics can be approached by viewing extinctions as repeated natural experiments in the history of life and developing hypotheses to explicitly test across multiple events. Exploring the effects of extinction also requires an interdisciplinary approach, applying evolutionary, ecological, geochronological, geochemical, tectonic, and paleoclimatic tools to both extinction and recovery intervals.

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Cultural Astronomy: A scientific frame to understand academic astronomy as part of the Social World

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921321001046 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (S367) ◽

pp. 235-244

Author(s):

Alejandro M. López

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Critical Reflection ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Social World ◽

Social Character ◽

The Past ◽

Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽

The Social ◽

Scientific Approach

AbstractIn the past, Western academic astronomy has conceived in a very specific way its interests. However, in recent decades there has been a promising openness to the rest of the society, in the context of areas such as education, heritage and outreach. Despite this, there has not been an adequate scientific approach to do it, which would imply taking into account the social sciences and a truly interdisciplinary perspective. Here we want to develop the idea that this interdisciplinary approach already exists and it is called: Cultural Astronomy. Unfortunately, in the context of academic astronomy it has been only seen as a study of the “astronomies of others”, intended as previous stages or failed attempts of Western academic astronomy. We will seek to show that Cultural Astronomy, as a critical reflection on the social character of the astronomical knowledge, is key to the success of these opening efforts.

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Introduction

Vivre Ici ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781786940414.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Alison J. Murray Levine

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Space And Place ◽

Documentary Films ◽

Perceptual Process ◽

Central Question ◽

The Past ◽

Mind And Body ◽

The Common ◽

As If

The central question in this book is how and why many French documentary films in the past twenty years counter the common caricature of documentary as a dry form of expository cinema and instead take the viewer inside an experience of space and place. The introduction first presents the overall argument, that the films in the book demonstrate a variety of approaches to the production of viewer experience. They invite viewers, assumed to be embodied and active, to “feel” space, as if they were near the filmed subjects, through a perceptual process that integrates mind and body. This suggestion that the viewer feel a co-presence in the film space implies a repositioning that is both esthetic and political and opens the potential for equality and interrelationship among viewer, filmmaker, and the subjects in the film. The first part of the introduction defines the concepts and presuppositions that underpin the argument, identifies the theoretical currents on which they draw, and explains how they are used throughout the book. The second part explains the rationale for the interdisciplinary approach at work in the chapters, as well as for film selection and chapter organization.

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Beyond High Theories of Intimacy

10.1093/oso/9780190244606.003.0012 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

John Tulloch ◽

Belinda Middleweek

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

The Past ◽

Semiotic Model ◽

Key Players ◽

Television Film ◽

Made In

Chapter 10 explores the ways in which intertexuality within and between the stages of writing, directing, and performing the film The Piano Teacher create a multi-authored text. In the absence of an ethnography of production impossible for films made in the past, the authors devised a “soft ethnography” approach focused on some key players in this “multiply authored” semiotic model (namely, the prize-winning author, director, and lead actor) to suggest the flow and feedback between these different “signatures” in the text. This soft ethnography is grounded in knowledge of the writer’s discursive history and politics, the director’s television/film sense of liberation via “obscene” cinema, and the actor’s “directing” (via her construction of character) through her performance as a developing part of her star persona. These personal/public negotiations are symptomatic of the reflexive “synthesize and extend” interdisciplinary approach of Real Sex Cinema.

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Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics in Bulgaria – from Isolation to Interdisciplinary Approach

Scientific knowledge - autonomy, dependence, resistance - Balkanistic Forum ◽

10.37708/bf.swu.v29i2.21 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 295-301

Author(s):

Gergana Padareva-Ilieva

Keyword(s):

Computational Linguistics ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Broad Context ◽

Fast Growing ◽

The Past ◽

Communicative Disorders ◽

Complicated Process ◽

Scientific Fields

Clinical linguistics and phonetics is one of the fast growing scientific fields in the past decades. Its role is important either for developing methods and interdisciplinary ap-proach in linguistics and phonetics or studying the nature of communicative disorders. It could also include collaborative work with specialists from other fields as computational linguistics, neuroscience, etc. In this broad context clinical linguistics and phonetics is a challenge for the Humanities in Bulgaria. The reason is that with regard to interdiscipli-nary research in this area there is still much to be done. A few are the studies in Bulgaria which could be related to Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics but many of them have the disadvantage of a research in isolation, i.e. with no collaboration with the appropriate specialists. When it is up to communication an interdisciplinary and even multidisciplinary approach is needed having in mind that communication itself is a complicated process and its disorders are a challenge for all scientists who work in the field of communication.

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