HOW AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH CAN INFLUENCE PROJECTS RELATED TO THE MADE IN ITALY ENHANCEMENT: PRELIMINARY OUTCOMES OF THE RITRATTO PROJECT

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 233-239
Author(s):  
Diletta Acuti ◽  
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Ada Baldi ◽  
Romeo Bandinelli ◽  
Emiliano degl Innocenti ◽  
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PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. V-V
Author(s):  
ROBERT J. HAGGERTY

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.


Author(s):  
John Tulloch ◽  
Belinda Middleweek

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Robertson ◽  
Carl T. Woods

AbstractThere have been multiple calls made in the sport science literature for the promotion of interdisciplinarity to progress some of sports’ most prevailing challenges. Designing practice environments that support learning represents one such challenge, particularly given contemporary perspectives of skill acquisition and motor learning calls for coaches to realign their role—progressing toward the designers of practice tasks that promote athlete-environment interactions. In doing so, performers learn through exploration, deepening a relationship with their performance environment as they solve problems based on changing and interacting constraints. This paper illustrates an interdisciplinary approach to the area of learning through sport practice by adapting established principles embedded in video game designs. Specifically, 13 principles common to good video game designs are described, with practical examples of each provided across different sports. Fundamentally, this paper aims to offer sports practitioners with an overview and application of key principles that could support learning by design. Beyond this, the ideas presented here should further illustrate the value of interdisciplinarity in sports research and practice.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
W.D. Pilz ◽  
B. Schulz-Forberg ◽  
H. Keller ◽  
C. Langenbach

German engineering services are perceived worldwide as „Made in Germany“. This stands for the quality and safety of industrial products from Germany. The markets of the world expect: Innovative technology, adequate service life, unrestricted usability, reliability, economic availability and technical safety in operation. On the one hand, market expectations demand a targeted application of engineering and on the other hand emphasize that the state must not limit itself to rulemaking and the threat of punishment. It should set standards and structures as required and at the same time ensure their fulfillment and compliance through active action. Giving more of this governmental task to the private sector or the economy is a political will, but the necessary balance between state implementation and guarantee responsibility must be maintained. Spectacular major accidents, as well as recurring incidents and accidents, always require a critical review of safety practices and methods. Unfortunately, safety technology itself does not constitute an independent specialist discipline. Rather, security issues are addressed specifically and sometimes differently in the legal areas and the associated disciplines such as construction, electrical engineering or mesh construction. The high degree of differentiation that has occurred in specialist disciplines and the contradictory increase in the complexity of innovative systems due to IT elements or hybrid construction methods make it difficult to gain general knowledge from the investigations into the events that have occurred. A closed safety-methodical concept as a valid framework for all disciplines provides the base here and can remedy this situation. For German-speaking countries, the base for this is now „Das Qualitätsmerkmal Technische Sicherheit – Denkansatz und Leitfaden 1)“ – since 2016, for extended space „Technical Safety – An Attribute of Quality – An Interdisciplinary Approach and Guideline2)“ describes this base.   Deutsche Ingenieurleistungen werden weltweit unter dem Begriff „Made in Germany“ wahrgenommen. Dieser steht für Qualität und Sicherheit der industriellen Erzeugnisse aus Deutschland. Die Märkte der Welt erwarten: Innovative Technologie, angemessene Lebensdauer, uneingeschränkte Gebrauchstauglichkeit, Zuverlässigkeit, wirtschaftliche Verfügbarkeit und technische Sicherheit im Betrieb. Die Markterwartungen erfordern einerseits eine gezielte Anwendung der Ingenieurwissenschaften und betonen andererseits, dass sich der Staat nicht nur auf die Regelsetzung und die Strafandrohung beschränken darf. Er soll im erforderlichen Maß Normen und Strukturen vorgeben und über aktives Handeln gleichzeitig deren Erfüllung und Einhaltung sicherstellen. Diese staatlichen Aufgaben vermehrt in die Hände privater Einrichtungen bzw. der Wirtschaft zu geben ist zwar politischer Wille, dennoch muss die erforderliche Balance zwischen Durchführungs- und Gewährleistungsverantwortung des Staates eingehalten werden.   Spektakuläre Störfälle mit großer öffentlicher Wirkung verlangen genauso wie die immer wieder auftretenden Zwischenfälle und Unfälle stets eine kritische Überprüfung der Vorgehensweisen und Methoden zur Erzeugung von Sicherheit. Leider bildet die Sicherheitstechnik selbst keine eigenständige Fachdisziplin. Vielmehr werden sicherheitstechnische Belange jeweils spezifisch und zum Teil unterschiedlich in den Rechtsbereichen und den zugeordneten Fachdisziplinen wie Bauwesen, Elektrotechnik oder Maschenbau angesprochen. Der hohe Grad der eingetretenen Differenzierung in Fachdisziplinen und die gegenläufige Zunahme der Komplexität innovativer Systeme durch IT-Elemente oder hybride Bauweisen erschwert eine allgemein nutzbare Erkenntnis aus den Untersuchungen zu den aufgetretenen Ereignissen.   Ein geschlossenes sicherheitsmethodisches Konzept als gültiger Rahmen für alle Fachdisziplinen liefert hier die Grundlage und kann hier Abhilfe schaffen. Für den deutschsprachigen Raum liegt nun als Grundlage „Das Qualitätsmerkmal Technische Sicherheit – Denkansatz und Leitfaden 1)“ – seit 2016 vor, für den erweiterten Raum beschreibt “Technical Safety – An Attribute of Quality – An Interdisciplinary Approach and Guideline 2)” diese Basis.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Roberts

AbstractAlthough experimental methods are used in the study of language change, it has been claimed that there is no analogue of the biologist’s Drosophila – no means, in other words, of observing change in the laboratory. Here it is argued that this pessimism is unwarranted, and that there is in fact something equivalent: a set of experimental methods developed originally to study the emergence and evolution of language, and which involve the use of novel “laboratory languages” to play games with a social component. These methods are described, and arguments are made in favor of their broader application to questions of change in modern language. Ideally (as has begun to occur in a few cases) this should involve interdisciplinary collaborations, and it would both open new doors for the testing of hypotheses and bring researchers in the field of language evolution into contact with a vast store of real-world data. Concerns about the authenticity of laboratory data are not unreasonable, but less pressing than might be imagined, and in fact should call for precisely the kind of interdisciplinary approach advocated here. This can only benefit everyone involved.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Seitz

The increasing transfer of communication to cyberspace has made communication fundamentally less visible and detectable. The transience of the spoken word has repeatedly given way to the permanence of written communication, of whose consequences even digital natives are mostly insufficiently aware. In this study, using the example of communication between schoolchildren, Florian Seitz examines the complex basic legal implications of this issue and, against this backdrop, develops an analytical framework from which a balanced form of regulation can emerge. By virtue of its interdisciplinary approach and by taking into account demarcation criteria developed in US law, the study presents practical suggestions as to how statements made in cyberspace can be limited effectively, without losing sight of the need to uphold the freedom of speech and to learn how to implement this law gradually.


2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 2629-2636 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ward ◽  
D. Butler ◽  
S. Barr ◽  
F. A. Memon

Numerous policy vehicles have been introduced in the UK promoting the use of rainwater harvesting (RWH). However, an ‘implementation deficit’ exists where legislation limits action by failing to provide adequate support mechanisms. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach to construct a framework to address the issue of overcoming this deficit. Evidence bases have identified six deficit categories, which confirm a lack of enabling of stakeholders. Outline recommendations, such as coordinated information provision and reconsideration of incentive schemes are made in relation to these categories to complete the framework for supporting RWH in the UK.


Plant Disease ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gramaje ◽  
José Ramón Úrbez-Torres ◽  
Mark R. Sosnowski

Fungal trunk diseases are some of the most destructive diseases of grapevine in all grape growing areas of the world. Management of GTDs has been intensively studied for decades with some great advances made in our understanding of the causal pathogens, their epidemiology, impact, and control. However, due to the breadth and complexity of the problem, no single effective control measure has been developed. Management of GTD must be holistic and integrated, with an interdisciplinary approach conducted in both nurseries and vineyards that integrates plant pathology, agronomy, viticulture, microbiology, epidemiology, biochemistry, physiology, and genetics. In this review, we identify a number of areas of future prospect for effective management of GTDs worldwide, which, if addressed, will provide a positive outlook on the longevity of vineyards in the future.


Author(s):  
Santiago M. Álvarez Carreño

This paper’s point of view is that environmental law translates this particular evolutionary point in time into principles and rules, and highlights that given the extent and significance of the grave issues we are confronting, concepts that come from other sciences need to be dealt with carefully to ensure these are interpreted and implemented effectively. The grave concern about conservation of the environment and the urgent need for effective measures to protect it is a sign of the times, and it is growing deeper in view of the rapidly worsening climate crisis. Environmental law studies demonstrate that there is a line of force based on fluid, fruitful dialogue between different fields of knowledge. Lawyers are aware of the achievements made in environmental law, as well as its manifest deficiencies and limitations, and, just like Theseus who momentarily loses the golden thread offered by the bold Ariadne, they must find a way out of that labyrinth.


1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 118-119
Author(s):  
Th. Schmidt-Kaler

I should like to give you a very condensed progress report on some spectrophotometric measurements of objective-prism spectra made in collaboration with H. Leicher at Bonn. The procedure used is almost completely automatic. The measurements are made with the help of a semi-automatic fully digitized registering microphotometer constructed by Hög-Hamburg. The reductions are carried out with the aid of a number of interconnected programmes written for the computer IBM 7090, beginning with the output of the photometer in the form of punched cards and ending with the printing-out of the final two-dimensional classifications.


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