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92 relations: Academic tenure, Adjective, Alan I. Leshner, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Olympic Games, Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biomedical engineering, Chemistry, Commensurability (philosophy of science), Computer science, Cubism, Cybernetics, Discipline (academia), Economics, Educational sciences, Elias Zerhouni, Encyclopedism, Engineering, Epidemiology, Epistemology, Geography, George Mason University, Global warming, Hegemony, History, HIV/AIDS, Holism, Holism in science, Information silo, Integrative learning, Intellectual synthesis, Interdisciplinarity, Interdiscipline, Interprofessional education, Joseph Stiglitz, Julie Thompson Klein, Land use, List of historians, Logistics, Marshall McLuhan, Materials science, Mechanization, Medicine, Medievalism, ..., Miami University, Mobile phone, Molecular biology, Nanotechnology, National Institutes of Health, Neuroscience, Outline of academic disciplines, Paradigm shift, Peer review, Penn State University Press, Pentathlon, Philosophy, Playwright, Point of view (philosophy), Politics, Post-industrial society, Power station, Promotion (rank), Quantum information science, Quantum mechanics, Roman roads, School of Integrative Studies, School of thought, Science and technology studies, Science of team science, Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, Social ecological model, Sociology, Soka University of America, Surveying, Sustainable development, Synoptic philosophy, Systems theory, Technology, Tinbergen's four questions, Transdisciplinarity, Understanding Media, University of Arizona, Vartan Gregorian, Wayne State University, Wikispaces, Women's studies. Expand index (42 more) »
Academic tenure
A tenured appointment is an indefinite academic appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances, such as financial exigency or program discontinuation.
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Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.
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Alan I. Leshner
Alan Leshner is a scientist, educator and public servant from the United States.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).
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Ancient Greek philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC and continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Ancient Greece was part of the Roman Empire.
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Ancient Olympic Games
The ancient Olympic Games were originally a festival, or celebration of and for Zeus; later, events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added.
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Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.
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Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University The pronunciation of Appalachian in a Southern U.S. dialect is provided.
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Biochemistry
Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.
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Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data.
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Biology
Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.
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Biomedical engineering
Biomedical engineering (BME) is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g. diagnostic or therapeutic).
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.
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Commensurability (philosophy of science)
Commensurability is a concept in the philosophy of science whereby scientific theories are commensurable if scientists can discuss them using a shared nomenclature that allows direct comparison of theories to determine which theory is more valid or useful.
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Computer science
Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.
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Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art.
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Cybernetics
Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities.
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Discipline (academia)
An academic discipline or academic field is a branch of knowledge.
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Economics
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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Educational sciences
Education sciences (traditionally often called pedagogy) and education theory seek to describe, understand, and prescribe educational policy and practice.
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Elias Zerhouni
Elias Zerhouni (إلياس زرهوني; born April 12, 1951) is an Algerian-born American physician scientist radiologist and biomedical engineer.
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Encyclopedism
Encyclopedism is an outlook that aims to include a wide range of knowledge in a single work.
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Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.
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Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where) and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.
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Epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.
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Geography
Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.
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George Mason University
George Mason University (GMU, Mason, or George Mason) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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Global warming
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
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Hegemony
Hegemony (or) is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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Holism
Holism (from Greek ὅλος holos "all, whole, entire") is the idea that systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic) and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not just as a collection of parts.
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Holism in science
Holism in science, or holistic science, is an approach to research that emphasizes the study of complex systems.
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Information silo
An information silo, or a group of such silos, is an insular management system in which one information system or subsystem is incapable of reciprocal operation with others that are, or should be, related.
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Integrative learning
Integrative learning is a learning theory describing a movement toward integrated lessons helping students make connections across curricula.
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Intellectual synthesis
Intellectual synthesis is a broad term describing scholarly endeavors meant to unify and fuse a large amount of information into a single integrated body of knowledge.
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Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project).
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Interdiscipline
The term interdiscipline or inter-discipline means an organizational unit that involves two or more academic disciplines, but which have the formal criteria of disciplines such as dedicated research journals, conferences and university departments.
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Interprofessional education
Interprofessional education (also known as inter-professional education or “IPE”) refers to occasions when students from two or more professions in health and social care learn together during all or part of their professional training with the object of cultivating collaborative practice for providing client- or patient-centered health care.
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Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University.
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Julie Thompson Klein
Julie Thompson Klein is a professor and scholar in the field of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University.
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Land use
Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.
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List of historians
This is a list of historians.
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Logistics
Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.
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Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911December 31, 1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual.
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Materials science
The interdisciplinary field of materials science, also commonly termed materials science and engineering is the design and discovery of new materials, particularly solids.
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Mechanization
Mechanization or mechanisation (British English) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.
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Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
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Medievalism
Medievalism is the system of belief and practice characteristic of the Middle Ages, or devotion to elements of that period, which has been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.
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Miami University
Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.
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Mobile phone
A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.
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Molecular biology
Molecular biology is a branch of biology which concerns the molecular basis of biological activity between biomolecules in the various systems of a cell, including the interactions between DNA, RNA, proteins and their biosynthesis, as well as the regulation of these interactions.
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Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology ("nanotech") is manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.
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Neuroscience
Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.
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Outline of academic disciplines
An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched as part of higher education.
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Paradigm shift
A paradigm shift (also radical theory change), a concept identified by the American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.
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Peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
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Penn State University Press
Penn State University Press, also called The Pennsylvania State University Press, was established in 1956 and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals.
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Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.
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Point of view (philosophy)
In philosophy, a point of view is a specified or stated manner of consideration, an attitude how one sees or thinks of something, as in "from my personal point of view".
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Politics
Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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Post-industrial society
In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy.
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Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant or powerhouse and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
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Promotion (rank)
A promotion is the advancement of an employee's rank or position in an organizational hierarchy system.
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Quantum information science
Quantum information science is an area of study based on the idea that information science depends on quantum effects in physics.
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Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, quantum theory, the wave mechanical model, or matrix mechanics), including quantum field theory, is a fundamental theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles.
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Roman roads
Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae; singular: via Romana meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
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School of Integrative Studies
The School of Integrative Studies (formerly New Century College) is housed within George Mason University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences and is located on the main campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
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School of thought
A school of thought (or intellectual tradition) is a collection or group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, economics, cultural movement, or art movement.
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Science and technology studies
Science and technology studies, or science, technology and society studies (both abbreviated STS) is the study of how society, politics, and culture affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture.
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Science of team science
The science of team science (SciTS) field encompasses both conceptual and methodological strategies aimed at understanding and enhancing the processes and outcomes of collaborative, team-based research.
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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), previously Science, Math, Engineering, and Technology (SMET), is a term used to group together these academic disciplines.
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Social ecological model
Socio-ecological models were developed to further the understanding of the dynamic interrelations among various personal and environmental factors.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
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Soka University of America
Soka University of America (SUA) is a four-year liberal arts university located in Aliso Viejo, California, the United States.
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Surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.
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Sustainable development
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.
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Synoptic philosophy
Synoptic philosophy comes from the Greek word συνοπτικός sunoptikos ("seeing everything together") and together with the word philosophy, means the love of wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together.
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Systems theory
Systems theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems.
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Technology
Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".
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Tinbergen's four questions
Tinbergen's four questions, named after Nikolaas Tinbergen and based on Aristotle's four causes, are complementary categories of explanations for behaviour.
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Transdisciplinarity
Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach.
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Understanding Media
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author proposes that the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study.
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University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.
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Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian (Վարդան Գրիգորեան; وارتان گرگوریان, born April 8, 1934) is an Iranian-born Armenian-American academic, serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Wayne State University
Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan.
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Wikispaces
Wikispaces is a wiki hosting service based in San Francisco, California.
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Women's studies
Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods in order to place women’s lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and disability.
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