Transdisciplinary Research - Science topic

Those who would like to understand long-range synchronization using short-range ineractions within media existing withing physical, chemical, biochemical, and biological systems are welcome to read this preprint.

Link to a preprint:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388328720_Biological_Applications_of_Emergent_Information_Processing_Fast_Long-Range_Synchronization

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You have answered your question hehe :)

Thank you Juan, I will look into it!

Amazon trees conservation

I suggest Klaus Fichter 's innovation community construct - based on Witte's promotor theory - which helps to analyse cross-functionional and cross-organisational (multi-level) innovation processes. We further developed the theory in the context of circular economy (and broader sustainability) innovation here by adding specific collaboration mechanisms: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344281476.

Dear Julio San Martín Órdenes, would you please read on Niche Theory on Species interaction? I think it would be valuable to your demand.

Brotherly!

Thank you, Dr. Jochen Glaser

Your explanation is very helpful and patient.

I agree wtih you and Dr. Peter Weingart. The five characteristics which define the difference between Mode 2 and Mode 1 are not innovative. In addition, there are not many empirical analysis to point out that Mode 2 would replace Mode 1. But in Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott and Michael Gibbons(2003), their purpose was as much to address the need to invent a new language of research. That's why both 《The New Production of Knowledge》 and 《Re-Thinking Science》 were written as reflective essays rather than as empirical studies. So I have tried to view every single research in action with frame of Mode 2 and Mode 1. (Actually I still adopt Latour's spirit to do my research, His ANT method is attractive to a naive graduated student like me.)

In my research context, I try to give an answer to avoid the flaw in 5 methods of Alvin Goldman's " Expert: Which Ones Should You Trust?"(Goldman. 2001). Also, I wish that my research can do pre-work for Harry Collins's "The Third Wave of Science Studies".

If the Department of Science and technology( in Taiwan context) could analysis every single research with 5 characteristics(Context of application, heterogenous, transdiciplinary, accountability, quality control) and make the analysis public. When scientific or technological controversy shows up, policymaker or laypeople would easier to put their credence on experts and empower people to question experts.

Respectfully, thank you again.

Goldman. Alvin. (2001). Experts: Which Ones Should You: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: 85-110.

Harry Collins, Robert Evans. (2007). Rethinking Expertise: The University of Chicago Press.

Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott and Michael Gibbons. (2003). Introduction: `Mode 2' Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge. Minerva: 179–194.

Hey Thomas:

Thanks for clarifying your question and make it more specific. Both Michal and Paul's response are great. I am just adding a little on their insight.

Michal pinpoints the C/N ratio relates to Stoichiometry and nutrient balance, which is exactly the right direction to understand this question. Decomposer (or microbes, either fungi or bacterial) tends to have very high nitrogen and phosphate contents which means they need high concentration of those elements. This is why low C/N ratio (high N proportionally) being picked up first by microbes. Simply, they need it and they like it. 

If you want to gain an more comprehensive understanding, here is a good paper.  “Patterns in decomposition rates among photosynthetic organisms: the importance of detritus C: N :P content. “written by Susana Enríquez and other researcher in 1993. DOI: 10.1007/BF00566960

Paul put a great efforts on explaining the factors affecting soil organic matter process. In addition to soil water content, temperature is also important for mineralization. Both mineralization and immobilization affect the fate of N in soil. 

Again, this is a complex process, and I would suggest you look at from a system view and try to understand the process. For example, what are the sources of soil organic matter, how these are being processed in soil? How long might it take for different substrates? etc. 

Regards

Qiang

Maria,

I can get what you are saying. The following literature may be of your interest.

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Dear Espinosa, it depends on the educational/instructional objectives of a course through which the policy makers/educators/state aims to observe in a person's behaviors, abilities etc. As such, these objectives act as the prerequisites for a course content that serves as a comprehensive knowledge and or skill basis for those who want to become, for example, an engineer, medical doctor etc. However, within a larger picture of any formal education program, the content of, for example, an engineering program is not without its objectives, content (or knowledge domains; courses that serve as a proxy for the domain knowledge etc.), teaching-learning processes, and assessment and evaluation. I strongly suggest that you should read relevant books to learn more things regarding these issıes (e.g., curriculum development books). 

...i would tend to agree with Indranil, then again the west is no longer the "only" economic/media center ...in terms of restoring human ecology. i.e.: water.

China and the world needs to relearn, not only the "One Child Policy" of Ma Yinchu, but the indigenous ancestral wisdom of natural procreative hygiene for -ZPG.

To have a realistic focus on the history of ideas, the real question is "Who's ideas?"  

If only four holding companies, that are financed by pharmaceutical interests, control the global media and by default the agendas of the academies of higher learning, how will this "education" be possible.

Interesting, and I have never heard of it!  Thanks for the information.  I could have utilized it in my dissertation.  But there is always more research to be done!

Great question. TD thinking starts with a critical evaluation of the current state of higher education - transdisciplinarity is in fact a global reform movement. There are a number of excellent authors - in the European context Romanian quantum physicist Basarab Nicolescu especially has delimited TD thinking, and in the American setting Patricia Leavy has a great little handbook. What I've noticed in my review of literature over a decade is that in formerly colonized settings such as Australia (see Albrecht, Freeman and Higginbotham; Arabena; Douglas Christie), the US, and South America (Apgar, Argumedo and Allen), many authors have included Indigenous epistemologies and holistic frameworks to their analyses of how to apply transdisciplinarity in actual research contexts while European researchers and authors have not.

Finally, a trilogy of review papers from Choi and Pak (starting in 06). These Canadian health scientists have taken a huge swath of TD literature and find that many researchers are claiming TD but are actually doing variations on multi- and interdisciplinary.  

Before becoming academics, my frequent co-author S.A. Moore and I came from decades of professional and clinical practice in Canada with children, young people and their caregivers many of whom are often engaged with professionals in multiple disciplines - teaching, mental health, criminal justice, and child protection - and frequently all at once. This has allowed us to identify numerous inclusive 'transdisciplinary tools' (Giroux and Searls-Giroux, 2004, p. 102) that can be understood and applied across these contexts particularly to avoid abuses of power.

We've also found it difficult to argue for transdisciplinarity in an academic setting due to tenure and promotion being evaluated by folks who see higher education and research solely through uni-disciplinary lenses. We've discovered the competitive chasing after grant monies also undermines the true egalitarian nature of TD partnerships (partners outside the academy who are often marginalized) and understanding of the goals of such research are not to pad one's CV but to set about solving the myriad problems humanity faces. Best of luck with your endeavors.

There are various approaches of social capital in sociology (Bourdieu, Coleman) or Political Science (Putnam): depending on its structure, Social Capital is not always a positive factor for collective action.Quantitative  Network analysis is a good tool to approach this as it is shared by various disciplines.

Thanks for responding - will check this out. I became involved in a number of climate change projects from a human rights perspective. Also spent 3 years helping  establish a UNESCO Chair in Community Sustainability here on our campus. Many of my more traditionally-oriented scientific colleagues considered my interest in cultural issues simply as 'social work' - hence my inquiry.

Dear Frank, sometimes our brains find missed things, because of synthesizing as already known patterns.

The cultural assets, the skills are working in parallel with technology, to finer issues of processes, their limits and certain guidelines "conditions" and their breakups.