Energies—A Trans-Disciplinary Journal

A Bi-monthly Inter-disciplinary International Journal

The ability to listen to commands in noisy environments and understand acoustic signals, while maintaining situational awareness, is an important skill for military personnel and can be critical for mission success. Seventeen auditory tasks carried out by British infantry and combat-support personnel were identified through a series of focus groups conducted by Bevis et al. For military personn...

Disciplinary Pluralism, Flagship Conferences, and Journal Submissions

BISE has made huge efforts during the past years to master the diversity of subject topics, research paradigms, and research methods in our discipline. The sub-division into seven distinct departments was a strenuous attempt to accommodate and nourish the different research streams in our community. This culture of pluralism implies merits and challenges. While other journals tend to emphasize ...

Defining Terms for Integrated (Multi-Inter-Trans-Disciplinary) Sustainability Research

Our contemporary social and ecological problems, including climate change, peak oil and food security, necessitate solutions informed by multiple backgrounds that singular disciplines seem unable to provide, and possibly, are even incapable of providing. The increasing occurrence of multi-, interand transdisciplinary (MIT) research projects speak to the recognition of that necessity. But as the...

The need for a trans-disciplinary, global health framework.

BACKGROUND Health research consists of multiple disciplines that conceptualize and operationalize health in different ways, making integration of knowledge difficult. To help researchers and practitioners study and intervene on complex health processes, comprehensive integrative frameworks linking multiple disciplines and bodies of knowledge must be developed. AIM This research article presen...

Quality criteria for inter- and trans-disciplinary doctoral research outcomes