How interdisciplinarity helps knowledge production: Reflections on a doctoral dissertation

Doctoral Dissertation

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Doctoral Dissertation

The construction of a low-cost and reliable array antenna system is required to facilitate the practical use of the adaptive antenna in the mobile communication field. The array antenna system can be verified by DOA (Direction of Arrival) estimation. This dissertation describes the attempt to achieve a high-precision adaptive antenna and the examination of this device, which suppresses the numb...

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DOCTORAL (PhD) DISSERTATION THESES

(Interdisciplinarity and local knowledge production: evidence from Colombia)

This paper examines the role of interdisciplinarity on research pertaining to local issues. Using Colombian publications from 1991 until 2011 in the Web of Science, we investigate the relationship between the degree of interdisciplinarity and the local orientation of the articles. We find that a higher degree of interdisciplinarity in a publication is associated with a greater emphasis on local...