Abstract Whereas legal comparisons tend to be concerned with systems, structures or rules, this paper focuses on a more fundamental element of law: concept. From the semiotic point view, concept is an tripartite construct meaning, which – in context derived from particular system. Since effective communication practice predicated unity issues are likely arise when act spans disparate cultures. ...

The aim of the paper is to indicate a metatheoretical perspective on interdisciplinary research which includes some important ontological assumptions and its consequences for the interdisciplinary research practice. Interdisciplinary research can be characterised by its focusing on a complex problem and the aim of the research is to elaborate this problem. The presentation begins with a brief o...

Interdisciplinary collaboration is widely recognized and considered essential for optimizing the development of knowledge and practice. However, interdisciplinarity is commonly accepted as an unquestioned good; rarely examined as both a source of benefit as well as difficulty for nursing and other disciplines. The aim of this article is to critically examine the opportunities and challenges tha...

This paper proposes a framework to analyze the interdisciplinary collaboration in a coauthorship network from a meso perspective using topic modeling: (1) a customized topic model is developed to capture and formalize the interdisciplinary feature; and (2) the two algorithms Diversity Subgraph Extraction (DSE) and Constraint-based Diversity Subgraph Extraction (CDSE) are designed and implemente...

Yu et al. (2016) demonstrated that algorithms designed to find efficient routes in standard mazes can be integrated with the natural processes controlling rat navigation and spatial choices, and they pointed out the promise of such "cyborg intelligence" for biorobotic applications. Here, we briefly describe Yu et al.'s work, explore its relevance to the study of comparative cognition, and indic...