The papers in this special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism edited by Shelley K. Taylor and Mitsuyo Sakamoto cover a wide range of educational contexts and issues and they draw on a variety of disciplinary perspectives to interpret the phenomena they analyze. As the editors point out in their introduction, the common thread linking these analyses is the int...

Poliomyelitis is still a medical problem in Nigeria, the aftermath of which leaves patients with muscular paralysis, contractures and abnormalities which require elaborate treatment. One thousand one hundred and twenty patients affected with poliomyelitis and treated at the polio-clinic of Physiotherapy Department of the University College Hospital, Ibadan were studied. The multi-disciplinary a...

This paper presents the design and application of a major individual assessment task created in part to develop students’ capacity for lifelong assessment, a key element of lifelong learning. Additionally the task contributes to fostering a sense of community in asynchronous online learning environments. The task is a supra disciplinary report, recently trialled and now adopted for two postgrad...

Electronic Government Research (EGR) has progressed beyond its stages of infancy and has unfolded into a respected domain of multiand crossdisciplinary study. A sizable and dedicated community of researchers has formed. So far, however, few, if any, accounts exist which sufficiently analyze the profile of the electronic government research community. The contribution of this paper is to describ...

Using data from couples (N = 1,195) who participated in a large community-based study of families, we used maternal reports of parental discipline to examine mothers' and fathers' use of and patterns related to aggressive and nonviolent discipline of their 3-year-old child. First, we separately examined mothers' and fathers' patterns, or classes, of disciplinary behaviors. Second, we identified...

Fostering intellectual diversity in the iSchools is a critical task and central to the unique iSchool vision. However, beyond recent efforts to track hiring patterns and figure out the representation of various disciplines within the iSchool community, there is currently a lack of empirical research about crossdisciplinary activity within iSchool faculties. In this research note, which seeks to...

Grid computing promises a range of industries the ability to distribute and share computing resources “on tap” and to provide transparent communication and collaboration between groups and across borders. Yet developing and implementing such complex and interrelated technology requires collaborative working among a range of disciplinary groups and organisations. Within this paper we present a c...

SUMMARY The broad scope of aeropropulsion multidisciplinary applications necessitates that a collection of approaches, with distinct capabilities, be developed. Three general approaches to multidisciplinary simulations have been identified. The three approaches; loosely coupled, coupled process, and multiphysics, provide a comprehensive collection of capabilities for multidisciplinary aeropropu...

Urban sustainability challenges are complex, impacting a wide range of stakeholders. It is commonly accepted that sustainable solutions must integrate scientific knowledge from variety disciplines, coupled with community stakeholder ideas, norms, and practices in ways link to decision-making action. Jointly researching problems co-designing solutions, known as co-production, requires working to...