Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simp...

BACKGROUND The main challenge in the context of health care reforms and priority setting is the establishment and/or maintenance of fairness and standard of care. For the political process and interdisciplinary discussion, the subjective perception of the health care system might even be as important as potential objective criteria. Of special interest are the perceptions of academic discipline...

  Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is a new approach to patient management which incorporates best evidence with the clinical expertise of the health care providers. Although this approach has had a rapid growth in many clinical disciplines, its applications in radiology and nuclear medicine has not been addressed sufficiently. In this review EBM is briefly explained...

We present a type inference system for pure -calculus which includes, in addition to arrow types, also universal and existential type quanti ers, intersection and union types, and type recursion. The interest of this system lies in the fact that it o ers a possibility to study in a uni ed framework a wide range of type constructors. We investigate the main syntactical properties of the system, ...

Academic disciplines, often divided into hard and soft sciences, may be understood as \donor disciplines" if they produce more concepts than they borrow from other disciplines, or \borrower disciplines" if they import more than they originate. Terms used to describe these concepts can be used to distinguish between hard and soft, donor and borrower, as well as individual discipline-speciic subl...

Abstract This paper analyses the interrelations between academic disciplines and society beyond academia by case of sociology in Norway. For that purpose, this introduces concept disciplines’ societal territories, which refer to bounded spaces are shaped knowledge a discipline, premised on linkages discipline its audience. By mapping sociologists’ reported contributions changes academia, firstl...

Health SA Gesondheid promotes communication, collaboration and teamwork between professions disciplines within the health sciences to address problems that cross affect disciplinary boundaries.

Achieving social and economic growth requires collaboration, especially in global health. If universities are to improve health globally, they will need to train students and to support faculty who can effectively collaborate with those from other disciplines and cultures.

Anatomy & Structural Biology [1] 1. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology [2] 2. Cell Biology [3] 3. Complementary & Alternative Medicine [4] 4. Department of Medicine Databases for Clinical Educators & Case Studies [5] 5. Dermatology [6] 6. Epidemiology [7] 7. Ethics & Humanities in the Life Sciences [8] 8. Family Medicine [9] 9. Geriatrics [10] 10. Histology [11] 11. Human Pathology [12] 12. Micro...

Academic disciplines, often divided into hard and soft sciences, may be understood as \donor disciplines" if they produce more concepts than they borrow from other disciplines, or \borrower disciplines" if they import more than they originate. Terms used to describe these concepts can be used to distinguish between hard and soft, donor and borrower, as well as individual discipline-speciic subl...