Transdisciplinarity Exploitation of Maternal Language, Based on the Model of C.P.M.P.S Application in the Art Subject

The presented paper puts in discussion the dilemma of the linear supports of formal teaching and learning processes of regular school, coexisting with an inter and transdisciplinarity of the process mentioned above. In this perspective, the author wonders about the subjectivity of the students＇ apprenticeship and about the way they can change, according to the methodological variants, as well as the context. So, he intents to explore the C.P.M.P.S （Creative and Participative Method of Problem Solution） in the development of Portuguese written language competence, through the art subject. In this paper, we can see the increase of different variables from the perspective of students and teachers which validates in some manner of the teaching methodology.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Wicked Problems: From Single Discipline to Transdisciplinarity

With the increase of social complexity and uncertainty,wicked problems have become the hot and difcult issues in the frontier research of public policy.The concept of wicked problems was proposed in the 1960s.Since then,it has gradually spread to many disciplines,such as environment,urban planning,public policy,etc.A comprehensive understanding of the research progress of the transdisciplinary method is an important way to understand wicked problems.This paper uses Citespace5.5,based on bibliometrics and visual analysis techniques,to analyze 800 academic publications related to wicked problems and visually display the transdisciplinarity knowledge map and information panorama of wicked problems.Through a multi-level descriptive analysis of key literature,research origin,research hotspots and trend of the research on wicked problems,this paper fnds out the law of knowledge growth and internal evolution logic of the research on wicked problems,and concludes that the transdisciplinarity research of wicked problems is forming,which shows the rule from knowledge difusion(single discipline)to knowledge coherence(transdisciplinarity).The discipline of public policy has the potential to change the knowledge constraints of a single discipline and may ofer transdisciplinarity approaches to wicked problems.

Montology manifesto:echoes towards a transdisciplinary science of mountains

Mountains as archetype frame some metageographies of the vertical dimension.Mountain metaphors,thus,have remained as key guidance in developing not only animistic belief systems and religious cults,but also military strategies,economic potential,and scientific innovation.This paper seeks to explain the need to integrate western knowledge,where mountains became known via natural history’s mechanistic explanations,with other epistemologies.Mountain scientists therein developed linear approaches that required exploration,experimentation,and pragmatic interpretation of generalizable mountain phenomena.Little is known,however,about other civilizations’more encompassing cognition due to heuristic explanations of mountain myths.Local knowledge holders therein developed approaches that required familiarization,observation,and romantic meditation about situated mountain phenomena.Using a multimethod approach of human geography that includes onomastics,geocritical discourse analysis,political ecology,and critical biogeography,the author posits that there is a paradigmatic shift of geographic fad,when even"nature"is thought of as a"social construct"in the socioecological mountainscapes.Between these tendencies of either Cartesian or Spinozan dogmas about scientific objectives,methods and implications,mountains continue to elicit geographical research.The author thus concludes that integrating narratives of mountain studies with geocritical analyses of political ecology that allow for transgressivity and referentialilty of mountain cognition can be done with transdisciplinary science.Montology,henceforth,couples dialectic thinking with the trifecta of spatiality,complexity and historicity in highlighting mountain microrefugia for biocultural conservation.Use of montological approaches will bring mountain scientists to a new level,where the application of local ecological knowledge and cutting-edge technological instrumentation could render sustainable mountain communities,in dynamic biocultural heritage scenarios.

A Review of Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources:Insights for the Development of Environmental Sociology in China

Environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources are two key subdisciplines of the sociological study on the interactions between nature and human society.Previous discussion on the relationships of these two fields has largely focused on their distinctions and synthesis in western(particularly American) academia.Environmental sociology emerged as an important sociological subdiscipline in China in the early 1990s and is under vigorous disciplinary construction at present.By contrast,the sociology of natural resources is still a novel term for most Chinese researchers.This article provides a systematic review of recent literature on the relationships between environmental and natural resource sociologies,which should provide important implications for the further development of environmental sociology in China.

Transmission of Knowledge and Practice between Cultures:A Case Study of Chinese Medicine Integration in the United States

Medicine operates within the world views of the culture that it serves,and the widespread Chinese diaspora has carried medical practices with it.The resulting creolization takes shape at the borders of intersecting cultures in a distinct form of integration.This article explores the intersections of integration relative to the spread of Chinese medicine in the United States in practical,cognitive,and theoretical terms.This article could be a reference to practitioners,academics,and policymakers in the areas of integrative and Chinese medicine.

Proton Exchange in Water/Mycelium System: Transdisciplinary Out-of-Equilibrium Thermodynamic Approach Using Potentiometric Titration

In this study, we used potentiometric titration to investigate the interaction of the saprophytic fungus Trametes villosa in an aqueous environment. The study of this biological complex system allowed us to observe the evolution of out-ofequilibrium hydrogen ion potential states after systematic perturbations. The responses of the complex system to perturbations were interpreted from relations that provided qualitative response patterns for mycelium in agreement with their basic structural and organizational characteristics. We consider this to be a transdisciplinary example of the behavior of general systems with thermodynamic properties of great ecological relevance, being specifically related to the negentropic properties of heterogeneous systems.

Experience of Management of Anorexia Nervosa Patients with Extremely Severe Malnutrition in a Transdisciplinary Clinical Nutrition-Eating Disorders Inpatient Unit

Background: The question of where to hospitalize extremely malnourished patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) is a real dilemma. On one hand, psychiatrists have to deal with severe medical complications that are not within their competences and that justify hospitalization in an internal medicine ward. On the other hand, medical doctors have to face psychic decompensations that would justify admission to a psychiatric ward. In this context, we share our experience of management of severely malnourished AN adult patients in a transdisciplinary specialized eating disorders (ED) unit, referral center for AN associated with somatic severity. Method: First, we described the modalities of care proposed to patients with AN hospitalized in the medical unit. Intensive medical care, both somatic and psychiatric, are provided thanks to a transdisciplinary therapeutic program, where objectives are to: medically stabilize the patient, initiate progressive refeeding and start supportive psychotherapy before being transferred to a psychiatric ED unit. Secondly, we conducted a retrospective descriptive study that included all adult patients with AN admitted for the first time to the unit, between November 1997 and January 2014, for severe malnutrition and/or complications of the ED. Objective was to specify patients’ characteristics: demographic, nutritional status, history of ED, care pathway. Results: Among a cohort of 386 adult patients with AN (21 males and 365 females) admitted for the first time in the unit, mean age was 29.4 (±11.5) years, mean BMI was 12.7 (±2.2) kg/m2. Before being supported in the unit, 78.2% of patients had already been hospitalized in other hospitals. Mean length of stay was 35.2 days. Patients were clinically serious and unstable because of life-threatening somatic complications due to a low BMI. During hospital stay, a temporary transfer to medical intensive care unit was necessary for 25.6% of patients. Average patient weight gain was 0.777 kg per week and 81.9% of patients benefited from enteral nutrition. Conclusion: This specialized transdisciplinary unit where physician nutritionists and psychiatrists coordinate medical care together, allow a better understanding and management of extreme malnutrition associated with AN. Thanks to their expertise, care teams are less critical and less rejecting towards patients. Thus, therapeutic alliance could be optimized.

Sustainable Economic Development:The Necessary Dialogue between Environmental Law and Economics

This article aims to analyze the distinction between the concepts of economic growth,economic development,sustainable development and environmental justice;the inter-action between Environmental Law and Economics in the paradigm of environmental justice,and what is the purpose of such interaction;and environmental justice as a possible solution to the installed state of environmental imbalance.To this end,the concepts of economic growth,economic development,sustainable development and environmental justice are investigated;Complexity Theory and its transdisciplinary approach;and environmental justice as a new order capable of reversing a state of installed environmental imbalance.To obtain the results desired by the research,the method of approach to be followed will be the empirical-dialectical,using bibliographic research,having as a reference system of the Law and Economics of Richard A.Posner.In conclusion,it is pointed out that there is a need for a new development model,which,based on transdisciplinarity,should seek solutions in favor of socioeconomic-environmental balance for present and future generations,as a way of overcoming the state of environmental imbalance installed,as well as all the economic,political,cultural,social and environmental impacts caused by it.

Towards integrated surveillance-response systems for the prevention of future pandemics

Most human pathogens originate from non-human hosts and certain pathogens persist in animal reservoirs.The transmission of such pathogens to humans may lead to self-sustaining chains of transmission.These pathogens represent the highest risk for future pandemics.For their prevention,the transmission over the species barrier—although rare—should,by all means,be avoided.In the current COVID-19 pandemic,surprisingly though,most of the current research concentrates on the control by drugs and vaccines,while comparatively little scientific inquiry focuses on future prevention.Already in 2012,the World Bank recommended to engage in a systemic One Health approach for zoonoses control,considering integrated surveillance-response and control of human and animal diseases for primarily economic reasons.First examples,like integrated West Nile virus surveillance in mosquitos,wild birds,horses and humans in Italy show evidence of financial savings from a closer cooperation of human and animal health sectors.Provided a zoonotic origin can be ascertained for the COVID-19 pandemic,integrated wildlife,domestic animal and humans disease surveillance-response may contribute to prevent future outbreaks.In conclusion,the earlier a zoonotic pathogen can be detected in the environment,in wildlife or in domestic animals;and the better human,animal and environmental surveillance communicate with each other to prevent an outbreak,the lower are the cumulative costs.

Fostering social innovation and building adaptive capacity for dengue control in Cambodia: a case study

Background:The social-ecological systems theory,with its unique conception of resilience(social-ecological systems&resilience,SESR),provides an operational framework that currently best meets the need for integration and adaptive governance as encouraged by the Sustainable Development Goals.SESR accounts for the complex dynamics of social-ecological systems and operationalizes transdisciplinarity by focusing on community engagement,value co-creation,decentralized leadership and social innovation.Targeting Social Innovation(SI)in the context of implementation research for vector-borne diseases(VBD)control offers a low-cost strategy to contribute to lasting and contextualized community engagement in disease control and health development in low and middle income countries of the global south.In this article we describe the processes of community engagement and transdisciplinary collaboration underpinning community-based dengue management in rural primary schools and households in two districts in Cambodia.Methods:Multiple student-led and community-based interventions have been implemented focusing on empowering education,communication for behavioral change and participatory epidemiology mapping in order to engage Cambodian communities in dengue control.We describe in particular the significance of the participatory processes that have contributed to the design of SI products that emerged following iterative consultations with community stakeholders to address the dengue problem.Results:The SI products that emerged following our interaction with community members are 1)adult mosquito traps made locally from solid waste collections,2)revised dengue curriculum with hands-on activities for transformative learning,3)guppy distribution systems led by community members,4)co-design of dengue prevention communication material by students and community members,5)community mapping.Conclusions:The initiative described in this article put in motion processes of community engagement towards creating ownership of dengue control interventions tools by community stakeholders,including school children.While the project is ongoing,the project's interventions so far implemented have contributed to the emergence of culturally relevant SI products and provided initial clues regarding 1)the conditions allowing SI to emerge,2)specific mechanisms by which it happens and 3)how external parties can facilitate SI emergence.Overall there seems to be a strong argument to be made in supporting SI as a desirable outcome of project implementation towards building adaptive capacity and resilience and to use the protocol supporting this project implementation as an operational guiding document for other VBD adaptive management in the region.

German Popular Music Studies as Part of （International） Media Cultural Studies

This paper begins by explaining current developments in popular music research, mainly in connection with approaches used in international media and Cultural Studies. It then provides an overview of German-language research methods and discourses on popular music. In addition to the traditional reflections from musicology and music education, nine perspectives will be described, primarily from the media, communications, culture and social sciences. These nine contemporary perspectives are distributed along lines of thematic focus, moving beyond disciplines or fields per se. This paper will close with a list of suggestions for popular music research and education in the German cultural sphere, insisting above all on a clear connection/link, in the sense of a mixing/incorporation/integration, with （current） international discourses. Finally, the paper synthesizes German research, not only to systematize it but also to illustrate its diversity and multiperspectivity.