Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsEducation to Face the Wicked Challenges of SustainabilityBland TomkinsonProblem statement: The nature of sustainable development requires new paradigms for education. Issues of sustainability are ‘wicked problems’ that do not lend themselves to conventional didactic approaches. The challenge for higher education is to examine interdisciplinary approaches to global societal responsibility and, within this, issues of education for sustainable development. Approach: A project, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering, … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 18 Dec 2010 · 8,708 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractError Identification and Mitigation Analysis Method Using HFACS on VR HMDNkingo June Thomas, Yan SuHuman error has long been recognized as a key factor influencing safety, performance, and efficiency in complex tasks, including those involving advanced technologies. In the context of Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs), which are increasingly applied in fields such as aviation maintenance, the presence of human errors can compromise both user experience and operational reliability. This paper presents a … …Journal of Aircraft and Spacecraft Technology, Vol. 9, Issue 1 · 24 Nov 2025 · 2,937 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvaluation and Sociolinguistic Analysis of Text Features for Gender and Age IdentificationVasiliki Simaki, Iosif Mporas, Vasileios MegalooikonomouThe paper presents an interdisciplinary study in the field of automatic gender and age identification, under the scope of sociolinguistic knowledge on gendered and age linguistic choices that social media users make. The authors investigated and gathered standard and novel text features used in text mining approaches on the author's demographic information and profiling and they examined their efficacy in … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 4 · 25 Sep 2016 · 9,132 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCultural Identity Expressions through Visual Analysis in Post-Disaster HousingAsal Kamani Fard, Mohd Hamdan Ahmad, Dilshan Remaz OssenProblem statement: The incidence of natural disasters as well as followed human beings’ efforts for reestablishing life is considered as unavoidable essence of nature. Whilst, the interdisciplinary theme of post disaster recovery and reconstruction has been researched worldwide in order to examine its different aspects. And within architectural interests, evaluating the housing reconstruction programs would lead to beneficial clues through … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2010 · 7,270 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Case for Interdisciplinary Environmental Education and ResearchWill Focht, Charles I. AbramsonProblem statement: Interdisciplinary environmental education and research at American colleges and universities have been criticized for ambiguous focus, insufficient integration and lack of rigor. Part of the reason for a clearly articulated conceptualization of the field is the failure to reach a consensus among those in the environmental profession and academic community on an overarching paradigm of environmental education and … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 30 Apr 2009 · 7,204 accessesView PDFCite