Multidisciplinary organizations such as the Dysphagia Research Society (www.dysphagiaresearch.org) work to clarify terminology, to improve interdisciplinary communication and to encourage interdisciplinary research.
Usability is a broad and interdisciplinary field with inconsistent terminologies.
Accordingly, many hospitals have moved towards a family-centered style of care emphasizing bedside rounds, use of lay terminology, and an interdisciplinary care team with the goal of promoting active participation of patients and their family members in the medical decision making process [23], [24], [25].
In this paper I introduce the notion of soundscape and the terminology used by the interdisciplinary field of soundscape studies, founded by composer and activist R. Murray Schafer in the late 1960s.
At my companies we've solved this problem by creating our own terminology and thus, in essence, new interdisciplinary fields.
Assembling a collection of: laterite profiles and developing a descriptive terminology and classification of laterites for interdisciplinary use (CORLAT).
In conclusion, this review and our proposal of the A B C terminology are meant to initiate an interdisciplinary consensus discussion between neuropathologists, neurooncologists, epileptologists and any other medical and research discipline toward a better understanding of each tumors biologic behavior and successful medical treatment in patients suffering from drug-resistant focal epilepsy.
Our interdisciplinary debate brought to light the proliferation of various terminologies across disciplines, including "political remittances," "intangible flows," "democratic diffusion," "transfers of norms," or "health transfers" that ultimately document the different facets of one core phenomenon: that of social remittances.
The first two sections outline the present-day status of landscape architecture as an interdisciplinary field par excellence, as well as of landscape architecture terminology.
