A glance at the April 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: The mapping of knowledge As the sciences continue to advance into uncharted territory, a new discipline is ...
History is often taught as if the mapping of the world began with Europe—Renaissance portolan charts, Mercator projections, imperial surveys—while Africa appears as an unmapped space, known only once ...
The NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer at sea during the 2022 Caribbean Mapping expedition. The ship will be in Alaska waters for much of this year. (Image by Anna Sagatov/NOAA) Recent efforts are pushing ...
Ethnic identity and acculturation is a multidisciplinary research field. It is not easy for researchers to gain a panoramic view of the knowledge structure in this field. The bibliometric of knowledge ...
This study is part of a project that seeks to take strategic demography “beyond the headcount approach,” using the new information the data explosion has revealed about the human potential in national ...
Recent efforts are pushing the boundaries of ocean mapping in Alaska’s waters with the help of automated vessels and collaborative mapping efforts. Experts say these unmanned vessels and ambitious ...
Discussions of tacit and explicit knowledge, such as that made by Harry Collins (29 May, p 30), often run afoul of the map-versus-territory confusion: the map is an abstraction of the territory, ...