Entrepreneurship is an old concept, even existing during the barter system. Entrepreneurship development was a concern of becoming resourceful. Entrepreneurship exists in various organizations, not alone from management. Entrepreneurship development requires various Skills, Abilities, Knowledge, Competencies, Intelligence, and Experimental Determination (SAKCIED) to bring about creative innovation, creative imitation for creative construction, and creative destruction. Entrepreneurship development requires a Felt-Positive need Motivation (FPM) from within, driven by emotional values, to serve, to gain social status, being rational as an economic man (homo economicus), acting differently, and continuing to contribute, requiring intensified drive of needs, which is essential. This study is a qualitative exploration of the intensified drive-need of entrepreneurs from Nepal and India. Seven respondents participated in this research. Open-ended interviews were conducted. Data triangulation analysis was applied, and crystallization methods were used to give subjective meaning. The results suggested that creative innovation and creative imitation may not always be effective in breaking traditional boundaries, but creative construction and creative destruction can have a high impact on breaking boundaries and win over the competitors. Creative construction and creative destruction may not be easily achieved. Leadership creative approaches towards developing of fastmoving essential products and socially highly valued products can bring about creative constructions of a new product or creative destruction of the existing product in the existing market. Creative leaders activate their actions-oriented behavior towards creative imitation and innovation, while some creative leadership approaches go beyond the expected actions-oriented behavior. These are directed by the leadership's need-based decision. These needs are engraved within the felt-positive motivation of an individual to dramatically bring about changes within the existing organization's internal and external environment. Therefore, creative leadership approaches towards breaking boundaries are the extreme determination of the entrepreneur’s vision towards creative construction and destruction.
This paper begins with a (surprisingly) radical interpretation of the law of identity as an assertion of the existence of identity, of self-sameness, and a brief discussion on the axiom’s relation to humanity’s claim to knowledge. From the recognition of the existence of self-sameness, it follows that, as all A is A, everything else that exists is reducible to identity. Self-sameness is the distilled essence of everything. Identity is the only primary; it is the causeless first cause. The paper then explores the implications of this concept as a solution to the central and fundamental metaphysical issue,” the question of existence,” and examines the implications of this idea in the pursuit of an ultimate theory of the physical universe, the quest for a Theory of Everything.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) wishes to thank all the reviewers for their intellectual contributions by timely reviewing manuscripts, and supporting the journal’s vision of “Enriching Beautiful Minds towards Intelligent Minds”. From the desk of the Editor-in-Chief, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) would like to thank all the reviewers who made it possible to publish this volume, Volume 9, Issue 2, November 2025. Let us join and collaborate together to ENRICH the BEAUTIFUL MINDS TOWARDS INTELLIGENT MINDS Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari Gertrude-Emilia Costin Mateo S. Pimentel Olota oluwayomi Omotayo Simon Meisch Jeremy Dennis Khagendra Tripathi Sherridan Grady
The environment, as a space where multifaceted drivers of collective health events occur, requires an interdisciplinary analytical approach. To evaluate how the monitoring of such complexity has been addressed, a descriptive critical review of the literature under the terms Environmental Surveillance and Exposome was conducted. The methodology included categorizing articles according to Subject, Sample, Method, and Objective. Under Subject, the Abiotic subcategory includes radiation, emissions, molecules, and physical events. Within Sample, the Air-Soil subcategory includes dust, fomites, surface analyses, and physical variables. The Epidemiological subcategory covers outbreak investigations, risk assessments, and program updates. The development of the concept of Environmental Surveillance was reviewed chronologically across representative periods, along with the changing health-related contexts. The results showed that most papers regarded the environment merely as a sampling substrate—pathogen- or noxa-specific, monocausal—and used surveillance primarily to design or implement effective control interventions. The discussion, based on the multidisciplinary framework of eco-epidemiology and the intersectoral operational One Health approach, concludes by proposing a strategy for Surveillance of Environment focused on critical variables, with attention to the lags between threshold values and their health impacts. To operationalize this Surveillance of Environment approach, the steps required to delimit the workspace of the landscape as a Health Territory are summarized, enabling timely preventive interventions at the early-warning stage.
Inter- and Transdisciplinarity are contested terms. There is a confusing simultaneity in the discourse between the constant claim for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity and an insufficient implementation of it. This study wants to diminish this confusion, by describing a tension in the discourse, which should serve for understanding Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in general and the discussions around it in concrete research contexts, like water research, better. The research of water is an interdisciplinary task and it is crucial to carry out water research in an inter- and transdisciplinary way to be able to tackle modern problems. The scrutiny of the tension helps for better analysis of the discourse around Inter- and Transdisciplinarity and opportunities to speak about it more precisely. This study uses experiences of Water Research and philosophical scrutiny to aim at a differentiation of levels for understanding the tension between the demand and the implementation of Inter- and Transdisciplinarity. Not enough attention is given to the concrete problems of inter- and transdisciplinary water research. Future water management needs to realize the importance of the cross-cutting issues regarding e.g. social or ethical issues. Future water research could also benefit from overcoming technology fixation. Problems of water (supply) in the future cannot be solved by the same methods as in the past.
Five years have passed since the COVID-19 global pandemic disrupted Arizona State University’s 2020 Sound and Wellbeing Humanities Lab. As a response to this mid-semester disturbance, students in the lab were assigned to groups to generate sound experiences to promote healing and minimize stress in ways that might benefit the public. This paper presents key findings among students’ responses to their classmates’ sound and well-being projects. Key themes and analyses echo critical aspects of the relevant literature on sound and well-being during the pandemic. They also offer novel insights into several areas of investigation, as cited by a body of literature on sound and well-being during the pandemic.
While Aristotle coined two words, energeia and entelecheia in his description of change. The two concepts have ontological coverage and they may be used for any kind of particular change, including physical motion. Modern physics adopted energy as one of its basic concepts, built on a modified form of Aristotle’s energeia. It is expected that entelecheia should have a counterpart in modern physics but few investigations were done. The teleological character of Aristotle’s ontology makes difficult to build an exhaustive one-to-one correspondence between Aristotle’s perception of motion and motion as we understand it now. However, such a correspondence may be easily emphasized in case of controlled motions, which are teleological by nature. We restrict the theory here to such motions and consider a simple mechanical system for which we identify a quantity, called entelechy, which obeys the two properties of Aristotle’s entelecheia, i.e. (a) it is “holding its completion in itself” and (b) it converges towards kinetic energy, which is the modern equivalent of energeia. The shape of the system may be controlled in different ways, characterized by different entelechies and different amounts of work, in good agreement with common perception.
For scholars who study the history of slavery in the United States, the claim that slave plantations functioned like schools is controversial but hardly original. However, it can be challenging to find a similar level of interest, inquiry, or evidence to corroborate this claim in the scholarship and textbooks of many contemporary historians in the field of education. As such, the pedagogical effects of slavery are often underrepresented and the slave plantation as a formal and informal pedagogical space is undertheorized. Understanding the various institutions and environments that contribute to the development of teaching and learning remains important, particularly for those who write, study, or teach the history of American education and those who use digital platforms or cloud-based learning management systems such as Google Classroom. To encourage a more interdisciplinary approach to the history of education in the United States and elsewhere, some historians have recommended the novels and musings of writers such as Toni Morrison. This study uses a semiotic approach to reveal what one can learn when Morrison’s Beloved is revisited and mapped to illuminate its theoretical and pedagogical import for interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in many fields, particularly education. As the slave master and pedagogue on the Sweet Home slave plantation, the character Schoolteacher develops a pedagogy for his pupil-nephews and pupil-slaves that is not too distant from the data extraction protocols used by many internet corporations and the academic systems that employ their digital services and infrastructure to facilitate and measure teaching and learning. The findings suggest that Morrison’s novel is an interdisciplinary tool that enriches one’s understanding of American literature and history while illuminating data extraction as a colonial and pedagogical imperative that informs slavery in the past and education in the digital future.
Common words used in management activities are often misinterpreted or gained twisted connotations over the years of possible misuse. Our analysis of standard management terms frequently involved in interpersonal communication indicated that they are used incorrectly, with an assumed sense that departed from the original meaning. They are also perceived and interpreted in discussions with a twisted angle, which frequently leads to miscommunications with downstream effects on projects execution and timelines. Other times, these terms are outright avoided because of their unjustly acquired fame of being wrongly interpreted, motivating us to review their original meaning and how they should be used and perceived. Even grandfathered terms are at some point due for an analysis that can lead to re-establishing their original, intended sense, to bringing them back from obscurity to common use or to indicating that they are indeed appropriate to being used in certain contexts. We provide herein a different perspective on "reading between the lines" and we also explore alternative meanings beyond the immediate sense of words that sometimes might be incorrectly used in managerial activities. The purpose of this manuscript is to rehabilitate the original sense of these common terms and thus to guide the users to their true meaning that would minimize miscommunication issues and misinterpretations. The ultimate goal of this review commentary paper is to offer meaningful management perspectives of the twisted and ill-fated words connotation.
Our qualitative, in-depth case study identified employee turnover as a barrier to strategic growth and profitability in an SME digital agency, exacerbated by today’s work culture, where high levels of avoidable dysfunctional turnover is becoming the norm. There is a shortage of in-depth research into this phenomenon within SMEs; existing literature often tends to focus on financial factors that contribute to employee retention, motivation and satisfaction. This research therefore explores employee retention in the case study business, in order to give insights on employee retention that may be useful to other similar SMEs. This study contributes, in particular, to the stream of research on financial and non-financial rewards and the importance of retaining employee talent. The research uses multiple data collection methods: semi-structured interviews with management and business consultants and online questionnaires with current and former employees. We found that non-financial aspects played an important role in employee motivation and retention, corroborating the need for an approach that covers both aspects. We propose key takeaways for managing this strategic human resource challenge in SMEs. This research paves the way for future research. The in-depth nature of the research allows a fuller appreciation of takeaways and how they work out over time.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) wishes to thank all the reviewers for their intellectual contributions by timely reviewing manuscripts, and supporting the journal’s vision of “Enriching Beautiful Minds towards Intelligent Minds”. From the desk of the Editor-in-Chief, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) would like to thank all the reviewers who made it possible to publish this volume, Volume 9, Issue 1, May 2025. Let us join and collaborate together to ENRICH the BEAUTIFUL MINDS TOWARDS INTELLIGENT MINDS Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari David Turnbull Gorun Manolescu Gertrude-Emilia Costin Simon Meisch Bulent Akinoglu Katarina Kostelic Philip MacKinnon Brent Gilbert Michael A. Lange Milan M. Ćirković
Climate change is the priority, global concern that has received substantial funding for reduction efforts and makes demands on governments for change. The first climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (2008), was founded on the aim of reducing greenhouse emissions to at least 5% below 1990 levels, however the last decade saw a 15% increase in CO2 emissions. Achieving 1990 levels should be the first target in Net Zero Emissions, equating to a reduction in annual CO2 emissions by 12.8 Gt, which this paper accepts as a definition of the “Global Target”. In this paper we assert that three key actions are necessary if this target is to be achieved: First, the use of Absolute Emissions, not Emission Intensity, as the key metric. Absolute Emissions provide transparency and facilitate responsible investment, whereas Emission Intensity is misleading because it creates an illusion of lower emissions whilst allowing increases in actual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Second, measurement and reporting of Absolute Emissions should be compared with the Global Target for any GHG-producing process, and against the respective country, sector, and industry targets. Thirdly, data-based solutions should be implemented by identifying significant emission contributors and designing reduction or elimination protocols based on this identification. An example is given of removing inefficient motor vehicles to achieve 14% of the Global Target, together with examples of targetting other key emissions sources.
This point of departure essay brings into discussion the connection between storytelling, science and management. While the Biological Sciences field provides by default the technical training needed to acquire specific skills, the experts mastering these aptitudes are often faced in their career with challenges when transitioning to a managerial position. This is when scientists depart from the fascinating Biology realm to enter a world of soft skills needed to manage programs and lead teams. These management skills can be acquired by taking classes, learning from a mentor, or by other vetted academic means. There is however one seemingly long-lost resource that surpasses time, crosses continents, and overcomes language barriers as well as cultural differences. In this manuscript we reintroduce the art of storytelling as the most powerful tool of communication while we integrate examples used for management training of scientists. While the stories included are provided as examples in the context of learning management concepts in the work field, they can equally serve as effective teaching strategies in college classrooms. Storytelling fosters learning in a combined structured and improvisational setting that prepares students for real life situations encountered as they enter a continuously demanding work force.
This article explores the links between the Covid-19 pandemic and the principles of biology using applied physics as a common analytical framework. Such links involve supramicrobiological questions: (i) Does the interaction humans ↔ pandemics fit the mainstream of evolutionary biology? (ii) Why does there appear to be an increase in pandemic frequency? (iii) Why are these pandemics preferentially emerging in the Far East? (iv) Why do the populations of zones that belong to the same economic system react differently to the same pandemics? v) Are there reasons to expect these outbreaks to become more frequent? Methodologically speaking, this article is simple: interdisciplinary links are established and statistical procedures based on data extracted from international institutions are interspersed in order to support the respective interdisciplinary link. The results suggest that (a) zoonotic diseases do not coincide with what is expected according to the orthodox Darwinian approach on at least two points (gradualism, and evolutionary process at the population scale); (b) socioeconomic niches and socio-diversity (the social equivalent of biodiversity) connected to them act as strong selective pressures either for or against pandemics; (c) socioeconomic development is equivalent to a drift from r to K in human systems, and as a result there is a drift from K to r in ecosystems, which favors a tendency to increase pandemic frequency; (d) eco-historical analysis indicates that those countries or areas that display a faster rate of economic growth act as socio-economic Maxwell’s demons that modulate, either voluntarily or involuntarily, the emergence of pandemics.
This paper presents the thesis that the concept of finite quantized (not infinitely subdividable) spacetime is the missing element of reality, the hidden variable that can provide an explanation for so-called nonlocality that is simple and plausible. Furthermore, it can furnish a view of this action at a distance in a manner that preserves the principle of locality. In addition, this work explores some of the otherimplications of this view of spacetime.
Publication of the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in 2017, issued an invitation to non-Indigenous Australians to ‘walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future’. This invitation spurred us to document what we believe is an example of such ‘walking together’, so that others may be encouraged to follow suit. Our story records this experience from two different Australian perspectives – Aboriginal and settler - and encompasses a working and personal relationship. We have used storytelling as our conceptual framework because this is a common and powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander process of passing on all manner of knowledge, practice and philosophy. These three components interact in our story, conveying ways in which people from different cultures can learn and change through sharing each other’s history, cultural and life experiences. We use our occupational collaboration to detail seminal aspects of how this relationship ripened – through a willingness to learn, through mutual respect and trust. The article embraces a model of complementarity and assigns aspects of doing, being, becoming and belonging to the progress of our walk together. The conclusion outlines the value, particularly for settler Australians who may never have had contact with Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, of attempting to instigate connections with individual people through shared humanity and dignity. We believe such partnerships, between everyday people as well as at a national level, will enhance many aspects of our daily lives and the future of our nation.
Misleading graphs spread misinformation under the guise of scientific legitimacy. While researchers have evaluated the importance of x axis and y axis truncation, there is currently limited research comparing properly scaled informative infographics and improperly scaled misinformative infographics. By comparing infographics that spread correct information and infographics that spread misinformation, we may better understand the presentation of x/y axis truncation to spread misinformation. Anti-vaccine graphic misinformation is a current and present health danger. While vaccines are safe and prevent the spread of disease, anti-vaccine rhetoric is effective at dissuading parents from vaccinating their children. Specifically, anti-vaccine organizations argue that vaccines recommended for children, such as the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, are directly dangerous. The use of misleading graphs further lends credibility to anti-vaccine beliefs. Understanding the use of a truncated x/y axis when spreading misinformation about vaccines allows information seekers to avoid misinformation.
Dear Readers, Journal of interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) is now completing its eight years of publication journey. However, this year in September, we were hit by the heavy rainfall causing the consequences of excessive flooding, which apparently also flooded the JIS office destroying every document and equipment’s. But we were determined to offer our continuous services to the authors and the readers around the world who depended on us for their publication which encouraged ourselves to meet the publication date of November 2nd, publishing its volume 8, issue 2. In this Volume 8, issue 2, JIS is only publishing few papers from interdisciplinary sciences. We will now start working with the next volume for the year 2025 and we hope we can continue to serve the educational and scientific community. We look for your support and expect to receive your submission. Thank you Let us join and collaborate together to ENRICH the BEAUTIFUL MINDS TOWARDS INTELLIGENT MINDS Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari. Ph.D. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) www.journalofinterdisciplinarysciences.com
Ordered logit and ordered probit models, commonly used ordered categorical variable models, are used when the dependent variable is categorical and ordered. The validity of the predictions of these models depends on the assumption of parallel slopes. These models can be used if the assumption of parallel slopes is met. When this assumption is not met, the generalized ordered logit/probit model, which is more flexible in terms of assumption, or the multinomial logit model can be used by ignoring the assumption. In this connection, an exemplary data set was taken, and first of all, the assumption of parallel slopes was investigated. These models were compared using loglikelihood, Akaike Information Criteria (AIC), and Bayes Information Criteria (BIC) statistics for the validity of the models. In this way, the lowest log-likelihood, AIC, and BIC values were found for the generalized logit model.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) wishes to thank all the reviewers for their intellectual contributions by timely reviewing manuscripts, and supporting the journal’s vision of “Enriching Beautiful Minds towards Intelligent Minds”. From the desk of the Editor-in-Chief, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) would like to thank all the reviewers who made it possible to publish this volume, Volume 8, Issue 2, November 2024. Let us join and collaborate together to ENRICH the BEAUTIFUL MINDS TOWARDS INTELLIGENT MINDS Mani Man Singh Rajbhandari Necati Alp Erilli Michael A. Lange Efe Sarıbay Murat Tanık Harriette Scott Conor Buggy
