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  1. In the world of research, interdisciplinary communication grants scientisists from one discipline the power to interchange research methods from other disciplines to expand and support their own research.
  2. Now the application of interdisciplinary research varies from study to study, with some being straighforward with their relevant factors and some spanning over countless fields and disciplines, factors such as scale and scope can assist in narrowing down your research range to include on the most pertinant of studies.
  3. take for example the study on the casuses and effects of global warming would span innumerable fields as there would be no way to reasonably present your case using any single discipline. As such you would be drawing from from the clear cut fields dealing in Geopphysics and Meteorology to the abstract yet still very relevant fields of Politics and sociology which play a big part in the social state of global warming.
  4. this then brings us to the phenomena known as boundary objects and their role in interdisciplinary research. these boundary objects which are defined as information templates flexible enough to befound applicable to multiple fields of study, yet constant enough to maintain the fundamentals of it's conception and heritage. A great example of this is the humble tally marks, and unary numeral system used for counting and recording. tally marks have seen countless uses in innumerable fields and activities yet it's parental discipline remains distinctly meath related. such a simple system can be traced back to 30000 years ago and can be considered a direct ancestor of most modern numeral-visual graphics.
  5. In my research will be identifying actor networks and boundary objects within my field of study. To be specific I will attempt to determine whether research can be expedited through the use of artificial actor networks and the insemination of synthesized boundary objects.
  6. In April 14th, 2003 one of the most important studies in the field of Biology and known science in general was marked as complete. the study known as the human genome project was an International scientific research project which aimed to pinpoint the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint.[1] It remains the world's largest collaborative biological project.
  7. the most recent project although vast in nature owes it's foundations to more humble origins. In 1865 , Augustian monk and scholar Gregor mendel, presented his study of plant hybridization in which he cultivated the common edible pea to produce some striking and groundbreaking results. His key findings in this series of experiements came to be known as Mendels laws of inheritance which in laymans terms explains the process in which traits are passed down from progenitors to their offspring.
  8. You may then make the assumption that Gregor Mendel was a biologist by trade or education, but in fact Mendel recieved formal training in theoretical philosophy and Physics. It is important to note that in the case of mendel and the global drive to finish the Human Genome Project, Biology and genetics were only some of the fields that led to the Breakthrought is the human Genome. In fact this colossal undertaking was only made possible through the combined efforts of a multitude of disciplines directly and indirectly working in unison.
  9. this tale of events gives credence to the notion in which within the world of science, there is an undercurrent of logic and method which governs research and experimentation, this process has since been defined as the scientific method, a method by which empirical data can be aquired through a process of pragmatic filtering.
  10. Which brings me to my research question of whether or not we can create conditions in which discpiplines far removed from our network neighbours can be artificially inseminated into our field of study in an attempt to increase both the quantitiy and the quality of our findings.
  11. Among the many benefits of the Scientfic method a few stand out such as its ability to standardise procudures which in turn make the replication of research easier. Boiled down to its fundamentals, the scientific method plays out as follows,
  12. Creates a hypothesis consistent with the observation
  13. Make predictions about behaviour using the hypothesis
  14. Prediction is tested through experiments and further observations
  15. Hypothesis is then modified to coincide with the results
  16. The modified hypothesis is used to make predictions about behaviour
  17. This is then tested and modified
  18. Following the process my hupothesis can be summed up as the following
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