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x Psychology Psychology Journal of Abnormal Psychology    
Psychology (lit. "study of the mind", from Greek: ψυχή psukhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of") is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic systematic, and often scientific, study of human or animal mental...
American Imago
Cultic Studies Review
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
American Psychologist
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x Marketing Marketinghuis Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics    
Marketing is a "social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and values with others." It is an integrated process through which companies create value for...
x Civil Engineering FalkirkWheelSide 2004 SeanMcClean Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology Engineering Science Structural engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings. Civil...
x Chemistry Chemistry - the study of atoms and the structures they unite to form Annual Reports Section C Natural science  
Chemistry (from Arabic:الكيم Latinized: chem (kēme), meaning "earth") is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions. It is a physical...
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Angewandte Chemie
Faraday Discussions
Synthesis
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x Aesthetics The Parthenon's facade showing an interpretation of golden rectangles in its proportions   Philosophy  
Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection...
x Epistemology According to Plato, knowledge is a subset of that which is both true and believed      
Epistemology (from Greek ἐπιστήμη - episteme-, "knowledge, science" + λόγος, "logos") or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. It addresses the questions: Much of the debate...
x Ethics Immanuel Kant Ethics Philosophy Medical ethics
Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality, such as what the fundamental semantic, ontological, and epistemic nature of ethics or morality is (meta-ethics), how moral values...
Ethics & International Affairs Journal Environmental ethics
Hastings Center Report Normative ethics
Political philosophy
Meta-ethics
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x Metaphysics Sanzio 01 Plato Aristotle      
Metaphysics investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics. It is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world. Someone who...
x Philosophy The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal   Ethics
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions (such as mysticism or...
Journal of the History of Philosophy Philosophy of science
Philosophy and Literature Philosophy of language
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology Aesthetics
Entropy History of philosophy
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x Logic   Journal of Philosophical Logic Philosophy  
Logic, from the Greek λογική (logiké) is the art and science of reasoning. More specifically, it is defined by the Penguin Encyclopedia to be "The formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning". As a discipline,...
x Social sciences Market day in the K'iche' town of Chichicastenango Social Evolution & History Science  
The social sciences are the fields of scientific knowledge and academic scholarship that study social groups and, more generally, human society. The social sciences initially were constituted of five fields: Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law;...
Qualitative Research
Qualitative Sociology
Population and Environment
Journal of Social & Psychological Sciences
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x Music theory        
Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a grand sense, music theory distills and analyzes the parameters or...
x Nihilism        
Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more aspects of life or the world in general. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is...
x Economics NYSE-floor Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved    
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, ...
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Economics Letters
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Yale Economic Review
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x Anthropology Table of Natural History, Cyclopaedia, Volume 2 Social Evolution & History    
Anthropology (pronounced /ænθrɵˈpɒlədʒi/, from the Greek ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "human", and -λογία, -logia, "discourse", first use in English: 1593) is the study of human beings, everywhere and throughout time. Anthropology has its intellectual...
American Anthropologist
Terrain
Man
Mankind Quarterly
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x Journalism Primeiro jornal Brasileiro      
Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via media including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, mobile phone and the internet. Journalists—be they writers, editors or photographers; broadcast presenters or...
x Mathematics Mathematics Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society   Category theory
Mathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. There is debate...
Annals of Mathematics Topos theory
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Acta Mathematica
Inventiones Mathematicae
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x Astronomy A GALEX image of the spiral galaxy Messier 81 in ultraviolet light.  Credit:GALEX/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Natural science X-ray astronomy
Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον), "star" and -nomy from nomos (νόμος), "law") is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere ...
Icarus Exoplanetology Infrared astronomy
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Gamma-ray astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics Neutrino astronomy
Astrophysical Journal Theoretical Astronomy
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x Astrophysics NGC 4414 (NASA-med) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Physics Exoplanetology
Astrophysics (Greek: Astro - meaning "star", and Greek: physis – φύσις - meaning "nature") is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature, and chemical...
Astronomy and Astrophysics Exoplanetology
Astrophysical Journal
Astronomische Nachrichten
Living Reviews in Solar Physics
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x Electrical engineering PoleMountTransformer02 IEEE Spectrum EECS  
The precise meaning of the term electrical engineering is not universally agreed upon. In some parts of the world, it is considered to be the most general of the electricity-related engineering disciplines, with electronics engineering being a...
Bell Labs Technical Journal Engineering Science
IJOE
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
x Computing Science /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004a5cb9d IBIS EECS Artificial intelligence
Computer science (or computing science) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the...
Bell Labs Technical Journal Science Analysis of algorithms
Entropy Theory of computation
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Computer architecture
ACM Computing Reviews Database design
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x Communications          
x Architecture Brunelleshi-and-Duomo-of-Florence Children Youth and Environments Journal   History of Architecture
For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture. Architecture (Latin „architectura“, from the Greek „arkitekton“, ὰρχιτεκτονική – arkhitektonike, from ὰρχι chief or leader and Τεκτονική builder or carpenter) is the art and science...
Urban planning
Hotel design
x History The title page  to The Historians' History of the World. Journal of the West   History of Architecture
History is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it...
Social Evolution & History History of science and technology
Late Imperial China
Journal of Women's History
American Jewish History
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x Political Science Santi di Tito - Niccolo Machiavelli's portrait headcrop American Political Science Review Science International relations
Political science is a social science concerned with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. It is often described as the pragmatic application of the art and science of...
World Politics
Journal of Democracy
Security and Peace
Human Rights Quarterly
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x Classics Bust of Homer Arethusa Humanities  
Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (Bronze...
Journal of Early Christian Studies
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Transactions of the American Philological Association
American Journal of Philology
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x Criminology        
Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation"; and Greek -λογία, -logia) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in the...
x Applied science        
Applied science is the application of knowledge from one or more natural scientific fields to solve practical problems. Fields of engineering are closely related to applied sciences. Applied science is important for technology development. Its use...
x Materials Science The Materials Science Tetrahedron, which often also includes Characterization at the center Journal of Materials Chemistry    
Materials science or materials engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. This science investigates the relationship between the structure of...
Advanced Functional Materials
Advanced Materials
Journal of Electronic Materials
Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
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x Creative writing        
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels,...
x Public policy        
Public policy can be generally defined as the course of action or inaction taken by governmental entities (the decisions of government) with regard to a particular issue or set of issues. Other scholars define it as a system of "courses of action,...
x Writing Medieval writing desk      
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non...
x Zoology Animal diversity October 2007 Integrative and Comparative Biology Biology  
Zoology, also spelled zoölogy, is the branch of biology that focuses on the structure, function, behavior, and evolution of animals. The zoologist's pronunciation of "zoology" is /zoʊˈɑlədʒɪ/, though a common spelling pronunciation is /zuːˈɑlədʒɪ/....
Acta Zoologica
The Zoological Record
Journal of Natural History
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
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x EECS       Electrical engineering
EECS is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It is a designation used at some universities for the major or department that blends these two fields together. Curriculum for an EECS degree is comprable to the curriculum...
Computing Science
x Mechatronics          
x Computational design        
Computational design ¬タモ definition 1. development of a computational theory of design 2. the design of products and processes through the use of digital means. These products and processes themselves integrate digital technology (they are...
x High-performance computing Nanoscience High-Performance Computing Facility      
High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers. The term is most commonly associated with...
x Electrical and Mechanical Engineering          
x History and Literature          
x Cognitive science   Journal of Consciousness Studies    
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of the cognitive processes underlying the acquisition and use of knowledge. It draws from converging evidence and methodology of diverse fields, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ...
Mind & Language
x Particle physics First Gold Beam-Beam Collision Events at RHIC at 100 100 GeV c per beam recorded by STAR   Physics  
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. It is also called high energy physics, because many elementary particles do not occur under normal...
x Computer graphics (images) The Utah teapot model      
Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of pictorial data by a computer. The development of computer graphics, or simply referred to as CG, has made computers easier to interact...
x Nutrition MyPyramid1 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition    
Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet. The diet of an...
African Journal of Food and Nutritional Security
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
x Japanese literature Genji emaki sekiya      
Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia. Early works were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion...
x Molecular and Cell Biology        
Molecular and Cell Biology is a major at UC Berkeley with several emphases. Students in this major study biochemistry, such as with nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Classes required for this major include general chemistry, organic...
x Biological Sciences          
x Public Health          
x Biochemical engineering Bioreactors      
Biochemical engineering is a branch of chemical engineering or biological engineering that mainly deals with the design and construction of unit processes that involve biological organisms or molecules, such as bioreactors. Biochemical engineering...
x Microbiology Agar plate with colonies Nature Reviews Microbiology Biology  
Microbiology (from Greek μῑκρος, mīkros, "small"; βίος, bios, "life"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryotes such as fungi and protists, and...
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Microbiology
Journal of Medical Microbiology
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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x Mechanical Engineering Pipeanal   Engineering Science  
Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science. Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of various systems. It...
x Biomechanics Penguinu   Biology  
Biomechanics (Greek: βίος + μηχανική = βιομηχανικἠ, Greece: εμβιομηχανική because βιομηχανική = industrial) is the application of mechanical principles to living organisms. This includes bioengineering, the research and analysis of the mechanics of...
x Biology DNA-structure-and-bases Integrative and Comparative Biology Natural science Physiological Biology
Biology (from Greek βιολογία - βίος, bios, "life"; -λογία, -logia, study of) is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy....
The Quarterly Review of Biology Evolution
Journal of Biological Chemistry Structural biology
PLoS Biology Taxonomy
Cell Ecology
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x Genetics and Development          
x Immunology E A Behring Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Biomedical science  
Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with, among other things, the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and disease...
Journal of Immunotoxicology
x philosophy/religion (Meaning)          
x Operations research   Interfaces: An International Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science    
Operations research or Quantitative management(OR), as termed in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia, and operational research, as termed in Europe, is an interdisciplinary branch of applied mathematics that uses methods such as mathematical...
x Statistics /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004a7ff69 Biometrika   Applied statistics
Statistics is considered by some to be a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data, while others consider it to be a branch of mathematics concerned with collecting and...
Journal of Statistical Software Biostatistics
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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x Programming language Parse tree of Python code with inset tokenization      
A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine, to express...
x Materials Science and Engineering          
x Finance /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004cc9071 ICSID Review    
Finance is the science of funds management. The general areas of finance are business finance, personal finance, and public finance. Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. The field of finance deals with the concepts of time...
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
African Journal of Finance and Management
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