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| x Psychology |
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Journal of Abnormal Psychology | Psychometrics |
Psychology is the study of the mind, occurring partly via the study of behavior. Grounded in scientific method, psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching...
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| American Imago | |||||
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| x Marketing |
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Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics | Management |
Marketing is "the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large."
For business to consumer marketing it is "the...
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| Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | |||||
| x Civil Engineering |
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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 like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. Civil engineering...
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| Proceedings of the ICE - Civil Engineering | Engineering | Transport engineering | |||
| Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering | Construction engineering | ||||
| Design-Construction Integration | |||||
| Product and Process Innovation in Construction | |||||
| x Chemistry |
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Annual Reports Section C | Natural science | Phytochemistry |
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical...
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| Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | Polymer science | ||||
| Angewandte Chemie | Interface and colloid science | ||||
| Faraday Discussions | Inorganic chemistry | ||||
| Synthesis | Electrochemistry | ||||
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| x Aesthetics |
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Philosophy |
Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori...
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| x Epistemology |
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Epistemology /ɨˌpɪstɨˈmɒlədʒi/ (from Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistēmē), meaning "knowledge, understanding", and λόγος (logos), meaning "study of") is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. It addresses the...
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| x Ethics |
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Ethics | Philosophy | Medical ethics |
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.
Major areas of study in ethics may be divided into 3 operational areas:
Each of these...
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| Ethics & International Affairs Journal | Environmental ethics | ||||
| Hastings Center Report | Normative ethics | ||||
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| Meta-ethics | |||||
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| x Metaphysics |
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Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
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| x Philosophy |
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal | Ethics |
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical,...
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| 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 logikē) is the philosophical study of valid reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science. It examines...
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| x Social sciences |
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Social Evolution & History | Science | Sociology |
Social science is the field of study concerned with society and human behaviours. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences. These include: anthropology, archaeology,...
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| Qualitative Research | Economics | ||||
| Qualitative Sociology | International Studies | ||||
| Population and Environment | Anthropology | ||||
| Journal of Social & Psychological Sciences | Political Science | ||||
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| x Music theory |
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Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods. In a grand sense, music...
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| x Nihilism |
Nihilism ( /ˈnaɪ.ɨlɪzəm/ or /ˈniː.ɨlɪzəm/; from the Latin nihil, nothing) is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential...
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| x Economics |
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American Economic Review | Social sciences |
Economics is the social science that analyzes 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, ...
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| American Journal Of Economics And Sociology | |||||
| Brookings Papers on Economic Activity | |||||
| Canadian Journal of Economics | |||||
| Comparative Technology Transfer and Society | |||||
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| x Anthropology |
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Social Evolution & History | Social sciences | Cultural anthropology |
Anthropology /ænθrɵˈpɒlədʒi/ is the academic study of humanity. It deals with all that is characteristic of the human experience, from physiology and the evolutionary origins to the social and cultural organization of human societies as well as...
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| American Anthropologist | Social anthropology | ||||
| Terrain | Visual anthropology | ||||
| Man | Physical anthropology | ||||
| Mankind Quarterly | Forensic anthropology | ||||
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knowledge base publishing |
Journalism is the investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience about topics ranging from government and business...
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| x Mathematics |
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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society | Natural science | Category theory |
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”) is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures...
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| Annals of Mathematics | Topos theory | ||||
| International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences | Topology | ||||
| Acta Mathematica | Algebra | ||||
| Inventiones Mathematicae | Computational Science and Engineering | ||||
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| x Astronomy |
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Exoplanetology | X-ray astronomy |
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth (such as cosmic background radiation)....
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| Icarus | Physics | 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 |
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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 of celestial objects, as well as their interactions...
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| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Exoplanetology | ||||
| Astrophysical Journal | |||||
| Astronomische Nachrichten | |||||
| Living Reviews in Solar Physics | |||||
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| x Electrical engineering |
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IEEE Spectrum | EECS | Telecommunications |
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after...
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| Bell Labs Technical Journal | Engineering Science | ||||
| IJOE | Engineering | ||||
| IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | |||||
| x Computer Science |
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IBIS | EECS | Artificial intelligence |
Computer science or computing science (abbreviated CS or CompSci) designates the scientific and mathematical approach in information technology and its applications, notably computer software and sometimes hardware. A computer scientist is a...
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| Bell Labs Technical Journal | Science | Analysis of algorithms | |||
| Entropy | Information and Computer Science | Theory of computation | |||
| IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | knowledge base publishing | Computer architecture | |||
| ACM Computing Reviews | Database design | ||||
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| x Architecture |
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Children Youth and Environments Journal | History of Architecture |
Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form...
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| x History |
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Journal of the West | History of Architecture |
History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was...
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| Social Evolution & History | History of science and technology | ||||
| Late Imperial China | History of ideas | ||||
| Journal of Women's History | Intellectual history | ||||
| American Jewish History | Chinese History | ||||
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| x Political Science |
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American Political Science Review | Science | International relations |
Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of...
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| World Politics | Social sciences | Comparative Politics | |||
| Journal of Democracy | |||||
| Security and Peace | |||||
| Human Rights Quarterly | |||||
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| x Classics |
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Arethusa | Humanities |
Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or Classical Civilization) is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world (Bronze...
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| 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 | Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment |
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...
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| x Applied science | Journal of Indigenous Studies |
Applied science is the application of scientific knowledge transferred into a physical environment. Examples include testing a theoretical model through the use of formal science or solving a practical problem through the use of natural science....
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| International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos | |||||
| x Materials Science |
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Journal of Materials Chemistry |
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and...
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| Advanced Functional Materials | |||||
| Advanced Materials | |||||
| Journal of Electronic Materials | |||||
| Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering | |||||
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| x Creative writing | 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,...
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| x Public policy |
Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the...
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| x Writing |
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Communication | Creative writing |
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 non-symbolic preservation of...
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| x Zoology |
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Integrative and Comparative Biology | Biology |
Zoology (pronounced /zoʊˈɒlədʒi/, occasionally spelt zoölogy), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and...
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| Acta Zoologica: Morphology and Evolution | |||||
| 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 comparable to the curriculum...
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| 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...
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| x High-performance computing |
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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.
HPC integrates systems administration ...
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| 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, ...
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| Mind & Language | |||||
| Review of Philosophy and Psychology | |||||
| x Particle physics |
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Physical Review D | Physics | Astroparticle physics |
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation. In current understanding, particles are excitations of quantum fields...
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| x Computer graphics (images) |
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Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware.
The development of computer graphics has made computers...
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| x Nutrition |
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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | Health science |
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...
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| African Journal of Food and Nutritional Security | |||||
| African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development | |||||
| International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition | |||||
| Annual Review of Nutrition | |||||
| x Japanese literature |
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Early works of Japanese literature 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 of Buddhism in Japan. Eventually,...
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| 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...
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| x Biochemical engineering |
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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...
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| x Microbiology |
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Nature Reviews Microbiology | Biology |
Microbiology (from Greek μῑκρος, mīkros, "small"; βίος, bios, "life"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of microscopic organisms, which are defined as any living organism that is either a single cell (unicellular), a cell cluster, or has no cells at...
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| Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | |||||
| Microbiology | |||||
| Journal of Medical Microbiology | |||||
| International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | |||||
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| x Mechanical Engineering |
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Engineering Science | Aerospace Engineering |
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the...
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| x Biomechanics |
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Biology |
Biomechanics (from Ancient Greek: βίος "life" and μηχανική "mechanics", In Modern Greek, εμβιομηχανική) is the study of the structure and function of biological systems such as humans, animals, plants, organs, and cells by means of the methods of...
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| x Biology |
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Integrative and Comparative Biology | Natural science | Physiological Biology |
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and...
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| 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 |
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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | Biomedical science |
Immunology is a branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the...
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| Journal of Immunotoxicology | Basic Medicine | ||||
| Nature Reviews Immunology | |||||
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| x Operations research |
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Interfaces: An International Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science |
Operations research, or Operational Research in British usage, is a discipline that deals with the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. It is often considered to be a sub-field of Mathematics. The terms...
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| Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research | |||||
| x Statistics |
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Biometrika | Mathematics | Applied statistics |
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.
A statistician is someone...
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| Journal of Statistical Software | Biostatistics | ||||
| Journal of the Royal Statistical Society | Bioinformatics | ||||
| Journal of Business & Economic Statistics | Computational Science and Engineering | ||||
| Journal of the American Statistical Association | Statistical graphics | ||||
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| x Programming language |
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A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms...
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| x Finance |
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ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal |
Finance is the study of how investors allocate their assets over time under conditions of certainty and uncertainty. A key point in finance, which affects decisions, is the time value of money, which states that a dollar today is worth more than a...
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| Financial Markets and Portfolio Management | |||||
| African Journal of Finance and Management | |||||
| International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance | |||||
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