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x Psychology Psychology 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...
American Imago
Cultic Studies Review
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
American Psychologist
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x Marketing Marketinghuis 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...
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
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 like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. Civil engineering...
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 Chemistry - the study of atoms and the structures they unite to form 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...
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Polymer science
Angewandte Chemie Interface and colloid science
Faraday Discussions Inorganic chemistry
Synthesis Electrochemistry
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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 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...
x Epistemology According to Plato, knowledge is a subset of that which is both true and believed      
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...
x Ethics Immanuel Kant 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...
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 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:...
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, 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,...
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...
x Social sciences Market day in the K'iche' town of Chichicastenango 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,...
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 Thirteenth chord voice leading      
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...
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...
x Economics NYSE-floor 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, ...
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 Table of Natural History, Cyclopaedia, Volume 2 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...
American Anthropologist Social anthropology
Terrain Visual anthropology
Man Physical anthropology
Mankind Quarterly Forensic anthropology
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x Journalism Primeiro jornal Brasileiro   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...
x Mathematics Mathematics 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...
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 A GALEX image of the spiral galaxy Messier 81 in ultraviolet light.  Credit:GALEX/NASA/JPL-Caltech. 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)....
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 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 of celestial objects, as well as their interactions...
Astronomy and Astrophysics Exoplanetology
Astrophysical Journal
Astronomische Nachrichten
Living Reviews in Solar Physics
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x Electrical engineering PoleMountTransformer02 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...
Bell Labs Technical Journal Engineering Science
IJOE Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
x Computer Science /m/02bclxy 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...
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 Communications          
x Architecture Brunelleshi-and-Duomo-of-Florence 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...
Urban planning
Hotel design
x History The title page  to The Historians' History of the World. 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...
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 Santi di Tito - Niccolo Machiavelli's portrait headcrop 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...
World Politics Social sciences Comparative Politics
Journal of Democracy
Security and Peace
Human Rights Quarterly
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x Classics Bust of Homer 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...
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...
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....
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
x Materials Science The Materials Science Tetrahedron, which often also includes Characterization at the center 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...
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,...
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...
x Writing Medieval writing desk   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...
Professional writing
x Zoology Animal diversity October 2007 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...
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...
Computer 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. HPC integrates systems administration ...
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
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
x Particle physics First Gold Beam-Beam Collision Events at RHIC at 100 100 GeV c per beam recorded by STAR 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...
x Computer graphics (images) The Utah teapot model      
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...
x Nutrition MyPyramid1 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...
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 Genji emaki sekiya      
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,...
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 microscopic organisms, which are defined as any living organism that is either a single cell (unicellular), a cell cluster, or has no cells at...
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 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...
Engineering
x Biomechanics Penguinu   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...
x Biology DNA-structure-and-bases 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...
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 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...
Journal of Immunotoxicology Basic Medicine
Nature Reviews Immunology
x philosophy/religion (Meaning)          
x Operations research Blackett-large 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...
Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research
x Statistics Normal distribution and scales 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...
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 Parse tree of Python code with inset tokenization      
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...
x Materials Science and Engineering          
x Finance /m/02dt43k 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...
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
African Journal of Finance and Management
International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance
Journal of Trading
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