Transdisciplinary Approach of the Mechatronics in the Knowledge Based Society

Tourism, the world’s largest and one of the fastest developing economic sectors, virtually affects every region and nation of the world due to its potential contribution to international understanding and poverty reduction. Nepal is no exception. The remarkable growth of tourism at present (peace time) has been progressing through its four progressive theoretical models/platforms (e.g., advocacy, cautionary, adaptancy and knowledge-based platforms) with each having both peace potential and limitation. In this scenario, there is likely growing attention and look at tourism with a passion for its peace prospective.‘Peace’, a vital and most cherished dream of humanity, is a state that not only indicates the absence of direct violence but also sustains peaceful relationships among all levels and segments of society and between society and nature.Tourism is sensitive to conflict and responsive to peace. There are both opportunities and challenges for the peace responsiveness of tourism in Nepal. Nepalese tourism, which passed through a decade long (1996-2006) armed conflict, serves a concrete illustration of this nexus of tourism and peace with the dual attributes of tourism for conflict and peace. However, this paper envisages that it is a community-based village tourism supported by sustainable structures and actions, backed by proper implementations of tourism regulations, framed with appropriate codes of conduct and materialized by the integrated effort and partnership actions of all (non-scientific and scientific) stakeholders that can be the most viable option for achieving the noble goal of peace through tourism in Nepal. In this context, this paper exemplifies it with an innovative example of a research-linked and empirically executed case of Machhapuchchhre Model Trek (MMT) in Western Nepal. MMT is footed at the knowledgebased platform on transdisciplinary approach in which the scientific (e.g., researchers) and both academic and non-academic (e.g., local communities, local government, tourism practitioners, tourists, etc.) actors approached in an integrated effort to transform local tourism initiatives as peace promoting and conflict mitigating.This paper finally recommends the knowledge-based approach to Nepalese tourism as important not only for bridging the earlier three platforms but also for fulfilling the dual (mass as well as small-scale community-based village tourism) needs of Nepalese tourism at present and thus succeed on peace aspirations through tourism. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ntdr.v1i1.7368 Nepal Tourism and Development Review Vol.1(1) 2011 15-40

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A Transdisciplinary Approach on the Advanced Sustainable Knowledge Integration

Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education ◽

10.1515/cplbu-2015-0025 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 215-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ioan G. Pop ◽

Mihai-Florin Talpos ◽

Igor Prisac

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Integration ◽

Knowledge System ◽

Transdisciplinary Approach ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Proposed Model ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Advanced Knowledge ◽

New Vision ◽

The Way

AbstractThe paper presents a new, transdisciplinary approach on the DIKW (Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom) hierarchy, offering arguments that the hierarchy is unsound and even methodologically undesirable. The purpose of the paper is to identify a new and more complete perspective on knowledge integration. This model is based on another scale, in a synergistic-generative transdisciplinary manner, in order to transfer and implement knowledge in the knowledge based society/economy context. The new knowledge pattern, named DIMLAK (Data, Information, Messages, Learning, and Advanced Knowledge) is reconfigured to explain the way the advanced knowledge is achieved as a top level of the transdisciplinary integrated and integrative knowledge system. The proposed model is working complementarily as breadth through depth approach, opening a new vision in the knowledge achieving process.

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An Economic-Ecological Transdisciplinary Approach on the Binomial Relationship between Energetic Sustainability and the Environment

10.20944/preprints201702.0012.v1 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ioan G. Pop ◽

Sebastian Văduva ◽

Mihai-Florin Taloș

Keyword(s):

Energy Production ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Electrical Energy ◽

Energy Output ◽

Energetic Efficiency ◽

Transdisciplinary Approach ◽

Solar Systems ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Internal Sources ◽

Electrical Energy Production

The paper combines two new original concepts about eco-energetic systems. The first one is related to the M.E.N. (Mega-Eco-Nega-Watt) paradigm, which is based on three different but complementary ecological economic spaces: MEGAWATT, as needed energy, ECOWATT, as ecological energy, and NEGAWATT, as preserved energy, even the renewable energies and technologies, in the context of electrical energy production. The second concept presented in this paper is the eco-energetic efficiency, introduced in order to facilitate a correlation between the energetic efficiency of the system and a necessary, new defined ecological coefficient. The proposed formula for eco-energetic efficiency enables an interesting form of reporting to the different situations in which the input energy, output energy, lost energy and externalities, involved in an energetic process interact to produce energy in a specific energetic system, in connection with the circular economy model. Finally, is presented an original diagram of the energetic chains to produce electricity in a resilience regim, with high eco-energetic efficiency from originating in different primary energetic sources as external (gravitation & solar sources), fuels (classical & radioactive), internal sources and others. Even what kind of energetic sources are used to obtain electricity, as coals, gas, wood, hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, biomass, solar systems, and others, the entire process should be sustainable in what is the transdisciplinary integration of the different representative spheres as energy, socio-economy, ecology (environment), with the main core, sustainable education, inclueding the law and administrative aspects, as necessary fields of the knowledge based society/economy.

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Is the Personal Always Political?

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000230 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 133-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Danny Osborne ◽

Yannick Dufresne ◽

Gregory Eady ◽

Jennifer Lees-Marshment ◽

Cliff van der Linden

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

National Survey ◽

Negative Relationship ◽

Openness To Experience ◽

Political Sophistication ◽

Knowledge Based

Abstract. Research demonstrates that the negative relationship between Openness to Experience and conservatism is heightened among the informed. We extend this literature using national survey data (Study 1; N = 13,203) and data from students (Study 2; N = 311). As predicted, education – a correlate of political sophistication – strengthened the negative relationship between Openness and conservatism (Study 1). Study 2 employed a knowledge-based measure of political sophistication to show that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction was restricted to the Openness aspect of Openness. These studies demonstrate that knowledge helps people align their ideology with their personality, but that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction is specific to one aspect of Openness – nuances that are overlooked in the literature.

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