field of study
field of study leading to a specific degree
astrobiology
study of the formation of life on Earth and elsewhere on other planets in outer space
calendar
system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes
music education
field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music
oceanography
branch of Earth science that studies the ocean
criminalistics
the application of science to criminal and civil laws during criminal investigation
instant messaging
form of communication over the Internet
folkloristics
branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore
cognitive science
interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes
perception
organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment in the brain
Unified Modeling Language
software system design modeling tool
hydrogeology
branch of science that studies distribution and movement of groundwater
parsing
process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar
access control
selective restriction of access to a place or other resource, allowing only authorized users
ontology
specification of a conceptualization in computer science and information science
association rule learning
method for discovering interesting relations between variables in databases
information privacy
appropriate collection, use and dissemination of personal data in products and services, as well as their protection and related legal and political issues
context awareness
capability to take into account the situation of entities (e.g. users or devices)
Byzantine studies
study of the Byzantine Empire
information retrieval
activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources
Defeasible reasoning
Reasoning that is rationally compelling, though not deductively valid
social history
broad branch of history that studies the experiences of ordinary people in the past
environmental security
reliable access to healthy natural environment
resolution
in logic, rule of inference
grounding in communication
the collection of mutual knowledge, beliefs, and assumptions
electronic publishing
publishing and disseminating documents via electronic means
Iranian studies
an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples, a part of the of Oriental studies
reproducibility
agreement with previous measurements using the same methodology in the same context
visual art education
teaching related to the visual arts
somatology
study or science of the human body as a branch of anthropology
Secure multi-party computation
subfield of cryptography
non-monotonic logic
formal logic whose conclusion relation is not monotonic
visual anthropology
subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media
Web of Things
objects connected to the World Wide Web
refinement
approaches for producing correct computer programs and simplifying existing programs to enable their formal verification
dynamic geology
branch of geology that deals with the causes and processes of geologic phenomena
agricultural technology
use of technology in agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture with the aim of improving yield, efficiency, and profitability
data retrieval
obtaining data from a database management system, often using a query with a set of criteria
meaningful learning
type of learning
conceptual spaces
area of research
diagrammatic reasoning
reasoning by the mean of visual representations
vocabulary
body of words used in a particular language (or the set known to an individual)
postmodernist anthropology
sub-field of anthropology
relationship extraction
type of text mining
computer science and engineering
academic program at many universities which comprises scientific and engineering aspects of computing
Greenlandic and Arctic Studies
area studies
uncertainty
situation which involves imperfect and/or unknown information, regarding the existing state, environment, a future outcome or more than one possible outcomes
orchidology
scientific study of orchids
entity linking
the task of assigning a unique identity to entities mentioned in text
data publishing
act of making research datasets available, often a large quantity at one time
scientific communication
part of information science and the sociology of science which study researchers' use of formal and informal information channels, their communicative roles (e.g., "gatekeepers"), the utilization of the formal publication system and similar issues