Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (JIDR), vol. 1, no. 1 (2007)
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Item Security in User- Assisted Communications(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007) Zhou, TonyToday, companies called service providers enable communications and control the related infrastructures. However, with increased computing power, advanced wireless technologies and more standardized terminals, users in the future will be able to take more control of communications. In this paper, we define and discuss a disruptive communication model called User-Assisted Communications (UAC), which allows users to assist other users to establish communications, and propose a method for managing trust and security, which are the most challenging variables in UAC and must be addressed before UAC can be implemented successfully. A Social Network based Trust Establishment (SN-TE) is proposed for UAC implementation.Item “I Cannot Rule Myself” The Pitfalls of Sensibility in Mary Shelley's The Last Man(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007) Sager, Diane A.Item Diverse Struggles to Preserve Tribal Identity on the Plains: Religion as Survival Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century among the Lakota and Osage(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007) Riggs, Michael S.; Religious StudiesItem Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007) Kelley, TanyaIt has long been debated whether the scientific writing of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) provided the seeds for the theory of evolution. Scholars have argued both sides with equal passion. German biologist and philosopher, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) wrote, “Jean and Lamarck and Wolfgang Goethe stand at the head of all the great philosophers of nature who first established a theory of organic development, and who are the illustrious fellow workers of Darwin.”1 Taking the opposite stance was Chancellor of Berlin University, Emil du Bois Reymond (1818-1896). Du Bois was embarrassed by Goethe's forays into science. He wrote, “Beside the poet, the scientist Goethe fades into the background. Let us at long last put him to rest.”2 I argue that Goethe's scientific writings carry in them the seeds of the theory of evolution. Goethe's works on plant morphology reflects the conflicting ideas of his era on the discreteness and on the stability of species. Goethe's theory of plant morphology provides a link between the discontinuous view of nature...Item Heterodox Microfoundations: A Methodological Appraisal(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007) Jo, Tae-HeeThis paper examines underlying methodological commitments in orthodox and heterodox approaches to micro and macro. Identifying methodological advantages and drawbacks of existing microfoundations, macrofoundations, and mesofoundations, I uphold the need for the heterodox microfoundations of macroeconomics which is centered on the casual mechanisms of an economic system. By this, we are capable of analyzing micro- and macroreality which are recursively interrelated. In addition, the fallacy of macroreductionism and central-reductionism can be avoided. One way of articulating the heterodox microfoundations is to utilize a circular production input-output matrix of a capitalist system combined with the price system. Such a framework is consistent with heterodox economics at the methodological and theoretical level.