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The general study of running a firm, and the umbrella the functional fields hang under: what the parts of a business are and how they fit together.
What a firm owes and to whom: responsibility beyond shareholders, the ethics of a corporate decision, and whether an organisation can be blamed for anything.
Firms and industries over time: how the large corporation came about, how families and states shaped enterprise, and what the archives say the managers were thinking.
Finding the function that minimizes or maximizes a quantity, from the shortest path to the least action.
The internal law of the Christian churches, and one of the two learned laws that shaped the European legal tradition.
The heart and the circulation: coronary disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, and the imaging and intervention around them.
Making maps: projection, generalisation, symbolisation, and the choices that decide what a map tells you and what it hides.
Substances that speed a reaction without being consumed by it. Homogeneous, heterogeneous and enzymatic, and the industrial chemistry that depends on all three.
Objects and the arrows between them, which turns constructions repeated across mathematics into one statement.
The motion of bodies under mutual gravity: orbits, resonances, perturbations, and the long-term stability of the solar system.
The structure and behaviour of the cell: its organelles, its division cycle, how it signals to its neighbours and how it dies.
Taking a reaction that works in a flask and making it work in a plant: reactor design, separation processes, heat and mass transfer, and process control.
How fast a reaction goes and by what mechanism: rate laws, elementary steps, and the transition states in between.
Energy, entropy and equilibrium in chemical systems -- which reactions can happen, and how far they go.
The study of matter, its composition, structure, properties, and the transformations it undergoes.
Chinese as an object of study, centred on Mandarin: its grammar, its tones, and a writing system older than any of its spoken varieties.
Separating a mixture by making its components travel at different speeds through a medium. The workhorse of analytical labs.
The built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, dams and water systems, and the question of whether they will stand up.
The general law of private relations -- persons, obligations, property and succession -- from which contract, tort and family law are carved out.
The conduct of a private lawsuit, from filing to enforcement, and the arbitration and settlement paths that route around it.