Diagnosing COPD: High Time for a Paradigm Shift

Diagnosing COPD: high time for a paradigm shift.

In the past there was a growing concern that many cases of COPD went undetected and that generally too little effort was spent in diagnosing COPD, a disease syndrome relatively unknown to the public, or to public health and government officials. Because of this, the United States National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the World Health Organization formed the Global Initiative for Chronic...

A Methodology for Paradigm Shift to Explain Sustainable University

The sustainable university concept is rooted in prevalent paradigms pertained to economic, social and environmental development, which all focus on systemic thought and rationality; besides, they tend to  discover and solve problems by applying an interdisciplinary approach. However, the epistemic component is what these paradigms have ignored. The purpose of this study is to explain a methodo...

Fluency: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Pauses in spontaneous speaking constitute a rich source of data for several disciplines. They have been used to enhance automatic segmentation of speech, classification of patients with acquired communication disorders, the design of psycholinguistic models of speaking, and the analysis of psychological disorders. Unfortunately, however, although pause analysis has been with us for more than 40...

Time for a Paradigm Shift in Our Disciplinary Culture?

The PRISM (Pliocene palaeoclimate) reconstruction: time for a paradigm shift.

Global palaeoclimate reconstructions have been invaluable to our understanding of the causes and effects of climate change, but single-temperature representations of the oceanic mixed layer for data-model comparisons are outdated, and the time for a paradigm shift in marine palaeoclimate reconstruction is overdue. The new paradigm in marine palaeoclimate reconstruction stems the loss of valuabl...