High time for a paradigm shift in psychiatry

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?

Red meats: time for a paradigm shift in dietary advice.

Recent evidence suggests dietary advice to limit red meat is unnecessarily restrictive and may have unintended health consequences. As nutrient-rich high quality protein foods, red meats can play an important role in helping people meet their essential nutrient needs. Yet dietary advice to limit red meat remains standard in many developed countries, even though red meat intakes appear to be wit...