burrell and morgan offered an analysis of paradigms in terms of four broad worldviews, characterized as functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. recently, interpretive paradigm has received major attention in the academic fields. the interpretive paradigm rests on a precarious, socially-constructed web of symbolic relationships. the interpretive theorist’s diffic...

although one of the main reasons of brand equity importance is its strategic role to provide competitive advantage in the companies, the previous studies have paid little attention to effective internal organizational factors on brand equity. some of these factors are variables of social responsibility and corporate identity. social responsibility in recent decade has become a dominant paradigm...

Disrupted sociability and consequent social withdrawal are (early) symptoms of a wide variety of neuropsychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, depressive disorders and Alzheimer's disease. The paucity of objective measures to translationally assess social withdrawal characteristics has been an important limitation to study this behavioral phenotype, both in human ...

Social software is a new paradigm for collaboration and interaction support which is spreading quickly in the society, organisations and economics. It utilizes a highly bottom-up approach to organize the collaboration and interaction of individuals. As a result, content, knowledge and software is not created by a hierarchy of experts, but by combining a multitude of contributions of independent...

Cultural psychologists have often sought to explaincross-culturaldifferences in social cognition as differences rooted in the cultures’ positions on a small collection of pan-cultural dimensions (e.g., individualism-collectivism). In this paper, we argue for a paradigm shift in cultural psychology.Drawing on the arguments and data presented in the papers of this special issue, we propose to vie...

Evaluating human-robot social interactions in a rigorous manner is notoriously difficult: studies are either conducted in labs with constrained protocols to allow for robust measurements and a degree of replicability, but at the cost of ecological validity; or in the wild, which leads to superior experimental realism, but often with limited replicability and at the expense of rigorous interacti...

Rodent ultrasonic vocalizations (USV) serve as situation-dependent affective signals and convey important communicative functions. In the rat, three major USV types exist: (I) 40-kHz USV, which are emitted by pups during social isolation; (II) 22-kHz USV, which are produced by juvenile and adult rats in aversive situations, including social defeat; and (III) 50-kHz USV, which are uttered by juv...

Based on the analysis of multi-paradigm software development and the concept of paradigm, a new method of multi-paradigm design with feature modeling is proposed in this thesis. The method enables an explicit reasoning about paradigms, viewed as solution domain concepts, and their appropriateness for given application domain concepts. Both application and solution domain are modeled using a con...

This chapter explores the relation between the concepts of entrepreneurial universities (EU) within the framework of Smart Specialization Strategies (S3). The latter is arising as a new competitive paradigm and universities can be of great importance for its successful implementation because of their contribution both as a partner institution, policy actor and producer of knowledge and social c...