el-jardali and fadllallah provide an excellent summary of the many dimensions of knowledge use, and the breath of issues and activities that must be considered if knowledge is to be put into practice. however, reliance on a continuum (rather than a cyclical, multidirectional, systems) model creates a number of limitations, particularly when promoting evidence-informed action in the areas of hea...

this research is intended to investigate educational change in complexity paradigm. complexity paradigm provide a new perspective for thinkers to changing the world and it's phenomena and many of theorists present new viewpoints in variant scientific domains according to the main components of this paradigm. for this, the researcher first investigates and criticizes educational change theories ...

Multi-paradigm design is a metaparadigm: it enables to select the appropriate paradigm among those supported by a programming language for a feature being modeled in a process called transformational analysis. A paradigm model is a basis for multi-paradigm design. Feature modeling appears to be appropriate to represent a paradigm model. Such a model is proposed here for AspectJ language upon th...

Gordon and Porter (2009) provide a guide to reading and evaluating the academic accounting literature aimed at Master’s students and “future practitioners.” While the article has value as a guide to the historical publishing norms of a certain type of research, this comment argues that it provides a paradigm-specific view of what constitutes accounting research and an overly stylized view of th...

We describe a program called SketchIT that transforms a single sketch of a mechanical device into multiple families of new designs. It represents each of these families with a “BEP-Model,” a parametric model augmented with constraints that ensure the device produces the desired behavior. The program is based on qualitative configuration space (qc-space), a novel representation that captures mec...

In this paper, we study the effects of integration of one or more disruptive innovations and ask if the resultant (new) innovation can have a dramatic impact on new and existing markets, and the resultant technology paradigm. We describe the evolution and dynamics of this process using Skype as a case in point. Skype successfully fused peerto-peer computing (P2P) techniques and voiceover-Intern...