Background In the past century, maternal support during childbirth has been changed according to the different approaches suggested by various health care paradigms. Objective The aim of this review was to argue the maternity supportive care paradigms of the past century and to closely analyze each paradigm. Methods This is a historical review, in which published articles were retrieved fro...

Software Engineering (SE) is a field without too much historic background. The youth of the SE discipline is resulted in an immaturity of this research field and SE research still lacks suitable scientific precision. Moreover, in SE research there are several objects of study with different nature each of them and, for this reason, different research and validation methods are needed. In view o...

Wildland fire research has historically orbited around a physical paradigm of fire. This strategy has yielded remarkable results, yet increasingly it cannot speak to the core issues that concern fire management. Two additional paradigms are needed. One would build on fire’s origins in the living world.The other would evolve out of fire’s significance to humanity, and humanity’s unblinking impor...

The subject of religious experience has been marginalised in the social sciences. Although authors such as James (1903) have suggested that religious experience is pre-cultural and pre-cognitive, this paper argues against the perennialist position, suggesting instead that religious experience and its narration are both socially constructed. The ideological role of religious experience is discus...

The Centers for Disease Control has recommended safe needle disposal practices to prevent percutaneous exposures to bloodborne pathogens for the last decade.1,2 Infection control policies and procedures based on these guidelines have been implemented in most US healthcare facilities, but few have noted an appreciable decline in needlestick incidence. Hospital infection control practitioners hav...