Dissecting assessment: A paradigm shift towards technology-enhanced assessments

Towards a Paradigm Shift in Economics?

Economists and the financial community share a paradoxical fate: their economic influence is strengthened by their mistakes. We all agree that they share much of the responsibility for the crisis, yet we do not call their credibility into question. Over the past five years, the financial markets’ leading actors, notably the credit-rating agencies and major banks, have increased their ability to...

paradigm shift of health towards obesity in childhood

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...

A paradigm shift towards quality of kidney transplantation in Iran.

Kidney donation and transplantation in Iran has passed a long history from the first kidney transplant in 1967, starting living related transplant in 1988 to 1989, adopting state-regulated livingunrelated donor kidney transplant program in 1988, religious approval from the Supreme Religious Leader for brain death in 1989, legislation law for cadaveric transplant in 2000, and increased number of...

Residual Feed Intake towards Efficient Animal Production: A Paradigm Shift?

Modern methods of selection have contributed greatly to the genetically superior high yielding animals of current animal production systems [1]. While this being the case of the developed world, animal production in the tropics is constrained by the everlasting deficit in feed supply [2]. Therefore, a method based on lower feed intake without affecting mature weight and production will have a g...