Paradigm Shift in Industrial Catalytic Systems

A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems

Today's food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread degradation of land, water and ecosystems; high GHG emissions; biodiversity losses; persistent hunger and micro-nutrient deficiencies alongside the rapid rise of obesity and diet-related diseases; and livelihood stresses for f...

A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems

Systems Biology: A Paradigm Shift?

John Bothwell [4] examines skeptically the recent claims made about systems biology in terms such as “a revolution” and “paradigm shift”. Indeed in a recent book [17] , the noted physiologist Denis Noble even goes off the edge, calling for fundamental shifts in our philosophical and even linguistic processes to incorporate oriental . Bothwell on the other hand, argues that Systems Biology “shou...

In-Memory Database Systems - A Paradigm Shift

In today’s world, organizations like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook etc. are facing drastic increase in data. This leads to the problem of capturing, storing, managing and analyzing terabytes or petabytes of data, stored in multiple formats, from different internal and external sources. Moreover, new applications scenarios like weather forecasting, trading, artificial intelligence etc. need hu...

Paradigm Shift

A paradigm shift, suggested by Thomas Kuhn [1], is not just a small change in science, or the modification of a theory. It is a scientific revolution and completely changes the way in which science looks at the world. It often dictates how the public looks at the world. For example, Darwin's theories [2] were intensely debated by scientists and theologians. This debate spilled over into the pub...