Rethinking the Demographic Transition Paradigm:

Rethinking the Antibiotic Discovery Paradigm

Experience is a valuable asset in scientific discovery. It enables the researcher to understandwhat has and has notworked in the past, and the way that problems can or should be addressed. However sometimes experience becomes enmired in dogma, and we must become careful as scientists not to think that what has been done previously is the only meaningful route forward. A strong object lesson is ...

Rethinking the architecture of public library spaces in order to redefine a new paradigm

Purpose: The present study aimed to briefly review the current status of the required spaces for the public libraries in the country and identify and redefine the architectural needs of these spaces to achieve a new pattern for contemporary libraries. Method: It is a qualitative research based on grounded theory. The data is collected using library and field methods, analytical analyses, and i...

Rethinking the paradigm for child protection.

Mounting pressures on the nation's system for helping children who are abused and neglected have prompted new efforts to reform the child protective services (CPS) system to better protect children's safety. As this article explains, current reform efforts are focusing on the "front end" of the system, in which reports of abuse and neglect are screened and investigated, and caseworkers recommen...

Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm

Many decades of research, coupled with continuous increases in computing power, have enabled highly efficient execution of queries on large databases. In consequence, for many databases, far more time is spent by users formulating queries than by the system evaluating them. It stands to reason that, looking at the overall query experience we provide users, we should pay attention to how we can ...

Nutrients in Agroecosystems: Rethinking the Management Paradigm