This communication presents a personal point of view from a psychiatric perspective about palliative care. It is intended to foster further thinking about various ways to approach and implement supportive care at the end of life. To that effect we will fall back on assumptions and premises of palliative care. The first one deals with a shifting paradigm; the second one approaches life as a chro...

Harm reduction is a paradigm-shifting idea that has the potential to significantly improve the treatment of problem substance users. The essence of harm reduction is the recognition that treatment must start from the client's needs and personal goals and that all change that reduces the harms associated with substance use can be regarded as valuable. The paper presents harm reduction's rational...

Impairments in executive function and cognitive control are a common feature of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. A promising behavioral paradigm for elucidating the neural mechanisms of executive function is extradimensional/intradimensional (ED/ID) shifting, which places demands on executive function by requiring the adjustment of behavioral responses based on affective or att...

in this paper, the rayleigh's quotient and the inverse vector iteration method are presented. the latter approach helps to obtain the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a structure. inverse vector iteration method with shifting enables to determine the higher modes. some basic theorems of linear algebra are presented and extended to study the free vibration of structures. the variation...

Quality programs that focus on continuous improvement are vital in providing incremental improvement of processes, products, and services in an existing technological paradigm. These programs view quality as being measurable in some quantitative way. Breakthrough improvement that leads to development of new paradigms requires thinking of quality in a different way. The transcendent view of qual...

A new approach in control engineering (“Information Processing for Action”) is presented, in which control, computers, communication and cognition play equal rôles in addressing real-life problems from very small-scale devices to very large-scale industrial processes and non-technical applications. Thus, the C2 paradigm of “Computers for Control” is shifting towards the C4 paradigm of “Computer...

The concepts of learning and teaching appear somehow mixed although their use emphasizes who is at the center of the process. Bologna Declaration has put the stress on the “What students do?” paradigm, shifting the center of the process to the student. Such paradigm also supports life long learning objectives. The remote laboratory concept provides a tool to sustain this shift towards a student...