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Paradigm

Mattei Dogan, a French sociologist, in his article "Paradigms in the Social Sciences," develops Kuhn's original thesis that there are no paradigms at all in the social sciences since the concepts are polysemic, the deliberate mutual ignorance between scholars and the proliferation of schools in these disciplines.


Array DBMS

The relational data model, which is prevailing today, does not directly support the array paradigm to the same extent as sets and tuples.

Capability approach

Subsequently, and in collaboration particularly with political philosopher Martha Nussbaum, development economist Sudhir Anand and economic theorist James Foster, Sen has helped to make the capabilities approach predominant as a paradigm for policy debate in human development where it inspired the creation of the UN's Human Development Index (a popular measure of human development, capturing capabilities in health, education, and income).

Collaborative learning

Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is a relatively new educational paradigm within collaborative learning which uses technology in a learning environment to help mediate and support group interactions in a collaborative learning context.

Device paradigm

The concept of the device paradigm has been widely discussed by philosophers of technology, including Hubert Dreyfus, Andrew Feenberg and Eric Higgs, as well as environmental philosopher David Strong.

Dodona's Grove

In England at the time of the publication of Dodona's Grove, the dominant paradigm for the writing of allegorical romance, particularly when of a political nature was John Barclay's Argenis, a work which told the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III and IV.

Federal Standard 595

In contrast, modern color systems such as the Natural Color System (NCS) are built upon a color space paradigm, providing for much more flexibility and wider range of applications.

Frederico Lapenda

In 2002 Lapenda became a filmmaker/producer at Peter Guber's Mandalay Entertainment Group and then founded Paradigm Pictures.

French Impressionist Cinema

David Bordwell has attempted to define a unified stylistic paradigm and set of tenets.

Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade

In general, the Pegasus is presented as a divine horse that could fly using its legendary eagle wings and in David Hume’s work, it is used as a paradigm of something that cannot be encountered by humans in the world they share as biological creatures and yet is thinkable.

Henmaru Machino

Most of his work has emerged within a paradigm of Hentai manga and images, but some has appeared in galleries; several of his pieces were part of Takashi Murakami's traveling Superflat exhibition.

Hungarian Constitution of 1949

Andrew Arato, an expert on constitutions in new democracies, places the 1989 text under his "post-sovereign" constitution making paradigm, so called because no single body with full powers is tasked with drafting a new constitution.

JACK Intelligent Agents

The JACK platform was written for commercial application of the multi-agent paradigm (a COTS product) to complex problem solving and was the basis for starting the company Agent Oriented Software (AOS) where it remains the flagship product.

Jean Gottmann

His multicultural perspective allowed him to get a grant from Paul Mellon to produce the first regional study of Virginia (1953–55) and financial support from The Century Foundation to study the megalopolis of the North-Eastern seaboard of the United States, which soon became a paradigm in urban geography and planning to define polinuclear global city-regions.

Jensen Buchanan

In 2003, she married Sam Gores, Paradigm Talent & Literary Agency, President and CEO.

Lars Spuybroek

The renowned architecture critic Charles Jencks qualified the building in The New Paradigm of Architecture as “yet to be surpassed.”

Leonid Mandelstam

This paradigm-altering discovery (together with G. S. Landsberg) had occurred at the Moscow State University just one week earlier than a parallel discovery of the same phenomena by C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan.

Lexicon MX200

According to Sound on Sound, it gets "the 'hardware as plug-in' paradigm right", and has "exceptional" sound quality.

Lisa Donovan

In a Forbes magazine article, YouTube founder Chad Hurley highlighted Donovan's success as an example of the changing paradigm of entertainment.

Malcolm Slesser

Slesser pioneered the study of the potential for economic growth that led to methods for estimating the economic carrying capacity through the ECCO (Evaluation of Capital Creation Options also referred to as the Enhancement of Carrying Capacity or Economic Coordination Options) model of an economy uses the stocks-and-flows paradigm (aka system dynamics) to track energy and other natural capital flows through the economy.

Membrane paradigm

In 1986, Kip S. Thorne, Richard H. Price and D. A. Macdonald published an anthology of papers by various authors that examined this idea: "Black Holes: The membrane paradigm".

Michael Neuberger

He also received the Novartis medal in 2002 and delivered the Novartis medal lecture, entitled "Antibodies: a Paradigm for the Evolution of Molecular Recognition" on April 9, 2002 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Mixed-income housing

The convergence of this scholarship, national need, and new planning paradigm resulted in the federal HOPE VI program (among other policy mechanisms).

Neuroheuristics

The neuroheuristic paradigm was presented for the first time at the conference Entrer dans le XXIe siècle : de l'apoptose à la métamorphose, held in 1994 at the Centro Stefano Franscini Monte Verità, under the auspice of the XV Videart Festival Locarno.

Out of Order

Out-of-order execution, a paradigm used in high-performance microprocessors

Paradigm Partners

Paradigm Partners was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Houston, TX, U.S.

Brian has negotiated several national alliances and formed relationships with many of the Top 100 CPA firms which has propelled Paradigm Partners to be recognized as a 2011 Inc. 500 company, and the 9th fastest growing private company in Houston, TX.

Peer learning

Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg write in The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age about the potential of “participatory learning,” and a new paradigm of education that is focused on mediated interactions between peers.

Personhood

Wynn Schwartz has offered a Paradigm Case Formulation of Persons as a format allowing judges to identify qualities of personhood in different entities.

Philadelphia Jobs with Justice

In March, 2011, JwJ activists disrupted the Paradigm Award Ceremony granting Sunoco CEO Lynn Elsenhans an award for being a strong female business leader.

Preeti Chandrakant

During this period, Chandrakant was invited to the International Conference on Thinking held in Phoenix, Arizona titled 'Creating the Future: Paradigm Shifts in all Disciplines'.

Qualitative

Qualitative research, a research paradigm focusing on non-quantifiable measurements

Random sequence

This paradigm was due to Claus P. Schnorr and uses a slightly different definition of constructive martingales than martingales used in traditional probability theory.

Reconfigurable computing

The fundamental model of the reconfigurable computing machine paradigm, the data-stream-based anti machine is well illustrated by the differences to other machine paradigms that were introduced earlier, as shown by Nick Tredennick's following classification scheme of computing paradigms (see "Table 1: Nick Tredennick’s Paradigm Classification Scheme").

Reesa Greenberg


2003 "The Jewish Museum, Vienna: A Holographic Paradigm for History and the Holocaust" in Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust, Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, eds.

Scott Adsit

He appeared in the 1997 PBS documentary about the process of creating the multi-award winning Second City review, Paradigm Lost, Second to None along with castmates Tina Fey, Kevin Dorff, Rachel Dratch, Jenna Jolovitz and Jim Zulevic.

Server-based gaming

SBG represents a paradigm shift from both standalone terminals and SSG because game logic and RNG reside on the server in an SBG system.

Slovenian Youth Theatre

On the one hand, it emphasises “meta-theatricality” as defined by Bonnie Marranca, (for instance, the focusing upon the third paradigm of the spectator and their perception and, on the other hand, the double coding of theatre springing from the tactics of the historical neo-avant-gardes, post-avant-gardes and political performances of the second half of the 20th century.

Social change

Kuhnian: The philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn argues in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions with respect to the Copernican Revolution that people are unlikely to jettison an unworkable paradigm, despite many indications that the paradigm is not functioning properly, until a better paradigm can be presented.

Statistical language acquisition

One of the most used experimental paradigms in investigations of infants’ capacities for statistical language acquisition is the Headturn Preference Procedure (HPP), developed by Stanford psychologist Anne Fernald in 1985 to study infants’ preferences for prototypical child-directed speech over normal adult speech.

Swiss Civil Code

It was largely influenced by the German civil code, and partly influenced by the French civil code, but the majority of comparative law scholars (such as K. Zweigert and Rodolfo Sacco) argue that the Swiss code derives from a distinct paradigm of civil law.

Target–action

A prime example of this approach is the OpenStep API, which partly thanks to being based on the dynamic Objective-C language, has much of its graphical user interface implemented by using the target-action paradigm.

The Botany of Desire

The stories range from the true story of Johnny Appleseed to Pollan's first-hand research with sophisticated marijuana hybrids in Amsterdam to the paradigm-shifting possibilities of genetically engineered potatoes.

Tom et Lola

The aesthetics of scenarios in the laboratory and the excessive use of white, is similar to THX 1138 by George Lucas, a kind of paradigm in the science fiction of the 1970s.

Tuple space

Object Spaces, as a computing paradigm, was put forward in the 1980's by David Gelernter at Yale University.

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

In 1990 Dr. Gordon Guyatt introduced the term "evidence-based medicine" to describe a paradigm shift in medical practice that stressed the role of rigorous, systematic evidence from clinical research in conjunction with patients’ values and preferences in clinical decision-making.

Wizard of Oz experiment

John F. (“Jeff”) Kelley coined the phrases “Wizard of OZ” and “OZ Paradigm” for this purpose circa 1980 to describe the method he developed during his dissertation work at Johns Hopkins University.

Writing Across the Curriculum

This product-oriented, skills-focused paradigm of writing pedagogy began to change in the 1970s with the popularization of James Britton and colleagues’ expressivist school of composition, which said that students benefited from writing as a tool for self-expression and that focusing on technical correctness was damaging.

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

The origins of our modern economic paradigm are explored, beginning with John Locke and Adam Smith.


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