The phrase "a slightly different paradigm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a concept or model that has minor variations compared to another.
Example: "In our research, we propose a slightly different paradigm for understanding consumer behavior."
Alternatives: "a somewhat altered framework" or "a marginally distinct model".
Our results are in line with the results from Leistad et al. (2006) who used a slightly different paradigm (60 min of cognitive stress preceding 30 min of relaxation) but reported no difference regarding EMG recordings from the neck muscles between migraine patients and controls [12].
Using a slightly different paradigm, four other studies (Coles, Turk, & Heimberg, 2002; Coles, Turk, Heimberg, & Fresco, 2001; Wells, Clark, & Ahmad, 1998; Wells & Papageorgiou, 1999) have investigated the perspective that patients with social phobia report taking when recalling social situations.
These 2 features make it unlikely that this difference across the 2 groups stems from the slightly different paradigms, or from differences in task difficulty.
The same stimuli were used in grayscale versions and with a slightly different stimulation paradigm in a recent study with adults (Rossion et al., 2015).
Furthermore, the tobacco PIT effect is not modulated by changing the current value of smoking through deprivation/satiety 11, smoking health warnings 11, nicotine replacement therapy 12 or, using a slightly different cue reactivity paradigm, varenicline 28.
There was a significant overlap of ~9% of the fasting signatures observed in 20 Icelandic subjects compared with the signatures observed in the current study (p = 1.77 × 10-11), despotentialntial confounding factors such as a slightly different experimental paradigm, ethnicity and population bias.
Based on this paradigm, we describe a slightly different concept to uncover new druggable targets in RNA viruses using an intragenic SL-based strategy [ 7].
"The Garden City paradigm is one that just keeps re-emerging, with a slightly different remix each time," says Dunn.
