Creating Dissonance: Self-Tracking Devices and their Effects on Users by Xenia Schmidli

“…This is in line with arguments that have been made to show that extended cognition is not always beneficial to the self (Spurrett, 2024). This paper therefore argues that self-tracking devices can be considered ‘affective technologies’, and are thus capable of oppressing, manipulating, or standing in conflict with the user’s perception of their moving, embodied self, thereby affecting or changing self-knowledge. …”
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The Effect of Reformed Cheque Issuance Law on Its Legal Enforcement Guarantees by Ebrahim Abdipour fard, Reihaneh sadat Tabatabaei nejad, Fatemeh Bazoukar

“…Therefore, establishing the most desirable rules and regulations for this document to strengthen its position in the payment system has always captured the attention of lawmakers from the outset. …”
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The ethics of artificial intelligence use in university libraries in Zimbabwe by Stephen Tsekea, Edward Mandoga

“…The changes have left librarians and educators worried about the major ethical questions surrounding privacy, equality of information, protection of intellectual property, cheating, misinformation and job security. Libraries have always been concerned about ethics and many go out of their way to make sure communities are educated about the ethical question. …”
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Nanoparticle Therapy Is a Promising Approach in the Management and Prevention of Many Diseases: Does It Help in Curing Alzheimer Disease? by Lamyaa M. Kassem, Nada A. Ibrahim, S. Ayesha Farhana

“…Treatment of brain diseases is always limited by the physiological nature of the highly selective blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the electrostatic charge of the nanoporous extracellular matrix. …”
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Performance Analysis of a Photovoltaic-Thermal Integrated System by Ewa Radziemska

“…In this paper the performance analysis of a hybrid PV/T system is presented: an energetic analysis as well as an exergetic analysis. Exergy is always destroyed when a process involves a temperature change. …”
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Physician Perceptions on Colonoscopy Quality: Results of a National Survey of Gastroenterologists by Ziad F. Gellad, Corrine I. Voils, Li Lin, Dawn Provenzale

“…The majority of respondents agreed with the use of completion rate (90%) and adenoma detection rate (83%) as quality indicators but there was less enthusiasm for withdrawal time (61%). 24% of respondents reported usually or always removing diminutive polyps solely to increase their adenoma detection rate, and 20% reported prolonging their procedure time to meet withdrawal time standards. …”
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Randomized and Efficient Time Synchronization in Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks: A Gossip-Consensus-Based Approach by Nan Xiong, Minrui Fei, Taicheng Yang, Yu-Chu Tian

“…Thirdly, a Revised-RGCS is developed to counteract the negative impact of bounded delays, because the uncertain delays are always present in practice and would lead to a large deterioration of algorithm performances. …”
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A Digital Twin for Unconventional Reservoirs: A Multiscale Modeling and Algorithm to Investigate Complex Mechanisms by Tao Zhang, Yiteng Li, Jianchao Cai, Qingbang Meng, Shuyu Sun, Chenguang Li

“…The preservation of physical laws among different scales is always the first priority, and simulation results are analyzed to verify the robustness of proposed multiscale algorithms.…”
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Les premiers colons de l’ancienne Haïti et leurs attaches en métropole, à l’aube des premiers établissements (1650-1700) by Philippe Hroděj

“…The need for money, the necessity for the colonist to have someone trustful to manage his business on the other side of the ocean was compensated by the interest of knowing someone in America to send a youngest son to. And there was always, or at least often (even if this became fainter as time passed), the plan of returning home after making a fortune.…”
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Preparation of Rangeland vegetation cover map and monitoring its changes in drought and wet periods using NDVI MODIS product (Case Study: Southern Rangelands of Yazd Province) by Hadi Zare khormizie, Hamid Reza Ghafarian Malamiri

“…However, regional and up-to-date maps of pasture vegetation cover are not always available. In this study, in order to plot the vegetation cover percentage of the rangelands and monitor its changes in drought and wet periods, NDVI products of MODIS sensor during the years from 2000 to 2017 with a spatial resolution of 250 m and a 16-day time resolution, and The SPI drought index were used. …”
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Reverse percolation models for growing real-world networks by Tao Fu, Caixia Zeng, Liling Zou, Chenguang Li

“…In the context of preferential attachment, the simultaneous addition of nodes and edges may always produce a proportion of networks exhibiting scare-free structures. …”
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Field Monitoring and Numerical Analysis of the Reinforced Concrete Foundation of a Large-Scale Wind Turbine by Yanming Zhou, Xinxi Liu, Zongwei Deng, Qian-Feng Gao

“…The dynamic contact pressure of the foundation could reach 5 kPa, so the influence of dynamic wind loads on the foundation response could not be always neglected, particularly for the foundations seated on weak soils. …”
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Expert Detection In Question Answer Communities by Hamed Salimian, Mohammad Amin Fazli, Jafar Habibi

“…But as we will discuss, this method does not always detect expert users well, because some users will try to have small and insignificant but numerous activities that will make them gain a lot of points, however they are not experts. …”
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Is it possible to do theology without philosophical presuppositions? by D. F. M. Strauss

“…The fact that concept formation always proceeds in terms of universalia, on the other hand implies that one can only talk about a concept of God if God is no longer unique (in the biblical sense that there is but one true God). …”
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In silico identification of silent primycin biosynthetic gene clusters within the family Pseudonocardiaceae by Márk Kovács-Valasek, Csaba Fekete, Andrea Kovács-Valasek

“…Recently several excellent genome mining tools have been available for identifying biosynthetic gene clusters, however in cases of poor-quality sequences and inappropriate genome assembly, these tools are not always able to identify the corresponding gene clusters. …”
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Comparative Performance of Hybrid and Elite Inbred Rice Varieties with respect to Their Source-Sink Relationship by Md Moinul Haque, Habibur Rahman Pramanik, Jiban Krishna Biswas, K. M. Iftekharuddaula, Mirza Hasanuzzaman

“…This improvement is not always translated to the grain yield and its physiological causes are still unclear. …”
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The concept and importance of settlement agreements in commercial proceedings by M. Ye. Vasylenko

“…Settlement agreements can help reduce tensions between the parties and increase mutual respect and trust between them; 3) eliminate the risk of uncertainty, as court decisions may not always fully take into account the interests of the parties to the dispute, while settlement agreements usually satisfy the interests of both parties; 4) increase the efficiency of the dispute resolution process, as they can be concluded more quickly than in court. …”
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Transtexual findin meaning of the play "Testament of Bondar Bidakhsh" of Bahram Beyzaei by Shirzad Tayefi, Kourosh Salman Nasr

“…Exploring the meaning of literary works has always been the focus of critics in this field, but the crucial issue is the use of a methodical approach to reach the hidden meanings in different layers of the text. …”
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Fault Gouge Permeability Under Confined Conditions: An Investigation for CO₂ Storage Applications by Aigerim Sekerbayeva, Ali Mortazavi, Randy D. Hazlett, Bahman Bohloli

“…The subsequently obtained results showed that lower permeability is always the result of increasing confining pressure, highlighting the significance of fault gouge material for controlling fluid flow in fractured rock formations. …”
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Afocal Mirror Systems with Small Axial Dimensions by N. K. Artioukhina, L. Peroza

“…In the design, it has always been difficult to combine optimization and cost. …”
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