Annulment Suits and the épreuve du congrès at the Officialité de Paris in the Early Seventeenth Century: Judicial Theory and Legal Practice by Michael P. Breen

“…Drawing on an analysis of thirty-two cases reconstituted from the Officialité de Paris in the early seventeenth century, this article assesses the extent to which jurists’ and medical experts’ defenses and critiques of the congrès as a method of proof corresponded to the ways it was used in practice.…”
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A caution against customized AI in healthcare by Kristin M. Kostick-Quenet

“…Abstract This article critiques the shift towards personalized AI in healthcare and other high-stakes domains, cautioning that without careful deliberation, customized AI systems can compromise the diversity and reach of human knowledge by restricting exposure to critical information that may conflict with users’ preferences and biases. …”
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Être et paraître dans Miss Brown De Vernon Lee by Catherine Delyfer

“…In her first novel Miss Brown (1884), Vernon Lee painted a critical picture of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement and the Aesthetic circle. She critiqued the ideological underpinnings of the Aesthetic movement, analyzing in particular how the supposedly disinterested artistic creed of art for art’s sake often consisted in intellectualizing and repressing reality by objectifying the body in all its forms. …”
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Liquorice Health Check, Oro-Dental Implications, and a Case Report by Louis Z. G. Touyz

“…This article appraises physiological and pharmacological effects on health of liquorice, critiques products containing liquorice, describes a typical case report of liquorice-induced hypertension, and appraises oral effects from consumption of liquorice products.…”
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Ontological Sovereignty: Black Justifications for Violent Resistance to Slavery, 1500-1900 by Dalitso Ruwe

“…This essay advances the claim that Africana thinkers between the 16th and 19th centuries developed critiques of slavery with the following themes: (a) slavery as a function of ignorance of biblical or secular knowledge; (b) slavery as a function of European carnal impulses; (c) slavery as a crime, for which the God-ordained punishment was death; (d) justification of self-defense to restore African liberty; and (e) economic restitution for stolen labor. …”
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The Book of Repetition: Rachel Cusk and Maternal Subjectivity by Clare HANSON

“…This essay explores her treatment of these themes with reference to popular discourses of motherhood and the psychoanalytic perspectives which are both invoked and critiqued in her work.…”
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Positive models of suffering and psychiatry by Ahmed Samei Huda

“…This approach is briefly critiqued, and circumstances where patients might prefer this approach are described. …”
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Managing community-based conservation in Bobaomby, Madagascar by Élysé Rabearivola Nomenjanahary, Hortensia Rasoanandrasana, Andrew Walsh

“…Conservation and development projects that prescribe the participation of local stakeholders in decision-making around the sustainable management of their own ecosystems have become commonplace in Madagascar in recent decades, as have scholarly critiques questioning the likelihood that such “community-based conservation” (CBC) efforts can achieve the win-win scenarios they purport to offer Malagasy communities and ecosystems. …”
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Gender, race, and life writing in the ethnography of Ruth Landes in Bahia by Sally Cole

“…This article examines how Landes’s theory of culture, methods of fieldwork, and personal writing style went against the grain of the approaches taken by leading scholars at the time who treated Afro-Brazilian culture in terms of race-based psychological characteristics and “African survivals” and harshly critiqued her work.…”
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Spirituality, theology and the critical mind by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…It first analyses how a recent publication on philosophy critiques the role of the critical mind in contemporary  philosophy and how it reclaims spirituality as solution for what went wrong. …”
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Automatisk Nummerpladegenkendelse (ANPG) by Tanja Kammersgaard Christensen

“…The content of the Danish regulations and the proportionality of the ANPR system are critiqued. The problems cited may also be relevant for other Nordic countries, especially Sweden, where the police are lobbying for the installation of extensive surveillance equipment in police vehicles.…”
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« Nurseries of Vice and Folly » : Satires graphiques de l’opéra italien en Angleterre dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle by Xavier Cervantes

“…These images can be considered the visual equivalents of many contemporary printed satires and critiques. However, even if these documents are genuine iconotexts, including textual fragments under various guises, their iconic specificity enlarged the scope for various types of satirical discourse, as appears in the detailed study of a striking example of intericonicity.…”
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What happens when one picks up the Greek text? by J. G. van der Watt

“…The assumption that no interpretation takes place in the case of word-for word translations is critiqued. …”
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More than Just Great Quotes: An Introduction to the Canadian Tri-Council’s Qualitative Requirements by Jody Boffa, Nancy Moules, Maria Mayan, Robert L Cowie

“…To dispel common misperceptions about qualitative research and introduce the unfamiliar reader to these requirements, the work of a qualitative study on isoniazid preventive therapy for prophylaxis of tuberculosis published in AIDS is critiqued alongside each of the Tri-Council’s nine requirements.…”
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Develop Your Public Speaking Skills: Tips for Beginning Speakers, Speech Coaches, and Judges by Marshall H. Breeze, Rick D. Rudd, Gregory T. Gifford, Catherine W. Shoulders

“…This revised 7-page fact sheet pulls together advice from textbooks and references on public speaking as well as actual critiques from judges of public speaking competitions to provide guidance that is both consistent with accepted practice for public speakers and relevant to the problems faced by young speakers in a competitive setting. …”
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Computational Intelligences in the post-Environmental Design. Examples from MAILB by Giuseppe Ridolfi, Arman Saberi

“…The article addresses the environmental question by critiquing the anthropocentric vision, still alive in the design debate and practice, as a remnant of the underlying dualism humanity/environment. …”
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L’éthique dans la conception publicitaire by Isaac TSHINDUMBA TSHIKOTA

“…Les agissements et les pratiques qui portent atteinte aux normes éthiques en publicité, sont ici critiqués, tout en proposant la considération de trois grandes orientations éthiques sur lesquelles on peut se baser lors de la mise en place d’un contenu publicitaire à savoir : la véridicité, la dignité de la personne humaine et la responsabilité sociale. …”
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Protein restriction in CKD: an outdated strategy in the modern era by Abdullah Bawazir, Joel M Topf, Swapnil Hiremath

“…This review discusses the rational for protein restriction in CKD, critiques the existing evidence, and advocates for personalized care that focuses on nutritional adequacy and effective pharmacotherapy. …”
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Develop Your Public Speaking Skills: Tips for Beginning Speakers, Speech Coaches, and Judges by Marshall H. Breeze, Rick D. Rudd, Gregory T. Gifford, Catherine W. Shoulders

“…This revised 7-page fact sheet pulls together advice from textbooks and references on public speaking as well as actual critiques from judges of public speaking competitions to provide guidance that is both consistent with accepted practice for public speakers and relevant to the problems faced by young speakers in a competitive setting. …”
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Savoir et valeur. Pour une conception émancipatrice des « Éducations à » by Michel Fabre

“…But this weberian dualism (facts versus values) must be critiqued. From Habermas, every knowledge is linked to human interests and, in the other hand, you can discuss about values and critic them with rational arguments. …”
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