Ciência, construção da nação e exclusão social. São Paulo-Brasil (1889-1930) by Mariza Romero

“…On behalf of a neuter and truthful science, popular knowledge was also disqualified, being its owners, the common folks, considered as ignorant people, victim of superstitions. …”
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The Popes as guardians of human dignity by Gerhard Ludwig Müller

“…It critiques ideological pluralism that rejects moral truths, highlighting the emptiness and lack of true hope in a worldview without God. …”
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VCG with Communities on Random Ad Hoc Networks by Gunes Ercal, Rafit Izhak-Ratzin, Rupak Majumdar, Adam Meyerson

“…We are the first to analyze the performance of VCG under such a community model. While some recent truthful protocols for the traditional (individual) agent model have improved upon the frugality of VCG by selecting paths to minimize not only the cost but the overpayment, we show that extending such protocols to the community model requires solving NP-complete problems which are provably hard to approximate.…”
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“Allure” as an Aesthetic Element in Novel by Shirzad Tayefi, Behzad Nazemianpour

“…The allure of novel is at the core of its beauty, along with its truthfulness and irreducibility. In the Persian studies on novel, the allure and pleasure of reading novels has been less discussed. …”
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Tracking over 30 years of coral reef infrastructure degradation in Barbados by Aliyah Griffith, Max Buglisi, Sandra Lee, Karl Castillo

“…Using satellite and geotagged imagery, we analyzed 19 reef structures over the interval 2013 to 2023 along the west coast of Barbados, comparing them to the previous study’s findings in 1950 and 1991. We ground-truthed five sites previously categorized as highly degraded reefs to confirm their structural integrity and substrate-type. …”
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COVID-19 information spaces, boundaries, and information sharing: an interview study by Togzhan Seilkhanova, Theodore Dreyfus Ledford, Jodi Schneider

“…Fact-checkers and science journalists’ job is to report truthful and verified information, and they do not tailor it to a specific community as much as people-centered sharers, such as patient advocates.…”
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Is ChatGPT a friend or foe in the war on misinformation? by Burgert Senekal, Susan Brokensha

“…The current study examines the usefulness of ChatGPT as a source of information in a South African context by first investigating ChatGPT's responses to ten South African conspiracy theories in terms of truthfulness, before employing bias classification as well as sentiment analysis to evaluate whether ChatGPT exhibits bias when presenting eight South African political topics. …”
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Tracking rapid and slow ice-dammed lake changes through optical satellites and local knowledge: a case study of Tystigbreen in Norway by Jogscha Miriam Abderhalden, Kristine Katherine Bly, Ronja Lappe, Liss Marie Andreassen, Irina Rogozhina

“…We reconstruct the sequence of lake drainage events through a combination of remote sensing, ground-truthing and citizen science while scrutinising the applicability of the PlanetScope imagery vs Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 OLI products. …”
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Forecasting the Number of Visitors of the Museums and Ruins by Using Time Series Analysis: The Case of Turkey by Mustafa Agah Tekindal, Semanur Öztemiz

“…The cultural heritage products covered by museums and ruins can be thought as a representation of a community and its highest values and truths. It is precisely for these reasons that the interest shown to museums and ruins can give clue for future plans of the cultural institutions in a country. …”
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Remote Sensing of Aboveground Biomass in Tropical Secondary Forests: A Review by J. M. Barbosa, E. N. Broadbent, M. D. Bitencourt

“…Uncertainties in AGB estimations were found to be heterogeneous with biases related to sensor type, processing methodology, ground truthing availability, and forest characteristics. …”
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OVERCOMING THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: PARABLE AS A MEANS OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE by Tetyana V. Danylova

“…Owing to its archetypical form, parable becomes one of the most popular narratives illustrating deep and multi-faceted truths that sometimes cannot be expressed by any other way. …”
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Stosunek religii do nauki. Punkt widzenia prawosławnego by Henryk Paprocki

“…In this case, the domain of discoveries and scientific truths remained distinct from the strictly theological domain. …”
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The Yorùbá Social Values in Ọbasá’s Poetry by Saudat Adebisi Olayide Hamzat, Hezekiah Olufemi Adeosun

“… Among the social values which equip the Yorùbá person are honesty, transparency, accountability, integrity, justice, fair-play, family sense, hard work, and truthfulness. The basic values of the people determine their behavior and what they direct their energy toward. …”
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An Analysis of Patient Perceptions and Expectations to Dental Implants: Is There a Significant Effect on Long-Term Satisfaction Levels? by Shane J. J. McCrea

“…The results amplify the need to transmit logical, truthful information to patients when dental implant treatment is being considered. …”
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Polarimetric image recovery method with domain-adversarial learning for underwater imaging by Fei Tian, Jiuming Xue, Zhedong Shi, Hongling Luo, Wanyuan Cai, Wei Tao

“…The designed water-type classifier and domain-adversarial learning strategy enable the multi-encoder to output domain-independent features, the decoder outputs clear images consistent with the ground truths with the help of the discriminator and generative-adversarial learning strategy, and there is another decoder responsible for outputting DoLP image. …”
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Protecting Consumers Against Defamation Claims: The Role of Common Interest in Product Reviews by Evi Kongres, Fajar Sugianto, Erny Herlin Setyorini, Bariyima Sylvester Kokpan, Sheng Zhang

“…The common interest concept, as stipulated in defamation laws, can serve as a form of legal protection for consumers who post reviews on social media, provided the reviews are truthful, reflect actual conditions, and are made in good faith. …”
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Amplification Effect of Ground Motion in Offshore Meandering Sedimentary Valley by Hailiang Wang, Shaomin Yan, Zhongxian Liu, Xinglei Cheng

“…A sedimentary valley has a visible amplification effect on a seismic response, and the current 2D topographies cannot truthfully reflect the twists and turns of a large-scale river valley. …”
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Realism as an artistic technique (based on the material of Russian prose of the 2010s) by N.G. Prokhorova

“…The appeal of the writers to documentary forms does not prevent them from textualization of the reality or its mythologization, implementation of the post-modern principle of multiple truths and intellectual richness of the works. The form of letters, diaries, and personal notes is a way of upholding the value of private experience and testifies to the intensification of the sentimental discourse in the literature. …”
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Specifics of the Autobiographical Narrative in “Memoirs” of D. Ovsyaniko-Kulikovskiy by Tatiana Shekhovtsova

“…The supertask performed by the narrator is to characterize the history of his personal and scientific formation as a path to the acquisition of scientific truths and the methodological, basic, and ideological foundations of scientific activity. …”
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INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OF GREAT BRITAIN IN A GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT by Vitaliy Tereshchuk

“…It was revealed that the BBC World Service in different periods of its existence practised different models of broadcasting, realizing their inherent goals — colonial broadcasting (maintaining the unity of the British Empire), counter-propaganda in the interwar period and the period of the Second World War (countering informational influence alienation of Nazi Germany and the USSR), propaganda during the Second World War (formation of favourable public opinion regarding the activities of the anti-Hitler coalition) and the Cold War (anti-communist propaganda), in the times of the bipolar and post-bipolar world — positioning itself as a "surrogate" media that provides truthful news in countries where access to independent sources of information is limited by political regimes. …”
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