Reappraising the Reincarnation Debate in an African Culture: A Conceptual Clarification by Akinpelu A. Oyekunle, Ezekiel S.N. Mkhwanazi

“…The reincarnation debate has generated the query that the term/concept ‘reincarnation’ does not describe or capture African socio-cultural thinking and belief about the interrelationship between the living and the dead. …”
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Tourism and diversity by Zsuzsanna Bacsi

“…The issue of multicultural societies has recently become a sensitive issue, due to global mass migration. There is a belief that ethnic or cultural fractionalisation would necessarily bring about difficulties of understanding and cooperation, leading to lower economic performance, less stable economic and social processes and, ultimately a slowdown of economic output. …”
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Attitudes toward Genetic Testing for Hypertension among African American Women and Girls by Jacquelyn Y. Taylor, Bronwen Peternell, Jennifer A. Smith

“…Further research is necessary to determine whether rural and male populations have similar beliefs.…”
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Spatiotemporal Traffic Flow Prediction with KNN and LSTM by Xianglong Luo, Danyang Li, Yu Yang, Shengrui Zhang

“…Experimental results indicate that the proposed model can achieve a better performance compared with well-known prediction models including autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), support vector regression (SVR), wavelet neural network (WNN), deep belief networks combined with support vector regression (DBN-SVR), and LSTM models, and the proposed model can achieve on average 12.59% accuracy improvement.…”
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La séparation des Églises et de l’État aux États-Unis : origines et évolution by Mokhtar BEN BARKA

“…Others are so worried that they set out to combat the Christian Right, seen as a menace to secularism and democracy.Contrary to the belief held by right-wing Evangelicals, the United States is not a Christian nation. …”
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Effectiveness of a Theory-Driven Nutritional Education Program in Improving Calcium Intake among Older Mauritian Adults by Trishnee Bhurosy, Rajesh Jeewon

“…The intervention group (IG) (n=98) participated in 6 weekly interactive lessons based on the health belief model (HBM). The main outcome measures were calcium intake, HB scale scores, knowledge scores, and physical activity level (PAL). …”
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Observation and Simulation of Chorus Waves in Middle Magnetotail (r > 20 RE) by W. D. Fu, H. S. Fu, Y. F. Wu, X. Tao, Y. Yu, W. Z. Zhang, J. B. Cao

“…In contrast to this long‐held belief, here we present the first observation of whistler‐mode chorus waves in the middle magnetotail beyond 20 RE from Earth, based on MMS measurements. …”
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Autonomia świata a podmiotowość człowieka w ekoteologii by Jarosław Horowski

“…Biocentrism states that the ecological problem results from traditional Western attitudes to the non-human world based on the belief that humans are the central and most significant entities in the universe. …”
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Primary Isolated Lymphoma of the Fourth Ventricle in an Immunocompetent Patient by Rakan Bokhari, Ahmad Ghanem, Mahmoud Alahwal, Saleh Baeesa

“…We report herein the fourth case of isolated PCNSL lesion to the fourth ventricle in the literature and provide the rationale for our belief that craniotomy and tumor resection, if feasible, should be the initial line of management in similar cases to relieve hydrocephalus and achieve the diagnosis.…”
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Controlling the Boundaries of Morality: The History and Powers of Ayelala Deity by Oluwafunminiyi Raheem, Mike Famiyesin

“…Though Ayelala worship is pervasive among the Ilaje, Ikale and Ijaw-Apoi communities of Ondo state, Nigeria, the deity is also linked with other neighboring and distant communities which highlight the unifying tendencies of a common religion and deity belief among different sub-ethnic groups. …”
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‘Rents in the Veil of Time’: Annie Besant’s Auto-biographies of Giordano Bruno by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…Her fascination with Bruno took a new dimension from 1889, when she embraced the Theosophists’ belief in reincarnation: she had come to the conclusion that she had been Bruno in a past life when she lectured on Giordano Bruno: the Man and the Teacher in 1898, and delivered Le Message de Giordano Bruno au Monde moderne, in the Sorbonne in 1911. …”
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The Cornerstone of Sustainability: Ecological Footprint by Ece Tuğba Mızık, Zehra Yiğit Avdan

“…The natural resources used to supply the needs of production and consumption are destroyed and used thoughtlessly because of people's belief that they own the world. The term of ecological footprint is a numerical method used for sustainable usage of resources. …”
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The Relationship between School Connectedness and Academic Engagement: Mediating Role of Mindfulness by Rouhollah Aghasaleh, Saba Rasouli Amlashi, S. Abdolvahab Samavi

“…Another fundamental concept in the PP literature is school connectedness, which underscores the belief students hold regarding the care shown by adults and peers in the educational environment towards their academic progress and personal welfare. …”
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Sociocultural Determinants of the Utilization of Maternal Health Care Services in the Tallensi District in the Upper East Region of Ghana by Jonathan Mensah Dapaah, John Onzaberigu Nachinaab

“…The study results revealed that some sociocultural factors such as age, religion, traditional belief system, education, and marital status influence women’s use of MHCS in the Talensi District. …”
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Sociodemographic Determinants of Nonattendance in a Population-Based Mammography Screening Program in the City of Manisa, Turkey by Pınar Erbay Dundar, Beyhan Cengiz Ozyurt, Koray Erdurak

“…The questionnaire consisted of sociodemographic variables and the adapted version of Champion's Health Belief Model Scale. Univariete and multivariete logistic regression analysis were performed throughout the data analysis. …”
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Analysis of Factors Influencing Ugandan Teachers’ Expectations of Learners’ Reading Habits. by Tukwasibwe, Constance, Cekiso, Mzwamadoda Phillip

“…Teacher expectations can be understood as a teacher's belief in the ability of their learners to achieve. …”
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Combining Bayesian Networks and MCDA methods to maximise information gain during reconnaissance in emergency situations by Daniel Lichte

“…In this study, we show how a Bayesian Networks can be used for knowledge representation and how it can be combined with methods from the realm of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) for situation reconnaissance and route-optimisation in emergency situations, where different criteria (current belief about the location of zones of special interest, such as emergency exits, distance to the next point of interest, etc.) can be considered. …”
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Exploring the impact of growth mindset on psychological symptoms in students from ethnic regions of China: how meaning in life makes a difference by Zuozhi Fang, Zhongfang Fu

“…IntroductionDrawing on implicit belief theory, this study examines the relationship between growth mindset and psychological symptoms in adolescents from ethnic minority regions in China, with a focus on the mediating role of meaning in life. …”
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From From ideology to inequality: Examining the socialist effect on South Africa's pandemic politics by Demi Harmse

“…To change economic behavior and outcomes, one must endeavor to understand the dominant thinking and belief system as promulgated by far left ideologies such as socialism. …”
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Non-convex optimization with using positive-negative moment estimation and its application for skin cancer recognition with a neural network by P.A. Lyakhov, U.A. Lyakhova, R.I. Abdulkadirov

“…The paper presents methods of adaptive non-convex and belief-based optimization with a positive-negative estimate of the moments with the corresponding theoretical guarantees of convergence. …”
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