The Reversed Canvas: A Topos of Conflict Between Commercial and Aesthetic Values in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London by Richard Read

“…Though the topos makes us aware that the painting we are looking at has a frame (which we can see) and a verso (which we cannot), I shall show how, especially when depicted on the move in outdoor settings, the reversed canvas embedded in the illusion may alert us to “extended” or “secondary frames” well outside its enframed setting, such as the studio where the painting was made or the gallery it will hang in or the jury room from which it has been rejected. …”
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Quelle définition des « petits métiers » de la pêche ? by Nastassia Reyes, Serge Bahuchet, Jean-Dominique Wahiche

“…A single denomination for artisanal fishing gives the illusion of a homogenous category where extremely various fishing practices do exist. …”
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WozARd: A Wizard of Oz Method for Wearable Augmented Reality Interaction—A Pilot Study by Günter Alce, Mattias Wallergård, Klas Hermodsson

“…The basic idea behind WOZ is to create the illusion of a working system by having a human operator, performing some or all of the system’s functions. …”
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« Moments of Vision » : l'écriture de Thomas Hardy by Stéphanie Bernard

“…The equivocal quality of these works can also be found in the poems : dealing with the loss of his wife Emma, the writer hesitates between the hope to find her again and the recognition of the inevitable failure of his quest, between the illusion of a second chance and the harsh acknowledgment of facts. …”
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Prediction the Choice of Financing for Start-ups using Machine Learning Algorithms and Behavioral Biases by Naimeh Niazi, Hamideh Razavi

“…Following loss aversion, overconfidence, anchoring, and illusion of control biases were the most frequent among entrepreneurs.…”
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Critical lure source details are “correctly” attributed to both directly related and mediated lists by Alexa E. Tringali, Mark J. Huff

“…Studying lists of associatively related words often produces false recognition of non-studied critical lures (CL). This false memory illusion can be found both when word lists are directly related to a CL as in the DRM paradigm (e.g., water, bridge, run, for the CL river), and when words are indirectly related to CLs via non-presented mediators (e.g., faucet[water], London[bridge], jog[run], for the CL river). …”
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Financiarisation et classes sociales : introduction au dossier by Benjamin Lemoine, Quentin Ravelli

“…By dividing wages, generalizing indebtedness and creating the illusion that ownership has become universal, financialization has changed the relationship between social groups, forms of conflict, and political representation. …”
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Rivers and Lakes: Zhuangzi’s Critique of Just War and the Zhuangzian War Ethics and Peace Strategy by Ting-mien Lee

“…The belief that just war theory can help us identify a “just side” to morally condemn or legally restrain aggressors is a dangerous illusion. In practice, this approach fails to prevent wars and often exacerbates conflict. …”
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On Some Tendencies in Defense Policy of Germany by N. K. Meden

“…Here in Russia, one must take all this into account, as an idea of the low fighting capacity of the Bundeswehr, which was formed in the last years, is getting obsolete, and could became a dangerous illusion.…”
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Masques et mascarades dans Romola par George Eliot : la traversée des apparences by Stéphanie Richet

“…It proceeds of a trick or an alternate game of presence and absence.Identifying the mask so as to make it fall, revealing the invisible mask so as to turn it into a recognizable object, contribute to reestablishing the dramatic illusion and the awareness of the interplay between reality and fiction. …”
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Immagini migranti, immagini in-discriminanti Latenze e valenze nell’uso di foto e filmati in ambito migratorio by Alberto Baldi

“…The fixed, stentorian lapidary and three-dimensional image depicted in these portraits, seemed to provide the illusion to cross the threshold of overseas metropolis or of any other place on earth. …”
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LINGUOPRAGMATICS OF INTERACTION IN THE GENRE OF BUSINESS PRESENTATION by Natalya Yu. Sorokoletova

“…The linguistic-and-pragmatic analysis revealed that in the business presentations under study etiquette speech acts of greeting, appeal, gratitude, farewell create polyfunctional speech units (sometimes a sequence of them) producing the illusion of interaction (pseudo-dialogue): the addresser, as an agent of communication, attracts and captures the attention of the addressees and their interest to the topic of the presentation, monitors the process of communication and provides its positive tonality. …”
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Macao à l’ère postcoloniale : espoir et désespoir dans un centre mondial du tourisme et des loisirs by Michael O’Regan

“…Après la rétrocession du Portugal en 1999, le développement des concessions de casino et la croissance consécutive de l’emploi et du produit intérieur brut (PIB) par habitant à Macao ont créé une illusion de prospérité dans un territoire postcolonial de moins de 30 km2. …”
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Principle of Virtual Work as Foundational Framework for Metamaterial Discovery and Rational Design by dell’Isola, Francesco, Misra, Anil

“…The current practice of mechanical analyses based upon moribund classical theories and experimental trial-error campaigns is caught in an inescapable vortex and illusion of inductive reasoning. The needed novel research paradigm is one in which the formulation of theoretical concepts precede their experimental validation. …”
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Search for the turning points in the Soviet Lithuanian historiography: 1956 (?) by Aurimas Švedas

“…This article raises the question: Was the year 1956 the beginning of new discourses, polemics, and "revolt" against old methodological-ideological postulates in the Soviet Lithuanian historiography? The illusion of possible changes in history research in 1956 was created by the Lithuanian Communist Party (LCP) itself, which organized several meetings with Lithuanian intellectuals discussing the short history of Soviet Lithuania prepared by the History Institute. …”
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A Phenomenological Study on the Intersections of High School Students’ Educational Trajectories in Different Types of High Schools in Turkey by Mustafa Sever, Burcu Çıldır, Ayşe Gülsüm Akçatepe

“…As a result of this analysis, we interpreted the essences that cut across the educational trajectories of students positioned in different types of high schools as living with the illusion of school choice, declaring the position with a sense of entitlement, engagement with cultural fields through cultural consumption habits, and utilizing sports for the presentation of self. …”
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Exploring Current Evidence on the Past, the Present, and the Future of the Heart Team: A Narrative Review by Alexandru Burlacu, Adrian Covic, Mircea Cinteza, Paula Madalina Lupu, Radu Deac, Grigore Tinica

“…We underlined the importance of quality of knowledge-sharing and decision-making inside the Team, analyzing bad decisions which did not reflect members’ true beliefs due to “uniformity pressure, closed mindedness, and illusion of invulnerability.” The observation that Guidelines’ indications regarding Heart Team carry a level C indication underlines the very future of this Team: randomized controlled trials proving solid benefits in an evidence-based world. …”
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Event-Related Potentials Elicited by Face and Face Pareidolia in Parkinson’s Disease by Gulsum Akdeniz, Gonul Vural, Sadiye Gumusyayla, Hesna Bektas, Orhan Deniz

“…Pareidolia is a type of complex visual illusion that permits the interpretation of a vague stimulus as something known to the observer. …”
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« L’épopée » des clandestins by Zied Hadfi

“…We are interested obviously to highlight this new culture of migration, based on the dream, the fascination and idealization, nurtured and maintained daily by the illusion and false advertisements. We will identify the act of migration in its entirety, wherever it occurs in time and space by social actors (illegal immigrants) as a turning point that results in a "hijra" (emigration), by both the mind and body. …”
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La ecología política de la crisis global y los límites del capitalismo benévolo by Eduardo Gudynas

“…The environmental dimension is assumed merely as an instrumental adjustment that results in generating the illusion of a benevolent capitalism, which is defended even by progressive South American governments.…”
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