Quality of life in people with syndromic heritable thoracic aortic disease and their relatives: a qualitative interview based study by Gry Velvin, Heidi Johansen, Gunnbjørg Aune, Kerstin Fugl-Meyer, Amy Østertun Geirdal

“…Abstract Introduction The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions and opinions on what constitutes determinants for quality of life (QoL) in individuals with syndromic Heritable Aortic Disease (sHTAD), utilizing a qualitative study approach. …”
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Factors influencing reselection of village doctors in rural-oriented tuition-waived medical education program in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study by Jing Gao, Juhua Zhang, Chenlei Shi, Aiqin Fan, Peng Zhang

“…The participants were asked questions related to their experiences, opinions, and perceptions. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), chi-square tests and logistic regression analysis was conducted.ResultsA total of 419 questionnaires were collected. …”
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COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone: an application of Health Belief Model constructs by Simon Ssentongo, Alex Muhereza, Morie Mustapha, Ruth Gemi, Dennis Cherian, Rebecca Waugh, Benjamin Crookston, Cougar Hall, Mary Linehan, Hayden Borg, Joshua West

“…Consequently, to boost vaccine acceptance, public health campaigns should focus on reshaping risk perceptions, addressing obstacles, emphasizing the advantages of getting vaccinated, and fostering a sense of self-efficacy within target communities.…”
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Bridging the Gap between Self and Other ? Pictorial Representation of Blacks in England in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century by Élisabeth Martichou

“…In the middle of the eighteenth century a shift in the artistic representation of black people became perceptible in England. Several paintings illustrated a new attitude to the question of identity and differences between the races. …”
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Improved speech enhancement based on spectral subtraction and auditory masking effect by ZHAO Xiao-qun, HUANG Xiao-shan

“…Taking into account the masking properties of human auditory system and the uncertainty of the speech pres-ence,the novel algorithm modifies the log-spectral amplitude estimation and the speech absence probability（SAP） pa-rameter.Then,the smoothing parameters in noise estimation and prior SNR estimation are adaptively adjusted to modi-fied SAP parameter which reflects the degree of stationary of the measured signal.The change of smoothing parameters allows for automatic adaptation with various noisy environments and obtains the best trade-off.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has better performance of speech articulation without any perceptional musical-ity,compared to another modified spectral subtraction algorithms under the same level of noise reduction,and this supe-riority is more significant at very low SNR.…”
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Colour as an Art of Illusion in John Lyly’s Campaspe (1584) by Armelle SABATIER

“…This article aims at exploring the diverse meanings of colours in Campaspe in the light of Elizabethan perceptions of colours, focussing more particularly on the relation between colour and illusion. …”
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Entre convergences et divergences : la communauté haïtienne de Montréal by Ariane Cyr

“…Beyond a traditional geographic or monocultural meaning, the notion of Americanness could be regarded today, in a pluralistic context, as an identity duality, as a compromise between distinction and borrowing. The perceptions of the Haitian community of Montreal as regards its adoptive country (Canada, Quebec and Montreal) were useful to specify this new definition. …”
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The Active Outward Orientation of the Organisation by George Angelopulo

“…According to this view, perceptions of real systems can be described along spatial and temporal dimensions: as ahistorical, Inward-looking and struc tural; or as historical, outward-looking and changing. …”
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På spaning efter det offer som ej flytt: Bemästrande av människohandelsoffer och viljans inverkan på lagföringen by Märta C. Johansson

“…Instead they are due to the perceptions of trafficking held by the Swedish criminal courts and to the courts’ notions of what it means to ‘master’ a victim and the types of evidence required to prove such ‘mastery’.…”
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Behind the negotiations: Nuncio Antonio Caetani’s experience at the court of Madrid (1611–1618) by Paolo Periati

“…The approach purports to deepen the practice of the early modern diplomacy, by considering Caetani’s networks and his perceptions as a privileged observer of court life. …”
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La nécessité du pays by Damien Sans

“…When we free the landscape from the aesthetic straightjacket in which it has been imprisoned (at least in France) by the great narratives of its origins (Briffaud, 2014), it becomes possible to embrace the diversity of perceptions and relationships formed between people and their environments. …”
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Los microrrelatos cómicos y picarescos en la novela barroca: Céspedes y Meneses, Castillo Solórzano y Castelblanco by Christine Marguet

“…The frontier between these micro-structures and the main body of the novel may be underlined (prose/verse; change of enunciation) or perceptible only through the generic gap brought about by the micro-strcutures that do not originate from novelistic sub-genres with aristocratic protagonism. …”
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The Learning of Cooking in the Light of the Social Practices and the Organizational Aesthetics by Lídia Cunha Soares, Marcelo de Souza Bispo

“…The results show that the cooking learning occurs through the use of perceptive faculties along with collective aesthetic judgements constituting the social practice of cooking. …”
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„Svůj pokoj vám dávám…“ Potenciál a výzvy současného pohřbu v Českobratrské církvi evangelické by Jana Hofmanová

“…Funeral service is seen as a ritual that, through the liturgy but also through the perceptive presence of the ministers, offers authentic participation, as well as a certain grounding in tradition and reframing of the loss experienced. …”
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La guerre et le canon by Michel Matly

“…It shows collective perceptions that are different according to countries and evolve over time, comparable to those identified by the conflict’s memory specialists using other sources such as political speeches, novels or films. …”
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Możliwości wprowadzania Mindtoyness do wczesnej edukacji. Ewaluacja z perspektywy społeczno-organizacyjnej i badawczej by Jolanta Kruk

“…This context consists of: the change in perceptions and cognitive processes in the digital turn, turbulent social background, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic together with the reforms of the education system in Poland. …”
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Construction of Meaning of the Undergraduate Course in Business Administration by High and Low Income Students by Marcelo de Rezende Pinto, Marcos Eugênio Vale Leão, Ramon Silva Leite, Danielle Ramos de Miranda Pereira

“…The objective was to analyze the differences in perceptions of the course by students from high and low income backgrounds regarding the following issues: the cultural and symbolic elements involving higher education; the relevance of higher education in consumer priorities and the influence on consumption behavior of students; the appropriateness of the course to their reality; and the expected benefits of obtaining a degree. …”
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Les effets de la dimension relationnelle dans la relation pédagogique de direction de mémoire en Master by Laetitia Gérard

“…This study is primarily interested in the interpersonal relationship within the supervisor-student pair, which supports the development of the initial professional supervisory relationship.Semi-directive interviews were conducted to collect data on the actors’ (master’s students and their supervisors) perceptions of the supervisory relationship.The results show that the interpersonal relationship can have positive but also negative effects on the hands-on research training of master’s level research apprentices. …”
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Islam et modernité dans un manuel d’école au Maroc by Mathias De Meyer

“…Finally, we show how these particular material forms respond to a specifically modern disposition of knowledge and how these impact perceptions of Islam.…”
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ANALYSIS OF THE NEWS CONCERNING THE ROMA MINORITY IN BULGARIA by Bahar Ayaz

“…The overall situation of the Roma minority has improved over time, but has the perceptions of society and the attitude of the media also changed with regard to minorities? …”
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