Value of robotic surgery simulation for training surgical residents and attendings: a systematic review protocol by Ngan Nguyen, Kathryn K Howard, Hussein Makki, Nathan M Novotny, Misa Mi

“…Surgical residents and attendings participate in simulation training to be able to effectively perform robotic surgery using wet labs, dry labs and virtual reality platforms. Our objective is to identify the effectiveness of robotic simulation on novice robotic surgeons. …”
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Penerapan Model Problem Based Learning dengan Socioscientific Issues untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis pada Pembelajaran Biologi SMA by Rif'atin Khoirunnisa, Anwari Adi Nugroho, Nur Rokhimah Hanik

“…One of the skills in the 21st century in learning that must be possessed by students is skills in critical thinking, but in reality critical thinking skills at the level of high school education are still relatively low. …”
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Students’ Belief Biases Concerning Climate Change and Factors Considered While Evaluating Informal Reasoning Arguments by Perihan Gunes

“…Most of the students focused on the assertion-based evaluations that include the reality of premises and conclusion rather than the relationship between the premises and conclusions. …”
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Human Factors in AR-Enabled Human-Robot Collaboration for Fabrication-Centric Architectural Design Process: A Co-design Workshop Approach. by Wei Win Loy, Anthony Franze, Jared Donovan, Müge Teixeira, Matt Adcock, Markus Rittenbruch

“…Recent advancements in augmented reality (AR) technology further enhance these prospects by enabling users to superimpose context-sensitive, computer-generated information in the real world. …”
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Representation of medieval climate fluctuations in Central Asia in the toponymic system: Historical and geographical data by Kulyash Kaimuldinova, Shakhislam Laiskhanov, Duman Aliaskarov, Rakhat Tobajanov, Zhulduz Nizamatdinova

“…The aim of the study is to analyze the manifestation of climate changes in the names of natural objects described in historical data of Central Asia and to study whether the semantic load of toponyms corresponds to the current geographical reality. The spatial identification of toponyms found in medieval historical sources, their etymological and semantic analysis, determination of the correspondence between toponyms and the present geographical nature of objects are carried out in accordance with the aim of the research. …”
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Bringing Motor Imagery BCI systems outside of the laboratory into daily activities by Sonal Santosh Baberwal, Shirley Coyle

“…Enhanced training methods using Virtual Reality(VR) were shown to significantly improve signal quality, as demonstrated in a study involving 21 participants. …”
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Pandemic as Pretext: The Implications of Global Cataclysms in Don DeLillo’s The Silence and Slavoj Žižek’s Writings on Covid-19 by Alicja Piechucka

“…My argument is that for both the American novelist and the Slovenian philosopher, worldwide disasters such as the blackout depicted in The Silence or the 2020 pandemic are merely a pretext for delving into the condition of the modern world, with particular emphasis on how twenty-first-century reality is affected by globalization, science, technology, war and environmental degradation. …”
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DETERMINING THE MUJTAHID MADHHAB: THE CONTRIBUTION OF ABDUL WAHHAB AL-MALIKI'S THOUGHTS ON ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE by Graiguer Abdelmounaim, A. Amir Firmansyah

“…There are differences of opinion between the two disputing camps; to get out of the theoretical framework towards actual reality, it is necessary to create a model to become a judge, apart from the mujtahid absolute who lays the foundation (Terms - Conditions) in Istinbath because they have agreed to deny it. …”
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Assessing Educators’ Readiness for Innovative Professional and Pedagogical Activities by G. R. Khusainova, S. G. Karstina, M. F. Galikhanov

“…Educators at present should follow trends of a dynamically changing reality. Thus, the purpose of this work is to assess the educators’ readiness for innovative professional and pedagogical activities (IPPA) in the process of their training on the module “Problembased, practice-oriented, project-based learning”, which is part of the continuing retraining program for engineering teachers iPET-3, developed within the framework of the international project ENTER (“EngineeriNg educaTors pEdagogical tRaining”), co-funded by the Erasmus + program of the European Union. …”
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Combination Estimation of Smoothing Spline and Fourier Series in Nonparametric Regression by Ni Putu Ayu Mirah Mariati, I. Nyoman Budiantara, Vita Ratnasari

“…So far, most of the researchers developed one type of estimator in nonparametric regression. But in reality, in daily life, data with mixed patterns were often encountered, especially data patterns which partly changed at certain subintervals, and some others followed a recurring pattern in a certain trend. …”
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The impact of digital technologies on the information potential of accounting (financial) statements. Part 2: Impact of digital platforms and models on transparency of corporate re... by M. T. Turmanov, T. M. Rogulenko

“…The use in the course of the study of general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as methods of logical comparison, reduction and selection of methodologically important facts of reality, made it possible to conclude that in legal terms, the electronic form of existence of objects, objects, processes is legitimized, and the digital form is a deep care into the virtual world through cryptography, the use of complex systems, encryption code and a limited number of participants. …”
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SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY FOR SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY by G. Rizzuto, F. Bucelli, M. Sciaccaluga, O. Avataneo

“…Foundry Alfe Chem is an industrial reality working in the field of lubrication and chemical auxiliaries for industrial processes, which falls within the framework of the emerging and increasingly important «green chemistry». …”
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ASEAN Regional Integration: The Philippines' domestic constraints to Physical connectivity by Tobit Abao, Hazel Jovita

“…However, data shows a substantial infrastructural gap among member-states with a significant constraint on physical connectivity at the regional level. This stark reality on the infrastructure gap is relevant to the Philippines as it continued to lag behind other ASEAN members on the infrastructure pillar of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index (WorldBank,2018).This paper looks into the domestic affairs of the Philippines in terms of financial capacity, governance scheme, and stability-security situation - and its implications on the country’s infrastructural gap in the ASEAN Region. …”
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Field Observations During the Tenth Microwave Water and Energy Balance Experiment (MicroWEX-10): from March 1, 2011 through January 5, 2012 by Tara Bongiovanni, Pang-Wei Liu, Karthik Nagarajan, Daniel Preston, Patrick Rush, Xueyang Duan, Guanbo Chen, Robert Terwilleger, Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Roger De Roo, Jasmeet Judge, Ruzbeh Akbar, Mary Morris, Olivia Williams, Lindsey Marks, Courtnay Cardozo, Mahta Moghaddam, Anthony England

“…However, model estimates of soil moisture in the root zone diverge from reality due to accumulated errors in initialization, forcings, and computation. …”
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Preparation of the Digital Elevation Model using open source Geographic Information Systems tools for 3D prints by Chwiałkowski Cyprian, Zydroń Adam

“…The presentation of landforms, as well as other types of characteristics and issues in three-dimensional space can bring many advantages in the process of better understanding of the surrounding reality. The primary purpose of this research is to put forward a simple scheme, accessible to any Geographic Information Systems user, for generating 3D physical terrain models for any area of the Earth. …”
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Transferência de política pública e o papel do embaixador de políticas: dos Parques-Biblioteca de Medellín para os Centros Comunitários da Paz no Recife by Ana Pollinny de Freitas, Eliane Superti, Liliana Ramalho Fróio

“…Conclusions: It is identified that the translation of the policy was emulation; that is, Recife’s PP bears similarity to Medellín’s, with adaptations and adjustments to its reality. The mechanisms through which the process occurred were mainly three: networking, circulation of individuals, and social construction. …”
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The network form as a tool for improving the quality of education in the context of digitalization by Natal’ya V. Shlyakhtina

“…The network form of implementation of educational programs as an innovative reality in schools participating in the regional project Modern School is based both on the use of resources of several educational organizations and other institutions to solve the deficits of the basic organization itself. …”
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Neoliberal Timescapes of Infrastructuring an Environmental Footprint: Configuring Carbon Emissions as Flexibly Substitutable Placeholders by Ingmar Lippert

“…Across these analyses, I problematise how the managers of these corporate carbon emissions continuously (re)configure the latter into an appropriately flexible environmental reality. In sum, I argue that complex temporal politics are at work within maintaining emissions in the corporation to produce tailored versions of environmental realities, effecting a neoliberal timescape.…”
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Pond fishing in the Congolese cuvette: a story of fishermen, animals, and water spirits by Marion Comptour, Sophie Caillon, Doyle McKey

“…Our study, conducted in the region of Mossaka, in Congo Republic, reveals another reality. We found that pond fishing engages dozens of men, women and children working together and that this activity is based on a range of skills and know-how. …”
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Piracy as counter-hegemony by Tanja Bosch

“…This paper explores piracy in Hanover Park, a Cape Flats township, as an expression of a politics of resistance to racism and racial disadvantage, but more specifically as a routine social practice deeply embedded within the lived reality of community members. The research questions were guided by a desire to explore qualitatively the processes by which consumers in this low-income neighbourhood practise and understand their purchase and consumption of pirated goods, particularly films on DVD. …”
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