Illusory finger stretching and somatosensory responses in participants with chronic hand-based pain. by Kirralise J Hansford, Daniel H Baker, Kirsten J McKenzie, Catherine E J Preston

“…One such avenue is resizing illusions delivered using augmented reality. These illusions resize the affected body part through stretching or shrinking manipulations and have been shown to give analgesic effects; however, the neural underpinnings of these illusions remain undefined. …”
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Electronic petitions in France on the material of Change.org, a non-governmental e-petition platform by K. V. Bannikov, N. K. Radina, O. A. Smirnova, D. V. Shavarova

“…The relevance of the topic is due to the intervention of modern information and communication technologies in political reality and the need for scientific reflection of the consequences of digital changes in political processes. …”
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Queering the Queer by Tracey Sibisi, Charlene van der Walt

“… Due to the systemic reality of heteropatriarchy, queer bodies often struggle to find a place of belonging within the African context in general and faith spaces in particular. …”
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Tradiția literară și teatrală a absurdului by Mirela Mihaela Doga

“…Ubu-Roi, essential for modern theatre, representatively challenges reality and society as a whole, and anticipates the Dada movement or Surrealism. …”
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A place holder: the social sciences of monkeys and apes by Véronique Servais

“…An empirical study of these composites would perhaps pave the way for a future understanding of the way in which biological and social determinants are woven into the reality of individual and collective histories. This would, in turn, make it possible to better identify the innate elements of the social skills of primates and to limit the importation of adaptationist theories into social sciences. …”
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INTEGRITY WHISTLEBLOWERS IN THE ROMANIAN LEGAL SYSTEM by Florin STOICA

“…Seen as a measure that comes to consecrate the modernism of the Romanian legal system, but also as a measure of the legislative maturity it has reached after countless reforms, the initiation of investigations regarding integrity whistleblowers has become a reality. What will be the impact on Romanian society? …”
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Heavy and Lightweight Deep Learning Models for Semantic Segmentation: A Survey by Cristina Carunta, Alina Carunta, Calin-Adrian Popa

“…Semantic segmentation is an important computer vision task due to its numerous real-world applications such as autonomous driving, video surveillance, medical image analysis, robotics, augmented reality, among others, and its popularity increased with the development of deep learning approaches. …”
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A Virtualization Approach to Correct Systematic Errors in Measured TDOA and FDOA for Low Orbit Dual-Satellite Positioning Systems by Gang Li, Min Zhou, Hongwen Tang, Hongbin Chen

“…The low-orbit dual-satellite passive location system provides a cost-efficient and easy implementation platform, by which positions of unknown emitters on the Earth can be determined through measuring both the time and the frequency differences by two low-orbit satellites in space. However, in reality, this dual-satellite location system has low positioning accuracy because of the existence of systematic errors. …”
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Open-world barely-supervised learning via augmented pseudo labels by Zhongnian Li, Yanyan Ding, Meng Wei, Xinzheng Xu

“…Unfortunately, existing OWSSL methods still rely on a large amount of labeled data from seen classes, overlooking the reality that a substantial amount of labels is difficult to obtain in real scenarios. …”
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Preprocessing Approach for Power Transformer Maintenance Data Mining Based on k-Nearest Neighbor Completion and Principal Component Analysis by Moïse Manyol, Samuel Eke, Alphonse J. M. Massoma, Alain Biboum, Ruben Mouangue

“…The massive amounts of data that we collect every day are putting storage capacity at a premium. In reality, many databases are characterized by attributes with outliers, redundant, and even more missing values. …”
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Assessing the Outcomes of Digital Soil Science Curricula for Agricultural Undergraduates in the Global South by Rico Heidy, de la Puente Mario, de Oro Carlos, Navarro Daniela, Lambis Juan, Londoño Guillermo

“…This academic inquiry examines the efficacy of virtual reality (VR)-based pedagogy for higher learning, specifically analyzing immersive digital instruction for rural agriculture undergraduates studying soil science in Colombia. …”
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Modeling of the Subsolar Magnetopause Motion Under Interplanetary Magnetic Field Southward Turning by Qiuyu Xu, Binbin Tang, Tianran Sun, Wenya Li, Xiaoxin Zhang, Fei Wei, Xiaocheng Guo, Chi Wang

“…This model has also been successfully applied to data‐driven simulations of the 17 March 2015 geomagnetic storm event, suggesting the possible applicability of this model in reality.…”
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FOR A SOCIOLOGY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN by Francesco Vespasiano

“…The great metamorphosis of the main sociological factors challenges us to abandon the presumption of colonization and the paradigm of the clash of civilizations and invites us to become aware of the changing demographic, political, economic, and cultural reality, and commits us to adopt a new analytical paradigm to understand and manage the transformation. …”
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“Cualquier movimiento revolucionario podrá contar con Cuba”: la construcción del nacionalismo internacionalista cubano durante el Año de la Solidaridad (1966) by Alberto García Molinero

“…This internationalist nationalism had a strong imprint on the configuration of the revolutionary identity from its origins to our times, as revealed by the accounts of personalities imbued within this reality. In the framework of the most immediate present, despite the significant global geopolitical transformations that have taken place since the end of the Cold War, this international spectrum continues to be a central pillar in contemporary Cuban society in the face of the multiple challenges it faces in the 21st century.…”
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Rationalization of Evil through Media: A Twitter Discourse Analysis on Israel's Genocide against Palestine after October 7 by Filiz Orhan Çağlayan

“…With this discursive background, it practices a systematic brutality unique to modernity. Thus, reality is distorted by the discourse constructed by Israel on social media and the world public opinion is forced to look at the Palestinian issue from the framework built by Israel…”
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Edge-cloud collaboration empowered immersive Web3D by XU Yanan, ZHAO Guidan, FENG Daquan, SHI Wenzhe, LU Ping

“…Leveraging the natural cross-platform accessibility, Web3D has shown wide application prospects in digital content fields with a browser as a carrier, including virtual reality, 3D modeling and visualization, to name a few. …”
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Awareness of postpartum depression among midwives and pregnant women in Arkhangelsk, Arctic Russia by Elena Nechaeva, Olga Kharkova, Vitaly Postoev, Andrej M. Grjibovski, Elisabeth Darj, Jon Øyvind Odland

“…The participants considered PPD as a mix of psychological and physiological symptoms, and they also highlighted a discrepancy between the expectations of pregnant women and the reality of motherhood. The present study underscored the limited understanding of PPD identification. …”
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Prosociality in adolescents: an intervention experience by Claudia Regina de Freitas, Celso Stephan

“…Given the current social and economic conditions, adolescents living in urban centers are immersed in a reality marked by violence and antisocial behaviors. …”
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Jeux de trompe-l’œil dans une cité déchue : La Nouvelle-Orléans de George Washington Cable dans Old Creole Days by Valérie CROISILLE

“…Look is omnipresent in the story collection, as though in New Orleans people, objects and places were constantly scrutinized through an often deficient sight that produces a distorted, yet highly subjective image of reality. How does the collapsing Creole society that fails to look beyond the limits it has set for itself make New Orleans a misfit city, whose inhabitants have sacrificed essence for appearance, in a never-ending game of make-believe, shams and dramatic turns of events that are the real thrill of Cable’s fiction ?…”
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Changes in the organisation management system by V. G. Antonov, E. V. Kuptsova, E. S. Kuptsova

“…Modern business operates in a new reality – the dominance of information technology and changing forms of organisations. …”
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