The Inconsistency of the Algorithms of Jaro–Winkler and Needleman–Wunsch Applied to DNA Chain Similarity Results by Boris Melnikov

“…We explain that, ideally, the triangles formed by the distance matrix corresponding to each triple of distances should be acute-angled isosceles. Of course, in reality, this fact is violated, and we can determine the badness for each such triangle. …”
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„Paraklet (…) przekona świat o grzechu, o sprawiedliwości i o sądzie”. Jana Pawła II pneumatologiczna hermeneutyka J 16, 7–8 by Agnieszka Dudek-Kowalska

“… The multidimensional meaning of the triad: the sin, the justice and the judgement in the teaching of Pope John Paul II leads to the conclusion, that the Truth revealed in this way by the Holy Spirit is a vivid, dynamic and even personal reality and first of all it is targeted to the man and his salvation. …”
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Elles ont émigré seules pendant le franquisme : femmes galiciennes du pays de Sarria en Catalogne by Emma Rubio-Milet

“…Based on four real migrant women, in this case Galician women, the aim of this work is to restore the reality of the migratory experience of thousands of women who participated in the internal migrations under Francoism, one of the most important migratory movements of the 20th century.…”
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Conflict of Interest: Legal and Ethical Aspects in Local Self-Government in Slovakia by Ondrej Mitaľ

“…Regarding the complexity of social reality, various motives could influence public officials’ behaviour and decision-making. …”
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Ecological Conscience and Peace in the Social Doctrine of the Church by Fabio Caporali

“…Innovative conceptual terms, like natural capital, biosphere, noosphere, anthropocene, ecosystem services, sustainability, integral ecology, ecological spirituality and ecological conversion are recognised as typical eco-linguistic emergences arisen within a context of holistic framing of reality. They constitute the eco-linguistic cascade that has innovated the recent development of the social doctrine of the Church such as that expressed in the Encyclical Letters and in The World Days of Peace Messages for building a culture of peace based on ecological conscience. …”
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Interview as an Act of Seduction: Analysing Problems I Have Met during My Fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury by Tiina Sepp

“…A lot has been written about fieldwork and in this article I am going to add my thoughts on topics that have already been discussed in self-critical reflexive style by several scholars: the different roles of the researcher and the problematic interactional relationship between researcher and informant; power relationships in an interview situation; combining emic and etic perspectives in researching; being ambivalent about which reality we really belong to. I am also going to raise some issues that have to date not been discussed much: the effect of the researcher’s gender on the process of fieldwork; stigmatisation of the supernatural; using the researcher’s own memorates to elicit belief statements from his or her informants; dealing with ‘difficult’ informants. …”
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Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s Concept of Christians Engagement in Culture by Ryszard Ficek

“…Therefore, the human person is directly involved in the stream of modern civilization and its cultural changes, as well as finds his proper place in the dynamically changing realities of the contemporary world. …”
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The concept of Prana Tattva in the Kaushitaki Brahmana Upanishad by Shilpi Verma, Manorama Nikhra

“…Prana is described as the consciousness linked to Brahman, the ultimate reality, and is regarded as a manifestation of that supreme truth, appearing as the individual soul (jivatma) within living beings. …”
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Les capitales des cités gauloises, simulacra Romae ? by Michel Reddé

“…Does the classic notion of the Mediterranean town, the model of urbanism for the new civitas-capitals founded by Rome in the provinces after the Conquest, respond to an archaeological reality or is it an ‘‘Idealtyp’’? The archaeological inquiry presented here shows that, at least in Gallia Comata, the rise of new civitas-capitals is not an uniform phenomenon and that several factors played a decisive part in this process: the Protohistoric legacy, which needs to be profoundly re-evaluated in relation to our traditional vision, the dynamic relating to urban development prior to the Conquest, the place of large late Iron Age sanctuaries, the establishment of the new road network which altered the earlier geographical and economic balance, the involvement of local elites, their degree of integration into the new Roman political structures and their wealth which determined their capacity for euergetism. …”
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No enhancement of vestibular stimulation on visual working memory for actions by Luyao Hu, Zaifeng Gao, Qi Gao, Rui Wang

“…This study addresses this gap by investigating whether GVS can improve VWM capacity for both upright and inverted actions. Using a virtual reality platform, we assessed VWM capacity in a change detection task, applying either STIM-current (0.8 mA) or SHAM-current (0 mA) GVS. …”
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A Bayesian Neural Network-Based Method to Calibrate Microscopic Traffic Simulators by Qinqin Chen, Anning Ni, Chunqin Zhang, Jinghui Wang, Guangnian Xiao, Cenxin Yu

“…Calibrating the microsimulation model is essential to enhance its ability to capture reality. The paper proposes a Bayesian neural network (BNN)-based method to calibrate parameters of microscopic traffic simulators, which reduces repeated running of simulations in the calibration and thus significantly improves the calibration efficiency. …”
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Determinants of functional diagnosis and strategies of work in school relations with students with diverse educational needs by Marta Ewa Niemiec

“…The paper also presents a fragment of the author’s research on the perception of functional diagnosis and its determinants in the current educational reality by active teachers and students of special education. …”
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Paupertas (poverty) in John Calvin's Institutes by R. M. Britz

“…Calvin thus reveals the landscape of reality in which the presuppositions of the popular philosophical concepts of fate, fortune, chance and other meta-historical  causes are considered meaningless. …”
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Mbamois women and land tenure: a study of the actors in the Mbam-And-Inoubou Division (Centre, Cameroon) by Esther Laurentine NYA, Junior Chatelain Avore

“… Context and background  In rural regions, a striking reality emerges : many women, trapped in an overwhelming financial dependency, are engaged in fierce battles to secure a tiny plot of land where they can carry out their essential activities (agriculture). …”
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Visual Impairment Spatial Awareness System for Indoor Navigation and Daily Activities by Xinrui Yu, Jafar Saniie

“…At the foundational level, the system employs augmented reality (AR) markers for indoor positioning, neural networks for advanced object detection and tracking, and depth information for precise object localization. …”
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Human Motion Gesture Recognition Based on Computer Vision by Rui Ma, Zhendong Zhang, Enqing Chen

“…Human motion gesture recognition is the most challenging research direction in the field of computer vision, and it is widely used in human-computer interaction, intelligent monitoring, virtual reality, human behaviour analysis, and other fields. …”
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Evolutionary Optimization of Electric Power Distribution Using the Dandelion Code by Jorge Sabattin, Carlos Contreras Bolton, Miguel Arias, Víctor Parada

“…Planning primary electric power distribution involves solving an optimization problem using nonlinear components, which makes it difficult to obtain the optimum solution when the problem has dimensions that are found in reality, in terms of both the installation cost and the power loss cost. …”
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Comparison of Aerosol Acidity Based on a Direct Measurement Method and a Chemical Thermodynamic Model by Qinping Song, Kazuo Osada

“…The Extended Aerosol Inorganic Model IV (E-AIM IV) is frequently used for this purpose; however, due to the limited number of available direct measurement methods of aerosol acidity, there is still a certain degree of uncertainty with regard to how accurately the simulation results reflect reality. In this study, a new pH testing paper method for the direct measurement of aerosol pH is used to measure the pH (pHmeas) of aerosol particle samples. …”
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How to understand the parables of Jesus. A paradigm shift in parable exegesis by R. Zimmermann

“…Instead, the discussion of a comprehensive genre of “parable” utilises the genre consciousness of the early Christian authors; a genre that can be precisely defined by means of a literary-critical description in terms of the criteria of narrativity, fictionality, relation to reality, metaphor, appeal structure and co-/contextuality. …”
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Failure Analysis of a Highway Cut Slope with Anti-Slide Piles by Hongjie Chen, Guangcheng Zhang, Zheng Chang, Lian Wen, Wentao Gao

“…Landslides induced by engineering construction are very common in reality; it is necessary to clarify the causes of landslide failure to avoid similar accidents. …”
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