RETRACTED: Protecting the Rights of Minorities under International Law and Implications of COVID-19: An Overview of the Indian Context by Nehaluddin Ahmad

“…By this approach, international minority rights speak to the wrongs that international law itself produces by organizing international political reality into a legal order. This article focuses on the uncertain effect of religious autonomy in India and the outcome of democracy in the country. …”
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Impact of evaluation method shifts on student performance: an analysis of irregular improvement in passing percentages during COVID-19 at an Ecuadorian institution by Esteban  Guevara Hidalgo

“…Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on education, forcing many teachers and students who were not used to online education to adapt to an unanticipated reality by improvising new teaching and learning methods. …”
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Articulating (ultimate) commitments: historical, factual and systematic considerations by D. F. M. Strauss

“…Wolters emphasizes that all aspects of created life and reality are in principle equally good, and all are in principle equally subject to perversion and renewal. …”
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‘A wound that aches yet isn’t felt ... a pain that rages without hurting’: Getting to know the identity of outsourced housekeepers through the bond of memory and social class by Viviani Teodoro dos Santos, Marivânia Conceição de Araújo, Marcio Pascoal Cassandre

“…In order to do so, we used the perspective of memory as an aid in the process of revelation and constituent element of identities, as well as the context of social class to seek the understanding of the reality learned in the field. As methodological procedures, we used a semi-structured interview with the cleaning team supervisor, two focus groups, individual narrative interviews with the eight housekeepers and a brief period of participant observation. …”
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Study on Regular Inspection Frequency of Bridge Based on Seismic Vulnerability Analysis by Peng Sun, Fengkun Cui, Haiyang Qin, Xiaomeng Hou

“…A three-span reinforced concrete (RC) continuous bridges model consistent with the reality was established, and seismic vulnerability of the RC bridge was calculated via incremental dynamic analysis combined with local earthquake disaster data. …”
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FUZZY ALGORITHM TO CONTROL REACTIVE POWER FLOW IN ELECTRIC NETWORK WITH NONLINEAR LOADS by H. B. Guliyev

“…The commonly used methods for compensation of harmonic currents by filtering devices make it possible to solve the problem in a narrow band of variation of current of a nonlinear load. In the reality stochastic character of power consumption of nonlinear load reveals itself in appropriate changes in harmonic components of voltage and their share in total load current. …”
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Remote Facial Expression and Heart Rate Measurements to Assess Human Reactions in Glass Structures by Chiara Bedon, Silvana Mattei

“…This study takes advantage of static/dynamic Virtual Reality (VR) environments and facial expression analyses, with Artificial Intelligence tools that are used to measure both Action Units (AUs) of facial microexpressions and optical heart rate (HR) acquisitions of volunteers exposed to VR scenarios. …”
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The study of the factors affecting phreatic line position and stability in upstream tailings dams by Parsa Alizadeh, Manouchehr Latifi

“…To make the results closer to reality, the characteristics of waste materials were collected for many tailings dams, and finally, the characteristics of the waste materials of Zhaoli Dam located in China were used in the analysis. …”
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Dramatic Autobiography: the Poetic Voice Recreating Itself in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The Bride’s Prelude’ by Raphaël Rigal

“…As such, this poetic form helps recreate a life, through the fictitious reality of the poetic voice: by talking about itself and primarily to itself, the poetic persona of the dramatic monologue builds up an imaginary autobiography. …”
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A Novel FEM-Based Numerical Solver for Interactive Catheter Simulation in Virtual Catheterization by Shun Li, Jing Qin, Jixiang Guo, Yim-Pan Chui, Pheng-Ann Heng

“…Virtual reality-based simulators are very helpful for trainees to acquire the skills of manipulating catheters and guidewires during the vascular interventional surgeries. …”
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Volatolomics for Anticipated Diagnosis of Cancers with Chemoresistive Vapour Sensors: A Review by Abhishek Sachan, Mickaël Castro, Jean-François Feller

“…The anticipated diagnosis of cancers and other fatal diseases from the simple analysis of the volatiles emitted by the body (volatolome) is getting closer and closer from becoming reality. The promises of vapour sensor arrays are to provide a rapid, reliable, non-invasive and ready-to-use method for clinical applications by making an olfactive fingerprint characteristic of people’s health state, to increase their chance of early recovery. …”
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Improving the job shop scheduling algorithm to minimize total penalty costs considering maintenance activity by Puryani Puryani, Nurmalia Chalida, Apriani Soepardi, Mochammad Chaeron, Laila Nafisah

“…Production scheduling is generally based on the assumption that resources are always available. In reality, these resources, machines, and supporting facilities experience limited availability due to interruptions during the production process. …”
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Recent Developments of Functional Scaffolds for Craniomaxillofacial Bone Tissue Engineering Applications by Yukihiko Kinoshita, Hatsuhiko Maeda

“…Developments of tissue engineering in the last two decades have brought such a goal closer to reality. In bone tissue engineering, the scaffolds are fundamental, elemental and mesenchymal stem cells/osteoprogenitor cells and bioactive factors. …”
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Management of Coagulopathy in Patients with Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis by Pooja D. Amarapurkar, Deepak N. Amarapurkar

“…As there is reduction in both anti and procoagulant factors, global tests of coagulation are normal in patients with acute and chronic liver disease indicating that coagulopathy in liver disease is more of a myth than a reality. In the last few years, surgical techniques have substantially improved, and complex procedures like liver transplantation can be done without the use of blood or blood products. …”
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Exploring protocol development: Implementing systematic contextual memory to enhance real-time fMRI neurofeedback by Fagerland Steffen Maude, Berntsen Henrik Røsholm, Fredriksen Mats, Endestad Tor, Skouras Stavros, Rootwelt-Revheim Mona Elisabeth, Undseth Ragnhild Marie

“…The goal of this study was to explore the development and implementation of a protocol for real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-nf) and to assess the potential for enhancing the selective brain activation using stimuli from Virtual Reality (VR). In this study we focused on two specific brain regions, supplementary motor area (SMA) and right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG). …”
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Transitioning from an occupational therapy student to a clinically competent occupational therapist – A qualitative study by Patrik Sjöberg, Annika Lexén

“…Consequently, there is a need to gain a deeper understanding of this process in order to identify ways of making it easier.Aims/objectives To describe newly graduated Swedish occupational therapists’ experiences of the transition from being an occupational therapy student to becoming a clinically competent occupational therapist.Material and methods A qualitative study involving 15 participants was conducted using interviews to collect data and content data analysis was undertaken to capture occupational therapists’ experiences of the transition process.Results A theme emerged: ‘Bridging the gap by seeking stability in the transition from occupational therapy student to clinically competent occupational therapist’, with two sub-themes, 1) ‘Facing a new reality’ and 2) ‘Establishing one’s role’, containing categories that encapsulated experiences of the transition.Conclusions and significance To bridge the gap in the transition process, universities could review their curricula to identify changes to better prepare newly graduated occupational therapists for the demands of clinical practice. …”
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Russia and the Issues of the Korean Peninsula by G. D. Toloraya

“…Relations with the ROK are aimed at becoming strategic, but in reality are limited due to ROK's alliance with the USA. …”
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EKOLOGINĖ ETIKA IR SUBJEKTO PROBLEMA by Česlovas Kalenda

“…Nature acquired, within the culture, the status of desubjectivized and deethicized reality. The objective German idealism of the 19th century overcame the categorical alienation of man from nature, while the philosophy of postmodernism disclosed it as a Western culture’s way of forcing human will upon nature, opening the perspective of subject’s decentration. …”
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Evaluasi Koleksi Tercetak Bidang Manajemen Menggunakan Metode Conspectus by Suwardi Suwardi

“…A quality library collection supported by adequate services serves to expand the scope of knowledge, enhance independent thinking skills, integrate knowledge with reality, and promote the improvement of the cultural quality of its users. …”
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Recursive Neural Network-Based Market Demand Forecasting Algorithm for Calligraphy Practice Products by Yi Xue

“…In particular, in recent years, as the market economy has developed in a deeper direction, people’s demand for calligraphy practice products has diversified and calligraphy practice product companies have launched a variety of products to meet the public’s calligraphy practice needs in order to adapt to the reality of consumer demand. However, with the development of the Internet culture industry and influenced by objective factors such as school holidays and seasons, the current market demand for calligraphy practice products is rapidly and dynamically changing, making market changes difficult to grasp and leading to poor sales, which directly affects the profits of calligraphy practice product-related companies. …”
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