Czy inżynieria genetyczna? Za i przeciw modyfikowaniu naszej żywności by Jerzy Macewicz

“…While enthusiasts are showing large, unprecedented possibilities, skeptics remind us about the danger for us and future generations. …”
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Linguistic Means of Image Development of Gerhard Chroeder in the Run up to and After First Year in Office by E. S. Goncharova

“…In contrast, the journalists became more skeptical about the Chancellor after his first year in office and started to describe him with linguistic means with negative connotation. …”
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CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, POLITICAL DISTRUST AND AFRO-PESSIMISM IN NIGERIA POLITICS; THE FOURTH REPUBLIC IN FOCUS by Lambe Emmanuel Oyewole

“…The crisis in democracy has therefore expounded distrust, pessimism and skeptical relationship between the political elite and the citizenry. …”
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The Role of Education in Achieving the Right for Decent Human Life by A. G. Kislov, Y. M. Kropaneva

“…The authors made an attempt to reconcile the pathos of the human right adherents and the skeptics reducing the idea to the declarative unverifiable myth or ideology. …”
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IMPACT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS ON DEMAND FOR INSURANCE POLICY AND PRODUCT IN NIGERIA by Rukayat Bukola ADEJARE, Ismaila Daudu ALIU

“…These factors make customers to be skeptical in deciding on insurance policies which consequently lead to poor penetration and poor performance of the insurance sector. …”
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Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet by Anthony Zielonka

“…Interestingly, he chose to write about the latest scientific theories and discoveries in a decidedly skeptical and comic mode, as Bouvard and Pécuchet examine a wide range of theories concerning the evolution of the Earth and of humankind. …”
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Risks of educational space digitalization as digital demarcators of modern university corporate environment by Ya. I. Serkina, A. E. Ushamirsky, G. A. Elnikova

“…Depending on perception of the education system digitalization strategy, representatives of higher education subcorporations have been conditionally divided into four groups: “consistent supporters”, “moderate pragmatists”, “skeptics”, and “undecided”. Each of them, except for the last one, has been characterized by specific risk dispositions (risk-dispositions). …”
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CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, POLITICAL DISTRUST AND AFRO-PESSIMISM IN NIGERIA POLITICS; THE FOURTH REPUBLIC IN FOCUS by LAMBE EMMANUEL OYEWOLE

“…The crisis in democracy has therefore expounded distrust, pessimism and skeptical relationship between the political elite and the citizenry. …”
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Why Is Participation Low in Referendums? Lessons from Latin America by Eli Gavin Rau, Radha Sarkar, Susan C. Stokes

“…Whether referendums, initiatives, and other mechanisms of direct democracy enhance representative systems is a matter of debate. Skeptics note—among other criticisms—that turnout tends to be low in referendums, often lower than in candidate elections in the same country. …”
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South Africa’s Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia by Muhammed Haron

“…This thus caused Muslims in both majority and minority settings to adopt a skeptical view of the role of the secular media. Considering these developments, this essay’s focus turns to the South African print media that reported and analyzed their reporting of this event during that period. …”
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Broadening the spectrum of conflict and coexistence: A case study example of human-wolf interactions in British Columbia, Canada. by Ethan D Doney, Beatrice Frank, Douglas A Clark

“…While this represents an exciting shift in the field, many academics are still skeptical. Some scholars have expressed concerns around the omission of "conflict", naïveté, and impracticality associated with coexistence literature. …”
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Military Deterrence vs Foreign Interference? Record of the Cold War by I. A. Istomin

“…Academic literature is largely skeptical regarding the role of military deterrence in addressing low-level coercion. …”
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“What Scares Me Is the Speed at Which Artificial Intelligence Is Developing”: Students' Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Language Teaching by N. V. Tikhonova, G. M. Ilduganova

“…The attitude of students towards the use of AI is ambiguous, with responses ranging from enthusiastic to skeptical. Students’ positive impressions are mainly related to saving time and effort, as well as to the ability of AI to present complex materials with understandable language. …”
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Health data sharing in Germany: individual preconditions, trust and motives by Elias Kühnel, Felix Wilke

“…The population, however, is particularly skeptical about data being shared with commercial companies. …”
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French diplomats and the military on Soviet Russia and the balance of power in Central-Eastern Europe in 1922 by I. E. Magadeev

“…At the same time, diplomats and the military both in Paris and on-site were often skeptical about the prospects for the development of the Soviet economy, noting the catastrophic consequences of hunger, economic and financial ruin. …”
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Revisiting Weimar Film Reviewers’ Sentiments: Integrating Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models by Isadora Campregher Paiva, Josephine Diecke

“…Film scholars have quite rightly been skeptical of such techniques due to their inability to grasp nuanced critical texts. …”
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Attitudes towards the Unified State Exam as a Tool for Combating Corruption in Admissions to National Universities by A. A. Maksimenko, L. N. Dukhanina, G. A. Porosenkov, D. V. Krylova, A. M. Bushueva

“…Numerous All-Russian surveys of the last 5-7 years, revealing the attitude of various au diences to the Unified State Exam (USE), present a generally more positive attitude of young people to the USE against the background of a generally skeptical Russian population towards this tool of transition from secondary school to higher education. …”
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SOCIOLOGIJA IR REFLEKTYVUMAS by Algimantas Valantiejus

“…The new sociological identity is being shaped by 1) fragmentary and relative context; 2) the attempts of reflexive methodology to systemically and critically evaluate the social-scientific accounts of reality; 3) the skeptical treatment of "representations"; 4) the "performative" character of critical activity; 5) experience of indeterminacy conditioned by a) the antithesis between the conventional and the new theoretical projects; b) the social aspects of scientific activity which include the conversational, discursive and reflexive dimensions. …”
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Power of emperor in Russian legal discourse of second half of 19th– early 20th centuries: justification and options for interpretation by I. G. Adoneva, Yu. V. Druzhinina

“…For state scholars closely associated with Western jurisprudence, who shared its values, it was important to emphasize the belonging of the Russian Empire to the European world, where a skeptical view of the Russian monarchy remained. This way out was the idea of legality. …”
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Le continent noir du désir masculin : Colet et Flaubert, encore by Barbara Vinken

“…The studies on sexuality by Freud, one of the greatest skeptics on the subject of love, shed light on the vicissitudes of masculine desire. …”
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