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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Critique and Review of Time, Consumption and Everyday Life by Mohammad Abbaszadeh, Farhad Shamsi Matanagh

“…By questioning the universal understanding of time and benefiting from comparative ethnography and historical analysis, the book is skeptical of common concepts such as traditional equilibrium and turbulent modernity. …”
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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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The worlds of limited-edition books (Arthur Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Wojciech Kajtoch, Stanisław Lem) by D.E. Martynov

“…Kaitoch uses the modern methods in his literary research and turns towards the biographical approach only when there is no way to otherwise explain the features of the analyzed text. W. Kaitoch is skeptical of the idea about any possibility of revealing the author’s intention. …”
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Clifford's Ethic of Belief and Maximum Extreme Reasoning by Ghasem Pourhassan, Afsaneh Pandjoo

“…The deontological epistemic approach was a reaction to the foundationalism approach that advocated the existence of basic or self-justified beliefs. Descartes, skeptical of any kind of knowledge, provided the first foundations for such an approach. …”
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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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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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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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The Knowledge Gap in Economics: What Does the Public Know about the Economy and What Do Economists Know about the Public? by Erwin Dekker, Pavel Kuchař

“…At the same time, many citizens have grown skeptical of scientific expertise, and economic expertise in particular. …”
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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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Achievements and Lessons Learned From Successful Small Satellite Missions for Space Weather‐Oriented Research by Harlan E. Spence, Amir Caspi, Hasan Bahcivan, Jesus Nieves‐Chinchilla, Geoff Crowley, James Cutler, Chad Fish, David Jackson, Therese Moretto Jorgensen, David Klumpar, Xinlin Li, James P. Mason, Nick Paschalidis, John Sample, Sonya Smith, Charles M. Swenson, Thomas N. Woods

“…Abstract When the first CubeSats were launched nearly two decades ago, few people believed that the miniature satellites would likely prove to be a useful scientific tool. Skeptics abounded. However, the last decade has seen the highly successful implementation of space missions that make creative and innovative use of fast‐advancing CubeSat and small satellite technology to carry out important science experiments and missions. …”
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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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Poison, lies, war: A mixed methods content analysis of posts about COVID-19 vaccination on Gab Social by Alice Marianne Fritz, Andrea M. Smith

“…Them” perspective that pits vaccine skeptics against adherents. Overall, Gab users expressed strong resistance to the vaccines and distrusted government-issued recommendations to vaccinate, yet valorized medical professionals who advocated for more research on the vaccines’ safety. …”
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Indistinguishability in controlled query evaluation over prioritized description logic ontologies by Gianluca Cima, Domenico Lembo, Lorenzo Marconi, Riccardo Rosati, Domenico Fabio Savo

“…We first study the data complexity of skeptical entailment of unions of conjunctive queries under all the optimal GA censors, showing that the computational cost of query answering in this setting is intractable. …”
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