Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet by Anthony Zielonka

“…Flaubert very interestingly shows how distortions, inaccuracies, and simplifications in those accounts only serve further to confuse and depress the two seekers after scientific truth and, ultimately, to lead them to give up their pursuit of scientific knowledge altogether.…”
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Evaluating Human Factors in TFM Sizing Accuracy: Statistical Findings from a Round-Robin Programme (Part 2) by Mariana Burrowes M. Guimarães, Edward Ginzel, Gabriela Ribeiro Pereira, Cesar Giron Camerini, Cesar Giron Camerini

“… This paper reports on the results of the second part of a round-robin programme designed to assess the accuracy of TFM (Total Focussing Method) sizing as it relates to probability of detection truth values. Part 1 of the programme involved analysis of flaw responses simulated using the FMC (Full Matrix Capture) method of acquisition in CIVA simulation software. …”
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Employees’ perceptions of the fairness of AI-based performance prediction features by Khalid Majrashi

“…However, their effectiveness could be undermined by a lack of ground-truth data, particularly concerning human perceptions of fairness in predictive factors. …”
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Fake news, real needs: A qualitative study on Sino-Japanese theurgy fighting by Qing Gao, Qianqian Fu

“…Thus, in this special “post-truth” era, emotion regulation and fact clarification are equally essential.…”
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Exploiting Attitude Sensing in Vision-Based Navigation for an Airship by Luiz G. B. Mirisola, Jorge Dias

“…The accuracy of the height estimation is also evaluated against ground truth in a controlled environment.…”
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Automated multidimensional deep learning platform for referable diabetic retinopathy detection: a multicentre, retrospective study by Chi Pui Pang, Weiqi Chen, Mingzhi Zhang, Tsz Kin Ng, Yi Zheng, Guihua Zhang, Jian-Wei Lin, Ji Wang, Jie Ji, Ling-Ping Cen, Peiwen Xie, Yongqun Xiong, Hanfu Wu, Dongjie Li

“…Images were labelled by two-level certificated graders as the ground truth. According to the UK DR screening guideline, a DL model based on colour retinal images with five-dimensional classifiers, namely image quality, retinopathy, maculopathy gradability, maculopathy and photocoagulation, was developed. …”
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The Sensitivity of Heavy Precipitation to Horizontal Resolution, Domain Size, and Rain Rate Assimilation: Case Studies with a Convection-Permitting Model by Xingbao Wang, Peter Steinle, Alan Seed, Yi Xiao

“…The dispersion of skill scores with control run used as “truth” shows that the impacts of the model resolution and domain size on the quantitative precipitation forecast are not less than those of perturbed physics and initial field uncertainties in these not intentionally selected heavy precipitation cases. …”
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Past Times and Our Times: Reading Our Mutual Friend by David Paroissien

“…Yet to be cut off from the world of print, is to live only half a life, a truth the illiterate Noddy Boffin immediately acts to correct when he inherits a fortune. …”
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Learning model development moodle-based problem-based learning to improve critical thinking ability by Poy Saefullah Zevender, Disman Disman, Hari Mulyadi, Edutivia Mardetini, Deni Adriani, Lazuardi Imani Hakam

“…Ability thinks critically is ability to make conclusions and judge authenticity as well as truth something based on prior knowledge-owned. Think critically as a complex process that requires cognitive level in process information. …”
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Hybrid Depth-Separable Residual Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Cuijie Zhao, Hongdong Zhao, Guozhen Wang, Hong Chen

“…Due to the high dimensionality of spectral features, limited samples of ground truth, and high nonlinearity of hyperspectral data, effective classification of HSI based on deep convolutional neural networks is still difficult. …”
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Poética de los Valores y sus metáforas by Francisco das Chagas Amorim de Carvalho

“…Through a comprehensive language and its metaphorical processes, it is possible to learn about the truth and participate in a world in projection. The art of cultivating good words also contributes to the cultivation of humanity.…”
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L’Algérie « post-décennie noire » : de l’imposition de l’impunité à la revendication d’une justice transitionnelle by Morgane Jouaret

“…For the political authorities, the urgency of restoring peace was imposed in the face of the aspirations of a part of civil society, mainly the victims and their relatives, organized in associations and committed to a logic of truth and justice. This article proposes to analyze six “phases” of the national reconciliation policy in order to highlight the co-construction of the justice process, both by the State and by local victims’ associations. …”
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Écran magique et prégnance du hors champ : l’art du cadrage dans « Mrs Bathurst » de Kipling by Élodie Raimbault

“…The Bathurst « case » remains mysterious despite numerous explanatory attempts by critics, be they Charles Carrington or Philip Mason ; even an inquest such as Nora Crook’s fails to reveal the final truth about this story.« Mrs Bathurst » must certainly be seen rather as an experience on the narrative mode of the cinema. …”
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THE CONSTRUCTIONS OF POWER: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON BLACK AMERICAN WOMENAS PORTRAYED IN MAUD MARTHA AND THE HATE U GIVE by RB. Edi Pramono, Ida Rochani Adi, Muh. Arif Rokhman

“…Critical discourse analysis observes people's interactions through language because language is the basic element of life and the way truth and power are produced. In power contestation, discourse plays two opposing roles i.e., maintaining or preserving the system of dominion on one side and in another side fighting against the system of dominion. …”
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Medical Ethics in Perspective of Islamic Teachings by Syed Muhammad Tahir Shah, Mohammad Akram Randhawa

“…Beneficence, non-maleficence, confidentiality, justice, truth-telling, autonomy and informed consent, which have been mainly derived from the “Hippocratic Oath”, with some additions and modifications.  …”
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Cognitive Trend in Implementing the Third Mission of University by Nikolay D. Tskhadaya, Dmitry N. Bezgodov, Oksana I. Belyaeva

“…The axiological content of the University organizational culture is revealed through the reflexive analysis of the phenomena of scientific truth, scientific knowledge, and evidence as a criterion of science. …”
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« Moments of Vision » : l'écriture de Thomas Hardy by Stéphanie Bernard

“…In his poems, he went on exploring the limbos of life, death and loss while shaping words into lyrical veils shading an unbearable truth.…”
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The examination of the Tofā Māmāo cultural concept and repositioning it as a theoretical approach to guide Pacific research by Aliitasi Su’a-Tavila, James Mbinta

“…It symbolises the ability to unlock an archive of knowledge that has existed for generations. It defines truth through oral traditions which justifies its positioning when doing research. …”
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Antenna Optimization Based on Auto-Context Broad Learning System by Wei-Tong Ding, Fei Meng, Yu-Bo Tian, Hui-Ning Yuan

“…Based on the previous prediction results, AC learns an iterated low-level and context model and then iterates to approach the ground truth, which is very general and easy to implement. …”
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