Small Elegies for America by Lindsey Freeman

“…Many contemporary artists are utilizing small-scale artworks to represent difficult truths of contemporary American life, such as alienation, disenchantment, precarious housing, and economic insecurity writ large. …”
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Cartographier par télédétection l’occupation du sol et ses changements by Ibrahima Diédhiou, Catherine Mering, Oumar Sy, Tidiane Sané

“…The retrospective approach adopted is based on the comparison between the so-called "reference" spectral signatures resulting from ground truths and those of the classes resulting from the unsupervised multispectral classification of images taken at earlier dates. …”
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Inkluzja edukacyjna na etapie przedszkola w rozumieniu rodziców dzieci niepełnosprawnych by Iwona Myśliwczyk

“…When talking about their children’s education, they unveiled personal meanings given to this event, showed their individual truths and the reality they experience. The stories they told were given a subjective meaning, which from their perspective is important and shapes their being. …”
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Marriage of convenience... In search of new analytical methods in oral history by Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek

“… I believe that a combination of perspectives deriving from a variety of disciplines leads to a more convincing, truthful, and richer reconstruction of the image of the past. …”
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Narrating Cultural Heritage by Ulf Palmenfelt

“…The interplay between several individual narratives in a local community and the collective elements takes the form of a joint negotiating process, generating agreements and discrepancies, shared ‘truths’ and contested disagreements, the acceptance of shared local symbols and the forgetting of less captivating material. …”
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Exploiting social reciprocity for auction-based spectrum allocation in femtocell networks by Feng Zhao, Haibo Tang, Hongbin Chen

“…Besides we propose a payment rule satisfying truthfulness and individual rationality properties. Simulation results show that our algorithm can achieve the optimal solution to the optimization problem.…”
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Affinités électives de la littérature espagnole avec la philosophie by Thierry Nallet

“…Starting off from affirmations made by Miguel de Unamuno and María Zambrano, it’s clear that the literature of ideas, the essay or the philosophical novel contain rather original truths and philosophical notions. The examples chosen here are taken from philosophical essays with a strong literary component coming from José Antonio Marina and above all from the narrative opus of Álvaro Pombo. …”
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Discernment: the message of the Bhagvad-Gita by K. Perumpallikunnel

“…Lord Krishna outlines for him the path towards gaining flawless self-knowledge and self-mastery from his sorrowful state of confusion and opened his eyes to perceive the truths beyond appearances. Krishna instructs him that, when a person is capable of watching everything that happens within and around him dispassionately and acting with an attitude of detachment, he attains sthithaprajna (equanimity) and samadhai (liberation). …”
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O narrador e a paisagem: Milton Hatoum, Bernardo Carvalho e o fim do projeto de uma literatura nacional by Pedro Dolabela Chagas, Dárley Suany Leite dos Santos

“…In contrast, in Hatoum’s and Carvalho’s works, the multiplication of voices, the fragmentation of truths and the self - observation of the narrator block the mobilization of the landscape for an identity - function, in a deviation o f the founding assumptions of a national literature which indicates its demise as a common project – an important historical transition for the Brazilian novel.…”
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Tuo Dolphins by Rolf Erik Scott, Peter Ian Crawford

“…The villagers decided to re-enact part of their Dolphin story to capture it on film, thereby using the film, and its crew, to both present and confirm the truthfulness of the legend and myth.   …”
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L’Art de voler et L’Aile brisée, d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, sont-ils des récits mémoriels historiques en bande dessinée ? by Isabelle Delorme

“…To do so, he uses family sources as well as his father's oral testimony and uses photography to attest to the truthfulness of his statements, practices characteristic of authors of historical graphic memoirs. …”
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Representation and Reception of the Image of the Zulu. From Travel Accounts to the Public Sphere in Mid-Victorian and Edwardian Great Britain (1850–1914) by Patricia Crouan-Véron

“…Should we consider these representations (most of them were accompanied by sketches and pictures) as truthful and reliable? We will analyse them focusing on the representation of Zulu people. …”
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Platitudes and opacity: Explaining philosophical uncertainty by Eriksson John, Francén Ragnar

“…This paper discusses this philosophical methodology in light of the fact that the propositions identified as platitudes are not obvious truths-they are propositions we can be uncertain about. …”
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The End of History? by Jean-Marc Chadelat

“…The conclusive play of Shakespeare’s English historical sequence ends with the prediction of a revelation of concealed truths and unending peace and plenty. Yet the apocalypse proclaimed by the archbishop of Canterbury in Henry VIII depends on a secular teleology of time highlighting its problematic ambivalence. …”
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A True Friend Stabs You in the Front: Astell’s Admonisher Conception of a Friend by Jen Nguyen

“…Section three thus contends that, on Astell’s view, there is a class of deep truths about who we are that only our admonishing friends can reliably access; section four sketches how admonishment enhances our moral reasoning skills on Astell’s picture.…”
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The Long Road to Health and Prosperity, Southern Sweden, 1765-2015. Research Contributions From the Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Tommy Bengtsson, Martin Dribe

“…This research has partly confirmed the established view on long-term changes in living standards and demographics in Sweden but has also brought into question some previously held truths.…”
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Shepherd on Meaning, Reference, and Perception by David Landy

“…I argue that for Shepherd truths about the causal powers of objects are analytic, and that the relevant empirical questions answered by science concern whether our conceptual scheme accurately represents the world. …”
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The University as a Being-historical Object: the Experience of M. Heidegger by M. B. Mitlyanskaya

“…Secondly, since the rejection of uni- versal methods, ready-made answers and unshakable truths becomes an integral part of his late philosophy, since they lull thinking and lead a person away from fruitful doubt. …”
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Adaptive translation of medieval morality plays for contemporary African audiences: A case study of the morality play Everyman in Sesotho by T.J. Makutoane

“…Their fictional nature, however, clothed moral truths in line with Catholic doctrines. The main aim of these plays was to teach audiences lessons in Christian living and salvation. …”
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Sustainability models in Zone 3 manufacturing SMEs by Karla Morales, Pamela de Los Ángeles Sánchez Rosero, Christian Alberto López Valencia, Freddy Marco Armijos Arcos

“…In addition, a SWOT analysis was performed in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each of them, so, it is revealed that the most optimal and reliable model is Springate, due to its multidimensional approach, adaptability for manufacturing SMEs, simplicity and ability to provide a clear and truthful score. However, it is always advisable to consider the specific context of other models to each company. …”
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