Protecting Consumers Against Defamation Claims: The Role of Common Interest in Product Reviews by Evi Kongres, Fajar Sugianto, Erny Herlin Setyorini, Bariyima Sylvester Kokpan, Sheng Zhang

“…The common interest concept, as stipulated in defamation laws, can serve as a form of legal protection for consumers who post reviews on social media, provided the reviews are truthful, reflect actual conditions, and are made in good faith. …”
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Amplification Effect of Ground Motion in Offshore Meandering Sedimentary Valley by Hailiang Wang, Shaomin Yan, Zhongxian Liu, Xinglei Cheng

“…A sedimentary valley has a visible amplification effect on a seismic response, and the current 2D topographies cannot truthfully reflect the twists and turns of a large-scale river valley. …”
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Servant Leadership Competencies Development Challenges for Middle Managers in the Organisation by Ugnė Supranavičienė, Genutė Gedvilienė

“…The everyday reality of the present day is forcing us to rethink all the truths and theories of leadership that have been defended so far. …”
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Safety Assessment and Risk Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operating in National Airspace System by Xuejun Zhang, Yang Liu, Yu Zhang, Xiangmin Guan, Daniel Delahaye, Li Tang

“…In the model, a relative collision area and flying speed between UAVs and manned aircraft are constructed to calculate expected frequency of fatalities for each province correspondingly. Truthful data with different numbers of UAVs is incorporated in the model with the expected number of fatalities after a collision is included. …”
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Fast Detection of Deceptive Reviews by Combining the Time Series and Machine Learning by Minjuan Zhong, Zhenjin Li, Shengzong Liu, Bo Yang, Rui Tan, Xilong Qu

“…The existing supervised learning methods require a large number of labeled examples of deceptive and truthful opinions by domain experts, while the available unsupervised learning methods are inefficient because they depend on the features of reviewers to detect each fake review. …”
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THE ROLE OF US IN CHINA – TAIWAN CRISIS by EDGAR AGUBAMAH

“…Be that as it may this work recommended that the US should abandon her partial strategic ambiguity (that is they will not commit to go to war to defend Taiwan, nor will they take the war option off the table if Taiwan is attacked) and other subtle supports to Taiwan and play a clear and transparent mutual meditative role in China-Taiwan crisis so that the issue between China and Taiwan can be settled amicably. A truthful mediator must prove herself or himself impartial. …”
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Стратегії біографічного письма: Ірвінг Стоун та його романи-біографії художників у розвитку біографістики... by Оксана Левицька

“…за редакцією Вінсента Брокуа та Ґійома Марше (Broqua 2010), збірка інтерв’ю «Правдиві вигадки: розмови з американськими письменниками-біографістами» (Truthful Fictions 2014), публікація 2012 року спеціального випуску часопису «Критика» (Critique) з проблем біографічного жанру та ін. …”
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The Case for Brutalist Honesty in Medical Education by Markle DT

“…Compared to the past, students now have access to a wealth of outside data to evaluate their curricular progress and career prospects against, and yet institutions are lagging behind in openly disclosing information related to metrics of student success (course passing rates, number of repeat students per class, Step 1 pass rate, etc.) that would engender trust and afford students greater agency in their academic decisions.Approach: In developing a new academic counseling office, the author deployed a method of using brutalist honesty as a means of student support, both in terms of answering all curriculum questions truthfully no matter the topic and with individualized data analytics to provide objective evidence as to student performance progress. …”
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Semantic Features-Based Discourse Analysis Using Deceptive and Real Text Reviews by Husam M. Alawadh, Amerah Alabrah, Talha Meraj, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

“…Under investigation is the hypothesis that strong, fact-based, realistic words are used in truthful reviews, whereas deceptive reviews lack coherent, structural context. …”
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Data on compositional diversity of textural varieties of lake superior-type Banded Iron Formation (BIF) of the Njweng prospect, Mbalam iron ore district, southern CameroonMendeley... by Dieudonne Charles Isidore Ilouga, Cheo Emmanuel Suh, Akumbom Vishiti, Elisha Muntum Shemang

“…During field mapping and ground-truthing of this anomaly, samples were collected and the geochemical data of 26 representative samples constitute the core of this contribution. …”
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Detection of Crop Damage in Maize Using Red–Green–Blue Imagery and LiDAR Data Acquired Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Barbara Dobosz, Dariusz Gozdowski, Jerzy Koronczok, Jan Žukovskis, Elżbieta Wójcik-Gront

“…Manual visual assessment, supported by ground-truthing, served as the reference for validating these methods. …”
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Seabed Acoustic Mapping Revealing an Uncharted Habitat of Circular Depressions Along the Southeast Brazilian Outer Shelf by Ana Carolina Lavagnino, Marcos Daniel Leite, Tarcila Franco, Pedro Smith Menandro, Fernanda Vedoato Vieira, Geandré Carlos Boni, Alex Cardoso Bastos

“…Herein, we aim to present the CD metrics characteristics and discuss their relationship with morphology and relevance as a habitat based on multibeam bathymetry and ground truthing. A total of 3660 depressions were mapped between 46 and 85 m in depth, reaching an area of 460 m² and 5 m relief. …”
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Climate Change-Induced Decline in Succulent <i>Euphorbia</i> in Namibia’s Arid Regions by J. J. Marion Meyer, Marie M. Potgieter, Nicole L. Meyer, Anika C. Meyer

“…The obtained results were ground-truthed and species identification was confirmed by the chemical analysis of remaining dead twigs using GC-MS and metabolomics. …”
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Influence of Land-Use and Landcover on the Nest Distribution and Breeding Success of Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica Regulorum) In Kiyanja- Kaku Wetland Ecosystem. by Tayebwa, Gilbert

“…To collect data, we used a combination of satellite imagery, GPS ground truthing, and field observations. Sentinel-2 imagery with a resolution of 10m was classified using supervised image classification methods in ArcGIS software for land use/cover characterization. …”
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Identifying corridors for Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in a part of Eastern Himalayas, India by Malyasri Bhattacharya, Debanjan Sarkar, Sneha Pandey, Indranil Mondal, Sambandam Sathyakumar, R. Suresh Kumar, Gautam Talukdar

“…We mapped pinch-points which are habitat where black bear movement is restricted due to unfavorable environments, linear infrastructures, built up/settlements or a combination of factors and our model predicted pinch points near few settlement areas; Mangan, Dikchu, Pangthang, Kabi, Yuksum and Lachen. Ground truthing confirmed that these areas also coincide with Black bear conflict zones in Sikkim.…”
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Yoruba Epistemology, Art, Language and the Universe of Meanings: A Meta-Analysis by Michael O. Afolayan

“…Like in many Shakespearean plays, many truths are expressed in the acts of the jesters, not in the court of the privileged kings and pundits. …”
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Phosphorus transitions driven by cyclone biparjoy linked middle east North Africa (MENA) and Indian Thar Desert dust storm pathways in Asia’s largest grassland by Rupak Dey, Seema B. Sharma, Mahesh G. Thakkar, Ranjit Kumar Sarangi, Abhiroop Chowdhury, Aliya Naz

“…Spatial and temporal variations in dust emissions were assessed using satellite remote sensing data, while ground truthing was performed for phosphorus content analysis using standard protocols. …”
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Facial Anthropometry and Self-expressed Behaviours: A Systematic Review by Ankit Srivastava, Vilas Chimurkar, Nisha Mani Pandey, Anand Bihari

“…Additionally, facial symmetry has been significantly associated with the Big Five personality factors, which encompass traits such as averageness, truthfulness, judgment and youthfulness. Aim: To assess the association of facial measurements with self-expressed behaviours and to determine how strongly these behaviours correlate with facial measurements. …”
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Komparasi Data Mining Naive Bayes dan Neural Network memprediksi Masa Studi Mahasiswa S1 by Azahari Azahari, Yulindawati Yulindawati, Dewi Rosita, Syamsuddin Mallala

“…The evaluation and analysis process are conducted to see where the errors and truths are in the results of the study period predictions. …”
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The Order of Things. Analysis and Sketch Study in Two Works by Steve Reich by Twila Bakker, Pwyll ap Siôn

“…The article will conclude by noting that while sketch studies should not be viewed as a kind of “holy grail”—revealing hidden truths or inner meanings about a work and unlocking the door to the composer’s inner thoughts and working processes—the working documents can (and do) offer insights that analysis does not always provide. …”
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