Directiveness in tutor talk by Adelia Carstens, Avasha Rambiritich

“…Although this ‘myth has been debunked by various writing centre scholars since the late 1990s, many guidebooks on tutoring still adhere to it. …”
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“The World Had Forgotten about Us”: Heterotopian Resistance in Richard Flanagan’s <i>Wanting</i> and Lloyd Jones’s <i>Mister</i> <i>Pip</i> by Charlotte Wadoux

“…This article argues that Flanagan’s novel moves from heterotopias of deviation to a crisis heterotopia, displacing and debunking the compensation function of the colonial heterotopia to highlight the crushing of Aboriginal identity. …”
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Comparing the effect of rational and emotional appeals on donation behavior by Matthew Lindauer, Marcus Mayorga, Joshua Greene, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll, Peter Singer

“…The rational appeal we used follows Singer’s “shallow pond” argument (1972), while incorporating an evolutionary debunking argument (Paxton, Ungar and Greene, 2012) against favoring nearby victims over distant ones. …”
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Bodies, Temporality, and Spatiality in Chen Chieh-Jen’s Lingchi: Echoes of a Historical Photograph (2002) and Factory (2003) by Hsin-Yun Cheng

“…This article explores two dimensions: First, the aestheticisation of the suffering subject in Lingchi and how it debunks the Western gaze. Second, their communal subjects (the women workers) and the scenes in Lingchi and Factory reflect the continuation of imperialist domination in Taiwan under globalisation.…”
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The SSIM index is not a metric and it is badly evaluate the similarity of images by V. V. Starovoitov

“…It acquired the status of an unofficial international standard for assessing image quality in the presence of a template, often referred to as the image quality metric. This article debunks some of the myths that have arisen around this index. …”
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Grammatical Errors in Madrasah Aliyah Students’ Narrative Texts: An Error Analysis of the Surface Strategy by Rahmah Fithriani

“…These findings could be used as a proof to debunk the stereotype of MNS and SS students labeling with more preference given to MNS students who are perceived to be more dominant in academic performance. …”
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Can small-scale biogas projects mitigate the energy crisis of rural Bangladesh? A study with economic analysis by Mohammad Razib Hossain

“…Complacent internal rate of return (average 33.2%), positive benefit–cost ratio and lower PBP (average 2.5) debunk the feasibility of a capital-intensive investment like biogas. …”
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Public health leadership “Transformation of dreams to reality” by Sonu Goel

“…Through diverse examples from personal and professional experiences, the oration debunks common misconceptions surrounding leadership and underscores its capacity to motivate and steer individuals or groups towards a shared vision. …”
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How Machismo Got Its Spurs—in English: Social Science, Cold War Imperialism, and the Ethnicization of Hypermasculinity by Benjamin Arthur Cowan

“…This article seeks to shift the framework of decades-long debates on the nature and significance of 'machismo', debunking the commonly held notion that the word describes a primordial Iberian and Ibero-American phenomenon. …”
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Bratman, Searle, and Simplicity. A comment on Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together by Petersson Björn

“…Secondly, by questioning whether Bratman’s theory steers clear of debunking or dismissing collectivity. Elsewhere I have claimed that the manoeuvres Bratman suggested to avoid circularity in his conceptual analysis (in 1992 and 1997) undermine the strength of his resulting notion of collective action. …”
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Large language models propagate race-based medicine by Jesutofunmi A. Omiye, Jenna C. Lester, Simon Spichak, Veronica Rotemberg, Roxana Daneshjou

“…However, this study shows that based on our findings, these LLMs could potentially cause harm by perpetuating debunked, racist ideas.…”
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On the relationship between conspiracy theory beliefs, misinformation, and vaccine hesitancy. by Adam M Enders, Joseph Uscinski, Casey Klofstad, Justin Stoler

“…This interpretation has motivated researchers to develop methods for "prebunking," "debunking," or otherwise limiting the spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation online. …”
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Transcripts of Gender, Intimacy, and Islam in Southeast Asia: The “Outrageous” Texts of Raja Ali Haji and Khatijah Terung by Mohd Faizal Musa

“…The “outrageous” sexual depictions in these texts are discussed and analysed, in part to debunk the idea of a “sexual revolution” or “sexual licentiousness” as emanating from an external culture.…”
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Music, Magic, and the Mythic: The Dynamics of Visual and Aural Discourse in Souleymane Cissé’s Yeelen by Alexander Fisher

“…The 1980s saw a wave of African films that aimed to represent, on both local and international screens, a sophisticated pre-colonial Africa, representing ancient myths and traditions while simultaneously debunking notions of the continent as primitive. Toward this aim the films inscribed the conventions of oral performance within their visual styles, denying spectator identification with the protagonists and emphasising the presence of the narrator. …”
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Book review: Canefe N Critical Perspectives on Crimes against Humanity: The Limits of Universal Jurisdiction in the Global South (University of Wales Press 2020) by Avitus Agbor

“…The critical views and responses of scholars who belong to TWAIL (an intellectual blog that is hotly and hardly contested by their counterparts from the Global North) expose, debunk and denounce the legitimacy of international law. …”
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Inclusion of mathematics in biological concepts at the senior secondary level in Indian education system by Jaspreet Kaur

“…So, the students study them in parallel and there are hardly any cross talks between these two subjects. But, the myth is debunked later when biology students reach the undergraduate and postgraduate level wherein they are expected to apply the mathematical skills to understand the biological concepts. …”
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“The Whole Thing Is a Merry-go-round” by Antonio Di Vilio

“…Set during the Great Depression, McCoy’s novel portrayed not only the valuable psychological role of Hollywood in reassuring a demoralized nation but also its dynamic of exploitation and pipedreams, aligning itself with the broader debunking strategy of the hardboiled novel in confronting the contradictions of New Deal Liberalism. …”
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Bridging Out of an Impoverished Paradigm: A Qualitative Study to Help Us ‘Rethink Poverty’ Today by Tracy Smith-Carrier, Trevor Johnson, Shane Clarke

“…; targeting poverty training to populations outside typical health and social service audiences (a theme entitled ‘Going beyond preaching to the choir’); themes related to ‘Observations on the evidence of poverty curricula’ and ‘Perceptions of poverty and debunking myths’; addressing the current ‘(Limited) motivation for action’ on poverty; and how to engage people to increase poverty awareness and advocacy (‘What’s missing’ in poverty training curricula). …”
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Analysis on aspects of traditional (‘indigenous’) and western thinking in the classical and modern Burmese elites’ discourse concerning madness. by Myint Zan

“…The Burmese translation of this text which was published around the year 1963 directly contradicts the educative books on psychiatry written by a Burmese psychiatrist and a literary writer which was published in the same decade and which in effect ‘debunks’ the notion of madness being caused by the nats. …”
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Experimenting With Normalization Layers in Federated Learning on Non-IID Scenarios by Bruno Casella, Roberto Esposito, Antonio Sciarappa, Carlo Cavazzoni, Marco Aldinucci

“…Even though this fragility cannot be eliminated, it can be debunked by a suitable optimization of two hyper-parameters: layer normalization methods and collaboration frequency selection. …”
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