Redefining the polypill: pros and cons in cardiovascular precision medicine by Siddharth Birla, Arshia Angural, Arya Madathumchalil, Ritika V. Shende, Sharvani V. Shastry, Manjappa Mahadevappa, Sunil Kumar Shambhu, Prashant Vishwanath, Akila Prashant, Akila Prashant

“…Over the previous years, randomized clinical trials of several polypills have yielded contradictory findings, raising skepticism regarding their widespread use in primary disease prevention. …”
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There and back again? : reproducibility and the hunt for a human compass sense by Greshko, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)

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Kidney Exchange and the Alliance for Paired Donation: Operations Research Changes the Way Kidneys Are Transplanted by Rees, Michael, Roth, Alvin E., Sönmez, Tayfun, Ünver, M. Utku, Anderson, Ross Michael, Ashlagi, Itai, Gamarnik, David

“…We also describe how a team of physicians and operations researchers worked to overcome the skepticism and resistance of the medical community to the NEAD innovation.…”
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The impact of online surveillance on behavior by Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth

“…A driver might panic and hit the gas at the sight of a police cruiser parked along the side of the road, but the same driver might not much care about or respond to the kinds of mass surveillance programs revealed by the Snowden documents. This skepticism stems mainly from an accurate perception that overt, individualized analog surveillance conveys a stronger signal of interest by the government in a particular citizen’s activities than does mass digital surveillance, which by definition is general rather than particular. …”
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Reading the tea leaves : the Tea Party movement, the conservative establishment and the collapse of climate change legislation by Dineen, Kathryn P. (Kathryn Patricia)

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Stakeholder attitudes on carbon capture and storage -- An international comparison by Johnsson, Filip, Reiner, David, Itaoka, Kenshi, Herzog, Howard J.

“…There is a widespread belief both that renewable technologies such as solar power and CCS will achieve major market entry into the electricity sector within the next 10 to 20 years, whereas there is more skepticism about the role of hydrogen and especially nuclear fusion in the next 50 years. …”
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Drinking fountains : the past and future of free public water in the United States by Ivanov, Josselyn

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It is green, but is it fair? Investigating consumers’ fairness perception of green service offerings by Yuen, Kum Fai, Wong, Yiik Diew, Wang, Xueqin, Teo, Chee-Chong

“…With the prevailing green skepticism, consumers tend to devalue firms' environmental claims and raise concerns on service fairness of green offerings. …”
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Can courage be a modern virtue? Seeking insight in Tocqueville, Mill, and Arendt by Berg, R

“…Chapter 4 turns to Arendt’s skepticism that courage can ever exist in the modern world short of a fundamental act of recovery from the ancients, with a concomitant willingness to accept all of the problematic elements of courage as practiced by the Greeks. …”

Subduction as a Smoothing Machine: How Multiscale Dissipation Relates Precursor Signals to Fault Geometry by Patricio Venegas-Aravena, Enrique G. Cordaro

“…However, the community studying non-seismic precursors relies on measurements, methods, and theories that lack a causal relationship with the earthquakes they claim to predict, generating skepticism among classical seismologists. Nonetheless, in recent years, a group has emerged that seeks to bridge the gap between these communities by applying fundamental laws of physics, such as the application of the second law of thermodynamics in multiscale systems. …”
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Nanomaterials and Their Impact on the Immune System by Alaa A. Aljabali, Mohammad A. Obeid, Rasha M. Bashatwah, Ángel Serrano-Aroca, Vijay Mishra, Yachana Mishra, Mohamed El-Tanani, Altijana Hromić-Jahjefendić, Deepak N. Kapoor, Rohit Goyal, Gowhar A. Naikoo, Murtaza M. Tambuwala

“…Despite the obvious advantages of using nanomaterials in a wide range of applications, there is sometimes skepticism caused by the lack of substantial proof that evaluates potential toxicities. …”
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Cultural differences in simulation debriefing: A qualitative analysis by Sharara-Chami Rana, Ulmer Francis, Lakissian Zavi, Scott Ella, Gladys Honein-Abou Haidar, Dieckmann Peter

“…Conceptual clarity about debriefing medical/technical content and the challenges of ‘language’ and III. Institutional ‘skepticism’ toward simulation as a relatively new method of teaching in many parts of the world. …”
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Career Satisfaction among Dental Public Health Specialists in India – A Cross-sectional Survey by Chandrashekar Janakiram, Joe Joseph, Bobby Antony

“…Conclusion: There has been some reservation or skepticism about the future of the specialty as the jobs are in declining stage. …”
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Decision support systems for antibiotic prescription in hospitals: a survey with hospital managers on factors for implementation by Pinar Tokgöz, Stephan Krayter, Jessica Hafner, Christoph Dockweiler

“…The uptake of decision support systems also depends on the ability of an organization to create a facilitating environment that helps to address the lack of user knowledge as well as trust in and skepticism towards these systems. This includes the training of user groups and support of the management level. …”
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Trust and Health Information Exchanges: Qualitative Analysis of the Intent to Share Personal Health Information by Julia Busch-Casler, Marija Radic

“…However, the German population has a high level of technology skepticism and a low level of trust, providing a good basis to illuminate various facets of eHealth trust formation. …”
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Green Transition and Electricity Sector Decarbonization: The Case of West Macedonia by John K. Kaldellis, Despoina Boulogiorgou, Emilia M. Kondili, Athanasios G. Triantafyllou

“…The proposed analysis in West Macedonia reveals the skepticism of young people regarding the speed of the green transition and concerns about significant migration and potential brain drain. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of the Development of Scientific Atheism in Uzbekistan (In the 30s of the XXth Century) by Dilmurod Ernazarov

“…The aim of the study is to determine the concept of Atheism itself and to establish its relationship and mutual influence with the concepts of secular and religious culture, science, philosophy, religious tolerance, free thought, humanism, skepticism, and materialism, which have not been studied sufficiently to date. …”
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Between alternative and traditional social platforms: the case of gab in exploring the narratives on the pandemic and vaccines by Suania Acampa, Noemi Crescentini, Giuseppe Michele Padricelli

“…How are sensitive topics, such as the one that concerns the skepticism related to the approvals of vaccines during the pandemic, addressed on the alternative social media platform compared to how they are dealt with on the mainstream social media platforms? …”
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A Large Gap in Patients’ Characteristics and Outcomes between the Real-World and Clinical Trial Settings in Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia by Nobuhiro Asai, Yuichi Shibata, Daisuke Sakanashi, Hideo Kato, Mao Hagihara, Yuka Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Suematsu, Hiroshige Mikamo

“…Since entry criteria for clinical trials are very strict, it may cause skepticism or questions on whether the results of clinical trials reflect the real world of medical practice. (2) Methods: To examine how many patients could join any randomized clinical trials for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP). …”
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Rotational Tillage Practices to Deal with Soil Compaction in Carbon Farming by Chris Cavalaris, Theofanis Gemtos, Christos Karamoutis

“…Despite the widely acknowledged benefits, many farmers still approach no-tillage with skepticism. Their primary concerns are weed management and soil compaction. …”
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