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Is the financial resources spent in research in the field of Astrobiology justifiable?
Published 2023-12-01“…On the other hand, the group of skeptical science practitioners who contest this research argue that there is no evidence to support all the commitment, supply and expenditure of scientists' energy and time, as well as financial resources. …”
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Finance-growth nexus: Insights from an application of threshold regression model to Malaysia's dual financial system
Published 2016-06-01“…Likewise, since the onset of the crisis of 2007/2008, calls by skeptics of mainstream capitalism have been renewed. …”
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Wikipedia (and his brothers) to network and improve services
Published 2018-09-01“…Only five years ago, the Italian librarians, archivists and museologists where both curious about and skeptical in order to collaborate, as knowledge organization professionals, with Wikipedia. …”
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INDUSTRIAL BRANDING – DOES IT PAY OFF?
Published 2017-12-01“…Traditionally, B2B managers have been more skeptical about the benefits of branding, arguing that the organizational buying process is rational and focused on functional characteristics of the products and not based on the emotional values used in the B2C context. …”
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Heart stem cells: fact or fantasy?
Published 2019-11-01“…This extremely unpleasant incident cast suspicion on other research groups studying regenerative effects ofcells harvested from the myocardium. It contributed to skeptical opinion about thepossibilities of regenerative technologies in cardiology in general and the complete denial of any regenerative potential of heart. …”
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Blazing a Trail: A Public Health Research Agenda in Genomics and Chronic Disease
Published 2005-03-01“…A point of agreement among both proponents and skeptics is that directing genomics research to achieve this end will require integration of knowledge across multiple disciplines and levels of analysis (i.e., biological, behavioral, social, and environmental) (3). …”
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Divine Command Theory, Robust Normative Realism, and the Argument from Psychopathy: A Reply to Erik Wielenberg
Published 2023-01-01“…In this paper, I defend DCT and argue that there is good reason to be neutral or skeptical that psychopaths have moral obligations and, to the degree that they do, they are able to grasp morality in a way consistent with DCT. …”
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Can Survey Evidence Shed Light on Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment?
Published 2008“…Although some economists remain skeptical of the existence of positive externalities associated with foreign direct investment (FDI), many countries spend large sums attracting foreign investors in the hope of benefiting from knowledge spillovers. …”
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The place of philosophy in bioethics today
Published 2021“…This paper has three specific aims: (1) to respond to skeptics and make the case that philosophy and philosophers still have a very important and meaningful role to play in contemporary bioethics, (2) to discuss some of the current challenges to the meaningful integration of philosophy and bioethics, and (3) to make suggestions for what needs to happen in order for the two fields to stay richly connected. …”
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Qualitative Comparative Analysis as a Tool for Concept Clarification, Typology Building, and Contextualized Comparisons in Gender and Feminist Research
Published 2016“…In spite of the comparative turn in feminist studies, researchers still privilege qualitative methods, in particular case studies, and are often skeptical of quantitative techniques (Spierings 2012). …”
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Suatu Pendekatan Langsung Dan Universal Mentaksir Prestasi Proses
Published 1998“…There are those who doubt their effectiveness since these indices are not deterministic but rather random in nature and hence their interpretation depends on the shape of the underlying distribution. Others are skeptical as to how a single number can effectively summarise the behaviour of a process distribution and fully capture the performance of the process.…”
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Death or (just) dying? Philosophical - anthropological conversations about the interpretations of the experience of death
Published 2022-01-01“…We talked about death with people who no longer practice traditional posthumous customs and whose religious belief does not affect attitudes towards death, i.e. with people who have a “mundane”, skeptical attitude towards death. The co-author talked with her informants from Croatia about the meaning and impact of the deaths of those close to them on themselves, but also the presence of death in their daily lives. …”
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Exploring the Relationship Between Post-Modernism and the Political
Published 2019-09-01“…In this research, by raising this question that, what is the relation between post-modernism and politics, this hypothesis is formulated that, postmodernism, when implemented in politics, under the influence of relativistic attitudes in the ontological, epistemological and ethical spheres, offers a cynical and skeptical approach to power and rule, which leads to suspension the possibility of any political judgment or political action. …”
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Taha Hussein and Ihsan Abbas's points of view on Nahj al-Balaghah and their criticism
Published 2017-11-01“… Nahj al-Balaghah, as a religious book and an important source for the Shiites, was not a collection of sermons, letters, sermons, wisdom and etiquette of Imam Ali (A) - which was collected by Sharif al-Radi and named it with this title - far from the doubts of the skeptics about its validity and the suspicions of those who doubted about its authenticity and the validity of its authority and its sources. …”
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Factors affecting the adoption of Big Data analytics in companies
Published 2019-12-01“…While companies planning to use Big Data expect strong results, current users are more skeptical about its performance. …”
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Mental Healthcare for refugees
Published 2018-01-01“…The aim of this paper is to highlight some of the difficulties that mental health providers face when trying to provide the best standard of mental healthcare to refugees, especially in countries where the political environment is skeptic of, or even hostile to, creating programs specifically designed to improve the standard of living of this population. …”
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PROFESIONALISME GURU PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM DI ERA TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DAN KOMUNIKASI
Published 2014-06-01“…The information technology progress will be useless if the teachers feel skeptic for this progress. The teacher should have an attitude whether he/she accept or reject to information technology. …”
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Traumatic Rift: How Conspiracy Beliefs Undermine Cohesion After Societal Trauma?
Published 2019-02-01“…The survey found that people endorsing conspiratorial accounts of the Smoleńsk catastrophe preferred to distance themselves from conspiracy non-believers, while skeptics preferred greater distance to conspiracy believers. …”
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Factors affecting the adoption of Big Data analytics in companies
Published 2019-12-01“…While companies planning to use Big Data expect strong results, current users are more skeptical about its performance.…”
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Use of a Telerehabilitation Platform in a Stroke Continuum: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Therapist Acceptability
Published 2022-12-01“…Therapists were more skeptical at first about their self-efficacy to deliver therapy remotely. …”
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