Home blood pressure monitoring in modern clinical practice by V. M. Gorbunov

“…Publication of the Russian translation of the guidelines will increase clinicians’ interest in HBPM, overcoming the current skeptical attitude towards this method, and, as a result, will help to improve the quality of arterial hypertension diagnostics and treatment in Russia.…”
Get full text

On Something Like an Operational Virtuality by Alexander Wilson

“…</i> From Descartes and Leibniz onward to 19th-century geometry and the concept of “invariant” that it shares with 19th-century psychology, we follow the thread of what might be informally called an “operational” conception of the virtual, an intuition progressively developed in the 20th century from of group theoretical thinking into “functorial” thinking (in the context of category theory), and eventually intuitions for the concept of “univalence” (homotopy type theory) and its implications for the meaning of equality and identity. At each turn, skeptical arguments haunt this history’s modes of exteriorization, proof, and verification; we consider the later Wittgenstein’s worries concerning rule following and the apparent unbridgeable gap between formal theory and informal practice. …”
Get full text

Challenges of vaccination information system implementation: A systematic literature review by Muhamad Adhytia Wana Putra Rahmadhan, Putu Wuri Handayani

“…Fourteen challenges were successfully identified when implementing VIS, including interoperability, data quality, security and privacy, standardization, usability, internet connectivity, infrastructure, workflow, funding, government regulations, awareness, skeptical response, computer literacy, and staff-related challenges. …”
Get full text

Fanaticism and E. M. Cioran’s “Lyrical Leprosy” by Timo Airaksinen

“…Cioran, I discuss three defensive strategies: those of a skeptic, an idler, and an aesthete. I reject trivializing the third strategy; instead, I discuss an ironist’s options. …”
Get full text

Informative Evolution. Libraries and Person by Horova Svitlana

“…In this case, traditional library institutions instead of to die as skeptics predicted for them, can become an effective tool for this process. …”
Get full text

The Irreducibility of Vision: Gestalt, Crowding and the Fundamentals of Vision by Michael H. Herzog

“…Continental philosophy and the Gestaltists are rather skeptical or ignorant about external objects. The percepts themselves are their starting point, because it is hard to deny the truth of one own′s percepts. …”
Get full text

Why do Urban Young Adults Share Online Video Advertisement in Malaysia? by See Kwong Goh, Inn-Shen Tan, Cheow Sern Vincent Yeo

“…Video ads shared by users are perceived to be less skeptical as compared to those shared by companies and it could achieve wider audience. …”
Get full text

O debate da Escola de Frankfurt e suas contribuições para uma reflexão crítica da sociedade contemporânea by Rodrigo Marques Leistner

“…The works produced by this “marginal” nucleus, as well as its posterior refinement in the work of Habermas, present theoretical alternatives of relational features which oppose to the structural and skeptic vision existent in the works of Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse. …”
Get full text

POLITICAL TRUST, DEMOCRACY AND PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN EUROPE by CAMELIA NEGRI

“…The main findings demonstrated that the lack of trust in public institutions, low levels of voter turnout, and low perceived democracy, together with low levels of population wellbeing, education, income and an increased level of religiousness among population, are associated with a passive or skeptical attitude in regard to the Covid-19 pandemic and its associated policies, making it challenging for the European governments to improve public policies in the context of an extraordinary situation.…”
Get full text

Why do Urban Young Adults Share Online Video Advertisement in Malaysia? by See Kwong Goh, Inn-Shen Tan, Cheow Sern Vincent Yeo

“…Video ads shared by users are perceived to be less skeptical as compared to those shared by companies and it could achieve wider audience. …”
Get full text

Oxoplastics, Bioplastics, and their Potential of Microplastics Generation (Case Study: Indonesia) by Firdha Cahya Alam

“…With the increasing issue of microplastics, this degradable plastics is still seen to be skeptical from some academic perspective. The other solution that becoming popular is using biodegradable plastics or bioplastics. …”
Get full text

Aneurysms in the Times of the Climatic Change by Eirini Karagianni, Aikaterini Karagianni

“…The effects of climate change are now evident on a global level and indisputable even to the most skeptical. Melting ice, rising sea levels, and changing climate zones are a daily occurrence and subject of debate in the media. …”
Get full text

Markets in crypto-assets regulation: Does it provide legal certainty and increase adoption of crypto-assets? by Tina van der Linden, Tina Shirazi

“…However, some stakeholders in the financial service sector remain skeptical and hesitant to adopt assets that are yet to be defined and have an unclear legal status. …”
Get full text

Zabawa czy afekt? O ideologicznym uwikłaniu twórczości Wiktora Pielewina by Andrzej Polak

“…The former accuse him of an overly skeptical attitude to the Western model of life, while the latter do not like the writer’s ironic approach to social reality, polemics with Russian values and attempts to discredit them. …”
Get full text

German physicians' expectations of healthcare management companies: An exploratory study by Dirk Oberschachtsiek, Andree Ehlert

“…Abstract Background and aims Even 20 years after the introduction of managed care (MC) in Germany, many physicians are skeptical of the concept, hindering its acceptance. …”
Get full text

Provincial Budget and Agronomic Assistance in the Tomsk Province in the Late XIX – Early XX Centuries by E. V. Pocherevin

“…The proposals were discussed by the local committees and received a mixed assessment, e.g., the Biysk committee supported the plan, but the Zmeinogorsk committee was very skeptical about it. Despite the considerable preparatory work, the central department reduced the final version of the provincial budget by 53%.…”
Get full text

Badiou and Agamben Beyond the Happiness Industry and its Critics by de Boer Ype

“…Modern continental thought is skeptical toward happiness and no longer easily reconciles its pursuit with a desire for justice, the good, and truth. …”
Get full text

The Civic Benefits of Imperfect Deliberation by Marcia F. Grimes

“…Normative theories of deliberative democracy stake claims that deliberation, if done correctly, can enhance citizens’ trust in authorities, foster a greater understanding of political issues and the element of compromise in politics, and increase the legitimacy of the political system overall. Skeptics point out that public deliberations seldom fully satisfy the communicative criteria stipulated in normative theory, raising the question: to what extent may we expect imperfect deliberations to generate the promised civic goods? …”
Get full text

Is blindsight like normal, near-threshold vision? by Azzopardi, P, Cowey, A

“…Blindsight is the rare and paradoxical ability of some human subjects with occipital lobe brain damage to discriminate unseen stimuli in their clinically blind field defects when forced-choice procedures are used, implying that lesions of striate cortex produce a sharp dissociation between visual performance and visual awareness. Skeptics have argued that this is no different from the behavior of normal subjects at the lower limits of conscious vision, at which such dissociations could arise trivially by using different response criteria during clinical and forced-choice tests. …”

Rethinking international legal standards for the protection of migrant workers: the case for a “core rights” approach by Ruhs, M

“…</em></p> <p>Given the well-known and long-standing efforts of various high-income countries to prevent the development of a stronger and more effective global framework for the regulation of international migration, there are obvious reasons to be skeptical that the announced “Global Compact for Migration” will indeed bring about any major change. …”