LIVING TOGETHER IN DIVERSITY. A JOURNEY FROM SCHOLARLY VIEWS TO PEOPLE’S VOICES AND BACK by Marco Antonsich

“…Moving from scholarly perspectives to people’s voices and back, the article cautions against both the liberal/republican/civic approach which heralds political principles as the ties that can bind diverse people together and the factual/post-foundational approach which, being skeptical towards principles, values, and identities, looks for answers in everyday encounters and practices. …”
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Foreign Law, Democracy, and Constitutional Interpretation: A German-American Comparison by Shu-Perng Hwang

“…Both in Germany and the United States, skeptics and opponents of the Europeanization or internationalization of domestic constitutional law repeatedly raise democratic concerns. …”
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Teachers’ Perceptions Regarding School Parents’ Online Groups by Antigoni Alba Papakonstantinou

“…Our results indicate that teachers are skeptical and suspicious about parental online groups’ function. …”
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A Tale of Two Audiences: Formative Research and Campaign Development for Two Different Latino Audiences, to Improve COVID-19 Prevention Behavior by Dianna Bonilla Altera, Imani Cabassa, Genevieve Martinez-Garcia

“…While the general Latino audience had higher levels of social capital and established preventive healthcare, they were more skeptical about getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Migrant workers needed to be vaccinated to retain their jobs, and saw the vaccine as the only way to keep their families healthy. …”
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Rough Sets as a Knowledge Discovery and Classification Tool for the Diagnosis of Students with Learning Disabilities by Tung-Kuang Wu, Shian-Chang Huang, Ying-Ru Meng, Wen-Yau Liang, Yu-Chi Lin

“…However, special education teachers or professionals tend to be skeptical to these kinds of black-box predictors. In this study, we adopt the rough set theory (RST), which can not only perform as a classifier, but may also produce meaningful explanations or rules, to the LD diagnosis application. …”
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The Foundations of Mozart Scholarship by Thomas Irvine

“…My reflections begin with a polemical call for change in Mozart scholarship proposed more than forty years ago by a young music historian to the skeptical audience of around-table discussion at an international conference. …”
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O Comportamento de Consumidores Diante da Prática do Greenwashing by Letícia Sousa Fialho, Fábio Freitas Schiling Marquesan

“…The results showed that even consumers being skeptical of green advertising do not have adequate knowledge about the meaning of greenwashing, do not seek to verify the truthfulness of the information advertised, and are divided between whether or not to report a greenwashing case, justifying Especially not knowing the Conar. …”
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The impact of emotions on polarization. Anger polarizes attitudes towards vaccine mandates and increases affective polarization by Christoph G. Nguyen, Sabrina J. Mayer, Susanne Veit

“…While increased anger may be helpful for mobilizing support among already supportive citizens, it does little to convince skeptical citizens and carries the cost of increasing societal polarization.…”
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Problem Pluralisme Agama by Harda Armayanto

“…Eventually, the adherents of each religion will be skeptical towards religion.</p>…”
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Five types on perception of global warming in Japanese by Motoko Kosugi, Kenshi Baba

“…Five segments were identified based on aspects of people's understanding of global warming, their attitudes toward taking countermeasures, and analyses of the characteristics and changes in the segment composition.ResultsThe groups identified were the “Alarmed,” who have a strong sense of urgency and undertake proactive measures; the “Indifferent,” who have limited interest and no clear opinion; the “Affirmative,” who tend to agree with all questions regardless of their content; and the “Skeptic,” who tend to suspect global warming. Provide negative responses to contradictory questions. …”
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The scientific discourse in Islamic civilization and postmodernism by Ahmed Shogar, Ibrahim Adam

“…Although Muslim intellectuals believe that Islam is a global religion which contains many of universal values, but they are skeptic about many of the western oriented ideological forces, such as modernism, postmodernism, and globalization. …”
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The structure of business preferences and Eurozone crisis policies by Fernandez-Albertos, J, Kuo, A

“…Third, we find that surprisingly economic hardship does not cause firms to demand more left-wing policies, as it might for voters; in fact, firms that have suffered are likely to be more skeptical of such measures. These findings indicate the need to better measure political orientations of firm respondents and suggest that this is a larger division among firms than previously recognized.…”

Combined inequality in wealth and risk leads to disaster in the climate change game by Burton-Chellew, M, May, R, West, SA

“…We also find, through the use of a post-game questionnaire, that those individuals who were more skeptical about climate change in the real world cooperated less in our games. …”

Ophelia transformed: revisioning Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Mohammad Safaei, Ruzy Suliza Hashim

“…Though Ophelia‟s sensuality is emphasized in all these novels, she is endowed with agency, voice, and a skeptical cast of mind. She is defiant of patriarchal and divine authority; and she at times serves as a haven for the young Hamlet. …”
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Students with different social identities about the future by Olga D. Demurenko, Irina S. Bubnova

“…Leontiev indicate that students are skeptical and uncertain about past experience, but at the same time they have positive thinking and a certain confidence in their goals and future prospects for life. …”
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Museums and Transitional Justice: Assessing the Impact of a Memorial Museum on Young People in Post-Communist Romania by Duncan Light, Remus Creţan, Andreea-Mihaela Dunca

“…The museum had a limited impact on changing overall perceptions of the communist era but visiting did stimulate reflection on the differences between past and present, and the importance of long-term remembrance; however, these young people were largely skeptical about the museum’s role within broader processes of transitional justice. …”
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Reliable Identification Schemes for Asset and Production Tracking in Industry 4.0 by Attila Frankó, Gergely Vida, Pal Varga

“…Small and medium companies, however, are still skeptic toward identification based tracking methods, because of the lack of low-cost and reliable solutions. …”
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A longitudinal study of audit quality differences among independent auditors by Manh Dung Tran, Khairil Faizal Khairi, Nur Hidayah Laili

“…Practical implications – Even though unqualified opinions have been given on the auditors’ reports, the quality of financial statements audit is a skeptical issue because of the high level of non-compliance of goodwill impairment testing under International Financial Reporting Standards. …”
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A Semantic Study of the Word “Furqan” in the Holy Quran: A Reply to Doubts Using Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Axes by Mortaza Sazjini, Rahman Oshriyeh, Mohammad Ali Rezaee Isfahani

“…Secondly, semantics will be deployed in reply to the skepticisms regarding the conceptualization of the word furqan in the Holy Quran as stated in the book Letters for the Prophet Muhammad: A Research on the Roots of the Quran. …”
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Attitudes towards the Use of Educational Robotics: Exploring Pre-Service and In-Service Early Childhood Teacher Profiles by Stamatios Papadakis, Julie Vaiopoulou, Eirini Sifaki, Dimitrios Stamovlasis, Michail Kalogiannakis

“…Two clusters were identified: Cluster1 was relatively homogeneous, including those who share a positive attitude towards ER, while Cluster2 was heterogeneous, comprising participants with inconsistent responses and expressing negative and skeptical thinking. The cluster memberships were associated with external covariates, such as age, years of teaching experience, and variables measuring their technological competencies. …”
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