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The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of
Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which
the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness
and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and
reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the
course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent
force, gradually emerges as the prime mover. As destructive
cannibals or respectable elders the witches are the ultimate cause
of all significant illness, misfortune and death, and as diviners
they are also the ultimate judges who apportion moral
responsibility. Even the ancestors and the traditional gods turn
out to be fronts behind which the witches hide their activities.The
study is on three levels: a medical anthropological exploration of
explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of
traditional African cosmology and witchcraft; and an examination of
recent theoretical issues in anthropology such as the nature of
ethnographic fieldwork and the possibility of dialogical or
postmodern ethnography.
This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential
of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books
discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom,
this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help
learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and
understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language
learning. It guides you through the application of corpus searches
for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on
building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen
your development into an autonomous language learner and help
instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus
activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly
user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided
language learning.
'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak.'
Fortune Do you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or
musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals?
Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin
virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak distils three
decades of myth-shattering research into a powerful learning
strategy that is fundamentally different from the way people
traditionally think about acquiring new abilities. Ericsson's
revolutionary methods will show you how to improve at almost any
skill that matters to you, and that you don't have to be a genius
to achieve extraordinary things. 'Remarkable...who among us doesn't
want to learn how to get better at life?' Stephen J. Dubner,
co-author of Freakonomics 'This book...could truly change the
world' Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein
The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of
Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which
the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness
and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and
reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the
course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent
force, gradually emerges as the prime mover. As destructive
cannibals or respectable elders the witches are the ultimate cause
of all significant illness, misfortune and death, and as diviners
they are also the ultimate judges who apportion moral
responsibility. Even the ancestors and the traditional gods turn
out to be fronts behind which the witches hide their activities.The
study is on three levels: a medical anthropological exploration of
explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of
traditional African cosmology and witchcraft; and an examination of
recent theoretical issues in anthropology such as the nature of
ethnographic fieldwork and the possibility of dialogical or
postmodern ethnography.
Medical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in
public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic
concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these
contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour.
Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be
effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and
taken into account. The book examines: Concepts of culture Medical
systems Patient's experience of illness and treatment The use of
medicines and healing practices Public health and medical research
Examples of particular health problems, such as HIV and malaria,
are used to show how an anthropological approach can contribute to
both a better understanding of health and illness and to more
culturally compatible public health measures.Series Editors:
Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics introduces and integrates key
research concepts, principles and techniques in ecolinguistics and
corpus-assisted discourse study, answering foundational questions
for researchers new to the discipline and asserting the urgent need
to expand its scope. Breaking new ground, the book analyzes
under-explored environmental discourses that have a tangible impact
on ecological wellbeing and sustainability by perpetuating harmful
attitudes, practices and ideologies. Chapters present in-depth case
studies, including an analysis of the evolving representations of
wilderness, an eco-stylistic analysis of a popular novel, and an
investigation of the use of humor in reports on animal escapes from
slaughterhouses. The studies employ a range of corpus analysis
techniques to show how ecological degradation and crisis have
become normalized, and even trivialized, in popular discourse but
also spaces where positive discourse practices are present. By
applying tools from corpus linguistics to a diverse range of
environmental discourses, this book makes a significant
contribution to advancing the field of ecolinguistics.
One of the holy grails in biology is the ability to predict
functional characteristics from an organism's genetic sequence.
Despite decades of research since the first sequencing of an
organism in 1995, scientists still do not understand exactly how
the information in genes is converted into an organism's phenotype,
its physical characteristics. Functional genomics attempts to make
use of the vast wealth of data from "-omics" screens and projects
to describe gene and protein functions and interactions. A February
2020 workshop was held to determine research needs to advance the
field of functional genomics over the next 10-20 years. Speakers
and participants discussed goals, strategies, and technical needs
to allow functional genomics to contribute to the advancement of
basic knowledge and its applications that would benefit society.
This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from
the workshop. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 The
GenotypePhenotype Challenge 3 Case Studies on Building Functional
Genomics Tools in Diverse Systems 4 Understanding the Contributions
of Non-Protein-Coding DNA to Phenotype 5 Advancing Research on the
Environmental Regulation of Gene Function 6 Predicting Current and
Future Sources of Variation in Quantitative Traits 7 Interpreting
and Validating Results from High-Throughput Screening Approaches 8
Large Databases and Consortia 9 Big-Picture Challenges in Research,
Education, and Training 10 Future of Functional Genomics References
Appendix A: Statement of Task Appendix B: Workshop Agenda Appendix
C: Planning Committee Biographies Appendix D: Speaker Biographies
Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations
On November 29-30, 2018, in Washington, D.C., the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the Workshop
on the Continuous Improvement of NASA's Innovation Ecosystem. The
workshop was requested by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) Office of the Chief Technologist with the
goal of identifying actionable and implementable initiatives that
could build on NASA's current innovation culture to reach a future
state that will ensure the agency's continued success in the
evolving aerospace environment. This publication summarizes the
presentations and discussions from the workshop. Table of Contents
Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Setting the Stage 3 What Should
NASA's Future Look Like? 4 The Challenges 5 Strategies and Tactics
for Creating the Desired Future 6 The Path Forward Appendixes
Appendix A: Statement of Task Appendix B: Meeting Agendas Appendix
C: Workshop Participant List Appendix D: Planning Committee,
Rapporteur, and Staff Bios Appendix E: Acronyms
Among the various segments of society affected by the COVID-19
pandemic over the past year and a half, few were hit as hard as the
aviation industry. At its worst point, in March 2020, passenger
volumes for U.S. airlines had dropped more than 95 percent.
Airlines, airports, aircraft manufacturers, and other components of
the air travel system faced an unprecedented challenge, with
threats to the health of passengers and crews combined with threats
to the financial health of the entire system. To address the many
COVID-related issues facing the aviation industry, on June 28-30,
2021, the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a three-day
workshop, Aviation After a Year of Pandemic - Economics, People,
and Technology. Funded by the National Aeronautical and Space
Administration and held remotely via Zoom, the workshop focused on
four specific areas regarding the effects of COVID on the aviation
industry: economics, personnel, technology, and next steps. This
publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the
workshop. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Overview:
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic 3 Policy and Procedures
4 Aircraft Design and Flight Operations, Personnel, and Performance
5 Operations and Performance: Airports, Ground Transportation, and
Air Traffic Management 6 Aviation Economics 7 Critically Needed
Capabilities, Research, and Next Steps Appendixes Appendix A:
Statement of Task Appendix B: Workshop Agenda Appendix C: Acronyms
Appendix D: Planning Committee and Staff Biographical Information
As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth's
geophysical and chemical properties. Soil also plays a major role
in several human activities, including farming, forestry, and
environmental remediation. Optimizing those activities requires a
clear understanding of different soils, their function, their
composition and structure, and how they change over time and from
place to place. Although the importance of soil to Earth's
biogeochemical cycles and to human activities is recognized, the
current systems in place for monitoring soil properties - including
physical, chemical, and, biological characteristics - along with
measures of soil loss through erosion, do not provide an accurate
picture of changes in the soil resource over time. Such an
understanding can only be developed by collecting comprehensive
data about soils and the various factors that influence them in a
way that can be updated regularly and made available to researchers
and others who wish to understand soils and make decisions based on
those data. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine convened key stakeholders in a workshop on March 2-4,
2021, to discuss the development of a dynamic soil information
system. Workshop discussions explored possiblities to dynamically
and accurately monitor soil resources nationally with the mutually
supporting goals of (1) achieving a better understanding of causal
influences on observed changes in soil and interactions of soil
cycling of nutrients and gases with earth processes, and (2)
providing accessible, useful, and actionable information to land
managers and others. This publication summarizes the presentation
and discussion of the workshop. Table of Contents Front Matter 1
Introduction 2 Keynote Presentations 3 The Need for a Dynamic Soil
Information System 4 Lessons Learned from the Listening Sessions 5
Current Soil Information Systems 6 Fireside Chat with Industry
Representatives 7 Breakout Sessions 8 Concluding Session References
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of
Organizing Committee Members Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of
Speakers Appendix D: Self-Reported Sample and Data Repositories in
the World
On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry
attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers.
Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and
some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some
of them children. The 'Peterloo massacre', the subject of a recent
feature film and a major commemoration in 2019, is famous as the
central episode in Edward Thompsons Making of the English Working
Class. It also marked the rise of a new English radical populism as
the British state, recently victorious at Waterloo, was challenged
by a pro-democracy movement centred on the industrial north. Why
did the cavalry attack? Who ordered them in? What was the radical
strategy? Why were there women on the platform, and why were they
so ferociously attacked? Using an immense range of sources, and
many new maps and illustrations, Robert Poole tells for the first
time the full extraordinary story of Peterloo: the English
Uprising.
Emerging real-time data sources, together with innovative data
science techniques and methods - including artificial intelligence
and machine learning - can help inform upstream suicide prevention
efforts. Select social media platforms have proactively deployed
these methods to identify individual platform users at high risk
for suicide, and in some cases may activate local law enforcement,
if needed, to prevent imminent suicide. To explore the current
scope of activities, benefits, and risks of leveraging innovative
data science techniques to help inform upstream suicide prevention
at the individual and population level, the Forum on Mental Health
and Substance Use Disorders of the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop series
consisting of three webinars held on April 28, May 12, and June 30,
2022. This Proceedings highlights presentations and discussions
from the workshop. Table of Contents Front Matter Workshop Overview
Appendix A: Statement of Task Appendix B: Workshop Agenda
The United States of America is a great nation. The nation has
become great by virtue of its goodness. The nation has been good
because it is founded upon and has been nourished by the
Judeo-Christian world view during its first 200 years. During the
past fifty years our citizenry has been puzzled by increasing
social evidences of pleasure seeking, criminal behavior, greed,
family frailty and angry dividedness. Students of history report
these misfortunes to be manifestations of decline, as seen in all
fallen cultures of the past. Arnold Toynbee, one of those students,
is of the opinion that by virtue of free will, once the process is
understood, any culture can regain its spiritual creativity and
rise to even greater heights. Love of liberty is a universal fact
of human nature. Liberty in its purest form was captured by those
who crafted our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
Both documents identify the sovereignty of the citizenry and the
servile role of government. But the democratic republic created by
them is a fragile political entity and in very subtle ways a
comfortable population can allow responsible liberty to become
eroded by the "decadence of irresponsible freedom" (Solzenhitzen).
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT077034With a half
title. Dedication dated: Westminster, Oct. 16, 1788.London: printed
for J. F. and C. Rivington, 1788. viii,28p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT081939Also issued as part of: 'Religious
tracts, dispersed by the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge', 1800, vol.VI, 1807, vol.V.London: printed for J. F. and
C. Rivington, 1789. 36p.; 12
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