Kinship among Khmu villagers of northern Laos is usually presented in anthropology as patrilineal. However, the ritual a ‘small marriage’ can confirm child’s belonging to mothers’ house. The affirmation maternal simultaneously about separation and exclusion from paternal ties requires for its success careful measurements kinship. During ritual, quantities food, gifts, money become indicators be...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the association between intake of different types of alcoholic beverages and self reported subjective health. DESIGN Cross sectional health survey with assessment of intake of beer, wine and spirits (at last non-weekend day), smoking habits, social networks, physical activity, body mass index, educational level, presence of chronic disease, and self reported health....

The empirical relevance of indeterminacy and sunspot fluctuations has been often questioned on the basis of the implausibly high degrees of increasing returns to scale or unconventional calibrations for the fundamentals required. In this paper we study a one-sector economy with partial cash-in-advance constraint on consumption expenditures, and show how such phenomena are by contrast quite perv...

A case of young man who got possessed by a god and two spirits alternatively is reported. He was one of the four victims of an epidemic of possession by two spirits (Mohini). The epidemic occurred following the prediction that the two women who committed suicide, would become Mohinis and liaunt adult men. It appeared that the strong belief and expectation in the local culture made the index per...

BACKGROUND The objectives were to study alcohol consumption per capita and liver cirrhosis mortality in the population of Iceland. METHODS The Statistic Iceland website supplied alcohol sales figures and death rates. RESULTS The alcohol consumption increased 30% during the study period 1982-2009, because of increase in beer and wine, and decrease in spirits consumption. Chronic liver cirrho...

The amount of ethanol consumed in alcoholic beverages is often used as one indicator of alcohol's impact on health and society. An objective method of measuring the amount consumed in liquor can be derived in most years from the federal excise taxes and revenues that are levied on liquor according to proof or ethanol content. Similar measurement is not possible for wine and beer. Ethanol consum...