Polygamy is widespread in Africa, being highest Burkina Faso (36%), Mali (34%), Gambia (30%), Niger (29%), and Nigeria (28%). 83.39% of traditional societies the world practice polygyny, while 16.14% monogamy. Significant evidence that Bible presents monogamy as God's blueprint or original plan for marriage exists. Despite this evidence, numerous investigations revealed percentage young people ...

Truth is a statement or act of person that will not harm others himself. The must have evidence can support it and be in accordance with the facts actual act. This writing uses Literature Study method Biblical Book Poetry approach, as for results obtained from meaning truth according to Psalmist's point view Psalm 111, namely every God has done really great, God's work also very great lively Hi...

Статья посвящена проблеме богословской интерпретации евангельской притчи о неразумном богаче (см. Лк. 12, 16–21) и заключительной её фразы богатении в Бога. Автор обращает внимание на этимологическую связь лексем «Бог» «богатство», делает экскурс историческую семантику, представляя возможный спектр значений праславянского *bogъ показывая примере из родственных индоевропейских языков его отношен...

"It is not the death of GERD that I seek, but that it turns from its evil ways and follows the path of righteousness." The reflux world is fully aware of what GERD is and what GERD does. What the world does not know, however, is the answer to the most important yet least asked question surrounding GERD's raison-d'etre: Why is GERD here and why do we have it? What GERD is: abnormal gastric reflu...

Introduction It is commonly held that the frequent syntagm consisting of the infinitive construct with l mæd – the so-called liqt l – because of the prefixed preposition  has “a strong value for the direction, the aim, the purpose of an action”, as in Gen 31:19 “now Laban had gone to shear his sheep” (J-M § 124l). At the same time many grammars recognize that in the liqtol syntagm the prepos...

We are continuously influenced by other people. We are influenced by what they do, what they say and what they do not say. Other people’s behaviour guides our own actions because it provides social proof regarding what is considered appropriate or inappropriate conduct in a given situation (Cialdini, 1984, chap. 4). Imagine the following: You are at church and the preacher is highly engaged in ...

morbidity and mortality rates to aged morbidity and mortality and from the infectious illness regime to the chronic degenerative one, from illness as setback to illness as career, a generation earlier than among the lower classes. And as the Black Report and its recent supplements have shown, that gap persists. Riley's work, with its strong actuarial foundation, is an important aid to probing t...

The strong need for security guarantee, e.g., integrity and authenticity, as well as privacy and confidentiality in wireless multimedia services has driven the development of an emerging research area in low cost Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). Unfortunately, those conventional encryption and authentication techniques cannot be applied directly to WMSNs due to inborn challenges suc...

Both journals and journalism are well served by the embargo system. Newspaper offices receive advance copies of major journals, and/or press releases highlighting key papers, embargoed so that their contents cannot be disclosed before publication day. Journalists then have time to write stories to appear simultaneously. No-one has an unfair advantage. And journals gain more publicity than they ...

TiE Victorian era secured for man the revolutionary concepts of geological time and natural selection and may well have been the last epoch in which the world of science was seriously contested by the principles of theology, if not the ethics of religion. Not since the time of Galileo was there a greater need for resolution and compromise between these opposing forces. Thomas Henry Huxley clear...