This paper investigates the efficiency-restoring (= Pigovian) taxation of emissions in economies with pollution damage and consumers who are morally motivated to reduce their heterogeneous respect degree morality or other preference parameters. If conventional concept efficiency is applied that relates maximum utilitarian welfare disregarding consumers’ morality, we show Pigovian tax consumer-t...

A cursory review of the literature shows that shamanism as traditional healing has been a subject scholarly interest. Many foreign scholars have studied Nepali shamans and their practices. Professor Gregory G. Maskarinec is known for his in-depth ethnographic study oral texts shamans. He explored shamanic world, particularly meaning mantras use to diagnose treat affliction, published books on N...

OBJECTIVE To develop a psychotherapy rating scale to measure therapist adherence in the Strong Without Anorexia Nervosa (SWAN) study, a multi-center randomized controlled trial comparing three different psychological treatments for adults with anorexia nervosa. The three treatments under investigation were Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-E), the Maudsley Anorexia Nervosa Treatment f...

Abstract Tari raego atau rego hingga kini masih sering dipentaskan oleh suku Kaili yang tinggal di Kabupaten Sigi dan Donggala. Rego adalah untuk panen. Mereka menyebutnya vunja Mpae. Tujuan penelitian ini mengetahui makna mantra tarian dalam ritual novunja. Metode digunakan metode deskriptif dengan jenis kualitatif. Sumber data terdiri dari hasil wawancara penutur mantra, perekaman, pencatatan...

AIMS No large randomized multicentre trial has evaluated the efficacy of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) vs. anti-arrhythmic drug (AAD) therapy as a first-line treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS AND RESULTS The Medical ANtiarrhythmic Treatment or Radiofrequency Ablation (MANTRA-PAF) trial is a randomized, controlled, parallel group, multicentre study designed to test whet...

During past MANTRA campaigns, ground-based measurements of several long-lived chemical species have revealed quasi-periodic fluctuations on time scales of several days. These fluctuations could confound efforts to detect long-term trends from MANTRA, and need to be understood and accounted for. Using the Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model, we investigate the role of dynamical variability in the l...

The world today stands under the spell of Leibniz’s thought. Or, perhaps more carefully, we might say that the world today stands under the spell of what Leibniz thought only too well. With uncanny perceptiveness, he managed to articulate a basic principle of thinking and being in the early modern world that is arguably as vital today as it was at the outset of the eighteenth century. Looking f...

In recent years, the benefits of both Augmented Reality (AR) technology and infrared thermography (IRT) have been demonstrated in industrial maintenance sector, allowing operations to be carried out a safer, faster, more efficient manner. However, there still exists no solution that optimally combines technologies. this work, we propose new AR system—MANTRA—with specific application maintenance...