Abstract This paper analyzes a practice known as Cabañuelas—an Indigenous way of anticipating the next year’s rainfall by interpreting series signs in current year. The knowledge and gestures associated with this have traditionally been understood according to classical division between pragmatic techniques magic rituals, an approach that I set aside favor considering Cabañuelas hybrid involvin...

??? Yehang Chuan ‘Night Ferry’ is an encyclopaedic masterpiece and the chef-d’oeuvre of ?? Zhang Dai (circa 1597-1689), illustrious historian, poet, dramatist, essayist, aesthete, musician gastronomist in late Ming early Qing China. Night Ferry cumulates more than four thousand entries encompasses a veritable cornucopia topics elephantine range. In this research, I investigate Chapter Twenty Fa...

This study examines African trado-medical diagnosis and treatments of affliction in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not To Blame. Though different studies have been done previously by scholars on diseases across the world, aspect dramatic works has not explored. literary text is purposively chosen due to its contextual relevance qualitatively analyzed. adopted Freudian psychoanalytic approach which f...

Web service is a technological solution for software interoperability that supports the seamless integration of diverse applications. In the vision of web service architecture, web services are described by the Web Service Description Language (WSDL), discovered through Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) and communicate by the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Such a di...

Point location in a triangulation is one of the most studied problems in computational geometry. For a single query, stochastic walk is a good practical strategy. In this work, we propose two approaches improving the performance of the stochastic walk. The first improvement is based on a relaxation of the exactness of the predicate, whereas the second is based on termination guessing. Key-words...

The UK's National Health Service Covid-19 ‘track and trace’ app was designed as a critical public health technology. So why has it encountered so much resistance? authors compare alerts on the phone regarding exposure to possible infection with messages from Siberian nomad's domestic fire, which sometimes crackles warnings of potential illnesses or accidents. Though these prediction technologie...