Daoism is a traditional Chinese religion. Daoism has had a deep and pervasive impact on the lives of China’s peoples. Chinese theatrical performances were often integrated with religious activities, thereby gradually giving rise to many forms of popular drama that are deeply inflected with religious overtones. Xianggong Tapeng (相公踏棚, Xianggong stamps the shed) is one component of Puxian opera’s...

The inventor was an improbable hero. Neither his conceptual pedigree nor his personal attributes marked him out as a transparently heroic figure. Long distrusted as a monopolist and ‘projector’, he toiled in an anonymous workshop, far from the glorious field of battle, or the terrors of the ice floes, the desert, or the jungle. Yet, in a century remarkable for its celebration of heroes, the inv...

A junior resident begins treatment of an elderly woman in the Emergency Department, who complains of severe epigastric abdominal pain for the last 6 hours with associated fever and vomiting. She has a rigid abdomen with diminished bowel tones, guarding and rebound. She is requesting pain medicine, but the resident refuses to give her any medications perhaps recalling the dogmatic teaching of hi...

On 8 September 1968, Ryszard Siwiec set fi re to himself during a harvest festival in the 10th Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw. Through his self-immolation, he sought to protest against Communist rule in general and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in particular. However, his death did not gain wider attention. Further protests ‘by fi re’ took place in the subsequent months and years in...

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In the pantheon of evolutionary forces, the optimizing Apollonian powers of natural selection are generally assumed to dominate the dark Dionysian dynamics of sexual selection. But this need not be the case, particularly with a class of selective mating mechanisms called ‘directional mate preferences’ (Kirkpatrick, 1987). In previous simulation research, we showed that nondirectional assortativ...

Through pioneering human IVF as a global infertility treatment, Robert Edwards and his clinical partner Patrick Steptoe launched the field of IVF endocrinology. Following repeated failures with oocytes collected in human menopausal gonadotrophin (HMG) primed cycles timed to injection of human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG), the first successful IVF pregnancy came from a spontaneous menstrual cyc...

We present a detailed analysis of the impact $$H_0$$ priors from recent surveys in literature on late time cosmology five f(T) cosmological models using cosmic chronometers, Pantheon data set, and baryonic acoustic oscillation data. In this work, we use three recently reported values that have contributed to tension problem. find these strong response analyses terms all parameters. general, our...

The article examines Maryana Angelova’s play “The Grinchenko Syndrome”, which modelled the author’s artistic version of dystopian transition Ukrainian language to status “dead” when it is not used all time, as well situation its recollection and “revival”. guides this “reincarnation” are unique 4-volume Dictionary compiler, Borys Grinchenko. It by chance that author labels genre work “vocabular...