The voluminous generation of distilled spirits lees (DSL) in China presents a challenge for proper disposal and potential environmental pollution. In an effort to address this issue, study aimed find resourceful solution DSL utilization. application incinerated rice husk ash as mortar supplementary material cement provides innovative the DSL. Five samples (DSLA) were produced using both muffle ...

The practice of Occultism knows no place and time. Even though the world has undergone radical changes marked by advances in science technology, there are still people who want to Occultism. Many these occult practices generally inherited from their ancestors passed down generation until now. Christians carry out Occult actions for various reasons, such as fear ancestral spirits, not being prot...

universal across cultures and is documented in many ethnographic studies. Khalifa &Hardie assert that possession states can be understood only through a combination of biological, anthropological, sociological, psychopathological and experimental perspectives. Psychiatrist and anthropologist Roland Littlewood sees possession as the belief that an individual has been entered by an alien spirit o...

This entertaining book takes up the theme that psychology matters for economics. Akerlof and Shiller introduce this idea in the guise of 'animal spirits' that they define to mean five things: (1) confidence (beliefs about what will happen can independently influence outcomes); (2) fairness (wage setting depends on concerns for what others receive); (3) antisocial behavior (some bankers are crim...

a r t i c l e i n f o John Keynes made the notion of animal spirits a central part of economics in 1936. However, recent financial literature is dominated by asset pricing models based on strict economic rationality and struggles to accept the notion of animal spirits. This essay is an overview of the causes and consequences of financial market inefficiency and failure and the role of animal sp...

The paper approaches business cycles in terms of extrinsic uncertainty related, not to dynamic indeterminacy of intertemporal equilibria (in the neighborhood of an attractor) or to multiplicity of steady states (in nonlinear models), but to static indeterminacy of free entry oligopolistic equilibria within each period. We consider an OLG economy in which Þrms, supplying differentiated goods wit...

We construct a model of cyclical growth with agent-based features designed to study the network origins aggregate fluctuations from demand-side perspective. In our model, result variations in investment behaviour at firm level motivated by endogenously-generated changes ‘animal spirits’. addition being influenced their own economic conditions, firms pay attention performance first-degree neighb...

Clinical tests of the efficacy of various treatments of bluebottle (Physalia physalis) stings were conducted on 20 volunteers. Vinegar and aluminium sulphate solution (Stingose) gave a significant reduction in pain 15 minutes after application when compared with the control sites which were treated with sea water. The application of methylated spirits caused a significant increase in pain compa...