Abstract The paper explores materials, methods and approaches used by Russian sinologists to define analyse the cult of Guan Yu (also known as Guan-gong, Guandi, etc.), a popular god Chinese pantheon, revered Daoists, Buddhists educated Confucians, who was also granted number imperial titles. worshipped in late China war wealth, paragon moral virtue loyalty ruler. Published unpublished material...

UNLABELLED The technique of percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discetomy (PELD) in the transforaminal approach has evolved over the years due to the advances in endoscopic photology and instrumentation and become the most popular technique for lumbar disc herniation. Although PELD offers many advantages, the indications of PELD are limited mostly to non-migrated or low-migrated disc herniation. It ...

Pathogen-driven balancing selection determines the richness of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles. Changes in the pathogen spectrum may cause corresponding changes in HLA loci. Approximately 700 years ago, a Mongolian population moved from the north of China to the Yunnan region in the south of China. The pathogen spectrum in the south of China differs from that in the north. In this study, ...

Background: Accidents, such as domestic accidents, and the resulting injuries are presently a matter of concern in communities. Some factors such as urbanization cause an increase in the incidence of accidents for recognized and unrecognized reasons. The aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of domestic accidents among a group of families who had migrated to the determined u...

Buddhism was first established in Australia through flows of migrants the mid-nineteenth century, and is currently Australia’s fourth-largest religion. Yet Buddhists have received significantly less scholarly attention than Christians, Jews Muslims Australia. Previous research conducted on has also largely centered southern states, white Buddhists. This article shares findings archival far nort...