Bowling - Science topic

One of the provinces in Indonesia famous for its diverse local cuisine is the Bangka Belitung Province, particularly in Belitung Regency. One of the well-known local dishes from Belitung is Mie Rebus Belitung. Mie Rebus Belitung is a preparation of yellow noodles drenched in hot shrimp broth. This dish is even recognized as an Intangible Cultural H...

ohn Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is one of the American classics that record a socio-political climate of the American history in 1930s. It succeeds in representing the harshness of the Great Depression, the dust bowl and the subsequent tribulations of West American people and more specifically, the Okies. Retelling the struggles of m...

Objectives. Jumper’s knee, or proximal patellar tendinopathy, is commonly seen among athletes in leg explosive sports, and for a subgroup surgical treatment is needed. The aim of this study was to identify what type of sports were most frequent among athletes treated surgically for Jumper’s knee at an international tendon clinic during a consecutiv...

Research has shown that external relative to internal focus (IF) instructions may improve motor performance as well as cognitive function (e.g., attentional stability and task‐focus). The aim of the study was to examine the influence of attentional focus instructions on skill acquisition and learning of an aiming task in individuals with hearing im...

For centuries, humans have practiced meditative techniques, ranging from relaxation to prayer and healing. This study focuses on developing a virtual reality (VR) application centred around chakras-the energetic centres associated with specific colours and sounds within the human body. Inspired by artists like Yves Klein, Frank Stella, and Mark Rot...

This article focuses on young people’s understanding of algorithms and their learning methods. While many younger individuals are deeply familiar with digital media, it is erroneous to assume that this familiarity is equivalent to operational or critical knowledge. Given that algorithm awareness has only recently become a topic of debate, daily lif...

The main aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of parental attitude towards girls' education with their academic achievements and self-efficacy. This study used Quantitative survey and correlational research methods. The target papulation was all 1807 10th grade girls' students of all Government Girls Secondary School at Tehsil Takh...

Spur gear, helical gear, worm gear, and bevel gear are all important components in industrial applications such as vehicles, pushes, conveyors, elevators, bowl mill, rolling mills, ribbon blender, machine tools, aeroplanes, and windmills. When various types of defects, such as wear, tooth breakage, corrosion, and scratches on bearings, appear in ge...

To address the inefficiency and instability of automatic transplanting machines, a dual-row seedling pick-up device and its corresponding control system were developed. Existing seedling end-effectors are primarily mechanically controlled, and the seedling needles can easily cause damage to the interior of the bowl. In order to reduce the damage in...

In the dynamic realm of One Day International (ODI) cricket, the sport has undergone significant transformations over the past four decades. This study digs into the intricate evolution of ODI cricket from 1987 to 2023, analyzing about 4000 matches to uncover pivotal performance indicators such as batting prowess, bowling efficiency, and partnershi...

The Sports Action Recognition (SAR) domain is of significant importance in research, with diverse applications, ranging from aiding coaches in strategic decision-making to empowering athletes and contributing to real-time commercial entertainment. Despite the existence of extensive large-scale and small-scale datasets, the direct application of the...

The region of Bundelkhand is known as bowl of pulses, which is dominated by chickpea in terms of area and production both. There are several factors, which affect the production potential of crop adversely. The management of these factors individually may become uneconomical and time as well as resource consuming. This experiment was laid out at fa...

Industri olahraga di Indonesia berkembang pesat dengan adanya berbagai macam event - event nasional dan internasional yang diadakan di Indonesia. Ada banyak venue - venue olahraga di Indonesia yang sudah memiliki standar kualitas yang tinggi, salah satunya Arena JSC Bowling Center Palembang. Bagi perusahaan yang bergerak di bidang industri olahraga...

The presented research investigates different strategies to acquire high-precision digital elevation models (DEMs) of complex and inaccessible terrain using Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo applied to data of an unoccupied aerial system (UAS) equipped with real-time-kinematic (RTK)-GNSS. The survey scenarios are taken from real-life situ...

Tibetan bowls and monochords are millennia-old instruments used for spiritual and therapeutic purposes. In the last few decades, there has been growing interest in the use of these instruments in meditation and therapeutic settings. Nevertheless, they are still rarely used in music therapy in the Western world, either because of technical difficult...

The presented research investigates different strategies to acquire high-precision digital elevation models (DEMs) of complex and inaccessible terrain using Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo applied to data of an unoccupied aerial system (UAS) equipped with real-time-kinematic (RTK)-GNSS. The survey scenarios are taken from real-life situ...

Nothing beats a comforting image of a bowl of hot soup with whisps of rising steam unless it is the actual soup itself. The current paper investigates the influence of food photography on people’s food expectations. Despite the recognition of the importance of the food temperature depicted in food images, the effectiveness of using visual cues on f...

This study aims to assess the accuracy and consistency of existing correlations between undrained shear strength (c u) and modulus of volumetric compressibility (m v) with SPT N value, and compression index (C c) with index parameters for Turkish clays, with a specific focus on Ankara clay using laboratory testing of over 2500 high-quality undistur...

This study is motivated by the media and game tools used by teachers in activities to develop children's counting skills are less effective and varied such as using blackboards and magazines so that the purpose of this study is to determine the effect of animal bowling games on children's counting skills at Aisyiyah 1 Kindergarten, Bukittinggi City...

Social harmony refers to a condition in which people from different castes, classes and creeds live together in a peaceful way while keeping their identity and individuality intact. In other words, social harmony is a bowl of salad. Harmony and unity are two elements of a society. Tongsing entails these two elements, so it is called a social practi...

This article presents a rationale and strategy for bringing urgent attention to ‘minority’, ‘excluded’, and ‘marginalised’ perspectives within contemporary mainstream criminology. Russell (2022) has previously called for the development of ‘Black criminology’, whilst Phillips and Bowling (2003) further argued that there is a need to develop ‘minori...

A review of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone. This article summarizes the book’s contents and analyzes the author’s arguments on America’s decline in social capital.

Working memory capacity (WMC), a crucial component of working memory (WM), has consistently drawn the attention of researchers. Exploring the underlying neurobiological mechanisms behind it is currently a prominent focus in the field of neuroscience. Previously, we developed a novel behavioral paradigm for rodents called the olfactory working memor...

In India, the production of food grains was insufficient for domestic consumption during 1947 to 1960. The green revolution played a major role in pulling India out from the begging bowl status. This increased production had also increased the accumulation of agricultural waste which is a challenge that is yet to be addressed. Hence, an effective m...

The article describes the newly discovered ceramic depot of Ebreichsdorf in Lower Austria. A total of 34 handled cups and bowls from the Urnfield period were recovered, together with a grinding stone and a loom weight. Based on the inventory and the notable characteristics of the find, a ritual background for the deposition can be assumed. The text...

Beauty Parlour Stroke Syndrome often belongs to a category which is often ignored, misdiagnosed, particularly with women with underlying neurological conditions worsen when the head is positioned the way it is in a regular hair salon. It is also known as Vertebrobasilar insufficiency. It is a rare phenomenon caused by either cerebral artery dissect...

Downhole oil-water separation technology (DOWS) is a new type of separation technology, which can improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and can solve the problem of high water cut oilfield development. At present, there are only two separation methods in the same well injection-production separator, one is the swirl separation technology a...

This study presents a comparative analysis of AlGalnAs buried heterostructure laser diodes by using dual-channel ridge-waveguides. Different shaped channels, including bowl shaped groove and vertical groove, are explored. Using a vertical groove structure, we achieved an output power of 90 mW at 25 °C with a threshold current of only 4 mA. This rep...

This study investigates the effect of different sowing media and soil amendments on seed germination and early seedling growth of Pterocarpus osun. The study was carried out at the nursery site of the Department of Forest Resources and Wildlife Management, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. Sixty seeds were sown in plastic bowls filled with the dif...

The majority of a fish farm's overall operating expenses involve costs related to feeds. Commercial feeds are often too expensive for fish farmers. Consequently, farmers do use agricultural by-products and locally available fish feed ingredients to improve pond productivity and minimise cost. This study was aimed at evaluating the effects of solid-...

Monitoring of mining-induced subsidence dynamics enables to the exploration and analysis of changes in the direction of surface deformation caused by the extraction of underground resources. Both human activities and geological environments affect these changes to a large extent. LuTan-1 (LT-1) satellite as the first SAR mission with L-band bistati...

Background Colorectal cancer ranks as the third most diagnosed and second most lethal cancer globally. The challenge of early detection, essential for better outcomes, lies in the often non-specific or absent early symptoms, resulting in low diagnosis rates, particularly in resource-limited settings. For the first time, This study pioneers the eval...

The chapter reflects on the role of the Stasi in the Palace of the Republic. It is part of the book accompanying the exhibition: "Blown Away. The Palace of the Republic" at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin (May 24 to February 25). From the jacket: JUST WHAT DOES THE PALACE OF THE REPUBLIC MEAN TO US TODAY? The Palace of the Republic was the building t...

The System for Measuring Overlap with Gas (SMOG2) at the LHCb detector enables the study of fixed-target ion-ion collisions at relativistic energies ($\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}\sim100$ GeV in the centre-of-mass). With input from \textit{ab initio} calculations of the structure of $^{16}$O and $^{20}$Ne, we compute 3+1D hydrodynamic predictions for the anis...

he paper presents an overview of metal and glass small inds found during the inal season of the Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project in 2016. he basic data of the collection are presented here, as well as a preliminary classiication and interpretation of the selected inds. he most frequent metal from the site is iron-featuring mainly elements of co...

Two mechanisms that have been used to study the evolution of cooperative behavior are altruistic punishment, in which cooperative individuals pay additional costs to punish defection, and multilevel selection, in which competition between groups can help to counteract individual-level incentives to cheat. Boyd, Gintis, Bowles, and Richerson have us...

Hidradenoma papilliferum (HP) is a benign adnexal tumor, commonly affecting the anogenital region of middle-aged women. Clinically, HP typically presents as a slow-growing, unilateral, well-circumscribed, smooth skin-colored cystic dermal nodule, usually growing less than 1 cm in size. Reports of ectopic HP are exceedingly rare but have been identi...

We describe the preparation and study of novel cavitands, molecular bowls 1⁶⁺ and 2⁶⁺, as good binders of the anticancer drug methotrexate (MTX). Molecular bowls are comprised of a curved tribenzotriquinacene (TBTQ) core conjugated to three macrocyclic pyridinium units at the top. The cavitands are easily accessible via two synthetic steps from hex...

Volcanic eruptions generate continuous or episodic tremor, which can provide unrivaled information about activity changes during eruption. However, the wealth of information in episodic tremor patterns is often not harvested and transitions between patterns remain obscure. The 2021 Geldingadalir eruption, Iceland, is an exceptional case, where the...

Prehistoric and historic Native Americans had a physical, practical, and spiritual engagement with the environment. These relationships caused their perception to become intertwined with specific creatures and plants, which became part of the basis of their ideational worldviews. In the case of the Mimbres people who lived between AD 1000–1140, the...

The article centres on conservation agriculture (CA), which is defined as minimal soil disturbance (no-till, NT) and permanent soil cover (mulch) combined with crop rotations. Cultivation and tillage play a crucial role in agriculture. The document first examines the benefits of tillage in agriculture before introducing conservation tillage (CT), a...

The explanatory model of the motoric movement action provides a universal explanation of all functional perception processes within any conceivable goal-directed action. It demonstrates that the execution of any motor action always requires the simultaneous perception of three autonomous foci, in accordance with J.J. Gibson's theory, which encompas...

Janus hollow microstructures have been widely used in chemistry, medicine, biology, and materials science because of their anisotropy and hollow structure. Constructing multiple types of hollow microstructures and establishing structure–property relationships remain challenging. Here, the present authors developed a one-pot polymerization strategy...

Crop pollination and natural biological control provided by beneficial insects have an economic worth of hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Apple and peach production in North Georgia are economically important industries that benefit from these ecological services. Hover flies are dual ecosystem service providers that have been relatively u...

Agrivoltaics is presented as a possible solution to the need for new sources of renewable energies, also responding to the increasing demand for feed/food and energy in a strongly efficient and sustainable manner. To this aim, agrivoltaics proposes to combine agricultural and renewable energy production on the same land using photovoltaic technolog...

Music and sounds activate numerous physiological effects associated with the functioning of the autonomic nervous system and involved in the maintenance of homeostasis. As such, sound interventions can play an important role in supporting human wellbeing. Physiological responses are dependent on the sound type and frequency, as well as the spatial...

Introduction The biofortification of staple foods such as cassava is one of the technological breakthroughs in the nutritional improvement of foods. Fufu is one of the fermented cassava products produced and consumed in major West African countries, including Sierra Leone, and the majority of the processes involved in its production have direct and...

Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz commonly known as Dhawa or Dhataki, is an important medicinal plant that has been traditionally used in various systems of medicine for its therapeutic properties such as-dysentery, leprosy, leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, toothache. It has been used as astringent to treat dysentery and also for the treatment of bowl compla...

The study attempted to evaluate the agricultural soil quality using the Soil Quality Index (SQI) model in two Community Development Blocks, Ausgram-II and Memari-II of Purba Bardhaman District. Total 104 soil samples were collected (0–20 cm depth) from each Block to analyse 13 parameters (bulk density, soil porosity, soil aggregate stability, water...

This study provides new data which suggest a novel interpretative hypothesis not only on the specific painting, but on the use of bloodletting as medical practice in the Florentine Quattrocento. As a part of a cycle of frescoes devoted to the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy, the examined lunette depicts the “Visit to the sick” in a domestic interior,...

Background and Aim Dietary characteristics associated with non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in non‐obese patients remain to be elucidated. This study examined the association of NAFLD and MASLD with dietary characteristics according to obesity status. Methods We performe...

Introduction There is overwhelming evidence of declines in native bee populations and therefore a need for increased monitoring to track these declines and assist in conservation and restoration efforts. Bees can be sampled non-lethally through visual surveys (e.g., distance transects) or lethally through active (e.g., hand netting) or passive (e.g...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate severe abdominal injury in child passengers of different ages of motor vehicle accidents and analyze the concomitant pattern of injury regarding injury severity, trauma management and outcome. Method: Data acquisition was performed using the Trauma Register DGU® (TR-DGU) in a 10-years period (2010–...

This study presents the effects of piston bowl size on the characteristics of a four-stroke single-cylinder diesel engine, which is considered in relation to changes in factors such as fuel injection pressure and turbocharger pressure. The study was carried out by 3D modeling using AVL Fire with an omega combustion chamber size and dimensions deter...

In 2017, two candidate species of Mycena were reported from Japan, with the Japanese names “Togari-sakura-take” and “Mitsuhida-sakura-take”. However, to date, no taxonomic study or formal description has been undertaken for these two species. In the present study, we conducted comprehensive morphological and molecular phylogenetic examinations of “...

Various historical chronicles mention cases in which the skulls of defeated military leaders were used to make goblets for drinking wine, as a sign of triumph over the slain enemy, and also to gain the best qualities of the enemy (strength, courage, invincibility, etc.). The first source on the subject is the ancient Greek historian Herodotus of th...

This study investigates the musical perception skills of dogs through playback experiments. Dogs were trained to distinguish between two different target locations based on a sequence of four ascending or descending notes. A total of 16 dogs of different breeds, age, and sex, but all of them with at least basic training, were recruited for the stud...

This study began on the day when I realized that the crucifixion music of Liszt's "Via crucis" is almost identical with a section of his Sonata in B Minor. I refer to the only place in the Sonata where dissonant chords alternate with recitatives. Finding prominent music from the Sonata in a profoundly religious work, I was compelled to search for a...

Aromatic system extension of corannulene (Cor) is a synthetic challenge to access non-planar polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Herein, we report the design and synthesis of azaborahelicene corannulene 1 through hybridization of an azabora[5] helical structure and subsequent luminescence studies. Significant enhancement in chemiluminescence (CL), el...

Kale, a imortant crop for family farms, gains added value through minimal processing, enhancing freshness and convenience. UV-C irradiation emerges as a promising method for extending kale's shelf life without chemicals, although standardization is complex due to varying food resistances to light penetration.The study in question analyzed the effec...

Research has identified Northwest Turkey as a key region for the development of dairying in the seventh millennium BCE, yet little is known about how this practice began or evolved there. This research studies Barcın Höyük, a site located in Bursa’s Yenişehir Valley, which ranges chronologically from 6600 BCE, when the first evidence of settled lif...

Bioaerosols generated during toilet flushing can contribute to the spread of airborne pathogens and cross-contamination in indoor environments. This presents an increased risk of fomite-mediated or aerosol disease transmission. This study systematically investigated the factors contributing to increased bioaerosol exposure following toilet flushing...

In 2016 an explanatory model was introduced which clarified all functional c.q. behavioral perception processes within any conceivable motoric movement action. With which it also addressed the fundamental evolutionary question of why an ecological need emerged to develop the cortical streams and subsequently how solely these processing processes of...

Global warming is causing climate change (CC) characterized by increased frequency of heatwaves, droughts, erratic rains, hailstorms, cloudbursts, floods, landslides etc. The CC has already adversely affected ecosystems. In spite of efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which lead to warming, the global temperature during 2011–20 was...

This study deals with a numerical procedure designed and built to evaluate the evolution of soot deposits thickness and their impact on heat transfer for a high-pressure common rail 16V280 marine diesel engine piston. Using a combination of 3D numerical computations and an iterative calculation algorithm, this work reveals the complex relationship...

IN THE STATE OF CHHATTISGARH, NICKNAMED THE RICE BOWL OF INDIA, ABOUT 80% OF THE POPULATION IS ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURE. IT HAS BEEN MOSTLY ENGAGED IN THE PADDY-BASED MONO-CROPPING SYSTEM FOR A LONG PERIOD. SO, CROP DIVERSIFICATION (A SHIFT OF AREA AWAY FROM A LESS PROFITABLE CROP TOWARD MORE PROFITABLE ONES) IS ONE OF THE MEASURES, EXPECTED TO ENHAN...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

Solid–liquid separation plays a decisive role in various industrial applications particularly in the treatment and purification of suspensions. Solid bowl centrifuges, such as the decanter centrifuge, are commonly employed in these processes as they operate continuously and enable high throughputs with short processing times. However, predicting th...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving...

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The ancient Maya utilized their environment to create various forms of art, often incorporating elements of flora and fauna into their artistic expressions. This report documents a bowl adorned with illustrations of hummingbirds and hieroglyphs. It includes different photographs from various angles, each accompanied by a brief description, aiming t...

Organic farming is a method of farming which excludes the use of compound chemicals such as chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Instead of that natural resources such as organic matters, mineral and microbes are used. The present study was conducted in Gulbarga district was selected purposively because it is the "pulse bowl" of the sta...

This report delves into the fascinating depiction of the giant cave cockroach in Maya art, particularly as represented in paintings on Maya pots. It provides an in-depth visual exploration, showcasing high-quality photographs of these ancient artifacts. The emphasis is on the detailed imagery and artistic significance of the cockroach depictions, o...

While most rivers and lakes follow predictable principles of hydrology and geology, a few defy the rules. Some rivers diverge rather than converge; some rivers flow two directions; some lakes have not one but two outlets; some watersheds have ambiguous boundaries. The scientific literature on these exceptions is sparse, scattered, and, in some case...

Background The Barthel Index (BI) is used to standardize the grading of assessments for clinical needs, insurance support, and long-term care resource allocation in China. However, its psychometric properties among nursing home residents remain unclear. Therefore, this study aims to assess and modify the psychometric properties of BI in nursing hom...

This study deals with a numerical procedure designed and built to evaluate the evolution of soot deposits thickness and their impact on heat transfer for a high-pressure common rail 16V280 marine diesel engine piston. Using a combination of 3D numerical computations and an iterative calculation algorithm, this work reveals the complex relationship...

Accurate measurement of sodium intake in the diet is challenging, and epidemiological studies can be hampered by the attenuation of associations due to measurement error in sodium intake. A prediction formula for habitual 24-h urine sodium excretion and sodium-to-potassium ratio might lead to more reliable conclusions. Five 24-h urinary samples and...

This paper presents the results of the first X-ray fluorescence (XRF) investigation conducted on three late medieval chalices associated with Ireland: the Ó Learghusa chalice, auctioned as medieval Irish in 2021, does not have a confirmed provenance; the de Burgo-O'Malley chalice, dated 1494, and the TP-IEP chalice, dated 1589, both of Irish proven...

Physical and geometric factors are generally regarded as the main cause of evaporation characteristics of the Leidenfrost droplets levitating above the hot surface. It is well-known and generally accepted that similar research is conducted under different conditions and on individual measurement set-ups. This is one of the potential reasons for the...