‘I Have My Own Spaceship’

Inner Asia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-158
Author(s):  
Baasanjav Terbish
Keyword(s):  
Folk Healing ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Folk Healers

Abstract This paper is about folk healers in Kalmykia, southwest Russia, locally referred to as medlegchi, and their eclectic healing methods that combine elements of the earlier religions of Buddhism, shamanism and folk beliefs with modern theologies, ideas and concepts. Although the paper focuses upon the contemporary situation of folk healers, the author also briefly describes the development of Kalmyk folk healing in order to explain its varied and de-centralised contemporary nature. Alleging to receive their healing knowledge directly from their guardian deities (the majority of whom are Buddhist gods), all Kalmyk folk healers are eclectic in their methods, some more so than others. For example, those who are members of the community Vozrozhdenie [Revival], discussed in the paper, differ from many others by the speed with which they absorb ultra-new ideas and anxieties into their healing practices, which today include UFOs, a cosmic god and aliens, among other things.

Propeller and Vane Wheel

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 203-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Grim
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The United States ◽  
German Society ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Naval Architecture ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
To Receive

The vane wheel is a freely rotating device installed on the propeller shaft behind the propeller to provide additional thrust at no increase in power. The wheel, which is larger in diameter than its companion propeller, functions as a turbine by using the otherwise-wasted propeller slipstream to generate the extra thrust. This paper describes a series of tests performed at the Hamburg Ship Model Tank to compare the efficiency of the vane wheel arrangement with other propulsion units, including a conventional propeller, contrarotating propeller, and propeller with fixed guide mechanism. The Appendix provides a mathematical analysis of the performance of the various units investigated. Preface: For many years I had the great pleasure to live near Georg Weinblum, to work with him, and to receive his advice. After he retired I became his successor at Hamburg University. In 1938 I had met Georg Weinblum for the first time; in 1952 — after his return from the United States — for the second time, and after that we met regularly. He encouraged me to write my thesis and to work as a scientist. He always took a great interest in promoting young people and in awakening their enthusiasm for science. Many young people have had this experience and think of him with gratitude. Due to the founders' intentions, the memorial lecture should deal with a subject which belongs to naval architecture and which serves its development. I have chosen the subject, Propeller and Vane Wheel, which I presented for the first time to the German Society of Naval Architecture (Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft) in 1966. I take this opportunity to discuss the subject again, and to a different extent, because I believe that the purpose of this work is really important and can be achieved without any difficulty in the present situation, where the search for new ideas with regard to the saving of energy has become an urgent necessity.

BENEFITS AND BARRIERS OF CROWDSOURCING IN B2B FIRMS: GENERATING IDEAS WITH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CROWDS

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 1240011 ◽  
Author(s):  
HENRI SIMULA ◽  
MERVI VUORI
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Wisdom Of Crowds ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Theoretical Conceptualization ◽  
The Wisdom Of Crowds

In recent years crowdsourcing has increased in popularity as a method for gathering ideas for new innovations and providing solutions to existing problems. This means that firms apply the wisdom of crowds to certain tasks and challenges. Various crowdsourcing initiatives and platforms seem to provide new channels and ways to enable this in practice. The purpose of this paper is to examine how business-to-business (B2B) firms can interact with different groups of contributors in order to receive new ideas, feedback and solutions for improving their products and services. Based on theoretical conceptualization, combined with empirical evidence, we propose a layered framework for approaching crowdsourcing in a B2B context. The empirical results of this paper reveal benefits but also practical challenges to overcome before crowdsourcing can be effectively utilized in the B2B sector.

Integrated and Transactional Platforms

2018 ◽  
pp. 146-166
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Alternative Financial Services ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Platform Comparison ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
To Receive

In recent years, crowdsourcing has increased in popularity as a method for gathering ideas for new innovations and providing solutions to existing problems. In this chapter, crowdsourcing intermediaries and business models are analyzed. How intermediaries' providers are managing interactions between different groups of platform actors (contributors) in order to receive new ideas, feedback, and solutions for improving consumers products and services is studied. Crowdfunding platforms are discussed based on crowdsourcing open innovation vision. Hence, research focuses on crowdfunding innovations for alternative financial services. The chapter aims to collect and analyze quality data regarding the current status and prospective evolution of crowdfunding. The study offers classification and examination of the current status of crowdfunding and proposes a definition of the crowdfunding multi-sided platform, develops research framework for crowdfunding platform comparison and business model analysis. The results of this chapter reveal benefits but also practical challenges to overcome before innovation crowdsourcing and crowdfunding intermediaries can be effectively utilized.

Use of Folk Medicine by Elderly Mexican-American Women

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Sanchez Mayers
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Hispanic Women ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mexican American Women ◽  
Folk Healing ◽  
Healing System ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
Folk Healers

There is a vast anthropological/sociological literature on the use of folk healers in Hispanic (Mexican - American) communities. While the use of folk healers has decreased with urbanization, acculturation, and increased education, recent studies done in Dallas, Texas, show that elderly Hispanic women are familiar with, and use a variety of informal healing methods and substances for a variety of illnesses, both physical and mental. The folk-healing system is used to supplement the formal scientific one, rather than replace it. Informants seemed to have a clear idea about the point at which one or the other should be consulted. There are a variety of herbs readily available for use and sold in boticas or botanicas.

scholarly journals VI.—The Mechanics of Overthrusts

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 518-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Mellard Reade
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Fracture Plane ◽  
Thrust Plane ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Unknown Length ◽  
Solid Block

In attempts to unravel some of the weightier problems of geology it has lately been assumed that certain discordances of stratification are due to the thrusting of old rocks over those of a later geological age. Without in any way suggesting that the geology has in any particular instance been misread, I should like to point out the difficulties in accepting the explanation looked at from a dynamical point of view when applied on a scale that seems to ignore mechanical probabilities. Some of the enormous overthrusts postulated are estimated at figures approaching 100 miles. Have the authors considered that this means the movement of a solid block of rock or rocks of unknown length and thickness 100 miles over the underlying complex of newer rocks? If such a movement has ever taken place, would it not require an incalculable force to thrust the upper block over the lower, even with a clean fractured bed to move upon? Assuming that the block to be moved is the same length as the overthrust, the fracture-plane would in area be 100 × 100 = 10,000 miles. I venture to think that no force applied in any of the mechanical ways known to us in Nature would move such a mass, be it ever so adjusted in thickness to the purpose, even if supplemented with a lubricant generously applied to the thrust-plane. These are the thoughts that naturally occur to me, but as my mind is quite open to receive new ideas I shall be glad to know in what way the reasoning can be met by other thinkers.

scholarly journals Catalysing interdisciplinary and integrative thinking through the scholarship of teaching and learning

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Takayama
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Societal Benefits ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Collaborative Skills ◽  
The University ◽  
To Receive

Science by its very nature is interdisciplinary and scientific research relies on the collaborative skills and expertise of researchers across the disciplines. Yet, science as taught in the university classroom is usually compartmentalised into separate subjects. Most undergraduate students are not exposed to the excitement and challenge of connecting the concepts, skills and processes learnt within these distinct disciplines until they enter the laboratory as an honours student. Indeed, opportunities for problem-solving, novel application of concepts, articulation of the broader impacts and societal benefits of scientific research and understanding are not usually explicitly designed and scaffolded as an integral part of the university syllabus, but these lifelong skills are essential for scientific thinking. Furthermore, one of the most crucial elements that nurtures scientists? engagement and creativity is seldom considered an essential component of the curriculum ? the interaction with local, national and international peer communities to share, to receive feedback and to foster new ideas and collaborations. Considered from a holistic perspective, many academics tend to focus on content, while the process of scientific inquiry is peripheral to the formal syllabus. The scholarship of teaching and learning brings the focus back to inquiry thinking and learning, by prompting academics to critically engage with the pedagogical process.

scholarly journals The Role of Theory in Folkloristics and Comparative Religion

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Matti Kamppinen
Keyword(s):  
Folk Medicine ◽  
Comparative Religion ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Folk Healing ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
The Future

Lauri Honko (1932–2002), the Finnish professor of folkloristics and comparative religion was a prolific and multi-talented researcher, whose topics of research ranged from the study of folk beliefs, folk medicine and Ingrian laments to the general theories of culture, identity and meaning. Honko studied Finno-Ugric mythologies, Karelian and Tanzanian folk healing, and South Indian oral traditions. Lauri Honko was known for his originality and theoretical innovations: he constructed multiple approaches to the study of culture that are still relevant in folkloristics and comparative religion.In this paper I aim at explicating and analysing Honko’s views about the roles of theory in folkloristics and comparative religion. More precisely, I will cover two themes. First, I will look at how Honko constructed and utilised theories during the different stages of his career. Second, I will explicate one of the central elements underlying Honko’s theory of culture, namely, functionalism, which provided the framework for his innovations such as the ecology of tradition and folklore process, and for conceptual constructs such as the ‘pool of tradition’ and ‘systems of culture’. I will conclude by assessing the future relevance of Honko’s theories in folkoristics and comparative religion.

A Development of Healthy Promotion Model by E-SAN Folk Healer's Wisdom

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Patthira Phon-ngam
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Folk Healing ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Village ◽  
Folk Healers

The purposes of research were 1) to study the knowledge used by local folk healers, thecondition of healing and services, the acceptance of the methods used by the folk healers in LoeiProvince, and 2) to develop the model for the promotion of the community health with the herbalwisdom of I-san folk healer participated by the related stakeholders.Mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative research were applied, the quantitativeresearch was used in the survey, and the quantitative research was used in an in-depth interview,the participatory observation, and focus group discussion. The target groups in this study consistedof the registered folk healers from 14 districts of Loei who still perform the healing, the localpeople who get the services or used to get the services from the folk healers, the senior people inthe areas, and Thai traditional medicine scholars. The findings were as follows.1. All folk healers treat the illness according to the systems of human body. The healingcondition in which the folk healers used was related to the belief of local culture that the folkhealers believe, including (1)the belief in the causes of illness, (2) 4 elements and 5 aggregates oflife, (3) astrological belief on fate, (4) astrological belief on the causes of illness, (5) the belief onthe 4 elements of life, (6) the belief in the rite of Thai traditional medicine, (7) the belief and therite on the herbs, and (8) the belief on the village herbs and the elimination of illness.The acceptance on the healing methods of the folk healers in Loei indicated that thepatients and the relatives are satisfied with the results of healing, because the symptoms of illnesswere disappeared. Some people were back to normal, however, everyone can go back to live lifeand to work normally as before.2. The results from the development of the healthy promotion model in communitywith the knowledge on herbs of the folk healers using participatory action of related thestakeholders in the community were in 3 models; Model 1: The community health promotionalactivities consisted of (1) the activities related to public health to promote the local students’learning, (2) herbs garden project in schools, (3) the first aids cure with the herbs in schools insteadof using medicine, Model 2: the creation of learning materials of the local wisdom of the folkhealers by making books and CDs titled Herbs in Loei and I-san Herbs Recipe, and Model 3: TheDissemination of folk healing knowledge to peopleThe evaluation of the three models was done by the observation of the activityparticipation, interview on the satisfaction, and the usefulness of the participation in

Integrated and Transactional Platforms

2019 ◽  
pp. 1429-1444
Author(s):  
Sergey Yablonsky
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Alternative Financial Services ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Platform Comparison ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
To Receive

In recent years, crowdsourcing has increased in popularity as a method for gathering ideas for new innovations and providing solutions to existing problems. In this chapter, crowdsourcing intermediaries and business models are analyzed. How intermediaries' providers are managing interactions between different groups of platform actors (contributors) in order to receive new ideas, feedback, and solutions for improving consumers products and services is studied. Crowdfunding platforms are discussed based on crowdsourcing open innovation vision. Hence, research focuses on crowdfunding innovations for alternative financial services. The chapter aims to collect and analyze quality data regarding the current status and prospective evolution of crowdfunding. The study offers classification and examination of the current status of crowdfunding and proposes a definition of the crowdfunding multi-sided platform, develops research framework for crowdfunding platform comparison and business model analysis. The results of this chapter reveal benefits but also practical challenges to overcome before innovation crowdsourcing and crowdfunding intermediaries can be effectively utilized.

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