The major religion in Lao PDR is Buddhism, but many ethnic groups in rural Lao PDR hold an animist belief system called "Sadsana-pee". At the same time, the Bourapar District study site in Khammouane Province, Lao PDR is at high risk of malaria infection. Due to their belief in traditional ways of healing, the promotion of malaria prevention and treatment with modern medicine was not always wel...

This article tells the story of the sacred place named Mata Loko (“River’s Source”) in Karendi on the western end of the island of Sumba. This ethnographic case of an eastern Indonesian society where the traditional religion of Marapu persists sheds light on questions of how local belief systems are part of environmental adaptations. The use of sacred resources is restricted by the belief that ...

The traditional health care system in Ghana is a holistic one that integrates our social ethics, religious morals and cultural values. We believe that the health of an individual has a link with the metaphysical and supernatural world; with the Creator, divinities and ancestral spirits. With this belief, disease has a spiritual dimension. In spite of this the scientific theory of disease is als...

The authors reviewed research about a profound misconception that is present among college students, namely, the belief that the process of vision includes emanations from the eyes, an idea that is consistent with the extramission theory of perception, which was originally professed by early Greek philosophers and which persisted in scholarly circles for centuries. The authors document the stre...

Dynamic network models {DNMs} are belief networks for temporal reasoning. The DNM methodology combines techniques from time­ series analysis and probabilistic reasoning to provide (1) a knowledge representation that integrates noncontemporaneous and contem­ poraneous dependencies and (2) methods for iteratively refining these dependencies in re­ sponse to the effects of exogenous influences. We...

We do research about the impact of belief, attitude and subjective norm on OCOP (one community one product) products purchase intention Vietnamese consumers. (abbreviated in English as One commune product). In sense, each (ward) has a product. More specifically, developing form organization production trading traditional advantageous rural areas. Through testing with fixed effects model (FEM) r...

This study investigated reproductive health beliefs among rural indigenous women in Kakon Haat village at Rajshahi district of Bangladesh. An explanation for the tendency of women in these communities to access traditional healers (THs) and spiritual healers (SHs) for reproductive health services was discovered. Data was collected by means of in-depth one-to-one interviews and focus group discu...

An account of meta-epistemic defeaters—distinct from traditional (firstorder) epistemic defeaters—is motivated and defended, drawing from case studies involving epistemic error-theory (e.g., Olson 2011, Reasons for belief; cf., Streumer 2012, J Philos 110:1–25) and epistemic relativism (e.g., MacFarlane 2005, Oxford Stud Epistemol 1:197–233; 2011; 2014, Assessment sensitivity: Relative truth an...