This article examines the “danza de los mecos”, a dance performed annually by young Nahua men during carnaval in Tecomate, Veracruz, honor of Tlacatecolotl/Tlahuelliloc, deceitful and capricious demon-like figure otherwise known as “el Diablo”. The performance features Indigenous who dress devils, wear masks, or women. Drawing on fieldwork, I analyse mecos” critical site which to examine embodi...

This paper attempts to analyze George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man from existentialistic approach. Adopting a qualitative content analysis method, it concentrates on fundamental components of existentialism such as searching for true identity selfhood, authenticity meaningless war absurd romantic love questioning freedom choice decision. Representing futile Bulgarian along with its controver...

This study re-examines whether a new instrument, Child Problematic Traits Inventory, can assess core traits of psychopathy in children. A sample of 309, 3-5 year olds, (mean age 4 ), were recruited from 3 medium sized Swedish communities. Results show that items from the test load in three dimensions: Grandiose/Deceitful, Callous/Unemotional and Impulsivity, Need for stimulation. They are relat...

Ocular involvement in lymphoma is a relatively rare condition that can result from a primary intraocular lymphoma or an intraocular manifestation of systemic lymphoma. Lymphoma manifestations frequently masquerade as other more benign intraocular conditions including allergic or infectious conjunctivitis, uveitis, multiple evanescent white dot syndrome, acute retinal necrosis, or herpetic retin...

Seeds of the castor bean plant Ricinuscommunis L (CB) contain ricin toxin (RT), one of the most poisonous naturally-occurring substances known. Ricin toxin, a water-soluble glycoprotein that does not partition into the oil extract, is a ribosome-inactivating toxin composed of two chains, labeled A and B. Severity of the toxicity varies depending on the route of exposure to the toxin. Inhalation...

Malingering in the native army is a subject we very seldom see alluded toby Army Surgeons. Is it possible, then, that it so seldom occurs as not to attract attention ? I think not, and knowing the calculated guile and cunning of the low class natire, the subject is one of importance, and deserves some small attention. If tlio subject were well ventilated by the experience of surgeons being adde...

Promises are one of the oldest human-specific psychological mechanisms fostering cooperation and trust. Here, we study the neural underpinnings of promise keeping and promise breaking. Subjects first make a promise decision (promise stage), then they anticipate whether the promise affects the interaction partner's decision (anticipation stage) and are subsequently free to keep or break the prom...

In this paper, we have proposed a secure data aggregation protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that is robust to deceitful nodes. The goal of this protocol is to guarantee the essential security needs (like source authentication, data confidentiality & data integrity) as well as to achieve low communication overhead and be fitted with various aggregation functions (like sum, average, ma...

Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service, where a client’s database is stored at an external service provider. Outsourcing databases to external providers promises higher availability and more effective disaster protection than in-house operations. An increasing number of enterprises outsource their IT functions or business p...

The deceitful practice of Typosquatting involves deliberately registering Internet domain names containing typographical errors that primarily target popular domain names, in an effort to redirect users to unintended destinations or steal traffic for monetary gain. Typosquatting has existed for well over two decades and continues to be a credible threat to this day. While much of the prior work...