This piece features an unprecedented, quantitative analysis of contemporary Burns Suppers. It is based on the broadest, most detailed database Suppers ever built since nineteenth century, comprising more than 2,500 events across 145 countries. Such a wealth data lends itself to survey Night's various settings, comparing diverse approaches Burns's poetry, Scottish culture, music, and food. Indee...

In order to detect risk factors of gastric ulcer among male workers in Japan, a workplace-based case-control study was conducted in a municipal government, using cases registered during 1981 to 1983 with individually matched controls. Statistically significant factors in univariate analysis were smoking, time interval from waking up to leaving home for job, meal time for supper, sleeping hours,...

One of the strangest and saddest omissions in modern theology is prayer. A. Strong, for example, devoted but six pages to prayer under the heading of providence. M. Erickson's fine recent work contains only two pages on the subject, also under providence. On a single page W. G. T. Shedd lists prayer as one of the external "means of sanctification," along with Scripture, "Providential discipline...

The idle computational resources of CSCW environment that is composed of computer clusters are mined to construct the multi-cluster grid in order to support the computation-intensive tasks. For fitting the state changes of idle computing resources during the computing process, the techniques of cooperation and migration agents are adopted. Through the concurrent dataflow, the supper element, an...

Caraka, Suśruta and Vāgbhaa are known as the ‘Great Three’ of Āyurveda and their classics continue to be the foundational texts after many hundreds of years. Among the texts, Caraka Sahitā stands out by its emphasis on philosophical themes which potentiate the central theme of medicine. They are to Caraka’s medicine what the powerful background is to the figure of Christ in the ‘Last supper’....