scholastic medicine became antiquated and its remains lived on among the people as superstitions and under such guises as dream books and astrological calendars. How the frontiers between these two branches of knowledge changed, were blurred and redefined is shown in Paul Diepgen's contribution Die Volksmedizin und wissenschaftliche Heilkunde of 1936. The main theme running through this imposin...

Sichuan folk woodcut motifs are a kind of culture derived from the combination nature human farming, aesthetics and instincts during period developed farming in China, with characteristics simplicity, conciseness, vividness innocence. This article focuses on explore to combine traditional art form contemporary art. Woodcut prints, as category printmaking, have long history, earliest woodblock p...

mingei japanese folk craft movement involved in making (folk - handi) crafts by unknown craftman. although these crafts are prepared for ordinary people in large quantities and cheap prices, possess the purest beauty and privileged specifically. the japanese movement had its ideological antecedent’s in the larger arts and craft movement at the end of the 19th and early 20th century, so it was g...

There remains a broad consensus that current folk racial categories— those categories usually used on surveys, recognized by tbe U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and used on census forms and by U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA)—do not correspond to meaningful biological categories. Pace some recent attempts to defend the use of folk racial categories as a proxy for ancestry and ...

Music classification has been widely investigated in the past few years using a variety of machine learning approaches. In this study, a corpus of 3367 folk songs, divided into six geographic regions, has been created and is used to evaluate two popular yet contrasting methods for symbolic melody classification. For the task of folk song classification, a global feature approach, which summariz...

There are a number of expressions in Swedish and other languages, which describe the songs of different birds, e.g. the rose finch imitated as saying "Pleased to see you". These folk rhymes seem to both imitate the birds' songs and to describe some content connected to the bird. Swedish folk rhymes for the songs of different birds were analyzed in terms of sound structure and content. Imitation...

The Ansai waist drum is a traditional folk art form originating from Shaanxi Province and an important part of the local culture. It incorporates elements dance martial arts movements, creating unique magnificent style that reflects simple optimistic nature people Shaanxi. As time has passed, original military function disappeared, it evolved into entertainment fitness. Today, perform enjoy in ...

As a medical domain knowledge base, the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) focuses on formal and professional medical terms; online health forums contain user-generated “folk terms”, which can be used to complement the UMLS vocabulary. In this paper, we propose an approach to detecting folk terms from online discussions and matching their meanings to UMLS concepts. This approach makes conne...