It is now more than a quarter century since Leonard Primiano’s seminal article “Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife” launched concept of Vernacular to denote study “religion as it lived: human beings encounter, understand, interpret, practice it” (Primiano 1995: 44). demands that scholars take seriously minutiae how people live their religion particular contexts,...

This paper examines downward price rigidity in Iranian house market and discusses whether this characteristic would result in an asymmetric relationship between house price and monetary policy. To test the downward house price rigidity the threshold GARCH model is employed. The asymmetric adjustment to monetary policy is examined using the asymmetric cointegration and error correction models. T...

Post-disaster housing, constructed on a massive scale, often overlooks the indoor thermal environment, despite being crucial design factor for residential satisfaction. This study examined environment in post-Gorkha earthquake-reconstructed prototype and traditional vernacular houses Dolakha district of Nepal. It employed questionnaire survey measurement outdoor temperature both house types acr...

Vernacular languages have served as media of science education in colonial and postcolonial South Asia, but how was modern scientific knowledge translated into these made available for non-English reading publics? This article draws attention to the overlooked genre glossary technical terminology, conceived source list very words needed vernacular discourse. Focusing on Nagari Pracharini Sabha’...

We analyse the strategies used in formulating situated informal location descriptions, by identifying geospatial expressions contained therein and annotating each for properties such as geospatial granularity and identifiability. Analysis of the annotations leads to insights such as the predominance of suburb-level expressions, and prevalence of vernacular expressions.

Andrographis paniculata Nees, Andrographis alata Nees and Andrographis lineate Nees. (Acanthaceae) are important medicinal plants useful in the treatment of various human ailments. Nomenclatural confusion prevails with regards to these medicinal plants in India medical literature and vernacular nomenclature. This nomenclatural confusion has been clarified in the present paper.

The Affordable Care Act enters its fifth year firmly entrenched in our national consciousness. One method that has entered the vernacular for achieving cost savings is accountable care. There are other approaches that are less well known. The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative has the potential to significantly impact neurointerventionalists. We review that initiative here.