Divination is more dialogical than some diviners or anthropologists have made it appear. I analyze the transcript of one Bangladeshi divination event, comparing it with a dozen others performed by one diviner, Delwar, revealing how tenuously he manages to assign a single meaning to troubles, especially when clients openly compare his declarations with their intimate knowledge of those troubles....

This article investigates the historical method of Karl Sudhoff (1853- 1938), Germany's first professor of medical history. It argues that in order to understand his ideas more fully, we need to step outside the historiography of medical history and assess his methodology in relation to the norms and ideals of German academic history writing in general. The article demonstrates that the philolo...

rfid system is a wireless technology that can transfer data between tags and readers via radio frequency. in an rfid network, readers are located close to each other to obtain optimal connectivity and sufficient coverage. in such an environment, which is called dense reader environment (dre).different types of collisions such as reader-to-reader and reader-to-tag ones, often lead to serious pro...