Fireworks display during festive celebrations can cause acute short term air pollution. Deepawali –the festival of light– is celebrated in India, every year during October or November with great fireworks display. Concentration of air pollutants such as SPM (suspended particulate matter), PM 10 , PM 2.5 , SO 2 and NO 2 were monitored for six consecutive days during Deepawali in Salkia, a densel...

Research was performed about metal threads incorporated into textile yarn in Croatia on liturgical vestments and the festive folk costumes. Primarily metal threads were abundant and frequently used on liturgical vestments giving all the splendor and grandeur to the clothes which were worn during the celebration of the mass. The oldest example from liturgical vestments with metal threads is Ladi...

Drawing on immersive ethnographic fieldwork at three events in Scotland, all grounded ecological sensibilities and focusing respectively alternative medicine, music reviving seasonal celebrations, this article illuminates aspects of what we call ‘festive commoning’. We ask: how, to extent, were commons ‘against beyond’ capital produced these gatherings? re-read a history resistance festive auto...

The ambient air quality monitoring network involves measurement of a number of air pollutants. A variety of methods exist to measure particulate matter in air. This study evaluates the effects of particulate air pollution associated short-term exposure of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) in Diwali festival. Fireworks display during festive celebrations can cause acute short term air pollutio...

Drawing on archival material from slaveholding families in North Carolina and the narratives of formerly enslaved State, John Kooner parades other Christmas festivities are employed this article as a lens to consider what meanings might have held for some members within State. Such celebrations were arguably used by enslavers demonstrate their good will benevolence allowing engage carnivalesque...

In the Roman Empire, Antioch, metropolis of Syria Coele, stood out as a vibrant cultural centre and stage many artistic, sports religious events, including its own Olympic Games. The Kalends January, Calliopea Maiuma were special highlights, not to mention Christian Jewish festivals. Antioch was filled with celebrations. key attribute Antiochean people precisely festive ethos fondness for singi...

In recent decades we have seen the emergence of festive inventions as a factor sustainable development in rural contexts, associated with dissemination and promotion cultural products practices, expressing different motivations. Portugal Spain, relationship between festivals, music, was object study, based on musical celebrations that allow creation formal networks participatory models agents, ...

BACKGROUND Prevention strategies to reduce alcohol use/consumption among young people are crucial to reducing alcohol-related deaths and preventing disease. This paper focuses on the effectiveness of a social networking site (SNS) alcohol prevention program targeted toward young people. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that the program would diminish the relation made by participants between alcohol...

BACKGROUND Electronic-based alcohol screening and brief interventions for university students with problem drinking behaviours forms an important means by which to identify risky drinkers. METHODS In this study an e-SBI project was implemented to assess drinking patterns, and to provide personalised feedback about alcohol consumption and related health problems, to students in a Swedish unive...