Comment attirer le gibier ? Pratique du jeûne et récitation de chants magiques dans les activités cynégétiques wampis (jivaro) by Paul Codjia

“…By a pragmatic and semantic analysis of these magical songs, this article aims to reveal the ritual and linguistic devices which allow the hunter to establish the desired relationship with the prey.…”
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The Surgery of Celsus’ De Medicina by James W. Blatchford, III, MD

“…The possibility (and desirability) of per primam healing, thereby permitting elective surgical procedures, was ignored until rediscovered in the 19th century; its recognition by Celsus prompts a re-evaluation of the excellence of ancient surgery.…”
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Àrẹ Lekan Àrẹ: A Tribute to a Warrior for all Battles by Toyin Falola

“…Àrẹ, now that the flute of death blew beyond the seven hills of Ìbàdan, I o ̀ fer an elegy to the man whose impacts shaped our lives, a man whose anvil forged the future we desired. Àjanà ̀ku, the ́ elephant that rumbles the forest. …”
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FREEDOM OF CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE IMAGINATION. MAN AND HIS TIME by A. E. Razumov

“…Man as a creative personality desires for freedom as well as cognition and creative work as his essence. …”
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Amitiés particulières au Maghreb : sociabilités et discours homosexuels by Valérie Beaumont

“…We will explain why, in the course of ethnographic research on sexual practices in Maghreb, any attempt to confine relations between males to a typology that isolates friendship, love and sexual desires would be inappropriate. Finally, this article reveals the means used to objectify identities and sexual orientations, particularly through migration, associations and the Internet, in a context where social and ideological currents, whether local or external, are structuring new patterns of life that lead to both openness and withdrawal back to conservative moral and religious values.…”
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Automatic Irrigation Based on Soil Moisture for Vegetable Crops by Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Michael D. Dukes

“…Automatic soil water sensor-based irrigation seeks to maintain a desired soil water range in the root zone that is optimal for plant growth. …”
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Critical review of fermentation and extraction of anti-Vibrio compounds from Streptomyces by Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Learn-Han Lee, Bey-Hing Goh

“…In turn, this review sheds light on the possible alterations of the cultivation parameters to obtain desired anti-Vibrio compounds from Streptomyces sp. …”
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Performance Analysis of Dijkstra-Based Weighted Sum Minimization Routing Algorithm for Wireless Mesh Networks by Nuha A. S. Alwan

“…In this work, we focus on combining desirable properties of these two metrics by minimizing a weighted metrics sum via a Dijkstra-based algorithm. …”
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Poultry Manure as a Fertilizer by Michael A. Davis, Doug R. Sloan, Gerald Kidder, R. D. Jacobs

“…Because of poultry manure’s high nitrogen content, it has long been recognized as one of the most desirable manures. Besides fertilizing crops, manures also supply other essential plant nutrients and serve as a soil amendment by adding organic matter, which helps improve the soil’s moisture and nutrient retention. …”
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Turkey’s Role in Somalia’s Peace and Development Process by Oktay Bingöl

“…The attempts by the international community to ensure the peace and stability in Somalia have not produced the desired results by 2011. With the famine crisis in the 2011 summer, Turkey has initiated an opening towards Somalia. …”
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Finite-State-Space Truncations for Infinite Quasi-Birth-Death Processes by Hendrik Baumann

“…These methods rely on truncating the process at some level N, and for N⟶∞, convergence of the approximation to the desired characteristic is guaranteed. This paper’s main goal is to quantify the speed of convergence. …”
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Genocidaire Alfried Krupp: The Implications of Memorializing a Criminal Against Humanity by Elizabeth Edwards

“…It highlights the vital importance of incorporating survivor testimonials to direct the narrative and reveal the true nature of (in this case) Alfried Krupp's crimes, while questioning the acceptance of Krupp's name as a desirable brand for the Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald. …”
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Fractional Analysis of Coupled Burgers Equations within Yang Caputo-Fabrizio Operator by Nehad Ali Shah, Essam R. El-Zahar, Jae Dong Chung

“…The series form solution is then obtained using the Adomian decomposition technique. The desired analytical solution is obtained after performing the inverse transform. …”
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A Survey of Educational Program Needs for the Florida Association of Counties County Commissioner Training Program by Rodney L. Clouser

“…The survey collects information regarding attendance at FAC-FCF sponsored events, willingness to pay for educational programs, worth of events and programs attended by commissioners and administrators, desired locations for educational activities and, most importantly, the type and amount of training needed by commissioners on various topics that would assist them as an elected policy maker. …”
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Fractional Derivative and Optimal Control Analysis of Cholera Epidemic Model by Kumama Regassa Cheneke, Koya Purnachandra Rao, Geremew Kenassa Edessa

“…Moreover, cost-effectiveness evaluation of cholera contamination intervention with feasible three or four combos of manipulate measures hygiene, vaccination, remedy of infectives, and chlorination indicates that hygiene, vaccination, and chlorination are the desired higher mixture to govern in addition propagation of cholera contamination. …”
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Abel–Goncharov Type Multiquadric Quasi-Interpolation Operators with Higher Approximation Order by Ruifeng Wu

“…Error estimates indicate that our operators could provide the desired precision by choosing the suitable shape-preserving parameter c and a nonnegative integer m. …”
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POLICY-LEGAL INSTRUMENTS OF INDIRECT ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT by Jelena Šogorov Vučković

“…Yet, in modern environmental systems, instruments of indirect influence on the addressees of norms are gaining increasing importance, with the aim of influencing their desirable behaviour through citizens’ awareness. Such instruments are used by law primarily in the field of prevention, with the aim of preventing environmental damage. …”
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“Strange Sights and Sounds”: Indirection and the Rhetoric of the Feminine in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Tales (1852-1930) by Audrey Fogels

“…Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) composes supernatural tales that address in a very indirect fashion disturbing issues such as child abuse, domestic violence and frustrated female desires. In her gothic-like domestic tales, the climax of revelation is indeed continually deferred, as if the female storyteller could simply not tell her secret. …”
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How Taxes and Budget Deficits Determine Domestic Product by Fritz Helmedag

“…The critique that government expenditures on credit can never be self-financing is also untenable as the objection rests on an abridged deficit multiplier. However, the desired economic stimulus will be paralyzed if the extra tax yield is used to repay debt. …”
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A robust congestion control scheme for cluster wireless multimedia sensor networks with propagation delay and external interference by Xi Hu, Wei Guo

“…The cluster wireless multimedia sensor network is capable of achieving the desired cluster synchronization with network parameters provided by Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals. …”
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