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Yogis, Ayurveda, and Kayakalpa: The Rejuvenation of Pandit Malaviya
How should we read claims about health and well-being which defy common sense? Are claims of extreme longevity to be viewed as fraudulent, or as pushing the boundaries of possibility for the human body? This article will consider the narrative and context around a particularly well-publicized incident of rejuvenation therapy, advertised as kāyakalpa (body transformation or rejuvenation), from 1938. In this year, the prominent Congress Activist and co-founder of Banaras Hindu University, Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946), underwent an extreme – and very public – rejuvenation treatment under the care of a sadhu using the name of Shriman Tapasviji (c.1770?-1955). The first half of the article will explore the presentation of Malaviya’s treatment and how it inspired a focus on rejuvenation therapy within Indian medicine in the years immediately following. Exploring this mid-twentieth century incident highlight some of the themes and concerns of the historical period, just out of living memory, but in many ways similar to our own
Should Canada Re-join the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH)?
PAIGH was formed in 1928, in Havana, as the first specialized organization of the Organization of American States. Headquarters remain in Mexico City. The organization is supported by a quota of its members as determined by the OAS. PAIGH members now include virtually all of the Latin American states. Canada was a member until 1997, but has since withdrawn
Guest Editorial for a Special Issue of Religions of South Asia: Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: traditions, transmissions and transformations
This special issue of Religions of South Asia is born out of this expanding area of study and collaboration between contemporary practitioners and established academic methods of study. Most of the articles in this volume were first presented at an international ‘Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana’ conference hosted in Kraków, Poland in May 2016. The Krakow conference was initiated by Matylda Ciołkosz and Robert Czyżykowski of the Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University and was co-sponsored by the Modern Yoga Research network established by Elizabeth de Michelis, with the help of Mark Singleton and Suzanne Newcombe
Coverage-adjusted confidence intervals for a binomial proportion
We consider the classic problem of interval estimation of a proportion
based on binomial sampling. The "exact" Clopper-Pearson confidence interval for
is known to be unnecessarily conservative. We propose coverage-adjustments
of the Clopper-Pearson interval using prior and posterior distributions of .
The adjusted intervals have improved coverage and are often shorter than
competing intervals found in the literature. Using new heatmap-type plots for
comparing confidence intervals, we find that the coverage-adjusted intervals
are particularly suitable for close to 0 or 1.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures, 2 table
Understanding the Experience of Weight Gain and Body Image During Adolescent Pregnancy
This qualitative descriptive study explores the experience of adolescent pregnancy and the influence of body image and other factors on weight gain. It identified three main themes through content analysis: Continuity of Care, Adolescent Investment in a Healthy Pregnancy, and the Impact of Pregnancy Symptoms
Method for making a heat insulating and ablative structure
Filling honeycomb matrix with deaerated paste fille
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