Many shamans, known as mudang, even operate sophisticated Web sites these days (complete with online fortunetelling), even as they continue to strangle chickens, walk barefoot on razor blades and commune with dead relatives whose spirits reside in trees, chimneys or woodland creatures.
It forms the unique branch and belongs to a cluster of Nostoc, with the closest relative of Nostoc commune isolates.
Isolate Nostoc sp. 10Dp66E forms unique branch and belongs to a cluster of the genus Nostoc, with the closest relative of Nostoc commune isolates.
Using logistic regression, we found that this increased risk persisted after adjusting for age, sex, number of relatives, birth order, and commune of residence, COPD and history of smoking and smoky coal use exposures.
The implementation of the HRS in 1979, which replaced the commune system, significantly improved farmers' work incentives by giving them relative freedom in their productive choices and granting secure land-use rights as a means of promoting productive investment (Rozelle et al. 1999).
The majority of people who migrated due to flooding stayed in their relative's or friend's house within their commune.
In all cases, when the OR was determined by the logistic model, relatives of probands were at greater risk of lung cancer than the same relative of a spouse, adjusted age, sex, birth order, and commune of residence, COPD, smoking history and exposure to total smoky coal use.
In France, revolutionary uprisings, directed against nobility and clergy, sometimes established free communes, but most communities were content with a franchise from their sovereign despite their limitations compared with the relative liberty of English boroughs after the Norman Conquest.
We have a creative community of people who work together — not a commune, but basically an artist commune.
Escaping the worst horrors of the Commune of Paris, Degas left in 1872 for a protracted visit to his relatives in New Orleans, where he pursued his experiments in family portraiture in spectacular works such as the Cotton Office at New Orleans (1873).
