In fact, a recent qualitative study conducted in different settings shows that a lot of Vietnamese women still rely on various folk methods –ranging from specific food diets to appropriate coital positions– to ensure the birth of a son [22].
Provision was also made in the questionnaire to record any other methods mentioned by the respondent, including folk methods.
The level of detail provided in the dataset for traditional methods also varied by country, but these methods consisted primarily of withdrawal, periodic abstinence, and folk methods.
Folk divination methods can be done for fun in the evening, for example peeling an apple with a knife, so that the peel stays in one piece.
According to some old folk healing methods, you should cut a 'V' shape in the top of the infected toenail to relieve the pressure, which in turn will heal the nail.
On the basis of grain-size measurements of samples, each of the granulometric parameters (mean grain size μ, sorting σ, skewness S k, and kurtosis kt) is generated by the moment method (Folk 1966; Harrington 1967), as follows: mu =sum pd (1).
By the 90's, 80percentt of all American women born since 1945 had tried the Pill, but steriliation, including vasectomy, had become the No. 1 choice of married folk, while barrier methods that protect against sexually transmitted diseases - especially condoms - have gained favor among the not necessarily monogamous.
In many crafts, however, the folk artists evolved simpler methods of their own.
I hope you will find it here in small, instructive gestures: the folks from Blue Bottle's method for roasting coffee beans at home; a tutorial in how to transform supermarket flowers into an offhand, gorgeous bouquet; a seating plan for a Saturday supper; an idiosyncratic family reading list from the legendary George Lois.
It was Balanchine's method to absorb folk and vernacular steps into ballet's classical idiom, as he did here and in the second section of the Brahms "Liebeslieder Walzer".
In place of the semantic individuation method adopted by folk psychology, Stich argues for a syntactic taxonomy that is based upon the causally relevant syntactic or physical properties of a given cognitive state.
