Some shamans had several tutelary spirit-beings, each providing instruction for specific practices, such as the power to cure disease, to foretell the future, or to practice sorcery.
Katja Iversen Dig out the roots, rather than cut off a branch: I worry that the current focus on specific practices, such as early and forced marriage, rather than underlying structural factors might not produce the kind of outcomes we seek.
Specific practices, such as 25 senior executives identifying by consensus six drivers of the future relevant to their industry (I06), helped to offset the more general input drawn from scans conducted by external consultants or research companies (I06, I13).
This approach is not much affected by country-specific practices, such as occupational health access and workers compensation system, as is the assessment based on identifying cases diagnosed with occupational asthma per se.
'Spiritual healing' was in the form of religion-specific practices such as saying prayers, lighting candles, pledging specific vows, consuming foods deemed holy such as 'Zamzam water' (a type of holy water for Muslims, brought from Mecca), and fasting (abstinence from any food or drink from dawn to sunset).
Farmers indicated that they acquired new knowledge and became confident with respect to specific agricultural practices such as fertilizer application.
I conclude that specific management practices such as performance monitoring, targets setting and incentive schemes have significant positive impacts on 8th-graders' math scores, especially on low performance students.
Fishbowls are usually focused on specific best practices, such as a hiring methodology or cultural initiative.
Some benefits are tangible and specific business practices, such as access to services, a contract with the cooperative to deliver all production, or the physical proximity of the business.
Pastoralists in northern Tanzania, through their land use choices and specific management practices such as the maintenance of dry season grazing reserves and protection of forests and woodlands, provide what is in reality an increasingly commercially valued ecosystem service.
Risks related to specific religious practices such as laying on of hands, holding hands, and funerary practices can be mitigated but that requires outreach and cooperation with religious leaders.
