CONTEMPORARY THAI VERSION OF THE KATHIN CEREMONY: CEREMONIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF WHITE ENVELOPS AND THE MONEY TREE TRADITION

Contemporary Thai Version of the Kathin Ceremony: Ceremonial Importance of the Distribution of White Envelops and the Money Tree Tradition

The Kathin ceremony is generally known as a ceremony of Underarm Crutches the Buddhist laypeople to make an offering of new robes to the monks.The joyfulness of people in the contemporary Thai Kathin festival reflects a fusion of the traditional ritual and the modern socioeconomic context in the Thai society, which can be explained in three points.

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Strategies to Prevent Cholera Introduction during International Personnel Deployments: A Computational Modeling Analysis Based on the 2010 Haiti Outbreak.

BACKGROUND:Introduction of Vibrio cholerae to Haiti during the deployment of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in 2010 resulted in one of the largest cholera epidemics of the modern era.Following the outbreak, a UN-commissioned independent panel recommended three pre-deployment intervention strategies to minimize the risk Insect Repellent of cholera

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