Few employment opportunities are available to hijras, who must often resort to begging or prostitution (as Hindu temple prostitutes in premodern times). The men who engage in sexual relations with hijras are not considered gay in the Western sense, just as hijras are not gay but instead members of the third gender. In fact, some Hijras find husbands. They also perform traditional religious ceremonies at marriages and the birth of male babies. Hijra attendance at birth and wedding ceremonies are usually uninvited, involving music, sing ...

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Hijra South Asia, Hijra South Asia - Other names for Hijras, Hijra South Asia - Different kinds of hijras, Hijra South Asia - Hijras and religion, Hijra South Asia - Becoming a hijra, Hijra South Asia - Making a living, Hijra South Asia - History, Hijra South Asia - Koothandavar festival, Hijra South Asia - Miscellaneaous

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As mentioned above there is some resemblance between hijras and the ancient galli of Cybele. However, it is not known if there is a link between the two, and there seem to be no references to similar practices in other Indo-European cultures. The ancient Kama Sutra mentions the performance of oral sex on male parishioners at Hindu temples by hijras. During British colonialism, negative attitudes towards hijras were imported from Europe. The British passed laws outlawing their practices. Homosexual depictions in many Hindu templ ...

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Hijra South Asia, Hijra South Asia - Other names for Hijras, Hijra South Asia - Different kinds of hijras, Hijra South Asia - Hijras and religion, Hijra South Asia - Becoming a hijra, Hijra South Asia - Making a living, Hijra South Asia - History, Hijra South Asia - Koothandavar festival, Hijra South Asia - Miscellaneaous

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Commonly the Hijra-rights groups support gay rights issues in the Indian subcontinent, but this is a newly-emerging situation. In November of 2000, Asha Devi - a hijra - was elected mayor of Gorakhpur, a post reserved for a woman. The city had a population of approximately 500,000 as of 1991. She was unseated when a court decreed that she was a man [1], but was later reinstated. The term "hijra" in this context is to be distinguished from an Arabic word of the same transliteration. The last consonant in the South Asian term is not pronounced like the English "r" or the Arabic ra or Ray. Th ...

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Hijra South Asia, Hijra South Asia - Other names for Hijras, Hijra South Asia - Different kinds of hijras, Hijra South Asia - Hijras and religion, Hijra South Asia - Becoming a hijra, Hijra South Asia - Making a living, Hijra South Asia - History, Hijra South Asia - Koothandavar festival, Hijra South Asia - Miscellaneaous

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The Billboard 200 9 - 22 - 33 - 47 - 53 - 70 - 75 - 89 - 113 - 70 - 59 - 70 - 83 - 101 - 144 - 161 - 159 - 160 - 171 - 179 - 192 - OUT Peak: 9 Weeks On: 21 ...

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Living Proof, Living Proof - U.S. Chart Performance, Living Proof - European Track listing, Living Proof - Japan Track listing, Living Proof - US Track listing, Living Proof - Singles, Living Proof - The Music's No Good Without You, Living Proof - Song for the Lonely, Living Proof - Alive Again, Living Proof - A Different Kind of Love Song, Living Proof - When the Money's Gone/Love One Another

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Commercial sour cream contains from 18 to 20 percent fat, and gets its characteristic tang from the lactic acid created by the bacteria. Sour cream often contains additional ingredients such as gelatin, rennin, and vegetable enzymes. Light sour cream contains about 40 percent less fat than regular sour cream because it is made from half and half rather than cream. Nonfat sour cream is thickened with stabilizers. ...

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Sour cream, Sour cream - Commercial sour cream, Sour cream - Storage, Sour cream - Uses, Sour cream - Variations

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Used primarily in the cuisines of Europe and North America, sour cream is often used as a condiment. It is a traditional topping for baked potatoes, added cold along with chopped fresh chives. It is used as the base for some creamy salad dressings and can also be used in baking, added to the mix for cakes, cookies, American-style biscuits and scones. "Sour cream and onion" is a popular flavor for potato chips. Sour cream can also provide the base for various forms of dip used for dipping potato chips or crackers. In Russian cuisine, sour cream is often added to borscht and other soups. In Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, it is often ad ...

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Sour cream, Sour cream - Commercial sour cream, Sour cream - Storage, Sour cream - Uses, Sour cream - Variations

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The creationist "kind" is assumed to be based upon an idea that life in the past exhibited greater genetic diversity and heterozygosity than life today, in the form of "kinds" analogous to the liger. Thus, the kinds were created with the innate ability to vary a great deal, and subsequent evolutionary processes are merely the means by which that innate ability to vary is expressed. The definition of created kinds is therefore similar in form and function to the phylogenetic tree of evolutionary biology, but bears two important differe ...

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Created kind, Created kind - Definitions, Created kind - Kinds in the Tree of Life, Created kind - Boundaries between kinds, Created kind - Hypothesized kinds

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Al-Kindī - Philosophy. Al-Kindī was a master of many different areas of thought. He was an expert in music, philosophy, astronomy, medicine, geography, and mathematics. During his lifetime (and for about a century afterwards) he was held to be the greatest Islamic philosopher, eventually being eclipsed only by such great names as al-Fārābi and Avicenna. He is still held to be greatest philosopher of Arab descent, though; indeed, he was often refe ...

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Al-Kindī, Al-Kindī - Life, Al-Kindī - Accomplishments, Al-Kindī - Philosophy, Al-Kindī - Other accomplishments, Al-Kindī - Quotations, Al-Kindī - Sources, Al-Kindī - Related topics

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Given that very simple rules often do very complex things, how do we study them? Wolfram believes it is necessary to systematically explore all of these computational systems and document what they do. He believes this study should become a new branch of science, like a physics or a chemistry. The basic goal of this field is to understand and characterize the computational universe using experimental methods. The proposed new branch of scientific exploration admits many different forms of scientific production. For instance, qualitati ...

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A New Kind of Science, A New Kind of Science - Computation and its Implications, A New Kind of Science - The World of Simple Programs, A New Kind of Science - Mapping and Mining the Computational Universe, A New Kind of Science - Systematic Abstract Science, A New Kind of Science - Philosophical Underpinnings, A New Kind of Science - Applications and Results, A New Kind of Science - Reception, A New Kind of Science - Criticism of NKS, A New Kind of Science - Scientific philosophy, A New Kind of Science - Methodology, A New Kind of Science - Utility, A New Kind of Science - Specific Ideas, A New Kind of Science - Originality and Self-Image, A New Kind of Science - Response to Criticism, A New Kind of Science - Scientific Philosophy, A New Kind of Science - Methodology, A New Kind of Science - Utility, A New Kind of Science - Specific Ideas, A New Kind of Science - Originality and Self-Image

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Al-Kindī - Philosophy. Al-Kindī was a master of many different areas of thought. He was an expert in music, philosophy, astronomy, medicine, geography, and mathematics. During his lifetime (and for about a century afterwards) he was held to be the greatest Islamic philosopher, eventually being eclipsed only by such great names as al-Fārābi and Avicenna. He is still held to be greatest philosopher of Arab descent, though; indeed, he was often refe ...

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Al-Kindī, Al-Kindī - Life, Al-Kindī - Accomplishments, Al-Kindī - Philosophy, Al-Kindī - Other accomplishments, Al-Kindī - Quotations, Al-Kindī - Sources

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ML-derived languages are most well known for their static type systems and type-inferring compilers. OCaml unifies functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming under an ML-like type system. OCaml's static type system eliminates a large class of programmer errors that may cause problems at runtime. However, it also forces the programmer to conform to the constraints of the type system, which can require careful thought and close attention. The type-inferring compiler greatly reduces the need for manual type annotation (for e ...

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OCaml, OCaml - Philosophy, OCaml - Features, OCaml - Applications, OCaml - Computer science, OCaml - Natural science, OCaml - Education, OCaml - Code examples, OCaml - Hello World, OCaml - Birthday paradox, OCaml - Factorial function recursion and purely functional programming, OCaml - Arbitrary-precision factorial function libraries, OCaml - Numerical derivative higher-order functions, OCaml - Discrete Wavelet Transform pattern matching, OCaml - Triangle graphics, OCaml - Programs written in OCaml, OCaml - Derived languages, OCaml - MetaOCaml, OCaml - Other derived languages

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OCaml features: a static type system, type inference, parametric polymorphism, tail recursion, pattern matching, first class lexical closures, functors (parametric modules), exception handling, and incremental generational automatic garbage collection. OCaml is particularly notable for extending ML-style type inference to an object system in a general purpose language. This permits structural subtyping, where object types are compatible if their method signatures are compatible, regardless of their declared inheritance; an unusual feat ...

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OCaml, OCaml - Philosophy, OCaml - Features, OCaml - Applications, OCaml - Computer science, OCaml - Natural science, OCaml - Education, OCaml - Code examples, OCaml - Hello World, OCaml - Birthday paradox, OCaml - Factorial function recursion and purely functional programming, OCaml - Arbitrary-precision factorial function libraries, OCaml - Numerical derivative higher-order functions, OCaml - Discrete Wavelet Transform pattern matching, OCaml - Triangle graphics, OCaml - Programs written in OCaml, OCaml - Derived languages, OCaml - MetaOCaml, OCaml - Other derived languages

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OCaml is a general-purpose programming language, but some of its more popular applications include: OCaml - Computer science. Theorem proving (e.g. Coq, HOL Light, MetaPRL) Computer program analysis (CIL, C Code Analyzer, Astrée) Compiler writing (OCaml compiler, Felix, MTASC) OCaml - Natural science. OCaml is also widely used in physics, chemistry, biology and, more recently, bioinformatics: Analysis Visualisation See also:

OCaml, OCaml - Philosophy, OCaml - Features, OCaml - Applications, OCaml - Computer science, OCaml - Natural science, OCaml - Education, OCaml - Code examples, OCaml - Hello World, OCaml - Birthday paradox, OCaml - Factorial function recursion and purely functional programming, OCaml - Arbitrary-precision factorial function libraries, OCaml - Numerical derivative higher-order functions, OCaml - Discrete Wavelet Transform pattern matching, OCaml - Triangle graphics, OCaml - Programs written in OCaml, OCaml - Derived languages, OCaml - MetaOCaml, OCaml - Other derived languages

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Snippets of OCaml code are most easily studied by entering them into the "top-level". This is an interactive OCaml session that prints the inferred types of resulting or defined expressions. The OCaml top-level is started by simply executing the "ocaml" program: $ ocaml Objective Caml version 3.09.0 # Code can then be entered at the "#" prompt. For example, to calculate 1+2*3: # 1 + 2 * 3;; - : int = 7 OCaml infers the type of the expression to be "int" (a machine-precision integer) and gives the result "7". OCaml - Hello World. See also:

OCaml, OCaml - Philosophy, OCaml - Features, OCaml - Applications, OCaml - Computer science, OCaml - Natural science, OCaml - Education, OCaml - Code examples, OCaml - Hello World, OCaml - Birthday paradox, OCaml - Factorial function recursion and purely functional programming, OCaml - Arbitrary-precision factorial function libraries, OCaml - Numerical derivative higher-order functions, OCaml - Discrete Wavelet Transform pattern matching, OCaml - Triangle graphics, OCaml - Programs written in OCaml, OCaml - Derived languages, OCaml - MetaOCaml, OCaml - Other derived languages

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OCaml - MetaOCaml. MetaOCaml [3] is a multi-stage programming extension of Ocaml enabling incremental compiling of new machine code during runtime. Under certain circumstances, significant speedups are possible using multi-stage programming, because more detailed information about the data to process is available at runtime than at the regular compile time, so the incremental compiler can optimize ...

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OCaml, OCaml - Philosophy, OCaml - Features, OCaml - Applications, OCaml - Computer science, OCaml - Natural science, OCaml - Education, OCaml - Code examples, OCaml - Hello World, OCaml - Birthday paradox, OCaml - Factorial function recursion and purely functional programming, OCaml - Arbitrary-precision factorial function libraries, OCaml - Numerical derivative higher-order functions, OCaml - Discrete Wavelet Transform pattern matching, OCaml - Triangle graphics, OCaml - Programs written in OCaml, OCaml - Derived languages, OCaml - MetaOCaml, OCaml - Other derived languages

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Bhastra: Breath control. Hatha Yoga uses eight different kinds of breath control.  Bhastra is one of them.

(See also: Bhastra, Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)

Swami Sivananda, in his book, All about Hinduism, noted that "Brahma represents the creative aspect; Vishnu, the preservative aspect; and Siva, the destructive aspect of Paramatman. These functions are akin to wearing different garbs on different occasions. For example, when you do the function of a judge, you put on one kind of dress. At home you wear another kind of dress. When you do worship in the temple, you wear another kind of dress. You exhibit different kinds of temperament on different occasions. Even so, the Lord does the f ...

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Trimurti, Trimurti - Symbolizations, Trimurti - Change of the Hindu Trinity, Trimurti - Other uses

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Swami Sivananda, in his book, All about Hinduism, noted that "Brahma represents the creative aspect; Vishnu, the preservative aspect; and Siva, the destructive aspect of Paramatman. These functions are akin to wearing different garbs on different occasions. For example, when you do the function of a judge, you put on one kind of dress. At home you wear another kind of dress. When you do worship in the temple, you wear another kind of dress. You exhibit different kinds of temperament on different occasions. Even so, the Lord does the f ...

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Trimurti, Trimurti - Symbolizations, Trimurti - Evolution of Theology on the Hindu Trinity, Trimurti - Other uses

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Note that not all seizures are caused by epilepsy, although epilepsy is the most common cause of seizures. Just as there are many different kinds of seizures, there are many different kinds of epilepsy. Doctors have identified hundreds of different epilepsy syndromes - disorders characterized by a specific set of symptoms that include epilepsy. Some of these syndromes appear to be hereditary. For other syndromes, the cause is unknown. Epilepsy syndromes are frequently described by their symptoms or by where in the brain they originate ...

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Absence seizure, Absence seizure - Types, Absence seizure - Presentation

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Ogham

The Celtic alphabet made up of 20 letters called fews, each representing a different kind of tree.

(See also: Ogham, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Ogham

The Celtic alphabet made up of 20 letters called fews, each representing a different kind of tree.

(See also: Ogham, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Since this is a second-order differential equation, there must be two linearly independent solutions. Depending upon the circumstances, however, various formulations of these solutions are convenient, and the different variations are described below. Bessel function - Bessel functions of the first kind. Bessel functions of the first kind, denoted with Jα(x), are solutions of Bessel's differential equation which are finite at x = 0 for α an integer or α non-negative. The s ...

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Bessel function, Bessel function - Applications, Bessel function - Definitions, Bessel function - Bessel functions of the first kind, Bessel function - Bessel functions of the second kind, Bessel function - Hankel functions, Bessel function - Modified Bessel functions, Bessel function - Spherical Bessel functions, Bessel function - Riccati-Bessel functions, Bessel function - Asymptotic forms, Bessel function - Properties

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