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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Religious Healing in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua
- 2008
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In: 33th Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) conference, San Andres, Colombia, May 26-30, 2008.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper inquires into the various forms of healing performed today among the Miskitu people of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. The Miskitu have a long history of relations with outsiders and with people of African origin. Miskitu cosmology and its ideas about illness and healing is today a mixture of indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, and Christian beliefs. Local healers constantly pick up new healing methods and ideas from other religious traditions in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The paper discusses how Miskitu healers, known as curanderos, sukias, and profetas, heal by relating sickness and suffering to a world of spirits which also makes reference to the plural cultural antecedences of contemporary Miskitu worldview.
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Spirit possession among the Miskitu of Nicaragua
- 2008
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In: Paper for the 10th EASA conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 26-29, 2008..
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The Miskitu people of Eastern Nicaragua are occasionally troubled by a spectacular illness called grisi siknis or "crazy sickness," said to be caused by spirits. This paper inquires into how Miskitu healers ritually transform the experience of the afflicted through an idiom of the spirit world.
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- Korsak, Larisa, et al.
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Alternatives of Sludge Use in Nicaragua
- 2005
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In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual HWEA Conference "New Technical Knowledge for Clean Water".
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)
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- Ljuslinder, Karin
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Monitoring disabled women's human rights in Nicaragua
- 2007
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In: 10 years anniversary : NNDR - Nordic Network on Disability Research. ; , s. 1-
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This project studied violations of human rights of disabled women in Nicaragua, in order to apply the Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities.
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- Korsak, Larisa, et al.
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Evaluation of anaerobic sludge activity in wastewater treatment plants in Nicaragua
- 2006
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In: Water Pollution VIII. - 184564042X ; , s. 571-579
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sludge of three municipal anaerobic wastewater treatment plants was evaluated. This study was initiated due to the low activity observed in the anaerobic wastewater treatment plants in Nicaragua. An additional goal to select one of them, if possible, as an inoculum for the brewery treatment plant was proposed. Two of these plants work with an Imhoff tank and one with a Septic tank followed by an anaerobic upflow filter. The study consisted in the characterization of biomass in terms of Specific Methanogenic Activity (SMA), Volatile Suspended Solids (VSS), density, pH, and redox potential (RP). The treated waters were also analysed for nutrients, heavy metals and the organic load. The substrate used in the experiments for determining the methanogenic activity was acetic acid. NaHCO3 was added to maintain pH in the normal range of operation. The tests were carried out at a sludge load of 1.5 g VSS/l. The results indicate that treated wastewater does not have any impediment to proper development of microorganisms; no presence of toxic substances and enough essential nutrients were detected. The specific methanogenic activity of sludge (SMA) in the Imhoff tanks is relatively close and oscillates between 0.16-0.28 g CH4-COD/g VSS/day, and in the septic tank is 0.09 g CH4-COD/g VSS/day. These values agree with the methanogenic activity found in the literature for septic tanks (0.02-0.1 g CH4-COD/gVSS/day). The highest methanogenic activity measured during the test was 0.28g CH4-COD/g VSS/day in the sludge of the Imhoff tank in The Viejo city, so this sludge could be proposed as a seed for the brewery treatment plant.
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- Garca, I., et al.
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Removal of natural organic matter by conventional and enhanced coagulation in Nicaragua
- 2007
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In: Water Resources Management IV. - : WIT Press. - 9781845640743 ; , s. 399-409
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Enhanced coagulation was applied to raw water from a drinking water plant in Nicaragua through bench scale jar test in order to reduce the presence of natural organic matter (NOM) and decrease the trihalomethanes (THMs) formation which has been linked to carcinogenic diseases. Due to the lack of information about the presence of chlorination by-products (CBPs) like trihalomethanes, a study of their formation by varying pH, contact time, temperature and chlorine dose was also performed; following conventional or enhanced coagulation treatment. The results show that enhanced coagulation decreases considerably the formation of THMs because it reduces strongly the presence of organic matter due to the fact that higher alum doses were used in comparison with conventional coagulation utilized at the facility. The removal of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) was improved from 44 at the facility to 67 with enhanced coagulation. Trihalomethanes concentration increases drastically when extreme conditions of the four parameters evaluated were applied exceeding the maximum contaminant levels of USEPA (80 g/L) but not the Nicaraguan target value (460 g/L) for both coagulation types.
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