(n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper examines three different sets of restraints that have evolved in three different regions of Thailand to protect supernaturalist curers from excessive accusations that could lead to harassment.
(2) It is then possible to differentiate between the shaman as primarily the mediator between the supernatural powers and man, and the medicine-man as primarily the curer of diseases through traditional techniques.
(3) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(4) There appears to be little or no direct communication between local competitors among Thailand's traditional curers.
(5) He spent some time in the house of Daryatmo, a local dukun (or curer of supernatural problems) who became the first guru in Suharto's life.
(6) Both types can be provided by native curers, whereas only the former is expected from urban based general practitioners; we show how Malay parents in fact partly relate to medical doctors as if they were traditional healers.
(7) Especially in urbanizing areas, Buddhist and Muslim Thais hold in the highest esteem traditional curers whose knowledge derives from patient experimentation and the study of ancient texts.
(8) Warao herbal curers make use of more than 100 plant species from which they prepare 259 remedies.
(9) This world view motivates two conflicting modalities of medical practice: one based on the magic powers of curers (dukun), the others on the religiously validated powers of Sufi saints.
(10) The paper concludes with a discussion of the competition found among a specific group of curer-magicians, namely, Thai-Buddhist monk-practitioners.
(11) Given the often grave nature of such accusations, how have supernaturalist curers been spared from persecution during times of adversity?
(12) Rivalry among neighboring curer-magicians is so pervasive that diagnostic decisions sometimes depend in part on the relative status of previous healers on a case.
(13) Southern Muslim curers are generally mystics or spirit-mediums whose direct channels of communication with the supernatural convey remedies for afflictions but also provide guidelines for maintaining sociocultural separatism.
(14) Most curers describe themselves as specialists in one or another of these modes, but at the same time, many also recognize multiple levels of causation and multi-modal treatment alternatives for any specific affliction.
(15) He spent some time in the house of Daryatmo, a local dukun (curer of supernatural problems), who became the first guru in his life.
(16) This premise blinds researchers to differences between the medical epistemologies of lay persons and curers.
(17) These difficulties can be avoided by considering medicine as a local cultural system of symbolic meanings anchored in institutions and interpersonal interactions, and by separating the medical beliefs and activities of laypersons from those of curers.
Curr
Definition:
(v. i.) To coo.
Example Sentences:
(1) (c) the NH2NH2-induced transformation S0----'S-2' [Renger, Messinger and Hanssum (1990) in: Curr.'
(2) Pamela Curr, campaign coordinator for the asylum seeker resources centre, said the Shev scheme would create extra processing work unnecessarily.
(3) The theory of dual radiation action (A. M. Kellerer and H. H. Rossi, Curr.
(4) Confirming the previous report by Machicao and Wieland [(1985) Curr.
(5) It has been proposed that regulatory multienzyme complex formation between yeast ornithine transcarbamoylase (OTCase) and arginase is triggered by a conformational change promoted by the binding of ornithine to a regulatory site in OTCase (Wiame, J.-M. (1971) Curr.
(6) (1978) 25, 923; McGrath and Weissman, Cell (1979) 17, 65; Weissman and McGrath, Curr.
(7) A theoretical relative biologic effectiveness, based upon the dual radiation action model of Kellerer and Rossi [Curr.
(8) U.S.A. 82, 4578-4581; Hohman, R. J., Veron, M., & Guitton, M. C. (1985) Curr.
(9) Curr said she had heard from staff that the refugee applications had been processed, but the decisions were yet to be conveyed to people because of the lack of accommodation on the island.
(10) The CDC25 Start gene whose product appears to be required for traversing the Go phase of the cell cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been previously cloned (J. Daniel and G. Simchen (1986), Curr Genet 10:643-646).
(11) Instead they’re being left languishing in an environment that is clearly unsafe for women and children.” Pamela Curr, a refugee rights advocate from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, said the move from heavy security to an open policy was probably related to the pending high court hearings.
(12) 265 (1990) 10857-10864; Schweingruber et al., Curr.
(13) Pamela Curr, from Australian Women in Support of Women on Nauru, which recently released their own report into the treatment of women on the island, said the situation was so dire “only a royal commission could get to the bottom of the systemic abuse experienced by women, children and men in these camps”.
(14) By expressing the ceuIR gene in the Escherichia coli vectors pKK233-2 and pTRC-99A, we recently demonstrated that the endonuclease is highly toxic to E. coli [Gauthier et al., Curr.
(15) The sites of linkage investigated in this study with respect to their transcriptional activities were those previously cloned and sequenced (W. Doerfler, R. Gahlmann, S. Stabel, R. Deuring, U. Lichtenberg, M. Schulz, D. Eick, and R. Leisten, Curr.
(16) To assess the superiority of indirect calorimetry (IC)-based enteral nutrition in burned patients, 49 adults with mean burns of 47% TBSA received feedings based either on the Curreri formula (CURR), or on IC, using enteral formulas with nonprotein calorie:nitrogen ratios of either 86:1, or 125:1.
(17) Under the current system there’s nothing to stop people going out in the regions and working,” Curr told Guardian Australia.
(18) ADK1 was found to be identical to an adenylate kinase gene recently isolated by an approach entirely different from ours (Magdolen, V., Oechsner, U., and Bandlow, W. (1987) Curr.
(19) Curr stressed the danger of violence aimed at unaccompanied women on Nauru after numerous allegations , including some of sexual assault.
(20) The rationale for determining these limits is developed from both a simple kinetic model and from a linear nonequilibrium thermodynamic treatment of coupled fluxes, using the mechanistic approach [Westerhoff, H. V. & van Dam, K. (1979) Curr.