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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Holidays"”.
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The Value of Holidays in World War I America
… of the Fourth of July and Christmas. These two holidays became patriotic ways to demonstrate unswerving loyalty to the U.S. government, with charitable pursuits, parties, and even meals altered due to the need for victory. These holidays impacted the war in turn by bolstering morale on the …
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Tourist understanding of and engagement with the climate change impacts of holidays.
… of low cost carriers has opened up international holidays to the masses, as well as enabling more wealthy members of society to become hyper-mobile tourists. The expansion in the aviation market has realised people’s social and cultural aspirations for international travel and has resulted in air …
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Collection development of non-Christian religious holiday books in elementary school libraries
… to find and evaluate books about non-Christian holidays. Elementary library collections may under-represent non-Christian religious books because of a lack of school library media specialists' personal knowledge about non-Christian holidays. This study surveyed school library media specialists …
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Social Tourism: a potential policy to reduce social exclusion? The effects of visitor-related social tourism for low-income groups on personal and family development
… has wider benefits than just providing access to holidays to groups who would usually be excluded from tourism, and whether it could be seen as a potential measure against social exclusion. If social tourism can reduce social exclusion, it benefits not only the participants, but also has wider …
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Impact of business forecasting on demand planning. A strategy for improving business forecasting and reducing inventories throughout the supply chain for fast moving consumer goods in the Middle East market.
… recognition of the effects that Muslim religious holidays, as opposed to Christian religious holidays, have on demand. Muslim religious holidays rotate backwards with regard to the Western calendar, but in fact they occur at known dates and therefore the effect they have on demand for products can …
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Clovette : predicting preferences for flowers
Flowers are often gifted for major holidays and personal holidays, for both personal and corporate purposes. Today's solutions in the market are abundant but scattered, with many players offering products of varying quality at a range of price points. To command higher prices and stay relevant in …
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Consumer holiday structure: an analysis of Christian holiday patterns and consumer ritual practice in America
… holiday calendar structure. Major Christian holidays are viewed as complex sets and repeated patterns, involving inversions and binary oppositions. A structuralist analysis is applied to explore the role of Black Friday as a new consumer holiday in a larger symbol set--one that reveals the …
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Exploring urban activity patterns using electric smart meter data
… provides measurement of the impact of various holidays on economic activity, using electricity consumption as a proxy. Large (industrial) consumers are generally much more sensitive to holidays than small (residential) consumers are, except during the summer months in Italy. In general, …
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Predicción de consumos eléctricos en Inglaterra, Gales y Escocia a través de datos de medidores inteligentes
… which climatic variables or weekdays or holidays determine the changes in consumption in the population. With the new European regulation that forces energy suppliers to deploy smart meters in all homes, usable information can be obtained when predicting more accurately the energy …
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Predicción de la demanda de pasajeros a clústeres de estaciones del Metropolitano usando métodos de Data Mining, la metodología Box-Jenkins y Sarima
… didn't make a correct prediction for the annual holidays, as they were interpreted as outlier´s values, so the demand that recorded these dates was replaced to make the models more accurate; finally getting good results with a RMSPE, MAPE and ¿ 2 between 6.37% - 8.13%, 4.19% - 5.93% y 0.91 - 0.98 …
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Exploring the role of culture in the holiday choices of Saudi tourists
… that resulted in a rapid increase in outbound holidays while domestic holidays declined. Following a qualitative approach, this thesis explored how the culture of Saudi Arabia has contributed to such shift in holiday preferences among a diverse sample of 35 participants, consisting of both male …
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Úttekt á ferðaþjónustubæjum í Árnessýslu
… við önnur sambærileg verkefni (t.d. Farm Holidays) á Norðurlöndunum og í Bretlandi.
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An exploration of adventure tourism participation and consumption
… activities, particularly packaged adventure holidays, means there is a need to understand adventure tourists. At the start of my research journey, the embryonic nature of adventure tourism research and the limited extant literature about adventure tourists provided the impetus to develop …
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Bayesian Computation for Variable Selection and Multivariate Forecasting in Dynamic Models
… in product demand forecasting is the effect of holidays and special events. An error correction model is introduced for this context, demonstrating strong predictive performance across a variety of holidays and retail item categories. Finally, a new Python package for Bayesian DGLM analysis, …
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Exploring travel and spirituality: The role of travel in facilitating life purpose and meaning within the lives of individuals
… who engaged in tours provided by Hands Up Holidays, a tour operator marketing their travel as ‘spiritual’. Hands Up Holidays views spirituality as being a broader concept than religion and attracts both religious and non-religious individuals who are seeking personally meaningful …
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Trauma Unit volumes: Is there a relationship with weather, sporting events and week/month-end times? An audit at an urban tertiary trauma unit in Cape Town
… and results, and information regarding public holidays and long weekends were obtained for the relevant shifts. Average daily attendances for interpersonal violence (IPV)-related injuries and motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) were compared across the various external factors described. Poisson …
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