The Effect of Adherence to Dietary Tracking on Weight Loss: Using HLM to Model Weight Loss over Time by John Spencer Ingels, Ranjita Misra, Jonathan Stewart, Brandon Lucke-Wold, Samantha Shawley-Brzoska

“…In addition, the weight loss trend for the rare and inconsistent trackers followed a nonlinear path, with the holidays slowing weight loss and the onset of summer increasing weight loss. …”
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Enhancing Predictive Models in E-Commerce: A Comparative Study Using XGBoost Across Diverse Scenarios by Zhang Jianhao

“…However, sudden demand spikes during holidays or special events can disrupt market equilibrium, causing stock shortages and logistical challenges. …”
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TOURIST PERCEPTIONS ABOUT FOOD SERVICE CHARACTERISTICS IN ACCOMMODATION ENTERPRISES: AN IMPORTANTANCE-PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS by Zeki Akıncı, Gülseren Yurcu, Caner Küçüker

“…This study purposed to evaluate food-service characteristic perceptions according to tourists spending their holidays in accommodations enterprises in the region of Alanya\Okurcalar. …”
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Upper Secondary School Students’ Learning at Work: The Effect on Agency in School by Maria Erss, Krista Loogma

“…In light of the fact that an increasing number of upper secondary school students in Estonia work in parallel with attending school or during school holidays, the purpose of the study was to ascertain whether work experience and the competencies acquired through work are, in combination with other school-related (teacher agency support), personal (resilience, achievement in Estonian language, mathematics and history) and socio-demographic (gender and mother tongue) factors, related to student agency in school. …”
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A Ship Emerges in the Distance... People Stand and Applaud. The (Un)obvious Contexts of the Wrocław Sea Festival Celebrations in June 1945 by Joanna Nowosielska-Sobel

“…The aim of this article is to attempt to answer whether the celebrations of secular holidays and ceremonies sponsored by the emerging communist governments in Poland can be reduced solely to the implementation of ideological tasks leading to the political subjugation of the nation. …”
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Recursive Neural Network-Based Market Demand Forecasting Algorithm for Calligraphy Practice Products by Yi Xue

“…However, with the development of the Internet culture industry and influenced by objective factors such as school holidays and seasons, the current market demand for calligraphy practice products is rapidly and dynamically changing, making market changes difficult to grasp and leading to poor sales, which directly affects the profits of calligraphy practice product-related companies. …”
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Orality in the cultural area of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Ćurguz Jelena

“…The study demonstrates that there are numerous traces of the primary orality in the celebration of family and religious holidays (such as Slava), as well as various folk customs (local celebrations, feasts and fairs, folk competitions, masquerades, carolers, weddings and funerals), and in everyday socializing (e.g. in cafes and among neighbors). …”
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The development of tourism in Russia based on the event - events by V. A. Zhukov

“…Petersburg and the Vladimir region, which actively use various kinds of festivals and holidays to attract Russian and foreign tourists in order to increase revenues of regional hotels and tourism industry and replenish the local budget, has adduced.…”
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Smart City Traffic Flow and Signal Optimization Using STGCN-LSTM and PPO Algorithms by Tuxiang Lin, Rongliang Lin

“…Incorporating external factors, such as weather and holidays, enhances the framework’s robustness in dynamic conditions, including adverse weather and traffic surges. …”
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Espaces publics et mixité culturelle, pour un renouvellement du tourisme tunisien by Saloua Toumi, Roland Vidal

“…Indeed, the usual customers – who mainly seek the beach, the sun, and the sea; and only rarely the local culture – are also attached to the political stability of the country where they spend their holidays. And yet, they risk, rightly or wrongly, to perceive the Maghreb as a potentially unstable region in the years to come and, consecutively, to turn themselves towards other regions of the world which offer the same seaside assets and that appear to be more stable. …”
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Agriculture urbaine et habitat humain by Louiza Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie

“…The right to build a small house in which to stay for weekends and holidays expands their multifunctionality. This extra-professional and non-market activity was a social conquest within the Soviet regime. …”
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Last digit tendency: Lucky numbers and psychological rounding in mobile transactions by Hai Wang, Tian Lu, Yingjie Zhang, Yue Wu, Yiheng Sun, Jingran Dong, Wen Huang

“…This lucky number tendency is more significant in transactions that are more strongly connected to social interactions, such as money sent as gifts or as “red envelopes” (a traditional method of gift-giving during Chinese holidays), and in transactions by individuals with potentially greater emotional needs, such as during COVID-19 outbreaks and natural disasters. …”
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Improving physical fitness of female students by means of health-saving techniques by Dyachenko, Yulia A.

“…Health-saving tools were used in the form of theoretical, methodological and practical exercises according to the developed comprehensive program using elements of athletics, basketball and fitness during training sessions except for winter and summer holidays. Initially, significantly low results were shown in terms of overall endurance, strength and speed. …”
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Estimation Markov Decision Process of Multimodal Trip Chain between Integrated Transportation Hubs in Urban Agglomeration Based on Generalized Cost by Min Yue, Shu-Hong Ma, Wei Zhou, Xi-Fang Chen

“…One potential application of this study is to complement the research on the transfer behavior of multimodal trip chains in long-distance travel, which can be used to help management alleviate the excessive pressure of passenger flow between integrated hubs due to the sudden colossal travel flow during severe weather days or holidays.…”
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EVENT AS A TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE MODUS OF SOCIAL BEING by Y. G. Boreiko

“…A large-scale event causes shocks that affect most or all individuals and communities that use multiple ways to react to an event – interpretation, selection, glorification, silence, valuations adjustment, phenomena, facts, celebration of holidays, rituals that are periodically repeated.…”
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The Impact of Stone Quarrying on Socio Economic Status of Households in Nyakyibigi Ntungamo Municipality. by Natweeta, Elvason

“…The study findings on strategies to curtail the problems faced by people resulting from stone quarrying in Nyakyibigi Ntungamo municipality were; provision of tax holidays to investors, strengthening of security in quarrying areas, importing equipment's to use in quarrying process and rehabilitation of roads. …”
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The Impact of Stone Quarrying On Socio Economic Status of Households in Nyakyibigi Ntungamo Municipality by Natweeta, Elvason

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Optimal Control Strategy of Platform Load Oriented to Network and Load Cooperation by Xuesong Shao, Gaoying Cui, Xiao Chen, Xinrong Ji, Yongxian Yi

“…Considering the influence of weather, holidays, incentive mechanism, and other factors on the response of flexible load, the quantitative analysis method of flexible load resource regulation potential for regional power grid dispatching was studied, and the feasibility of flexible load resources directly participating in the load control system was analyzed. …”
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Survey with Innovations to Increase Response Rate Reveals Low Compliance with Guidelines among Youth Baseball Coaches - Including a Survey of Differences between Cities - by Yoichi Kaizu, Yuki Oyama, Yamato Ishihara, Yusuke Honma

“…For guidelines other than the pitch count limits, the recommended values were exceeded for practice time on holidays. Differences between cities were evident in the compliance rate with the pitch count limit, but no differences between cities in other items were observed…”
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Did Turkey Experience Reductions in Air Pollution During The Covid-19 Lockdown and Partial Lockdown? by İsmet Yener, Kazım Onur Demirarslan

“…The present study aims to determine the impact of LD and PLD on the air quality of fourteen selected cities in Turkey that participated in all LDs during the state of emergency on weekends and national and religious holidays. The hourly air quality data used in the study were collected from 105 air monitoring stations in fourteen cities. …”
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