The Concept of Fiesta in Spanish National and Cultural Vision of the World by E. V. Astakhova

“…This concept reflects various vectors of quotidian life, religious and popular holidays with their complicated details and special dramaturgy, penetrates to every day communication and behavior. …”
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Dataset on electricity usage measurement for lower-to-middle-income primary and secondary schools in Western Cape, South AfricaMendeley Data by Jason Avron Samuels, Terhemba Michael-Ahile, M. J. (Thinus) Booysen

“…It enables the analysis of usage trends, the impact of academic schedules and holidays, and the effects of load shedding on school operations. …”
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Fasts and Feasts in Estonians’ Representations of the Seto Culture by Andreas Kalkun

“…Descriptions of Seto culture written at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries mentioned both exhausting Orthodox fasts and heavy drinking on church calendar holidays remarkably often. The incorporation of the Seto areas into the Republic of Estonia, established in 1918, soon revealed some conflict due to cultural differences. …”
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Borders Unbound: Cultural and Political Borders in Lawrence Osborne’s Beautiful Animals by Mehmet Ali Çelikel

“…Lawrence Osborne’s Beautiful Animals, published in 2017, is the story of two young women holidaying on a Greek Island. The American citizen Samantha and the British citizen Naomi befriend each other during their summer break when they find Faoud, a Syrian refugee washed on the shores of the island. …”
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Corporate culture of Siberian warrant officers training schools during First World War by A. Yu. Sablin

“…As a result of the study, it is found that the corporate culture of the schools for the training of warrant officers in Siberia (Omsk, Irkutsk) included such elements as school holidays, school graduation badges, instructions and historical memos for students, norms of etiquette, etc.…”
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Impact Analysis of Parking Price Adjustment on the Quality of Service of Airport Parking Lots for Light Vehicles by Cheng Cheng, Peng Qi

“…The estimation results show that the new price regulation method largely discouraged long-term parking demand and improved the availability of airport parking facilities, especially during long holidays. As a consequence, throughput and income largely increased in the airport, and there were extra time costs during vehicle departures. …”
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Développement urbain des villes moyennes du littoral brésilien : dynamiques spatiales de la commune d'Araruama dans la Região dos Lagos de l’État de Rio de Janeiro. by Vanessa Moura de Lacerda Teixeira

“…Medians cities on the coast are in most of cases seaside resorts which the holidays allotments represent the most built type of accommodation. …”
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“More than the travels around the world, on your nest full of peace, you find each time the playful love:” Lollobrigida’s motherhood in admirers’ letters by Federico Vitella

“…Many letters were stimulated precisely by the anniversary of major holidays, by the release of a new film, by a birthday, if not by even more specific personal contingencies, such as Gina Lollobrigida’s pregnancy, the subject of unparalleled media coverage in 1957 Italy. …”
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Musical Instruments of the Turkic Peoples of the Volga Region and Urals by Gulnara Khayrullina

“…Singing was accompanied by pagan and mystical sacraments, holidays, household and daily rituals such as hunting, harvesting and much more, including military campaigns. …”
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Judaïsme et homosexualité. Entretien avec Frank Jaoui, porte-parole du Beit Haverim by Martine Gross

“…The « tea dance » is marked on a calendar of Jewish holidays along with unity ceremonies modeled on traditional Jewish wedding rituals. …”
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Health for All: Medical Tourism as a Resource by Joseph Amalorpavanathan, Gopalakrishnan Ananthakrishnan

“…The expansion of the hospital and wellness service sectors serving foreign tourists, who come for specific medical treatments as well as rejuvenation holidays, is marked by several challenges. The patients and visitors often encounter non-standard facilitation arrangements for accommodation, fixing of medical appointments, legal compliance, cost of treatments, post-procedure follow-up and recourse to remedies for defaults and deficiencies. …”
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The Role of Lithuanian Heritage Language Schools in Cultural Identity and Language Learning: Perceptions of Parents and Teachers by Daiva Jakavonytė-Staškuvienė, Justina Ardzijauskienė

“…The results showed that in Lithuanian cultural schools, which operate every other Saturday, the spoken Lithuanian language is developed, children are introduced to Lithuanian history, traditions, and culture, and Lithuanian holidays are celebrated. However, parents have different expectations when sending their children to these Lithuanian heritage language schools; some are satisfied with the spoken Lithuanian language, while others want deeper learning of Lithuanian writing so their children can take the Lithuanian language exam.…”
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Different Meta-Heuristic Optimized Radial Basis Function Neural Network Models for Short-Term Power Consumption Forecasting by Dhivagar Shanmugam, V Ramana

“…Power consumption data, being nonstationary and nonlinear, is significantly affected by factors such as seasons and holidays, making traditional computational methods time-consuming and less accurate. …”
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The Application Prospects of Event Data in Traffic Flow Prediction by Chen Haochi, Guo Zixin, Jiang Zicong

“…Conventional methods of predicting traffic flow can often be based on weekdays, certain holidays, road conditions, or signal light circumstances. …”
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An information behaviour exploration of personal and family information and curation of our life histories by Bhuva Narayan, Annemarie Zijlema, Vanessa Reyes, Mary Anne Kennan

“…Family events such as holidays, celebrations, funerals, and other spaces in which members come together, serve as boundaries of our information worlds, or as information grounds. …”
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“When the Cock crows, the Devil Falls” – a Review of Christian Thought Concerning Birds in Selected Folk Tales by Agnieszka Tańczuk

“…The image of birds in folk tales connects the observation of nature, throughout the year and religious holidays, with their consequences for Man. Since the beginning, Man has admired nature, being afraid of its wildness and primeval power. …”
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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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The UNITY OF THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND THE CITY OF PÉCS AGAINST THE TRIANON PEACE TREATY DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD by Vivien Raposa

“…The city council expected the youth not just to take part in various national holidays such as the Heroes’ Memorial Day, the celebration of March 15, or the commemoration of the martyrs of Arad, but also emerge as a key factor in the organisation of ceremonies. …”
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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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