by Lam Suk-ting, Angelina, Lin Yuen-tung, Anthony. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-64). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / Chapter CHAPTER I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Pre-Holiday Effect --- p.1 / Hong Kong Situation --- p.2 / Objectives of The Research --- p.3 / Outline of The Report --- p.3 / Chapter CHAPTER II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4 / Literature on Holiday Effect --- p.4 / "Possible Explanations for the "" Holiday Effect""" --- p.7 / Literature Review on Other Anomalies --- p.10 / """January Effect""" --- p.10 / """ Firm Size Effect""" --- p.12 / """ Weekend Effect"" and ""Monday Effect""" --- p.14 / Monthly Effect'' --- p.15 / Literature on Hong Kong Market's Anomalies --- p.16 / Chapter CHAPTER III. --- DATA AND METHODOLOGY --- p.18 / Data --- p.18 / Holiday Selection --- p.19 / Data Source --- p.19 / Methodology --- p.20 / Procedure of Analysis --- p.21 / General Effect Before Holidays --- p.21 / General Effect After Holidays --- p.22 / Individual Holiday Effect --- p.22 / Length of Holiday vs. Market Performance --- p.25 / Theoretical Framework --- p.26 / Student's t Test For Two Separated Samples --- p.27 / Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test --- p.28 / One-Way ANOVA --- p.31 / Chapter CHAPTER IV. --- RESULT --- p.33 / General Pre-Holiday Effect --- p.33 / General Post-Holiday Effect --- p.35 / Individual Holiday Effect --- p.36 / The Pre-Holiday Effect Of Individual Holiday --- p.37 / Returns On Pre-Holiday Trading Day vs. Returns On Three Days Before Holiday --- p.39 / The Post-Holiday Effect Of Individual Holiday --- p.40 / Christmas-New Year Holiday Effect --- p.41 / The Relationship Between Length Of Holiday And Market Performance --- p.42 / Chapter CHAPTER V. --- FURTHER ANALYSIS OF RESULT --- p.44 / "Is the ""Pre-Holiday Effect"" a manifestation of other anomalies ？" --- p.45 / "Not A ""January Effect""" --- p.45 / "Not a "" Week-End Effect""" --- p.48 / Existence of the effect across the whole test period --- p.51 / Chapter CHAPTER VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.53 / APPENDIX I. LIST OF GENERAL HOLIDAYS IN HONG KONG --- p.55 / APPENDIX II. LENGTH OF HOLIDAY VS. MARKET RETURN --- p.56 / APPENDIX III. CONSTITUENT STOCKS OF HANG SENG INDEX --- p.58 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.59

The work focuses on understanding the concept of the sacredness and the importance of rituals in contemporary family. It shows how the sacredness is understood by pupils at primary school compared to high school students and what the role of sacredness in their current and future lives is. The author handles the theoretical part on the basis of literature and a practical part is based on questionnaires distributed to students of primary and secondary schools. The aim is to handle the sacred topic from different perspectives and compare different approaches and opinions of students at this topic. The result is a detailed overview of the topics in the curriculum within it is possible to teach the sacred topics in those classes. The author will respect the principles of professional work and regularly consult with the supervisor.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-04T17:01:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Denílson Meireles Barbosa.pdf: 5499966 bytes, checksum: a2510f0abd283c3199e32e1aa09c6f02 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-04T17:01:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Denílson Meireles Barbosa.pdf: 5499966 bytes, checksum: a2510f0abd283c3199e32e1aa09c6f02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis is aimed at researching the tradition of the pilgrimages of Saint Anthony, inherited for generations and often carried out by family members, which occur in the hinterland of the San Francisco River valley in the north of the state of Minas Gerais. The delimited empirical field is the village of Serra das Araras, the place of the centennial celebration that attracts every year thousands of people. In order to carry out this research, fieldwork was done during and beyond the festival period. Some groups of pilgrims were followed for two years running, from the organization of the material structure to the arrival at the village of Serra das Araras, having been followed along the festival in order to observe, describe and analyze the devotional practices. A field diary was used to facilitate the daily data records within the party. Interviews with pilgrims and devotees were conducted during and outside the festival period, prioritizing the older ones by considering the accumulation of knowledge and practices in the history of this tradition celebrated annually. The was an attempt to address the aspects of inheritance and memory in the traditional festival by using authors who could serve as a reference to understand and interpret, from the concepts proposed by them, the pilgrimages and devotional practices within the festival. Considering the individual and collective experience of the devotees and pilgrims involved annually with this tradition, it is perceived the need to understand the relevance of the form of maintenance of knowledge and religious practices in the cultural context of the festival / Esta tese tem por objeto pesquisar a tradição das romarias de Santo Antônio herdada por gerações, quase sempre familiares, ocorridas no sertão do são Francisco no norte de Minas Gerais. O campo empírico delimitado é o distrito de Serra das Araras, lugar da festa centenária que atrai todos os anos milhares de pessoas. Para realizar esta pesquisa foi feito trabalho de campo de campo durante e fora do período da festa. Alguns grupos de romeiros foram acompanhados por dois anos seguidos, desde a organização da estrutura material até a chegada ao distrito de Serra das Araras, local da festa, tendo sido acompanhados durante a festa com o objetivo de observar, descrever e analisar as práticas devocionais. Utilizou-se de um diário de campo para facilitar os registros de dados cotidianos no interior da festa. Foram realizadas entrevistas durante e fora do período da festa com romeiros e devotos, priorizando os devotos de maior idade por considerar o acúmulo de saberes e fazeres na história da tradição celebrada anualmente. Buscou-se abordar os aspectos da herança e da memória na tradicional festa recorrendo a autores que pudessem servir de referencia para entender e interpretar, a partir dos conceitos propostos pelos mesmos, as romarias e as práticas devocionais no interior da festa. Considerando a experiência individual e coletiva dos devotos e Romeiros envolvidos anualmente com esta tradição, entende-se a necessidade de compreender a relevância da forma de manutenção dos saberes e fazeres religiosos no contexto cultural da festa

Darbe analizuojami politiniai ritualai viešosiose miestų erdvėse, išskiriant teatrinių ir performatyvių elementų vaidmenį. Pirmojoje darbo dalyje apibrėžiamo politiniai ritualai ir pristatomi pagrindiniai jų analizės aspektai. Politiniai ritualai apibrėžiami kaip sekuliarūs ritualai, kuriais siekiama su valdžia, galios santykių performavimu susijusių tikslų. Taip pat politiniams ritualams būdinga tai, kad jie yra organizuota (vykstanti pagal tam tiktas taisykles, struktūruota) veikla, vykstanti specifinėje vietoje ir specifiniu laiku, suteikianti papildomą vertę naudojamiems objektams, nekurianti materialios naudos, kartojama (t.y. tradicijos palaikoma ir ją kurianti) bei atliekama turint tikslą. Taip pat išskiriami ir pasirinktai analizei išskirtinai svarbūs politinio ritualo bruožai - teatrališkumas bei performatyvumas. Pristačius teorinę prieigą, darbe toliau analizuojami konkretūs politiniai ritualai. Antra darbo dalis skirta valstybės šventėms. Valstybės šventės apibrėžiamos kaip oficialią politiką reprezentuojantis politinis ritualas, analizuojamas performatyvių ir teatrališkų elementų vaidmuo minint vasario 16ąją, kovo 11-ąją, liepos 6-ąją. Trečiame skyriuje analizuojamas kitas pasirinktas pavyzdys – eitynės. Jos veikia labiau kaip žanras, suteikiantis ritualo bruožų visiems juo besinaudojantiems. Konkrečių eitynių analizei pasirinktos skirtingas pažiūras, skirtingą santykį su valdžia demonstruojančios eitynės: patriotų eitynės „Tėvynei“, stačiatikių arkivyskupijos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Thesis deals with political rituals in public city spaces extra focus lying on their theatrical and performative elements. First chapter of the thesis presents definition of political rituals. Political rituals are defined as secular, designed to gain or reconstruct power relations. Political rituals are also described as organized, taking part in specific environment on specific time, creating symbolical value for used objects and participants, not producing material value, repeated, purposeful activity. Separately are describes theatricality and performativity of public political rituals. After presenting theory examples are analyzed. Second part of thesis deals with state holidays. After showing that they can be regarded as political ritual, theatricality and performativity of February 16th, March 11th and July 6th are analyzed. Third part of the thesis goes on to analyze processions. Procession can be described as a genre. Using form of procession almost automatically makes an event ritualized. Further are analyzed processions that represent different political views and relations to official state politics: patriotic procession “For Homeland”, Christian procession “For Life” and procession for Tax freedom day organized by Liberal and centre union. In order to have broader perspective on how aesthetics, performativity and politics interact, fourth part of the thesis deals with political performance art, which uses elements of ritual or is ritualized by repeating it... [to full text]

Orientador: Karylleila dos Santos Andrade / Resumo: Este estudo sobre a Festa de Nossa Senhora do Rosário em Monte do Carmo teve o propósito de compreender o contexto no qual ela se insere e os sentidos que lhe são atribuídos pela comunidade local, garantindo sua permanência no transcurso das gerações. A abordagem escolhida foi a da história cultural, em razão de sua natureza multidisciplinar e seu diálogo com vários campos de conhecimento, importantes para a compreensão de uma manifestação religiosa e cultural. O aporte teórico do trabalho foi estruturado com o estudo das mestiçagens no contexto da colonização europeia nas Américas, do fenômeno barroco e das irmandades religiosas. A pesquisa foi um trabalho etnográfico, apoiado no conceito semiótico de cultura de Clifford Geertz, segundo o qual o homem está vinculado a teias de significados tecidos por ele próprio, sendo a cultura essas teias e sua análise, um canal de interpretação e busca do significado. O caminho metodológico no trabalho etnográfico foi a descrição densa proposta por Clifford Geertz, com a utilização de observações participantes, entrevistas, acervos fotográficos e outros elementos produzidos pela comunidade na realização da festa. Ao final da pesquisa, ficou evidenciado que a Festa de Nossa Senhora do Rosário em Monte do Carmo se aproxima do contexto das mestiçagens culturais, e que sua permanência entre as gerações tem sido garantida pelo sentimento de pertença e pela manutenção das tradições, em meio às adaptações que se fizeram necessárias frente a nov... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study about Nossa Senhora do Rosário Festival in Monte do Carmo had the purpose of understanding the context in which it is inserted and the meanings attributed to it by the local community, ensuring its permanence over the generations. The chosen approach was the cultural history, due to its multidisciplinary nature and its dialogue with various fields of knowledge, important for the understanding of a religious and cultural manifestation. The theoretical contribution of the work was structured with the study of crossbreeding in the context of European colonization in the Americas, the baroque phenomenon and religious brotherhoods. The research was an ethnographic work, supported by Clifford Geertz's semiotic concept of culture, according to which man is linked to webs of meanings woven by himself, being the culture these webs and their analysis, a channel of interpretation and search for meaning. The methodological path in the ethnographic work was the dense description proposed by Clifford Geertz, with the use of participant observations, interviews, photographic collections and other elements produced by the community in the celebration of the festival. At the end of the research, it was evidenced that the Nossa Senhora do Rosário Festival in Monte do Carmo comes close to the context of cultural crossbreeding, and its permanence between generations has been guaranteed by the sense of belonging and the maintenance of traditions amid the adaptations that needed in the ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Yes / To investigate factors associated with movement behaviours among White British (WB) and South Asian (SA) children aged 6-8 years during school terms and holidays. Cross-sectional. Three primary schools from the Bradford area, UK. One hundred and sixty WB and SA children aged 6-8 years. Sedentary behaviour (SB), light physical activity (LPA) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) measured by accelerometry during summer, winter and spring and during school terms and school holidays. Data were analysed using multivariate mixed-effects multilevel modelling with robust SEs. Factors of interest were ethnicity, holiday/term, sex, socioeconomic status (SES), weight status, weekend/weekday and season. One hundred and eight children (67.5%) provided 1157 valid days of data. Fifty-nine per cent of children were WB (n=64) and 41% (n=44) were SA. Boys spent more time in MVPA (11 min/day, p=0.013) compared with girls and SA children spent more time in SB (39 min, p=0.017) compared with WB children in adjusted models. Children living in higher SES areas were more sedentary (43 min, p=0.006) than children living in low SES areas. Children were more active during summer (15 min MVPA, p<0.001; 27 LPA, p<0.001) and spring (15 min MVPA, p=0.005; 38 min LPA, p<0.001) and less sedentary (−42 min and −53 min, p<0.001) compared with winter. Less time (8 min, p=0.012) was spent in LPA during school terms compared with school holidays. Children spent more time in MVPA (5 min, p=0.036) during weekend compared with weekdays. Overweight and obese children spent more time in LPA (21 min, p=0.021) than normal-weight children. The results of our study suggest that significant child level factors associated with movement behaviours are ethnicity, sex, weight-status and area SES. Significant temporal factors are weekends, school holidays and seasonality. Interventions to support health enhancing movement behaviours may need to be tailored around these factors.

This dissertation aims to interpret holiday imagery in the media, as a site of South African cultural production, on the basis of newspaper images of local white and black people published in the Natal Mercury from 1966 to 1996. A strong historical approach (the history of the Western holiday) has been taken in order to analyze existing social structures relating to the holiday in South Africa, specifically gender, race and class. These social structures have been examined in depth, with the result of numerous interpretations being made about behaviour and the depiction of behaviour in the context of Durban beaches and leisure. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.

3 Title: Active holiday in the Austrian Alps - Marketing project of utilization pension Appartemens Auf Wind Goals: This work suggests one of the possibilities, how to deal with critical months in pension Appartements Auf Wind. It includes the creation of four trips of active holiday in the Stubai, where the guest house is located. Each trip is designed to make use of the maximum capacity of the house and was able to cover all monthly costs of landlord. Methods: Situation analysis, SWOT analysis. Results: Performed a detailed analysis of the current situation of the pension, discussed the shortcomings of the current state pension and designed four thematic tours to increase clients' pension and pension cover. Keywords: Tourism, programming, marketing mix, pricing.

SUMMARY Topic of Investigation: Socio-Educational Discourse of Children Summer Holidays (as a kind of leisure and recreation forms). Author of the Work: Ruta Palubaityte, student of Educology Program of Studies EMM-03 (specialization: leisure pedagogy and basics of recreation) Siauliai University, Educology Faculty. Urgency of the work. According to the data of the State Youth Affairs Council (2004), “having much leisure” if the most important feature of the youth. One fifth of the interviewed youths maintain such opinion.However almost every seventh young person (15 per cent) state they are too little occupied and have too much leisure, almost every sixth (17 per cent) noted lack of occupation as youth’s problem.Most of the (over 65 per cent) 14-29 aged youths spends leisure watching TV, meeting friends or listening music. Large part of their leisure is spent for chores, work with PC or Internet and sports (http://www.vjrt.lt/apie_jaunima/laisvalaikis). Most of the data covers leisure of the teenagers and youths. There is no generalized statistics about leisure of the children (preschool and school-aged) in Lithuania. Children leisure camp attendance reports are the only available sources. However information, covering another leisure forms, is lacking. In Lithuania only children leisure forms and methods undergo analysis. Subject of Investigation: Socio-Educational Significance Discourse of Children and Adults Summer Holidays. Target of the Work: the work is aimed to... [to full text]

The dissertation Observance of traditions and customs in Bohemia and in Moravia focuses on issues of Czech and Moravian traditions, customs and holidays, namely on two important holidays Easter and Christmas. These two holidays are the most significant events of ecclesiastical year but they are favourite as well among inhabitants of the Czech Republic, in particular Christmas. Various customs and traditions are handed down from generation to generation and they occupy a significant position in people's lives. In the introduction the terms that are important for this work are explained as well as the significance of traditions and customs for culture, current situation of culture is mentioned as well. This work presents description of the two mentioned holidays in the context of Czech culture. In the second part of this work you can find comparison of selected elements with regard to particular Czech and Moravian customs. Apart from presenting of presented Easter and Christmas customs and their comparison, the work aims to define tendencies which occured and name these tendencies. In the conclusion, the findings about differences between Czech and Moravian customs are summarized and defined, the prognosis about future development of observing customs is mentioned as well. KEYWORDS culture,...