Remiantis lietuvių etnologų Jono Balio, Pranės Dundulienės, Liberto Klimkos, Juozo Kudirkos, Jono Trinkūno veikalais, darbe etnolingvistiniu aspektu yra apžvelgiami lietuvių kalendorinių švenčių ir etninių papročių pavadinimai. Aptariama jų kilmė, daryba, sinonimika, analizuojami kalendorinių švenčių ryšiai su liaudies papročiais ir tradicijomis, apibrėžiami santykiai su kitų tautų analogiškais etnolingvistiniais reiškiniais. Pavadinimų apžvalgą papildo kalendorinių švenčių ir etninių papročių žodynėlis. / According to Lithuanian ethnologists Jonas Balys, Pranė Dundulienė, Libertas Klimka, Jonas Trinkūnas production, their work in ethnolinguistic aspect provides an overview of lithuanian calendar holidays and customs of ethnic titles. It discusses the origin, composition, synonymy, analyses calendar holiday connections with folk customs and traditions, defines relathions with other nathions similar ethnolinguistics phenomena. Review of titles complements the glossary of calendar holidays and customs.

In this paper I will thoroughly analyze the thesis film, Bicycle Season, as it relates to specific areas of film production. The goal is to determine the effectiveness of specific approaches to narrative filmmaking, when the intention of the narrative to portray believable human behavior in moments of dramatic conflict. I will discuss this thesis from the point of conception on a screenwriting level; analyze the steps along the way as they relate to film production, and conclude at the point of final screening to an audience. Direct feedback from audience members in test screenings will serve as a measurement of achievement of said goals for the narrative.

Surgical scheduling is complicated by naturally occurring, and human-induced variability in the demand for surgical services. We used time series methods to detect, model and forecast these behaviors in surgical demand time series to help improve the scheduling of scarce surgical resources. With institutional approval, we studied 47,752 surgeries undertaken at a large academic medical center over a six-year time frame. Each daily sample in this time series represented the aggregate total hours of surgeries worked on a given day. Linear terms such as periodic cycles, trends, and serial correlations explained approximately 80 percent of the variance in the raw data. We used a moving variance filter to help explain away a large share of the heteroscedastic behavior mainly attributable to surgical activities on specific US holidays, which we defined as holiday variance. In the course of this research, we made a thoughtful attempt to understand the time series structure within our surgical demand data. We also laid a foundation, for further development, of two time series techniques, the multiwindow variance filter and cyclostatogram that can be applied not only to surgical demand time series, but also to other time series problems from other disciplines. We believe that understanding the non-stationarity, in surgical demand time series, may be an important initial step in helping health care managers save critical health care dollars. / Thesis (Ph.D, Mathematics & Statistics) -- Queen's University, 2009-02-09 11:55:42.494

Utilizing the industry portfolio classifications that Fama and French provide in their data library, I analyze the specific effects that the 1933 Bank Holiday has on various industries. My empirical results go beyond what Silber (2009) determines to be significantly positive abnormal market returns on March 15, 1933, which is the day after the Bank Holiday and the largest ever one-day increase in the stock market. I use the CAPM and the Fama-French 3-factor Model to find significant systematic risk decreases after the Bank Holiday in the Coal and Transportation industries, as well as systematic risk increases in Consumer Goods and Apparel. To determine the driving factors behind these changes in systematic risk and abnormal returns, I test the correlation between industry leverage ratios and differences in systematic risk changes after the Bank Holiday. The Bank Holiday helps stabilize the economy and the nation’s banking system, which I expect industries with larger debt obligations will benefit more after the Bank Holiday. Inconsistent with my expectations, I don’t find significant evidence that the systematic risks of highly leveraged industries decreases more than industries with lower leverage ratios. I develop my argument to leave room for changes in the model used to estimate systematic risks in order to identify the variables that are the true drivers of the systematic risk changes that I observe.

Submitted by Roberth Novaes (roberth.novaes@live.com) on 2018-07-10T12:35:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO-LUANA LISE CARMO DA SOLIDADE.pdf: 2452906 bytes, checksum: 69e8bcb147ba6ba2e2587544a0df5b65 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Setor de Periódicos (per_macedocosta@ufba.br) on 2018-07-10T19:07:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO-LUANA LISE CARMO DA SOLIDADE.pdf: 2452906 bytes, checksum: 69e8bcb147ba6ba2e2587544a0df5b65 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-10T19:07:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO-LUANA LISE CARMO DA SOLIDADE.pdf: 2452906 bytes, checksum: 69e8bcb147ba6ba2e2587544a0df5b65 (MD5) / Por meio de um breve histórico do blues e do samba, bem como de uma análise crítica da formação do discurso nacional dos Estados Unidos e do Brasil, vemos o poder da música negra nas Américas através da agência performativa dos corpos. O diálogo entre as discussões de raça e gênero acontecem por meio da problematização das figuras do malandro e do bluesman, respectivamente presentes no samba e no blues. As trajetórias de duas mulheres negras, Billie Holiday e Elza Soares, nos mostram rasuras das narrativas hegemônicas atribuídas a corpos negros femininos. Com base na análise das canções Fine and mellow, My man, Maria da Vila Matilde e Pra fuder, proponho uma tradução cultural entre Billie Holiday e Elza Soares a partir da intempestividade e da predominância dos afetos da alegria e da tristeza em suas performances. A noção de sujeito como agência possibilita pensar a performance como um mecanismo de escrita e de tradução de si através do agora. O tempo do performático instaura rasuras em discursos oficiais e em estruturas de ordenamento cronológico que possibilitam a entrada do “novo” no mundo com políticas de tradução de si. A teoria da performance então entrecruza-se com o campo da tradução através do diálogo entre Agamben (2013), Bhabha (2013), Derrida (2006), Deleuze (2002), Nietzsche (2003) e Spinoza (2009). Além de analisar a performance como uma tradução intempestiva, defendo que, como gesto tradutório, ela é um dispositivo atravessado pelos afetos. / By means of a brief history of the blues and samba, as well as a critical analysis of the formation of the national discourse on the United States and Brazil, we see the power of black music in America through the performative agency of the bodies. The dialogue between the discussions of race and gender happens through the problematization of the malandro and the bluesman, respectively present in samba and blues. The trajectories of two black women, Billie Holiday and Elza Soares, show us displacements of hegemonic narratives attributed to female black bodies. Through the analysis of the songs Fine and mellow, My man, Maria da Vila Matilde and Pra fuder, I argue a cultural translation between Billie Holiday and Elza Soares based on the untimely and the predominance of affections of joy and sadness at their performances. The notion of subject as an agency makes it possible to think of performance as a mechanism for writing and translating oneself through the present moment. The timing of performance establishes erasures in official discourses and structures of chronological order that allows the entrance of the "new" in the world by policies of translation. The theory of performance then intertwines with the field of translation through the dialogue between Agamben (2013), Bhabha (2013), Derrida (2006), Deleuze (2002), Nietzsche (2003) and Spinoza (2009). In addition to analyzing performance as an untimely translation, I argue that, as a translational gesture, it is a device crossed by affections.

El proyecto de tesis, en cuestión, consiste en un complejo vitivinícola y turístico ubicado en el valle de Cañete, en Lunahuaná. El objetivo del proyecto es el de responder a una falta de equipamiento moderno que contemple las últimas tendencias en la arquitectura de bodegas vitivinícolas y hoteles en zonas rurales como la del valle. Este proyecto responde a esta falta debido a que en el Perú existe un reconocimiento por nuestra bebida bandera del Pisco, pero esto no se ve reflejado en la infraestructura existente. Es por ello que se realiza esta investigación a través de motivaciones e intenciones, problemáticas actuales, énfasis en conceptos y teorías arquitectónicas, historia de la tipología arquitectónica, análisis y comparación con proyectos referenciales, análisis y selección del mejor terreno; y todo el análisis y cálculo de los usuarios que intervendrán, como de los ambientes necesarios que contemplará el proyecto. Con toda esta investigación y análisis de información, se procedió a generar una propuesta arquitectónica ubicada en el terreno seleccionado, que pudiera responder a tales problemáticas y motivaciones analizadas anteriormente para lograr un proyecto de arquitectura completo. / The thesis project, in question, consists of a wine and tourism complex located in the Cañete Valley, in Lunahuaná. The objective of the project is to respond to a lack of modern equipment that contemplates the latest trends in the architecture of wine cellars and hotels in rural areas such as the valley. This project responds to this lack due to the fact that in Peru there is recognition for our drinking flag of El Pisco, but this is not reflected in the existing infrastructure. That is why this research is carried out through motivations and intentions, current problems, emphasis on architectural concepts and theories, history of its architectural typology, analysis and comparison with referential projects, analysis and selection of the best terrain; and all the analysis and calculation of the users that will intervene, as well as the necessary environments that the project will contemplate. With all this research and information analysis, we proceeded to generate an architectural proposal located on the selected land, which could respond to such problems and motivations discussed above to achieve a complete architecture project. / Tesis

Weight management is problematic among Americans, as the number of overweight adults has risen to two-thirds of the population (1). Without the identification of successful approaches to promote weight stability, it is predicted that 86% of American adults will be overweight or obese by 2030 (2). Body-weight influenced diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, are now leading causes of death (3). Annually, adult Americans are thought to increase their body weight by 0.5-0.9 kg (4). Of this gain, 52% is believed to occur during the winter holiday period of mid-late November to early January (5). Unfortunately, obesity research specific to this high-risk period is limited. Older adults and weight-reduced individuals are thought to be highly susceptible to significant holiday body weight gains (1, 6). To date, little research has investigated effective interventions that may be used to assist in successful body weight maintenance during the winter holiday period. Therefore, our purpose was to determine if daily self-monitoring of body weight, physical activity, and step counts is a feasible and effective tool to prevent weight gain in older, weight-reduced adults during the winter holiday period. This intervention represents a holiday weight maintenance approach that may be translatable to larger, more diverse populations. / Master of Science

A new type of chartered holiday, fitness holiday, has evolved during the last years and has also been mentioned in different media channels. Despite this, fitness holiday is a relatively new and unexplored phenomenon, which caught our interest to further explore this. The desire to travel on a holiday of this type has also increased. Therefore, a study about this particular phenomenon with focus on the traveler’s motives behind the choice to go has been done. It’s a qualitative study and most part of the data has been collected during a field study to Playitas Resort, Canary Islands. An observation and several qualitative interviews with visitors at the resort were done during the field study. The purpose of the study is to understand the motive people have for traveling on fitness holidays and the factors behind their choice of destination. The theoretical frame of reference the study has as starting point is a reworked version of Selbys theory Culture and experience in urban tourism to create an understanding of how the buying process happened. To get an understanding about the motive behind their choice of travel, Pearce model Tourist Career Pattern is combined with theories of internal and external forces as well as primary and secondary motives. Lastly, the study show that those who travel on fitness holiday tend to have a similar motive when it comes to the primary motive, internal motivation and also similar reflections in decision-taking. The remaining motives vary depending on personality and identity. The result can to come extent be applied to other travelers since a pattern is found in the analysis.

Cette thèse porte sur l’étude de la station balnéaire de Skegness et les vacances de la classe ouvrière en Grande Bretagne. Elle valide le déclin des stations balnéaires britanniques en tenant compte des expériences plurielles et des stratégies de régénération et de survie du tourisme balnéaire. Les deux premières parties de la thèse ont analysé le développement des vacances balnéaires, comme une alternative aux anciens loisirs, et démontré l’apparition de Skegness en tant que station balnéaire suite au changement des conditions socioéconomiques des ouvriers. Cette thèse a également détaillé comment Skegness a été promue comme une station balnéaire à l’époque en se focalisant sur le rôle joué par les compagnies ferroviaires dans la promotion de la station par le biais d’affiches et de publicité dans les journaux. L'étude du matériel promotionnel a démontré les changements dans l'image de la station balnéaire et le ton social annoncé dès les premières années de l'aménagement du village jusqu’à la fin du XXe siècle. Cette étude a ensuite démontré que cette ville balnéaire a vu apparaître tous types de vacances de classes ouvrières, en particulier l’apparition des maisons de vacances (plotland), des camps de vacances et de caravanes. Dans ce contexte, les camps de vacances ont été étudiés comme un aspect de commercialisation des vacances de la classe ouvrière. Enfin, cette étude a abordé le déclin de Skegness et a démontré que le tourisme à l'étranger a eu un effet néfaste sur les stations balnéaires britanniques ainsi que la détérioration de l'infrastructure et les mauvaises stratégies de marketing. Dans ce contexte de déclin, il a été démontré que Skegness a réussi dans une certaine mesure à survivre en tant que destination privilégiée des familles de la classe ouvrière Anglaise. / This thesis is a study of the seaside resort of Skegness and the working class seaside holiday. It validates the onset of decline on British seaside resorts, but confirms the plurality of experiences and the varieties of the strategies of regeneration and survival. The first two parts of the thesis analyse the growth of the seaside holiday as an alternative to old leisure and the growth of Skegness as a seaside resort within the dynamics of changing leisure and changing socio-economic conditions of workers. A second theme, related to the growth of the Skegness resort, which is a major thrust of this thesis, is an analysis of the way Skegness was promoted as a seaside resort. It is argued in this context that the railway, in addition to bringing holidaymakers to the resort, played a pivotal role in the promotion of the resort, especially through posters and to a lesser extent newspaper publicity. The study of promotional materials seeks also to demonstrate the changes in the resort image and social tone from the early years of the resort development until the late twentieth century. This study also addresses the decline of Skegness as a domestic holiday destination. It argues that holidays abroad had a detrimental effect on British seaside resorts in addition to the homegrown factors like the deteriorating resort infrastructure and the poor marketing strategies. Against this background of decline, it is shown that Skegness, despite the alarming deprivation indicators, managed to a certain extent to survive as a working class family destination.

The master thesis examines the real estate market of holiday homes (also called second homes) in France and in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to compare the both markets on the basis of analyses and comparison of acquired information. The thesis focuses on the aspects which directly influence the market, the supply and the price of holiday homes. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter presents the actual situation of research on the subject, the methodology and the structure of this thesis. The second chapter defines term holiday home and the typology of holiday homes. The third chapter separately analyses and then compares the Czech and French real estate market of holiday homes in terms of its size, typology of owners, taxation and charges of the holiday home. The fourth chapter focuses on sale of the holiday home and the factors which influence the value and the price of house. The last chapter examines types of the holiday homes, their supply and their price in two particular markets, Limousin and the Plzeň Region. The conclusion of the thesis is the recognition that the markets of both surveyed countries could have the potential for the development.