Winter wonder worlds

Physics World ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 72-72
Author(s):  
Eleanor Spring
Keyword(s):  
Holiday Season

The winter holiday season comes but once a year – on Earth. Eleanor Spring takes a tour through some of the seasonal extremities experienced on distant worlds. A chilly Earth winter never looked so inviting!

Towards First Rate - Ideas

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Larry Shinagawa
Keyword(s):  
Japanese American ◽  
Holiday Season

Recently, my 21 year old son and I returned to California to visit my father, sister and extended Shinagawa clan during the winter holiday season. Three months earlier, my mother had passed away after several years of illness fighting off the twin demons of tuberculosis and pneumonia. My father was recovering slowly from the loss of my mother and my sister was doing her best to keep up his spirits. During the illness and after my mother's passage, a reverend of the local Japanese American Buddhist church helped enormously with the pain, sense of loss, and the need to let go. My father and sister were so impressed with the compassion and dedication of this reverend that they resolved to attend the Buddhist church services from there on out.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Holiday Season Discounts: A Comparison Between Third-Party Marketplace Sellers and Fulfilled by Walmart Sellers

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110241
Author(s):  
Ya-Ling Chiu ◽  
Yuan-Teng Hsu ◽  
Xiaoyu Mao ◽  
Jying-Nan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Price Discounts ◽  
Online Retailers ◽  
Holiday Season ◽  
Over Time

When online retailers allow third-party sellers to place certain products on their platforms, these sellers become not only collaborators but also competitors. The purpose of this study is to compare the differences in price discounts between Third-Party Marketplace (3PM) sellers and Fulfilled by Walmart (FBW) sellers on Walmart.com over time. The results, based on data collected in the form of the daily prices of 54,162 products offered by Walmart during the holiday season, show that the average discount for 3PM sellers is significantly lower than that for FBW sellers. In addition, across product categories, FBW sellers had significantly higher average discounts than 3PM sellers in the electronics, housewares, and toys categories. Furthermore, the level of discount began to increase in early November and peaked around Christmas. Our findings may help retailers manage their dealings with these third-party sellers while also helping consumers to optimize their purchasing decisions.

scholarly journals The Rhetoric of Community and the Business of Pleasure: the San Sebastián Waiters' Strike of 1920

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Walton ◽  
Jenny Smith
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Seaside Resort ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Holiday Season ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Strike ◽  
Important Kind

SummaryHealth and pleasure resorts constitute a distinctive, numerous and important kind of industrial town. But they, and the service industries which are central to their economies, have hardly been studied from a social conflict and industrial relations perspective. This paper opens out this theme by analysing a strike in the catering trades in San Sebastián, at the time Spain's largest and most prestigious seaside resort, at the height of the holiday season in August. The course of the strike is charted in its economic and political context, and the reasons for its outbreak, and for an ensuing attempt to escalate it into a local general strike, are analysed. Particular attention is paid to the status in the labour market of the camareros or hotel, restaurant and café waiters who withdrew their labour, and to reactions to the strike among local media who were deeply conscious of the importance to San Sebastián's staple industry of sustaining a carefully-constructed image of tranquillity and security. Comparisons are made with British resort experiences in the turbulent years between 1916 and 1921, and further work on this theme is urged, especially for this important period.

THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

The Lancet ◽  
1896 ◽  
Vol 147 (3798) ◽  
pp. 1666-1667
Keyword(s):  
Holiday Season

scholarly journals Seasonal variation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in culture positive otitis externa in South East England

2018 ◽  
Vol 146 (14) ◽  
pp. 1811-1812
Author(s):  
A. Villedieu ◽  
E. Papesh ◽  
S. E. Weinberg ◽  
L. Teare ◽  
J. Radhakrishnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Otitis Externa ◽  
Warm Weather ◽  
Holiday Season ◽  
Preceding Season ◽  
South East England ◽  
Culture Positive ◽  
Putative Mechanism ◽  
Proportional Incidence

AbstractOtitis externa is the inflammation of the external auditory canal. The disease is common and shows a seasonal variation with a greater incidence in warmer months. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common pathogen in otitis externa and in this retrospective study, we show a corresponding seasonal variation in the proportional incidence of P. aeruginosa isolates from otitis externa in South East England. In total 7770 patients were diagnosed with otitis externa over a period of 9 years from January 2008 to December 2016. P. aeruginosa was isolated from 2802 patients (proportional incidence of 36%). Incidence was higher in the months of August, September and October and in patients between 5 and 15 years of age. We postulate a combination of increased contact with water during warm weather in the holiday season and increased rainfall in the preceding season as a putative mechanism for the seasonal trends.

Experiences Endure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Duckworth ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Holiday Season

If you buy me Creepy Crawlers, I swear I will never, ever, ever ask for another toy!” This was my impassioned argument for the must-have toy of the 1978 holiday season. That year, girls and boys across the country begged and pleaded for a machine that made rubbery bugs out of something called “plasti-goop.” “Won't you get bored of it?” my mom must have asked. “No, never! I promise!” I must have insisted. To my amazement, Creepy Crawlers showed up under the tree that year. I was so excited that, as soon as I unwrapped it, I lay down on my belly, speed-read the directions, and before long, was making a plasti-goop butterfly. It was a miracle. Everything I'd imagined and more. But by the fourth plasti-goop bug, I was done. I had no interest in making a fifth. The toy gathered dust until, years later, my mom found it in the back of my closet and threw it out. Scientists have a word for the new getting old and for delight dimming to doldrums. It's called “habituation.”

Effects of food safety and perceived social support on mediating consumers’ attitude toward organic food purchase

Food Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 350-359
Author(s):  
S.R.A. Ratan ◽  
M.A. Ashraf ◽  
H.H. Tat ◽  
A.S.A. Latiff
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Dhaka City ◽  
Food Purchase ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Holiday Season

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of organic food purchase (O-FP). Specifically, how do consumers’ attitudes toward O-FP mediate in the links between health safety norms, perceived self-efficacy and perceived social support, and O-FP? To answer this question, a research framework using the theory of bounded rationality as its basis was formulated. Data were collected from the residents of Dhaka city during the 2019 holiday season. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data to answer the questions about the relationships of the aforementioned constructs toward organic food purchase behaviour. Findings suggested that perceived self-efficacy has no association between attitude and O-FP. However, other hypotheses are found to be supported implying attitude has both direct and mediated influence on O-FP.

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