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Seasonal reckoning in the military of any country or region tends to be very fluid and based mainly on short to medium term weather conditions that are independent of the calendar. For navies, the presence of accessible ports and bases can allow naval operations during certain (variable) seasons of the year.
Kadomatsu (門松) decorative pillars for Japanese New Year, featuring branches of pine, bamboo and plum. The Three Friends are known as shōchikubai (松竹梅, lit. ' pine-bamboo-plum ') in Japan. [11] They are particularly associated with the start of the Lunar New Year, appearing on greeting cards and as a design stamped into seasonal ...
The seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) is a rate that is adjusted to take into account typical seasonal fluctuations in data and is expressed as an annual total. SAARs are used for data affected by seasonality, when it could be misleading to directly compare different times of the year.
Our country's pumpkin-carving history began with a spooky tale. The post The History of Jack-o-Lanterns and How They Became a Halloween Tradition appeared first on Reader's Digest.
In time series data, seasonality refers to the trends that occur at specific regular intervals less than a year, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Seasonality may be caused by various factors, such as weather, vacation, and holidays [1] and consists of periodic, repetitive, and generally regular and predictable patterns in the levels [2] of a time series.
By definition, cuffing season "refers to a period of time when single people begin looking for short-term partnerships to pass the colder months of the year," per Merriam-Webster.
The word is derived from the Greek φαίνω (phainō), "to show, to bring to light, make to appear" [6] + λόγος (), amongst others "study, discourse, reasoning" [7] and indicates that phenology has been principally concerned with the dates of first occurrence of biological events in their annual cycle.
Seasonal adjustment or deseasonalization is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series.It is usually done when wanting to analyse the trend, and cyclical deviations from trend, of a time series independently of the seasonal components.