The COVID-19 pandemic was a major challenge for film festival organizers, who had to resort online platforms showcase films they selected. While virtual festivals did not offer the same experience, being deprived of opportunity gather people in festive atmosphere, provided fairly accessible solution that enabled audiences watch would have missed otherwise. Even and economically stable festivals...

The article represents evolutional changes in modern culture of celebration, the traits desacralization traditional festive practices comparison with old ceremonial rites "serving deity" appropriate, particular, to Greeks and Romans. In conformity V. Turner’s universal theory rite its multilevel structure was determined (symbolic, valuable, teleological role-playing) as well important sacred fu...

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We present here by direct argument the classical Clopper-Pearson (1934) “exact” confidence bounds and corresponding intervals for the parameter p of the binomial distribution. The same arguments can be applied to derive confidence bounds and intervals for the negative binomial parameter p, for the Poisson parameter λ, for the ratio of two Poisson parameters, ρ = λ1/λ2, and for the parameter D o...

Set-point theory posits that individuals react to the experience of major life events, but quickly adapt back to pre-event baseline levels of subjective well-being in the years following the event. A large, nationally representative panel study of Swiss households was used to examine set-point theory by investigating the extent of adaptation following the experience of marriage, childbirth, wid...