Large reduction in emissions of anthropogenic pollutants in a mega city during the week-long holiday gives an opportunity to investigate how the urban air quality reacts to reductions in emission. This study conducted a systematical examination of the “Spring Festival effect” over three consecutive winters in Shenzhen with a population of greater than ten million, and the difference in the conc...

The recent years have witnessed the decreasing traditional flavor in the way Chinese people celebrated the traditional Chinese festivals, including the Spring Festival the most influential traditional festival in China. In contrast, Christmas seemed to be more welcome than the Spring Festival. The change in the positions of the two festivals reflected the change in the young generations’ concep...

A five-day festival of science takes place this week at venues across New York City. The festival features not only leading researchers from New York and beyond but also actors, writers, musicians, and choreographers in a series of multimedia programs designed to reveal science to the general public in exciting new ways.

feasts and festivals are ceremonies held by various peoples and nations in order to put on display their indigenous and unique cultures. persian peoples, too, have their own unique and peculiar customs while celebrating norooz festival, just like arabs who observe their own festivities during eid al-fitr and eid al-adha or the beginning of the lunar calendar or year; and so do christians, jews,...

This article addresses the sustainability of festival populations from the perspective of organizational ecology theory, and in particular age and density dependence. Data from whole populations of festivals in three Norwegian counties are examined. Analyses of festival start-ups demonstrate that the number of events in each county had risen faster than population growth before plateauing, and ...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the utilisation and application of reflexive ethnography as an interpretative methodology for researching knowledge practices within festival organisations. Design/methodology/approach – The ethnographic approach incorporates two methods of data collection in the research design; participant observation and indepth interviews. Findings – The r...

This experiment was conducted to generate up-to-date, practical and location specific information for soilless strawberry production in Cyprus. Commercial ‘fresh’ strawberry plants (Fragaria× ananassaDuch) of three cultivars (‘Camarosa’, ‘Festival’, and ‘Ventana’) were cultivated from October 2010 to June 2011, using coco-substrates from three different brands (BVB, Wonder Soil, Pelemix) in a 2...

INTRODUCTION Shahid Motahari Annual Educational Festival aims to improve the quality of medical education in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and has held since 2008. The present study was performed to determine the satisfaction level of Iranian medical universities' faculty members about holding Shahid Motahari Annual Educational Festival during the past six years, from 2008 to 2014. METHODS Th...

Operating on a budget “ too small to cover expenses,” the Black Cultural A rts Festival cncluded a month o f activities w ith a fashion show and dance at the Athletic and Convocation Center Saturday night. The major financing fo r the festival came through contriburors w ith in the U niversity, according to student Piper G riffin . There is a basic budget, but that never covers all o f the expe...

We have developed a prototype that investigates how paper-based collaborative scheduling practices can be supported with computation. Our design is based on fieldwork conducted during the preparation of a film festival and is implemented with Pin&Play, a surfacebased networking technology with interactive pushpins. In this paper we describe the fieldwork, the resulting prototype and findings fr...