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Santa Claus rally and the Indian stock market: A comprehensive analysis
IIMB Management Review, 2021 The study examines the leading Indian stock market indices all of which reflect the “Santa Claus rally” effect where significantly higher daily returns accrue to investors in the last five trading days of December and the first two trading days of the ...
Srinivas Nippani
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Current Research in Behavioral SciencesChildren are told that Santa Claus is a real agent who can observe them, judge them, and reward them. Famously, He's making a list, he's checking it twice; He's going to find out who's naughty or nice.
Harvey Whitehouse +2 more
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Literature, 2022 Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita’s first novel, Through the Arc of the Rainforest (1990), portrays protagonist Kazumasa Ishimaru as “a Japanese Santa Claus”, depicted as having a plastic ball spinning in front of his face.
Rie Makino
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Non-Situated Learning and the Arts
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2006 It is the Christmas season in Cairns and the end of the school year. In art class, Grade 1 & 2 children are folding white square paper into eighths, then making careful cuts into the folds and around the edges.
Reesa Sorin
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Impact of motivations to buy and offer gifts in consumerism at Christmas
Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2021 This article aims to analyze a conceptual model composed of the variables motivation to buy, motivation to offer gifts and compulsive consumerism at Christmas time.
Eulália Santos +3 more
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Refining Santa: An Exercise in Efficient Synchronization [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2018 The Santa Claus Problem is an intricate exercise for concurrent programming. This paper outlines the refinement steps to develop a highly efficient implementation with concurrent objects, starting from a simple specification.
Emil Sekerinski, Shucai Yao
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Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023 Major depressive disorders such as anxiety and depression is predominantly developed in the modern era due to stressful lifestyle and now become the second leading cause of disability. The purpose of the current investigation to evaluate and compared the
Hafiza Tuseef Sayyar +2 more
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Christmas, consumption and materialism: discourse analysis of children’s Christmas letters [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Gestão De Negócios, 2017 Purpose – This article reports the results of an empirical research that sought to understand the many meanings referring to Christmas that appear in letters written by children and sent to Santa Claus. It is based on the idea that, by means of a playful
Georgiana Luna Batinga +2 more
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Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Informal Logic, 1987 Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa ...
Michael Wreen
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“DO YOU WANT TO BE KRAMPUS?” Santa Claus, globality and locality of Christmas tradition
Hungarian Studies Yearbook, 2020 In this paper the author argues that the Christmas holidays, notwithstanding their international standing as a religious and commercial season, are most productively understood as a glocal phenomena, a concept intended to link the local with the global ...
Kürti László
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