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Changes in rainfall seasonality pattern over India
Meteorological Applications, 2020 Rainfall seasonality over India is studied using an individual seasonality index. The spatial distribution of the individual seasonality index and the mean individual seasonality index over two periods, that is, early (1901–1970) and recent (1971–2015 ...
P. Rai, A. P. Dimri
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Cultural Tourism Weakens Seasonality: Empirical Analysis of Chinese Tourism Cities
Land, 2022 Cultural tourism is less seasonal than nature tourism. However, previous studies have mainly compared the tourist flow of scenic spots, and it is still unclear how cultural tourism affects regional tourism seasonality.
Jing Zhang +4 more
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Seasonal Poverty and Seasonal Migration in Asia [PDF]
Asian Development Review, 2020 Four in five poor people in the Asia and Pacific region live in rural areas. Crop cycles in agrarian areas create periods of seasonal deprivation, or preharvest “lean seasons,” when work is scarce and skipped meals become frequent. In this paper, we document this phenomenon of seasonal poverty and discuss existing formal mechanisms for coping with it.
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Maira Emy Reimao
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A cross-sectional study of factors affecting seasonality in bipolar disorder
South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2014 Background. Researchers have evinced interest in the effect of seasonal variations on mood and behavioural patterns in affective disorders. Objective.
Pankaj Kumar Mittal +4 more
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Contrasting patterns of litterfall seasonality and seasonal changes in litter decomposability in a tropical rainforest region [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2014 The seasonality of litter inputs in forests has important implications for understanding ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycles. We quantified the drivers of seasonality in litterfall and leaf decomposability using plots throughout the Australian ...
S. A. Parsons +3 more
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Autoregression as a means of assessing the strength of seasonality in a time series
Population Health Metrics, 2003 Background The study of the seasonal variation of disease is receiving increasing attention from health researchers. Available statistical tests for seasonality typically indicate the presence or absence of statistically significant seasonality but do ...
Upshur Ross EG +3 more
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Seasonality of tuberculosis in the Republic of Korea, 2006-2016 [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2018 OBJECTIVES While the seasonality of notified tuberculosis has been identified in several populations, there is not a descriptive epidemiological study on the seasonality of tuberculosis in Korea.
Eun Hee Kim, Jong-Myon Bae
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Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria, 2012 OBJECTIVE: Studies conducted mainly in countries located in the Northern Hemisphere have shown that season of birth influences mood seasonality. Greater mood seasonality has been observed for individuals born during spring/summer months than those born ...
Taciano L. Milfont +4 more
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The complex transmission seasonality of hand, foot, and mouth disease and its driving factors
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background The transmission rate seasonality is an important index for transmission dynamics in many childhood infections, and has been widely studied in industrialized countries. However, it has been neglected in the study of pathogens in China. Methods
Jijun Zhao, Xiangyu Hu
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Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2020 This paper uses one of the largest changes to labor demand in developing countries—harvest—to examine how the returns to fighting vs. working impact the intensity of conflict. Exploiting the exogenous allocation and timing of harvest across Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, we find that the onset of harvest reduces the number of insurgent attacks by ...
Jenny Guardado, Steven Pennings
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