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This book presents evidence that infection is cyclical with the seasons, and that this phenomenon is mirrored in cycles of immune function. The book identifies the mechanisms by which immune systems are bolstered to counteract seasonally-recurrent stressors, such as extreme temperature reductions and food shortages. Stress, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and human cancers are examined, and the role of hormones such as melatonin and glucocorticoids is considered. The book begins with an overview of seasonality, biological rhythms and photoperiodism, and basic immunology, and then discusses seasonal fluctuations in disease prevalence, immune function, and energetics and endocrinology as they relate to immune function. The clinical significance of this issue is also addressed, as such seasonal changes may play an important role in the development and treatment of infections. This first monograph to examine seasonal immune function from an interdisciplinary perspective will serve practitioners as well as advanced undergraduates and graduate students in biology, immunology, human and veterinary medicine, neuroscience, endocrinology, and zoology.

Diseases --- Immunity. --- Immunology --- Seasonal variations (Diseases) --- Seasonal variations of diseases --- Variations, Seasonal, of diseases --- Medical climatology --- Seasonal variations.

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"More and more Americans are becoming dedicated locavores, people who prefer to eat locally grown or produced foods and who enjoy the distinctive flavors only a local harvest can deliver. The Locavore's Kitchen invites readers to savor homegrown foods that come from the garden, the farm stand down the road, or local farmers' markets through cooking and preserving the freshest ingredients. In more than 150 recipes that highlight seasonal flavors, Marilou K. Suszko inspires cooks to keep local flavors in the kitchen year round. From asparagus in the spring to pumpkins in the fall, Suszko helps readers learn what to look for when buying seasonal homegrown or locally grown foods as well as how to store fresh foods, and which cooking methods bring out fresh flavors and colors. Suszko shares tips and techniques for extending seasonal flavors with detailed instructions on canning, freezing, and dehydrating and which methods work best for preserving texture and flavor. The Locavore's Kitchen is an invaluable reference for discovering the delicious world of fresh, local, and seasonal foods"-- "The Locavore's Kitchen invites readers to savor homegrown foods that come from the garden, the farm stand, or local farmers markets through cooking and preserving the freshest ingredients. In more than 150 recipes that highlight seasonal flavors, Marilou K. Suszko inspires cooks to keep local flavors in the kitchen year round. She helps readers learn what to look for when buying seasonal homegrown or locally grown foods as well as how to store fresh foods and which cooking methods bring out fresh flavors and colors. Suszko shares tips and techniques for extending seasonal flavors with detailed instructions on canning, freezing, and dehydrating and which methods work best for preserving texture and flavor"--

Cooking, American. --- Local foods. --- Food supply --- Locavores. --- Cooking (Natural foods) --- Seasonal variations.

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Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon across populations. In Western countries of the Northern hemisphere, mortality is typically larger in winter than in summer which is attributed to the detrimental effects of cold to health. This does, however, not explain why in colder countries the differences between winter and summer mortality are smaller than in countries with warm or moderate climate. This book, therefore, investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality as they do for mortality in general. Using modern statistical methods, the book shows, for example for the United States, that the fluctuations between winter and summer mortality are smaller the more years someone has spent in school.

Medical climatology. --- Diseases --- Mortality. --- Weather --- Seasonal variations. --- Psychological aspects. --- Physiological effect. --- Mortality, Law of --- Death --- Demography --- Death (Biology) --- Seasonal variations (Diseases) --- Seasonal variations of diseases --- Variations, Seasonal, of diseases --- Medical climatology --- Climatology, Medical --- Medical meteorology --- Meteorology, Medical --- Bioclimatology --- Medicine --- Human beings --- Medical geography --- Mental and physiological effects --- Effect of climate on --- Population. --- Demography. --- Epidemiology. --- Statistics. --- Population Economics. --- Public Health. --- Sociology, general. --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Public health --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Malthusianism --- Public health. --- Sociology. --- Statistics . --- Social theory --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation

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This SpringerBrief offers an academic perspective on the trend of ‘pop-up’ retailing. It analyzes this temporary retail-oriented setting designed to foster a direct customer-brand interaction for a limited period, often with an explicitly promotional or communicative purpose. Adopting a managerial approach, it explores the use of pop-up retailing as a means of facilitating strategic growth by retail brands. In addition, it draws on theory from retail store environments and atmospherics, customer experience management and event management to provide an in-depth academic analysis of the planning and implementation issues arising from the inherent ephemerality of pop-up activities to achieve the strategic objectives of retail brands. The authors provide an overview of the entire pop-up lifecycle using an organizational schema that is split into four sequential stages: strategic objectives, pre-pop-up, actual pop-up experience, and the post pop-up stage. The key decision areas and activities incorporated in each of these stages are also outlined.

Retail trade --- Small business marketing. --- Seasonal variations. --- Business. --- Customer relations --- Sales management. --- Trade. --- Commerce. --- Business and Management. --- Sales/Distribution. --- Customer Relationship Management. --- Branding. --- Management. --- Marketing --- Customer relations-Management. --- Branding (Marketing). --- Brand name products --- Advertising --- Management, Sales --- Industrial management --- Selling --- Customer relations—Management. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Management --- Commerce --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants

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This book discusses calendar or seasonal anomalies in worldwide equity markets as well as arbitrage and risk arbitrage. A complete update of US anomalies such as the January turn-of-the year, turn-of-the-month, January barometer, sell in May and go away, holidays, days of the week, options expiry and other effects is given concentrating on the futures markets where these anomalies can be easily applied. Other effects that lend themselves to modified buy and hold cash strategies include the presidential election and factor models based on fundamental anomalies. The ideas have been used successful

Arbitrage. --- Stock exchanges. --- Stock price forecasting. --- Stocks -- Prices. --- Stocks --- Stock price forecasting --- Arbitrage --- Seasonal variations (Economics) --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Investment & Speculation --- Prices --- Prices. --- Seasonality (Economics) --- Variations, Seasonal --- Forecasting, Stock price --- Security price forecasting --- Stock prices --- Law and legislation --- Forecasting --- Statistics --- Time-series analysis --- Casual labor --- Securities --- Speculation --- Business forecasting --- Stockholder wealth --- E-books --- 333.613 --- 333.642 --- 333.645 --- 333.65 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Activiteiten van de nationale en internationale markten. Beursnoteringen van aandelen en obligaties --- Termijn. Financial futures --- Speculatie op de beurs --- arbitrage