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YULE [6 records]

Record 1 2021-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Festivals, Carnivals and Social Events
OBS

The Pagan holiday called Yule takes place on the day of the winter solstice, around December 21 in the northern hemisphere(below the equator, the winter solstice falls around June 21). On that day, [the] earth's axis tilts away from the sun in the Northern Hemisphere, and the sun reaches its greatest distance from the equatorial plane.... As a festival of the Sun, the most important part of any Yule celebration is light — candles, bonfires, and more.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Festivals, carnavals et fêtes
OBS

[Fête païenne célébrée] lors du solstice d'hiver entre le 20 et le 23 décembre dans l'hémisphère nord et entre le 20 et le 23 juin dans l'hémisphère sud. C'est le jour qui comporte la nuit la plus longue de l'année. Il marque le début de la saison de l'hiver mais également le moment où les jours vont rallonger. Cette date proche de Noël est souvent associée à cette fête. On se rassemble, on mange, on boit et on festoie en l'honneur de la renaissance du Dieu soleil. Peu avant on retrouve aussi le festival des lumières porteur de la même symbolique.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-10-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Products
  • Solid Fuel Heating
  • Sociology (General)
CONT

The custom of the yule log is first documented in Britain in the early 1600s, where it was first called a Christmas log. Later it was dubbed the yule log or sometimes the Christmas block.

CONT

[The] yule log was purported to bring good luck in the new year if it burned all day long without being fully consumed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits du bois
  • Chauffage aux combustibles solides
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
CONT

La tradition de la bûche de Noël était très répandue en Europe avant l'arrivée de l'électricité et reste très liée à l'histoire de Noël. Quelques jours avant Noël, un gros tronc ou une souche était soigneusement sélectionné pour tenir le plus longtemps possible. Elle était choisie en bois d'arbres fruitiers comme le cerisier, le noyer, le châtaignier, l'olivier ou le chêne.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Arts and Culture
  • Heritage
OBS

Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner. Its official date is the 31 December. However this is normally only the start of a celebration which lasts through the night until the morning of the 1 January or, in many cases, 2 January. The roots of Hogmanay reach back to the pagan celebration of the winter solstice. In Europe, this evolved into the ancient celebration of Saturnalia, a great Roman winter festival, where people celebrated completely free of restraint and inhibition. The Vikings celebrated Yule, which later became the Twelve Days of Christmas, or the "Daft Days" as they were sometimes called in Scotland. The winter festival went underground with the Protestant Reformation and ensuing years, but re-emerged near the end of the 17th century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Arts et Culture
  • Patrimoine

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
CONT

The Yule distribution is a special case of the Waring distribution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Matemáticas
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Record 5 1999-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Methods
DEF

A graph of the serial correlation within a time series plotted as a function of the time lag between observations.

OBS

for "correlation diagram" :[The] term [correlogram] was introduced by Wold in 1938 but the diagram was earlier used by Yule, who called it a "correlation diagram".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes statistiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Métodos estadísticos
DEF

En análisis de series temporales, el gráfico del coeficiente de correlación serial de orden k como ordenada, tomando como abcisa los valores de k.

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Record 6 1981-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special Education
OBS

In a group of children identified as being excessively clumsy... Yule(1967) found 64. 5 per cent to have difficulty in right-left discrimination, compared with 32 per cent of his control subjects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éducation spéciale
OBS

D'après Benton, il existe une corrélation significative mais relativement faible entre la latéralisation et la discrimination droite-gauche.

Spanish

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