Editing Foundation for the Study of Cycles

{{Short description|International nonprofit research organization}}

The '''Foundation for the Study of Cycles''' (FSC) is an international [[nonprofit organization]] that fosters, promotes, and conducts [[Research#Scientific research|scientific research]] in respect to rhythmic and periodic fluctuations in any branch of science.<ref>{{harvnb|Huntington|1943|p=335}}</ref> It was incorporated on January 10, 1941 by [[Edward R. Dewey]].<ref name="Our History">{{Cite web |title=Our History |url=https://cycles.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318135335/https://cycles.org/ |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |website=www.cycles.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Bouma|1983|p=243}}</ref> It is currently under the directorship of Dr. Richard Smith.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current Board and Staff for the Foundation for the Study of Cycles |url=https://cycles.org/about_us/board_and_staff/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311095149/https://cycles.org/about_us/board_and_staff/ |archive-date=March 11, 2022 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |website=www.cycles.org |language=en-US}}</ref> FSC published the ''Cycles Magazine'' from 1950 until 1997.<ref name="Our History" /><ref>{{harvnb|Tromp|1978|p=162}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Sollberger|1978|p=2}}</ref> In 2020, FSC relaunched the magazine as a quarterly publication.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 5, 2020 |title=Cycles Magazine Returns After 25 Years |url=https://cycles.org/news/cyclesmagissue1/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929015941/https://cycles.org/news/cyclesmagissue1/ |archive-date=September 29, 2022 |access-date=January 8, 2023 |website=www.cycles.org |language=en-US}}</ref> All FSC members are provided access to ''Cycles App'', which according to the foundation, is "a tool that can decode cycles and apply cyclic analysis to detect dominant cycles in any dataset."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Membership |url=https://cycles.org/membership/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107065439/https://cycles.org/membership/ |archive-date=January 7, 2023 |access-date=January 8, 2023 |website=www.cycles.org |language=en-US}}</ref>

The FSC has been backed over the years by notable investors, like [[W. Clement Stone]], [[Fidelity Investments]], Coleman Co., and [[Paul Tudor Jones]].<ref name="Our History" />

== See also ==
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* [[Chaos theory]]
* [[Fourier series]]
* [[Harmonic analysis]]
* [[List of cycles]]
* [[Periodic function]]
* [[Sine wave]]
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== Footnotes ==
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== References ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Huntington |first=Ellsworth |date=1943 |title=The Foundation for the Study of Cycles |journal=[[Entomological Society of America|Annals of the Entomological Society of America]] |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=335–336 |doi=10.1093/aesa/36.2.335 |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Sollberger |first=Arne |date=1978 |title=In memoriam Edward Russell Dewey (1895–1978) |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09291017809359618 |journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=1–2 |doi=10.1080/09291017809359618 |via=[[Taylor & Francis#Overview|Taylor & Francis Online]]|url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Tromp |first=Solco W. |date=1978 |title=In memoriam Professor Edward R. Dewey 1895–1978 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01555394 |journal=International Journal of Biometeorology |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=161–162 |doi=10.1007/BF01555394 |bibcode=1978IJBm...22..161T |s2cid=84019537 |via=[[Springer Science+Business Media#Products|SpringerLink]]|url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Bouma |first=Janneke J. S. H. J. W. |date=1983 |title=In memoriam solco W. Tromp |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09291018309359818 |journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=241–243 |doi=10.1080/09291018309359818 |via=[[Taylor & Francis#Overview|Taylor & Francis Online]]|url-access=subscription }}

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite journal |title=The Foundation for the Study of Cycles |year=1944 |url=https://doi.org/10.1126/science.100.2606.514.c |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=100 |issue=2606 |pages=514–515|doi=10.1126/science.100.2606.514.c |url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite tech report |last=Von Thienen |first=Lars |title=The Cycle Scanner Algorithm |institution=Foundation for the Study of Cycles |url=https://cycles.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CycleScanner_Whitepaper_FSC.pdf}}

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