Question: Which ran for a longer period of time, the Lorraine Campaign or The Battle of Anzio?

Context articles: ISEQ 20
Battle of Anzio
Beating heart cadaver
Lorraine Campaign
Distributed practice
Battle of Fort Driant
Impact (mechanics)
Moving average crossover
Spaced retrieval
Northern and Southern dynasties

The ISEQ 20 is a benchmark stock market index composed of companies that trade on the Irish Stock Exchange.
 The index comprises the 20 companies with the highest trading volume and market capitalisation contained within the ISEQ Overall Index.
 The index was started on 31 December 2004 at a base of 1,000 points.
 The Irish Overall Index has a longer history and is more often used for comparing the performance of the Irish stocks for a longer period.
The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place from January 22, 1944 (beginning with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation "Shingle") to June 5, 1944 (ending with the capture of Rome).
 The operation was opposed by German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno.
 The operation was initially commanded by Major General John P. Lucas, of the U.S. Army, commanding U.S. VI Corps with the intention being to outflank German forces at the Winter Line and enable an attack on Rome.
A beating heart cadaver is a body that is pronounced dead in all medical and legal definitions, connected to a medical ventilator, and retains cardio-pulmonary functions.
 This keeps the organs of the body, including the heart, functioning and alive.
 As a result, the period of time in which the organs may be used for transplantation is extended.
 The heart contains pacemaker cells that will cause the heart to continue beating even when a patient is brain-dead.
 Other organs in the body do not have this capability and need the brain to be functioning to send signals to the organs to carry out their functions.
 A beating heart cadaver requires a ventilator to provide oxygen to its blood, but the heart will continue to beat on its own even in the absence of brain activity.
 This allows organs to be preserved for a longer period of time in the case of a transplant or donation.
 A small number of cases in recent years indicate that it can also be implemented for a brain-dead pregnant woman to reach the full term of her pregnancy.
 There is an advantage to beating heart cadaver organ donation because doctors are able to see the vitals of the organs and tell if they are stable and functioning before transplanting to an ailing patient.
Lorraine Campaign is a term used by U.S. Army historians to describe operations of the U.S. Third Army in Lorraine during World War II from September 1 through December 18, 1944.
 Official U.S. Army campaign names for this period and location are "Northern France" and "Rhineland".
 The term was popularized by the publication of a volume of the same name by the U.S. Army in 1950.
 As written by the volume's author:
Distributed practice (also known as spaced repetition or spaced practice) is a learning strategy, where practice is broken up into a number of short sessions – over a longer period of time.
 Humans and animals learn items in a list more effectively when they are studied in several sessions spread out over a long period of time, rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time, a phenomenon called the spacing effect.
 The opposite, massed practice, consists of fewer, longer training sessions.
 It is generally a less effective method of learning.
 For example, when studying for an exam dispersing your studying more frequently over a larger period of time will result in more effective learning than intense study the night before.
The Battle of Fort Driant was a constituent battle in the 1944 Battle of Metz, during the Lorraine Campaign and the greater Siegfried Line Campaign.
 The battle was on occupied French territory between the forces of the United States Third Army under the command of General George S. Patton and the forces of Nazi Germany under General Otto von Knobelsdorff.
In mechanics, an impact is a high force or shock applied over a short time period when two or more bodies collide.
 Such a force or acceleration usually has a greater effect than a lower force applied over a proportionally longer period.
 The effect depends critically on the relative velocity of the bodies to one another.
In the statistics of time series, and in particular the analysis of financial time series for stock trading purposes, a moving-average crossover occurs when, on plotting two moving averages each based on different degrees of smoothing, the traces of these moving averages cross.
 It does not predict future direction but shows trends.
 This indicator uses two (or more) moving averages, a slower moving average and a faster moving average.
 The faster moving average is a short term moving average.
 For end-of-day stock markets, for example, it may be 5-, 10- or 25-day period while the slower moving average is medium or long term moving average (e.g. 50-, 100- or 200-day period).
 A short term moving average is faster because it only considers prices over short period of time and is thus more reactive to daily price changes.
 On the other hand, a long term moving average is deemed slower as it encapsulates prices over a longer period and is more lethargic.
 However, it tends to smooth out price noises which are often reflected in short term moving averages.
Spaced retrieval, also known as expanded retrieval or uniform retrieval, is a learning technique, which requires users to rehearse information to be learned at different and increasing spaced intervals of time or a set uniform amount of time.
 In testing this type of learning, people are instructed to rehearse a given set of information at a certain time, and each new rehearsal is expected to have a longer period of time between itself and the previous rehearsal or an equal amount of time between rehearsals.
 At the end of every trial period there is a test phase.
 Landauer and Bjork first studied this technique of learning in 1978.
 The study required participants to learn names from flash cards.
 Prior to learning participants were placed into five different rehearsal types: uniform short, uniform moderate, uniform long, expanding, and contracting.
 These all indicate the amount and spacing of trials between each test.
 Uniform trials involve a number of trials between each test stage, but the trial numbers are fixed (e.g. 2-test-2-test-2-test).
 Contracting rehearsals involve larger intervals of time between the first few trials and the test phase, but eventually the trials decrease in number.
 Expanding involves starting with trials and tests close together, and as they progress the person would have more time between each trial and test (e.g. 1-test-2-test-3-test).
 The effectiveness of the rehearsal types was measured by seeing how accurately participants responded during a test phase.
 Expanding was proven to be the most important because it produced the highest amount of recall during the test period.
The Northern and Southern dynasties () was a period in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Wu Hu states.
 It is sometimes considered as the latter part of a longer period known as the Six Dynasties (220 to 589).
 Though an age of civil war and political chaos, it was also a time of flourishing arts and culture, advancement in technology, and the spread of Mahayana Buddhism and Daoism.
 The period saw large-scale migration of Han Chinese to the lands south of the Yangtze.
 The period came to an end with the unification of all of China proper by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.