Competition between sports hurts TV ratings: How to shift league calendars to optimize viewership

Consumer Microbehavior and TV Viewership Patterns

Consumer behavior patterns related to home digital media use are changing due to technological innovations. We examine them in the presence of two-way cable television (CATV) settop boxes. They permit viewers to change channels, switch to the Internet, and order paid programming, among other functions. We focus on micro-level data that are generated from consumer CATV viewing behavior. We captu...

How to optimize interfaces between care settings for older patients?

Purpose: Integrated care for older people is becoming more and more important. The purpose of this presentation is to detect influencing factors regarding the interface between ambulatory care and a geriatric day hospital. Quality of care: The coordination between different professions in integrated care is a critical success factor for the quality of care. We assume that this quality is, besid...

How to Optimize Residual Communications?

Minimizing communications when mapping affine loop nests onto distributed memory parallel computers has already drawn a lot of attention. This paper focuses on the next step: as it is generally impossible to obtain a communication-free (or local) mapping, how to optimize the residual communications ? We explain how to take advantage of macro-communications such as broadcasts, scatters, gathers ...

How to optimize OCT image.

Quantization, which maps real values of raw data to a series of fixed gray levels, is an inevitable step in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) image formation. Three new quantization methods, Minimum Distortion, Information Expansion and Maximum Entropy are applied in the specific problem. Quantization results of a capillary with milk and the femoralis of rabbit are shown in this paper. Compari...

Back to the game: how Congress can help sports leagues shift the focus from steroids to sports.