We estimate the demand for local news service described by the offerings from newspapers, radio, television, the Internet, and Smartphone. The results show that the representative consumer values diversity in the reporting of news, more coverage of multicultural issues, and more information on community news. About two-thirds of consumers have a distaste for advertising, which likely reflects t...

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We examine how product and pricing decisions of retail gasoline stations depend on local market demographics and the degree of competitive intensity in the market. We are able to shed light on the observed empirical phenomenon that proximate gasoline stations price very similarly in some markets, but very differently in other markets. Our analysis of product design and price competition between...

The aims of this study are twofold. We first seek to validate a previous study conducted on one speaker. It identified lower face visible articulatory correlates of contrastive focus in French for real (nonreiterant) speech. We thus conducted the same study for another speaker. Our second goal was to enlarge the set of cues measured to other facial movements. To do so we used a complementary me...

This paper studies microlocal regularity properties of the distributions f on a strongly noncharacteristic submanifold E of a hypoanalytic manifold M that arise as the boundary values of solutions on wedges in M with edge E. The hypo-analytic wave-front set of f in the sense of Baouendi-Chang-Treves is constrained as a consequence of the fact that f extends as a solution to a wedge.

Distributed memory parallel systems such as work station clusters stubbornly remain in need of software systems that provide programmers with an e ective but uncomplicated means of realizing improved ap plication performance Distributed shared memory systems are maturing to ll this need Tuplespace is a structured distributed shared memory that em bodies the generative communication model This p...

| Surface Mount Technology (SMT) is a robust methodology that has been widely used in the past decade to produce circuit boards. Analyses of the SMT assembly line have shown that the automated placement machine is often the bottleneck, regardless of the arrangement of these machines (parallel or sequential) in the assembly line. Improving and automating the placement machine is a key issue for ...

A complete “geometry to drag-polar” analysis capability for three-dimensional high-lift configurations is described. The approach is based on the use of unstructured meshes in order to enable rapid turnaround for complicated geometries that arise in high-lift configurations. Special attention is devoted to creating a capability for enabling analyses on highly resolved grids. Unstructured meshes...

Cooperative relaying is accepted as a promising solution to achieve high data rates over large areas in the future 4G wireless system. In this paper, an adaptive cooperative relay selection algorithm (ACRSA) is presented for fixed relay based cellular networks. According to current user density in a certain cell, when two-hop transmission is adopted, ACRSA adapts selectively between two differe...