FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, COMPETITION IN premium TV market has primarily been a two-horse race between OLED sets made with LG Display's “white OLED” panel technology and LCD that use quantum-dot enhancement film (QDEF) for improved color performance. The TVs, sold by set-makers such as Electronics Sony, have viewed most industry pundits offering superior performance, particularly in contrast ...

One c collaps For thirty years I have read publications about this spate of invasions; and many of them preserve the atmosphere of first-hand reporting by people who have actually seen them happening, and give a feeling of urgency and scale that is absent from the drier summaries of text-books. We must make no mistake: we are seeing one of the great historical convulsions in the world’s fauna a...

Online gamers form clans voluntarily to play together and to discuss their real and virtual lives. Although these clans have diverse goals, they seek to increase their rank in the game community by winning more battles. Communications among clan members and battles with other clans may influence the performance of a clan. In this study, we compared the effects of communication structure inside ...

A rigid sheath that extends deep into the prothorax of male Parisoschoenus expositus serves to receive the horns of opponents in battles over females. The male cannot use his own horn unless he receives his opponent's horn in his sheath. The length of a male's sheath is always approximately equal to the length of his own horns, so his body design is appropriate only for horn-locking battles wit...

This paper examines theory and behavior in a two-player game of siege, sequential attack and defense. The attacker’s objective is to successfully win at least one battle while the defender’s objective is to win every battle. Theoretically, the defender either folds immediately or, if his valuation is sufficiently high and the number of battles is sufficiently small, then he has a constant incen...

Asymmetries in the abilities of contestants that engage in a protracted competition appear to be more common than symmetric competitions. Why doesn’t the weaker player concede immediately? This paper introduces a model based on the idea that a “war” can only be won by winning a series of battles. There are two kinds of stationary equilibria, one with fighting to completion, the other with a ces...

A builder’s “All Risk” insurance policy is the traditional way that the construction industry insures against damage to the work in progress during construction. Despite its common namesake, “All Risk” does not literally mean that all risks of loss or damage are insured. Critical and subtle differences in the forms of all-risk insurance policies can determine whether there is, or is not, insura...