Every few years, a new “hot trend” will burst upon the scene in the world of consumer electronics. This emergence will drive a wave of popular new products throughout the market, and push them into the home theater integrator’s world. Generally speaking this will start at the cutting edge with high end enthusiasts, and be swept downward into the rest of the market, as costs decline, and accepta...

Research suggests that exposure to psychologic trauma is associated with mortality from external causes, including homicide, suicide, drug overdoses, and unintended injury. However, the etiology of this association is unclear. We examined the survival time and cause of death among a national sample of 15288 US Army veterans by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) status 30 years after military ...

Organizations of the private and public sector have already been compared with the theater (Mangham, Overington, 1987; Vail, 1990; Schreyögg, 2001) and many authors focusing on organizational culture have consciously or unaware borrowed from the repertory of theater and dramaturgy, especially when using terms like heroes, scripts, plots, internal audiences, myths, legends etc. While such cross-...

This paper proposes a new auction mechanism with seat reservations in movie theaters using an interdisciplinary approach. In movie theater services, the movie price is generally fixed, not depending on the quality of contents or the theater seat. It implies that such a service mechanism by fixed pricing might not reflect the value of movie contents. In this study, a new mechanism of theater ser...

The postwar morbidity of Gulf War veterans has been closely examined. However, data have not been available to evaluate morbidity suffered during the 1991 Gulf War. In this report, the authors examine archived records of hospitalizations in US military facilities in the Kuwaiti theater of operations or those medically evacuated to facilities in Europe. Using multivariable logistic regression mo...