In automotive industry fixtures have a direct effect on product manufacturing quality, productivity and cost, as a result fixtures, particularly welding fixture, play a crucial role in the auto industry. The fixture is a special tool for holding a work piece in proper position during manufacturing operation, so in the phase of the fixture design process positioning pins and surfaces are used to...

To automatically annotate songs with descriptive keywords, a variety of content-based auto-tagging strategies have been proposed in recent years. Different approaches may capture different aspects of a song’s musical content, such as timbre, temporal dynamics, rhythmic qualities, etc. As a result, some auto-taggers may be better suited to model the acoustic characteristics commonly associated w...

Traditional actuarial pricing procedures have focused on pre-accident driver attributes, vehicle characteristics, and garaging location in an effort to explain personal automobile loss cost “drivers.” Although these traditional factors are important for statewide ratemaking in a static environment, they account for only part of the influences on auto insurance loss costs. This paper draws on th...

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We study the relationship between market structure and innovation in the global automobile industry for the 1982-2004 period. We use the dynamic industry framework of Ericson and Pakes [1995] and estimate the parameters of the model using a two-step procedure proposed by Bajari et al. [2007]. Since the industry has seen a lot of consolidation since 1982, mergers are an important ingredient of o...