Music, as one of the essential elements in the filmmaking process, plays an important role in the success of a movie. Although prior studies have investigated several factors which influence movie revenue, there’s a lack of research examining the effect of search volume of movie soundtrack on the movie revenue. Therefore, we proposed the following research questions: (1) Is search volume of a m...

Cars have to be painted in two colors in a sequence where each car occurs twice; assign the two colors to the two occurrences of each car so as to minimize the number of color changes. This problem is denoted by PPW(2, 1). This version and a more general version – with an arbitrary multiset of colors for each car – were proposed and studied for the first time in 2004 by Epping, Hochstättler and...

To safeguard analytical tractability and the concavity of objective functions, the vast majority of models belonging to oligopoly theory relies on the restrictive assumption of linear demand functions. Here we lay out the analytical solution of a di erential Cournot game with hyperbolic inverse demand, where rms accumulate capacity over time à la Ramsey. The subgame perfect equilibrium is chara...

The main result of this paper is the development of a low depth carry lookahead addition technique based on threshold logic. The adders designed using this method are shown to have a very low logic depth and therefore reduced area and improved speed over conventional logic implementations.

Twelve years ago, PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE devoted a special section to the synchronous languages. This paper discusses the improvements, difficulties, and successes that have occured with the synchronous languages since then. Today, synchronous languages have been established as a technology of choice for modeling, specifying, validating, and implementing real-time embedded applications. The pa...

In order to investigate the shucking technology and design the efficient Sheller, it’s highly significant to study on the mechanical characteristics of walnut. The Pro/E software and finite element method was adopted to build the geometry and finite element model of walnut. Afterwards, the walnut stress distribution with different loads was analyzed to seek the optimum force-applying forms whic...

This paper presents the Talking Guitar, an electric guitar augmented with a system which tracks the position of the headstock in real time and uses that data to control the parameters of a formant-filtering effect which impresses upon the guitar sound a sense of speech. A user study is conducted with the device to establish an indication of the practicality of using headstock tracking to contro...