The manufacturing of flat panel displays is a dynamic and continuously evolving industry. Improvements of flat panel displays are made rapidly as technology improves and new discoveries are made by display scientists and engineers. The cathode ray tube and active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) recently celebrated their 100th and 25th anniversary, respectively. The arrival of portable elect...

In order to take panel surveys into the ‘mobile age’, a careful analysis of their characteristics is conducted. Core issues of mobile surveys and panel designs are addressed and contrasted to their respective alternatives. Moreover, the use of mobile technology for carrying out panel surveys is discussed. Thereby, necessary actions and actors involved are identified, which provides a guideline ...

This paper describes the methodology and prototype for an all-around display system for video avater presentation in the real world. This system enables us to reconstruct a video avatar which users can look at from all around, by spinning a flat panel display which has a small viewing angle and changing the image on the display panel depending on the display’s orientation.

HbbTV is a European initiative for providing both broadcast and broadband/web content on a flat-panel screen in the living room. The HbbTV specification introduces only a few new technical components; it is mainly based on existing standards. In this respect, it represents a specific profile of available technologies, rather than a completely new technical development. This approach will be ext...

We have used the very large JVAS/CLASS 8.4-GHz surveys of flat-spectrum radio sources to obtain a large, uniformly observed and calibrated, sample of radio source polarizations. These are useful for many investigations of the properties of radio sources and the interstellar medium. We discuss comparisons with polarization measurements from this survey and from other large-scale surveys of polar...

This paper advances that the share of European descendants in the population is a major determinant of democracy in former colonial countries. We test this hypothesis using cross-section and panel regressions with 60 developing and developed countries that were once colonies. We …nd that the share of European descendants can explain more than half of the di¤erence in measures of democracy betwe...

Flat rate regime is held responsible for this state of affairs and a shift to universal metering is being pushed as remedy. However, metering can work only by creating power retailing entrepreneurs as is being tried out in Orissa. Flat tariff regime can also serve the purpose, provided it is tied to effective supply policies. Judicious rationing and reasonable tariff are essential components of...

With decreasing prices for display technologies and bendable displays becoming commercially available, novel forms of public displays in arbitrary shapes emerge. However, different shapes impact on how users behave in the vicinity of such displays and how they interact with them. With our research we take a first step towards exploring these novel displays. We present findings from an initial s...

With decreasing prices for display technologies and bendable displays becoming commercially available, novel forms of public displays in arbitrary shapes emerge. However, different shapes impact on how users behave in the vicinity of such displays and how they interact with them. With our research we take a first step towards exploring these novel displays. We present findings from an initial s...