Fueled by digital distribution, unbundling is prevalent in many information and entertainment industries. What is the effect of this unbundling on sales, and what bundle characteristics drive this effect? I empirically examine these questions in the context of the music industry, using data on weekly digital-track, digital-album, and physical-album sales from January 2005 to April 2007 for all ...

According to the importance and diversity of Chenopodium album, Cynodon dactylon and Amaranthus retroflexus in safflower fields and significant role of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) as an oil seed, an experiment was conducted using CRD based factorial design with three replications to study the allelopathic effects of root and shoot extracts of these weeds on germination and early growth ...

A precise prediction of the yield losses inflicted by weeds is the basis of decisions in weed management. Hitherto, only rough estimates, which neglect the specific production situation, have been available for vegetable crops. In this study a simple simulation model was developed to estimate yield loss by radiation competition as a function of environmental variables. In the model, the distrib...

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Word of mouth (WOM) has always been one of the most credible and influential sources of information for a consumer. With the advent of the Internet, new mediums of communication, such as blogs and social networking sites, have opened up, allowing more consumers to gather WOM information more easily than ever before. In this study, I examine the usefulness of online WOM, particularly from blogs ...

Recent systems for automatically identifying the performing artist from the acoustic signal of music have demonstrated reasonably high accuracy when discriminating between hundreds of known artists. A well-documented issue, however, is that the performance of these systems degrades when music from different albums is used for training and evaluation. Conversely, accuracy improves when systems a...

Host size and distance from an infected plant have been previously found to affect mistletoe occurrence in woody vegetation but the effect of host plant competition on mistletoe infection has not been empirically tested. For an individual tree, increasing competition from neighbouring trees decreases its resource availability, and resource availability is also known to affect the establishment ...

Cet article porte sur la publication et lecture d’albums de bande dessinée numérisés par le biais plateforme Izneo. Olivier Stucky y interroge fonctionnement les ambitions telles plateformes en ligne qui proposent au public une expérience d’un album, à l’origine imprimé, pluralité formats d’écrans (ordinateur, smartphone, tablette tactile, etc.). En procédant contextualisation historique l’émer...