We are grateful to Ben Hansen, James Robins, Paul Rosenbaum, Donald Rubin, and participants in seminars at the Banff Center, Brown, Georgetown, Harvard/MIT, Montreal, and UPenn for comments and discussions. Software implementing these methods is available on our websites. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Eco...

The following is a brief report on the panel discussion of the 52nd Topology Festival held at Cornell University, May 13th through May 15th, 2016. The eleven speakers of the Topology Festival were asked to present in no more than five minutes and on at most one blackboard an interesting recent result or open problem. Below are outlines of their presentations. Reporters: Thomas Bååth Sjöblom Jos...

Compared with other types of festival activities, the musical festivals can attract large crowds of visitors easily and quickly. When the value experience of visitors is high, their satisfaction and loyalty will also be higher. In activities, the high degree of satisfaction means higher loyalty. The hypothesis model in this study indicates the causal relationship between visitor value and degre...

Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions t...

shahid motahari educational festival has annually been held to improve medical education quality in iran. the present study aims to determine the product of holding six courses of the festival from the viewpoints of medical sciences university faculty’s members. this cross-sectional study was conducted among 473 academic members of medical universities in iran. participants filled out a self-ad...

The effect of fireworks on air quality was assessed from the ambient concentrations of various air pollutants (SO2, NO2, PM10 and TSP) during Diwali festival in Hisar city (India), in November 1999. The extensive use of fireworks was found to be related to short-term variation in air quality. During the festival the concentration of SO2 was observed to be increased approximately 10-fold at few ...

The analysis of visitor motivation for attending festivals, as a basis for segmentation, is an important prerequisite for targeting markets, planning festival programmes and product positioning. This study identified five motivation dimensions for visitors attending the 2005 Naadam cultural festival in Mongolia, using factor analysis. A cluster analysis on the five factors produced five stable ...

We report on a week-long celebration of Computational Creativity research and practice in a gallery in Paris, France. The festival was called You Can’t Know my Mind, and was intended to introduce to the public the idea that researchers such as ourselves are writing software to be surprisingly unpredictable and creative in nature. The festival included a traditional art exhibition with a verniss...

introduction: shahid motahari annual educational festival aims to improve the quality of medical education in the islamic republic of iran, and has held since 2008. the present study was performed to determine the satisfaction level of iranian medical universities’ faculty members about holding shahid motahari annual educational festival during the past six years, from 2008 to 2014. methods: th...