We carried out a survey of the adjourned sales rate of the Japanese home video games from famitsu, a major weekly magazine, in order to construct a reference index of project management. We chose Playstation®(PS), Playstation2® (PS2) and Game Boy Advance® (GBA®) as the platform and measured the fraction of the titles which were postponed for sale once or more times. The results are as follows: ...

It is worth noting that increased credit risks imply increasing interest rates on credit. In the paper, we study the possibility to apply the tax holidays mechanism (on corporate profit tax) for a compensation of high-level interest rates. Tax holidays have been used until present days in South-eastern Asia, Eastern Europe and some Western European countries. One of the most successful applicat...

This study compared weight control strategies during the winter holidays among successful weight losers (SWL) in the National Weight Control Registry and normal weight individuals (NW) with no history of obesity. SWL (n = 178) had lost a mean of 34.9 kg and had kept > or = 13.6 kg off for a mean of 5.9 years. NW (n = 101) had a body mass index of 18.5-24.9 kg/m(2). More SWL than NW reported pla...

Motor vehicle crashes during the statutory holiday festive periods are on the rise in Alberta, Canada. For example, in the year 2004 a total of 6706 collisions occurred during the holidays and long weekends which killed 33 people and injured more than 1500 people. Whereas in 2007, the total number of crashes increased to 11639 in which 48 people were killed and more than 2000 people were injure...

Major European tour operator groups have been developing and installing new systems and corporate networks as well as links between these and other information and reservation systems in the travel and tourism industry during the most recent years. It is argued that these new system strategies are a key part of overall strategies to re-engineer their business activities both in the production a...

This short note aims to update the model of Dubois and Ben Lakhdar (2007) which showed the significant impact of holidays on the turnout at French presidential elections. The main result of this update is that holidays are still relevant in the explanation of turnout after the sample was expanded in both spatial and temporal dimensions. More precisely, estimations from a sample composed of the ...

conclusions our findings reveal that there are temporal variations in traffic accidents, and long holidays significantly influence accident rates. traffic injuries have different patterns on outer/inner city roads, based on weekday and holiday status. thus, these findings could be used to create effective initiatives aimed at traffic management. materials and methods all road traffic accidents ...

In 1999, my research group published a study that examined whether there are seasonable variations in cardiac mortality in a location where winter weather is mild— Los Angeles County, Calif.1 During a 12-year period, there were consistently more deaths from ischemic heart disease during the winter than there were during the summer. About one third more deaths from ischemic heart disease were re...

This study found that participant’s previous teletext experience and previous iTV experience influenced their openness towards using interactive television in planning independent longhaul holidays. The study surveyed participants for their previous interactive media experience (internet, iTV and teletext) before viewing a linear or interactive television destination promotion. Two ad models (i...