This paper proposes a new auction mechanism with seat reservations in movie theaters using an interdisciplinary approach. In movie theater services, the movie price is generally fixed, not depending on the quality of contents or the theater seat. It implies that such a service mechanism by fixed pricing might not reflect the value of movie contents. In this study, a new mechanism of theater ser...

The postwar morbidity of Gulf War veterans has been closely examined. However, data have not been available to evaluate morbidity suffered during the 1991 Gulf War. In this report, the authors examine archived records of hospitalizations in US military facilities in the Kuwaiti theater of operations or those medically evacuated to facilities in Europe. Using multivariable logistic regression mo...

Abstract Family Tradition Theater is the application of Integral Drama Based Pedagogy in community family education. Centered around ancient wisdom “Life Harmony”, i.e., delight way life and admiration harmony, incorporates five ideas Chinese culture into relationships to find obstacles these ways communicate. Specifically, they start with core values – filial piety, faith, righteousness propri...

We consider the distribution planning problem in the motion picture industry. This problem involves forecasting theater-level box office revenues for a given movie and using these forecasts to choose the best locations to screen a movie. We first develop a method that predicts theater-level box office revenues for a given movie as a function of movie attributes and theater characteristics. Thes...

Virtual Forum Theater is a web-based participatory and collaborative digital drama designed to enhance expressive fluency, argumentation skills, and critical awareness. The theoretical framework is based on Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1972), constructivism (Piaget, 1977), constructionism (Papert, 1980), Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) (Koschmann, 1996) as well as Theater...

This paper describes an experimental performance where theater clowns make a show using Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. The classical theater scenery is replaced by a large-scale screen on which 3D models are displayed in real-time, allowing the clowns and the audience to be immersed in highly interactive virtual environments (VEs). We put on a scenario where the clowns and the audience trav...

In this work, the surgical theater of a local hospital in KSA was analyzed using simulation. The focus was on attempting to answer questions related to how many Operating Rooms (ORs) to open and to analyze the performance of the surgical theater in general and mainly the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) to assist making decisions regarding PACU staffing. The surgical theater consists of ten ope...