This paper develops a structural model of newspaper markets to analyze the effects of ownership consolidation, taking into account not only firms’ price adjustments but also the adjustments in newspaper characteristics. A new data set on newspaper prices and characteristics is used to estimate the model. The paper then simulates the effect of a merger in the Minneapolis newspaper market and stu...

PURPOSE Alagille syndrome is frequently associated with optic disc anomalies. This is the first report of a patient with Alagille syndrome and myelinated retinal nerve fibers. METHODS A 5-year-old female patient was referred to the Centre for Ophthalmology before a liver transplantation. Ocular examinations including slit lamp examination and funduscopy as well as anterior segment and fundus ...

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

The purpose of the present investigation was to ascertain the influence of exercise training and aging on antioxidant enzyme status in functionally different skeletal muscle fiber types. Wistar strain albino rats of two age groups (3months young and 18months moderately aged/old) were divided into two experimental groups from each age and treated as sedentary control (SC) and exercise trained (E...

Hereditary sclerosing poikiloderma (HSP) is a very rare disease. The clinical features are principally widespread poikiloderma and linear hyperkeratotic and sclerotic bands. We report an 18-yr-old male who presented reticular hyperpigmented lesions on the trunk and extremities since 2-yr-old. Also, linear sclerosing bands appeared on both antecubital and popliteal fossae after yr. Histopatholog...

OBJECTIVES We examined whether the weekly number of newspaper articles reporting on influenza was related to the incidence of influenza in a large city. DESIGN Prospective, non-randomised, observational study. SETTING Registry data of influenza cases in Fukuoka City, Japan. PARTICIPANTS A total of 83,613 cases of influenza cases that occurred between October 1999 and March 2007 in Fukuoka...

MEDIA1 is a platform that allows the commercialization and dissemination of electronic documents under similar conditions as printed documents using an agent-based, distributed and secure platform. Documents in the MEDIA system are encapsulated within agents which the reader must execute in order to access their contents. The developed pilot application of MEDIA is HyperNews, a commercial elect...

The optic nerves, tracts, and tecta of goldfish, 1 to 5 years old, have been studied anatomically using light and electron microscopy, horseradish peroxidase (HRP), and tritiated proline radioautography. The aims were to document an earlier inference that fibers are added to the nerve continually and to describe the growth and organization of the pathway. (1) The numbers of optic fibers were co...

In the analysis of a newspaper page an important step is the clustering of various text blocks into logical units, i.e., into articles. We propose three algorithms based on text processing techniques to cluster articles in newspaper pages. Based on the complexity of the three algorithms and experimentation on actual pages from the Italian newspaper L’Adige, we select one of the algorithms as th...