In this paper, we present the SensOrg, a musical CyberInstrument designed as a modular assembly of input/ output devices and musical software, mapped and arranged according to functional characteristics of the Man-Instrument system. We discuss how the cognitive ergonomics of non-verbal and symbolic task modalities influenced the design of our hardware interface for asynchronous as well as synch...

Many corporate events are self-selected, but the relative impact of internal (firm-specific) and external (environmental) influences on discretionary corporate decisions remains largely unknown. In this paper, focusing on corporate debt issuance, we apply the contemporary push-pull theory to establish whether bond issuance are pushed by the firms due to internal considerations, or pulled by the...

The input/output (I/O) facilities are the machine’s way to communicate with its human users. For their implementation, certain constraints have to be considered, mostly related to issues of ergonomics, health, productivity and efficiency — and thus, in the end, general econ-

Purchase shares of major national-brands in consumer packaged-goods industries vary substantially across stores, both between markets and within markets. This paper measures the extent to which this variation in national-brand purchase shares depends on store-specific supply decisions, which are traditionally within the purview of trade marketing. We first demonstrate the extent to which purcha...

in t ro du C t io n Since the early introduction of biologic based therapeutics, the presence of protein aggregates can compromise safety and efficacy.1 Given these factors, protein aggregates are typically monitored throughout the production of a biotherapeutic. While a variety of analytical techniques have been used to analyze soluble aggregates, the dominant technique continues to be size-ex...

Potential output is the largest amount of products that can be produced by fully utilizing available labor and capital stock; the output gap is defined as the discrepancy between actual and potential output. If data on production factors contain measurement errors, total factor productivity (TFP) cannot be estimated accurately from the Solow residual (i.e., the portion of output that is not att...

This paper concerns the problem of output consensus in nonlinear non-minimum phase systems. The main contribution of the paper is to guarantee achieving consensus in the presence of unstable zero dynamics. To achieve this goal, an output redefinition method is proposed. The new outputs of agents are functions of original outputs and internal states and defined such that the dynamics of agents a...

The objective of this paper is to study the role of government effectiveness, institutional and political factors in aggregate output and telecommunications penetration in SSA countries. The contribution of these factors in aggregate output and telecommunications evolution is examined using a framework that accounts for the endogeneity and interactions between aggregate output and telephone pen...