RonaMcLeodMacKie was born in 1940 in Dundee, Scotland, an only child. Her father, Norman Davidson, was a biochemistry professor at Glasgow University, and so she was familiar with academic life. She went to four schools before the age of 10 due to familymoves, including Aberdeen and London, but finished her education at the Laurel Bank School for Girls in Glasgow (a private school; University o...

We present evidence from a natural field experiment and structural model designed to shed light on the efficacy of alternative fundraising schemes. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Opera, we mailed 25,000 opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the opera house. Recipients were randomly assigned to six treatments designed to explore behavioral resp...

We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of alternative fundraising schemes. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Opera House, we mailed 25,000 regular opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the opera house. Recipients were randomly assigned to six treatments designed to explore behavioral responses t...

   Zakaria Paliashvili is the greatest and outstanding figure in history of Georgian music, whose work based on musical folklore. He considered founder classical opera. author three different types opera: Monumental opera-tragedy - "Absalom Ether", lyrical-dramatic opera "Dais", heroic-patriotic "Latavra".      perfectly combined his compositional with successful e...

In this paper we present Deiush, a multimodal system for browsing hypertext Web documents. The Deiush system is based on our novel approach to automatically annotate hypertext Web documents (i.e. XHTML pages) with browsable audio components. It combines two key technologies: (1) middleware automatic separation of Web documents through structural and semantic analysis which is annotated with aud...