This paper examines the implications of “prominence” in search markets. We model prominence by supposing that the prominent firm will be sampled first by all consumers. If there are no systematic quality differences among firms, we find that the prominent firm will charge a lower price than its non-prominent rivals. The impact of making a firm prominent is that it will typically lead to higher ...

Based on reasonable assumptions and mathematical approximations a one dimensional, analytical model for solar quiescent prominences is constructed, which is in both magnetohydrostatic and thermal equilibrium. Thermal equilibrium here is a balance among thermal conduction, radiation and wave heating. The wave heating (H) is assumed to be equal to a constant (EH ) times the product of pressure (p...

this article is part of a much broader study of persuasive techniques in television news in iran. as a very important part of irib news irinn has been chosen for this study. if we assume that one of the most influential television news, the power of persuasion to influence the audience is very important. it seemed that choosing the highest hypothetical level of news and deconstructing it would ...

We investigate the relation between performances of speech and of song in the awosi dirge genre of Anyi (Kwa, Côte d’Ivoire). The relation between speech and song prosody has not been extensively studied, in terms of either structure or performance variation. We address phonetic issues of pitch height, tonal prominence, downtrends of speech in relation to melodic trends in song, and the phonolo...

This study examines the news selection practices followed by news organizations through investigating the news posted on social networking sites and, in particular, the Facebook pages of four foreign Arabic language TV stations: The Iranian Al-Alam TV, Russia Today, Deutsche Welle, and BBC. A total of 15,589 news stories are analyzed in order to examine the prominence of references to countries...

Prominence in speech is typically realised by means of greater amplitude, duration and F0 the vowel nucleus syllable that carries word/sentence stress. It well-established more important physical dimension. The present study reports analysis word realisation two groups children differing hearing status. One group consisted with impairment, while other age-matched normal hearing. hearing-impaire...