In 2010, the San Francisco Giants became the first professional team to implement a comprehensive demandbased ticket pricing strategy called dynamic ticket pricing (DTP). In an effort to understand DTP as a price setting strategy, the current investigation explored Giants’ ticket prices during the 2010 season. First, the relationship between fixed ticket prices, dynamic ticket prices, and secon...

Usually, in concentration polarization models, the mass transfer coefficient is an unknown parameter. Also, its variation with changing experimental circumstances is in question. In the literature, many relationships can be found to describe the mass transfer coefficient under various conditions, as well as various corrections for deviating behaviour during ultrafiltration. To obtain reliable m...

This paper uses a natural experiment—the Super Bowl—to study the 2 causal effect of advertising on demand for movies. Identification of 3 the causal effect rests on two points: 1) Super Bowl ads are purchased 4 before advertisers know which teams will play; 2) home cities of the 5 teams that are playing will have proportionally more viewers that 6 other cities. We find that the movies in our sa...

Conventional marketing wisdom holds that a customer orientation provides a firm with a better understanding of its customers, which subsequently leads to enhanced customer satisfaction and firm performance. However, there are cautions that being too customer focused can lead to inertia, and anecdotal evidence suggests that it may be better to "ignore your customer" when developing new products....

Handling multiple sets of trouble tickets (TTs) originating from different participants in today’s GRID interconnected network environments poses a series of challenges for the involved institutions. Each of the participants follows different procedures for handling trouble incidents in its domain, according to the local technical and linguistic profile. The TT systems of the participants colle...

Email marketing has been an increasingly important tool for today’s businesses. In this paper, we propose a counting-process-based Bayesian method for quantifying the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns in conjunction with customer characteristics. Our model explicitly addresses the seasonality of data, accounts for the impact of customer characteristics on their purchasing behavior, and...

Notre Dame students already fed up with ticket sales could add another gripe to the list after long lines made the Keenan Revue ticket d is tribu tion last only 23 minutes. Although ticke t w indows did not open until 2 p.m. Friday, the firs t students to receive tickets arrived at gate 10 o f the Joyce Center as early as 10 a.m. “A good portion o f the line was formed by 1 or 1:30 p.m.,” ticke...

Media processing has motivated strong changes in the focus and design of processors. The inclusion of μSIMD multimedia extensions such as MMX is a cost effective option to improve the performance of those regions of the program with large amounts of DLP. This paper provides an initial evaluation of μSIMD and vector-SIMD enhanced VLIW architectures. We show that these two architectures execute r...

While Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) with Speculative Multithreading (SM) have been gaining momentum, experienced processor designers in industry have reservations about their practical implementation. In particular, it is felt that SM is too energy-inefficient to compete against conventional superscalars. This paper challenges the commonly-held view that SM consumes excessive energy. We show a CMP...

We present an explicit cosmological model where inflation and dark energy both could arise from the dynamics of the same scalar field. We present our discussion in the framework where the inflaton field φ attains a nearly constant velocity m P |dφ/dN | ≡ α+ β exp(βN) (where N ≡ ln a is the e-folding time) during inflation. We show that the model with |α| < 0.25 and β < 0 can easily satisfy infl...