T paper studies the problem of purchasing and allocating copies of movies to multiple stores of a movie rental chain. A unique characteristic of this problem is the return process of rented movies. We formulate this problem for new movies as a newsvendor-like problem with multiple rental opportunities for each copy. We provide demand and return forecasts at the store-day level based on comparab...

Popular movies are spatiotemporal arrays of light and motion, but almost nothing is known about their distributions across whole films. Psychological research shows that the center of the screen is the most important region, but is light and motion most prominent there? I confirm that they are while exploring a sample of 160 movies released from 1935 to 2010. Concerning how light bathes the scr...

OBJECTIVE To compare how smoking was depicted in Hollywood movies before and after an intervention limiting paid product placement for cigarette brands. DESIGN Correlational analysis. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Top box office hits released in the USA primarily between 1988 and 2011 (n=2134). INTERVENTION The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), implemented in 1998. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES This st...

meaning is both the reference and the content and their concomitant mental associations. the current research aims to find the meaning of home and its constituents in the everyday life of house residents. in this perspective, we seek to investigate this meaning-making processes through exploring the represented houses in four iranian movies in tehran. therefore, “freeway”, “sealed secret”, “sa’...

Interdisciplinary subjects have always had a remarkable contribution in developing urban design concepts and theories. Among these contexts, cinema as a medium which broadcasts features of our cities and urban environments can have a significant role, but this instructional field is neglected among Iranian scholars. Thus, to fulfill this gap, it is essential to clarify the interrelations of cit...

" had a higher prevalence than that in the general US population, and not to study whether " movies influence smoking habits of their viewers, " as other authors have done. 2,3 In order to answer our question, we had to exclude films that took place " outside the United States, in earlier times.. . and smoking by United States citizens " because they obviously do not portray the lives of US cit...

be up to date for at least a few months. It does suffer from the deliberate shortcoming of being only a supplement; beginning students of molecular biology will need to read the Supplement side by side with the original text. But for those lucky enough to have already read DNA Replication, this Supplement is not to be missed, especially with a price tag of less than an evening out at the movies.

ONSCREEN SMOKING IS A FORM OF TOBACCO MARKETING Tobacco advertising has been prohibited in New Zealand since 1990, and the government has set a goal of becoming a smokefree nation by 2025. However, tobacco marketing persists indirectly through smoking in motion pictures, and there is strong evidence that exposure to onscreen smoking causes young people to start smoking. We investigated the rela...

A data-integration system provides a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources. Consider a data-integration system providing information about movies from data sources on the World Wide Web. There are numerous sources on the Web concerning movies, such as the Internet Movie Database (which provides comprehensive listings of movies, their casts, directors, genres, and so forth), MovieLink...