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Estimating a War of Attrition: The Case of the US Movie Theater Industry
This paper empirically studies firm's strategic exit decisions in an environment where demand is declining. Specifically, I quantify the extent to which the exit process generated by firms' strategic interactions deviates from the outcome that maximizes industry profits. I develop and estimate a dynamic exit game using data from the US movie theater industry in the 1950s, when the industry faced demand declines. Using the estimated model, I quantify the magnitude of strategic delays and find that strategic interactions cause an average delay of exit of 2.7 years. I calculate the relative importance of several components of these strategic delays.
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Commentary: Infectious disease — the ecological theater and the evolutionary play
How hosts respond to and cope with infectious agents can change the environment and in so doing, alter selective pressures and evolutionary trajectories. To date, such eco-evolutionary feedbacks are best known from simplified mathematical models and laboratory experiments with a limited number of genetically homogenous model systems. However, the extent to which ecology and (co)-evolution interact to shape disease over space and time in natural communities remains poorly understood. Studies in this theme issue break new ground by integrating empirical and field studies stemming from a diverse array of taxa and ecosystems to understand how ecological and evolutionary feedbacks shape host-parasite interactions. Contributing papers synthesize emerging research and diverse perspectives on pathogen life history, virulence, resistance, leveraging novel methodological advances and integrating infection processes across multiple scales of biological organization. Two key take-aways emerge from this theme issue. First, more research tackling the eco-evolutionary dynamics of infectious disease in truly multi-species contexts is needed. Second, while we are far from understanding eco-evolutionary dynamics in the ‘natural theater’ where hosts encounter their parasites, exciting advances and foundational studies provide a well-defined road map.
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Numerical Investigation of A Historic Masonry Minaret Subjected To Seismic Excitation
Minarets which have a slender body are one of the most characteristic elements of mosques. They are sensitive structures against horizontal loads such as seismic and wind due to their thin and tall geometry. Therefore, it has been seen that significant damages have occurred in the minarets because of severe earthquakes. In this study, the seismic behavior of the historical Uşak Ulu Mosque minaret was investigated with nonlinear time history analysis. Firstly, the 3D model of the masonry minaret was created with Abaqus (Abaqus 2010). To simulate the more real behavior of the structure, a detailed survey was carried out. For the characteristic features of the materials used in the minaret, studies in the literature were taken into consideration. The damages occurring in the transition segment of the minaret were verified with the finite element method. The seismic analyses indicated that the minaret needed to be strengthen. Then, the insufficient minaret was partially strengthened with steel fabric-reinforced concrete mixture (SFRCM) composites. The Concrete Damage Plasticity (CDP) material model was used in the nonlinear time history analyses. As a result of the finite element analyses, it was concluded that the concrete minarets might be strengthened from the inner surface with the Steel Fabric-Reinforced Concrete Mixture method in safety. In addition, partial reinforcement from the inner surface of the minaret had been found to significantly reduce damage values.
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Baldassare Peruzzi and Theatrical Scenery in Accelerated Perspective
From the early sixteenth century, stage sets in the Italian theatre were constructed in accelerated perspective. The stage and scenery were shallow, but the sets give illusions of much deeper spaces—typically piazzas and receding streets surrounded by buildings. The best-known example is Sebastiano Serlio’s temporary theatre of 1539 described in his second book on Architecture. This paper argues that the accelerated perspective scene was first introduced by Serlio’s master Baldassare Peruzzi for productions of the comedy La Calandria in 1514 and 1520, and then for Le Bacchidi by Plautus in Rome in 1531. Detailed working drawings survive for the set of Le Bacchidi and are used here for the first time to explain Peruzzi’s method by constructing a scale model, giving a vivid sense of how the illusion worked and would have appeared to the audience. It is suggested that Peruzzi was inspired in part by the architectural backgrounds of a number of fifteenth-century paintings. His invention had a profound influence on stage design for the next two centuries, as shown by surviving sets and handbooks of stagecraft.
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Defying “Death at the Wheel”: The Unexpectedly Long Life and Far Reach of Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl
Some obsessions stay with you for a reason. On its surface, Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl; or, Death at the Wheel , a ludicrously named melodrama peopled with exaggerated heroines and villains, offers an example of the noncanonical, everyday fare that audiences consumed in playhouses throughout the 19th century. But the deeper I dug, the more questions I uncovered.
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Reviving Wayang Orang Sriwedari in Surakarta
The heyday of Wayang Orang Sriwedari (Sriwedari), a central Javanese company doing traditional dance drama, was the 1960s–1970s, when it had great popularity and famous stars. From the 1980s the company lost popularity. In 2009, a shortened (padat), tourism-oriented performance model was tested which shows potential for reviving the form and reinvigorating the company.
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Culture and Communication
YuriLotman was one of the most prominent and influential scholars ofthe twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. This approachable collectionof translations provides a primer to his vast intellectual legacy with a choiceof works that address contemporary concerns such as gender, memory,performance, world literature, and urban life.
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Hard to Be a Jew in Mandatory Tel Aviv: Relocating the Eastern European Jewish Experience
This article addresses two Hebrew stage adaptations based on Sholem Aleichem's Der blutike shpas (The Bloody Hoax) produced in Mandatory Palestine: Hard to Be a Jew, which premiered at Habima in December 1936, and a parody of this play, titled Easy to Be a Jew, which premiered at Ha-matateh, the satirical Yishuv theater company, in June 1937. These productions constituted a symbolic zone of boundary-work between the Yiddish culture associated with the old home in eastern Europe and the Hebrew culture of Zionist Palestine, encapsulating the eastern European Jewish experience on the stage. The stage performances and reception of the plays indicate that the experience of the new land and the sense of communal belonging to the Zionist collective was fashioned after this encapsulated model of Jewish experience in eastern Europe. Thus, the adaptation of Zionist cultural identity was marked as being continuous with the old world, rather than rebellion against it or its radical transformation.
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Temporary Theatres and Andrea Palladio as a Set Designer
This paper treats studies on perspective published in sixteenth-century treatises as important sources for understanding Andrea Palladio’s connection with perspective and with the sets and scenic spaces he designed for the stage before the construction of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (1580–1585). Written and visual traces of these ephemeral theatres and their sets are extant in the monochrome frescoes on the eastern wall of the Teatro Olimpico’s antiodeo, which represent 1561 and 1562 stagings of the plays Amor costante and Sofonisba. A survey of these frescoes using image-based modeling techniques is a preliminary necessary phase for building rigorous 3D models of Palladio’s illusionistic sets, which are strictly dependent on the harmonic and dimensional ratios that appear in contemporary treatises on perspective. All of these experiences can be considered as models to test that precise idea of Theatre which is revealed in the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza.
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