Simulation Optimization (SO) provides a structured approach to the system design and configuration when analytical expressions for input/output relationships are unavailable. Several excellent surveys have been written on this topic. Each survey concentrates on only few classification criteria....

This study has allowed us to observe, using the survey material produced in 1978 on the leisure time activities of Canadians, that the majority of the population, half of the Francophones and two-thirds of the Anglophones spend some of their leisure time on book reading. Actually, economic...

The value of an artwork depends not only on the artist, even more so on the system which is adding and increasing its value. This system contains a number of institutions which are supporting the artist and his works to become established in the market, get internationally renowned and as a...

Using the results from the official CROP surveys of 1979 and 1983 on the cultural activities in Quebec it has been possible to determine the overall socio-demographic determinants of reading habits based on age, sex and schooling level during these periods.

This paper is based on fieldwork which I carried out in Sindh, Pakistan, from December 2007 to February 2008. The main objective of the study was to document and delineate two graveyards and their contents which are located in two different districts of Sindh, one in Thatta and the other in...

Magnetic wavelets in a vacuum at the constant speed of light are shown as gravity force in the electromagnetic field. The speed of light is gravity forces of the magnetic field and the interaction of mass wavelets in the electro field are subjected to the gravity forces of the magnetic field....

Although the cultural importance of circus, the economics of culture has neglected to address this topic. Two main reasons for this: first, cultural economics has (wrongly) considered circus as a minor performing arts; secondly, the difficulty to collect quantitative information on circus. This...

The main objective of this paper is to present a reading of The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin in the context of the financial crisis, in particular, reflect from a few fragments of Benjamin's work appear to lie around a Black Swan. The recovery of the fragments of The Arcades seems...

A theoretical analysis of what is understood by cultural service output is carried out,, especially the performing arts, and its exemplification by means of a traditional tool like equilibrium analysis. For this analysis, economic concepts are used, such as the classification of goods in rivals...

How did the universe come into existence? This very question cannot be asked because everything came from energy without time. If the energy was not always there as time, then nothing would exist to ask. With this in mind, infinite energy is explained outside the realm of time and matter....