Film and Television Production in Massachusetts: The Beginning of Hollywood East?

After declining in the 1990s (laubacher, 2006), the Massachusetts film and television industry reached a nadir with the closing of the Massachusetts film office in 2002. To revitalize this once-thriving local creative industry, in 2005 the state legislature passed a tax incentive plan that provided a bankable tax credit for qualifying motion picture and television productions in Massachusetts. As updated in 2007, the Massachusetts film tax credit (FTC) provides a refundable/transferrable tax credit for 25% of qualifying wage and non-wage production expenses and a sales tax exemption for qualifying in-state spending. Massachusetts joined, at the maximum, 43 other states in offering some sort of a tax incentive for film production companies. As many states are now facing severe budgetary challenges, these credits are being reexamined and in some cases suspended or even rescinded. There have been several hearings recently at the Massachusetts statehouse related to the credit and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue released a study in 2009 that carefully assessed its annual costs and benefits in terms of tax revenues (DOR, 2009). However, at the bottom of much of the debate is whether or not Massachusetts has a niche in film production and whether the credit has helped to create or expand this niche

The rise of Hollywood East: regional film offices as intermediaries in film and television production clusters

Prior research on project-based organizing in creative industries has emphasized the importance of regionally embedded institutions, creative networks and intermediaries in the development of regional project ecologies. Recently, film and television production in the United States has expanded beyond traditional clusters in Hollywood and New York to new locations in the United States, Canada and overseas, raising important questions about the dynamics of increasingly mobile creative project networks. Using data on the Massachusetts film and television industry between 1998 and 2010, it is argued that regional film offices play an increasingly important role as network intermediaries in connecting mobile creative professionals and project entrepreneurs from outside a cluster with labour pools, service providers and production locations inside a cluster on a project-by-project basis

Project-based industries and craft-like production: structure, location, and performance

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Rahastoannin vaikutus osakkeen likviditeettiin Suomen arvopaperimarkkinoilla vuosina 1993–2003

Tutkielman tavoitteena oli tutkia rahastoannin vaikutuksia osakkeen likviditeettiin Suomen arvopaperimarkkinoilla vuosina 1993–2003. Ilmiötä on tutkittu aiemmin useilla eri osakemarkkinoilla ja suurimmassa osassa tutkimuksia likviditeettivaikutusta ei ole havainnoitu. Tutkielman empiirinen osuus suoritettiin tutkimalla 34:n eri rahas¬toan¬nin vaikutuksia osakesarjojen päivittäiseen euromääräiseen kaupankäyntivolyy¬miin, absoluuttiseen bid-ask spreadiin ja suhteelliseen bid-ask spreadiin. Tutkielman teoreet¬tisessa osuudessa käsitellään aiheesta aiemmin tehtyjä tutkimuksia, Suomen ar¬vopape¬rimarkkinoita ja rahastoantia yleisesti. Täydellisillä markkinoilla yhtiön pääoman markkina-arvo on riippumaton osak¬keiden määrästä. Rahastoanti ei tuo markkinoille mitään uutta tietoa, kuten muutoksia yhtiön vapaassa kassavirrassa, vaan on pelkästään kirjanpidollinen muutos. Pörssiyhtiöt kui-tenkin toteuttavat rahastoanteja ja yhtenä perusteluna tälle yhtiöiden johtajat esittävät, että osakkeen likviditeetti paranisi rahastoantien seurauksena. Tutkimuksen empiriaosuudessa analysoitiin vaikuttaako rahastoanti osakkeen päivittäi¬seen kaupankäyntivolyymiin ja bid-ask spreadiin. Tulokset osoittivat, että osakkeen päivittäinen kaupankäyntivolyymi ei kasva rahastoannin jälkeen tutkituilla osakesar¬joilla eikä suhteellinen bid-ask spread pienene rahastoannin jälkeen tilastollisesti mer¬kitsevästi. Tutkimustuloksena todettiin myös, että rahastoanti ei lisää tilastollisesti merkitsevästi osakkeen likviditeettiä rahastoannin suorittamisen jälkeen.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format

Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of WW bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at s=8\sqrt{s}=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

This paper presents measurements of the $W^+ \rightarrow \mu^+\nu$ and $W^- \rightarrow \mu^-\nu$ cross-sections and the associated charge asymmetry as a function of the absolute pseudorapidity of the decay muon. The data were collected in proton--proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 20.2~\mbox{fb^{-1}}. The precision of the cross-section measurements varies between 0.8% to 1.5% as a function of the pseudorapidity, excluding the 1.9% uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The charge asymmetry is measured with an uncertainty between 0.002 and 0.003. The results are compared with predictions based on next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations with various parton distribution functions and have the sensitivity to discriminate between them.Comment: 38 pages in total, author list starting page 22, 5 figures, 4 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-13

Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb−1 of √ s = 8 TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with pT > 120 GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between Emiss T > 150 GeV and Emiss T > 700 GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with either large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, or production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presente

Search for chargino-neutralino production with mass splittings near the electroweak scale in three-lepton final states in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for supersymmetry through the pair production of electroweakinos with mass splittings near the electroweak scale and decaying via on-shell W and Z bosons is presented for a three-lepton final state. The analyzed proton-proton collision data taken at a center-of-mass energy of √s=13  TeV were collected between 2015 and 2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139  fb−1. A search, emulating the recursive jigsaw reconstruction technique with easily reproducible laboratory-frame variables, is performed. The two excesses observed in the 2015–2016 data recursive jigsaw analysis in the low-mass three-lepton phase space are reproduced. Results with the full data set are in agreement with the Standard Model expectations. They are interpreted to set exclusion limits at the 95% confidence level on simplified models of chargino-neutralino pair production for masses up to 345 GeV

Environmental chemicals impact dog semen quality in vitro and may be associated with a temporal decline in sperm motility and increased cryptorchidism

Adverse temporal trends in human semen quality and cryptorchidism in infants have been associated with exposure to environmental chemicals (ECs) during development. Here we report that a population of breeding dogs exhibit a 26 year (1988–2014) decline in sperm quality and a concurrent increased incidence of cryptorchidism in male offspring (1995–2014). A decline in the number of males born relative to the number of females was also observed. ECs, including diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) and polychlorinated biphenyl 153 (PCB153), were detected in adult dog testes and commercial dog foods at concentrations reported to perturb reproductive function in other species. Testicular concentrations of DEHP and PCB153 perturbed sperm viability, motility and DNA integrity in vitro but did not affect LH stimulated testosterone secretion from adult testis explants. The direct effects of chemicals on sperm may therefore contribute to the decline in canine semen quality that parallels that reported in the human