Neo-assyrian siege redoubts tactics : some issues

This paper deals with the neo-assyrian siege redoubts, although not as a decorative, visual motif, but more as a genuine military tactic put in use and depicted for its efficiency. Reading this paper, one will be provided with clues on the shooting discipline of the neo-assyrian siege-archers during the fight

the newscaster’s face matters

The present note first provides an alternative formulation of the Cancian, Bills and Bergström (1995)-problem which discards the non-existence difficulty and consequently allows to consider some extensions of the TV-newscast scheduling game.The extension we consider consists in assuming that viewers’preferences between the competing channels do not depend only on the timing of their broadcast, but also on some other characteristics, like the content of the show or the identity of the newscaster. Then we identify a sufficient condition on the dispersion of these preferences over the viewers’population guaranteeing the existence of a unique Nash equilibrium. It turns out that, at this equilibrium, In an interesting contribution, Cancian, Bills and Bergström (1995) (henceforth CBB) have exhibited some technical difficulties which may occur when TV-broadcasters compete in program scheduling. These authors consider the problem of scheduling evening television newscasts: two TV-networks hav