On Music, Money and Markets
Comparing the Finances of Great Composers
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Open AccessIdentification of tumor tissue in thin pathological samples via femtosecond laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and machine learning
In the treatment of most newly discovered solid cancerous tumors, surgery remains the first treatment option. An important factor in the success of these operations is the precise identification of oncological...
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Some Misconceptions Regarding Innovation (and How Reading Classical Authors Might Help Overcoming Them)
This chapter reunites three related reflections about innovation in the form of a short essay: the first one refers to the etymology of the word innovation and the fact that, originally, it was used with a neg...
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Is There Really a Gender Gap That Disfavors Female Painters? An Experimental Study in Spain
Several authors have highlighted the fact that the works of female artists obtain significantly lower prices than those of their male counterparts. Hence the purpose of this chapter is to check whether this ge...
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Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss: The Economics of Music Up to the Dawn of Fascism
Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss led the music market of the early twentieth century, continuing the Italian-German dichotomy represented by Verdi and Wagner. Starting their professional life at the peak of...
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Introduction: On the Economics of Music and the Finances of Great Composers
Although cultural economics has only very recently become a discipline of its own, questions as whether artistic performances could be really considered commodities have puzzled economists since long. This Int...
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Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Collusive Friendship
Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—who considered themselves friends—rank among the most important classical composers of all times. The present chapter studies the evolution of their finances, consideri...
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Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert: The Economic (Un)consciousness of the Artist
On 20 March 1827, thousands of people gathered in Vienna to give their last farewell to Ludwig von Beethoven, the man who had set the standard of modern symphonies in eight of them just to break it up in the n...
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The Spatial Distribution of the Population in Peninsular Spain: An Evolution of a Permanent Nature
In the mid-1930s, the young Spanish economist Román Perpiñá Grau began his research into the spatial distribution of the Spanish population. Considered as one of the pioneers in studies of the economic structu...
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Controlled Nanostructuring of Transparent Matter with Temporal Airy Pulses
Ultrashort near-infrared femtosecond laser pulses have become the tool of choice for high-precision processing of transparent ultrawide bandgap materials, ranging from material ablation, amorphization, wavegui...
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The Economics of Civil Orders and Medals in Spain: An Update After Ten Years
The present paper picks up on previous research presented by one of the authors ten years ago at the ICOAE 2012 in Uppsala (Sweden), in which the bestowing of civil orders and medals by different Spanish gover...
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The European Case: Are There Externalities from the National Toward the Regional R&D Systems That Enhance Their Efficiency?
The present chapter studies the externality flows from the national to the regional R&D systems in Europe, analyzing to which degree—if at all—they improve the latter’s efficiency. For this purpose, we combine...
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Peter Bernholz’s: Totalitarianism, terrorism and supreme values: history and theory (Springer, 2017)
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Patterns of Knowledge Creation in European Regions: An Analysis by the Phases of the EU-Enlargements
This chapter studies the determinants of regional knowledge production in Europe discriminating by the phases of the EU-enlargement (as a proxy for the degree of economic development). For this purpose, we com...
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Are We Spending Our Scarce R&D Resources Adequately? Analyzing the Efficiency of EU’s Regional Innovation Systems
The purpose of this article is to measure the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) of the European Union (EU-14) between 2000 and 2010 based on the Data Envelopment Analysis. To measure the efficien...
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Cell Poration of Fixed and Live Cells by Phase Shaped Femtosecond Pulses
In femtosecond optical transfection and nanosurgery, cell survival critically depends on phototoxicity. It is therefore of primary importance to optimize the laser-cell interaction in order to increase the mem...
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Laser amplification in excited dielectrics
Wide-bandgap dielectrics such as glasses or water are transparent at visible and infrared wavelengths. This changes when they are exposed to ultrashort and highly intense laser pulses. Different interaction me...
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Control of Ultrafast Electron Dynamics with Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses: From Atoms to Solids
In this chapter, we present an introduction to the fundamentals of femtosecond pulse sha** and review recent demonstrations of coherent control by pulse tailoring. We portray control of three-dimensional fre...
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Material Processing of Dielectrics via Temporally Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses as Direct Patterning Method for Nanophotonic Applications
Dielectric materials are of great interest for optical applications since they are transparent in the UV, visible and IR spectral range. That makes them very suitable for optical filters, polarizer, waveguides...
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The Interplay of Nuclear and Electron Wavepacket Motion in the Control of Molecular Processes: A Theoretical Perspective
The concept of coherent control of molecular processes with light is introduced, sketching the way from single parameter to the multiparameter control in the time domain. Optimal control theory is by now a wid...
