cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Incentive Compatibility in Risk Assessment Mechanisms
Creators: name: Page, Talbot
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1982

description: This paper defines a risk assessment mechanism and compares its incentive properties with those of deterministic incentive mechanisms, particularly the Groves mechanism.
Many risk assessments involve prediction for rare or unique events; in such cases there is limited opportunity for feedback and evaluation of the assessment process. To develop a feedback mechanism, the paper requires assessments to be made for indicator events, linked to the rare or unique events of ultimate interest. Assessments are made by several assessors, or assessment techniques, acting in competition. The feedback mechanism is a transfer function based on the probability assessments of all the assessors and the outcome of the indicator event.
The incentive properties of risk assessment mechanisms are in some ways similar to those for deterministic mechanisms and in some ways quite different. The paper defines one risk assessment mechanism that looks like a Groves mechanism: it directly reveals probability and for risk neutral assessors has an unbiased or truthful dominant strategy which is discontinuous and which cannot solve the budget problem. The paper also defines a class of risk assessment mechanisms which do not look like a Groves mechanism; mechanisms in this class have unbiased dominant strategies which are continuous and which do solve the budget problem.
description: Revised. Original dated to December 1981.

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and by the Mellon Foundation. I would like to thank Richard McKelvey, John Ferejohn, Ed Green, Joshua Foreman, and Jim Gerard for many helpful comments, and especially to thank Gib Bogle for programming the Monte Carlo simulation.
description: Submitted - sswp409_-_revised.pdf
Obidosus laevis : Roewer 1943
Creators: name: Osvaldo Villarreal
name: Ludson Neves de Ázara
name: Kury, Adriano Brilhante
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Stygnidae
Obidosus
Obidosus laevis

description: Obidosus laevis (SØrensen, 1932) new combination
Ideostygnus laevis SØrensen in Henriksen 1932: 289. Ideostygnus laevis: Roewer 1943: 62; H. Soares and B. Soares 1978: 82, 90 figs 16 – 29. Pickeliana laevis: Mello-Leitão 1935: 112. Protimesius laevis: Pinto-da-Rocha 1997: 285, figs 386 – 393, 545 – 546, 563, 576 – 577, 584, 588, 595, 603; Kury, 2003: 230.
Type data
³ lectotype, 2 ³ 2 ♀ paralectotypes (ZMUC 90056a), BRAZIL, Pará, without further locality data, in termite nests.
Records
BRAZIL, Mato Grosso, Chapada dos Guimarães, Fazenda São José, 4 km from Chapada dos Guimarães. Pará, Ananindeua: Seminário Pio X, night collecting with Petromax; Bagaginha, in leaves of inajá palm; Belém; Canindé: Aldeia Araçu, Igarapé Gurupi-Una, rio Gurupi, 50 km E of Canindé; Jacundá: 2 km S Tocantins River, right bank, in inajá palm (Soares and Soares 1978; Pinto-da-Rocha 1997).
description: Published as part of Osvaldo Villarreal, Ludson Neves de Ázara & Kury, Adriano Brilhante, 2019, Revalidation of Obidosus Roewerı 1913 and description of two new cave-dwelling species of Protimesius Roewerı 1913 from Brazil (Opiliones: Stygnidae), pp. 965-989 in Journal of Natural History 53 (15) on pages 983-984, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1620893, http://zenodo.org/record/3673222
Nationwide seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant and five Omicron sublineages in companion cats and dogs in the USA: insights into their role in COVID-19 epidemiology
Creators: name: Barua, Subarna
name: Iduu, Nneka Vivian
name: Murillo, Daniel Felipe Barrantes
name: Tarannum, Asfiha
name: Dimino, Hill
name: Barua, Suchita
name: Shu, Yue
name: Johnson, Calvin
name: Miller, Megan R.
name: Chenoweth, Kelly
name: Christopherson, Peter
name: Huber, Laura
name: Wood, Theresa
name: Turner, Kelley
name: Wang, Chengming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Understanding SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology in companion animals is critical for evaluating their role in viral transmission and their potential as sentinels for human infections. This large-scale serosurvey analyzed serum samples from 706 cats and 2,396 dogs collected across the USA in 2023 using a surrogate virus neutralization test (sVNT) to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Overall, 5.7% of cats and 4.7% of dogs tested positive for antibodies, with younger animals (under 12 months) showing significantly lower seropositivity rates (p = 0.0048). Additionally, we analyzed 153 positive samples for variant-specific antibody responses using six sVNT kits targeting the Delta variant and five Omicron sublineages. Among cats, 67.5% showed antibodies to Delta, with positivity rates for Omicron sublineages as follows: BA.1 (62.5%), BA.2 (42.5%), BA.4/BA.5 (77.5%), XBB (52.5%), and XBB.1.5 (45.0%). In dogs, 55.8% were positive for Delta, and Omicron sublineage rates were BA.1 (46.0%), BA.4/BA.5 (37.2%), XBB (58.4%), BA.2 (13.3%), and XBB.1.5 (9.7%). Given the close contact between companion animals and humans, and the persistence of antibodies against various SARS-CoV-2 variants and sublineages, our findings suggest that seroprevalence in cats and dogs may serve as valuable tool for tracking COVID-19 epidemiology.
Obidosus machiguenga Ochoa 2013
Creators: name: Osvaldo Villarreal
name: Ludson Neves de Ázara
name: Kury, Adriano Brilhante
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Stygnidae
Obidosus
Obidosus machiguenga

description: Obidosus machiguenga (Ochoa and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2013) new combination
Protimesius machiguenga Ochoa and Pinto-da-Rocha 2013: 202, figs 2A – G, 4C and D, 5.
Type data
³ holotype (MHNC); 1 ♀ paratype (MHNC); 1 ³, 1 ♀ (MZSP 36821), PERU, Cusco, La Convención, Echarati: Kiñancaroni, Reserva Comunal Machiguenga, between Taini and Kitepampani, near the confluence between Ayeni and Yari Rivers.
description: Published as part of Osvaldo Villarreal, Ludson Neves de Ázara & Kury, Adriano Brilhante, 2019, Revalidation of Obidosus Roewerı 1913 and description of two new cave-dwelling species of Protimesius Roewerı 1913 from Brazil (Opiliones: Stygnidae), pp. 965-989 in Journal of Natural History 53 (15) on page 984, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1620893, http://zenodo.org/record/3673222
Quasitransitive Social Choice Without the Pareto Principle
Creators: name: Williamson, John M.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: The underlying observation of this paper is that when the Pareto principle fails, the collection X of alternatives may be partitioned into a set X^* of unbeatable (against at least one member of X) elements and its complement X~X^* on which the Pareto axiom holds. It is then instructive to characterize the decisive, antidecisive and blocking coalitions for X~X^*against X~X^*, X~X^* against X^*, X^* against X~X^*, and X^* against X^*. Now X^* itself may contain elements which are unbeatable with respect to alternatives in X^*—this is to say that the Pareto axiom fails again. Thus X^* may be partitioned into 〖〖(X〗^*)〗^*=X^(2*)and X^*~X^(2*), locally on X^*, and then the same analysis that was applied in the case of the partition (X^*,X~X^*) can be employed again. This process is iterated until X^(n*) = Φ or X^(n*)=X^((n+1)*), for some n.
description: Submitted - sswp408.pdf
Nationwide seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant and five Omicron sublineages in companion cats and dogs in the USA: Insights into their role in COVID-19 epidemiology
Creators: name: Barua, Subarna
name: Iduu, Nneka Vivian
name: Murillo, Daniel Felipe Barrantes
name: Tarannum, Asfiha
name: Dimino, Hill
name: Barua, Suchita
name: Shu, Yue
name: Johnson, Calvin
name: Miller, Megan R.
name: Chenoweth, Kelly
name: Christopherson, Peter
name: Huber, Laura
name: Wood, Theresa
name: Turner, Kelley
name: Wang, Chengming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Understanding SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology in companion animals is critical for evaluating their role in viral transmission and their potential as sentinels for human infections. This large-scale serosurvey analyzed serum samples from 706 cats and 2,396 dogs collected across the USA in 2023 using a surrogate virus neutralization test (sVNT) to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Overall, 5.7% of cats and 4.7% of dogs tested positive for antibodies, with younger animals (under 12 months) showing significantly lower seropositivity rates (p = 0.0048). Additionally, we analyzed 153 positive samples for variant-specific antibody responses using six sVNT kits targeting the Delta variant and five Omicron sublineages. Among cats, 67.5% showed antibodies to Delta, with positivity rates for Omicron sublineages as follows: BA.1 (62.5%), BA.2 (42.5%), BA.4/BA.5 (77.5%), XBB (52.5%), and XBB.1.5 (45.0%). In dogs, 55.8% were positive for Delta, and Omicron sublineage rates were BA.1 (46.0%), BA.4/BA.5 (37.2%), XBB (58.4%), BA.2 (13.3%), and XBB.1.5 (9.7%). Given the close contact between companion animals and humans, and the persistence of antibodies against various SARS-CoV-2 variants and sublineages, our findings suggest that seroprevalence in cats and dogs may serve as valuable tool for tracking COVID-19 epidemiology.
Obidosus osvaldoi Kury 2008
Creators: name: Osvaldo Villarreal
name: Ludson Neves de Ázara
name: Kury, Adriano Brilhante
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Stygnidae
Obidosus
Obidosus osvaldoi

description: Obidosus osvaldoi (Kury and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2008) new combination
Protimesius osvaldoi Kury and Pinto-da-Rocha 2008: 319, figs 1 – 9.
Type data
³ holotype, 4 ³ 3 ♀ paratypes (MNRJ 17860); 1 ³ 1 ♀ paratypes (MZSP 28719), BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, REBIO Sooretama, on gullies; 4 ³ 3 ♀ paratypes (MNRJ 17859), REBIO Sooretama, Quirinão.
description: Published as part of Osvaldo Villarreal, Ludson Neves de Ázara & Kury, Adriano Brilhante, 2019, Revalidation of Obidosus Roewerı 1913 and description of two new cave-dwelling species of Protimesius Roewerı 1913 from Brazil (Opiliones: Stygnidae), pp. 965-989 in Journal of Natural History 53 (15) on page 985, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1620893, http://zenodo.org/record/3673222
Magnetohydrodynamics mixed convection and sensitivity analysis of non-Newtonian power-law fluid in a ventilated cavity with a rotating heated cylinder
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Md. Mejbah Ullah
name: Islam, Md. Mahadul
name: Hossain, Md. Zahangir
name: Molla, Md. Mamun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) mixed convection of non-Newtonian power-law fluid for laminar flow inside a ventilated square cavity with an inner rotating heated cylinder is studied numerically using the Galerkin weighted residual finite element method (GFEM). The left vertical wall has an inlet port at its top, while the right vertical wall has an outlet port at its bottom. Several significant parameters, including Hartman number (0≤Ha≤80), Prandtl number (20≤Pr≤100), Reynolds number (100≤Re≤400), power-law index (0.6≤n≤1.4), angular rotational velocity (ω=−20,0,20), and magnetic field inclination angle (0∘≤γ≤120∘) on the flow is numerically investigated. Streamlines, isotherms, local Nusselt numbers (Nu), average Nusselt numbers (Nu¯), sensitivity analysis, and other numerical representations of the results are provided. The research showed that when the magnetic field is aligned parallel to the gravitational field (γ=90∘), the heat transfer rate increases, and the buoyancy force leads the heat transfer process. In the clockwise rotational condition of the cylinder (ω=20), the local Nusselt number increases by 69.84% while Re rises from 100 to 400. The relation between Nu¯ and the power-law index is inversely proportional in all three rotational conditions of the cylinder. In the cylinder's clockwise and anticlockwise rotational directions, Nu¯ rises as the Hartmann number rises from 0 to 80. When the Reynolds number increases, Nu¯ also increases in all three rotational conditions of the cylinder. A sensitivity analysis using variance analysis (ANOVA) has been performed in this study.
Euops
Creators: name: Riedel, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Attelabidae
Euops

description: Euops subgenus Flavoriedeliops Legalov stat. n.
Flavoriedeliops Legalov, 2003: 388; type species, by original designation: Flavoriedeliops tamildunensis Legalov, 2003.
Diagnosis. In its current sense this monotypic subgenus has the following diagnostic characters: 1) coloration yellow-orange; 2) prementum with two teeth; 3) metanotum simple, without lateral lobes and sutural spines.
Notes. Legalov (2003) provided two distinguishing features when describing Flavoriedeliops as a new genus, namely the orange coloration and the mesotibial tooth in the male. The latter character, however, is common in Riedeliops and other species-groups, thus leaving only the coloration as a distinction for this taxon. However, Legalov overlooked two other important diagnostic characters of E. tamilnadunsis, namely the prementum having only two teeth (instead of three as in other Indian species) and the metanotum having no lateral lobes or sutural spines. It is possible that these characters are only reductions correlated with the small size of the species. A relationship with the Papuan subgenus Euopsidius Legalov appears unlikely because of the large distributional gap and the close similarity of the TA of E. tamilnadunsis to that of Indian species such as E. bowringii and E. andrewesi. In all these species the basal sclerite has basal hook-like extensions, a character not found in Papuan species. The very similar structure of the femur in species of Riedeliops might also indicate a relationship existing with this subgenus or at least some of its species. At present, however, the phylogenetic position of E. tamilnadunsis is unclear and it is therefore here retained in its own subgenus.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Alexander, 2009, A taxonomic study of the Indian species of Euops Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Attelabidae), pp. 1-56 in Zootaxa 2125 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.188214
Obidosus palpalis Osvaldo Villarreal & Ludson Neves de Ázara & Kury 2019, new combination
Creators: name: Osvaldo Villarreal
name: Ludson Neves de Ázara
name: Kury, Adriano Brilhante
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Stygnidae
Obidosus
Obidosus palpalis

description: Obidosus palpalis (Roewer, 1931) new combination
Fonteboatus palpalis Roewer 1931: 156, fig. 23; Mello-Leitão 1932: 428. Protimesius palpalis: H. Soares 1978: 75; Pinto-da-Rocha 1997: 290, figs 410 – 412, 603; Kury, 2003: 231.
Type data
♀ holotype (SMF 1459), BRAZIL, Amazonas, Fonte Boa (02°30 ʹ 50 ʹ ’ S, 66°05 ʹ 30 ʹ ’ W).
description: Published as part of Osvaldo Villarreal, Ludson Neves de Ázara & Kury, Adriano Brilhante, 2019, Revalidation of Obidosus Roewerı 1913 and description of two new cave-dwelling species of Protimesius Roewerı 1913 from Brazil (Opiliones: Stygnidae), pp. 965-989 in Journal of Natural History 53 (15) on page 985, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1620893, http://zenodo.org/record/3673222
Technology Adoption Under Imperfect Information
Creators: name: Reinganum, Jennifer F.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981
Subjects: Nash equilibrium, Emerging technology, Technological innovation, Innovation adoption, Dominant strategy, Production costs, Game theory, High cost technology, Unit costs, Imperfect information

description: This paper presents a static game theoretic model of a firm's decision to adopt a technological innovation of uncertain profitability which will reduce the production cost associated with the firm's output. Given the levels of adoption costs, discount rates and expectations regarding the profitability of the innovation, we determine the (Nash equilibrium) range of initial production costs for which each firm prefers to adopt the innovation. In addition, we ask whether a high-cost or a low-cost firm will be more likely to innovate, and whether a firm will be more likely to innovate if its rival is a high-cost or a low-cost firm.
description: Published as Reinganum, Jennifer F. "Technology adoption under imperfect information." The Bell Journal of Economics (1983): 57-69.
description: Submitted - sswp407.pdf
A genome wide screening approach for investigating the interplay between host defence and parainfluenza viruses
Creators: name: Jones, Chloe
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Innate immunity
subject: CRISPR/Cas9
subject: Genome-wide screens
subject: Antiviral immunity
subject: Interferon
subject: Paramyxovirus
subject: QR185.2J7
subject: Natural immunity
subject: CRISPR (Genetics)
subject: Genomics
subject: Interferon
subject: Paramyxoviruses

description: Viruses are obligate intracellular pathogens, so virus-host interactions are crucial to their infectivity. A successful infection is a trade-off between the virus’s utilisation of host dependency factors that permit virus replication, and its ability to overcome the host innate immune response. Broadening our understanding of what permits or restricts replication may provide us with novel targets for antiviral therapies. Human parainfluenza virus type 3 (hPIV3) is a leading cause of pneumonia and hospitalisation of children under 5 years worldwide. Using a genome wide CRISPR knockout screen, targeting approximately 18,000 individual genes, we identified host factors that facilitate hPIV3 replication, including solute carrier family 35 member A1 (SLC35A1), a sialic acid transporter, alongside antiviral factors. Infection of independent gene knockout cell lines validated a role of three genes important for the antiviral response: Merlin (NF2), Hydroxysteroid 17-Beta Dehydrogenase 12 (HSD1712), and Zinc Finger CCCH-Type Containing, Antiviral 1 (also known as zinc finger antiviral protein, ZAP). Using flow cytometry and RT-qPCR, we showed that IFN-treated knockout cells were permissive to hPIV3 infection when compared to control cells. We also showed, by RT-qPCR, that all three hits regulated IFN induction. Importantly, NF2 also regulated IFN signalling; a novel phenotype not previously described. Using plaque assays, we demonstrated that all three hits restricted the replication of other paramyxo- and pneumoviruses, revealing their broad antiviral activity. However, the IFN response is a vast response with significant redundancy and where several interferon stimulated genes (ISGs), that individually have low activity, culminate to restrict infection. Current screening methods rely on strong phenotypes, leading to low power in elucidating antiviral restriction factors. To overcome this, we carried out proof-of-principle studies, using an established ISG15-deficient cell line and model Paramyxovirus, PIV5, to enhance signal-to-noise and expand the quantitative working window required for the discovery of low acting ISGs. Building on this, future work will provide a broad overview of the host antiviral response that could inform the development of new therapeutics.
Erethizontidae Bonaparte 1845
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae

description: Erethizontidae Bonaparte 1845
Erethizontidae Bonaparte 1845, Cat. Meth. Mamm. Europe: 5.
Synonyms: Coendidae Trouessart 1897.
Genera: 5 genera with 16 species in 2 subfamilies:
Subfamily Chaetomyinae Thomas 1896
Genus Chaetomys Gray 1843 (1 species)
Subfamily Erethizontinae Bonaparte 1845
Genus Coendou Lacépède 1799 (4 species with 4 subspecies)
Genus Echinoprocta Gray 1865 (1 species)
Genus Erethizon F. Cuvier 1823 (1 species with 7 subspecies)
Genus Sphiggurus F. Cuvier 1825 (9 species with 3 subspecies)
Discussion: Spelled Erithizontidae by Corbet and Hill (1980:189); but see comments under Erethizon. Extinct forms date to the Oligocene of South America. Not included in the parvorder Caviida with the other New World Hystricognathi by McKenna and Bell (1997) but placement into a New World clade well supported by molecular data (Huchon and Douzery, 2001; Nedbal et al., 1994).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae, pp. 1545-1550 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1545, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Obidosus mendopticus Osvaldo Villarreal & Ludson Neves de Ázara & Kury 2019, new combination
Creators: name: Osvaldo Villarreal
name: Ludson Neves de Ázara
name: Kury, Adriano Brilhante
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Stygnidae
Obidosus
Obidosus mendopticus

description: Obidosus mendopticus (H. Soares, 1978) new combination
Misetropius mendopticus H. Soares 1978: 71, figs 1 – 9. Protimesius mendopticus: Pinto-da-Rocha 1997: 287, figs 402 – 409, 549 – 550, 602; Kury, 2003: 231.
Type data
³ holotype and ♀ paratype (MNRJ-HS 639), BRAZIL, Bahia, Prado (17°21 ’ S, 39°13 ʹ W).
description: Published as part of Osvaldo Villarreal, Ludson Neves de Ázara & Kury, Adriano Brilhante, 2019, Revalidation of Obidosus Roewerı 1913 and description of two new cave-dwelling species of Protimesius Roewerı 1913 from Brazil (Opiliones: Stygnidae), pp. 965-989 in Journal of Natural History 53 (15) on page 985, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1620893, http://zenodo.org/record/3673222
A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' PERCEPTION ON COVID-I9 INFOGRAPHICS IN CALBAYOG CITY, SAMAR
Creators: name: Guanzon, Greta Glory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Semiotics
denotation
connotation
COVID-19
COVID-19 infographics

description: Master Thesis for Master of Development Communication 
description: Since 1918, infographics have been used to communicate health and safety measures. They contain text, images and other signs that provide information to people reminding them to wear face masks, sanitize their hands and observe social distancing. While many studies were undertaken to analyze the content and context of various infographics as perceived by young people, this study specifically discussed the meaning of COVID-19 infographics as perceived by Senior High students and analyzed their perceptions vis-à-vis Roland Barthes’ theory on myth and connotation.

Using the mixed method, the quantitative research design was employed to tabulate the participants’ profile, as well as the frequency, ratio and rank of their responses. On the other hand, the qualitative methods, specifically thematic and semiotic analysis were utilized to explain their perceptions and interpretations, the corresponding semiotic levels and the factors that prompted them to make inferences. Results show that participants construct denotative and connotative meanings throughtheir literal understanding of the infographics’ verbal and non-verbal signs and the associated meanings of the signs with the participants’ past experiences, present circumstances, and other biases.

The participants’ perception and interpretation are aligned with the intention of the producer of the signs. It is evident that the signs were effectively used to communicate its message allowing participants to acquire meaningful information and abide by the health and safety measures in school. Thus, this research also recommended relevant text and visual design principles to media content producers useful in the construction of infographics in various contexts.
Sharecropping and Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France
Creators: name: Hoffman, Philip T.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: This paper examines the wave of investment in agriculture in 16th and 17th century France, a movement with parallels throughout Western Europe. After dismissing the explanations advanced by most historians, I argue that the investment in agriculture resulted from royal tax policy. I then consider the predilection investors showed for sharecropping and suggest that this predilection can be explained in light of modern economic theories of share contracts.
description: Published as Hoffman, Philip T. "Sharecropping and investment in agriculture in early modern France." The Journal of Economic History 42.1 (1982): 155-159.
description: Submitted - sswp406.pdf
Admissibility in Four But Not in Five Dimensions of the Diffuse Prior Bayes Rule for the Control Problem
Creators: name: Zaman, Asad
name: Stein, Charles
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981
Subjects: Admissibility, Control Problem, Four Dimensions, Five Dimensions, Diffuse Prior, Bayes Rules

description: It is shown that the Bayes decision rule corresponding to the prior of Lebesgue measure is admissible in dimension four but not in five for the control problem.
description: We are indebted to Professor Kei Takeuchi for his encouragement and for some helpful conversations. This work was supported in part by NSF Grant SES79-13976 at the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University.
description: Submitted - sswp391.pdf
Chaetomyinae Thomas 1896
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae

description: Chaetomyinae Thomas 1896
Chaetomyinae Thomas 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1896: 1026.
Synonyms: Cercolabidae Cabrera 1901.
Genera: 1 genus with 1 species:
Genus Chaetomys Gray 1843 (1 species)
Discussion: Patterson and Wood (1982) removed Chaetomyinae from the Erethizontidae and placed in the Echimyidae because this form retains deciduous premolars (an echimyid derived character) unlike all known erethizontids. Chaetomys shares characteristics of the enamel ultrastructure with taxa of the Erethizontidae (Martin, 1994 b).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae, pp. 1545-1550 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1546, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Twin study of the self- and peer- assessments of generalized prejudice: genetic and environmental overlap between prejudice, personality, and ideological variables
Creators: name: Bratko, Denis
name: Bosnjak, Michael
name: Pocrnić, Martina
Publisher: name: Leibniz Institut für Psychologie (ZPID)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150

description: Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling toward members of other groups prior to, or not based, on actual experience. Different groups may be target of prejudices. However, a person who is anti-homosexual is likely to be anti-immigrant or anti-atheist, leading to the concept of generalized prejudice. Generalized prejudice is relatively stable in time and may be considered as disposition. Dispositional approach to prejudice situates individual differences in generalized prejudice into the frame of other dispositions, e.g. personality. If we use Five-factor model of personality as theoretical frame than dimensions of openness and agreeableness are likely to correlate with prejudice. These correlations may be mediated via ideological variables of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), as Duckitt’s and Sibley’s (2009) dual-process model predicts. In a study that we are planning to conduct, we will use the twin design in order to examine the etiology of generalized prejudice and its relations with personality and ideological variables. We will use HEXACO model as a theoretical framework for personality and the measures of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation as theoretical framework for ideological variables derived from the dual-process model. We are planning to collect all data in a form of self- and peer- reports and therefore all hypotheses will be tested through the both methods of data collection. Thus, the main topics of our study are: 1) Examination of the etiology of prejudices toward specific groups and generalized prejudice (gP); 2) The phenotypic and genetic/environmental overlap between prejudices toward different groups; 3) Bivariate behavioral genetic relations of the generalized prejudice with personality and ideological variables; 3) Multivariate behavioral relations of the personality, ideological variables and generalized prejudice.
The Effects of Market Practices in Oligopolistic Markets: An Experimental Examination of the Ethyl Case
Creators: name: Grether, David M.
name: Plott, Charles R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: This study reports on the performance of experimental markets characterized by industrial structure and practices similar to those at issue in the Ethyl case. The central question is whether price competition is affected by the practices of advanced notification of price changes and ''most-favored nation" contracts or is determined by industrial organization and concentration alone.
description: Professor Plott has served as an FTC Bureau of Competition consultant on the Ethyl case. This research was stimulated by problems which surfaced in that context. Some initial experimental work was financed by the FTC. General funding by the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Caltech Program for Enterprise and Public Policy is gratefully acknowledged. We also wish to thank James Angel who was the senior research assistant for the project.

Published as Grether, David M. and Plott, Charles R. (1984) The Effects of Market Practices in Oligopolistic markets: An Experimental Examination of the Ethyl Case. Economic Inquiry, 22 (4). pp. 479-507.
description: Published - sswp404.pdf
title: Programme de l'ATED - ARS NAUTICA, Seafaring through the Ages
Creators: name: CCJ (UMR 7299)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Programme de l'ATED - ARS NAUTICA, Seafaring through the Ages, Dubrovnik, du 3 au 10 juin 2017
description: Relation: https://labexmed.hypotheses.org/2510
Market Power and Transferable Property Rights
Creators: name: Hahn, Robert W.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1982
Subjects: Market power, Property rights, Marginal abatement costs, Market prices, Price takers, Minimization of cost, Particulate emissions, Total costs, Excess demand, Mathematical models

description: The appeal of using markets as a means of allocating scarce resources stems in large part from the assumption that a market will approximate the competitive ideal. When competition is not a foregone conclusion, the question naturally arises as to how a firm might manipulate the market to its own advantage. This paper analyzes the issue of market power in the context of markets for transferable property rights. First, a model is developed which explains how a single firm with market power might exercise its influence. This is followed by an examination of the model in the context of a particular policy problem
description: Revised.

I would like to thank Jim Quirk, Roger Noll and Jennifer Reinganum for providing useful input to this effort. Any remaining errors are solely the responsibility of the author.

Published as Hahn, Robert W. "Market power and transferable property rights." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 99.4 (1984): 753-765.
description: Submitted - sswp402_-_revised.pdf
Financial Incentive Effects and Individual Decision-making
Creators: name: Grether, David M.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: Though much of the literature of experimental psychology covers topics that seem relevant to economics, the literature is generally ignored by economists. Possibly the reason for this is that psychologists seldom use financial incentives to motivate subjects' choices. This paper provides an example of an individual decision-making experiment in which the presence or absence of financial incentives affects the subjects' behavior. The observed effects are not marginal but often involve qualitatively different types of responses.
description: Support of the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. Charles R. Plott provided many helpful comments on an earlier draft.
description: Published - sswp401.pdf
title: The Centralization of African Tribal Societies
title: The Centralization of African Societies
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bates, Robert H.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: Many arguments have been advanced concerning the economic basis of state formation. This essay summarizes these arguments and tests them — albeit is a highly unsatisfactory way — with data drawn from the sample of African societies archived in the Human Relations Area Files.

Many of the arguments are "neo-contractarian"; they emphasize the role of the state in promoting economic efficiency. Others are loosely "neo-Marxist"; they emphasize the role of the state in securing the redistribution of income.

Both kinds of arguments find support in the data. The paper therefore concludes by examining the degree to which the element of economic redistribution represents a "reasonable price" for the provision of economic prosperity.
description: The following people, at one time or another, have commented upon this essay. While I have taken many of their criticisms into account, I am nonetheless conscious that despite these efforts many deficiencies remain. For these I am solely responsible. Lance Davis, Phillip Hoffman, Gary Cox, Elizabeth Colson, Ronald Cohen, Douglass North, George Dalton, William O. Jones, David Laitin, John Ferejohn, Eleanor Sear l e, and Kenneth McCue. I particularly appreciate Kenneth McCue's work on the data analysis and his attempts to elevate it beyond elementary tabular analysis. The expenses of this work were paid in part by Grant No. SOC 77-08573 from the National Science Foundation.

Published as Bates, Robert H. "The Centralization of African Tribal Societies" in Bates RH. Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1983.
description: Published - sswp400.pdf
Some Core Assumptions in Development Economics
Creators: name: Bates, Robert H.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: The paper discusses development economics. The paper critiques it. It concludes by indicating those portions that are "salvageable" for positive analysis.
Development economics is concerned with the efficient allocation of resources in poor societies. It is distinctive in its stress on the temporal property of economies and in its concern with the making of efficient allocations over time. Within "conventional" economics, it is also distinguished by the stress it places on the role of the public sector.
As a social science, development economics makes several core assumptions, each of which is seriously flawed.
1. That inefficiency implies irrationality.
2. That the notion of the social welfare is a meaningful concept; that it can provide a guide to public policy; that it can be measured in economic terms; and that it is embodied in the choices of governments.
3. That rational people will make choices that lead to efficient outcomes and that these outcomes will be stable.
What should be retained for positive analysis is the assumption of rationality in choice and the method of equilibrium analysis. The paper concludes by illustrating the importance of these tools for research in anthropology.
description: Revised. Original dated to August 1981.

Paper Presented to Inaugural Conference of the Society of Economic Anthropology.

Published as Bates, Robert H. "Some Core Assumptions in Development Economics," in Economic Anthropology: Topics and Theories, Monographs in Economic Anthropology, No. 1, edited by Sutti Ortiz. New York: University Press of America, 1983, pp. 361-398.
description: Submitted - sswp399_-_revised.pdf
Designing a Market for Tradable Emissions Permits
Creators: name: Hahn, Robert W.
name: Noll, Roger G.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: The economics literature shows that tradable emissions permits have important theoretical advantages over source-specific technical standards as a means for controlling pollution. But efficient, competitive markets in emissions may also be difficult to implement: transactions may be few with high negotiation costs; the market may be highly concentrated. Simple workable versions of the market concept may fail to take account of important complexities in the relationship between the pattern of emissions and the geographical distribution of pollution. This paper examines the feasibility of tradable permits, given these potential problems. Although the empirical part of the paper deals with a specific case—particulate sulfates in the Los Angeles airshed—the methods developed for investigating these issues have general applicability. Moreover, the particular market design that is proposed—an auction process that involves no net revenue collection by the state—has attractive features as a general model.
description: The work reported here was supported by the California Air Resources Board, Glen Cass provided useful comments on an earlier draft, and Richard Hanson provided data management support. The authors are solely responsible for the contents of this paper.

Published in Reform of Environmental Regulation, edited by Wesley Magat. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1982.
description: Submitted - sswp398.pdf
title: Activité du port de Saint-Malo – 1687 – Hollande, Rotterdam
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: produits agroalimentaires
subject: textiles
subject: matériaux de construction
subject: produits tinctoriaux
subject: armes et munitions
subject: produits laitiers
subject: cuirs, peaux et laines

description: Cette fiche est issue de l’enquête menée par Jean Delumeau sur l’activité du port de Saint-Malo au 17e et 18e siècle. Cette fiche correspond à l’activité de l’année 1687 avec le port "Hollande Rotterdam"
description: Marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : graines de lin ; filasse ; serge ; goudron ; azur ; amidon ; planches ; pipes ; fusils ; garance ; fromages ; laines
description: Catégories de marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : produits agroalimentaires ; textiles ; matériaux de construction ; produits tinctoriaux ; armes et munitions ; produits laitiers ; cuirs, peaux et laines
description: Coverage: Grand commerce
description: Bibliographic citation: LE CORRE, Annick. L'Activité maritime de Saint-Malo en 1686 et 1687. DES : Histoire : Rennes, 1958 (Bibliothèque François-Lebrun - Rennes 2, MH 1003)
description: date: Date de numérisation : 2021 à 2023
description: created: Années 1950-1960
The Feasibility of Marketable Emissions Permits in the United States
Creators: name: Noll, Roger G.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: Economists have long advocated the use of economic incentives, rather than detailed regulations, as a means for combatting environmental pollution. In the late 1970s, environmental regulators in the United States began experimenting with one such method—emissions permits that, within important limits, can be traded among sources of pollution. This paper explores the feasibility of an extreme version of the marketable permits approach, one in which all source-specific regulations are replaced with tradable emissions permits. First, the general argument for a marketable permits system is presented, including a discussion of the legal procedures that are required by each of the major alternative methods for effecting improvements in environmental quality. Then, the implementation problems of a permits market are explored. Because this is partly an empirical problem, this analysis is presented in the context of an example: particulate sulfates in the Los Angeles atmosphere. Finally, some specific design possibilities are presented, and compared to the early experiments with tradable permits.
description: Prepared for the Regulation Conference, International Institute of Management Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, July 1981.

The research reported in this paper was supported by a grant from the California Air Resources Board. The author gratefully acknowledges the helpful comments and criticisms on an earlier draft by Glen R. Cass and Robert W. Hahn.

Published as Noll, Roger G. "The feasibility of marketable emissions permits in the United States." Public Sector Economics. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1983. 189-225.
description: Published - sswp397.pdf
Chaetomys Gray 1843
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae
Chaetomys

description: Chaetomys Gray 1843
Chaetomys Gray 1843, List Specimens Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 123.
Type Species: Hystrix subspinosus Olfers 1818
Synonyms: Plectrochorerus Pictet 1843.
Species and subspecies: 1 species:
Species Chaetomys subspinosus (Olfers 1818)
Discussion: Included in Erethizontidae by Corbet and Hill (1991), Emmons and Feer (1997), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Voss and Angermann (1997) but some authors (e.g., Miller and Gidley, 1918; Patterson and Wood, 1982; Stehlin and Schaub, 1951; Woods, 1993) have included in the Echimyidae.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae, pp. 1545-1550 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1546, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
title: Noncooperative Games, Abstract Economies, and Walrasian Equilibria
title: A Core Existence Theorem for Games Without Ordered Preferences
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Border, Kim C.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: The introduction of an additional player to serve as coordinator in an N-person abstract economy leads in a natural way to an N+1-person noncooperative game. Sufficient conditions on the abstract economy are considered which lead to the existence of equilibrium in the resulting game and hence for the abstract economy.
description: Parts of this working paper were published as Border, Kim C. "A Core Existence Theorem for Games Without Ordered Preferences." Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society (1984): 1537-1542.
description: Published - sswp396.pdf
Methods for Comparison of Markov Processes by Stochastic Dominance
Creators: name: Green, Edward J.
name: McKelvey, Richard D.
name: Packel, Edward W.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: A technique is developed for proving existence and obtaining bounds for the concentration of a stationary distribution for a given Markov process on the basis of comparisons, via stochastic dominance, with a different Markov process, having a known stationary distribution.
description: Submitted - sswp395.pdf
Chaetomys subspinosus
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae
Chaetomys
Chaetomys subspinosus

description: Chaetomys subspinosus (Olfers 1818)
[Hystrix] subspinosus Olfers 1818, Neue Bibl. Reisenb.: 211.
Type Locality: Brazil, N Bahia, Salvador.
Vernacular Names: Bristle-spined Rat.
Synonyms: Chaetomys moricandi (Pictet 1943); Chaetomys tortilis (Olfers 1820).
Distribution: Atlantic coastal forest of SE Brazil from S Sergipe state to N Rio de Janeiro, including easternmost Minas Gerais.
Conservation: U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Vulnerable. More common in suitable habitats than previously thought (Oliver and Santos, 1991:17), and may be quite common near Urucuca in S Bahia.
Discussion: Voss and Angermann (1997) indicated that Weid (1826) incorrectly gave the type locality as Cametá, in Pará state of Brazil, that Ávila-Pires (1967) erroneously emended the type to Ilhéus in Bahia state, and document that the type material was collected from Salvador. See Oliver and Santos (1991) for discussion of the confusion surrounding the distribution of this species. Hershkovitz (1959 a) and Cabrera (1961) listed rutila (Olfers, 1818) and volubilis (Olfers, 1818) in their synonymies for C. subspinosus but H. volubilis Olfers, 1818 is a nomen nudum, and H. rutila Olfers, 1818, is unidentifiable, although possibly a Coendou nycthemera (Voss and Angermann, 1997).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Erethizontidae, pp. 1545-1550 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1546, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Limiting Distributions for Continuous State Markov Voting Models
Creators: name: Ferejohn, John A.
name: McKelvey, Richard D.
name: Packel, Edward W.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1981

description: This paper proves the existence of a stationary distribution for a class of Markov voting models. We assume that alternatives to replace the current status quo arise probabilistically, with the probability distribution at time t+1 having support set equal to the set of alternatives that defeat, according to some voting rule, the current status quo at time t. When preferences are based on Euclidean distance, it is shown that for a wide class of voting rules, a limiting distribution exists. For the special case of majority rule, not only does a limiting distribution always exist, but we obtain bounds for the concentration of the limiting distribution around a centrally located set. The implications are that under Markov voting models, small deviations from the conditions for a core point will still leave the limiting distribution quite concentrated around a generalized median point. Even though the majority relation is totally cyclic in such situations, our results show that such chaos is not probabilistically significant.
description: Published as Ferejohn, John A., Richard D. McKelvey, and Edward W. Packel. "Limiting distributions for continuous state Markov voting models." Social Choice and Welfare 1.1 (1984): 45-67.
description: Submitted - sswp394.pdf