cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stenocercus ivitus Fritts 1972
Creators: name: Torres-Carvajal, Omar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Tropiduridae
Stenocercus
Stenocercus ivitus

description: Stenocercus ivitus Fritts
Stenocercus ivitus Fritts, 1972:10. Holotype: KU 134653, a female from ‘‘summit of Cordillera Huancabamba between Canchaque and Huancabamba, 3100 m, Departamento Piura, Perú ̕̕; Fritts, 1974:56.
Diagnosis.— Stenocercus ivitus is unique among species of Stenocercus in having granular scales on the posterior surface of thighs, and lacking neck folds and a vertebral crest.
Description.—(2) maximum SVL in females 64 mm (n = 1); (3) vertebrals 47; (4) paravertebrals 46; (5) scales around midbody 44; (6) supraoculars six; (7) internasals three; (8) postrostrals six; (9) loreals two; (10) gulars 21; (11) subdigitals on Finger IV 20; (12) subdigitals on Toe IV 26; (13) posthumeral mite pocket absent; (14) postfemoral mite pocket distinct with slit-like opening; (15) parietal eye not visible through interparietal cornea; (16) scales on occipitoparietal region small, raised into small ridges, subimbricate; (17) projecting angulate temporals absent; (18) row of enlarged supraoculars occupying most of supraocular region absent; (19) scales on frontonasal region weakly imbricate anteriorly; (20) preauricular fringe present; (21) neck folds absent; (22) lateral and dorsal nuchals similar in size; (23) posterior gulars cycloid, smooth, slightly imbricate, notched; (24) lateral and dorsal body scales similar in size; (25) vertebrals and paravertebrals similar in size; (26) dorsolateral crest absent; (27) ventrals smooth, imbricate; (28) scales on posterior surfaces of thighs granular; (29) inguinal granular pocket absent; (30) inguinal groove absent; (31) preanals not projected; (34) caudal whorls per autotomic segment three; (35) caudals not spinose; (36) dark brown stripe extending anterodorsally from subocular region to supraciliaries absent; (37) dark patch extensively covering gular region of females absent; (42) postxiphisternal inscriptional ribs not in contact midventrally, Pattern 3.
Color in life (females only).—Dorsum brown with large black blotches arranged in two longitudinal rows between two yellow dorsolateral stripes; venter white with pinkish bronze tint; gular region with dark flecks (Fritts, 1972).
Natural History.—The only know specimen of S. ivitus was found basking on a pile of dead branches at the edge of a shrub forest (Fritts, 1972).
Distribution.— Stenocercus ivitus is only known from its type locality (5 ° 19'0"S, 79 ° 29'0"W, 3100 m) in Departamento Piura, Peru (Fig. 19). This locality lies north of the western Cordillera of the central Andes between 6 ° S–5 ° S. This species is sympatric with S. nubicola.
description: Published as part of Torres-Carvajal, Omar, 2007, A TAXONOMIC REVISION OF SOUTH AMERICAN STENOCERCUS (SQUAMATA: IGUANIA) LIZARDS, pp. 76-178 in Herpetological Monographs 21 (1) on pages 129-130, DOI: 10.1655/06-001.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14384794
An Alternative Statistical Measure for Racially Polarized Voting
Creators: name: McCue, Kenneth
name: Lupia, Arthur
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1989

description: Measurements of the existence and extent of racially polarized voting are often at the forefront of the evidence presented in vote dilution litigation. Previous models used in the measurement of racially polarized voting have been inadequate for a broad range of cases. The source of this inadequacy is that these models were not based upon assumptions about individual behavior.
A new model, which is based on reasonable assumptions about individual behavior and can be approximated by a varying parameters model, is derived. By contrasting the new model with the other models, it is shown that both the correlation coefficient and linear regression can lead to inaccurate, misleading or incorrect conclusions about the state of racial polarization in the electorate. After providing a straightforward statistical test for identifying misspecification and showing how to obtain estimates for this model by the method of maximum likelihood, the model is compared with an individual level data set of an election where racially polarized voting occurred (1988 California presidential primacy). A new measure for the estimation of racially polarized voting is then proposed.
description: Submitted - sswp690.pdf
A Mathematical Proof of Duverger's Law
Creators: name: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: A famous stylized fact in comparative politics, Duverger' s Law, is that electoral systems based on single ballot winner-take-all plurality voting will produce bipartisan competition. This paper presents an equilibrium model of elections in which this stylized fact emerges a logical implication of rational strategic voting behavior by individuals in a large heterogeneous electorate.
description: The author would like to thank the National Science Foundation for financial support. This paper was prepared for delivery at the "Economic Theories of Politics" conference in Haifa, Israel, June 1988, and has benefited from discussions with Bruce Cain, John Ledyard, and Richard McKelvey.
description: Submitted - sswp688.pdf
IMEB-M - Instrument for Measuring Epistemic Beliefs in Marketing
Creators: name: Berding, F.
Publisher: name: ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information) – Testarchiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klassische Testtheorie
subject: Fragebögen
subject: Rating-Skalen
subject: Epistemologie
subject: Einstellungen
subject: Studierende
subject: Wissen
subject: Lernen
subject: Verständnis
subject: Erwachsenenalter
subject: Classical Test Theory
subject: Questionnaires
subject: Rating Scales
subject: Epistemology
subject: Attitudes
subject: Graduate Students
subject: Knowledge (General)
subject: Learning
subject: Comprehension
subject: Adulthood
subject: 150

description: Das IMEB-M erfasst die individuellen Vorstellungen über Wissen und Wissenserwerb im Marketing. Es baut auf dem Modell epistemischer Überzeugungen von Hofer und Pintrich (1997) sowie Berding (2015, 2016, 2017) auf. Der Fragebogen umfasst 34 empirisch geprüfte Items, welche die Vorstellungen über die (1) Struktur, (2) Quelle, (3) Anwendbarkeit, (4) Stabilität und (5) Rechtfertigung des Wissens im Marketing erfassen. Reliabilität: Die Reliabilität schwankt je nach Studie und Skala in der Regel zwischen .70 und .81. Validität: Die Faktorenstruktur konnte in mehreren Studien mittels konfirmatorischer Faktorenanalysen grundsätzlich bestätigt werden. Das Fornell-Larcker-Kriterium sowie Wald-Tests belegen die diskriminante Validität der Skalen. Es liegen Belege über Zusammenhänge zu Noten und Lernmotivation vor.
Mecyna Doubleday 1849
Creators: name: Shin, Bora
name: Choi, Sei-Woong
name: Kim, Sung-Soo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Mecyna

description: Genus Mecyna Doubleday, 1849
Type species: Pyralis asinalis Hübner, 1819
description: Published as part of Shin, Bora, Choi, Sei-Woong & Kim, Sung-Soo, 2022, Fourteen new records of Crambidae (Lepidoptera) from South Korea, pp. 513-534 in Zootaxa 5159 (4) on page 527, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6786069
Petropedetes vulpiae Barej, Rodel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Bohme and Schmitz 2010
Creators: name: Barej, Michael F.
name: Rödel, Mark-Oliver
name: Gonwouo, Legrand Nono
name: Pauwels, Olivier S. G.
name: Böhme, Wolfgang
name: Schmitz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Petropedetidae
Petropedetes
Petropedetes vulpiae

description: Petropedetes vulpiae Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme and Schmitz, 2010
Assignments before official naming of species:
in general referred to as P. n e w t o n i concerning specimens on the mainland.
Amiet & Perret (1969): P. n e w t o n i corresponds to P. aff. parkeri (locality close to Yaoundé) (see Amiet 1973, 1983)
Petropedetes parkeri Amiet, 1983
Assignments before official naming of species: Parker (1936): referred to as P. johnstoni Sanderson (1936): referred to as P. johnstoni Perret (1966): referred to as P. johnstoni
Amiet (1973): referred to as P. johnstoni
description: Published as part of Barej, Michael F., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Gonwouo, Legrand Nono, Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Böhme, Wolfgang & Schmitz, Andreas, 2010, Review of the genus Petropedetes Reichenow, 1874 in Central Africa with the description of three new species (Amphibia: Anura: Petropedetidae), pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 2340 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.193288
Mecyna fusei
Creators: name: Shin, Bora
name: Choi, Sei-Woong
name: Kim, Sung-Soo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Mecyna
Mecyna fusei

description: Mecyna fusei (Inoue, 1982)
(Figs. 1M, 5F)
Uresiphita fusei Inoue, 1982: 358. TL: Japan, Honshu.
Mecyna fusei: Nuss et al., 2003 –2021.
Material examined. 1 female, Soobuk-ri, Uihwong-myon, GB: Gunwui 2011.06.11. (Kim SS).
Diagnosis. Mecyna fusei can be diagnosed by the yellowish forewing with two large rectangular and one rounded markings on the central fascia and the dark brown subtermen, and the yellowish hindwing with the medially projected postmedial line and the dark brown subtermen. Externally, Mecyna fusei is similar to M. gracilis (Butler, 1879) in wing color and wing pattern elements, but can be distinguished by the more angled postmedial line of the hindwing.
Description. Wingspan 25mm. Antennae filiform; frons broad, yellowish white; maxillary palpi minute, tip ochreous; labial palpi long in length, about three times to eye diameter, 1 st segment, white, 2 nd segment tinged with ochreous scales. Body white. Forewing yellowish in ground color; antemedial line dark ochreous, slanted, weakly undulating; postmedial line weakly undulating, medially projected, incurved; central fascia broad, tapered from middle to dorsum, three large brown dots, costally more or less rectangular, medially rounded; subtermen brownish, medially tapered to dorsum. Hindwing yellowish in ground color; antemedian with short, strongly bent dark ochreous line that meets the middle part of the postmedial line; postmedial line dark ochreous, medially projected, incurved; subtermen brownish tapered to dorsum. Female genitalia. Papillae anales broad, plate-shaped; posterior apophyses thick, about twice of 8 th segment in length; anterior apophyses basally thicker, gradually tapered distally, long as twice as 8 th segment; ostium bursae tube-shaped, ventrally with a pair of round plate-shaped lamella antevaginalis; ductus bursae short, posteriorly with colliculum, strongly sclerotized, medially expanded, sclerotized; corpus bursae large ovate, a linear signa band with minute spicules on both sides.
Distribution. South Korea and Japan.
DNA barcoding. One specimen from South Korea (OK501205) was sequenced, and the genetic difference between M. fusei and its relative, M. asinalis (Hübner) was 13%.
Remarks. The genus Mecyna comprises 34 species worldwide and the genitalia of this group show one pair of apical cornuti in the male genitalia, and a central granulose area in the corpus bursae and a short, broad, and sclerotized ductus bursae in the female genitalia (Mally et al., 2019). In South Korea, three species of Mecyna are recorded, including M. fusei.
description: Published as part of Shin, Bora, Choi, Sei-Woong & Kim, Sung-Soo, 2022, Fourteen new records of Crambidae (Lepidoptera) from South Korea, pp. 513-534 in Zootaxa 5159 (4) on page 528, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6786069
Udea Guenee
Creators: name: Shin, Bora
name: Choi, Sei-Woong
name: Kim, Sung-Soo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Udea

description: Genus Udea Guenée in Duponchel, 1845
Type species: Pyralis ferrugalis Hübner, 1796
= Melanomecyna Butler, 1883 (type species: Melanomecyna stellata Butler, 1883)
= Notophytis Meyrick, 1932 (type species: Pyrausta bryochloris Meyrick, 1899)
= Protaulacistis Meyrick, 1899 (type species: Protaulacistis cataphaea Meyrick, 1899)
= Protocolletis Meyrick, 1888 (type species: Scopula constricta Butler, 1882)
= Stantira Walker, 1863 (type species: Stantira variegata Walker, 1863)
description: Published as part of Shin, Bora, Choi, Sei-Woong & Kim, Sung-Soo, 2022, Fourteen new records of Crambidae (Lepidoptera) from South Korea, pp. 513-534 in Zootaxa 5159 (4) on page 528, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6786069
The Report of the United States to the International Fiscal Association on the Costs of Tax Administration and Compliance
Creators: name: Dubin, Jeffrey A.
name: Graetz, Michael J.
name: Wilde, Louis L.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1989

description: This is a report prepared for the International Fiscal Association on the costs of tax administration and compliance in the United States. At the federal level, we present comprehensive data on administrative costs and review recent estimates of compliance costs. At the state level, we present new data on the administrative costs of state income taxes and general sales taxes, and review the very limited data on state level compliance costs. We also discuss the growing role of tax preparers, including new empirical results of our own. Finally, we review the recently enacted "Taxpayer Bill of Rights."
description: The authors are grateful to Lee Meyer, Michael Udell, and Bob Cull for research assistance, and to the Internal Revenue Service and the National Science Foundation for financial assistance under grants nos. SES87-01027 and SES87-04443.

Published in Cahiers of the International Fiscal Association 43 (1989):311-344.
description: Submitted - sswp689.pdf
Udea tritalis Spilomelinae
Creators: name: Shin, Bora
name: Choi, Sei-Woong
name: Kim, Sung-Soo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Udea
Udea tritalis

description: Udea tritalis (Christoph, 1881)
(Figs. 1N, 4G, 4H)
Botys tritalis Christoph, 1881: 20. TL: Russia, Primorsky Kraj, Vladivostok.
Udea tritalis: Nuss et al., 2003 –2021.
Material examined. 1 male, Is. Ulleungdo, GB: Ulleung, 2018.07.08. (Kim SS).
Diagnosis. Udea tritalis can be diagnosed by the dark grayish forewing with the large snow-man shaped discal dot on the broad central fascia and the grayish hindwing with the dark subtermen. Udea tritalis is externally similar to U. lugubralis (Leech, 1889) in wing pattern elements but can be distinguished by the smaller wingspan, the blackish wings, and the waved subterminal line of the forewing.
Description. Wingspan 22mm.Antennae filiform; frons broad, dark brown; maxillary palpi minute; labial palpi long in length, about three times to eye diameter, dark brown. Body white. Forewing dark gray in ground color; basal part tinged with dark grayish; antemedial line blackish, slanted, medially strongly incurved; postmedial line blackish, undulating; central fascia broad, tapered from middle to dorsum, a long black snow-man shaped discal dot; subtermen dark gray; subtermen lined with blackish; fringe dark gray. Hindwing grayish in ground color; antemedian with a dark brown lunular short line; subtermen dark grayish. Male genitalia. Uncus mushroom-shaped with thin slender base and hairy apex; gnathos small rounded process; juxta broad; saccus broad, rounded. Valva long, slender, hairy; costa long, sclerotized, basally thicker, distally tapered; fibula straight, slender process; sacculus weakly sclerotized, basally bent, distally narrowed. Aedeagus long, slender, cornuti long sclerotized plate with a pair of dentate processes.
Distribution. South Korea, Japan, Russian Far East, and northern China.
DNA barcoding. One specimen from South Korea (OK501208) was sequenced, and the genetic difference between U. tritalis and its relative, U. fulvalis (Hübner) was 15.6%.
Remarks. The genus Udea, one of the species-rich groups of the Crambidae, comprises 214 species worldwide and the tribe can be diagnosed by the several synapomorphies: the depth of gap of juxta is 10%–60% of the dorsoventral length of juxta, the strongly sclerotized colliculum anterior of the antrum, the elongate rhombical to ovate signum (Mally et al., 2019). In South Korea, nine species of Udea are recorded including U. tritalis.
description: Published as part of Shin, Bora, Choi, Sei-Woong & Kim, Sung-Soo, 2022, Fourteen new records of Crambidae (Lepidoptera) from South Korea, pp. 513-534 in Zootaxa 5159 (4) on pages 528-531, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6786069
The Evolution of Partisanship Among Immigrants
Creators: name: Cain, Bruce E.
name: Uhlaner, Carole J.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: This paper examines evidence on the partisanship of immigrants and second generation citizens as a first step in assessing the impact of recent compositional changes in the electorate. Drawing upon a sample of 574 Latino- and 308 Asian-Americans, we find that the longer Latino immigrants have been in the United States, the more likely they are to identify as Democrats and the more intensely they hold their partisan attachments. Asian immigrants, in contrast, exhibited no such trends in the direction of their party choice or in their partisan identity. We also find strong age-related gains in Democratic support and in partisan intensity among subsequent generations of Latinos. We strongly suspect that these too are experience-related, but we are not able to discount equally plausible cohort-based scenarios.
description: Submitted - sswp687.pdf
Strategy and Choice in the 1988 Presidential Primaries
Creators: name: Cain, Bruce E.
name: Lewis, I. A.
name: Rivers, Douglas
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: In recent years, thinking about the American Presidential primaries has been dominated by the image of Carter's victory in 1976. Conventional wisdom in the eighties has advised Presidential candidates to focus on the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, and to at least match, or better yet, exceed the expectations that the press, pollsters, and pundits have for them in those states. The successful campaign, it was thought, had to force the competition out by the end of March in order to lock up the nomination before the convention. This common wisdom - the so-called "momentum theory" - will now have to be revised as a result of what happened in the 1988 primaries. While one candidate from each patty did eventually emerge victorious in 1988, no one followed the Carter script as closely as expected. The Democratic race was not clearly resolved until Dukakis managed consecutive victories over Jackson in Wisconsin (April 5), New York (April 19) and Pennsylvania (April 26). On the Republican side, even though the race was over after Super Tuesday, the conventional "momentum" story was still marred by the odd-and in the end, meaningless-­outcome in Iowa Republican caucuses. Bush exceeded expectations in Iowa, but in a negative direction, and both Dole and Robertson were unable to convert their successes into any advantage in New Hampshire and the South.
In this paper, we use data from a series of 12 exit polls conducted by the Los Angeles Times to explain the course of the 1988 Democratic and Republican presidential primary campaigns. The Los Angeles Times sample of primaries includes the critical early Democratic and Republican contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, six Super Tuesday states, and the Democratic primaries in Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and California. The story we tell is quite simple. Momentum in both races was slowed by regionalism, and in the Democratic contest specifically, by the non-strategic support that blacks and affluent liberal whites gave Jesse Jackson. Momentum accelerated in the New York and Pennsylvania primaries as moderate and Jewish voters strategically switched to Dukakis in order to block Jesse Jackson's nomination. Both Bush and Dukakis staked out positions for themselves near the center of the ideological spectrum in their respective parties. As it turned out, the distribution of voter preferences, combined with strategic complications typical of multicandidate races, served to make the middle an advantageous spot for the victorious candidates.
description: Published as Cain, Bruce E., I. A. Lewis, and Douglas Rivers. "Strategy and choice in the 1988 presidential primaries." Electoral Studies 8, no. 1 (1989): 23-48.
description: Submitted - sswp686.pdf
title: K-BIT - Kinder-Bilderinteressentest
title: Inventory of Children's Activities - 3 (IAC-3; Tracey, T. J. G. & Caulum, D., 2015) - German modified version
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Pässler, K.
name: Schneider, N.
Publisher: name: ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information) – Testarchiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klassische Testtheorie
subject: Fragebögen
subject: Bild-Stimuli
subject: Rating-Skalen
subject: Interessenfragebögen
subject: Berufsinteressentests
subject: Schüler und Studierende
subject: Kindergartenkinder
subject: Berufliche Interessen
subject: Interessen
subject: Entwicklung in der Kindheit
subject: Vorschulalter
subject: Schulalter
subject: Classical Test Theory
subject: Questionnaires
subject: Pictorial Stimuli
subject: Rating Scales
subject: Interest Inventories
subject: Occupational Interest Measures
subject: Students
subject: Preschool Students
subject: Occupational Interests
subject: Interests
subject: Childhood Development
subject: Preschool Age
subject: School Age
subject: 150

description: Der K-BIT misst kindliche Interessen anhand von 30 Items und hat als Konstruktionsgrundlage das Inventory of Children's Activities ICA-3 sowie das RIASEC-Modell (Holland, 1997), dessen sechs Dimensionen für die Fragebogen- und Bilderbuchversion des K-BIT übernommen worden sind: (1) Praktisch-technisch, (2) Intellektuell-forschend, (3) Sprachlich-künstlerisch, (4) Sozial, (5) Unternehmerisch und (6) Konventionell. Reliabilität: Für die Fragebogenversion liegen die interne Konsistenzen zwischen Cronbachs Alpha = .71 und Alpha = .81 und die Retestreliabilität zwischen rtt = .47 und rtt = .64. Bei der Bilderbuchversion sind die Reliabilitätskennwerte aufgrund des nur dreistufigen Antwortformats und des jungen Alters der Stichprobe eingeschränkt (Alpha = .33-.60, rtt = .30-.59). Validität: Im Rahmen der Testkonstruktion wurden Analysen zur Überprüfung der Konstruktvalidität durchgeführt. Der hypothesenkonforme Zusammenhang zwischen K-BIT und ICA-3 unterstützt die Annahme der konvergenten Validität. Die strukturelle Validität ist für die Fragebogenversion gegeben. Bei der Bilderbuchversion zeigt sich, dass die Interessenstruktur von Kindern unter neun Jahren noch nicht der von Erwachsenen entspricht.
Information Aggregation in Two-Candidate Elections
Creators: name: Ledyard, John O.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: Many interesting political institutions, such as campaigning, polls, and sequences of elections cannot be understood in the context of standard spatial competition models of elections with fully informed candidates and voters. To fill this void, we introduce a model of elections in which candidates are privately and asymmetrically informed about the electorate. This model differs from other incomplete information models, such as the rational expectations model, in that a full range of sequential strategic behavior is considered. We begin with a model in which candidates can constantly revise their positions before the election. In this case, one might expect each to "invert" the other's strategies and infer the other's private information, as is done in equilibrium with rational expectations. However, we find that each candidate, knowing the other will try to make such inferences, will follow a strategy which is not invertible. No information will leak from one candidate to the other. The outcome will be identical to a single-move election with incomplete information and no information aggregation will occur.
The introduction of a public poll changes the results in an interesting way. Candidates still use pooling strategies (strategies that are constant on their private information) to avoid leaking anything to the opponent but, contrary to the case without the poll, candidates learn about the electorate before the election. In equilibrium, candidates use mixed strategies (pure strategy equilibria do not exist) and the better informed player cannot prevent the lesser informed from learning from the poll. No private information is leaked but information aggregation occurs. We conclude with an examination of the effect on information aggregation of a sequence of elections. In the previous results, candidates moves were "free" in the sense that revisions were costless as in a "cheap talk" model. Now moves are not free and hiding information today in order to improve one's chances of winning tomorrow may lower one's chances today. We show that information aggregation may occur both through the results of the election (as with the poll) and through the leakage of private information. We also provide an example in which the strategic choices of the candidates are skewed away from the rational expectations equilibrium. Because of the asymmetric information and the strategic issues surrounding information leakage, behavior is different than would be observed in simple one-shot elections.
description: I would like to thank John Ferejohn who once asked me whether elections aggregated information like markets do. (The answer, John, is no.) I would also like to thank Richard McKelvey for helpful comments
description: Submitted - sswp685.pdf
Marshallian VS. Walrasian Stability in an Experimental Market
Creators: name: Plott, Charles R.
name: George, Glen
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: Twelve markets were studied. All markets had downward sloping supply functions created by Marshallian-type external economics. The conditions were such that the Marshallian theory of dynamics gave predictions opposite to the Walrasian theory of dynamics. The market organizations studied were double auction, sealed bid/offer and (secant) tâtonnement. In all cases the Marshallian theory of dynamics was the better model.
description: The financial support of the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged as well as support from the California Institute of Technology Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science.
This project was first assigned as a project in an experimental economics class. Stephen Pitts contributed significantly to the development of instructions and to finding parameters of the continuous model that yielded acceptable integer solutions. The comments of John Ledyard and Jeffrey Dubin influenced the experimental design and data analysis. Comments by Gary Becker and Eskander Alvi were useful in helping us understand the theories and the literature. Special thanks go to Jessica Goodfellow for her help as a research assistant.

Published as lott, Charles R. and George, Glen (1992) Marshallian vs. Walrasian Stability in an Experimental Market. Economic Journal, 102 (412). pp. 437-460.
description: Submitted - sswp683.pdf
Aprionus forshagei Jaschhof & Jaschhof, 2015, sp. n.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
name: Jaschhof, Catrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Aprionus
Aprionus forshagei

description: Aprionus forshagei sp. n.
(Fig. 1 A)
Diagnosis. This species belongs to the Aprionus flavidus (Winnertz) group of species, whose members are characterized by the gonostylus subdivided in two lobe-like portions, the ventrobasal portion is thick and convex, the dorsoapical portion is more narrow and elongate. Between both portions are 1–2 spines of varying size and shape (Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009). In A. forshagei, the gonostylus has 1 straight, blunt-ended spine (↓) situated between two lobe-like portions subequal in size; the dorsoapical portion bears 1 slightly bent apical spine and 2–3 subapical bristles. The tegmen is long, narrow and tapered apically; the apex is covered with tiny spikes (↓); tegmen fingers, arranged in 1–2 pairs, are small and inconspicuous. The subanal plate is largely membranous and can be perceived only because its posterior margin and anterolateral edges are slightly sclerotized (darkened).
Aprionus delectabilis Mamaev (Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009: fig. 78) and A. hybridus Jaschhof (Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009: fig. 81) have genital structures similar to A. forshagei, but the gonostylus, tegmen and subanal plate are distinct in each of these three species.
Other male characters. Body size 1.1 mm. Head. Eye bridge 2–3 ommatidia long. Postocular bristles 6, in 1 sparse row. Neck of fourth flagellomere shorter than node; node with 1 complete and 3 incomplete crenulate whorls of sensory hairs, about 4 thick hair-shaped translucent sensilla distally. Maxillary palpus 3-segmented; first segment with hair-shaped translucent sensilla; apical segment longest. Wing. Apical portion of R1 twice as long as Rs. Legs. Claws thin, evenly slightly curved, without teeth. Terminalia (Fig. 1 A). Ninth tergite subrectangular, with concave, reinforced anterior margin. Gonocoxa rounded posteriorly; dorsal gonocoxal bridge extending far anteriorly.
Etymology. This species is named after Mattias Forshage, Stockholm.
Holotype. Male (CEC76), Sweden, Östergötland, Ödeshög, Omberg, Storpissan Nature Reserve, old-growth Norway spruce forest, 18 June–20 July 2009, Malaise trap, M. & C. Jaschhof (in NHRS).
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias & Jaschhof, Catrin, 2015, New species and new distribution records of Lestremiinae, Micromyinae and Porricondylinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Sweden, pp. 159-174 in Zootaxa 3973 (1) on pages 160-161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/234218
Monopoly Provision of Product Warranties
Creators: name: Tan, Guofu
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1989

description: This article considers the problem of monopoly provision of product warranties when consumers are heterogeneous and when the probability of product malfunction depends on both the quality of the product and on the consumers' care. The optimal warranty contract is characterized to maximize the expected profit for the monopolistic seller. The properties of the optimal contract depend on the nature of the product. If the quality of the product is more important as a determinant of reliability than consumer care then standard results are obtained; that is, a positive correlation between warranties and reliability and between price and reliability are observed, and higher type buyers buy more expensive versions of the product with higher warranties. On the other hand, if consumer care is more important in increasing reliability, the results are exactly opposite; for example, there is a negative correlation between warranty coverage and reliability. Also, when consumer care is important, higher type buyers buy versions of the product with lower warranty and lower quality. Other features of the optimal warranty contract are also characterized in this paper.
description: Revised. Original dated to July 1988.

Financial support from John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellowship is gratefully acknowledged. An early version of this paper was presented at the 1988 Western Economic Association Meetings in Los Angeles, July 1 to 3. I would especially like to thank John Ledyard for motivation and very helpful comments. I would also like to thank Richard Boylan, Chuck Coleman, Thomas Gilligan, Alan Schwartz and the participants in the Caltech Social Science Seminar for discussions and comments. Suggestions from two referees are also acknowledged. Any remaining errors are solely my responsibility.
description: Submitted - sswp678_-_revised.pdf
title: Activité du port de Saint-Malo – 1721 – Dieppe
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: produits de la mer
subject: poissons
subject: produits exotiques et ultramarins
subject: dopants
subject: produits manufacturés

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 1721 avec le port "Dieppe"
description: Marchandises au départ de Saint-Malo : morues
description: Catégories de marchandises au départ de Saint-Malo : produits de la mer ; poissons
description: Marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : harengs ; tabac ; verre à vitres ; bouteilles ; gros verre ; pelles ; boisillerie
description: Catégories de marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : produits de la mer ; poissons ; produits exotiques et ultramarins ; dopants ; produits manufacturés
description: Coverage: Grand cabotage
description: Bibliographic citation: GOURLAN, Monique. Le Commerce maritime de Saint-Malo en 1721-1722. DES : Histoire : Rennes, 1963. (Bibliothèque François-Lebrun, MH 1023)
description: date: Date de numérisation : 2021 à 2023
description: created: Années 1950-1960
Aprionus gustavssoni Jaschhof & Jaschhof, 2015, sp. n.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
name: Jaschhof, Catrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Aprionus
Aprionus gustavssoni

description: Aprionus gustavssoni sp. n.
(Fig. 1 B)
Diagnosis. Male genitalia of Aprionus gustavssoni are characterized by presence of flattened, spineless gonostyli (↓) in combination with 4–5 pairs of non-overlapping tegmen fingers. Furthermore, the outer surface of gonostylus is markedly concave and the tegmen is blunt-ended (↓).
This species cannot be placed in any of the species groups recognized within the genus Aprionus (see Jaschhof 1998, Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009). There are other Aprionus incertae sedis with male genitalia superficially similar to A. gustavssoni, in particular A. laricis Mamaev & Jaschhof (Jaschhof 1998: fig. 181), A. pyxidiifer Mamaev (Jaschhof & Jaschhof 2009: fig. 103), and A. svecicus Jaschhof (Jaschhof 1998: fig. 187). To separate these species from one another, genital structures should be studied and compared in detail.
Other male characters. Body size 1.2 mm. Head. Eye bridge 4–5 ommatidia long. Postocular bristles 12, in 1 dense row. Neck of fourth flagellomere shorter than node; node with 1 complete and 5 incomplete crenulate whorls of sensory hairs, 4–6 thick hair-shaped translucent sensilla distally. Maxillary palpus 4-segmented; first segment with hair-shaped translucent sensilla; apical segment longest. Wing. Apical portion of R1 2.5–3 times as long as Rs. Legs. Claws thick, rectangular, with 3–4 tiny teeth. Terminalia (Fig. 1 B). Ninth tergite subrectangular, with concave, slightly reinforced anterior margin. Gonocoxa lengthened ventroapically into subtriangular lobe. Gonostylus with dense, short microtrichia apically, 2 bristles dorsosubapically. Tegmen with dark longitudinal folds apically. Subanal plate subrectangular, generally weakly sclerotized, with dark markings on posterior and anterior margins.
Etymology. This species is named after Erik Gustavsson, Skogsby, Öland.
Types. Holotype. Male (CEC77), Sweden, Uppland, Uppsala, Fiby Nature Reserve, old-growth mixed taiga, 29 July 2009, sweepnet, M. & C. Jaschhof (in NHRS). Paratype. Male (CEC78), same data as the holotype.
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias & Jaschhof, Catrin, 2015, New species and new distribution records of Lestremiinae, Micromyinae and Porricondylinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Sweden, pp. 159-174 in Zootaxa 3973 (1) on pages 161-162, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/234218
Before Plessy, Before Brown: The Development of the Law of Racial Integration in Louisiana and Kansas
Creators: name: Kousser, J. Morgan
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: In the face of the Nixon-Reagan counterrevolution against liberal decisions of the Warren Court, some liberal judges and legal commentators have called for an increased reliance on state courts for the protection of civil rights and civil liberties. To gauge how well state courts and legislatures protected civil rights in the nineteenth century, I examined twenty school integration cases and numerous legislative and state constitutional convention actions in Louisiana and Kansas from 1868 through 1903.
Contrary to what Raoul Berger and others have asserted, black integrationists had many allies in the mainstream of the Republican party in the late 19th century. Not only did they pass laws prohibiting the exclusion of children from any school because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, but they represented black plaintiffs in numerous school integration cases, most of which have previously been unknown to or at least little noticed by scholars. At least one judge ruled segregation contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment, while another came close to doing so. The arguments of lawyers, legislators, and black petitioners to legislative bodies were all similar and often quite sophisticated. In particular, the unpublished briefs in three Louisiana cases made clear how intermixed contentions based on state and national constitutions were. If the state constitution and laws created a right and the national constitution and laws prohibited unequal enjoyment of state-created rights, then legal inequities violated rights on both governmental levels simultaneously.
From 1877 on in Louisiana, and from 1903 on in Kansas, blacks lost the strong protection against unequal schools that they had enjoyed, at least de jure, earlier. Whether the reversals reflected shifts in white public opinion is unclear, for it was not the white populous that made the changes, but a new, younger set of white racist judges. Their ability to reverse or bypass earlier liberal judicial decisions or legal provisions demonstrates how fragile rights can be in the several states and undermines the empirical foundations of what might be called "the new states' rights."
description: Published as J. Morgan Kousser, Before Plessy, Before Brown: The Development of the Law of Racial Integration in Louisiana and Kansas 213, 226-33 in Toward a Usable Past: Liberty Under State Governments (Paul Finkelman & Stephen C. Gottlieb eds., 1991).
description: Submitted - sswp681.pdf
Allocating Uncertain and Unresponsive Resources
Creators: name: Banks, Jeffrey S.
name: Ledyard, John O.
name: Porter, David
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: We identify an important class of economic problems that arise naturally in several applications: the allocation of multiple resources when there are uncertainties in demand or supply, unresponsive supplies (no inventories and fixed capacities), and significant demand indivisibilities (rigidities). Examples of such problems include scheduling job shops, airports or super-computers, zero-inventory planning, and the allocation and pricing of NASA's planned Space Station. We show that the two most common organizations used to deal with this problem, markets and administrative procedures, can perform at very low efficiencies (60-65percent efficiency in a seemingly robust example). Thus, there is a need to design new mechanisms that more efficiently allocate resources in these environments. We develop and analyze two that arise naturally from auctions used in the allocation of single dimensional goods. These new mechanisms involve computer assisted coordination made possible by the existence of networked computers. Both mechanisms significantly improve on the performance of both administrative and market procedures.
description: This work was partially funded by Caltech and NASA-JPL. We thank them for their support. They are not responsible for the content. We thank Peter Gray and Mark Olson for computer programming assistance. We also thank Charles Plott, Jim Quirk and Stan Reiter for helpful insights and discussions. This paper represents a major revision of our earlier 1987 paper. All the material on markets is new as are some of the conclusions.

Published as Banks, Jeffrey S., John O. Ledyard, and David P. Porter. "Allocating uncertain and unresponsive resources: An experimental approach." The Rand journal of economics (1989): 1-25.
description: Submitted - sswp680.pdf
title: The State of Social Science History in the Late 1980's
title: The State of Social Science History in the Late 1980s
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kousser, J. Morgan
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: Is social science history a dated fad, or has it been so fully accepted as to have become uncontroversial? Is it more or less popular with professors and graduate students today than in the recent past? Is its status higher at the most prestigious universities, or among their graduates, than at less highly-ranked colleges? What do historians and other social scientists see as the strengths and weaknesses, the achievements and deficiencies of social science history (hereafter referred to as "ssh")? To what degree do more traditional historians agree or disagree with social scientific historians and historically-oriented social scientists about these matters? How widespread is the teaching of statistics and theory in history departments, and how sophisticated is it, compared to the offerings in social science departments? Has the field become truly interdisciplinary?
description: Revised. Original dated to March 1988.

I want to thank several colleagues for very useful comments on draft versions of the questionnaire and the paper: Lance Davis, Nick Dirks, Phil Hoffman, James Lee, and Doug Rivers. My largest debt is to the 304 respondents to the survey, many of whose marginal remarks have affected my interpretation of the results. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Social Science History Convention in 1987.

Published as Kousser, J. Morgan. "The state of social science history in the late 1980s." Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 22, no. 1 (1989): 13-20.
description: Submitted - sswp679_-_revised.pdf
Bricoptis variolosa
Creators: name: Randriamanantsoa, Richard
name: Aberlenc, Henri-Pierre
name: Ralisoa, Olga Bakoly
name: Ratnadass, Alain
name: Vercambre, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Bricoptis
Bricoptis variolosa

description: Bricoptis variolosa (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
(Fig. 21 A-C)
Couleur jaunâtre. Pronotum latéralement convexe et anguleux, deux fois plus large que long. Écusson triangulaire bien développé. Bords latéraux de l’abdomen légèrement convexes. Dernier segment abdominal à bords arrondis. 8 paires de stigmates abdominaux saillants de taille décroissante de la base vers l’apex, la première paire cachée sous les ptérothèques. Spécimens conservés dans les collections du Cirad-CBGP (1 nymphe) et du MNHN (1 nymphe).
description: Published as part of Randriamanantsoa, Richard, Aberlenc, Henri-Pierre, Ralisoa, Olga Bakoly, Ratnadass, Alain & Vercambre, Bernard, 2010, Les larves des Scarabaeoidea (Insecta, Coleoptera) en riziculture pluviale des régions de haute et moyenne altitudes du Centre de Madagascar, pp. 19-72 in Zoosystema 32 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.5252/z2010n1a2, http://zenodo.org/record/4520753
Incentives and a Process Converging to the Core of a Public Goods Economy
Creators: name: Chander, Parkash
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988

description: The paper considers economies involving one public good, one private good, and constant returns to scale. It is shown that the process proposed earlier in Chander (1983, 1987a, and 1987b) always converges to an allocation which is in the core of the economy. This is then interpreted as an incentive property of the process and it is shown that there exists no process which always converges to the core and in which truth-telling constitutes a dominance equilibrium of the 'local incentive game'.
description: I would like to thank Jacques Dreze and Henry Tulkens for their helpful suggestions. Thanks are also due to Jean-Jacques Laffont for his comments. I have also benefited from a presentation at the Caltech Workshop.
description: Submitted - sswp677.pdf
Repeated Auctions of Incentive Contracts, Investment and Bidding Parity with an Application to Takeovers
Creators: name: Laffont, Jean-Jacques
name: Tirole, Jean
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1988
Subjects: Incentives, Second Sourcing, Bidding Parity, Auctions, Regulation

description: This paper considers a two-period model of natural monopoly and second sourcing. The incumbent supplier invests in the first period. After observing the incumbent's first-period performance, the buyer may breakout in the second. The investment may be transferable to the second source or not; and may be monetary or in human capital.
The paper determines whether the incumbent should be favored at the reprocurement stage, and how the slope of his incentive scheme should evolve over time. It results from our analysis that the gains from second sourcing are not as high as one might hope.
Last it reinterprets the second source as a raider, and the breakout as a takeover. It discusses the desirability of defensive tactics, and obtains a rich set of testable implications concerning the size of managerial stock options, the amount of defensive tactics, the firm's performance and the probability of a takeover.
description: Published as Laffont, Jean-Jacques, and Jean Tirole. "Repeated auctions of incentive contracts, investment, and bidding parity with an application to takeovers." The RAND Journal of Economics (1988): 516-537.
description: Submitted - sswp675.pdf
title: Activité du port de Saint-Malo – 1716 – Mers du Sud
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: minerais et métaux

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 1716 avec le port "Mer du Sud"
description: Marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : piastres
description: Catégories de marchandises arrivées à Saint-Malo : minerais et métaux
description: Coverage: Grand commerce
description: Bibliographic citation: BURLOT, Joseph. Le Commerce malouin en 1709 et 1716. DES : Histoire : Rennes, s.d. (Bibliothèque François-Lebrun, MH 1016)
description: date: Date de numérisation : 2021 à 2023
description: created: Années 1950-1960