cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Urothoe Dana 1852
Creators: name: Al-Kandari, Manal
name: Polikarpov, Igor
name: Nithyanandan, Manickam
name: Al-Yamani, Faiza
name: Grintsov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Urothoidae
Urothoe

description: Genus Urothoe Dana, 1852d
Syn.: Egidia Costa, 1853
description: Published as part of Al-Kandari, Manal, Polikarpov, Igor, Nithyanandan, Manickam, Al-Yamani, Faiza & Grintsov, Vladimir, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Kuwait, north-western Arabian Gulf, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 5351 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391121
Xylocopa (Schonnherria) viridis Smith 1854
Creators: name: Mawdsley, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Xylocopa
Xylocopa viridis

description: Xylocopa (Schonnherria) viridis Smith 1854: 360
Fig. 23
Known distribution. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas, Ceará, Guapore, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Santa Catarina), Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname (Hurd 1978: 28). Type locality: “ Brazil (Rio Tapajos)” (Smith 1854: 360).
Material examined. Bolivia: Beni, Rurrenabaque, W. M. Mann, 1921-1922, Mulford Biological Expedition (1 ♂), 175 meters, 5.X.1956, L. Pena (1 ♂). Brazil: Amazonas: Manaus, X.1959, C. Ellas (1 ♂), XI.1959, C. Ellas (2 ♂), Tefé, I.1962, B. Carvalho (1 ♂); Pará: Colônia Rio Branco, Óbidos, X.1959, J. Brazilino (1 ♂), F. M. Oliveira (1 ♂), Óbidos, 1962, F. M. Oliveira (1 ♂). Peru: Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, 3.IX.1962 (1 ♂); Tingo Maria, Huanuco, 2200 feet, 26.V.1947 (1 ♂).
Notes. The presence of pale yellowish-brown pubescence on the mesosoma will separate females of this species from the other Amazon basin species of subgenus Schonnherria, which generally have dark brownish-black to black mesosomal pubescence.
description: Published as part of Mawdsley, Jonathan R., 2018, New records and diagnostic notes on large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: genus Xylocopa Latreille), from the Amazon River basin of South America, pp. 1-15 in Insecta Mundi 631 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3699701
Urothoe grimaldii Chevreux 1895
Creators: name: Al-Kandari, Manal
name: Polikarpov, Igor
name: Nithyanandan, Manickam
name: Al-Yamani, Faiza
name: Grintsov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Urothoidae
Urothoe
Urothoe grimaldii

description: 84. Urothoe grimaldii Chevreux, 1895
Syn.: Urothoe grimaldii grimaldii Chevreux, 1895
Regional record: Kuwait: Jones 1986.
Habitat: Sand.
description: Published as part of Al-Kandari, Manal, Polikarpov, Igor, Nithyanandan, Manickam, Al-Yamani, Faiza & Grintsov, Vladimir, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Kuwait, north-western Arabian Gulf, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 5351 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391121
Xylocopa (Schonnherria) Lepeletier 1841
Creators: name: Mawdsley, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Xylocopa

description: Key to females of species of Xylocopa (Schonnherria) recorded from the Amazon River basin of South America
1. Dorsal surface of metasomal tergites 4, 5, and 6 covered in uniform orange pubescence.... 2
— Dorsal surface of metasomal tergites 4, 5, and 6 either smooth or with black pubescence laterally.................................................................. 3
2(1). Lateral fringe of pubescence on metatarsi black; pubescence on metasomal tergites 1–2 black...................................................... X. (S.) metallica Smith
— Lateral fringe of pubescence on metatarsi bright yellow or orange; pubescence on metasomal tergites 1–2 orange....................................... X. (S.) ornata Smith
3(1). Lateral pubescence of metatarsi white, yellowish or orange........................... 4 — Lateral pubescence of metatarsi dark brownish-black to black......................... 5
4(3). Mesosomal pubescence pale yellowish-brown..................... X. (S.) viridis Smith — Mesosomal pubescence black................................. X. (S.) varians Smith
5(3). Fifth metasomal tergite with white pubescence along lateral margin................... 6 — Marginal pubescence of fifth metasomal tergite black................................ 7
6(5). Gena with dense white pubescence...................... X. (S.) muscaria (Fabricius) — Gena with scattered black setae............................... X. (S.) lucida Smith
7(5). Body size smaller, total body length 15.0 to 16.3 mm ........... X. (S.) subcyanea Pérez — Body size larger, total body length 20.5 to 24.6 mm .................................. 8
8(7). Metasomal tergites metallic blue.......................... X. (S.) dimidiata Latreille
— Metasomal tergites dark brownish-black to black, sometimes with transverse orange pigmented bands.................................................................... 9
9(8). Wing surface with violet iridescence basally, matte black apically.......................................................................... X. (S.) macrops Lepeletier
— Wing surface with some violet iridescence basally, otherwise with greenish-blue iridescence..................................................... X. (S.) simillima Smith
description: Published as part of Mawdsley, Jonathan R., 2018, New records and diagnostic notes on large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: genus Xylocopa Latreille), from the Amazon River basin of South America, pp. 1-15 in Insecta Mundi 631 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3699701
Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation as an Alternative Treatment for Patients with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Creators: name: Kannen, Kyra
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung
subject: ADHS
subject: Gehirnstimulation
subject: transkranielle Wechselstromstimulation
subject: tACS
subject: Therapie
subject: attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
subject: brain stimulation
subject: transcranial alternating current stimulation
subject: therapy
subject: ddc:150

description: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, with massive psychosocial and health-economical burdens. To improve ADHD symptoms, patients often receive long-lasting psychopharmacological treatment. Despite the high success of psychopharmacology, a significant minority of patients experience undesirable side effects or do not respond to the therapy. Since ADHD is associated with altered brain oscillations, a promising alternative treatment approach with less side effects is the application of non-invasive brain stimulation (NiBS). The potential of NiBS to modulate brain oscillations makes it a promising technique for the treatment of mental disorders that are characterized by pathologically altered brain oscillations com-pared to healthy controls. Thus, the main aim of this dissertation was to explore transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), a novel NiBS technique, as an alternative therapy intervention for adult ADHD.
 To examine its clinical effectiveness, within the scope of this research, adults with ADHD received active tACS and a placebo stimulation on distinct days. Recorded subjective, behavioral, and neurophysiological data were analyzed before and after each intervention. While in the first tACS study conventional attention tasks were used to assess attentional performance, the second study was conducted in a developed reality-close, multi-modal, and standardized virtual reality (VR) test environment.
 Electrophysiological analyses did not confirm that tACS significantly modulated the targeted brain oscillations. Consequently, no stimulation-related improvement of attentional ability was determined. Although we were not able to confirm a benefit of tACS for ADHD patients so far, the developed realistic and multi-modal VR test environment provides a comprehensive and ecologically valid assessment tool, capturing the complexity of ADHD symptomatology. Overall, our research emphasizes the need for further fundamental research to develop ADHD-tailored tACS therapies. In addition, our findings demonstrated that VR test settings advance the assessment of ADHD symptoms and are suitable for testing the efficiency of potential ADHD treatment interventions.
Repetitions and reflections in Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Creators: name: Berg, Mary G.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1984

description: Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Chronicle of ~ Death Foretold is a
spiralling search for satisfying explanations of why events occur as
they do. The first sentences prefigure the book's concern with the
nature of memory and our perception of reality as describable in words.
The narrator's declared intention of reassembling "the broken mirror of
memory" allows the scrutiny of many kinds of reflections: dream
images, recollections and retrospective insights, repetitions and
contradictions. Memory is both individual and collective; separate
voices are joined in a town history. The story of a small town murder
becomes a chronicle of a universal need to understand the purpose of
life. The fallibility of memory and of words is expanded into the
impossibility of recovering the past objectively. We are able to
perceive repeated patterns of behavior but the meaning of history eludes
us. Interwoven throughout the cycling narrative fabric of repetitions,
mockeries and fragmented insights are affirmations of the creativity
and strength of human imagination, and Chronicle is ultimately a
celebration of the power of words, despite the inadequacy of language
to mirror objective reality.
description: Published - HumsWP-0110.pdf
Debt and development
Creators: name: Oliver, Robert W.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1984

description: The external indebtedness of many developing countries -Mexico,
Brazil and Argentina in particular -- has been of considerable
international concern. The debts arose partly because of changes in
international banking practices and partly because of unwise short-term
borrowing by governments accustomed to continuing international
inflation. The problem has been made worse by high world-wide interest
rates caused in part by the historically high domestic deficits of the
United States government. There are signs that the crisis may be
easing, however, and that moderate growth may Boon resume in Latin
America.
description: A Presentation to Town Hall
description: Published - HumsWP-0111.pdf
MPA Europe-project. Vores store blå hjem: Lær og beskyt!
Creators: name: Leal, Miguel
name: Bramley, Belinda
name: Krause-Jensen, Dorte
name: Marques, Joana
name: Principe, Silas C.
name: Smanis, Thanos
name: Costello, Mark John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Article for children. Denne bog er en del af Horizon Europe-projektet, MPA Europe, som har til formål at kortlægge de bedste steder for marine beskyttede områder (MPA) i europæiske have. Disse områder er valgt for at beskytte en bred vifte af arter, levesteder og økosystemer.
Urothoe undefined-1
Creators: name: Al-Kandari, Manal
name: Polikarpov, Igor
name: Nithyanandan, Manickam
name: Al-Yamani, Faiza
name: Grintsov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Urothoidae
Urothoe
Urothoe undefined-1

description: 85. Urothoe sp. 1 *
Regional record: Kuwait: this study (KISR-FM075C/ Amphipoda /077).
Local distribution and occurrence: Al-Sha’ab, Al-Salmiya beach, Al-Funaitees, Al-Mangaf, Mina Abdullah, Julai’a beach, Al-Khiran, Al-Nuwaiseeb, Boubyan Island, Failaka Island; occasional (18%).
Habitat: Intertidal and subtidal zones; sand and shells.
*Remarks: Undescribed species (taxonomic note and illustrations in Al-Yamani et al. 2019: p. 370, pls 197–200).
description: Published as part of Al-Kandari, Manal, Polikarpov, Igor, Nithyanandan, Manickam, Al-Yamani, Faiza & Grintsov, Vladimir, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Kuwait, north-western Arabian Gulf, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 5351 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391121
Intelligence of school children: Los Angeles as a case study 1922-1932
Creators: name: Raftery, Judith
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1985

description: In an effort to construct the most advanced school system in
the nation, Los Angeles school administrators and educators initiated a
new scientific method of group intelligence testing. Almost immediately
educators discovered serious limitations with the process and resisted
its exclusive use.

This study examines the reception of this new technology in Los
Angeles between 1922 and 1932. Many historians have seen those
associated with I.Q. measuring as bulwarks supporting the hegemony of
Anglo-Saxon upper-middle class society. While their criticism has
brought some non-equitable aspects of twentieth-century public
education to surface, it has not led to our understanding of how
educators interpreted the tests. An analysis of the sources, including
reports published in the Department of Psychology and Education
Research Bulletin of the Los Angeles City Schools, the Teachers' and
Principals' School Journal, and the Minute~ of the Board of Education,
provides insight into how Los Angeles educators viewed standardized
testing.
description: Published - HumsWP-0113.pdf
Burst kinetics analysis
Creators: name: Tukacs, Vanda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310204
subject: Genomics and transcriptomics

description: Correlation analysis. Correlations of copy number descriptive statistics measures and inferred burst kinetic parameters were calculated in R by ‘cor.test’ function of the ‘stats’ package with Spearman’s rank correlation method. Assumptions of Spearman’s correlations were tested; two variables were on a continuous scale and represent paired observations in all cases, monotonic relationship was confirmed on scatter plots.Formulation of regression models. Regression models were performed in R with ‘lm’ function of ‘stats’ package. Multicolinearity of variables was tested and was under 0.8 in all cases, and constant variance of the residuals was confirmed on a scatter plot. As burst kinetic inference was found to have low accuracy on low expression genes, we decided to filter out genes with median copy number less than 2. We formulated regression models which included the effect of mean copy number (x̄), percentage of ON state cells (pON), median copy number (x͂) of genes, and their interactions on burst frequency (bf) and burst size (bs).Differential burst kinetics. Next, we calculated alpha and beta parameter ratios of each gene by dividing parameters determined for FS interneurons and Pyr cells (FS/Pyr). The thresholds for differential burst frequency and burst size of genes were set as 3 times the standard deviation of the alpha and beta parameter ratios, respectively.
MPA Europe-project. Ons Grote Blauwe Huis: Leer en Bescherm!
Creators: name: Leal, Miguel
name: Bramley, Belinda
name: Krause-Jensen, Dorte
name: Marques, Joana
name: Principe, Silas C.
name: Smanis, Thanos
name: Costello, Mark John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Article for children. Dit boek maakt deel uit van het Horizon Europeproject, MPA Europe, dat tot doel heeft de beste locaties voor Mariene Beschermde Gebieden (MPA) in Europese zeeën in kaart te brengen.Deze gebieden worden geselecteerd om een brede verscheidenheid aan soorten, habitats en ecosystemen te beschermen.
Urothoe undefined-2
Creators: name: Al-Kandari, Manal
name: Polikarpov, Igor
name: Nithyanandan, Manickam
name: Al-Yamani, Faiza
name: Grintsov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Urothoidae
Urothoe
Urothoe undefined-2

description: 86. Urothoe sp. 2 cf. U. intermedia Bellan-Santini & Ruffo, 1986 ++
Regional record: Kuwait: this study (KISR-FM075C/ Amphipoda /078).
Local distribution and occurrence: Kuwait Bay (Ras Ajuza), Al-Sha’ab, Ras Al-Zour, Al-Khiran, Al-Nuwaiseeb, Failaka Island, Kubbar Island, Umm Al-Maradim Island; occasional (11%).
Habitat: Intertidal and subtidal zones; sand, rocks, dead corals, pebble, shells, sponges, and Sargassum spp.
description: Published as part of Al-Kandari, Manal, Polikarpov, Igor, Nithyanandan, Manickam, Al-Yamani, Faiza & Grintsov, Vladimir, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Kuwait, north-western Arabian Gulf, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 5351 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391121
Zodarion siirtensis Coşar 2021, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Coşar, Ilhan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Zodarion
Zodarion siirtensis

description: Zodarion siirtensis spec. nov.
(Figures 23–35)
Type material. Holotype (KUAM-ZOD-2020/75) ♂, Turkey, Siirt Province, 37°57’05’’N, 41°50’10’’E, elevation 625 m, 20 May 2015, T. Danışman leg., stony field near thicket. Paratypes: 2♂, Diyarbakır Province, Yeniköy, Sil- van, 38°07’21’’N, 41°02’12’’E, elevation 875 m, 19 May 2015, T. Danışman leg., stony field near thicket (KUAM- ZOD-2020/76).
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality.
Diagnosis. Zodarion siirtensis spec. nov. is a member of the spinibarbe group and is similar to Z. hauseri Brignoli, 1984. The males differ by the complex shape of the median apophysis and the dorsal protrusion of the cymbium.
Description. Male holotype (KUAM-ZOD-2020/75) (Figs 23–35). Measurements. Total length 4.10. Prosoma length 2.0, width 1.8. Abdomen length 2.10, width 1.50. Ocular area length 0.45. Chelicerae length 0.60, width 0.30. Sternum length 1.0, width 0.80. Clypeus height 0.25. Eye diameters and inter-distances: AME: 0.12, ALE: 0.10, PME: 0.07, PLE: 0.07, AME–AME: 0.07, AME–ALE: 0.02, PME–PME: 0.25, AME-PLE 0.05, AME-PME 0.10, PME–PLE: 0.07, PLE–ALE: 0.05. Leg lengths: Leg I 7.30 (1.90, 0.5, 1.90, 2.0, 1.0), Leg II 6.50 (1.70, 0.50, 1.40, 1.90, 1.0), Leg III 6.90 (2.0, 0.60, 1.40, 1.90, 1.0), Leg IV 6.90 (2.0, 0.60, 1.40, 1.90, 1.0).
Prosoma light brown–yellow (Fig 23), blackish brown around AMEs edges light black, with dark markings (Figs 26–27). Clypeus high, light yellow, with triangular dark markings in middle (Fig 26). Chelicerae light yellowish-brown, darker near median margins, dorsally with long, dark setae (Fig 26). Sternum light yellow, without setae, edges dark (Fig 24). Abdomen dorsally black, covered with short, dark setae, ventrally light yellow. Spinnerets light yellow (Fig 23). Legs light yellowish-brown, with darker femora. Palp (Figs 28–35) yellow, with tibial apophy- sis long, digitiform with tip slightly hooked; basally with oval, protruding concavity. median apophysis oblique U–shaped, distally with two long teeth. The basal part of the embolus thick, curved, tapering towards the tip and terminally slightly twisted. Cymbium dorsally with stout basal protrusion.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Known only from the localities of the types (Fig. 36).
description: Published as part of Coşar, Ilhan, 2021, Two new species of Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey, pp. 559-568 in Zootaxa 4948 (4) on pages 564-565, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4629409
Pseudochermes betula Wu & Liu, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Wu, San-An
name: Nan, Nan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Eriococcidae
Pseudochermes
Pseudochermes betula

description: Pseudochermes betula (Wu & Liu) comb. nov.
Kuwanina betula Wu & Liu, 2009: 221
description: Published as part of Wu, San-An & Nan, Nan, 2015, Description of the immature stages of Kuwanina betula Wu & Liu, with a discussion of its placement in the Acanthococcidae family group (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), pp. 576-584 in Zootaxa 3926 (4) on page 579, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/243974
Uromys boeadii Groves & Flannery 1994
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Uromys
Uromys boeadii

description: 316.
Biak Island Giant Rat
Uromys boeadii
French: Uromys de Boeadi / German: Biak-Riesenratte / Spanish: Rata gigante de Biak
Other common names: Biak Giant Rat, Biak Island Uromys
Taxonomy. Uromys boeadii Groves & Flannery, 1994,
25 km north-east of Biak (town), 65 m, Pulau Biak, Geelvinck Bay, Province ofPapua, West Papua (= Irian Jaya), In- donesia.
Within Uromys, U. boeadii is placed under subgenus Uromys along with U. anak, U. caudimaculatus, U. emmae, U. hadrourus, and U. neobritannicus, and is apparently not closely
related to other members of the genus. Monotypic.
Distribution. Biak I, off NW New Guinea; possibly also on adjacent Supiori I.
Descriptive notes. Head-body 255 mm, tail 235 mm, ear 25 mm, hindfoot 62 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. The Biak Island Giant Rat is a relatively small species of Uromys. Pelage is long, shiny and harsh, consisting of many long dark guard hairs, as well as a few lighter guard hairs; underfuris grayish white and crimped. Dorsal pelage is deep blackish brown, being darker near front of body and lighter distally. Ventral pelage is sparsely furred, and the light skin tone is visible, while the hairs are mostly brown except for a creamy white streak down midline of chest, broadening down body and then narrowing again. Feet are sparsely haired and lighter brown in color. Ears are naked and rounded; vibrissae are long and black. Tail is relatively short (92% of head-body length) and monocolored black. Skull is deep, with relatively short and deep rostrum.
Habitat. Probably tropical moist forests.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. No information.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Critically Endangered on The IUCN Red Lust. The Biak Island Giant Rat has a very restricted distribution and is estimated to have experienced an 80% population decline over a ten-year period, although it isknown only from a single specimen. It is threatened by habitat loss and degradation, which is occurring at high levels on Biak Island, as well as overhunting by natives.
Bibliography. Bryant et al. (2011), Flannery (1995a), Groves & Flannery (1994), Musser & Carleton (2005), Steppan & Schenk (2017), Wright & Leary (2016a).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 715, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
The winner's curse: experiments with buyers and with sellers
Creators: name: Lind, Barrry
name: Plott, Charles R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1989

description: This paper explores the winner's curse phenomena as it was studied experimentally by Kagel and Levin. Experiments with the winner's curse are complicated by the fact that subjects can lose money and the experimenter has only a limited means of collecting it from them. Thus subjects enjoy only limited liability which has theoretical implications for behavior. In the Kagel and Levin experiments subjects were removed from the bidders' competition after losses reached a predetermined value. This experimental procedure has unknown implications for the results so ambiguity exists about whether the winner's curse was actually observed. In this study their results were replicated in an environment in which subjects were not removed. The case in which competitors are sellers is also studied. Bankruptcy cannot be a problem in sellers' competition. In both cases the winner's curse is observed. Thus the limited liability cannot be an explanation for the phenomenon reported by Kagel and Levin. In addition the paper examines the bidding behavior of all individuals and shows that this behavior does not fit any of the tested theories either on the aggregate or individual level. The "winner's curse" did not disappear over time during the conduct of the research.
description: Accepted Version - sswp699.pdf
General Revealed Preference Theory
Creators: name: Chambers, Christopher P.
name: Echenique, Federico
name: Shmaya, Eran
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Falsiability
Axiomatization
Revealed preference
Testable implications of Nash equilibrium
Model Theory

description: We provide general conditions under which an economic theory has a universal axiomatization: one that leads to testable implications. Roughly speaking, if we obtain a universal axiomatization when we assume that unobservable parameters (such as preferences)are observable, then we can obtain a universal axiomatization purely on observables.  The result "explains" classical revealed preference theory, as applied to individual rational choice. We obtain new applications to Nash equilibrium theory and Pareto optimal choice.
description: Chambers and Echenique acknowledge support from the NSF through grant SES-0751980.
description: Published - sswp1332.pdf
Ablemothrips Ananthakrishnan
Creators: name: Dang, Li-Hong
name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Qiao, Ge-Xia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Ablemothrips

description: Ablemothrips Ananthakrishnan
(Fig. 1)
Ablemothrips Ananthakrishnan, 1969: 289. Type species: Ablemothrips maxillatus Ananthakrishnan, by monotypy.
Of the three species listed in this genus, two are from Thailand, but the type species was described from India and later recorded from southern Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines (Okajima 2006). This genus is probably related to Holothrips, although the dorsal surface of the head is strongly reticulate (Fig. 1), and in females the postocular setae arise behind the inner margin of the eyes. Three specimens of maxillatus have been studied, one from India identified by Ananthakrishnan, and two from Taiwan identified by Okajima. Each of these has three sensoria on antennal segment III, although the redescription by Okajima (2006) states that there are only two on this segment. Similarly, Okajima (1999a) indicates that two of the three species in this genus have four sensoria on segment IV, but breviceps has only two sensoria.
Diagnosis: Head much longer than wide (Fig. 1); postocular setae arise between inner margin of eyes in female, wide apart in male; stylets retracted to eyes, close together along full length of head; antennae 8- segmented, VIII closely fused to VII, III with 2 or 3 sensoria, IV with 4 (or 2); pronotum usually with 5 pairs of capitate setae, notopleural sutures almost complete; basantra absent; mesopresternum eroded medially; sternopleural sutures absent; fore tarsal tooth absent in both sexes; fore wings weakly constricted medially, without duplicated cilia; pelta hat-shaped with narrow lateral wings; tergites II–VII with 2 pairs of wing-retaining setae; tube with straight sides, much shorter than head; male sternite VIII without pore plate.
description: Published as part of Dang, Li-Hong, Mound, Laurence A. & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Conspectus of the Phlaeothripinae genera from China and Southeast Asia (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae), pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 3807 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3807.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918122
Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes
Creators: name: Casella, Alessandra
name: Llorente-Saguer, Aniol
name: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Voting, Markets, Vote Trading, Experiments, Competitive Equilibrium

description: We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a
binary issue, individuals may buy and sell their votes with each other. We definne ex ante
vote-trading equilibrium, identify weak sufficient conditions for existence, and construct one such equilibrium. We show that this equilibrium must always result in dictatorship and the market generates welfare losses, relative to simple majority voting, if the committee is large enough. We test the theoretical implications by implementing a competitive vote market in the laboratory using a continuous open-book multi-unit double auction.
description: Submitted - sswp1331.pdf
Pseudochermes betula
Creators: name: Wu, San-An
name: Nan, Nan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Eriococcidae
Pseudochermes
Pseudochermes betula

description: Key to female instars of Pseudochermes betula.
1 Legs present; antennae with 6 segments................................................ first-instar nymph (Fig. 1)
- Fore and middle legs absent, hind legs replaced by pore plates; antennae with 3 segments............................ 2
2 Vulva present; body circular-oval; thoracic dorsum with tubular ducts on medial area; anal ring surrounded by a nearly circular sclerotized plate............................................................................. -adult female
- Vulva absent; body oval; thoracic dorsum without tubular ducts on medial area; anal ring surrounded by an inverted U-shaped sclerotized plate................................................................. second-instar female (Fig. 3)
description: Published as part of Wu, San-An & Nan, Nan, 2015, Description of the immature stages of Kuwanina betula Wu & Liu, with a discussion of its placement in the Acanthococcidae family group (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), pp. 576-584 in Zootaxa 3926 (4) on page 579, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/243974
Revealed Preference Tests using Supermarket Data: the Money Pump
Creators: name: Echenique, Federico
name: Lee, SangMok
name: Shum, Matthew
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Revealed preference
GARP
Money pump
Demand theory

description: We use a money pump argument to measure deviations from the revealed preference axioms. Using a panel data set of food expenditures, we find a large number of violations of the weak axiom of revealed preference. The money pump costs are small, which indicate that the violations of revealed preference are not severe. While most households' behavior deviates from rationality, by our measure they are close to being rational.
description: Accepted Version - sswp1328.pdf
A Revealed Preference Approach to Computational Complexity in Economics
Creators: name: Echenique, Federico
name: Golovin, Daniel
name: Wierman, Adam
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Computational Complexity, Strong Axiom of Revealed Preference, Revealed Preference, Theory of the consumer

description: One of the main building blocks of economics is the theory of the consumer, which postulates that consumers are utility maximizing. However, from a computational perspective, this model is called into question because the task of utility maximization subject to a budget constraint is computationally hard in the worst-case under reasonable assumptions. In this paper, we study the empirical consequences of strengthening consumer choice theory to enforce that utilities are computationally easy to maximize. We prove the possibly surprising result that computational constraints have no empirical consequences whatsoever for consumer choice theory. That is, a data set is consistent with a utility maximizing consumer if and only if a data set is consistent
with a utility maximizing consumer having a utility function that can be maximized in strongly
polynomial time.
Our result motivates a general approach for posing questions about the empirical content of computational constraints: the revealed preference approach to computational complexity. The approach complements the conventional worst-case view of computational complexity in important ways, and is methodologically close to mainstream economics.
description: Accepted Version - sswp1333.pdf
A Reverse Auction for Toxic Assets
Creators: name: Armantier, Olivier
name: Holt, Charles A.
name: Plott, Charles R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: reverse auction, auction design, common value auction, mortgage backed securities, laboratory experiments

description: The proposed 2008 TARP auction was intended to facilitate rapid purchases by the U.S.
department of Treasury of a wide array of mortgage-backed securities in order to remove
these "toxic assets" from the portfolios of financially stressed banks. The Treasury had
selected a Reference Price design whereby bids to sell different securities would be
normalized or "scored" by reference prices that reflect estimates of relative values.
Although the auction was suspended just prior to the 2008 Presidential election, we
continued with a series of laboratory experiments aimed at evaluating the performance of
Reference Price auctions relative to several benchmark conditions. The experimental
results indicate that a simple Reference Price auction can be an effective mechanism for
avoiding serious effects of adverse selection and strategic bid manipulation, even when
reference prices are not set accurately. An econometric analysis of bidding patterns and
auction outcomes reveals how underlying behavior produces efficiency differences in this
common-value framework.
description: If you are unable to obtain a copy on the web or library contact the Working Paper Coordinator (sswp@hss.caltech.edu) and we will send you a copy.
description: Published - sswp1330.pdf
Uromys neobritannicus Tate & Archbold 1935
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Uromys
Uromys neobritannicus

description: 318.
New Britain Island Giant Rat
Uromys neobritannicus
French: Uromys de Nouvelle-Bretagne / German: Neubritannien-Riesenratte / Spanish: Rata gigante de Nueva Bretana
Other common names: Bismark Giant Rat, New Britain Island Uromys
Taxonomy. Uromys neobrittanicus [sic] Tate & Archbold, 1935,
“New Britain Island, Solomon Islands,” Papua New Guinea.
Within Uromys, U. neobritannicusis placed under subgenus Uromys along with U. anak, U. boeadn, U. caudimaculatus, U. emmae, and U. hadrourus, on basis of morphology, U. neobritannicus seems to be sister to U. anak. Monotypic.
Distribution. New Britain I, off NE New Guinea.
Descriptive notes. Head-body 252-298 mm, tail 243-279 mm, ear 26-5-28 mm, hindfoot 51-58 mm; weight 570-730 g. The New Britain Island Giant Rat is a large, distinctive species of Uromys. Pelage is long and harsh. Dorsal pelage is reddish brown with many coppery guard hairs, giving it a coppery shine; ventral pelage is yellow. Feet are wide and furred dorsally, being brownish in color. Ears are rounded; vibrissae are long and black. Tail is relatively short and entirely black. Skull has a larger postorbital process than those of U. anak and U. boeadii. Chromosomal complement is 2n = 32, FN = 58
Habitat. One specimen was caught in tropical forest regrowth. This species is found in lowland areas (elevations of 30-500 m), although the full extent of habitat in which it occurs is probably much wider.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. The New Britain Island Giant Rat is nocturnal and abnormally terrestrial for the genus.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. Only solitary animals have been collected.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Near Threatened on The IUCN Red List. The New Britain Island Giant Rat is apparently common in New Britain, although it is known only from five specimens. It is threatened by deforestation through logging and the creation of oil-palm plantations, along with hunting by local inhabitants.
Bibliography. Bryant et al. (2011), Buchanan et al. (2008), Flannery (1995a), Groves & Flannery (1994), Helgen, Leary & Wright (2016b), Musser & Carleton (2005), Steppan & Schenk (2017).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 716, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
Extreme Walrasian Dynamics:  The Gale Example in the Lab
Creators: name: Crockett, Sean
name: Oprea, Ryan
name: Plott, Charles R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Tatonnement, Disequilibrium, General Equilibrium, Experiment

description: We study the classic Gale (1963) economy using laboratory markets. Tatonnement theory
predicts prices will diverge from an equitable interior equilibrium towards infinity or zero
depending only on initial prices. The inequitable equilibria determined by these dynamics
give all gains from exchange to one side of the market. Our results show surprisingly strong
support for these predictions. In most sessions one side of the market eventually outgains the
other by more than twenty times, leaving the disadvantaged side to trade for mere pennies.
We also find preliminary evidence that these dynamics are sticky, resisting exogenous
interventions designed to reverse their trajectories.
description: Published as Crockett, Sean and Oprea, Ryan and Plott, Charles (2011) Extreme Walrasian Dynamics: The Gale Example in the Lab. American Economic Review, 101 (7). pp. 3196-3220.

If you are unable to obtain a copy on the web or library contact the Working Paper Coordinator (sswp@hss.caltech.edu) and we will send you a copy.
description: Submitted - sswp1329_1_.pdf
Strategic Voting in a Jury Trial with Plea Bargaining
Creators: name: Lee, SangMok
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Plea Bargaining, Strategic Voting, Condorcet Jury Theorem, Criminal Court

description: We study the criminal court process focusing on the interaction between plea bargaining
and jury trials. We model plea bargaining such that a prosecutor makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer and a defendant, who is either guilty or innocent, pleads either guilty
or not guilty. If the defendant pleads not guilty, the case goes to a jury trial, which
follows a strategic voting model. Plea bargaining produces a bias in which the defendant
is less likely to be guilty if the case goes to trial, which in turn alters the jurors' voting
behavior. Conversely, anticipated jury trial outcomes affect a prosecutor and a defendant
while they participate in a plea bargain. We find that the equilibrium behavior
in a court with plea bargaining and a jury trial, resembles the equilibrium behavior in
the separate jury model, though jurors may act as if they echo the prosecutor's preference
against convicting the innocent and acquitting the guilty. We also compare two
voting paradigms, unanimity and non-unanimity. The unanimity rule is inferior to non-unanimity
because the ex-ante punishment delivered to the innocent or undelivered to
the guilty by unanimity rule does not vanish as the size of jury gets large.
description: Published - sswp1327.pdf
Uromys siebersi Thomas 1923
Creators: name: Don E. Wilson
name: Russell A. Mittermeier
name: Thomas E. Lacher, Jr
Publisher: name: Lynx Edicions
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Uromys
Uromys siebersi

description: 319.
Great Key Island Giant Rat
Uromys siebersi
French: Uromys de Siebers / German: Kei-Inseln-Riesenratte / Spanish: Rata gigante de Kai Besar
Other common names: Great Key Giant Rat, Great Key Island Uromys
Taxonomy. Uromys siebersi Thomas, 1923,
Gunung Daab, Pulau Kai Besar (Great Key Island), Maluku Tengah (Moluccas), Indonesia.
Uromys siebersi is not included in any species group and has generally been considered a synonym of U. caudimaculatus, although it warrants species status becauseit has a very short tail relative to head-body length, small slitlike incisive foramina, and a distinctly bowed skull. Monotypic.
Distribution. Kai Besar I, Kai Is, Indonesia.
Descriptive notes. Head-body 250-280 mm, tail 218-234 mm, ear 22-26 mm, hindfoot 47-50 mm. No specific data are available for body weight. The Great Key Island Giant Rat is a mid-sized species of Uromys similar to the White-tailed Giant Rat (U. caudimaculatus). Dorsal pelage is buffy brown, mixed with patches of cinnamon brown; many individual hairs tawny. Ventral pelage is sparsely haired and white throughout. Feet are dull whitish. Ears are naked and rounded; vibrissae are long and black. Tail is short (¢.85% of head-body length) and dark, with mottling toward tip, and is slightly lighter ventrally. Skull is distinctly bowed, and it has small, slit-like incisive foramina.
Habitat. Probably primary and secondary tropical moist forests.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. No information.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. The Great Key Island Giant Rat is known only from two skins and a skull, and virtually nothing is known of the species. Further research is needed in order fully to understand its natural history, evolution, and any threats facing it.
Bibliography. Bryant et al. (2011), Groves & Flannery (1994), Kennerley (2016a), Musser & Carleton (2005), Steppan & Schenk (2017).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 716, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
Palaeocnopus
Creators: name: Alekseev, Vitalii I.
name: Grzymala, Traci L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aderidae
Palaeocnopus

description: Key to the Palaeocnopus species of Baltic and Bitterfeld amber
1. Pronotum with one deep and well-defined transverse sub-basal impression (Fig. 22 A); elytra and antennomeres III–XI with visible elongate pubescence............................................................ P. saeticornis sp. nov.
- Pronotum with two distinct sub-basal impressions (Fig. 21 A, 23A, 24A); elytra and antennomeres without elongate pubescence.............................................................................................. 2
2. Pronotum with two long transverse angulate sub-basal impressions at base (Fig. 21 A), head and pronotum densely punctate (distance between punctures less than or equal to puncture diameter)....................... P. densipunctatus sp. nov.
- Pronotum with two pit-shaped sub-basal pronotal impressions (Figs. 23 A, 24A), head and pronotum sparsely punctate.... 3
3. Antennomeres III–X long cylindrical; antennomere XI tear-shaped (Fig. 23 B); sub-basal pronotal impressions closed (Fig. 23 A)............................................................................. P. glabricornis sp. nov.
- Antennomeres III–VIII cylindrical; antennomeres IX–XI rounded, subequal in size (Fig. 24 B); sub-basal pronotal impressions open laterally (Fig. 24 A).................................................................. P. mara sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Alekseev, Vitalii I. & Grzymala, Traci L., 2015, New Aderidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic and Bitterfeld amber, pp. 239-257 in Zootaxa 3956 (2) on page 250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/232228
Projet MPA Europe. Notre grande maison bleue : Apprendre et protéger!
Creators: name: Leal, Miguel
name: Bramley, Belinda
name: Krause-Jensen, Dorte
name: Marques, Joana
name: Principe, Silas C.
name: Smanis, Thanos
name: Costello, Mark John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Article for children. Ce livre fait partie du projet Horizon Europe, MPA Europe, qui vise à cartographier les meilleursemplacements pour les aires marines protégées (AMP) dans les mers européennes. Ces zones sont sélectionées pour protéger une grande variété d’espèces, d’habitats et d’écosystèmes.
Contracts vs. Salaries in Matching
Creators: name: Echenique, Federico
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Contracts, Substitutes, Gross Substitutes, Stable Matching

description: Firms and workers may sign complex contracts that govern many aspects of their interactions. I show that when firms regard contracts as substitutes, bargaining over contracts can be understood as bargaining only over wages. Substitutes is the assumption commonly used to guarantee the existence of stable matchings of workers and firms.
description: I thank Vince Crawford, Flip Klijn, Scott Kominers, and Michael Ostrovsky for very useful comments. I am also very grateful to three anonymous referees for their thoughtful questions and suggestions.
description: Published - sswp1322.pdf
The Axiomatic Structure of Empirical Content
Creators: name: Chambers, Christopher P.
name: Echenique, Federico
name: Shmaya, Eran
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Falsifiability
Empirical Content
Revealed preference
Afriat's Theorem
First-order logic
Model Theory

description: In this paper, we provide a formal framework for studying the empirical content of a given theory. We define the falsifiable closure of a theory to be the least weakening of the theory that makes only falsifiable claims. The falsifiable closure is our notion of empirical content. We prove that the empirical content of a theory can be exactly captured by a certain kind of axiomatization, one that uses axioms which are universal negations of conjunctions of atomic formulas. The falsifiable closure operator has the structure of a topological closure, which has implications, for example, for the behavior of joint vis a vis single hypotheses.

The ideas here are useful for understanding theories whose empirical content is well-understood (for example, we apply our framework to revealed preference theory, and Afriat's theorem), but they can also be applied to theories with no known axiomatization.  We present an application to the theory of multiple selves, with a fixed finite set of selves and where selves are aggregated according to a neutral rule satisfying independence of irrelevant alternatives. We show that multiple selves theories are fully falsifiable, in the sense that they are equivalent to their empirical content.
description: Author's copy: Date: August 20, 2010.

We thank Nageeb Ali, Yaron Azrieli, Bettina Klaus, Tomasz Strzalecki, and Leeat Yariv for
comments. Chambers and Echenique acknowledge support from the NSF through grant SES-
0751980.
description: Submitted - sswp1317.pdf
Updated - empirical.pdf