cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vote Buying
Creators: name: Dekel, Eddie
name: Jackson, Matthew O.
name: Wolinsky, Asher
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2004
Subjects: vote buying, political economy, campaign promises

description: We examine the consequences of vote buying, assuming this practice were allowed and free of stigma. Two parties competing in a binary election may purchase votes in a sequential bidding game via up-front binding payments and/or campaign promises (platforms) that are contingent upon the outcome of the election. We analyze the role of the parties' budget constraints and voter preferences. For instance, if only campaign promises are allowed, then the winning party depends not only on the relative size of the budgets, but also on the excess support of the party with the a priori majority, where the excess support is measured in terms of the (minimal) total utility of supporting voters who are in excess of the majority needed to win. If up front vote buying is permitted, and voters care directly about how they vote (as a legislator would), then the determination of the winning party depends on a weighted comparison of the two parties' budgets plus half of the total utility of their supporting voters. These results suggest that vote buying can lead to an inefficient party winning in equilibrium. We find that under some circumstances, if parties budgets are raised through donations, then vote buying can be efficient. Finally, we provide some results on vote buying in the face of uncertainty.
description: Jackson gratefully acknowledges support under NSF grants SES-9986190 and SES-0316493. We are grateful to Elchanan Ben Porath, Jon Eguia, Tim Feddersen, Sergiu Hart, Alessandro Lizzeri, Roger Myerson, Hugo Sonnenschein, and Balazs Szentes for helpful comments.
description: Submitted - sswp1215.pdf
Language Practices and Processes in English-Medium Higher Education in Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Bezborodova, Anastasiya
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2023

description: This study on "Language Practices and Processes in English-medium Higher Education in Uzbekistan" critically evaluates the current state of English Medium of Instruction (EMI) and English Medium Education (EME) in the country, looks at the dichotomy of EMI and EME practices and processes at the state and international institutions and draws important research-driven implications on how and why stakeholders' experiences within EME can be improved. Despite the constraints imposed by COVID, the fieldwork to collect data for the study was undertaken at 14 universities in Uzbekistan. The study used a mixed-methods approach, which enabled the collection of a rich data set. The findings are based on 2282 questionnaire responses, 13 policy documents, 31 class observations, 21 focus-group discussions with students and teachers, as well as 22 individual interviews with the teachers and 12 individual interviews with macro- and micro-level administrative staff members. In my study, I extend and restructure the ROAD-MAPPING framework proposed by Dafouz and Smit (2020), the only theoretical model thus far developed for EME. To show and implement a holistic rather than linear model, which seeks to represent the relationship between processes and practices on the one hand and the attitudes and beliefs of stakeholders on the other, the updated framework is developed as a 3D model. The findings show that how EMI is implemented at the universities is built around the positive image of English that all stakeholders share. However, EMI is a much more complex issue and, in its whole nature, is not viewed by students, teachers, and university leaders in the way that much of the research literature understands it. As a result, the complexity of EMI and its impact on stakeholders is often simplified, impacting practice. This research maps existing EMI and EME practices that suggest an appreciation of multilingual reality in the country, acknowledgement of existing challenges, and evaluation of possible ways to overcome these challenges. It also offers recommendations for effective EME policy and planning.
title: Essai d'interprétation de l'Arouez-Krouer et de la bannière symbolique du Gorsedd
title: Essai d'interprétation de l'Arouez-Krouer et de la bannière symbolique du Gorsedd
Creators: name: Ladmirault, Paul (1877-1944)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Provenance: Ce document provient du fonds Yves Berthou (YBE) conservé au Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique. Le fonds Yves Berthou a été extrait du fonds Francis Even (FEV) par Yves Le Gallo, à l’acquisition de ce dernier fonds par la bibliothèque du CRBC en 1969.
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Quantal Response Equilibrium and Overbidding in Private-Value Auctions
Creators: name: Goeree, Jacob K.
name: Holt, Charles A.
name: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000
Subjects: auctions, quantal response, experiments, risk aversion

description: This paper reports the results of a private-values auction experiment in which expected costs of deviating from the Nash equilibrium bidding function are asymmetric, with the implication that upward deviations will be more likely in one treatment than in the other. Overbidding is observed in both treatments, but is more prevalent in the treatment where the costs of overbidding are lower. We specify and estimate a noisy (quantal response) model of equilibrium behavior. Estimated noise and risk aversion parameters are highly significant and consistent across treatments. The resulting two-parameter model tracks both the average bids and the distribution of bids remarkably well. Alternative explanations of overbidding are also considered. The estimates of parameters from a nonlinear probability weighting function yield a formulation that is essentially equivalent to risk aversion in this context. A model in which players experience a "joy of winning" provides a reasonable fit of the data but does significantly worse than the risk aversion model.
description: This research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation (SBR-9818683 and SBR-9631627).

Published as Goeree, J.K., Holt, C.A., & Palfrey, T.R. (2002). Quantal response equilibrium and overbidding in private-value auctions. Journal of Economic Theory, 104(1), 247-272.
description: Submitted - sswp1073.pdf
Chaerilus Simon 1877
Creators: name: Kovařík, František
name: Lowe, Graeme
name: Ranawana, Kithsiri B.
name: Hoferek, David
name: Š, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Chaerilidae
Chaerilus

description: Chaerilus Simon, 1877
(Figs. 13, 200, 428–457)
Chaerilus Simon, 1877: 238; Fet, 2000: 323–328 (complete reference list until 1998); Kovařík & Ojanguren, 2013: 131–145, figs. ZN.1–7, 617–776 (reference list until 2013); Kovařík et al., 2015: 1–21, figs. 1–91.
= Chelomachus Thorell, 1889: 583 (syn. by Kraepelin, 1899: 157).
= Uromachus Pocock, 1890: 250 (syn. by Kraepelin, 1899: 157).
TYPE SPECIES. Chaerilus variegatus Simon, 1877.
DIAGNOSIS. Total length 15–75.4 mm. Orthobothriotaxy type B; pedipalp femoral d 3 – d 4 trichobothria configuration points toward dorsoexternal carina; pedipalp patella with 3 ventral trichobothria and pedipalp femur with 9 trichobothria, 4 of them dorsal. Cheliceral fixed finger with median and basal denticles flush on surface, not conjoined on common trunk; ventral edge of cheliceral movable finger crenulated; dorsal edge of cheliceral movable finger with a single subdistal denticles; ventral surface of cheliceral fixed finger with denticle. Sternum, type 1, exhibits subtle wide horizontal compression; maxillary lobes I spatulate. Hemispermatophore fusiform. Pedipalp patella with "6-carinae" configuration. Median denticle row of pedipalp chelal finger arranged in oblique groups; pedipalp chela exhibits "8-carinae" configuration. Fifth metasomal segment with single ventral carina. Legs without tibial spurs, but with prolateral and retrolateral pedal spurs. Tarsi of legs bear two rows of ventral setae and median row of spinules. Telson without subaculear tubercle.
DISTRIBUTION. Oriental region from India to Melanesia.
description: Published as part of Kovařík, František, Lowe, Graeme, Ranawana, Kithsiri B., Hoferek, David & Š, V. A., 2016, Scorpions of Sri Lanka (Scorpiones Buthidae, Chaerilidae, Scorpionidae) with description of four new species of the genera Charmus Karsch, 1879 and Reddyanus Vachon, 1972, stat n, pp. 1-133 in Euscorpius 220 on pages 88-96, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7124466
Keeping an Eye on Your Neighbors: Agents Monitoring and Sanctioning One Another In a Common-Pool Resource Environment
Creators: name: Casari, Marco
name: Plott, Charles R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000

description: The role of a specific institution in avoiding a "tragedy of the commons" situation in a common pool-resource environment is studied experimentally. The resource users privately decide their own exploitation level and then, once the group outcome is revealed, can choose to select other individuals for inspection. At a cost, the inspector can view the decision of any individual. If the inspected individual has exploited the resource excessively, relative to a publicly known amount, a fine is imposed and paid to the inspector. The rules, called Carte di Regola, were modeled after an historical case of self-governed rural communities. The impact of the rules is a dramatic increase in efficiency over the no rule case but still less than 100%. As part of an attempt to understand the nature of the impact of the rules the paper focuses on models of individual agent's choices. The patterns of results relative to the classical Nash model are similar to other experiments. The model does well, except for the fact that contributions to the public good are less than Nash equilibrium amount. However, when the environment is changed to allow sanctions, contributions above the Nash equilibrium are observed. This paradoxical "flip" in behavior is explained by a non classical model in which spite plays a role in preferences and in which agents are heterogeneous. The model of asymmetric, other regarding agents also does relatively well in predicting patterns of individual choices such as the choice to inspect and sanction others. Efficiency is improved along with the strength of sanctions and the patterns of individual choices are consistent with the non classical model.
description: The financial support of the National Science Foundation and the Laboratory of Experimental Economics and Political Science is gratefully acknowledged. We are also deeply appreciative of the collaboration of Stephen Van Hooser who developed the software program and helped extensively with the experiments. Many thanks to Anthony Kwasnica, Alvaro Gonzalez Staffa, Leslie Title, Roberto Weber, Angela Hung, and Peter Coughlan for their suggestions and help in running the experiments. Thanks also to William Morrison, David M. Messick, and Giangiacomo Bravo for the suggestions, James Walker for providing a copy of the instructions of their experiment, and to Robert Moir for his contribution to Table 1. This work has benefited from the comments of the participants at the 1999 ESA annual meeting, at a seminar at the University of Trento, Italy, and at the 2000 IASCP conference. The usual disclaimer applies.
description: Submitted - sswp1072.pdf
Structural bioinformatics studies of glutamate transporters and their AlphaFold2 predicted water-soluble QTY variants and uncovering the natural mutations of L->Q, I->T, F->Y and Q->L, T->I and Y->F
Creators: name: Karagöl, Alper
name: Karagöl, Taner
name: Smorodina, Eva
name: Zhang, Shuguang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Glutamate transporters play key roles in nervous physiology by modulating excitatory neurotransmitter levels, involving ina wide range of neurological and physiological disorders. However, studies of transmembrane proteins remain notoriously difficult to study, due to their localization within the cell membrane. Here we present the structural bioinformatics studies of glutamate transporters and their water-soluble variants generated through the QTY-code, a protein design strategy based on systematic amino acid substitutions. We further investigated the characteristics of hydrophobic to hydrophilic substitutions in glutamate transporters, utilizing variant analysis and evolutionary profiling.
Equilibrium Equivalence with J Candidates and N Voters
Creators: name: Patty, John W.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999

description: In this paper, we examine the incentives facing candidates in the spatial voting model. We assume that voters' types are independent, but allow for nonidentical distributions across voters. Examining candidate positional equilibria as a function of voter behavior, we find that what we term p-symmetric strict p-local equilibria when candidates maximize expected plurality are also strict p-local equilibris when candidates maximize probability of victory. This result holds for arbitrary numbers of candidates and voters. We also show that, for generic type distributions, interior p-asymmetric equilibria under maximization of expected vote share are not equilibria under maximization of probability of victory.
description: This research would not have been possible without the comments and encouragement of Richard McKelvey. The author thanks Jeff Banks, Fred Boehmke, Serena Guarnaschelli, and Tom Palfrey for advice and helpful discussions. The support of the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology is also gratefully acknowledged.
description: Submitted - sswp1069.pdf
I Know What You Did Last Quarter: Economic Forecasts of Professional Forecasters
Creators: name: Dominitz, Jeff
name: Grether, David M.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999

description: Abstract: In this paper we have examined data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters. We study nominal GDP, the unemployment rate, the Treasury bill rate and the implicit price deflator beginning with the first quarter of 1992. Forecasts for a single time period appear several times in consecutive forecasts in the survey. We study the revision of forecasts for a fixed points in time. We find that the forecasts were not unbiased, but they were biased in directions one would expect, ex post. There is strong dependence of revisions of expectations on the most recently observed one step forecast errors. For most series, lagged innovations do not enter the regression equations significantly and constant terms are not significantly different from zero. Most forecasters seem to be using information on several series in their forecasts.
description: Submitted - sswp1068.pdf
Market Stability: Backward Bending Supply in a Laboratory Experimental Market
Creators: name: Plott, Charles R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999

description: The paper investigates the stability properties of markets with backward bending supply curves. Parameters are chosen so that the two classic models of price dynamics, the Walrasian model and the Marshallian model, give opposite predictions. The results are: (1) market instability can be observed; (2) in the backward bending case stability is captured by the Walrasian model and the Marshallian model of dynamics is rejected. Previous experiments have demonstrated that the Marshallian model works in the forward falling case. Thus, which theory of dynamics is appropriate for a market depends upon the underlying reasons for demand and supply shapes.
description: Published as Plott, C.R. (2000). Market stability: backward‐bending supply in a laboratory experimental market. 1999 Presidential address Western Economic Association. Economic Inquiry, 38(1), 1-18.
description: Submitted - sswp1067.pdf
Statistical Analysis of the Additive and Multiplicative Hypotheses of Multiple Exposure Synergy for Cohort and Case-Control Studies
Creators: name: Dubin, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999
Subjects: synergy, cohort, case-control, epidemiology

description: This paper considers hypotheses tests for synergistic relationships in epidemiological studies. Two hypotheses are considered. First, I develop tests of the additive hypothesis which states that the combined risk from two sources of exposure is the sum of each risk taken separately. I then develop tests for the hypothesis that a multiplicative relationship exists for the risks, i.e., that the combined risk is consistent with the multiplication of the individual risks. Following standard practice in epidemiological studies I consider tests for both case-referent and cohort (standardized mortality rate) type studies.
description: Published as Dubin, J. A. (2001). Statistical Analysis of the Additive and Multiplicative Hypotheses of Multiple Exposure Synergy for Cohort and Case-Control Studies. In Empirical Studies in Applied Economics (pp. 87-116). Springer US.
description: Submitted - sswp1066.pdf
Dynamic Efficiency and Voluntary Implementation in Markets with Repeated Pairwise Bargaining
Creators: name: Palfrey, Thomas R.
name: Jackson, Matthew O.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1996
Subjects: Implementation, Bargaining, Search, Matching

description: We examine a simple bargaining setting, where heterogeneous buyers and sellers are repeatedly matched with each other. We begin by characterizing efficiency in such a dynamic setting, and discuss how it differs from efficiency in centralized static setting. We then study the allocations which can result in equilibrium when the matched buyers and sellers bargain through some extensive game form. We take an implementation approach, characterizing the possible allocation rules which result as the extensive game form is varied. We are particularly concerned with the impact of making trade voluntary: imposing individual rationality on and off the equilibrium path. No buyer or seller consummates an agreement which leaves them worse off than the discounted expected value of their future rematching in the market. Finally, we compare and contrast the efficient allocations with those that could ever arise as the equlibria of some voluntary negotiation procedure.
description: This project was initiated while Jackson was visiting the California Institute of Technology and continued while Palfrey was visiting CREST-LEI, whose support the authors gratefully acknowledge. Financial support was also provided under NSF grant SBR-9507912. We thank Nabil Al-Najjar, Larry Ausubel, Eddie Dekel, Larry Jones, Dilip Mookherjee, Mike Peters, and Asher Wolinsky for helpful conversations and suggestions.

Published as Jackson, Matthew O. and Palfrey, Thomas R. (1998) Efficiency and Voluntary Implementation in Markets with Repeated Pairwise Bargaining. Econometrica, 66 (6). pp. 1353-1388.
description: Submitted - sswp985.pdf
Is the Sleeping Giant Awakening? Latinos and California Politics in the 1990's
Creators: name: Alvarez, R. Michael
name: Nagler, Jonathan
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999
Subjects: x

description: [No abstract]
description: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1999; we thank Karen Kaufman, Juan Carlos Huerta and Daron Shaw for their comments. We thank Tara Butterfield for her contributions on a related project; we also would like to acknowledge our discussions with Mark Baldassare. We use a great deal of data from different sources in this research: the media exit poll data we obtained either from the ICPSR or the Roper Center; our exit poll was made possible by the California Secretary of State; we thank Bill Jones, Beth Miller and Alfie Charles for their support of that polling enterprise; the PPIC Statewide Survey was obtained from the Public Policy Institute of California's web site at www.ppic.org and we thank the PPIC and Mark Baldassare for making the results from their public opinion polling of Californians available to the public. The authors can be reached at rma@crunch.caltech.edu and jnagler@latte.harvard.edu, respectively.
description: Submitted - sswp1064.pdf
Collusion in private value ascending price auctions
Creators: name: Sherstyuk, Katerina
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999
Subjects: auction experiments
tacit collusion

description: We investigate bidder collusion in one-sided ascending price auctions without communication. If bidding rules in an English-type auction allow bidders to match each other's' bids, collusion can be sustained as a Nash equilibrium of a one-shot auction game. Our earlier experiments show that in common value auctions with complete information, collusion does occur and is sustainable even when bidders cannot explicitly coordinate their strategies. In this study, we investigate the robustness of bidders' collusive behavior in private values, private information environments. We find that collusion still occurs as long as the bidders' gains from collusion are high.
description: I would like to thank Dan Levin, Charles Plott, Roger Wilkins and the participants of the March 1999 International Symposium on New Development in Experimental Economics (Osaka, Japan) for helpful discussion and suggestions. Financial support by the Australian Research Council is gratefully acknowledged. All errors are my own.

Published as Sherstyuk, K. (2002). Collusion in private value ascending price auctions. Journal of economic behavior & organization, 48(2), 177-195.
description: Submitted - sswp1063.pdf
Why Did Proposition 227 Pass?
Creators: name: Alvarez, R. Michael
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999

description: [No abstract]
description: This paper was prepared for presentation at the Research Workshop on Proposition 227 and Its Implementation, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California—San Diego, January 13, 1999. I thank Wayne Cornelius for inviting me to write this paper, conference participants and panelists for their comments and questions about my presentation, Jonathan Nagler and the Alvarez and Nagler Political Research Group for the use of their exit poll data from the June 1998 primary election, and Tara L. Butterfield for her assistance on related research projects. The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation provided some financial assistance for this project.
description: Submitted - sswp1062.pdf
Spatial Competition with Three Firms: An Experimental Study
Creators: name: Collins, Richard
name: Sherstyuk, Katerina
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999

description: The paper reports the results of an experimental study of the three firm location problem. We compare the subjects' behavior in the experiments with the symmetric mixed strategy Nash equilibrium calculated by Shaked (1982). Overall, the findings are consistent with the equilibrium prediction. However, the subjects' locations were significantly more dispersed than predicted by the theory. Three alternative explanations of this phenomenon - inexperience, approximate equilibrium behavior and risk aversion - are suggested and evaluated for their predictive power. Special attention is paid to risk aversion.
description: Please direct all correspondence to the second author (Sherstyuk). We are grateful to Peter Bardsley, Kim Border, Colin Camerer, Lisa Cameron, Richard McKelvey, Tom Palfrey, seminar participants at the Australian National University, Melbourne University and Caltech, an anonymous referee and the editor for helpful discussion. We also thank Joe Rasmussen and Andrew Read for their assistance in conducting the experiments. All errors are our own.

Published as Collins, R., & Sherstyuk, K. (2000). Spatial competition with three firms: an experimental study. Economic Inquiry, 38(1), 73-94.
description: Submitted - sswp1057.pdf
A Theory of Voting in Large Elections
Creators: name: McKelvey, Richard D.
name: Patty, John W.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2006
Subjects: Voting, Probabilistic Voting, Quantal Response Equilibrium

description: This paper provides a game-theoretic model of probabilistic voting and then examines the incentives faced by candidates in a spatial model of elections. In our model, voters' strategies form a Quantal Response Equilibrium (QRE), which merges strategic voting and probabilistic behavior. We first show that a QRE in the voting game exists for all elections with a finite number of candidates, and then proceed to show that, with enough voters and the addition of a regularity condition on voters' utilities, a Nash equilibrium profile of platforms exists when candidates seek to maximize their expected margin of victory. This equilibrium (1) consists of all candidates converging to the policy that maximizes the expected sum of voters' utilities, (2) exists even when voters can abstain, and (3) is unique when there are only 2 candidates.
description: Revised version. Original dated to February 1999.

Proposed Running Head: Voting in Large Elections

A previous version of this paper was entitled "Quantal Response Voting". The financial support of NSF grants #SBR-9631627 and #SES-0079301 to the California Institute of Technology are gratefully acknowledged. In addition, Patty acknowledges the financial assistance of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This paper benefited from helpful comments from seminar participants at CERGY-Pontoise (Oct 1998), CORE (Oct 1998), Tilburg (Oct 1998), Caltech Theory Workshop (May, 1999), Public Choice Society (New Orleans, March 1999), the Stan and Cal Show (Pismo Beach, May, 1999), the APSA annual meetings (Atlanta, 1999), and the Wallis Conference on Political Economy (Rochester, NY, October, 1999). We especially thank John Duggan, Tom Palfrey, Norman Schofield, Bob Sherman, two anonymous referees, and an Associate Editor for helpful input.

Richard passed away on April 22, 2002. He is, and will be, terribly missed as both a friend and a scholar.

Published as McKelvey, R.D., & Patty, J.W. (2006). A theory of voting in large elections. Games and Economic Behavior, 57(1), 155-180.
description: Submitted - sswp1056.pdf
The Impossibility of Compromise: Convexity and Uniqueness in Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Creators: name: Ghirardato, Paolo
name: Marinacci, Massimo
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999
Subjects: Subjective Expected Utility, Uniqueness, Range Convexity, Preference Aggregation, Ambiguity Averse Preferences

description: The main set of results of the paper shows that for expected utility preferences, agreement of two preferences on one (non-extreme) indifference class implies their equality. We show that, besides expected utility preferences under (objective) risk, this uniqueness property holds for subjective expected utility preferences under uncertainty, in both Anscombe-Aumann's (partially subjective) and Savage's (fully subjective) frameworks. For these two frameworks, we present an analogous result for beliefs, showing that if two decision makers agree on a likelihood indifference class, they must have identical probabilities.
The second part of the paper shows two different sets of consequences of the uniqueness results. First, we study the preference aggregation results of the type pioneered by Harsanyi. We show that under the assumptions of those results, the existence of a weak form of agreement among the agents implies that all their preferences are identical. Then, we study the models which extend expected utility to incorporate ambiguity aversion, and show that for a class of these models a very weak condition is surprisingly equivalent to expected utility maximizing behavior.
description: This paper subsumes an earlier note circulated with the title "Convex-Rangedness in Decision Making with Additive and Non-Additive Beliefs." We thank Kim Border, Itzhak Gilboa, Matt Jackson, Philippe Mongin, and Peter Wakker for helpful comments and discussions. Part of this paper was written while the second author was with the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto, and part while we were guests of the Istituto di Metodi Quantitativi of the Universita Bocconi (Milano, Italy). Marinacci is grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support.
title: A New and Improved Design for Multi-Object Iterative Auctions
title: A New and Improved Design for Multiobject Iterative Auctions
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: DeMartini, Christine
name: Kwasnica, Anthony M.
name: Ledyard, John O.
name: Porter, David
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999

description: In this paper we present a new improved design for multi-object auctions and report on the results of tests of that design. We merge the better features of two extant but very different auction processes, the Milgrom FCC design (see Milgrom (1995)) and the Adaptive User Selection Mechanism (AUSM) of Banks et al. (1989)). Then, by adding one crucial new feature, we are able to create a new design, the Resource Allocation Design (RAD) auction process, which performs better than both. We are able to demonstrate, in both simple and complex environments, that the RAD auction achieves higher efficiencies, lower bidder losses, and faster times to completion without increasing the complexity of a bidder's problem.
description: Published as Kwasnica, A.M., Ledyard, J.O., Porter, D., & DeMartini, C. (2005). A new and improved design for multiobject iterative auctions. Management science, 51(3), 419-434.
description: Submitted - sswp1054.pdf
Argoptochus moraveci Borovec 2006
Creators: name: Germann, Christoph
name: Borovec, Roman
name: Braunert, Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Argoptochus
Argoptochus moraveci

description: Argoptochus moraveci Borovec, 2006
Material examined. 1 spec., Macedonia, Ohrid, Galičica, Lako Signoj, N 40°57.905′, E 20°49.887′, 13.vi.2012, 1600-1950m, sweeping of alpine meadow, J. Pelikán lgt. (RBSC).
Remarks. This species was described based on a single specimen from Macedonia, Ohrid, Azandžuro. This is the first collected specimen since the description.
description: Published as part of Germann, Christoph, Borovec, Roman & Braunert, Carlo, 2015, Four new Entiminae from the Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Phyllobiini, Trachyphloeini), with additional data on the distribution of some poorly known species, pp. 345-358 in Zootaxa 4040 (3) on page 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/233130
A Bargaining Model of Collective Choice
Creators: name: Banks, Jeffrey S.
name: Duggan, John
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2003
Subjects: bargaining, legislatures, status quo, median voter

description: We present a general model of legislative bargaining in which the status quo is an arbitrary point in a multidimensional policy space. In contrast to other bargaining models, the status quo is not assumed to be "bad," and delay may be Pareto efficient. We prove existence of stationary equilibria. The possibility of equilibrium delay depends on four factors: risk aversion of the legislators , the dimensionality of the policy space, the voting rule, and the possibility of transfers across districts. If legislators are risk averse, if there is more than one policy dimension, and if voting is by majority rule, for example, then delay will almost never occur. In one dimension, delay is possible if and only if the status quo lies in the core of the voting rule, and then it is the only possible outcome. This "core selection" result yields a game-theoretic foundation for the well-known median voter theorem. Our comparative statics analysis yield two noteworthy insights: (i) if the status quo is close to the core, t hen equilibrium policy outcomes will also be close to the core (a moderate status quo produces moderate policy outcomes), and (ii) if legislators are patient, then equilibrium proposals will be close to the core (legislative patience leads to policy moderation).
description: This paper was completed after Jeff Banks's death. I am deeply indebted to him for his friendship and his collaboration on this and many other projects.

Support from the National Science Foundation, grant numbers SES-9975173 and SES-0213738, is gratefully acknowledged.
description: Submitted - sswp1053.pdf
Lenothrix cana Miller 1903
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
Lenothrix
Lenothrix cana

description: 738.
Gray Tree Rat
Lenothrix cana
French: Rat gris / German: Graue Haarbaumratte / Spanish: Rata arboricola gris Other common names: Sundaic Lenothrix
Taxonomy. Lenothrix canus [sic] G. S. Miller, 1903,
Pulau Tuangku (west of Sumatra), Indonesia.
Genus Lenothrix is feminine, so widely used subspecific name canus has been changed for gender agreement. It was sequenced by Pages and collaborators and was found close to Margaretamys in the Dacnomys division among Rattini. Monotypic.
Distribution. Malay Peninsula and nearby Penang I, Borneo, and Tuangku I (off NW Sumatra).
Descriptive notes. Head—body 140-215 mm;tail 197-290 mm, ear 18-21 mm, hindfoot 30-37 mm; weight 81-220 g. The Gray Tree Rat is medium-sized and arboreal, with long black tail covered with small hairs and extensive white tip. Fur is soft and woolly, with characteristic underfur and some longer inconspicuous hairs on flank. Dorsum is gray or grayish brown, with darkestpart on middle part of dorsum. Venter is cream white orcream buff. Sides of rostrum, hindfeet, and forefeet are white. Dark ears are small, with tiny hairs. Hindfeet are short. Foot pads are developed, with some atypical texture; thumb has nail-like claw. Two outer digits are opposable. There are five pairs of mammae: one pectoral, two post-axillary, and two inguinal.
Habitat. Lowland secondary tropical forest and primary rainforest on Malay Peninsula and lowland primary forest up to elevations of 550 m on Mount Kinabalu (Sabah), Borneo.
Food and Feeding. Based on teeth morphology, the Gray Tree Rat is likely herbivorous.
Breeding. Litters have 2-6 young (mean 3). Average lifespan in the wild is ¢.5 months.
Activity patterns. Gray Tree Rats are nocturnal and arboreal.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCNRed List (as L. canus). The Gray Tree Rat has been captured in a wide variety of habitats on Malay Peninsula and Borneo and is reportedly abundant in foothills of Selangor, Malay Peninsula. It occurs in Mount Palung National Park.
Bibliography. Harrison (1955, 1956a), Medway (1969), Muul & Lim (1971), Kloss (1931), Musser (1981a), Nor (2001), Pages et al. (2016).
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 pages 857-858, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
Measuring The Relative Impact of Issues and the Economy in Democratic Elections
Creators: name: Alvarez, R. Michael
name: Nagler, Jonathan
name: Willette, Jennifer R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1999

description: It is generally accepted that issues and economic outcomes influence elections. In this paper we analyze the relative importance of issues and the economy in Canadian elections. We estimate a model of the 1988 and 1993 Canadian elections in which we include voter evaluations of the parties on a variety of issues, and voter evaluations of the national economy and their personal finances. We demonstrate that it is possible to compare the effects of issues and the economy on election outcomes. And we put this in the context of the impact of issues and elections in several other democracies. We show that even in elections where other factors are dominant, we can still see the impact of economic voting. And we argue that given the tenuous connection between the actions of elected officials and macroeconomic outcomes, this suggests that voters may be giving elected officials undue leeway in their non-economic policy-making functions.
description: Prepared for presentation at the 1998 conference on Economics and Elections in Denmark. We thank participants at that conference, and Langche Zeng for helpful comments. Alvarez's work was supported by the National Science Foundation through SBR-9709327; Nagler's work was supported by the National Science Foundation through SBR-9413939 and SBR-9709214; and facilitated by his time in residence at the Center for Basic Research in Social Science at Harvard University.

Published as Alvarez, R.M., Nagler, J., & Willette, J.R. (2000). Measuring the relative impact of issues and the economy in democratic elections. Electoral Studies, 19(2), 237-253.
description: Submitted - sswp1052.pdf
Cathormiocerus inflatiscapus Escalera 1918
Creators: name: Germann, Christoph
name: Borovec, Roman
name: Braunert, Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Cathormiocerus
Cathormiocerus inflatiscapus

description: Cathormiocerus inflatiscapus Escalera, 1918
Material examined. 1 ♂, Flood pool by Burgos-Valladolid, Rd 24 km from Burgos, 16.v.74, R. B. Argus lgt. (BMNH); 14 ♂♂ and ♀♀, Spain, Puerto El Collado, Sierra de la Demanda, H. Franz lgt. (NHMW).
Remarks. This species was known only from two females from the type locality Sierra de las Canales (Spain, Logroño), to which three species are closely related: the bisexual C. longithorax Borovec & Bahr, 2006, and the assumed parthenogenetic C. cylindrus Borovec & Bahr, 2006 and C. sinuatiscapus Pic, 1915. All four species are known exclusively from the Iberian peninsula. The two sexes of C. inflatiscapus are easy to distinguish because of the different shape of the antennae which in males are much slenderer than in females (Figs 20, 21). Although the antennae, primarily the funicles, are extremely robust, males have a slenderer scape, funicle segment one 1.6–1.7 times as long as wide; segment two 1.5–1.6 times as long as wide; segments three to six 1.1–1.2 times as wide as long and segment seven 1.3–1.4 times as wide as long, whereas females have segment one 1.1 times as long as wide; segment two isodiametric; segments three to five 1.7 times as wide as long; segment six 1.6 times as wide as long and segment seven 1.5 times as wide as long. The penis is illustrated here for the first time (Figs 30, 31).
description: Published as part of Germann, Christoph, Borovec, Roman & Braunert, Carlo, 2015, Four new Entiminae from the Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Phyllobiini, Trachyphloeini), with additional data on the distribution of some poorly known species, pp. 345-358 in Zootaxa 4040 (3) on page 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/233130
title: Fluorescent tools for the standardized work in Gram-negative bacteria
Creators: name: Delgadillo-Guevara, Mario
name: Halte, Manuel
name: Erhardt, Marc
name: Popp, Philipp F.
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluorescent proteins
subject: Genetic tools
subject: Protein dynamics
subject: Microscopy
subject: Salmonella enterica
subject: 570 Biologie

description: The article processing charge was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 491192747 and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
description: Standardized and thoroughly characterized genetic tools are a prerequisite for studying cellular processes to ensure the reusability and consistency of experimental results. The discovery of fluorescent proteins (FPs) represents a milestone in the development of genetic reporters for monitoring transcription or protein localization in vivo. FPs have revolutionized our understanding of cellular dynamics by enabling the real-time visualization and tracking of biological processes. Despite these advancements, challenges remain in the appropriate use of FPs, specifically regarding their proper application, protein turnover dynamics, and the undesired disruption of cellular functions. Here, we systematically compared a comprehensive set of 15 FPs and assessed their performance in vivo by focusing on key parameters, such as signal over background ratios and protein stability rates, using the Gram-negative model organism Salmonella enterica as a representative host. We evaluated four protein degradation tags in both plasmid- and genome-based systems and our findings highlight the necessity of introducing degradation tags to analyze time-sensitive cellular processes. We demonstrate that the gain of dynamics mediated by the addition of degradation tags impacts the cell-to-cell heterogeneity of plasmid-based but not genome-based reporters. Finally, we probe the applicability of FPs for protein localization studies in living cells using standard and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. In summary, our study underscores the importance of careful FP selection and paves the way for the development of improved genetic reporters to enhance the reproducibility and reliability of fluorescence-based research in Gram-negative bacteria and beyond.
title: Der Fluch der Reinheit
title: Deutsche Sehnsüchte nach Norden und skandinavische Antworten
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Mörke, Olaf
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artikel
subject: Skandinavien
subject: Deutschland
subject: Reinheitsdiskurs
subject: Geschichte
subject: Norden
subject: Politik
subject: 839 Andere germanische Literaturen

description: Seit dem 19. Jahrhundert gehört die Reinheitsfrage zum Risikobereich deutscher Identitätssuche. Sie oszilliert von hygienischen bis zu rasseideologischen Inhalten. Virulenz erlangten letztere, als seit dem 19. Jahrhundert in der deutschen völkischen Szene, bedingt durch eigenes Defizitempfinden, Skandinavien zum Sehnsuchtsort der (Rasse-) Reinheit wurde. Die Selbstzuschreibung der Reinheit wohnt auch dem skandinavischen Diskurs inne. Dort stieß die deutsche Reinheitssehnsucht freilich auf wenig Gegenliebe. Im Nationalsozialismus entwickelte sie sich zur Staatsräson. Geblieben ist sie nach 1945 als Propagandaelement der politischen Rechten, aber auch als Denkfigur des gesellschaftlichen Mainstreams.
description: Since the 19th century, the question of purity has been a risk area in the German search for identity. It oscillates between hygienic and racial ideological content. The latter achieved virulence when, from the 19th century onwards, Scandinavia became a place of longing for (racial) purity in the German völkisch milieu, due to its own sense of deficit. The self-attribution of purity is also inherent to the Scandinavian discourse. There, however, the German longing for purity was met with little approval. Under National Socialism it developed into a reason of state. After 1945 it remained as a propaganda element of the political right, but also as a model of thinking in the societal mainstream.
Consequences of Covid-19-related Restrictions on Healthcare Utilization and Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Wagner, Melanie
name: Bergmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: IntroductionWhile the COVID-19 pandemic has lost public attention, concerns remain that it had enduring effects onpeople’s health, mainly due to postponement of medical treatments and preventive checkups during thepeak times of the pandemic. This is especially problematic for vulnerable older people as they weremore likely to forgo healthcare services, but more in need of regular healthcare.MethodsWe want to shed light on the mid- and long-term consequences of neglected healthcare on postpandemichealthcare utilization and on physical and mental health outcomes. Longitudinal data from theSurvey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) will be employed to investigate this issuebefore, during, and after the pandemic. By calculating growth curve models, our study will analyzechanges in approximately 40,000 older Europeans (50 years and over) from 2017 to 2022.ResultsInitial findings indicate that medical treatments still have been forgone to a larger extent after thepandemic (in 2022), relative to the period prior to the pandemic. Both physical and mental healthoutcomes have declined since the onset of the pandemic, with notable regional disparities acrossEurope and variations based on individuals' health status before the pandemic.ConclusionsOur findings demonstrate the enduring influence of pandemic-related consequences on both healthoutcomes and healthcare utilization. We provide insights into the specific groups that experience themost pronounced adverse effects due to restrictions on healthcare access and highlights the importanceof catching up postponed medical treatments. This information is crucial for policymakers, offeringguidance in anticipating and mitigating the potential repercussions of future public health crises.
Cathormiocerus jeani Borovec 1989
Creators: name: Germann, Christoph
name: Borovec, Roman
name: Braunert, Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Cathormiocerus
Cathormiocerus jeani

description: Cathormiocerus jeani (Borovec, 1989)
Material examined. 3 ♀♀, Portugal, Beira Baixa, Serra da Estrela, east Penhas da Saude, Vale das Cortes, N 40°19′42″, W 07°21′41″, 22.iv.2014, 1290m, C. Germann lgt. (CGTS); 2 ♀♀, Portugal, Beira Baixa, Serra da Estrela, 3 km NW Covilha, Vale das Cortes, N 40°17′36″, W 07°32′14″, 22.iv.2014, 1290m, macchie, garrigue, sifting, C. Braunert lgt. (CBML); 2 ♀♀, Portugal, Beira Baixa, Serra da Gardunha, 3 km NW Alpedrinha, N 40°06′25″, W 07°29′56″, 25.iv.2014, 1100m, macchie, garrigue, Schieferfelsen, sifting, C. Braunert lgt. (CBML); 3 ♀♀, Portugal, Beira Alta, Serra da Estrela, 6 km NE Videmonte, N 40°33′26″, W 07°21′19″, 24.iv.2014, 1060m, macchie, garrigue, Granitkuppe, sifting, C. Braunert lgt. (CBML).
Remarks. With the exception of specimens from France (Finistère), only two females were at present known: one from Spain (Ourense) and another from Portugal (Lameira) (Borovec & Bahr 2008). The present discovery confirms the occurrence in Portugal and broadens our knowledge about the presence in the Iberian peninsula of this seldom collected species.
description: Published as part of Germann, Christoph, Borovec, Roman & Braunert, Carlo, 2015, Four new Entiminae from the Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Phyllobiini, Trachyphloeini), with additional data on the distribution of some poorly known species, pp. 345-358 in Zootaxa 4040 (3) on page 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/233130