cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Consistent Test of Stationary Ergodicity
Creators: name: Domowitz, Ian
name: El-gamal, Mahmoud A.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1993
Subjects: Ergodic theory, Density, Statistical estimation, Laws of Motion, Null hypothesis, Economic models, Statistics, Goodness of fit, Mathematical vectors, Test theory

description: A formal statistical test of stationary-ergodicity is developed for known Markovian processes on R^d. This makes it applicable to testing models and algorithms, as well as estimated time series processes ignoring the estimation error. The analysis is conducted by examining the asymptotic properties of the Markov operator on density space generated by the transition in the state space. The test is developed under the null of stationary-ergodicity, and it is shown to be consistent against the alternative of nonstationary-ergodicity. The test can be easily performed using any of a number of standard statistical and mathematical computer packages.
description: Revised version. Original dated to April 1992.

This is a completely different version of an earlier paper ([9], based on Chapter 4 of [11]) that was presented in the 1988 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society. We thank Lars Peter Hansen, Bo Honoré, Dale Mortensen, Adrian Pagan, Mark Watson, Jeffrey Wooldridge, and two anonymous referees and participants in the econometrics workshops at Northwestern, Rochester, and Yale for their helpful comments and suggestions. We particularly want to express our thanks to Donald W. K. Andrews for going well beyond the line of duty in offering a series of very useful suggestions which resulted in a significantly improved paper. Financial support from the NSF is gratefully acknowledged. We thank the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for giving us access to their Cray YMP2E/116. Any remaining flaws are, of course, our own.

Published as Domowitz, Ian, and Mahmoud A. El-Gamal. "A consistent test of stationary-ergodicity." Econometric Theory 9, no. 4 (1993): 589-601.
description: Submitted - sswp794.pdf
Phyllonorycter pastorella
Creators: name: Kirichenko, Natalia
name: Triberti, Paolo
name: Akulov, Evgeniy
name: Ponomarenko, Margarita
name: Gorokhova, Svetlana
name: Sheiko, Viktor
name: Ohshima, Issei
name: Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gracillariidae
Phyllonorycter
Phyllonorycter pastorella

description: Phyllonorycter pastorella (Zeller, 1846)
(Figs 4H, 7B, 12H)
Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.17E, 224 m alt., Salix sp., 23.VII.2016, 1 larva, NK594, MK 403714, deposited in INRA; same location, host and date, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), 49.1 / [12Pp-2016-male] (Figs 4H, 7B), deposited in SIF; AO, Skovorodino, near the train station, tree line along the road, 53.98N, 123.93E, 431 m alt., Populus balsamifera, 26. VI.2016, 1 larva, NK563, MK 403688, same location and date, 1 larva, NK562, MK 403681, deposited in INRA.
Leaf mine. The mine is an oval white blotch with 1–2 light folds on the epidermis covering the mine, with distinct epidermal tunnel; situated on the lower side of the leaf along, on narrow leaves of Salix along the main vein (Fig. 12H). Loose grains of frass are accumulated in the corner of the mine (Fig. 12H). Pupation in the mine, in the central part (Fig. 12H).
Trophic specialization. Oligophagous on Salicaceae: Populus, Salix, Chosenia (De Prins & De Prins 2018).
Distribution. Russia: RFE—AO, KK, PK, SO (Sakhalin Island) (Baryshnikova & Dubatolov 2007; Baryshnikova 2016), Siberia (Baryshnikova 2008), European part (Baryshnikova 2008); Japan (Kumata 1963), Korea (Park 1983), Central Asia (Noreika 1991), Europe (De Prins & De Prins 2018).
description: Published as part of Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475
The Political Economy of Government Debt in England (1693-1800): War, Liquidity, and Institutional Innovation
Creators: name: Szakaly, Kristin E.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1992

description: Economists and historians have offered several explanations for the significant fluctuations in 1 8th century British government interest rates. This article discusses their short-comings and supports the thesis that the fluctuations in interest rates were largely a function of England's participation in large-scale wars. The risks facing the government-being deposed in the event the war is lost or defaulting on loans because of a shortfall in revenues-hurt their "credit worthiness" in the eyes of investors. Thus, lenders demanded high interest rates to compensate themselves for investing in risky government loans.
description: I would like to thank my thesis advisor, D. Roderick Kiewiet, for his many helpful comments, and Lance Davis, Philip Hoffman, and Kenneth Sokoloff who encouraged me to research this topic and offered useful suggestions and criticisms on the countless number of earlier drafts of this paper. I am also grateful for advice from Eric Hughson. Peter Bossaerts and Jeffrey Dubin.
description: Submitted - sswp793.pdf
Pseudopelmatops continentalis Zia & Chen 1954
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Lin
name: Norrbom, Allen
name: Freidberg, Amnon
name: Chesters, Douglas
name: Islam, Md Sajedul
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Pseudopelmatops
Pseudopelmatops continentalis

description: Pseudopelmatops continentalis Zia & Chen, 1954
(Figs.87–88; 95, 104)
Pseudopelmatops nigricostalis continentalis Zia & Chen, 1954: 310. Type-locality: China: Zhejiang, Tianmushan; (LT ♂ IZCAS). Lectotype male designated by Wang, 1996.
Pseudopelmatops continentalis: Hardy, 1977: 76; Wang, 1996: 112; Chen et al., 2010:9.
Description (supplement to the species description of Chen et al., 2010). Compound eye somewhat rough, with distinct projection; ommatidia not same size, which situating on projection bigger (Fig. 95). Occipital protuberance in male shaped as inverted trapezoid and somewhat bifid, distinctly delimited from occiput (Fig. 104); setae on posterior margin medium-sized and sparse.
Distribution. China (Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou and Shaanxi). Henan, Guangxi, Guizhou and Shaanxi are new province records for this species.
Specimens examined. CHINA: Fujian: Chongan, 24 July 1944, 1PT ♂. Guangxi, Maoershan, Tieshanlin, 1980m, 12 July 2006, F.J. Liao, 1 ♂. Guizhou: Kuankuoshui natural reserve, SonglinYakou, 7–8 August 2013, in yellow trap, 1 ♂. Henan: Songxian, Baiyunshan, 18 July 2004, K.Y. Zhang, 1 ♂ (BAU). Hubei: Shennongjia, 900m, 11 August 2004, Z. Wang, 1 ♂. Hunan: Sangzhi, 1200m, 14 August 2001, J. Wen & N.T. Huang, 1 ♂. Shaanxi: Huayin, Huashanzhongfeng, 2030m, 11 July 2012, M.C. Wei & G.Y.Niu, 1 ♂. Sichuan: Mt. Emei, 27 July 1957, Y.C. Lu, 1 ♂. Yunnan: Kunming, 1200 m, 7 July 1956, K.R. Huang, 1 ♂. Zhejiang: Tianmushan, Xianrending, 1500m, 14–30 June 2013, Y.Wang, 6 ♂; Tianmushan, 8 July 1936, 1 LP ♂, 1PT ♂; Tianmushan, 20 July 1936, 1PT ♂. All material deposited in IZCAS except for that mark ‘ BAU’.
Biology. The Zhejiang collection site of this species was very similar to that of P. angustifasciatus. These two species were often observed in the same place and on the same day, and the behaviour of P. continentalis was also very similar to that of P. angustifasciatus.
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiao-Lin, Norrbom, Allen, Freidberg, Amnon, Chesters, Douglas, Islam, Md Sajedul & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2015, A systematic study of Ichneumonosoma de Meijere, Pelmatops Enderlein Pseudopelmatops Shiraki and Soita Walker (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 301-347 in Zootaxa 4013 (3) on pages 325-326, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/254396
Permits or Taxes? How to Regulate Cournot Duopoly with Polluting Firms
Creators: name: Requate, Till
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1992

description: The paper investigates pollution control of firms engaging in imperfect competition. We consider asymmetric Cournot duopoly where firms have linear technologies. Welfare is assumed to be separable in consumers' surplus and social damage which is given by a convex function depending on the aggregate pollution level. After deriving social optimum, we give a complete characterization of the optimal linear tax as well as of the optimal number of permits taking into account the firms' strategic behavior, and then compare the two both policies with respect to welfare. None of them turns out to implement social optimum in general. Also, no policy can be said to be superior, for all parameters. However, for a considerable range of parameters giving out permits yields a higher welfare than taxes. Finally, we consider double taxation of output and pollutants. In this case social optimum can always be achieved, if there are only two firms.
description: This paper has been written for the most part during a visit to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. The author would like to express his gratitude to the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences for its hospitality, to P. Chander and the participants of seminars in Pasadena and Bielefeld for their helpful comments, and especially to Jeanne Netzley for her technical support.

Published as Requate, Till. "Permit or taxes? How to regulate Cournot Duopoly with polluting firms." Biblioteka Ekonomia i Środowisko 11 (1993): 29-57.
description: Submitted - sswp792.pdf
A General Characterization of Optimal Income Taxation and Enforcement
Creators: name: Chander, Parkash
name: Wilde, Louis L.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1994
Subjects: Principal, agent, informational asymmetry, costly verification, income taxes, audit probabilities, penalty for misreporting, revelation principle, efficient schemes, regressive taxes, equity-efficiency tradeoffs

description: This paper develops a general approach to characterizing optimal income tax enforcement. Our analysis clarifies the nature of the interplay between tax rates, audit probabilities, and penalties for misreporting. In particular, it is shown that for a variety of objective functions for the principal the optimal tax schedule is in general concave (at least weakly) and monotonic; the marginal tax rates determine the audit probabilities; and less harsh penalties lead to higher enforcement costs. Our results imply that there exists a tradeoff between equity and efficiency considerations in the enforcement context which is similar to that in the moral hazard context for tax policy.
description: Revised version. Original dated to March 1992.

This is a revised version of Chander and Wilde (1992). We thank Kim Border, Luis Corchon, Rajeeva Karandikar, John Ledyard, Dilip Mookherjee, Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin, Thomas Palfrey, Till Requate and Kunal Sengupta for helpful comments and discussion. We have also benefitted from a seminar presentation at Caltech.
description: Submitted - sswp791.pdf
title: A Markov Based Model for Maintenance and Repair of Equipment
Creators: name: Jaishankar, Deepa
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: The failure repair process of a continuously operating device is studied in this research. Different cases that incorporate modeling of equipment deterioration, inspection, and maintenance for optimal maintenance policy are proposed. Markov processes are used to determine state probabilities, and the optimal value of the mean time to preventive maintenance is determined by maximizing the availability of the equipment with respect to the mean time preventive maintenance. The approach uses models that assume that equipment can fail due to both deterioration and random failures. Preventive maintenance can be performed from each working state to avoid deterioration failure. Economic effects are integrated into all the models to determine the costs associated with the preventive maintenance policy. The computational work involved in developing algorithmic solutions for the developed Markov models is perfom1ed using Matlab® software. The results of how the obtained maintenance rate impacts the equipment availability are discussed. This study is helpful for engineers to dete1111ine optimal maintenance policy of equipment.
Implementation of the Voting Rights Act in North Carolina
Creators: name: Keech, William R.
name: Sistrom, Michael P.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1992

description: [No abstract]
description: This paper has been supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. 88-13931. We gratefully acknowledge helpful comments by Thad L. Beyle, Merle Black, William A. Campbell, William Chafe, James C. Drennan, Donald Horowitz, J. Morgan Kousser, Laurie Mesibov, Paul Luebke, William S. Powell, John L. Sanders, and Leslie J. Winner; the research assistance and comments of Patrick Rivers; and the technical assistance of Julie Daniel and Eloisa Imel.

Forthcoming in The Implementation of the Voting Rights Act, edited by Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman.
description: Submitted - sswp790.pdf
Rules, Discretion, and Accountability in Macroeconomic Policymaking
Creators: name: Keech, William R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1992

description: Arguments for rules rather than discretion in macroeconomic policymaking facilitate the understanding of some fundamental issues of democratic theory. This article reviews four such arguments, and relates them to issues of delegation and accountability in representative government.
description: I would like to thank Henry Chappell, Kenneth Coleman, Thomas Hammond, Roderick Kiewiet, Laura Langbein, Michael Munger, Joseph Rees, Donald Searing, and Stephen Weatherford for their comments on a previous version.

Published as Keech, William R. "Rules, discretion, and accountability in macroeconomic policymaking." Governance 5, no. 3 (1992): 259-278.
description: Submitted - sswp789.pdf
title: FB-SZ-K - Kurzfragebogen zur Erfassung der Studienzufriedenheit
title: Study Satisfaction Questionnaire - Short Form
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Westermann, R.
name: Heise, E.
name: Spies, K.
Publisher: name: ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information) – Testarchiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fragebögen
subject: Rating-Skalen
subject: Einstellungsmessung
subject: Studierende (Anfangssemester)
subject: Pädagogische Psychologie
subject: Hochschulen
subject: Zufriedenheit
subject: Person-Umwelt-Kongruenz
subject: Hochschulausbildung
subject: Schüler- und Studierendenmerkmale
subject: Bildungsansprüche
subject: Hochschulumwelt
subject: Bedürfnisse
subject: Erwachsenenalter
subject: Questionnaires
subject: Rating Scales
subject: Attitude Measurement
subject: College Students
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Colleges
subject: Satisfaction
subject: Person Environment Fit
subject: Higher Education
subject: Student Characteristics
subject: Educational Aspirations
subject: College Environment
subject: Needs
subject: Adulthood
subject: 150

description: Der Fragebogen dient der Erfassung der Studienzufriedenheit von Studenten. Als theoretische Grundlage sind die Person-Environment-Fit-Theorie, Maslows (1954) Bedürfnishierarchie sowie die Job Characteristics Theorie von Hackman und Lawler (1971) zu nennen. Die Kurzform beinhaltet insgesamt neun Items, die drei Skalen zu jeweils drei Items zugeordnet sind: (1) Zufriedenheit mit den Studieninhalten (SZ-ICH), (2) Zufriedenheit mit den Studienbedingungen (SZ-BD), (3) Zufriedenheit mit der Bewältigung der Studienbelastungen (SZ-BW). Reliabilität: Cronbachs Alpha lag zwischen .71 und .91. Validität: Signifikante Unterschiede ergaben sich hinsichtlich der Zufriedenheit mit den Lehrveranstaltungen, den Studienbedingungen und mit der Bewältigung der Studienbelastungen. Ergebnisse einer regressionsanalytischen Auswertung zeigten, dass für alle drei Aspekte der Studienzufriedenheit ein hoher Varianzanteil durch die Fit-Werte sowohl in Bezug auf Maslows Bedürfniskategorien als auch bezüglich der in Anlehnung an die Job Characteristics Theorie postulierten Aufgabenmerkmale aufgeklärt wurde. Für die Zufriedenheit mit den Studieninhalten erwies sich das Bedürfnis nach Selbstverwirklichung als relevant, für die Zufriedenheit mit den Studienbedingungen erwiesen sich Aufgabenwichtigkeit und Rückmeldungen durch die Lehrenden als bedeutsam und für die Zufriedenheit mit der Bewältigung der Studienbelastung war die Ausprägung im Bereich "Orientierung und Ängste" relevant.
An Experimental Analysis of Two-Person Reciprocity Games
Creators: name: Prisbrey, Jeffrey E.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1992

description: This paper presents experimental evidence concerned with behavior in one-shot, finite repetition, and infinite repetition, two-person Reciprocity Games. Both symmetric and asymmetric games as well as games with explicit punishment actions are studied and compared. Along with classifying the group outcomes to the games, individual strategies are classified. The importance of alternation or turn-taking, group welfare, and equality as focal solutions is examined. Also considered is whether or not outcomes are unique, Pareto Optimal, or individually rational, and whether or not finite repetition treatments are subject to end-game effects.
description: This paper has benefited from the comments of Charles Plott, Roy Gardner, Howard Rosenthal and especially Thomas Palfrey. I would also like to thank the participants at the Economic Science Association '91 Fall Meetings and the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, both of whom commented on an early draft. The financial support of the California Institute of Technology and the Haynes Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
description: Submitted - sswp787.pdf
Cotesia Cameron 1891
Creators: name: Zargar, Mohammad
name: Gupta, Ankita
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Farahani, Samira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia

description: Cotesia Cameron, 1891
Cotesia Cameron, 1891: 182–194 (type species: Cotesia flavipes (Cameron, 1891)).
description: Published as part of Zargar, Mohammad, Gupta, Ankita, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Farahani, Samira, 2019, Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 571 on page 3, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.571, http://zenodo.org/record/3526880
Repeated Play, Cooperation and Coordination: An Experimental Study
Creators: name: Palfrey, Thomas R.
name: Rosenthal, Howard
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1992
Subjects: Repeated Games, Experiments, Public Goods, Bayesian Games

description: An experiment was conducted to test whether discounted repeated play leads to greater cooperation and coordination than one-shot play, in a public good environment with incomplete information. The experiment was designed so that, theoretically repeated play can sustain equilibria with higher group earnings than result in the one-shot Bayesian Nash equilibrium. The design varied a number of environment al parameters, including the size of the group, the marginal rate of transformation between the public and private good, and the statistical distribution of marginal rates of substitution between the public and private good. Marginal rates of substitution were private information but the statistical distribution was common knowledge. The results indicate that repetition leads to greater cooperation, and that the magnitude of these gains depends both on the ability of players to monitor each other's strategy and on the underlying environmental parameters.
description: The authors are thankful for the research support of the National Science Foundation through grants #SES-8718650 and #SES-9011828. The research assistance of Mark Fey, Jessica Goodfellow, and Jeff Prisbrey is gratefully acknowledged for their help in conducting the experiments. Sanjay Srivastava was instrumental in developing the computer network used for the experiments. Work on this paper proceeded while Rosenthal was a Fellow at the International Centre for Economic Research and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science. He is grateful for financial support provided by National Science Foundation #BNS-8700864 during his stay at CASBS.
description: Submitted - sswp785.pdf
Phyllonorycter populifoliella
Creators: name: Kirichenko, Natalia
name: Triberti, Paolo
name: Akulov, Evgeniy
name: Ponomarenko, Margarita
name: Gorokhova, Svetlana
name: Sheiko, Viktor
name: Ohshima, Issei
name: Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gracillariidae
Phyllonorycter
Phyllonorycter populifoliella

description: Phyllonorycter populifoliella (Treitschke, 1833)
(Fig. 7C)
Material examined. Russia: KK, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, city plantation, 50.58N, 137.04E, 32 m alt., Populus sp., 13.VII.2010, 1 pupa, NK88, MK 403730; AO, Blagoveshchensk, Friendship park, 50.29N, 127.53E, 137 m alt., P. balsamifera, 27. VI.2016, 1 pupa, NK561, MK 403712, 1 male (reared from mine), NK561-1 / [NK561-1-male] (Fig. 7C), deposited in INRA.
Leaf mine. The mine is a blotch similar to that of Ph. pastorella, but with a shorter preceding epidermal tunnel that can be seen in the later stage when the blotch part of the mine spreads on the surface. The mine is usually on the lower side of the leaf between secondary veins or nearby leaf margin. Often several mines per leaf. In dense populations, upper side mines can be found. Pupation in the mine.
Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Populus: P. nigra, P. suaveolens, P. laurifolia, P. balsamifera, P. deltoids, P. simonii, and the hybrids— Populus x canadensis, Populus x canescens (Salicaceae) (Ellis 2018; De Prins & De Prins 2018). Records of P. alba and P. tremula may need confirmation as Ph. populifoliella mines can be mixed up with those of several other Phyllonorycter species developing on these plants: Ph. apparella, Ph. comparella, Ph. connexella, Ph. pastorella (Ellis 2018).
Distribution. Russia: RFE—KK (Baryshnikova 2016), AO (new record), Siberia, European part (Baryshnikova 2008); Central Asia, Europe (De Prins & De Prins 2018).
description: Published as part of Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475
Pseudopelmatops indiaensis Chen 2010
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Lin
name: Norrbom, Allen
name: Freidberg, Amnon
name: Chesters, Douglas
name: Islam, Md Sajedul
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Pseudopelmatops
Pseudopelmatops indiaensis

description: Pseudopelmatops indiaensis Chen, 2010
(Figs. 96, 105)
Pseudopelmatops indiaensis Chen in Chen et al., 2010:3. Type-locality: Ranikhet, India. (H ♀ BPBM).
Description (supplement to the species description of Chen et al., 2010). Compound eye somewhat rough and rounded, without projection; ommatidia same size (Fig. 96). Occipital protuberance in male shaped like inverted trapezoid, and somewhat bifid with distinct border from occiput; setae on posterior margin medium-sized and sparse (Fig. 105).
Male. Similar to that of P. continentalis but with a very faint crossband over cell dm (D.L. Hancock, pers. comm.).
Distribution. India (Ranikhet).
Specimens examined. INDIA: Ranikhet, 22 June 1949, I. M. Newell, 1 HT ♀ (BPBM); Bhowali, nr Naini Tal, 5000ft, 20 September 1934, J.A. Graham, 1 ♂ (BMNH, checked by D.L. Hancock, pers. comm.).
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiao-Lin, Norrbom, Allen, Freidberg, Amnon, Chesters, Douglas, Islam, Md Sajedul & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2015, A systematic study of Ichneumonosoma de Meijere, Pelmatops Enderlein Pseudopelmatops Shiraki and Soita Walker (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 301-347 in Zootaxa 4013 (3) on page 327, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/254396
Pseudopelmatops nigricostalis Shiraki 1933
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Lin
name: Norrbom, Allen
name: Freidberg, Amnon
name: Chesters, Douglas
name: Islam, Md Sajedul
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Pseudopelmatops
Pseudopelmatops nigricostalis

description: Pseudopelmatops nigricostalis Shiraki, 1933
Pseudopelmatops nigricostalis Shiraki, 1933: 51; Zia & Chen, 1954: 309; Hardy, 1977: 77; Wang, 1996: 113; Chen et al., 2010: 13. Type-locality: Asian, Taiwan. (ST M NTU).
Distribution. China (Taiwan).
Type data: Syntypes 2♂ (depository reported as “Entomological Museum of the Government Research Institute, Taihoku, Formosa ” but probably in National Institute of Agro-envitonmental Sciences, Kannondai, Japan), CHINA: Taiwan: Arisan, Vll, X. (not examined).
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiao-Lin, Norrbom, Allen, Freidberg, Amnon, Chesters, Douglas, Islam, Md Sajedul & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2015, A systematic study of Ichneumonosoma de Meijere, Pelmatops Enderlein Pseudopelmatops Shiraki and Soita Walker (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 301-347 in Zootaxa 4013 (3) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/254396
A Micro-Econometric Analysis of Risk-Aversion and the Decision to Self-Insure
Creators: name: Cicchetti, Charles J.
name: Dubin, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1992
Subjects: Self insurance, Risk aversion, Utility functions, Expected utility, Customers, Extended warranties, Political economy, Marketing strategies, Economic models, Homeowners insurance

description: This study estimates a von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function using market data and micro-econometric methods. We investigate the decision whether to purchase insurance against the risk of telephone line trouble in the home. Using the choices of approximately 10,000 residential customers, we determine the shape of the utility function and the degree of risk-aversion. We find that risk-aversion varies systematically in the population and varies with the level of income and that the observed choice behavior is consistent with expected utility maximization. We are unable to detect the presence of ambiguity effects or over-weighting of low-probability events.
description: We thank Chris Pleatsikas and Kristina Sepetys for research assistance, and David Grether, Louis Wilde, and seminar participants at the lTSC Department of Decision Systems for their helpful comments.

Published as Cicchetti, Charles J., and Jeffrey A. Dubin. "A microeconometric analysis of risk aversion and the decision to self-insure." Journal of political Economy 102, no. 1 (1994): 169-186.
description: Submitted - sswp784.pdf
The Measure Representation: A Correction
Creators: name: Segal, Uzi
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1991
Subjects: anticipated utility, rank-dependent probabilities, measure representation

description: Wakker [9] and Puppe [2] point out a mistake in Theorem 1 in Segal [6]. This theorem deals with representing preference relations over lotteries by the measure of their epigraphs. An error in the theorem is that it gives wrong conditions concerning the continuity of the measure. This paper corrects the error. Another problem is that the axioms do not imply that the measure is bounded, therefore the measure representation applies only to subsets of the space of lotteries, although these subsets can become arbitrarily close to the whole space of lotteries. Some additional axioms (Segal [6, 7]), implying that the measure is a product measure (and hence anticipated utility), also guarantee that the measure is bounded.
description: I am grateful to Peter Wakker and to C. Puppe for pointing out to me the mistake in my original paper and to Larry Epstein and Peter Wakker for helpful discussions.

Published as Segal, Uzi. "The measure representation: A correction." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 6, no. 1 (1993): 99-107.
description: Submitted - sswp781.pdf
title: Political Competition in a Model of Economic Growth; Some Theoretical Results
title: Political competition in a model of economic growth: Some theoretical results
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Boylan, Richard T.
name: Ledyard, John O.
name: McKelvey, Richard D.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1992

description: We study a one-sector model of economic growth in which decisions about capital accumulation and consumption are made through a political process of two candidate competition. Each voter's utility for a consumption stream is the discounted value of that voter's utility of consumption in each period. We consider the case when voters' one period utility functions for consumption are identical but discount factors are different. We are particularly interested in the conditions under which neoclassical optimal growth paths occur, and conditions in which political business cycles occur.
The answer depends on the ability or inability of the candidates to commit to multi-period investment strategies. If candidates can commit indefinitely into the future, then a political (majority rule) equilibrium path will not exist if all discount factors are different. For any feasible consumption path, there is a perturbation which is majority preferred to it. For any neoclassical optimal path there exists a perturbated path that is preferred to it either unanimously or by all but one voter. These results are true even if the perturbations can differ at no more than three consecutive periods from the original path.
If candidates are unable to commit to multi-period plans, we show there is a unique subgame perfect, stationary, symmetric equilibrium to the infinite horizon two candidate competition game; namely the optimal consumption path for the median voter. The equilibrium is unique in the following sense: It is the unique limit of subgame perfect equilibria to the finite horizon electoral game.
In the case when candidates can commit for a finite time into the future, we show that a stationary minmax path (a path which minimizes the maximum vote that can be obtained against it) yields a political business cycle.
description: Revised version. Original dated to October 1991.

Support for this research was provided, in part by NSF grant #SES-8604348 to the California Institute of Technology. We are grateful to a referee for pointing out that our results could be extended to supra majority rules, as in Proposition 2.

Published as Boylan, Richard T., John Ledyard, and Richard D. McKelvey. "Political competition in a model of economic growth: Some theoretical results." Economic Theory 7, no. 2 (1996): 191-205.
description: Submitted - sswp780.pdf
Emergent Time and Time Travel in Quantum Physics
Creators: name: Alonso Serrano, Ana
name: Schuster, Sebastian
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: time travel
subject: quantum gravity
subject: minisuperspace
subject: Page–Wootters formalism
subject: emergent time
subject: relational dynamics
subject: 530 Physik

description: Entertaining the possibility of time travel will invariably challenge dearly-held concepts in fundamental physics. It becomes relatively easy to construct multiple logical contradictions using differing starting points from various well-established fields of physics. Sometimes, the interpretation is that only a full theory of quantum gravity will be able to settle these logical contradictions. Even then, it remains unclear if the multitude of problems could be overcome. Yet as definitive as this seems to the notion of time travel in physics, such recourse to quantum gravity comes with its own, long-standing challenge to most of these counter-arguments to time travel: These arguments rely on time, while quantum gravity is (in)famously stuck with the problem of time. One attempt to answer this problem within the canonical framework resulted in the Page–Wootters formalism, and its recent gauge-theoretic reinterpretation as an emergent notion of time. Herein, we will begin a program to study toy models implementing the Hamiltonian constraint in quantum theory, with an aim toward understanding what an emergent notion of time can tell us about the (im)possibility of time travel.
Cotesia cynthiae
Creators: name: Zargar, Mohammad
name: Gupta, Ankita
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Farahani, Samira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia cynthiae

description: Cotesia cynthiae (Nixon, 1974)
Fig. 4
Apanteles cynthiae Nixon, 1974: 499.
Diagnosis
Antenna 1.1× as long as body, penultimate segment of antenna 2.0× as long as wide; width of face 1.2× as long as height (Fig. 4A); POL:MOD:OOL 25: 13:25; width of head in dorsal view 1.9× as long as height (Fig. 4B); mesonotum coarsely reticulate-punctate to rugose (Fig. 4C); scutellum rugosepunctate; 1–R1 1.5× as long as pterostigma, 3.0 × as long as distance from end of 1–R1 to tip of radial cell; pterostigma 3.2× as long as wide (Fig. 4D); metacoxa coarsely rugose; metasoma posteriorly compressed laterally (Fig. 4F); first tergite broadening posteriorly, medial length as long as apical width, rugose; second tergite as long as third tergite, rugose (Fig. 4E); ovipositor sheath 0.3× as long as metabasitarsus; hypopygium 0.5 × as long as metatibia (Fig. 4F); legs reddish brown; body black except third tergite.
Material examined
IRAN – Khuzestan Province • 3 ♀♀; Lali, Taraz; 32°20ʹ49.70″ N, 49°05′11.31″ E; 390 m a.s.l.; 4–18 Mar. 2016, 3–17 Apr. 2016; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; M. Zargar leg.; TMUC-HBMC0049-0051 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 3–17 Apr. 2016; ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/3416.
Distribution in Iran
Khuzestan (present study). New record for Iran.
General distribution
Austria, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey (Yu et al. 2016).
Host record
Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Yu et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Zargar, Mohammad, Gupta, Ankita, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Farahani, Samira, 2019, Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 571 on page 13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.571, http://zenodo.org/record/3526880
Constitutional Stability
Creators: name: Ordeshook, Peter C.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1991

description: Despite attempts to paper over the dispute, political scientists in the pluralist tradition disagree sharply with public and social choice theorists about the importance of institutions and with William Riker in particular who argues in Liberalism against Populism that the liberal institutions of indirect democracy ought to be preferred to those of populist democracy. This essay reconsiders this dispute in light of two ideas unavailable to Riker at the time. The first, offered by Russell Hardin, is that constitutions can more usefully be conceptualized as coordinating devices as opposed to social contracts. The importance of this idea is that it allows for a more theoretically satisfying view of the way that constitutions become self-enforcing. The second idea, which derives from the various applications of concepts such as the uncoveted set, argues that although institutions such as the direct election of president are subject to the usual inabilities that concern social choice theorists, those instabilities do not imply that "anything can happen" - instead, final outcomes will be constrained, where the severity of those constraints depend on institutional details. We maintain that these ideas strengthen Riker's argument about the importance of such constitutional devices as the separation of powers, bicameralism, the executive veto, and scheduled elections, as well as the view that federalism is an important component of the institutions that stabilize the American political system. We conclude with the proposition that the American Civil War should not be regarded as a constitutional failure, but rather as a success.
description: Published as Ordeshook, Peter C. "Constitutional stability." Constitutional political economy 3, no. 2 (1992): 137-175.
description: Submitted - sswp779.pdf
Phyllonorycter pseudojezoniella Noreika 1994
Creators: name: Kirichenko, Natalia
name: Triberti, Paolo
name: Akulov, Evgeniy
name: Ponomarenko, Margarita
name: Gorokhova, Svetlana
name: Sheiko, Viktor
name: Ohshima, Issei
name: Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gracillariidae
Phyllonorycter
Phyllonorycter pseudojezoniella

description: Phyllonorycter pseudojezoniella Noreika, 1994
(Fig. 7D)
Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, forest around MTS, 43.68N, 132.15E, 224 m alt., Acer saccharum, 26.VII.2016, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), 26.VIII.2016 em., NK-182-16 - 1 A / [20Pps-2016-male] (Fig. 7D), deposited in SIF.
Leaf mine. Blotch mine on the lower side of the leaf, between two secondary veins, at the later stage gets contracted. Pupation in the mine.
Trophic specialization. Host plant was not known (Noreika 1994). We found mines solely on the plant species originating from North America, Acer saccharum (Sapindaceae) (new record).
Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK (Noreika 1994).
description: Published as part of Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475
Methods for "Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections "
Creators: name: Groom, Quentin
name: Meeus, Sofie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Description of the methodology needed to investigate collection histories by studying collectors of specimens from Cayman Islands and Montserrat using GBIF and Wikidata.

This record is an appendix to a journal article under submission entitled: "Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections". The pdf in this record contains the approach that (1) extracts collectors’ names from GBIF, (2) disambiguates the name strings to Wikidata items and (3) analyses the data available on Wikidata using SPARQL queries, including the creation of maps and other graphics; as well as the disambiguated Q-IDs for collectors from Montserrat and Cayman Islands, and the graphics resulting from the SPARQL queries.
Phyllonorycter reduncata
Creators: name: Kirichenko, Natalia
name: Triberti, Paolo
name: Akulov, Evgeniy
name: Ponomarenko, Margarita
name: Gorokhova, Svetlana
name: Sheiko, Viktor
name: Ohshima, Issei
name: Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gracillariidae
Phyllonorycter
Phyllonorycter reduncata

description: Phyllonorycter reduncata (Ermolaev, 1986)
(Figs 4I, 8A)
Material examined. Russia: PK, Gornotaezhnoe, MTS, 43.69N, 132.15E, 152 m alt., Lonicera maackii, 23.VII.2016, 1 male (reared from leaf mine), 55.3 / [23Pr-2016-male] (Fig. 4I, 8A), deposited in SIF.
Leaf mine. The mine is similar to the European species Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella (Ellis 2018). Strongly contracted blotch on the lower side of the leaf, often covers a significant part of the leaf. Pupation in the mine.
Trophic specialization. Monophagous on Lonicera: L. edulis Turcz. ex Freyn, L. maackii (Rupr.) Maxim., L. praeflorens Batalin (Caprifoliaceae) (Ermolaev 1986a, 1987).
Distribution. Russia: RFE—PK, SO (Kuril Islands) (Baryshnikova 2016).
description: Published as part of Kirichenko, Natalia, Triberti, Paolo, Akulov, Evgeniy, Ponomarenko, Margarita, Gorokhova, Svetlana, Sheiko, Viktor, Ohshima, Issei & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2019, Exploring species diversity and host plant associations of leaf-mining micromoths (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in the Russian Far East using DNA barcoding, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 4652 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3363475
Cotesia praepotens
Creators: name: Zargar, Mohammad
name: Gupta, Ankita
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Farahani, Samira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia praepotens

description: Cotesia praepotens (Haliday, 1834)
Microgaster praepotens Haliday, 1834: 252.
Microgaster placida Haliday, 1834: 251.
Apanteles memnon Nixon, 1974: 465, fig. 39.
Apanteles acutivalvis Balevski, 1980: 97.
Apanteles beshtaui Tobias, 1986: 716, fig. 232:18.
Material examined
IRAN – Khuzestan Province • 2 ♀♀; Baghmalek, Dobagh; 31°31ʹ16.14″ N, 49°52′53.00″ E; 688 m a.s.l.; 4–18 May 2016; ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/4516 • 1 ♀; Ghale tol; 31°37ʹ49.70″ N, 49°52′53.35″ E; 880 m a.s.l.; 22 Jun.–6 Jul. 2017; ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/22617 • 1 ♀; Andika, Doorab; 32°12ʹ23.00″ N, 49°26′37.00″ E; 760 m a.s.l.; 5–19 May 2017; TMUC-HBMC0060 • 1 ♀; Lali, Taraz; 32°20ʹ49.70″ N, 49°05′11.31″ E; 390 m a.s.l.; 6–20 Jul. 2016; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; M. Zargar leg.; TMUC-HBMC0061.
Distribution in Iran
Qazvin (Ghahari et al. 2011c), Khuzestan (present study).
General distribution
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldoava, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia (Yu etal. 2016).
Host records
Lepidoptera: Elachistidae Bruand, 1851 (Yu et al. 2016), Geometridae (Shenefelt 1972; Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2016), Gracillariidae Stainton, 1854, Lymantriidae Hampson, 1893, Notodontidae Hampson, 1893, Yponomeutidae Stephens, 1829 (Yu et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Zargar, Mohammad, Gupta, Ankita, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Farahani, Samira, 2019, Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 571 on page 17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.571, http://zenodo.org/record/3526880
Experimental Estimates of the Impact of Wage Subsidies
Creators: name: Dubin, Jeffrey A.
name: Rivers, Douglas
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1991

description: The effects of a wage subsidy program on the duration of insured unemployment are investigated using experimental data. Participation in the experiment was voluntary and about one third of the subjects refused to take the subsidy voucher offered to them. Because subsidies appear to have stigmatic effects which tend to lower participation rates by high-skilled workers, experimental participants have longer average durations of unemployment than non-participants. However, correcting for self-selection, we find that wage subsidies can substantially increase a participant's probability of reemployment. Subsidies are also compared to a search bonus proposal which is also cost effective, but, due to differences in participation patterns, has rather different effects.
description: We would like to thank the Associate Editor and referees for helpful comments. Research support was provided by the Productive Employment Foundation. We are grateful to Allen V.C. Davis for his support and encouragement.

Published as Dubin, Jeffrey A., and Douglas Rivers. "Experimental estimates of the impact of wage subsidies." Journal of Econometrics 56, no. 1-2 (1993): 219-242.
description: Submitted - sswp778.pdf
An Experimental Examination of the Assignment Problem
Creators: name: Olson, Mark A.
name: Porter, David
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1991

description: The problem of optimally assigning individuals to heterogeneous objects so that each individual is allocated at most one object (the assignment problem) has a long history. Algorithms• •based •on •ordinal preferences have been developed and several auctions using monetary transfers have been proposed. The performance of two auction mechanisms to solve the assignment problem is examined in an experimental setting. One of the auctions is a sealed-bid variant of the Vickrey auction for homogeneous objects and the other auction is an extension of the English auction. The auctions are tested in two diverse competitive environments (high and low contention). The experimental results show that the English auction generates higher revenues and efficiencies than its sealed-bid counterpart especially if there is a high level of contention. However, the efficiency gains of the English auction are at the expense of consumers' surplus. Indeed, a random assignment creates greater consumers' surplus relative to either auction outcomes in the high contention environment.
description: Submitted - sswp775.pdf
Pseudopelmatops yunnanensis Chen 2010
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Lin
name: Norrbom, Allen
name: Freidberg, Amnon
name: Chesters, Douglas
name: Islam, Md Sajedul
name: Zhu, Chao-Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Pseudopelmatops
Pseudopelmatops yunnanensis

description: Pseudopelmatops yunnanensis Chen, 2010
Pseudopelmatops yunnanensis Chen in Chen et al., 2010: 14. Type-locality: Yunnan, China. (HT M IZCAS).
Description (supplement to the species description of Chen et al., 2010). Compound eye not smooth in appearance, with small projection; ommatidia uniform in size (because the holotype is in poor condition, no photo of the compound eye has been taken; and because the occipital protuberance is invisible in present position, it is not described or photographed).
Distribution. China (Yunnan).
Specimens examined. CHINA: Yunnan, 195?. HT ♂ (IZCAS).
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiao-Lin, Norrbom, Allen, Freidberg, Amnon, Chesters, Douglas, Islam, Md Sajedul & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2015, A systematic study of Ichneumonosoma de Meijere, Pelmatops Enderlein Pseudopelmatops Shiraki and Soita Walker (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 301-347 in Zootaxa 4013 (3) on page 328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/254396
Cotesia risilis
Creators: name: Zargar, Mohammad
name: Gupta, Ankita
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Farahani, Samira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Cotesia
Cotesia risilis

description: Cotesia risilis (Nixon, 1974)
Apanteles risilis Nixon, 1974: 471, fig. 27.
Material examined
IRAN – Khuzestan Province • 1 ♀; Baghmalek, lalab; 31°32ʹ53.70″ N, 49°57′37.00″ E; 843 m a.s.l.; 6–20 Mar. 2017; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; M. Zargar leg.; TMUC-HBMC0062.
Distribution in Iran
Ilam (Ghahari et al. 2011b), West Azarbaijan (Samin 2015), Khuzestan (present study).
General distribution
Czechoslavia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Mongolia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2016).
Host records
Lepidoptera: Pieridae (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Zargar, Mohammad, Gupta, Ankita, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Farahani, Samira, 2019, Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 571 on page 17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.571, http://zenodo.org/record/3526880