cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rattus omichlodes Misonne 1970
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
Rattus
Rattus omichlodes

description: 710.
Arianus’s New Guinea Mountain Rat
Rattus omichlodes
French: Rat des brumes / German: Misonne-Neuguinea-Ratte / Spanish: Rata de montana de Nueva Guinea de Aranius
Other common names: Arianus'’s Rat
Taxonomy. Rattus omichlodes Misonne, 1970,
Ertsberg (4°04 8S, 137°07 bE), 3400 m, western Snow Mountains (= Pegu- nungan Maoke), Province of Papua, West Papua (= Irian Jaya), New Guinea.
Rattus omichlodes has not been included in m)’ genetic studies and was included in R. nichardsoni. Monotypic.
Distribution. W Snow Mts, W New Guinea.
Descriptive notes. Head—body 128-139 mm, tail 95-8-101 mm, ear 19-20-7 mm, hindfoot
28-2-28-8 mm; weight 69-78 g. Arianus’s New Guinea Mountain Rat is small, distinctive, and similar to Richardson’s New Guinea Mountain Rat (R. richardsoni), buttail is shorter and feet are completely black. Pelage is long, dense, and soft. Dorsum is somewhat ginger furred, with light gray hairs and brown tips (being browner on sides than on Richardson’s New Guinea Mountain Rat). Dorsal pelage blends into ventral pelage. Venter is lighter brown than dorsum, with gray base. Feet are distinctly dark grayish black. Ears are broad and fringed with gingerfur; vibrissae are relatively short. Tail is ¢.75% of head-body length. Skull is smaller than in Richardson’s New Guinea Mountain Rat and without beaded interorbital constrictions. There are three pairs of mammae: one pectoral and two inguinal.
Habitat. Alpine scrub, shallow marshes, and boggy alpine heath at elevations of¢.2950 m.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. No information.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. Arianus’s New Guinea Mountain Rat has a very restricted distribution, but it occurs in Lorentz National Park. More research is needed to fully understand its natural history and conservation threats.
Bibliography. Flannery (1995b), Leary, Singadan, Menzies, Wright, Lunde & Aplin (2008), Misonne (1979), Musser & Carleton (2005), Taylor, Calaby & Smith (1990), Taylor, Calaby & Van Deusen (1982).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 846, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
Pseudocriopsis Melzer 1931
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pseudocriopsis

description: Pseudocriopsis Melzer, 1931
(Figs. 55–56)
Pseudocriopsis Melzer, 1931: 196.
Type species — Pseudocriopsis modesta Melzer, 1931 (original designation).
Diagnosis. Body robust, rounded; antennae shorter or equal to length of the body; prothorax with obtuse protuberance in the beginning of the basal third; pronotum with similar protuberance; elytral centrobasal crest reduced to a low prominence, without longitudinal carina; distal urotergite emarginate. See comment in introduction. Number of species currently included: 2.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to South American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, pp. 523-553 in Zootaxa 4789 (2) on page 546, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3888664
Policy Reversals in Risk Management: The Effect of Refined Analyses
Creators: name: Hild, Matthias
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2001
Subjects: group choice, risk management, social decision making

description: Reversals of policy recommendations occur in risk management when the social decision maker aggregates individuals' subjective utilities for the outcomes of a risky policy measure. The level of detail with which these outcomes are described can significantly affect the resulting policy recommendation. The choice of the level of detail on which we conduct an analysis therefore amounts to an implicit value judgment. Moreover, the power to fix the level of the analysis implies partial control over policy recommendations. We propose an alternative approach to decision—theoretically sound risk management.
description: I wish to thank Ralph Miles for his help.
description: Submitted - sswp1116.pdf
Rattus pococki
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
Rattus
Rattus pococki

description: 711.
Pocock’s New Guinea Highland Rat
Rattus pococki
French: Rat de Pocock / German: Pocock-Neuguinea-Ratte / Spanish: Rata de altiplano de Nueva Guinea de Pocock
Other common names: Pocock’s Highland Rat
Taxonomy. Rattus niobe pococki Ellerman, 1941,
Mount Sumuri, 2500 m, Weyland Range, Province of Papua, West Papua (= Irian Jaya), Indonesia.
Rattus pococki has not been included in any
phylogenetic studies, although a specimen identified as R. niobe from the distribution of R. pocockiwas sister to a non-monophyletic lineage including R. niobe, R. verecundus, and R. mordax. More research needed to understand placement of R. pococki in Rattus. It was previously included in R.niobe but is recognized as a distinct species until further research into the R. niobe species complex is conducted. Monotypic.
Distribution. Central Cordillera of W & C New Guinea.
Descriptive notes. Head-body 127 mm, tail 126 mm, ear 17 mm, hindfoot 25 mm (from holotype). No specific data are available for body weight. Pocock’s New Guinea Highland Rat is very small and similar to butslightly larger than the Eastern New Guinea Mountain Rat (R. niobe). Pelage is soft and without spines. Dorsum is dark gray-brown, being nearly black with rusty tipped hairs and darker than the Eastern New Guinea Mountain Rat and the Western New Guinea Mountain Rat (R. arrogans). Dorsal pelage blends into ventral pelage. Venteris dark gray-brown, with cream to rufous-tipped hairs. Feet are lightly covered with silvery and brown hair dorsally. Ears are dark brown and relatively long; vibrissae are long. Tail is ¢.100% of head-body length and unicolored dark brown, with short tail hair. Skull has broader interorbital region and long incisive foramen. There are three pairs of mammae: one pectoral and two inguinal.
Habitat. Montane tropical forests at elevations of 1500-2500 m.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. No information.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Pocock’s New Guinea Highland Rat has a large distribution and presumably large overall population. More research is needed to fully understand its natural history and conservation threats.
Bibliography. Aplin (2016k), Flannery (1995b), Helgen (2007a), Musser & Carleton (2005), Robins et al. (2014), Taylor, Calaby & Smith (1990), Taylor, Calaby & Van Deusen (1982).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier & Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, 2017, Muridae, pp. 536-884 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 7 Rodents II, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 846, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
The Foundations of Latino Voter Partisanship: Evidence from the 2000 Election
Creators: name: Alvarez, R. Michael
name: Garcia Bedolla, Lisa
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2001

description: Traditionally, the Latino electorate has been considered to be Democratic in partisan affiliation. However, during the 2000 presidential election there were many efforts made by the Republican Party to court Latino voters, suggesting that perhaps Latino voters may be becoming more Republican in orientation. Using a telephone survey of Latino likely voters conducted in the 2000 election, we examine three different sets of correlates of Latino voter partisanship: social and demographic, issue and ideological, and economic. We find that Latino voter partisanship is strongly structured by social and demographic, as well as issue and ideological, factors. We also find that while it is unlikely that changes in economic factors or abortion attitudes will significantly change which parties the different Latino nation-origin groups identify with, it is possible that changes in ideological positions regarding the role of government in providing social services could result in significant changes in Latino party identification.
description: We acknowledge the Knight-Ridder News Organization, in particular the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, the San Jose Mercury News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Miami Herald, for providing us with the 2000 Latino Voter Survey. Specifically we thank Nadine Selden and Mary Anne Ostrom from Knight-Ridder for their assistance. We also thank Jonathan Nagler for his assistance with the 2000 Latino Voter Survey. Alvarez thanks the IBM Corporation for supporting his research through the University Matching Grants Program.

Published as Alvarez, R.M., & Bedolla, L.G. (2003). The foundations of Latino voter partisanship: Evidence from the 2000 election. Journal of Politics, 65(1), 31-49.
description: Submitted - sswp1115.pdf
Indecision Theory: Quality of Information and Voting Behavior
Creators: name: Ghirardato, Paolo
name: Katz, Jonathan N.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2002

description: In this paper we show how to incorporate quality of information into a model of voting behavior. We do so in the context of the turnout decision of instrumentally rational voters who differ in their quality of information, which we refer to as ambiguity. Ambiguity is reflected by the fact that the voter's beliefs are given by a set of probabilities, each of which represents in the voter's mind a different possible scenario.

We show that in most elections voters who satisfy the Bayesian model do not strictly prefer abstaining over voting for one of the candidates. In contrast, a voter who is averse to ambiguity considers abstention strictly optimal when the candidates' policy positions are both ambiguous and they are "ambiguity complements". Abstaining is preferred since it is tantamount to mixing the prospects embodied by the two candidates, thus enabling the voter to "hedge" the candidates' ambiguity.
description: Revised. Original dated to November 2000.

This paper replaces an earlier paper that was circulated in August 1997 with the title "Indecision Theory: An Informational Model of Roll-Off". We are very grateful to Alessandro Lizzeri for many detailed comments, and to Doug Bernheim, Peter Bossaerts, Colin Camerer, Tim Feddersen, Michel Le Breton, Tom Palfrey, Ken Shotts and audiences at Caltech, UCLA, the Department of Political Science at UC-San Diego, the 1999 Wallis Conference on Political Economy and the 2001 SITE Conference for helpful comments and discussion. Jonathan Katz thanks the John M. Olin Foundation for a Faculty Fellowship supporting his research.
description: Submitted - sswp1106_-_revised.pdf
title: Lettre n°1387 de Paul d'Estournelles de Constant à Nicholas Murray Butler (10 septembre 1923)
title: Letter number 1387 from Paul d'Estournelles de Constant to Nicholas Murray Butler (September 10, 1923)
Creators: name: d'Estournelles de Constant, Paul
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pacifisme
Guerre mondiale (1914-1918)

description: Source: Archives de la Sarthe – France
Pseudocriopsis modesta Melzer 1931
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pseudocriopsis
Pseudocriopsis modesta

description: Pseudocriopsis modesta Melzer, 1931
(Figs. 55–56)
Pseudocriopsis modesta Melzer, 1931: 196, figs. 1, 1a.
Type locality — Lectotype: Brazil, Espírito Santo: Santa Tereza (MZSP).
Distribution — Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to South American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, pp. 523-553 in Zootaxa 4789 (2) on page 546, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3888664
Supplementary Material for the article entitled "The vitals for steady nucleation maps of spontaneous spiking coherence in autonomous two-dimensional neuronal networks"
Creators: name: Zendrikov, Dmitrii
name: Paraskevov, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320904
subject: Computational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience)

description: This online resource contains the simulation data and program codes required for reproducing all results of the study described in the article, and Supplementary Figures and Videos.
Retrofitting Amine CO2 Capture to a WtE plant
Creators: name: Zhuravlova, Inna
name: Effenberger, Niklas
name: Kaltenegger, Sarah
name: Ilieva, Bojidara
name: Vera Concha, Constanza A.
name: Sanchez Berbegal, Jose Alberto
name: Jordal, Kristin
name: Montañés, Rubén M.
name: Hörbe Emanuelsson, Anna
name: Tschurtschenthaler, Luca
name: Roussanaly, Simon
name: Cappelen, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: CCS
Waste to Energy
Carbon Capture
Carbon capture and storage
implementation
replication
netural solution package
NSP
emission reduction
value chain
public awareness
city
municipality

description: Neutral solution package on the retrofitting of amine CO2 for waste to energy plants.

This document is part of D12.6: Neutral solution packages for CCUS implementation in smart, sustainablecities
Sciadosoma Melzer 1934
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Sciadosoma

description: Sciadosoma Melzer, 1934
(Figs. 64–65)
Sciadosoma Melzer, 1934: 102.
Type species - Sciadosoma umbrosum Melzer, 1934 (original designation).
Diagnosis. Elytra without centrobasal crest or longitudinal carina; prothorax laterally rounded, the tubercles as a prolongation of the curvature; mesoventral process 1.5 width of mesocoxa; basal metatarsomere as long as next two together. Number of species currently included: 1.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to South American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, pp. 523-553 in Zootaxa 4789 (2) on page 547, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3888664
Stable Aggregation of Preferences
Creators: name: Hild, Matthias
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2001
Subjects: consensus formation, ex ante aggregation, ex post aggregation, independence of irrelevant alternatives, refinements, risk management, small worlds, social choice theory

description: We arrive at new conclusions for social choice theory by considering the process in which we refine decision-theoretic models and account for previously irrelevant parameters of a decision situation (cf. Savage's `small worlds'). Suppose that, for each individual, we consider a coarse-grained and a fine-grained decision-theoretic model, both of which are consistent with each other in a sense to be defined. We desire any social choice rule to be stable under refinements in the sense that the group choice based on fine-grained individual models and the group choice based on coarse-grained individual models agree for choices among coarse-grained alternatives. For ex ante aggregation, we find that stability is ubiquitous since it follows from independence of irrelevant alternatives. In ex post aggregation, individuals' utilities are pooled separately from their beliefs before the group's choice function is constructed. We find that any non-exceptional' rule (e.g., any Pareto optimal rule) for ex post aggregation must be unstable. If the rule is, in addition, independent of irrelevant alternatives, we find an infinite series of reversals of binary group choices. We consider applications to risk management and the theory of consensus formation.
description: I am grateful to Philippe Mongin for his intuitive explanation of the Ex Ante Homogeneity Theorem and for extensive help with an early draft. I am much indebted to Isaac Levi and Teddy Seidenfeld for their continued help and interest in this paper. I also thank Richard Jeffrey and Mathias Risse. I wish to thank Christ's College, Cambridge for their generous financial and academic support.
description: Submitted - sswp1112.pdf
An Improved Statistical Model for Multiparty Electoral Data
Creators: name: Honaker, James
name: Katz, Jonathan N.
name: King, Gary
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2001

description: Katz and King (1999) develop a model for predicting or explaining aggregate electoral results in multiparty democracies. Their model is, in principle, analogous to what least squares regression provides American politics researchers in that two-party system. Katz and King applied their model to three-party elections in England and revealed a variety of new features of incumbency advantage and where each party pulls support from. Although the mathematics of their statistical model covers any number of political parties, it is computationally very demanding, and hence slow and numerically imprecise, with more than three. The original goal of our work was to produce an approximate method that works quicker in practice with many parties without making too many theoretical compromises. As it turns out, the method we offer here improves on Katz and King's (in bias, variance, numerical stability, and computational speed) even when the latter is computationally feasible. We also offer easy-to-use software that implements our suggestions.
description: An earlier version of the paper was presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 2000 under the title "A Practical Statistical Model for Multiparty Electoral Data". For research support, we gratefully acknowledge the John M. Olin Foundation, the National Science Foundation (SBR-9729884, SBR-9753126, and IIS-9874747), the National Institutes of Aging, and the World Health Organization.
description: Submitted - sswp1111.pdf
How I quit writing: spontaneity and creative writing
Creators: name: Nemela, Radim
Publisher: name: College of Arts, Humanities and Education, University of Derby
Year: 2024
Subjects: Literature, poetry, spontaneity, creative writing, Beat Generation, culture of spontaneity, creativity, spontaneous creativity, spontaneous writing

description: My thesis consists of a collection of creative works and a critical component. My practice-based research explores spontaneity as a creative writing method as informed by the methods of Jack Kerouac described in his ‘Essentials of Spontaneous Prose’. In terms of content the collection is concerned with subcultures, and the spontaneity of individuals within them. The thesis develops my own poetics of spontaneity which provides an alternative to the literary mainstream. I extol the energy-charged writing it produces and describe the enjoyment and creative stimulation it brings to the author. I aim to demonstrate that spontaneity can provide equally good, if not better, results than heavily edited literature produced over long stretches of time. The title, How I quit writing, relates to the frustration I felt from creating in a way that would satisfy the requirements of a PhD that led me to a short lived decision to quit writing 
 This research consists of my own original work and has been ethically approved.
A Bayesian Model to Incorporate Jointly Distributed Generalized Prior Information on Means and Loadings in Factor Analysis
Creators: name: Rowe, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2001

description: A Bayesian factor analysis model is outlined in which prior knowledge regarding the model parameters is quantified using prior distribution and incorporated into the inferences along with the data. Recent work (Rowe, 2000a; Rowe, 2000b; Rowe, 2000c) has focused on the population mean and considered vague, conjugate and generalized conjugate distributions when it was taken to be independent of the factor loadings. More recent work (Rowe, 2001) has taken the population mean and factor loadings to be jointly distributed and used a conjugate prior distribution. In this paper, the population mean vector and the factor loadings are taken to be jointly distributed and a generalized conjugate distribution is used. As mentioned in Press (1982), Rothenburg (1963) pointed out that with a conjugate prior distribution, the elements in the covariance matrices are constrained and may not be rich enough to permit complete freedom of assessment. The generalized conjugate distribution permits complete freedom of assessment. Parameters are estimated by Gibbs sampling and iterated conditional modes algorithms.
description: Submitted - sswp1110.pdf
An Evolutionary Perspective on Goal Seeking and Escalation of Commitment
Creators: name: Hamo, Yoram
name: Heifetz, Aviad
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2001
Subjects: evolution of preferences, escalation of commitment, goal-seeking, aspiration level, Prospect Theory, S-shaped utility function, risk-loving, aggregate risk

description: Maximizing the probability of bypassing an aspiration level, and taking increasing risks to recover previous losses are well-documented behavioral tendencies. They are compatible with individual utility functions that are S-shaped, as suggested in Prospect Theory (Kahneman and Tversky 1979). We explore evolutionary foundations for such preferences. Idiosyncratic innovative activity, while individually risky, enhances the fitness of society because it provides hedging against aggregate disasters that might occur if everybody had pursued the same course of action. In order that individuals choose the socially optimal dosage of innovative activity, the individuals' preferences should make them strive to improve upon the on-going convention, even if it implies taking gambles that reduce their expected achievements. We show how, in a formal model, the preferences that will be selected for in the course of evolution lead to maximizing the probability of bypassing an aspiration level. Furthermore, when comparing choices with the same probability of achieving this goal, preference is indeed established by maximizing the expected utility of an S-shaped utility function, exhibiting risk loving below the aspiration level and risk aversion beyond it.
description: Submitted - sswp1109.pdf
Sciadosoma umbrosum Melzer 1934
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Sciadosoma
Sciadosoma umbrosum

description: Sciadosoma umbrosum Melzer, 1934
(Figs. 64–65)
Sciadosoma umbrosum Melzer, 1934: 103, pl. 2, fig. 14.
Type locality — Holotype: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Itatiaia (MZSP).
Distribution — Brazil (Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to South American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, pp. 523-553 in Zootaxa 4789 (2) on page 547, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3888664
On the Evolutionary Emergence of Optimism
Creators: name: Heifetz, Aviad
name: Spiegel, Yossi
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000

description: Successful individuals were frequently found to be overly optimistic. These findings are puzzling, as one could expect that realists would perform best in the long run. We show, however, that in a large class of strategic interactions of either cooperation or competition, the equilibrium payoffs of optimists may be higher than those of realists. This is because the very fact of being optimistic changes the game, and drives the adversary to change her equilibrium behavior, possibly to the benefit of the optimist. Suppose, then, that a population consists initially of individuals with various perceptional tendencies, pessimists and optimists to various extents, as well as of realists. Individuals meet in pairs to interact, and more successful tendencies proliferate faster. We show that as time goes by, some moderate degree of optimism will take over, and outnumber all other tendencies.
description: First version: December 1999. This version: October 2000.
description: Submitted - sswp1104.pdf
Reduction of cellular senescence decreases the risk of diabetic kidney disease
Creators: name: Žižka, Ondřej
name: Havrlantová, Tereza
name: Štursa, Jan
name: Škaroupková, Petra
name: Pavlovičová, Renata
name: Svoboda, Petr
name: Škop, Vojtěch
name: Kasperová, Judita Barbora
name: Boháčová, Klára
name: Červenka, Luděk
name: Werner, Lukáš
name: Haluzík, Martin
name: Štemberková Hubáčková, Soňa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Supported by the project CarDia (Programm EXCELES, Project No. LX22NPO5104) - Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU.
A Model for Bayesian Factor Analysis with Jointly Distributed Means and Loadings
Creators: name: Rowe, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2001

description: In the Bayesian approach to factor analysis, available prior knowledge regarding the model parameters is quantified in the form of prior distributions and incorporated into the inferences along with the data. The incorporation of prior knowledge has the added consequence of eliminating the ambiguity of rotation and the need for model constraints found in the traditional factor analysis model. A focus of recent work (Rowe, 2000a and Rowe 2000b and Rowe, 2000C) has been on quantifying and incorporating available prior knowledge when estimating the population mean. This previous work has considered vague, conjugate, and generalized conjugate distributions for the population mean. In this paper, unlike previous work, the population mean vector and the factor loading matrix are taken to be jointly distributed, which allows available interrelated prior information to be quantified and incorporated with the data. The model parameters are estimated by Gibbs sampling and iterated conditional modes algorithms.
description: Submitted - sswp1108.pdf
Sporetus Bates 1864
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Sporetus

description: Sporetus Bates, 1864
(Figs. 8 – 9)
Sporetus Bates, 1864: 54.
Type species — Sporetus seminalis Bates, 1864 (subsequent designation, Monné, 2012: 74).
Sporetus (Chaetissus) Bates, 1864: 54; Thomson, 1864: 323 (syn.).
Type species — Sporetus porcinus Bates, 1864 (monotypy).
Diagnosis. Antennae in males much longer than the body; prothorax without lateral tubercles or with tubercles reduced to an obtuse protuberance, the sides subparallel; pronotum without tubercles; elytra without centrobasal crest or longitudinal carina; mesoventral process as wide as three-fourths of a mesocoxa. Number of species currently included: 14.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to South American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, pp. 523-553 in Zootaxa 4789 (2) on page 547, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3888664
Emergence of Endogenous Legal Institutions: The Rural Charters in Northern Italy
Creators: name: Casari, Marco
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000

description: Common-pool resources create a well-known social dilemma, and to solve the problem the recent literature in economics has focused on how repeated interaction can promote informal cooperation without the need for formal legal or political institutions. This paper examines a particular example of a common resource: common property in alpine communities of Northern Italy between the 13th and the 19th century. There, rather than relying on repeated interaction alone, users created formal mechanisms that regulated behavior and access to the common property via quotas and time restrictions. Because the formal institutions existed side by side with the sort of repeated interaction that would bread informal cooperation, there was a paradoxical redundancy of institutions.

On one hand, formal regulations were probably the best way to limit the overuse of the commons. We consider the tradeoff between developing formal regulations versus relying on informal cooperation. Under certain conditions, the cost of building formal institutions is repaid by a large gain in efficiency. On the other hand, the users themselves had to create and administer the formal institutions, and since the benefits of formal regulations are a public good, each individual has an incentive to free ride. The collective action problem of providing regulatory services was surmounted thanks to the repeated interaction among users. The paradox is thus resolved.
description: Preliminary version, comments are welcome. I wish to thank Philip Hoffman, Simon Wilkie, Matthew Jackson, Paolo Ghirardato, Alvaro Gonzalez Staffa, and Jose Apesteguia for their valuable comments. All errors are mine. This research was financially supported by the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the California Institute of Technology. A previous version of this paper has circulated with the title: "Who needs formal regulations to manage the commons? The rural Charters in Northern Italy". This version of the paper has benefited from the comments of the participants to the Summer School of the European Historical Economics Society in Lund, Sweden and to the Eighth IASCP conference in Bloomington, Indiana.
description: Submitted - sswp1105.pdf
Manifold nº 18 (Chine nº 4) (p. 7)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: created: 9-12-1930
A Bayesian Factor Analysis Model with Generalized Prior Information
Creators: name: Rowe, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000

description: In the Bayesian approach to factor analysis, available prior knowledge regarding the model parameters is quantified in the form of prior distributions and incorporated into the inferences. The incorporation of prior knowledge has the added consequence of eliminating the ambiguity of rotation found in the traditional factor analysis model. Previous Bayesian factor analysis work (Press & Shigemasu 1989, & Press 1998, Rowe 2000a, and Rowe 2000b), has considered mainly natural conjugate prior distributions for the model parameters. As is mentioned in Press (1982), Rothenburg (1963) pointed out that with a natural conjugate prior distribution, the elements in the covariance matrices are constrained and thus may not be rich enough to permit freedom of assessment. In this paper, generalized natural conjugate distributions are used to quantify and incorporate available prior information which permit complete freedom of assessment.
description: Submitted - sswp1099.pdf
Annotations on ostraca from Maknassy (Tunisia)
Creators: name: Marichal, Robert
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015

description: vue 2
description: Annotations, photos and bibliography: three offprint papers from "BAC" (1912).
description: Source: 4MAR_15_2.7-5-7
description: Coverage: Maknassy##Tunisia
description: created: n. d.
Eŭrazio per biciklo kaj Esperanto : Eltiroj (p. 57)
Creators: name: Péraire, Lucien
name: CNRS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: Elĉerpoj de esperanta rakonto de mondvojaĝo
Sporetus seminalis Bates 1864
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Sporetus
Sporetus seminalis

description: Sporetus seminalis Bates, 1864
(Figs. 8 – 9)
Sporetus seminalis Bates, 1864: 55.
Syntypes localities — Syntypes male and female: Brazil, Amazonas: Ega [Tefé]. Pará (MNHN).
Distribution — Ecuador, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia), Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia (Santa Cruz).
Sporetus seminalis var. agglomeratus Bates, 1864: 55.
Syntypes locality — Syntypes male and female: Brazil, Amazonas: Ega [Tefé] (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to South American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, pp. 523-553 in Zootaxa 4789 (2) on page 547, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3888664
Rattus vandeuseni
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
Rattus
Rattus vandeuseni

description: 715.
Van Deusen’s New Guinea Mountain Rat
Rattus vandeuseni
French: Rat de Van Deusen / German: Van-Deusen-Neuguinea-Ratte / Spanish: Rata de montana de Nueva Guinea de Van Deusen
Other common names: Van Deusen’s Rat
Taxonomy. Rattus verecundus vandeuseni J. M. Taylor & Calaby, 1982,
“Middle Camp, 1540 m, northern slope of Mt. Dayman, Maneau Range, 1540 m,” Papua New Guinea.
Rattus vandeuseni has not been included in any phylogenetic studies. It was originally recognized as a subspeciesof R. verecundus butis recognized as a distinct species here. Monotypic.
Distribution. Extreme SE Papuan Peninsula, New Guinea.
Descriptive notes. Head-body 141-160 mm (males) and 120-150 mm (females), tail 149-152 mm (males) and 125-147 mm (females), ear 18-:9-19-8 mm (males) and 19-8-20-7 mm (females), hindfoot 30-5-31-2 mm (males) and 30-5-31 mm (females); weight 68-74 g (males) and 50-88 g (females). Van Deusen’s New Guinea Mountain Rat is small and slightly sexually dimorphic, with males a little larger than females. Pelage is long,soft, and without spines. Dorsum is dark brown, tinged with rusty brown-tipped hairs and with inconspicuous black guard hairs and gray underfur. Venter is somewhat lighter brown than dorsum, with reddish buff-tipped and gray-based fur;it is not demarcated from dorsum. Feet are covered with mix of brown and white hairs. Ears are dull medium brown and covered in medium brown hairs; vibrissae are long. Tail is nearly 100% of head-body length, unicolored medium brown, and sparsely covered in short brown hair. Skull has barely discernible supraorbital beading. There are two inguinal pairs of mammae.
Habitat. Primary montane tropical moist forest at elevations above 1300 m.
Food and Feeding. Van Deusen’s New Guinea Mountain Rats were trapped in traps baited with peanut butter, beetle larvae, and sweet potato.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. No information.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Endangered on The IUCN Red List. Van Deusen’s New Guinea Mountain Rat has a very restricted distribution, is relatively uncommon, and is probably threatened by habitat loss and degradation.
Bibliography. Flannery (1995b), Leary, Singadan, Menzies, Helgen, Wright et al. (2008), Musser & Carleton (2005), Taylor et al. (1982).
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 847-848, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6887260
Aggregation and Dynamics of Survey Responses: The Case of Presidential Approval
Creators: name: Alvarez, R. Michael
name: Katz, Jonathan N.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000

description: In this paper we critique much of the empirical literature on the important political science concept of presidential approval. Much of the recent research on presidential approval has focused on the dynamic nature of approval; arguments have raged about whether presidential approval is integrated, co-integrated, or fractionally integrated. We argue that none of these time-series concepts, imported from an econometrics literature which has fundamentally different types of data than do political scientists, can apply to the presidential approval time series. Instead, we advocate careful use of aggregated approval as a time-series cross-section, or the use of individual-level survey responses. Ultimately most of the important hypotheses political scientists wish to test regarding presidential approval involve individual voters or citizens; thus we argue that using the appropriate data unit is the best methodology.
description: Previous versions of this paper were presented at the 1996 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings and at the 1997 Southern California Political Methodology Program Conference at UCLA, and we thank participants in these conferences for their comments. We are grateful for discussions with David Grether. We thank Neal Beck and Simon Jackman for answering our questions about the presidential approval series, and sharing their data. We also thank John Aldrich for making available to us the 1988 Gallup Organization polling data. Katz thanks the John M. Olin Foundation for a faculty fellowship supporting his work.
description: Submitted - sswp1103.pdf
title: Rapport de voyage, Cleveland (1960) : Ligne Euro-Caraïbes 26/74, 1974, voyage n°71
Creators: name: Florenty, J.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
subject: Transports maritimes - Histoire
subject: Marine marchande
subject: Journaux de bord

description: Chapitrage : Rapport général / du commandant - Rapport commercial - Rapport sur l'état du navire - Rapport contentieux - Feuille d'escale et manutention
description: Source: French Lines & Compagnies, 1997 004 12151-01
description: Coverage: 1974-05-31/1974-08-06
Mixed Equilibrium in a Downsian Model with a Favored Candidate
Creators: name: Aragones, Enriqueta
name: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000
Subjects: spatial competition
mixed strategies
candidate quality

description: This paper examines competition in the standard one-dimensional Downsian model of two-candidate elections, but where one candidate (A) enjoys an advantage over the other candidate (D). Voters' preferences are Euclidean, but any voter will vote for candidate A over candidate D unless D is closer to her ideal point by some fixed distance δ. The location of the median voter's ideal point is uncertain, and its distribution is commonly known by both candidates. The candidates simultaneously choose locations to maximize the probability of victory. Pure strategy equilibria often fails to exist in this model, except under special conditions about δ and the distribution of the median ideal point. We solve for the essentially unique symmetric mixed equilibrium, show that candidate A adopts more moderate policies than candidate D, and obtain some comparative statics results about the probability of victory and the expected distance between the two candidates' policies.
description: Aragones acknowledges financial support by the Generalitat de Catalunya Grant number 1999SGR 00157 and the University Pompeu Fabra Grant number COFREA99.003 and the hospitality of CBRSS at Harvard University. Palfrey acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation, grant number SBR-9631627. We are grateful to participants at the Wallis Conference on Candidate Entry, Exit, and Positioning, University of Rochester, June 2000, for their comments.

Published as Aragones, E., & Palfrey, T.R. (2002). Mixed equilibrium in a Downsian model with a favored candidate. Journal of Economic Theory, 103(1), 131-161.
description: Submitted - sswp1102.pdf
Strategic Learning and Teaching
Creators: name: Camerer, Colin F.
name: Ho, Teck H.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000

description: Decision makers learn from experience and this learning affects their future decisions. But how? Using game theory, the authors explore how people factor in the payoffs of past decisions in their current choices. The authors introduce the concept of experience-weighted attraction (EWA) to explain how people learn from their experience. Sophisticated players can use this concept to learn which strategies work and "outguess" their rivals. And by understanding how rivals and customers learn, managers can take actions that "teach" rivals and customers what you want them to believe—reassuring partners and intimidating competitors.
description: Published as Camerer, Colin F. and Ho, Teck H. (2001) Strategic Learning and Teaching. In: Wharton on Making Decisions. Wiley , New York, pp. 159-175.
description: Submitted - sswp1100.pdf
Tenthras Thomson 1864
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Santos-Silva, Antonio
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Tenthras

description: Tenthras Thomson, 1864
(Figs. 77–78)
Tenthras Thomson, 1864: 224.
Type species — Tenthras obliteratus Thomson, 1864 (original designation).
Diagnosis. Antennae in both sexes shorter than body; prothorax with lateral tubercles well-developed in the posterior third; pronotum without tubercles; elytra without centrobasal crest or longitudinal carina; tibiae with long apical spur; basal metatarsomere longer than next two together. Number of species currently included: 2.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Santos-Silva, Antonio & Monné, Marcela L., 2020, Key to South American genera of Acanthocinini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Lamiinae) with erect setae on elytral surface, pp. 523-553 in Zootaxa 4789 (2) on page 547, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3888664
Bayesian consistent prior selection
Creators: name: Chambers, Christopher P.
name: Hayashi, Takashi
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2005
Subjects: subjective expected utility, Bayes' rule, prior selection

description: A subjective expected utility agent is given information about the state of the world in the form of a set of possible priors. She is allowed to condition her prior on this information. A set of priors may be updated according to Bayes' rule, prior-by-prior, upon learning that some state of the world has not obtained. We show that there exists no decision maker who obeys Bayes' rule, conditions her prior on the available information (by selecting a prior in the announced set), and who updates the information prior-by- prior using Bayes' rule. The result implies that at least one of several familiar decision theoretic "paradoxes" is a mathematical necessity.
description: We would like to thank Kim Border, Federico Echenique, Larry Epstein, and Bill Zame for helpful discussions and comments. All errors are our own.
description: Submitted - sswp1238.pdf
Incorporating Prior Knowledge Regarding the Mean in Bayesian Factor Analysis
Creators: name: Rowe, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000

description: In the Bayesian factor analysis model (Press & Shigemasu, 1989), available knowledge regarding the model parameters is incorporated in the form of prior distributions. This has the added consequence of eliminating the ambiguity of rotation found in the traditional factor analysis model. In the model presented by Press and Shigemasu, a vague prior distribution was implicitly specified for the population mean. The sample size was assumed to be large enough to estimate the overall population mean by the sample mean. In this paper, available prior knowledge regarding the population mean is incorporated into the inferences in the form of a prior distribution. The population mean is estimated along with the other parameters by both Gibbs sampling and Iterated Conditional Modes.
description: Submitted - sswp1097.pdf
Reddyanus besucheti Kovařík & Lowe & Ranawana & Hoferek & Š 2016, comb. n.
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
Buthidae
Reddyanus
Reddyanus besucheti

description: Reddyanus besucheti (Vachon, 1982) comb. n.
(Figs. 14, 205, 211–212, 227–228, 246, 255, 291–302, 411–412, 562, 564, 566–567, Tables 3, 5)
Isometrus (Reddyanus) besucheti Vachon, 1982: 93–97, figs. 47, 51–57, 90–91; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 151; Lourenço & Huber, 2002: 267; Kovařík, 2003: 5–6; Kovařík & Ojanguren, 2013: 186 (in part).
TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE REPOSITORY. Sri Lanka, Ambagaswewa; MHNG.
TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Sri Lanka, Ambagaswewa, Locality 44, 3.II.1970, leg. C. Besuchet et Y. Löbl, 1♂ (holotype, Figs. 211, 411, 566, Table 3), MHNG.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. Sri Lanka, North Central Province, Polonnaruwa District, ca 35 km from Dambula, 07°57'15.1"N 080°54'45,4"E, 132 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CD, Fig. 578), 22. IV.2015, 2♂ (topotypes, Figs. 205, 227, 246, 255, 291–292, 295–297), FKCP, leg. Kovařík et al.; North Central Province, Polonnaruwa District, near Kaudulla National Park, 08°08'40.6"N 080°51' 04"E, 101 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CF, Fig. 581), 23. IV. 2015, 1♂ (Fig. 562, 564, 56 7), FKCP, leg. Kovařík et al.; Central Province, Matale District, Habarana, Wananiwahana Resort, 07°59'25.8"N 080°43'24.6"E, 280 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CG, Fig. 582), 23. –24. IV.2015, 1♀ (Figs. 212, 228, 293–294, 298–300, 302, 412), FKCP, leg. Kovařík et al.; North Central Province, Anuradhapura District, Mihintale, 08°20'51.8"N 080°30'27.7"E, 156 m a.s.l. (Locality 15CL, Fig. 589), 27. –28.IV.2015, 1♀ 1juv.♂, FKCP, leg. Kovařík et al.
DIAGNOSIS. Total length 30–45 mm. Male with slightly longer metasomal segments and telson than female. Segments of pedipalps approximately the same length in both sexes, pedipalp chela wider in male. Pedipalps and legs with brown maculation, identical on femur and patella. First metasomal segment with 10 carinae, second through fourth segments with eight carinae, fifth segment with five carinae in female and three to five in male. Posterior terminal tubercle of each dorsal carina on metasomal segments of both sexes scarcely larger than preceding tubercles. Subaculear tooth wide and rounded, dorsally with granules in three rows, four symmetrical granules and one or two granules on tip. Glabrous zone along posterior margin of fifth sternite either absent or present. Pectinal teeth number 12–18 in both sexes.
DISTRIBUTION. Sri Lanka
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 61-64, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2016.vol2016.iss220.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7124466