A survey on species of the genus Zelurus Hahn, 1826 (Reduviidae) occurring in Brazilian caves is provided. Zelurus tambejua sp. n. and Zelurus gerevatinga sp. n. collected from caves in Brazil are described. Comments about the current and potential distribution of the genus as a whole and of species of Zelurus found in caves for South America are also provided.

An illustrated key is provided for the identification of 35 genera of Thripinae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from Iran with comments for each genus. Chirothrips maximi Ananthakrishnan and Limothrips cerealium Haliday are recorded from Iran for the first time. A checklist is provided of Thripinae recorded from this country.

provided outstanding assistance with data management and analysis. Participants in seminars at various universities have provided helpful comments. We thank the Health Care Financing Administration (through California Medical Review, Inc.), the National Institute on Aging (through NBER), and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for financial support.

This paper discusses a new application of KeyGraph for visualization of discussions in comments of a blog entry in Slashdot. KeyGraph is a visualization tool for discovery of relations among text-based data. A common approach of applying KeyGraph is that of applying it to the whole data at once. In this paper, we propose an approach that applies KeyGraph successively to multiple chunks of comme...

The purpose of this paper is to study mortality-based securities, such as mortality bonds and swaps, and to price the proposed mortality securities. We focus on individual annuity data, although some of the modeling techniques could be applied to other lines of annuity or life insurance. Date: March 30, 2004. A very early version was presented at a seminar at the University of Waterloo, Departm...

This report was prepared for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, under Contract No. A87041. Any opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the New Jersey Department of Human Services. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people have contributed in significant ways to this report. First and foremost, we are grateful to staff at the Divis...

This paper examines whether the disclosure of purchase obligations in the MD&A section of 10-K filings provides useful information to investors. Firms are predicted to enter into additional purchase obligations when they expect an increase in demand for their products. As such, growth in purchase obligations is predicted to be associated with higher future sales and earnings. The evidence is co...

The genus Anaschisma includes four species in America, of which, A. lilliputanum is recorded for the first time to Argentina. specimens were analyzed morphologically using conventional techniques Pottiaceae (Bryophyta). A distribution map genus, description and illustration SEM LM are provided. Comments differences between this taxon schiavoneae from Argentina presented.

provided some of the stumpage price time series. Jean-Thomas Bernard is gratefully acknowledged for helpful comments on various versions of this paper. All remaining errors are, of course, our responsibility.

A new species of Axonopus ser. Suffulti from Minas Gerais, Brazil, is described and illustrated. Comparison with morphologically related species, as well as comments on the ecology and the conservation status are provided.