A paper on the subject of grass-grub and subterranean caterpillar control was read at the -1950 Grassland Conference at Invercargill; the work has been continued and the Ashburton Station has issued a pamphlet giving more definite recommendations than in the previous paper. The present paper is confined to control ,of grass-grubs, but the same treatment will automatically kill porina (subterran...

the aim of this paper is to introduce and study a new concept of strong double δ ( a ) σ -convergence sequences with respect to an orlicz function, and some properties of the resulting sequencespaces were also examined. in addition, we define the δ ( a ) σ -statistical convergence and establish someconnections between the spaces of strong double δ ( a ) σ -convergence sequences and the space of...

I test the market discipline of bank risk hypothesis by examining whether banks choose risk management policies that account for the risk preferences of subordinated debt holders. Using around 500,000 quarterly observations on the population of U.S. insured commercial banks over the 1995–2009 period, I document that the ratio of subordinated debt affects bank risk management decisions consisten...

For d ≥ 1 and 0 < β < α < 2, consider a family of pseudo differential operators {Δ + aΔ; a ∈ [0,1]} on R that evolves continuously from Δ to Δ + Δ. It gives arise to a family of Lévy processes {X, a ∈ [0,1]} on R, where each X is the independent sum of a symmetric α-stable process and a symmetric β-stable process with weight a. For any C open set D ⊂R, we establish explicit sharp two-sided esti...

is no unambiguous evidence that plumicolous feather mites chew holes in feathers; such damage is usually caused by feather lice. Also, it has been reported that feather mites of the great-spotted woodpecker (Dryobates major) and the hoopoe (Upupa epops) avoid white spots on the feathers and instead aggregate on melanized areas 5. Thus, as we stressed in our review 3 , extrapolating from lice to...