Four commercial sticky fluorescent yellow rectangle traps differing in shades of yellow, fluorescence, and other features were compared for capturing apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh). Traps were the Alpha Scents Yellow Card (Alpha Scents), Pherocon® AM (Pherocon), Multigard® AM (Multigard), and the StikyTM Strips Insect Trap (Olson, small and large sizes), all baited with the same...

Abstract Two of the main contenders in debate about personal persistence over time are neo-Lockean psychological continuity view and animalism as defended by Olson Snowdon. Both wrong. The position I shall argue for, which call, following Olson, hybrid view, takes (non-branching) a sufficient but, pace neo-Lockeans, not necessary condition for persistence. It sides with animalist allowing that ...

There is controversy between Putnam and Olson concerning the role of group. Putnam argued that small group makes a contribution to economic growth whereas Olson asserted that small group hampers the economic growth through rent-seeking behavior. Since the end of the 1990s in Japan, there has been a remarkable rise in the rate of enactment of public information-disclosure ordinances by local gov...

Considerable attention has been paid to the hypothesis, advanced by Olson, that accumulations of interest groups build up over time and retard economic performance. Most previous tests of this hypothesis have been based on comparisons of growth rates. In this paper, it is argued that comparisons of income levels yield a superior test. Strong forms of the Olson hypothesis, in which shocks such a...

La descomposición del mantillo es un proceso fundamental para mantener la productividad primaria neta y fertilidad de los ecosistemas forestales. Por tal motivo, se realizó estudio en el ejido Pablillo, municipio Galeana, Nuevo León, México durante año conocer tres forestales clima templado (pino, encino pino-encino) que incluyó modelos predecir tasa descomposición. En cada ecosistema distribuy...