New host records (all members of the family Tephritidae) are presented for 14 newly described species of opiine Braconidae from the neotropics and two previously described species, one from the neotropics and one from the Nearctic Region. Doryctobracon anneae Wharton, Opius baderae Wharton, O. baeblus Wharton, O. cablus Wharton, O. dablus Wharton, O. danielsae Wharton, O. gabriellae Wharton, O....

Edith Wharton played a far more important role than is usually recognized in the transformation of French perceptions both American history and literature first two decades twentieth century. In this article, I trace different stages that transformation. At first, France, was hardly thought as an writer at all: she merely disciple Balzac Bourget who happened to be American. But by early 1920s b...

The appeal to early and medieval poetry became one of the keys rethinking origins national culture for British historians, antiquarians, textologists writers XVIII century. This article examines literary debate English writer textual critic Joseph Ritson with his colleague Thomas Wharton, author “The History Poetry”, three volumes which were published in 1774–1781. Since by middle century, hist...

This paper reports on an experiment conducted at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, testing a new mechanism for matching students to schedules of courses. The experiment compared Budish’s (2011) approximate competitive equilibrium from equal incomes (CEEI) to the incumbent, a fake-money auction used by Wharton and numerous other professional schools. CEEI outperformed the auc...