New Michigan State Record for a Sphecine Wasp, \u3ci\u3ePodium Rufipes\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)

Podium rufipes, previously unrecorded from Michigan, has been found occupy- ing trap nests in the southwestern lower peninsula

Parasitism of \u3ci\u3eAncistrocerus Antilope\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae) by Leucospis Affinis (Hymenoptera: Leucospididae)

The chalcid wasp Leucospis affinis has been known to parasitize only megachilid bees. Its rare occurrence as a parasite of the eumenid wasp Ancistrocerus antilope indicates that eumenid wasps may be a large resource this chalcid is not exploiting

Public Policy and Funding the News

Illustrates how declining government support and recent regulatory decisions have affected the viability of periodicals and other news outlets. Proposes a policy framework for indirect, content-neutral funding and investment in innovation and new models

Carnivory in Adult Female Eumenid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) and Its Effect on Egg Production

Seventy captive adult female wasps of the eumenid genera Ancistrocerus and Euodynerus were observed to feed on multiple prey items. It was shown experimentally that E. foraminatus females that fed on prey had significantly larger egg volumes than adult wasps deprived of prey

Methods for Artificial Rearing of Solitary Eumenid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)

Solitary eumenid wasps of the genera Ancistrocerus and Euodynerus can be reared in small cages. Laboratory-reared larvae of the spruce budworm caterpillars, Choristoneura fumiferana (Lepidoptera: Torlricidae) are suitable prey

High Frequency Dynamics of the Exchange Rate in Chile

We estimate a reduced form model for the daily dynamics of the nominal spot exchange rate in Chile. The model does reasonably well in explaining the long and short run dynamics for the peso-dollar exchange rate for the period 2001-2006. In addition, we extend the model to evaluate the effects of the foreign investment of pension funds, foreign exchange rate interventions by the Central Bank and other events whose effects on the exchange rate have policy implications. We find –in line with previous work conducted at the Central Bank - that the impact of Central Bank actions on the FX market seemed to be better channeled through public announcements. Moreover, we find that changes in the pension funds limits on foreign assets had significant, but small and transitory effects on the spot peso-dollar exchange rate.

The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness

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The best bookshops in Boston and Cambridge, MA, USA

Dr David Cowan takes us on a tour of the best bookshops in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. If there’s a bookshop that you think other students and academics should visit when undertaking research or visiting a city for a conference, further information about contributing follows this article

Richard Susskind, Online Courts and the Future of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)

There are times when the essential nature of something is simply viewed as ‘nice to have’ until a paradigmatic shift turns the essential into a necessity, and necessity in technological change is not so much the mother of invention as the parent of behavioural change. This point is made clear by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced courts to put online and remote working at centre stage. There is a natural yearning to go back to ‘normal,’ but questions arise as to whether online courts are a good idea and whether attempts to work online and remotely will survive the crisis to become a ‘new normal’ (to use a term that is over-worked these days). It is thus opportune that Richard Susskind’s latest, and arguably most important, offering on law and technology should look at online courts and the future of justice. This book will be a useful guide in assessing how successfully - or not - online and remote courts have been in playing an essential role in keeping the justice system, at least in part, moving during the pandemic

Book Review Rethinking the Jurisprudence of Cyberspace

It is a common claim that law is always catching up with technology. This is not entirely fair. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) could be viewed as a case of technology having to catch up to the law. That said, clearly there are challenges in law and in the legal profession, both in terms of how the law can adapt to changes in the digital world and the disruption of the legal profession. On the former point, there are perhaps three broad schools of thought: existing law is sufficient for adapting to new technological challenges, as it has always done; we need specific laws for the technological challenges we face, because it is a new world; and a third way of inevitable compromise between the two. In Rethinking the Jurisprudence of Cyberspace by Chris Reed, Professor of Electronic Commerce Law at Queen Mary University of London, and, Andrew Murray, Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, we have an extremely valuable guide to the jurisprudential and law-making challenges as we journey deeper into the digital world. There are not only the geographical challenges of discerning the relationship between the physical and digital world, but also temporal challenges, both in terms of a constant operating environment and the tendency of law to use the rear-view mirror. This highly-readable volume navigates through the issues by combining depth in legal philosophy with sophistication and nuance in grasping technology