APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY

Experiments and studies were conducted to investigate the role of social capital. Social capital (relationship to others) is a productive asset which is a substitute for and complement to other productive assets. The productivity of social capital leads to the expectation that firms and individuals invest in relationships. Data were collected to answer the following questions: Does the identity (relationship) of trading partners affect selling and buying prices; the acceptance of catastrophic risk; the choice of share or cash leases in agriculture; loan approval; and the banks investment to retain customers? The evidence is in the affirmative.Behavioral economics, Institutional economics, Social capital, Institutional and Behavioral Economics,

An Annotated Checklist of the Crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) of Arkansas

Prior to the present study, 56 species with 3 additional subspecies for a total of 59 different taxa of crayfishes were recognized from Arkansas. We add a single species (Carmel Crayfish, Fallicambarus schusteri) to that list, subtract a documented synonym (Procambarus ferrugenius = Procambarus liberorum), update the classification to better reflect recent phylogenetic insights, and provide an updated annotated checklist of the 59 crayfish taxa of presently known from the state. There are 8 endemic species in Arkansas, including the Bayou Bodcau Crayfish (Bouchardina robisoni), Boston Mountains Crayfish (Cambarus causeyi), Hell Creek Cave Crayfish (C. zophonastes), Jefferson County Crayfish (Creaserinus gilpini), Ouachita Burrowing Crayfish (Fallicambarus harpi), Slenderwrist Burrowing Crayfish (F. petilicarpus), Saline Burrowing Crayfish (F. strawni), and Redspotted Stream Crayfish (Faxonius acares). There are also 2 federally endangered species, the Benton County Cave Crayfish (Cambarus aculabrum) and the Hell Creek Cave Crayfish (C. zophonastes) that inhabit Arkansas karst habitat. We expect that additional species will be included in the list with further DNA analyses

Additional Records of Acanthocephalan Parasites from Arkansas Fishes, with New Records from Missouri Fishes

Over the last decade, our research consortium has provided information on acanthocephalan parasites of Arkansas vertebrates, including records from some of the state’s fishes. Here, we continue to provide data on new geographic and new host records of acanthocephalans from Arkansas fishes. In addition, for the first time, we report records of acanthocephalans for some Missouri fishes. We document 2 new state records as well as 10 new host records for some fish acanthocephalans

Accumulator for shaft encoder

Digital accumulator relies almost entirely on integrated circuitry to process the data derived from the outputs of gyro shaft encoder. After the read command is given, the output register collects and stores the data that are on the set output terminals of the up-down counters

Review of \u3ci\u3eYouth and the Bright Medusa\u3c/i\u3e by Willa Cather

The Great Plains launched Willa Cather\u27s career. Her multilayered imagining of frontier folk in O Pioneers! (1913) and My Antonia (1918) placed the region-and the noveliston the literary map. In 1920, Youth and the Bright Medusa combined recent urban stories Coming, Aphrodite!, The Diamond Mine, \u27\u27A Gold Slipper, Scandal -with four stories from 1905\u27s Troll Garden anthology- Paul\u27s Case, A Wagner Matinee, The Sculptor\u27s Funeral, and \u27A Death in the Desert.\u27 Youth and the Bright Medusa explores dilemmas arising from pursuit of the shining Medusa of art. Can pure art reconcile with commercial acceptance? Will a singer survive her parasitic entourage? Who controls celebrity image? The final three stories add a geographical dimension to artistic tensions as they unflinchingly juxtapose provincial West with cosmopolitan East: a Nebraska homesteader agonizingly reconnects with Boston\u27s music scene; a deceased sculptor is returned to his barren Kansas hometown; a consumptive diva combats isolation on Wyoming\u27s High Plains. Cather\u27s collection, with its celebration of urban settings and unflattering portrayals of Plains life, seems almost to abandon admiration of western landscapes

New Occurrences of the Unusual Trilobite Naraoia From the Cambrian of Idaho and Utah

8 p., 3 fig.http://paleo.ku.edu/contributions.htm

Alien Registration- Robison, Harry A. (Brownville, Piscataquis County)

https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/10956/thumbnail.jp

Exploring the Physiology and Evolution of Hornworts

Plants contain organelles called chloroplasts, which is where photosynthesis takes place. Chloroplasts also contain their own DNA, which is separate from the DNA in the nucleus. This DNA does not change much over evolutionary time, so it can be used to investigate relationships between organisms. Here we created a tool that makes it easier to analyze this chloroplast DNA as well making it easier to share complete chloroplast genomes on public databases. In addition, we also found a mobile element in the chloroplast DNA of a group of ferns, which appears to be driving structural changes in their genomes

Cambrian Agnostida of North America and Greenland, Part I, Ptychagnostidae

60 p., 32 fig.http://paleo.ku.edu/contributions.htm