Suggested Readings: Tabatabai, M. A. 1982. Soil enzymes. p. 903-915, 943-947. In A. L. Page, R. H. Miller, and D. R. Keeney (eds.), Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 2. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, Wisconsin. Dick, W. A. and M. A. Tabatabai. 1992. Significance and potential uses of soil enzymes. p. 95127. In F. Blaine Metting (ed.), Soil Microbial Ecology. Marcel Dekker, New York. Ruggie...

We show that explicit cartels can implement market share allocations using a reporting framework that is considered to be legally acceptable for trade associations. This simple resolution of the market share cartel’s monitoring problem provides an explanation for the apparent prevalence of market share allocations relative to customer or geographic allocations by explicit cartels. Keywords: exp...

The literature on English -er nominals has established that these can be divided into two major subclasses (see Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1992, Fabb 1984, Keyser & Roeper 1984, van Hout & Roeper 1998 to mention a few), the relevant semantic property being whether they refer to an actual event or not. Hence -er nominals vary with respect to the [±event] specification. As has been also widely discu...

I consider the problem of skepticism about the past within Richard Fumerton’s acquaintance theory of noninferential justification. Acts of acquaintance occur within the fleeting present. But if the data for noninferential justification is limited to the fleeting present then the options for avoiding a far-reaching skepticism are quite limited. I consider Fumerton’s responses to skepticism about...

The following eight new species are described from Australia: Gondwanabates crassipalpis, G. flavus, G. spatulifer, Rhynchaustrobates bipartitus, R. sclerosus, R. truusae, R. uniscutatus and R. victorianus. Numerous new records are given of the following hygrobatid genera in Australia: Aspidiobatella Cook, 1986, Australoricacarus K.O. Viets, 1978, Gondwanabates Imamura, 1984 and Rhynchaustrobat...

Ammodesmidae are represented in western Africa by two species of a single genus, Ammodesmus Cook, 1896 (= Cenchrodesmus Cook, 1896, syn. n.). The type-species Ammodesmus granum Cook, 1896 (= Cenchrodesmus volutus Cook, 1896, syn. n.) is redescribed, based on neotype selection, as well as on additional samples, often containing numerous specimens, from Liberia, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. A new ...

Ordinal consensus ranking problems have received much attention in the management science literature. A problem arises in situations where a group of k decision makers (DMs) is asked to rank order n alternatives. The question is how to combine the DM rankings into one consensus ranking. Several different approaches have been suggested to aggregate DM responses into a compromise or consensus ran...