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Please Bring me the New York Times – On the European Roots of Richard Abel Musgrave
No full textRichard Musgrave was one of the around 200 academic economists who emigrated from Germany when Fascism came to dominate the country. This memorial lecture traces the German and European roots of Richard Musgrave’s oeuvre, trying to shed light on his family background as well as on the political and scientific factors that influenced his education as an economist. Particular emphasis is given to the development of his notion of public goods.Richard Musgrave, Public Finance and Economic Thought
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Supporting Children's Health and Wellbeing Masterclass Interview
No full textKATHY BRODIE: A very warm welcome to the SAGE Publishing Masterclass with me, Kathy Brodie. In today's edition, it gives me very great pleasure to be joined by author Jackie Misgrave to talk about her latest book, Supporting Children's Health and Well-being. In this great book, Jackie examines children's health and well-being, but with a focus on how this affects all other areas of learning and development. A very warm welcome to the SAGE Masterclass, Jackie.
JACKIE MUSGRAVE: Thank you, Kathy.
KATHY BRODIE: And I was really, really interested to read this book. You cover so much. But could we just start with the rationale? What was the link between children's health and well-being that you particularly wanted to investigate in this book?
JACKIE MUSGRAVE: Well, I think that when we talk about children's health..
The Musgrave Province - NT's most underexplored terrane
No full textMost mineral exploration within the Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic of the Northern Territory has been focused on the Palaeoproterozoic basement terranes of the North Australian Craton and on Northern Australian platform cover rocks such as the McArthur Basin. In comparison, the more juvenile Proterozoic crust that lies to the south of the North Australian Craton, including the Warumpi Province (southwestern Arunta) and Musgrave Province3, has received little attention from explorers. The Musgrave Province within the NT is one of the most underexplored Proterozoic terranes on the Australian continent, with an average of 1 drillhole for every 210 km2. The geological framework of the Musgrave Province was a focus of NTGS studies in the 1990s (see List of selected NTGS publications in the Musgrave Province) and a summary of the geology of the Musgrave Province has recently been published (Edgoose et al 2004). Recent flying of the 2001 Eromanga and 2004 Simpson airborne surveys have completed high-resolution airborne magnetic coverage of the Musgrave Province at exploreable depths. NTGS is continuing its investigations in the Musgrave Province through collaborative research programs with the University of Adelaide.Ian R Scrimgeour, Christine J Edgoose, Dorothy F Close and Ben P Wad
Desudaboides fuscomaculata Musgrave
No full text<i>Desudaboides fuscomaculata</i> Musgrave <p>Figs 1I –J, 2, 5.</p> <p> <i>Desudaboides fuscomaculata</i> Musgrave, 1927: 47</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> <i>fuscomaculata</i> (adj., Latin): from <i>fuscus</i>, brown, and <i>maculatus</i>, spotted. Literally “spotted with brown”, the name refers to the colouration of the tegmina.</p> <p> <b>Type material examined:</b> Holotype 3: [Holotype <i>Desudaboides flavomaculata</i> Musgrave Ƥ] [Chilla, Jan 24] [Male, stated in error as Ƥ in paper, Det. by A. Musgrave.] [k55909] [Holotype 3 <i>Desudaboides fuscomaculata</i> Musgrave, 1927, Jérôme Constant det. 2009] (AMS).</p> <p> Allotype Ƥ: [Allotype <i>Desudaboides flavomaculata</i> Musgrave 3] [Chilla, Jan 24] [Female, stated in error as male in paper, Det. by A. Musgrave.] [k55910] [Paratype Ƥ <i>Desudaboides fuscomaculata</i> Musgrave, 1927, Jérôme Constant det. 2009] (AMS).</p> <p>Coordinates of Chinchilla (= Chilla): 26°45'S 150°38'E.</p> <p> <b>Notes:</b> The species has been described under the name <i>fuscomaculata</i> (Musgrave, 1927) but both type specimens bear labels indicating <i>flavomaculata</i>. The other labels on the specimens do not allow any doubt that they are the types. Additional labels with the right name have been attached to both specimens to avoid future confusion.</p> <p> Nagai & Porion (1996) provide a <i>habitus</i> illustration of the species but erroneously stated that the type specimens of <i>D. fuscomaculata</i> are deposited in the collections of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney.</p> <p> <b>Other material examined:</b> 2 3: 40 Mile Scrub near Mt. Garnet, N. Qld, 9.i.1973, M.S. & B.J. Moulds (AMS) coordinates of 40 Mile Scrub: 18°5’S 144°50’E; 1 3: 40 Mile Scrub, 65 km SW of Mt. Garnet, N. Qld, 19.xii.1974, M.S. Moulds (AMS); 2 3: idem, 15.iii.1982 (ASCU); 2 3, 1 Ƥ: 40 Mile Scrub, 40 mi SW of Mt. Garnet, N. Qld, 19.xii.1974, M.S. Moulds (ASCU); 1 Ƥ: 40 Miles Scrub, 64 km SW of Ravenshoe, N. Qld, 7.i.1976, mv lamp, D.K. McAlpine (AMS); 2 3, 2 Ƥ: Chillagoe, GPS 300, 11-12.iii.1997, light trap, Th. Bourgoin (1 3, 1 Ƥ: MNHN; 1 3, 1 Ƥ: RBINS) coordinates of Chillagoe: 17°9'S 144°32'E</p> <p> <b>Additional data:</b> Mareeba (Nagai et Porion, 1996). Coordinates of Mareeba: 17°0'S 145°26'E.</p> <p> - specimens in ANIC (<i>pers. comm.</i> Tom Weir, 2008): 1 ex.: Emu Ck, 27 km SW of Dimbulah, QLD, 25- 26.xi.1981, J. Balderson, coordinates of Emu Creek: 17°20’S 144°57’E; 1 ex.: Lolworth Station, N.</p> <p>Queensland, 29.vi.1907, Mrs Black, coordinates of Lolworth Station: 20°11’S 145°1’E; 2 ex.: 40 Mile Scrub, 40 miles SW of Mt Garnet, NQ, 9.i.1973, G.J. Brooks; 4ex.: idem, 26.ii.1974; 1 ex.: 40 Mile Scrub, 55 miles SW by S of Mt Garnet, 8.xii.1985, J. Balderson; 5 ex.: 40 Mile Scrub, 4.x.1989, L. Ring; 3 ex: idem, 12.iii.1994, L.R. Ring; 6 ex.: Mt. Garnet, 14.iv.1944, coordinates of Mt. Garnet: 17°41’S 145°7’E.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The species is immediately recognized by the following combination of characters: (<b>1</b>) frons pale yellow to red with 4 black spots on disc (Fig. 1 J), (<b>2</b>) hind wings with base red (Fig. 1 I), (<b>3</b>) abdominal tergites 3 to 8 bright orange (Fig. 1 I), (<b>4</b>) tegmina with numerous black-brown spots, with base rosy red and with apex hyaline (Fig. 1 I).</p> <p> <i>Genitalia</i> 3: see Figs. 2A–C.</p> <p> <b>Biology.</b> Nothing is known except that five of the 15 examined specimens have been caught by light trap.</p> <p> <b>Distribution</b> (Fig. 5). Eastern Queensland. The distribution seems to roughly follow the Great Dividing Range.</p>Published as part of <i>Constant, Jerome, 2010, Review of the Australian genus Desudaboides Musgrave with descriptions of four new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae), pp. 39-48 in Zootaxa 2351</i> on pages 42-43, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/193465">10.5281/zenodo.193465</a>
Life Sciences Payload Mission Sim I
No full textThis report is a documentation, compilation, and analysis of the significant aspects and events occurring during the development, training, and running phases of the first Life Sciences Payload Mission Simulation (LSPMS #1)
Data for: Defending hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic capital and political dominance in early modern China and the Cold War
No full textThis is an Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) data project. The annotated article can be viewed on the publisher's website.
The theory presented in the article concerns how the evolution of fields of contestation for supremacy and position within hierarchical ‘games’ generates incentives for actors to invest even massive amounts of “tangible” resources into displays of cultural competence that have no immediate “material” payoffs commensurate with that investment. The piece applies its theorizing to two disparate cases: the “treasure fleet” expeditions under the early Ming in the early fourteenth century and to the Apollo project of manned voyages by the United States in the 1960s and early 1970s.We execute our strategy of comparing explanations drawn from our theory to those drawn by generalized families of competing explanations, as well as rival explanations driven by idiosyncratic features of the specific cases, in an analytically similar but empirically different manner. In both cases, we test our theory’s explanatory power against rival explanations using a framework drawn from recent advances in the qualitative literature; we refer to this strategy as a “folk Bayes” approach (detailed more in the Supplementary Information) and argue that it allows us to isolate observations in which our theory better predicts observance (or lack of observance) of clues associated with the case compared to rivals given intuitively plausible prior beliefs.
The differing levels of documentation available in each case (even before considering language difficulties) led to different strategies for collecting evidence to allow for this testing. In the Ming case, we drew on secondary sources. This reflects the fact that neither author reads Mandarin nor any other language implicated in the Ming treasure-fleet voyages. It also derives from the fact that we understand that even much of the “primary sources” available in Mandarin are themselves secondary sources (e.g. the Ming Shilu 明实录 or “Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty”, an official record of the Ming dynasty compiled by scholar-officials after the death of each emperor). As discussed in the case, many of the “primary sources” may have been lost not merely to time and the dislocations associated with dynastic successions in e.g. 1644, 1911, and 1949 but to specific bureaucratic sabotage during the later Ming dynasty.
The absence of such primary documentation and access to original-language literature meant that we were reliant on English-language sources. Fortunately, these include a vast array of specialist tracts. Instead of relying on standard popularizations (e.g. Levathes 2014, When China Ruled the Seas; 436 Google Scholar citations), we used works by scholars of China and Chinese history (e.g. Dreyer 2007; Needham 1971; Cham 1988, 2007; Finlay 1991). We believe that this allowed us to better survey disputes over interpretations of the voyages’ meaning and impact; furthermore, our more capacious selection mitigates the problems mentioned by Lustick (1996). We relied most heavily on those sources that themselves seemed to be closest to archaeological, documentary, and other more-primary records.
In the Kennedy case, we benefitted from greater availability of documentary records. We consulted the secondary literature (the work of John M. Logsdon and Walter A. Macdougall, as well as a dissertation by Teasel Muir-Harmony, was particularly helpful). We also consulted contemporaneous media and other sources. However, we viewed these works more as a guide to initial surveys in archival and other primary-source research. We conducted searches for relevant records in compilations of government records such as the Foreign Relations of the United States series (for both the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations) and The American Presidency Project as well as searches among the CIA’s online reading room of declassified documents. Furthermore, we employed records held by the John F. Kennedy Library. Many of the Kennedy Library’s holdings have been digitized, but some have not. To collect those records that were unavailable, I visited the library in November 2016 to find and photograph relevant documents. (This required only a day of research, as opposed to the much longer periods that would have otherwise been necessary, because of the volume of records available online already, because of the narrow nature of our research interests, and because most of the processing of those records occurred offsite after my visit.) Documents were saved for later reference as computer files and prepared for sharing where necessary by converting them to PDFs. Finally, the processing of the Kennedy Library’s tapes allowed us to consult an unusually rich vein into the president’s thinking; the volumes compiled by the Presidential Recordings Project at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia helped us understand how the Moon project fit into the president’s thinking.
Our exposition of our research on the Kennedy case was limited in the text by the demands of the journal publication process. Consequently, as with the Ming case, much of our argumentation and fuller expositions of our findings are presented in a Supplementary Information.
References in this Data Overview
Levathes, Louise. 2014. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne. Open Road Media.
Lustick, Ian S. 1996. History, Historiography, and Political Science: Multiple Historical Records and the Problem of Selection Bias. American Political Science Review 90(3):605-618.
Supplementary Information
This article’s online appendix is available at International Organization, on Harvard Dataverse, and http://www.paulmusgrave.info
Semantic vector space model and the usage patterns of Indonesian denominal verbs with <i>meN-</i>, <i>meN- -kan</i>, and <i>meN- -i</i> affixes
No full text<div>Materials for paper presented at the Twenty-Second International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL 22) at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA (11 - 12 May 2018).</div><div><br></div><div>Please cite as:</div><div><br></div><div>
</div><div>Rajeg, G. P. W., Denistia, K., & Musgrave, S. (2018, May). <i>Semantic vector space model and the usage patterns of Indonesian denominal verbs with meN-, meN- -kan, and meN- -i affixes</i>. Presented at the Twenty-Second International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL 22), The University of California, Los Angeles. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4225/03/5acffc60eb649">https://doi.org/10.4225/03/5acffc60eb649</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
Networking Processes and Stakeholders’ Power relationships: Impact on Event Activities in a Rural Area in Italy
No full textTractability assumptions and the Musgrave-Maki typology
No full textMusgrave (1981) proposed a typology of assumptions, developed further by Maki (2000), to defend the idea that the truth of assumptions is often important when evaluating economic theories against those economists who consider only predictive success to be relevant for this purpose. In this paper I propose a new framework for this typology that sheds further light on the issue. The framework consists of a distinction between first-order assumptions that state the absence or lack of effect of some factor F, and second-order assumptions that explicate the purposes for which or the reasons why particular first-order assumptions are imposed. Given this distinction, Musgrave's main contention can be reformulated as the claim that, even though the falsity of first-order assumptions is often unproblematic, it is important that the second-order assumptions be true. I go on to introduce the notion of a tractability assumption, which is a second-order assumption according to which a first-order assumption is imposed in order to make a particular problem tractable. It is argued that a realist will want to relax a first-order assumption imposed for reasons of tractability as such assumptions are not even approximately true. These amendments to the Musgrave-Maki typology are suggested in order to improve our understanding of what moves scientists when they choose particular first-order assumptions, many of which are false, and in order to argue that the practice of doing so can be supported from a realist perspective of science.applicability assumption, negligibility assumption, tractability assumption, heuristic assumption, early-step assumption, Musgrave-Maki typology, F-twist, truth, instrumentalism, realism,
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