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Integrating R&D and marketing in new product development
No full textR&D - marketing integration is considered to be a critical activity within New Product Development (NPD). A theoretical framework for the study of R&D - marketing integration levels developed by Gupta et al (1986) is one of the most widely cited R&D - marketing integration frameworks in scientific literature. It is based on the presumption that strategy, environmental, organizational and individual factors are those determining R&D - marketing integration levels and consequently NPD success. Several empirical studies have been conducted to test this framework, however most of them have dealt only with portions of Gupta et al (1986)'s model. This paper is an attempt to put forward and test an integrated research protocol for the study of R&D - marketing integration, based on this theoretical framework. Empirical evidence gained from a questionnaire survey and two company case studies show, that people active within the R&D - marketing interface perceive the studied constructs as relevant for R&D - marketing integration, thus giving confirmation to Gupta et al (1986)’s model. The presented research protocol can therefore be considered as a valid start into R&D - marketing integration research within an integrated framework
Corrigendum: Capital Inflows and House Prices: Aggregate and Regional Evidence from China
No full textIn the paper ‘Capital Inflows and House Prices: Aggregate and Regional Evidence from China’ by H. An, et al., printed in the December 2016 issue, there was a missing acknowledgement section for funding resources.
On page 451, the acknowledgement section should appear after the corresponding information as:
“Correspondence: Rakesh Gupta, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Nathan Campus QLD 4111. [email protected]
*This work was financially supported by the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (16YJA790001).”
The author apologises for this error and any confusion it may have caused.No Full Tex
Phanerotoma andamanensis Gupta
No full textPhanerotoma andamanensis Gupta & van Achterberg sp. nov. (Figs A–N) Measurements: Length of body in dorsal view 4.0 mm (holotype, Fig. A); 3.7 (paratype, Fig. G); 3.2 mm (paratype, male, Fig. J); antenna 3.1 mm (paratype, female) and fore wing 2.9 (holotype) or 2.5 mm (paratype, female). Female. Colour: Yellowish brown. Basal five segments and pedicel of antenna yellowish, remainder of antenna brown. Eyes and stemmaticum black. Pronotum pale testaceous; T 1 and T 2 pale testaceous; T 3 yellowish brown laterally, but medio-longitudinal third black; T 1 with H shaped mark medially. Tip of mandible dark brown. Pterostigma dark brown without distinct pale basal spot, only somewhat paler basally than medially; ocelli yellow; hind tibia medially pale yellow. Head (Fig. B): Width 1.3 times median length in frontal; antenna with 23 segments and 1.1 times as long as fore wing; area of stemmaticum punctate (Fig. D); OOL: diameter of posterior ocellus: POL= 6: 2: 1; vertex transversely rugose with fine granulate background anteriorly, setose; temple rugose; face rugose with median ridge and setose; clypeus smooth medially, shiny and setose; malar space rugose, lower tooth of mandible 0.25 times as long as apical tooth (Fig. C). Mesosoma (Fig. E): 1.4 times as long as wide; sides of pronotum coarsely crenulate with median depression dorsally; mesoscutum granulose-reticulate, setose; notauli distinct and foveate anteriorly, absent posteriorly; scutellar sulcus wide and with 9 crenulae; scutellum finely punctate and setose; metanotum with median ridge; propodeum coarsely reticulate rugose with distinct transverse carina below the median line, median carina absent, median areola just above transverse carina (open anteriorly). Fore wing 3.2 times as long as wide; length of 1 -R 1 1.5 times pterostigma; r issued much beyond middle of pterostigma; 2 -SR slightly sinuate; 3 -SR and SR 1 slightly curved; 2 -SR+M longitudinal; parastigma large and dark brown pigmented; m-cu interstitial; vein 1 -CU 1 0.8 times as long as vein 2 -CU 1; 3 -SR = 0.35 times as long as 1 -R 1 and 5.6 times r; r = 0.3 times as long as width of pterostigma; pterostigma 3 times longer than wide; 1 -R 1 = 1.5 times longer than pterostigma; inner mid tibial spur 0.6 times mid basitarsus; hind coxa finely punctate; hind femur 3.7 times its width. Metasoma (Fig. F): Oval in dorsal view and 1.8 times as long as wide, 1.2 times as long as mesosoma; first –second tergites longitudinally spaced rugose with some interconnections, second suture sinuate dorsally; third tergite longitudinally reticulate-rugose and truncate medio-posteriorly, its medial length 1.6 times medial length of second tergite, lateral lamella not protruding latero-apically; ovipositor exerted (0.16 mm in lateral view) and setose; exerted part of sheath 0.14 times as long as hind tibia. Male (Fig. J ): Similar to female except for smaller size and T 3 completely black (Fig. M). Note. The new species differs from all described Oriental species by the combination of the dark brown vein 1 - M and 1 -R 1 of the fore wing, the median third of the third tergite of female dark brown and contrasting with yellowish brown lateral parts and the rather long vein 1 -CU 1 of the fore wing. In the key to Indian species by Sheeba & Narendran (2008) the new species runs to P. buchneri Fahringer, 1932, from NE. India because of its size and the venation and to P. agarwali Varshney & Shujauddin, 1999, from N. India. P. buchneri has a rather pale 1 - R 1 (darkened in P. andamanensis), the pterostigma largely pale brown (dark brown), vein 1 -CU 1 of the fore wing about 0.7 times vein 2 -CU 1 (0.8 times), the hind tibia with dark brown subbasal patch (absent), the propodeum darkened (brownish yellow), the third tergite apically dark brown and anteriorly yellowish brown (laterally brownish yellow and medially dark brown) and T 1 posteriorly and T 2 medially distinctly brownish yellow pigmented (largely unpigmented). P. agarwali Varshney & Shujauddin, 1999 (a junior synonym of P. s y l ep t ae Zettel, 1990, syn. nov.) differs by having the third tergite medio-apically concave and lateral lamella somewhat protruding (truncate and lamella not protruding); vein 1 -CU 1 about 0.5 times as long as vein 2 -CU 1 (incorrectly depicted in original description of P. agarwali; 0.7 times in P. andamanensis); the pterostigma brown (dark brown) and the third tergite yellowish brown (median third dark brown and remainder yellowish brown). Type material. Holotype, female on card, INDIA, Andaman Islands, Jirkatong, 11.36620 N 92.850 E; 10.iii. 2012; hovering on inflorescence of Cassia sp., leg. Ankita Gupta. Paratypes, one female and two males on card, with same data as holotype. Deposited in the National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects (NBAII), Bangalore, India. Code NBAII /Brac/Phan/ 10312. Two males are deposited in Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. PLATE I. Phanerotoma andamanensis sp. nov. (Holotype)—A. Female in habitus; B. Head in frontal view; C. Head with full sight on mandibles; D. Vertex; E. Mesosoma; F. Metasoma. PLATE II. Phanerotoma andamanensis sp. nov. (Paratype, female)—G. Profile view; H. Lateral view of head and mesopleuron; I. Fore wing. PLATE III. Phanerotoma andamanensis sp. nov. (Paratype, male)—J. Male in habitus; K. Mesosma; L. Vertex; M. Metasoma; N. Fore wing.Published as part of Gupta, Ankita & Achterberg, Cornelis Van, 2014, A new species of Phanerotoma Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) from the Andaman Islands, India, pp. 595-600 in Zootaxa 3856 (4) on pages 595-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/23149
Anil Gupta, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Biographical Bibliometric Fact Sheets
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Dolichogenidea lumba Rousse et Gupta, sp. nov.
No full textDolichogenidea lumba Rousse et Gupta, sp. nov. (Fig. 13 d) Diagnosis. Entirely black. Entire head densely setose. Clypeus high. Ovipositor large and weakly decurved. Color. Overall coloration black with fore tibia, base of hind tibia, fore and middle trochanter and trochantellus somewhat clearer. Palpi dark yellowish. Wings hyaline, venation dark yellowish. Description. FEMALE (Holotype). B: 2.5; A: 2.7; L: 2.7. Head. Entirely densely setose. Clypeus elongate, distinctly separate from face, its ventral margin concave. Face and clypeus finely and densely punctate. H i: 0.9; EH i: 0.8; C i: 2.6; Fl 1 i: 4.0; Fl 2 i: 4.4; FL 1– 2 i: 0.9; Fl 15 i: 1.8; Fl 16 i: 2.0; OO i: 2.0; IO i: 1.3. Mesosoma. Punctate areas with long silver pilosity. Pronotum smooth with some deep punctures, upper and lower furrows deep and crenulate. Mesopleuron with anterior third densely and deeply punctate, largely smooth posteriorly. Metapleuron smooth with some punctures anteriorly and posteriorly. Mesoscutum deeply, regularly and densely punctate, median lobe slightly raised. Scuto-scutellar suture thin. Scutellum very shallowly punctate. MSC i: 0.8. Propodeum shallowly punctate, costulae strong, areola complete, pentagonal, apically truncate, basally petiolate. Fore wing. R 1 /Pl i: 1.2; r/Pw i: 3.0; r/ 2 Rs i: 1.8. Hind wing. Vannal lobe regularly rounded, apical margin shortly and regularly setose all along. Legs. Hind coxa shagreened with some shallow punctures. Cx/T 1 i: 1.2; F i: 3.7. Metasoma. Tergum 1 with lateral margins sub-parallel, coarsely rugose-punctate and medially convex with an apical shallow depression. Tergum 2 slightly trapezoidal, almost smooth with very weak aciculations. Hypopygium barely protruding beyond metasomal apex, ventro-medially desclerotised. Ovipositor sheath setose all along. Ovipositor large and weakly decurved. T 1 a i: 1.0; T 1 b i: 1.3; T 1 /T 2 i: 3.3; T 2 a i: 0.2; T 2 b i: 0.3; T 2 /T 3 i: 0.9; OT i: 1.1. MALE. Unknown. Material examined. HOLOTYPE Ƥ (MNHN EY 8806) Verbatim label data: Le Tampon / Plaine des Sables, alt. 2260m, 04/05/ 11, leg. T. Ramage; fore right leg and hind legs from femur (left) and tibia (right) broken. Etymology. The species is named after the hindi word “ lumba ” meaning "long" hence relating to the long ovipositor of this species. Distribution records. Reunion.Published as part of Rousse, Pascal & Gupta, Ankita, 2013, Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local species, including 18 new taxa and a key to species, pp. 501-547 in Zootaxa 3616 (6) on page 528, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21794
Distatrix yunae Rousse et Gupta, sp. nov.
No full textDistatrix yunae Rousse et Gupta, sp. nov. (Fig. 10 c–d) Diagnosis. Mesopleuron and metapleuron almost smooth but epicnemium moderately punctate. Propodeum without carination. Hind femur swollen, hardly 3 x longer than wide. Terga 1–2 polished. Female with antenna shorter than body, flagellomeres 9–15 wider apically than basally (male unknown). Color. Black. Legs yellowish orange but hind coxa black, hind tarsi and apices of hind femur and hind tibia infuscate. Wings hyaline, venation light brown. Description. FEMALE (3 specimens). B: 2.1; A: 1.9; L: 2.8 (2.3–2.8). Head. Sparsely setose. Clypeus smooth, separated from face dorsally, its ventral margin slightly concave. Face finely and moderately punctate. H i: 0.9; EH i: 0.7; C i: 2.7; Fl 1 i: 2.0; Fl 2 i: 1.8; FL 1– 2 i: 1.1; Fl 15 i: 2.0; Fl 16 i: 2.0; OO i: 2.0; IO i: 1.2. Mesosoma. Moderately setose. Pronotum smooth, upper furrow absent, lower furrow shallow and smooth. Mesopleuron smooth with epicnemium moderately punctate, sternaulus shallow and smooth. Metapleuron smooth with anterior pit shallow. Mesoscutum finely and densely punctate basally, punctuation sparser on apical half. Scuto-scutellar suture wide and shallow, crenulate. Scutellum smooth and flat. MSC i: 0.9. Propodeum shagreened without any carination. Fore wing. R 1 /Pl i: 1.1; r/Pw i: 0.9; r/ 2 Rs i: 1.5. Hind wing. Vannal lobe with apical half of hind margin flattened and very shortly setose, basal half with long hairs. Legs. Hind coxa densely punctate above, laterally smooth. Hind femur swollen. Cx/T 1 i: 1.4; F i: 3.1. Metasoma. Tergum 1 polished, lateral margins sub-parallel but apex constricted, basal third medially concave. Tergum 2 subtriangular, polished, median area slightly raised, apical margin slightly concave. Hypopygium not protruding beyond metasomal apex. Ovipositor short and straight. T 1 a i: 2.3; T 1 b i: 1.6; T 1 /T 2 i: 2.1; T 2 a i: 0.5; T 2 b i: 1.1; T 2 /T 3 i: 1.0; OT i: 0.1. MALE. Unknown. Material examined. HOLOTYPE Ƥ (MNHN EY 8794) Verbatim label data: Cilaos / Bras Sec alt. 1520m 06/ 2011, leg. T. Ramage; complete. PARATYPES (MNHN EY 8795–8796) 1 Ƥ Bellouve / Trou de Fer, alt. 1400m, IV. 2011, leg. T. Ramage; 1 Ƥ St Paul / Le Maïdo, alt. 2180m, IV. 2009, leg. IDR. Etymology. Named for Yuna Jolivet-Caroff, future entomologist. Distribution records. Reunion.Published as part of Rousse, Pascal & Gupta, Ankita, 2013, Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local species, including 18 new taxa and a key to species, pp. 501-547 in Zootaxa 3616 (6) on page 522, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21794
Ganita-Bhârati. Bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics, Ed. R. C. Gupta
No full textGanita-Bhârati. Bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics, Ed. R. C. Gupta. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences, tome 37, n°1, 1984. p. 96
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