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Edmond Gros (illustrateur 1864-1933) : signature “E. Gros” [1898]
No full textEdmond Gros (illustrateur 1864-1933) : signature “E. Gros” [1898
Edmond Gros (illustrateur 1864-1933) : signature “E. Gros” [1898]
No full textEdmond Gros (illustrateur 1864-1933) : signature “E. Gros” [1898
Entretien avec Frédéric Gros : la « guerre diffuse »
No full textInternational audienceEntretien avec Frédéric Gros sur le concept de "guerre diffuse"
Rosinette, chanson valse. Paroles de A Gros-Guénaint.. Musique de O. Lamart et Ch. Ghiglia
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Neuropsychological constraints to human data production on a global scale
Get PDFWhich are the factors underlying human information production on a global level? In order to gain an insight into this question we study a corpus of 252–633 mil. publicly available data files on the Internet corresponding to an overall storage volume of 284–675 Terabytes. Analyzing the file size distribution for several distinct data types we find indications that the neuropsychological capacity of the human brain to process and record information may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of globally stored information, with real-world economic constraints having only a negligible influence. This supposition draws support from the observation that the files size distributions follow a power law for data without a time component, like images, and a log-normal distribution for multimedia files, for which time is a defining qualia.
Author summary: The generation of new information is limited by two key factors, by the incurring economic costs and by the capacity of the human brain to process and store data and information; the controlling agent needs to retain an overall understanding even when data is generated by semiautomatic processes. These processes are reflected in the statistical properties of the data files publicly available on the Internet. Collecting a corpus of 252–633 mil. files we find that the statistics of the file size distribution are consistent with the supposition that data production on a global level is shaped and limited by the neuropsychological information processing capacity of the brain, with economic and hardware constraints having a negligible influence
Why a cap-and-trade system may be bad for your health. CEPS Commentaries, 11 December 2009
Get PDFThe purpose of a cap-and-trade system is to help in the fight against global climate change. This paper warns that a unilateral approach could increase global emissions by shifting production to more carbon-intensive methods abroad. Acting alone, the EU’s Emission Trading Scheme may be doing more harm than good
New Book: Frontier Tibet, edited by Stéphane Gros
No full textFrontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, edited by Stéphane Gros. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Collection "Asian Borderlands". This new edited volume explores the intertwined questions of place-making, identity, and socio-political transformations that constitute convoluted historical trajectory of the Kham region and influenced its becoming as a regional formation within the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands. Frontier Tibet considers how starting in the late nineteenth..
Nouveau spécimen de bois fossile de l'Oligocène d'Autriche rapporté à l'espèce Metacacioxylon lemoignei Gros 1981 Emend
No full textA new sample of fossil wood from Oligocene found near Fürwald, Niederösterreich, is described and then compared to fossil woods of Metacacioxylon Gros 1981 from the same outcrop. It is likened to the species Metacacioxylon lemoignei Gros 1981. The diagnosis of this genus and this species are emended. During Oligocene, in Austria, two types of Mimosaceae were existing : the Dischrostachyoxylon Müller-Stoll & Mädel 1967 and the Metacacioxylon.Un nouvel échantillon de bois fossile de l'Oligocène, trouvé près de Fürwald, Niederösterreich, est décrit puis comparé à des échantillons fossiles de Metacacioxylon Gros 1981 du même gisement. Il est identifié à l'espèce Metacacioxylon lemoignei Gros 1981. Les diagnoses de ce genre et de cette espèce sont émendées. A l'Oligocène, en Autriche, deux types de Mimosaceae ont existé : les Dichrostachyoxylon Müller-Stoll & Mädel 1967 et les Metacacioxylon.Gros Jean-Pierre. Nouveau spécimen de bois fossile de l'Oligocène d'Autriche rapporté à l'espèce Metacacioxylon lemoignei Gros 1981 Emend. In: Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon, tome 26, 1988. pp. 19-27
Why Europe will suffer more. CEPS Policy Brief No. 194, 16 July 2009
Get PDFEven though the financial crisis might have started in the US, CEPS Director Daniel Gros finds in a new CEPS Policy Brief that even more combustible material had accumulated in Europe, and that therefore that it likely that the cost will be higher here and the recovery slower than on the other side of the Atlantic. This conclusion is based on a careful analysis of two indicators of looming financial instability: credit expansion (or leverage) and asset price bubbles
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