Harnessing the wind.
France develops bigger, quieter, more powerful wind turbines It is not unusual today to see wind farms in countryside and coastal a as with strong prevailing winds. Slender-shaped windmills of the modern age produce electricity using generators mounted on the blade axis. Top French engineers for...

Civic Agendas and Religious Passions: Chalons-sur-Marne during the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1594.
Mark W. Konnert. (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, 35.) Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1997. x + 182 pp. $40. 0-940-474-37-9. These two works, the first written at the close of an illustrious career and the second inaugurating a promising one, exhibit some striking similarities of...

British Columbia's boom times.
If I had been asked five years ago to guess what grows well in British Columbia, I would have said bears. Little did I know that, even then, British Columbia was on the cusp of becoming famous as one of North America's most exciting new wine regions. There are,...

Bois Laiterie Cave and the Magdalenian of Belgium.
The interest in conducting an excavation of the small site of Bois Laiterie Cave in the context of the Belgian Magdalenian lies precisely both in its size and in its chrono-cultural attribution. The study of the Belgian Magdalenian is currently in ferment. More generally, the question of the Tardiglacial recolonization...

The World of Wine.
Can Chemical analysis confirm a wine's authenticity? There's a romance to wine unmatched by most agricultural products. Making wine, with all its complex flavors, remains as much an art as a science. Hints of citrus, peach, raspberry, pear, oak, grass, or flowers may show up...

Antiplasmodial activity of Aspidosperma indole alkaloids.
Summary The antiplasmodial activity of twelve alkaloids with an aspidospermane skeleton was estimated in vitro on chioroquine-resistant and sensitive strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Seven tetracyclic alkaloids possessing a free ethyl chain such aspidospermine, showed [IC.sub.50] after incubation for 72 h between 3.2 and 15.4 [micro]M. Moreover, four...

Making ze Circa Video.
THE CIRCA VIDEO It's Time has been two-and-a-half years in ze making. Their petition for me to direct the film was one that came with much risk. Not only was it to be ze first feature film from zis shoe company, it was also from start to finish to...

The geography of knowledge spillovers between high-technology firms in Europe: evidence from a spatial interaction modeling perspective.
The focus in this article is on knowledge spillovers between high-technology firms in Europe, as captured by patent citations. The European coverage is given by patent applications at the European Patent Office that are assigned to high-technology firms located in the EU-25 member states (except Cyprus and Malta), the...

Pay inequality in Europe 1995-2000: convergence between countries and stability inside.
Abstract This paper measures pay inequality in the EU during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. The decomposability property of Theil's T statistic permits us to construct a three-level hierarchical panel data set of pay inequalities for the years 1995-2000: between and within regions, countries, and...

Structure and performance of the Meta Inference Engine.
INTRODUCTION The domain of metaknowledge was conceived in the 1970s and 80s (10) at the same time as the emergence of rule-based systems. A metaknowledge can be defined as being knowledge about knowledge. Different classes of metaknowledge were established by Jacques Pitrat (20) metaknowledge for acquiring, for...