Knowledge-Bearing Elites and Industrial Performance in France and Germany. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 04.5, December 1993

Most comparative studies of public policies for competitiveness focus on the links among public agencies and industrial sectors. This paper argues that the professions---or knowledge-bearing elites-that animate these organizational links are equally significant. For public policies to promote technological advance, the visions and self-images of knowledge-bearing elites are par­ ticularly important. By examining administrative and technical elites in France and Germany in the 1980s, the paper identifies characteristics that enable these elites to implement policy in some cases, but not in others. France's "state-created" elites were well-positioned to initiate and implement large technology projects, such as digitizing the telecommunications network. Germany's state-recognized elites were, by contrast, better positioned to facilitate framework­ oriented programs that aimed at the diffusion of new technologies throughout industry. The linkages among administrative and technical elites also explain why French policymakers had difficulty adapting policy to changing circumstances over time while German policymakers managed in many cases to learn more from previous policy experiences and to adapt subsequent initiatives accordingly.

A picture of the empire of Buonaparte, and his federate nations; or, The Belgian traveller: being a tour through Holland, France and Switzerland, during the years 1804-5. In a series of letters from a nobleman to a minister of state.

Mode of access: Internet.

Notre-Dame de France : ou, Histoire du culte de la Sainte Vierge en France, depuis l'origine du christianisme jusqu'à nos jours /

Includes bibliographical references.

Public hearing on applications of Air France and British Airways to operate Concorde aircraft in limited commercial service to New York and Washington, Departmental Auditorium, 14th and Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C., January 5, 1976.

"The hearing in the above-entitled matter convened at 9:30 o'clock a.m. before the Honorable William T. Coleman, Jr., Secretary of Transportation."

Memoirs of M. Danton, late Minister of Justice to the National Convention, who suffered by the guillotine, Saturday, April 5, 1794 : to which are added, genuine anecdotes of M. Roberspierre [sic], late leader of the revolutionists in France, who was guillotined July 28, 1794.

Mode of access: Internet.

Rapport et projet de résolution présentés au nom de la Commission des contributions de l'an 5 : séance du 10 nivôse l'an 5 /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 17079.14-4, suppl.

La vie et le martyre de Louis Seize, roi de France et de Navarre, immolé le 21 janvier 1795 : avec un Examen du décret régicide /

Martin & Walter,

A residence in France during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795 /

Published anonymously. By Charlotte Biggs. Has been wrongly attributed to Helen Maria Williams. Cf. Biggs.

Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques de l'Institut de France.

Vol. 1-2 called Deuxième série.

Lady Knight's letters from France and Italy, 1776-1795,

Includes index.

BARRÉS, Maurice, La Grande Pitié des églises de France. Texte introduit et établi par Michel Leymarie et Michela Passini, Lille, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2012, 239 pp., €25, ISBN 978-2-7574-0381-5

Book review

4.2.5 Environmental engineering

Th is landmark report on engineering and development is the fi rst of its kind to be produced by UNESCO, or indeed by any international organization. Containing highly informative and insightful contributions from 120 experts from all over the world, the report gives a new perspective on the very great importance of the engineer’s role in development. Advances in engineering have been central to human progress ever since the invention of the wheel. In the past hundred and fi fty years in particular, engineering and technology have transformed the world we live in, contributing to signifi cantly longer life expectancy and enhanced quality of life for large numbers of the world’s population. Yet improved healthcare, housing, nutrition, transport, communications, and the many other benefi ts engineering brings are distributed unevenly throughout the world. Millions of people do not have clean drinking water and proper sanitation, they do not have access to a medical centre, they may travel many miles on foot along unmade tracks every day to get to work or school...

Dissection of the genetics of Parkinson's disease identifies an additional association 5' of SNCA and multiple associated haplotypes at 17q21

We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 1705 Parkinson's disease (PD) UK patients and 5175 UK controls, the largest sample size so far for a PD GWAS. Replication was attempted in an additional cohort of 1039 French PD cases and 1984 controls for the 27 regions showing the strongest evidence of association (P < 10 4). We replicated published associations in the 4q22/SNCA and 17q21/MAPT chromosome regions (P < 10 10) and found evidence for an additional independent association in 4q22/SNCA.A detailed analysis of the haplotype structure at 17q21 showed that there are three separate risk groups within this region. We found weak but consistent evidence of association for common variants located in three previously published associated regions (4p15/BST1, 4p16/GAK and 1q32/PARK16). We found no support for the previously reported SNP association in 12q12/LRRK2. We also found an association of the two SNPs in 4q22/SNCA with the age of onset of the disease. © The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press.