Cooperation and game theory, free software or the #15m movement: Two examples for universities

Closing talk of the Open Access Week 2011 at the UOC, by Josep Jover. Why do altruistic strategies beat selfish ones in the spheres of both free software and the #15m movement? The #15m movement, like software but unlike tangible goods, cannot be owned. It can be used (by joining it) by an indeterminate number of people without depriving anyone else of the chance to do the same. And that turns everything on its head: how universities manage information and what their mission is in this new society. In the immediate future, universities will be valued not for the information they harbour, which will always be richer and more extensive beyond their walls, but rather for their capacity to create critical masses, whether of knowledge research, skill-building, or networks of peers... universities must implement the new model or risk becoming obsolete.

Legal issues in promoting FOSS in R+D projects - Policy, Organisation and Management

Creating and using FLOSS in R+D projects raises several legal issues, which need to be managed as soon as possible - preferably during the project planning stage. Challenges in the areas of project structure and policy, licenses and licensing, exploitation strategies, community management, and FLOSS-friendliness in general all have their legal aspects, which are commented here. Some recommendations are made for assisting in the use of FLOSS in R+D projects, especially in multiple party consortiums.

Attachés d'administration centrale. Constitution initiale des nouveaux corps . [Instruction du 11 avril 1956 des secrétaires d'Etat au Budget et à la présidence du conseil (Fonction publique) relative à la constitution initiale des nouveaux corps d'attachés d'administration. - Annexes. I. Programme des matières à option "Administration générale" du concours spécial prévu à l'article 23 ; II. Textes de base : Loi du 3 février 1953 et du 3 avril 1955. Décret du 16 décembre 1955 portant règlement d'administration publique relatif au statut particulier des attachés d'administration centrale. III. Organisation et programme du concours normal prévu aux articles 5 et 12 du décret du 16 décembre 1955.]

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Organisation municipale . Loi du 5 avril 1884 et complétée. [Edition mise à jour au 31 août 1956.]

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Ministère de l'Éducation nationale. Direction des Bibliothèques de France. Instructions sommaires sur l'organisation et le fonctionnement des bibliothèques publiques...

Comprend : Conservation des documents

Ministère de l'Éducation nationale. Direction des Bibliothèques de France. Instructions sommaires sur l'organisation et le fonctionnement des bibliothèques publiques...

Comprend : Conservation des documents

Flight movement and spatial distribution of immunomarked thrips in onion, potato, and tomato

The objective of this work was to evaluate the spatial distribution of thrips in different crops, and the correlation between meterological parameters and the flight movements of this pest, using immunomarking. The experiment was conducted in cultivated areas, with tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), potato (Solanum tuberosum), and onion (Allium cepa); and non-cultivated areas, with weedy plants. The areas with tomato (100 days), potato (20 days), and weeds were sprayed with casein, albumin, and soy milk, respectively, to mark adult thrips; however, the areas with onion (50 days) and tomato (10 days) were not sprayed. Thrips were captured with georeferenced blue sticky traps, transferred into tubes, and identified by treatment area with the Elisa test. The dependence between the samples and the capture distance was determined using geostatistics. Meteorlogical parameters were correlated with thrips density in each area. The three protein types used for immunomarking were detected in different proportions in the thrips. There was a correlation between casein-marked thrips and wind speed. The thrips flew a maximum distance of 3.5 km and dispersed from the older (tomato) to the younger crops (potato). The immunomarking method is efficient to mark large quantities of thrips.