Sommaire du Traité de l'association domestique-agricole : ou, Attraction industrielle /

Bound with the author's Traité de l'association domestique-agricole.

De l'attraction d'un ellipsoïde homogène sur un point matériel, d'après la loi de l'action des molécules entre, elles en raison inverse du carré de la distance.

Thèse--Faculté des sciences de Paris, 1840.

The attraction of the cross;

Mode of access: Internet.

Thought vibration; or, The law of attraction in the thought world,

Mode of access: Internet.

Contrary effects of jasmonate treatment of two closely related plant species on attraction of and oviposition by a specialist herbivore

Elevated jasmonic acid (JA) concentrations in response to herbivory can induce wounded plants to produce defences against herbivores. In laboratory and field experiments we compared the effects of exogenous JA treatment to two closely related cabbage species on the host-searching and oviposition preference of the diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella. JA-treated Chinese cabbage (Brassica campestris) was less attractive than untreated Chinese cabbage to ovipositing DBM, while JA-treatment of common cabbage (B. oleracea) made plants more attractive than untreated controls for oviposition by this insect. Similar effects were observed when plants of the two species were damaged by DBM larvae. In the absence of insect-feeding, or JA application, Chinese cabbage is much more attractive to DBM than common cabbage. Inducible resistance therefore appears to occur in a more susceptible plant and induced susceptibility appears to occur in a more resistant plant, suggesting a possible balance mechanism between constitutive and inducible defences to a specialist herbivore.

Tail Inference for a Law in a Max-Semistable Domain of Attraction

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 62G32, 62G05.

'Forced to Friendship'? Russian (mis-)understandings of soft power and the implications for audience attraction in Ukraine

This article argues that for all its efforts to implement soft power techniques, the Kremlin still fails to grasp the subtle, voluntaristic essence of soft power. This is reflected in a style of public interaction that has practical implications for how Russian soft power overtures are received by the audience. This is demonstrated through the findings of mixed-method empirical research from four Ukrainian regions. Thus, while surveys show that the worldview promoted by Russian public diplomacy resonates to some extent, insights from focus groups indicate that potential attraction is nevertheless limited by Russia's 'hard' and obtrusive approach to cultural influence.

Assessing the influence of organizational personality, applicants' need motivation, expectancy beliefs, and person-organization fit on applicant attraction

This research explored the thesis that organizational personality is related to applicants’ attraction to an organization through a process which involves need motivation, expectancy beliefs, and applicants’ perceptions of person-organization fit. Organizational personality may be defined as a collection of trait-like characteristics that individuals use to describe organizational practices, policies, values, and culture. Specifically, this research investigated the hypothesis that organizational personality information is useful to applicants because it helps individuals to determine their perceptions of fit. A sample of students (N = 198) and working adults (N = 198) participated in an online experiment. Findings indicated that individuals’ beliefs about the instrumentality of desirable work related outcomes are essential to determining their perceptions of fit and organizational attraction. Additionally, organizational personality perceptions interacted with need motivation to affect perceptions of fit and organizational attraction. For instance, perceptions of fit mediated the influence of the interaction between need for achievement and perceptions of innovativeness on organizational attraction. The interaction of need motivation and perceptions of organizational personality helped individuals to better determine their perceptions of fit and subsequent attraction toward organizations.^

Systematic characterization of thermodynamic and dynamical phase behavior in systems with short-ranged attraction

In this paper we demonstrate the feasibility and utility of an augmented version of the Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo method for computing the phase behavior of systems with strong, extremely short-ranged attractions. For generic potential shapes, this approach allows for the investigation of narrower attractive widths than those previously reported. Direct comparison to previous self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation calculations is made. A preliminary investigation of out-of-equilibrium behavior is also performed. Our results suggest that the recent observations of stable cluster phases in systems without long-ranged repulsions are intimately related to gas-crystal and metastable gas-liquid phase separation.

Pouvoir d'attraction d'une artère commerciale : le cas de l'avenue Cartier à Québec

À Québec, les dernières décennies ont été marquées par la dispersion des commerces et des services dans les secteurs de la ville qui bénéficient d’une accessibilité autoroutière accrue. Ces changements ont conduit à une diminution de l’achalandage des rues commerciales situées dans les quartiers centraux. S’attachant au sort de ces anciennes rues commerciales, notre étude s’intéresse aux éléments qui, du point de vue de ses usagers, influencent le pouvoir attractif de l’une d’entre elles : l’avenue Cartier. Au préalable, nous examinons la manière dont les usagers conçoivent mentalement l’extension spatiale du vocable avenue Cartier. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons la technique des groupes nominaux (TGN), un questionnaire et la cartographie participative comme méthodes de collecte de données. Nos résultats montrent que l’avenue Cartier, telle que les répondants se la conçoivent mentalement, dépasse largement ses limites physiques. Par ailleurs, l’offre commerciale et de services, l’offre de restauration et d’alimentation, la dimension sociale, l’atmosphère, la situation géographique, les déplacements des individus, les motivations personnelles sont les composantes qui, en ordre décroissant, influencent la fréquentation de l’avenue Cartier.