Electricité / par Jean Perrin,...

Collection : Actualités scientifiques et industrielles ; 8

Recueil sur l'electricité médicale : dans lequel on a rassemble en deux volumes les principales pièces publiées par divers sçavans, sur les moyens de guérir les maladies en électrisant les malades.

Recueil d'experiences faites a Venise sur la medecine electrique, par quelques amateurs de physique ... / publié par M.J. Fortunat Bianchini ... et traduit de l'italien pour servir de correctif à la lettre sur l'electricité médicale, con portadilla y pag. propia.

Histoire de l'electricité.

Mode of access: Internet.

Experiences sur l'electricité : avec quelques conjetures sur la cause de ses effets /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lettres sur l'electricité : dans lesquelles on trouvera les principaux phénomenes qui ont été découverts depuis 1760 ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Nouvelle dissertation sur l'electricité des corps ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Replique à monsieur l'abbé Nollet sur l'electricité /

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Essai sur la théorie des proportions chimiques et sur l'influence chimique de l'electricité /

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Lettres sur l'electricité : dans lesquelles on examine les dècouvertes qui ont été faites sur cette matière depuis l'année 1752, & les conséquences que l'on en peut tirer. Avec figures en taille-douce /

Mode of access: Internet.

Recueil de traités sur l'electricité,

ptie. 1. Essai sur la nature, les effets et les causes de l'électricité... tr. de l'Allemand de M.F. [i.e, J.] H. Winckler.--ptie. 2. Experiences et observations, pour servir à l'explication de le nature et des proprietès de l'électricité, par M. Guill. Watson.-- ptie.3. Essai sur la cause de l'électricité... tr. de l'Anglois de M. Jean Freke [et] Essai sur l'électricité, tr. de l'Anglois de M. Benj. Martin.

Do socioeconomic factors shape weight and obesity trajectories over the transition from midlife to old age? Results from the French GAZEL cohort study

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a contemporary epidemic that does not affect all age groups and sections of society equally. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to examine socioeconomic differences in trajectories of body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2)) and obesity between the ages of 45 and 65 y. DESIGN: A total of 13,297 men and 4532 women from the French GAZEL (Gaz de France Electricité de France) cohort study reported their height in 1990 and their weight annually over the subsequent 18 y. Changes in BMI and obesity between ages 45 and 49 y, 50 and 54 y, 55 and 59 y, and 60 and 65 y as a function of education and occupational position (at age 35 y) were modeled by using linear mixed models and generalized estimating equations. RESULTS: BMI and obesity rates increased between the ages of 45 and 65 y. In men, BMI was higher in unskilled workers than in managers at age 45 y; this difference in BMI increased from 0.82 (95% CI: 0.66, 0.99) at 45 y to 1.06 (95% CI: 0.85, 1.27) at 65 y. Men with a primary school education compared with those with a high school degree at age 45 y had a 0.75 (95% CI: 0.51, 1.00) higher BMI, and this difference increased to 1.32 (95% CI: 1.03,1.62) at age 65 y. Obesity rates were 3.35% and 7.68% at age 45 y and 9.52% and 18.10% at age 65 y in managers and unskilled workers, respectively; the difference in obesity increased by 4.25% (95% CI: 1.87, 6.52). A similar trend was observed in women. Conclusions: Weight continues to increase in the transition between midlife and old age; this increase is greater in lower socioeconomic groups.

Effects of Air Pollution Control on Climate

Urban air pollution and climate are closely connected due to shared generating processes (e.g., combustion) for emissions of the driving gases and aerosols. They are also connected because the atmospheric lifecycles of common air pollutants such as CO, NOx and VOCs, and of the climatically important methane gas (CH4) and sulfate aerosols, both involve the fast photochemistry of the hydroxyl free radical (OH). Thus policies designed to address air pollution may impact climate and vice versa. We present calculations using a model coupling economics, atmospheric chemistry, climate and ecosystems to illustrate some effects of air pollution policy alone on global warming. We consider caps on emissions of NOx, CO, volatile organic carbon, and SOx both individually and combined in two ways. These caps can lower ozone causing less warming, lower sulfate aerosols yielding more warming, lower OH and thus increase CH4 giving more warming, and finally, allow more carbon uptake by ecosystems leading to less warming. Overall, these effects significantly offset each other suggesting that air pollution policy has a relatively small net effect on the global mean surface temperature and sea level rise. However, our study does not account for the effects of air pollution policies on overall demand for fossil fuels and on the choice of fuels (coal, oil, gas), nor have we considered the effects of caps on black carbon or organic carbon aerosols on climate. These effects, if included, could lead to more substantial impacts of capping pollutant emissions on global temperature and sea level than concluded here. Caps on aerosols in general could also yield impacts on other important aspects of climate beyond those addressed here, such as the regional patterns of cloudiness and precipitation.

EDF and the Brazilian Power Sector

Electricité de France (EDF) is a leading player in the European energy market by being both the first electricity producer in Europe and the world’s leading nuclear plant operator. EDF is also the first electricity producer and supplier in France. However, Europe, EDF’s core market, is currently underperforming: the European sovereign debt crisis is lowering significantly the growth perspective of an energy market that has already reached its maturity. As a consequence, European energy companies are now looking at international markets and especially BRIC economies where economic growth potential remains high. Among them, Brazil is expected to keep its strong economic and electricity demand growth perspectives for the coming decades. Though Brazil has not been considered as a strategic priority for EDF after the Light reversal in 2006, the current economic situation has led the Group to reconsider its position toward the country. EDF’s current presence in Brazil is limited to its stake in UTE Norte Fluminense, a thermal plant, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro. This report investigates the possibility and the feasibility of EDF’s activities expansion in Brazil and what added value it could bring for the Brazilian power market. Considering that the status quo would not allow EDF to take full advantage of Brazil’s future growth, this work is identifying the various options that are currently opened to EDF: market exit, status quo, EDF alone, local partner. For that purpose, this study collects and analyses the latest energy market data as well as generation companies’ information which are necessary to give a relevant overview of the current brazilian power sector and to present EDF strategic options for the country.

Observations faites au Cap Thordsen, Spitzberg /

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