Evolution. Frank B. Jevons

The Jevons Paradox

Here I draw attention to two socio-ecological paradoxes. The Jevons Paradox is based on the observation that an improvement in the efficiency with which a natural resource is used is often associated with an increase in the consumption of that resource. Similarly, the Paperless Office Paradox is based on the observation that the development of substitutes for a natural resource is not always as...

Frank Mittelbach

[Background of this unusual double interview: the Free Software Magazine (http:// www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) and the TEX Users Group (TUG) both like to publish interviews. By chance, Gianluca Pignalberi of FSM and Dave Walden of TUG both approached Frank Mittelbach about interviewing him around the same time. Rather than doing two separate interviews, Mittelbach, Pignalberi, and Walden decid...

Frank : Frank: The LOD Cloud at Your Fingertips

Large-scale, algorithmic access to LOD Cloud data has been hampered by the absence of queryable endpoints for many datasets, a plethora of serialization formats, and an abundance of idiosyncrasies such as syntax errors. As of late, very large-scale — hundreds of thousands of document, tens of billions of triples — access to RDF data has become possible thanks to the LOD Laundromat Web Service. ...

B-chromosome evolution.

B chromosomes are extra chromosomes to the standard complement that occur in many organisms. They can originate in a number of ways including derivation from autosomes and sex chromosomes in intra- and interspecies crosses. Their subsequent molecular evolution resembles that of univalent sex chromosomes, which involves gene silencing, heterochromatinization and the accumulation of repetitive DN...

B - chromosome evolution Juan