IV. Reports of Meetings of Commissions Comptes Rendus des Seances des Commissions

Complex and biofluids: From Maxwell to nowadays - Les numéros thématiques des Comptes rendus - Série Physique

Complex fluids are the rule in biology and in many industrial applications. Typical examples are blood, cartilage, and polymer solutions. Unlike water (as well as domestic oils, soft clear drinks, and so on), the law(s) describing the behavior of complex fluids are not yet fully established. The complexity arises from strong coupling between microscopic scales (like the motion of a red blood ce...

Bioethics commissions: town meetings with a "blue, blue ribbon"

Comptes Rendus / Book Reviews

Alex Voorhoeve sets the stage for his book by quoting Plato's Phaedrus in which the “the living, breathing discourse of the man who knows” (1) is deemed superior to the written discourse. Socrates's vindication of the dialogue as the blessed form of philosophical investigation is thus presented as the inspiration for these eleven conversations with prominent thinkers on ethics ― most of them pr...

Comptes Rendus / Reviews

The present volume represents an introduction to the highly interdisciplinary field of natural language processing (NLP), viewed, with the eyes of a computer scientist, primarily as a subfield of artificial intelligence. The book adresses both computer scientists, and linguists who are familiar with the fundamentals of logic programming, as well as all those who are interested in the basic comp...

Purchasing IPOs with Commissions

We find direct evidence that institutions churn stocks, increase commissions per share and pay unusually high commissions on trades in order to send abnormally high commissions to lead underwriters of upcoming IPOs. These excess commission payments are a particularly effective way for transient investors to receive lucrative IPO allocations. Our results suggest that the underwriter’s concern fo...