Prévoir sans persistance

Policy Persistance in Environmental Regulation

We study the optimal emission standards under uncertain pollution damages and transaction costs associated with policy changes. We show that in many situations, the authority should avoid or reduce the scale of a policy change in the presence of future transaction costs. Then policy persistence is a rational response of forward-looking policy makers to future transaction costs, rather than a pa...

Congenital CSF Rhinorrhoea sans Encephalocoele, sans Trauma, sans Tumour

The authors describe a case of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea due to a congenital defect in cribriform plate, an anomaly that has not been described hitherto. It was successfully treated surgically.

'Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything:' resourcing mental health services for older people.

Information Elicitation Sans Verification

The recent advent of human computation — employing groups of non-experts to solve problems — has motivated study of a question in mechanism design: How do we elicit useful information when we are unable to verify reports? Existing methods, such as peer prediction and Bayesian truth serum, require assumptions either on the mechanism’s knowledge about the participants or on the information struct...

Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Introduction 1 SAN Fundamentals 1 What Is a SAN? 1 Benefits of SANs 3 SAN Applications 3 SAN Architecture 4 SAN Operating System Software Components 5 SAN Technologies and Solutions 5 Fiber-Channel-Arbitrated Loop Transport Protocol (FC-AL) 5 InfiniBand Solutions 6 Crossroads Systems With a Storage Router 6 Brocade’s Configurations 6 Other Storage Networking Technologies 6 VI (Virtual Interface...