Régis Bertrand et Anne Carol (dir.),

Carol Anne Bond v the United States of America: how a woman scorned threatened the Chemical Weapons Convention.

The case of Carol Anne Bond v the United States of America stemmed from a domestic dispute when Ms. Bond attempted to retaliate against her best friend by attacking her with chemical agents. What has emerged is a much greater issue--a test of standing on whether a private citizen can challenge the Tenth Amendment. Instead of being prosecuted in state court for assault, Ms. Bond was charged and ...

Régis Ferrière , Ulf Dieckmann , and Denis Couvet

Evolution has molded the past and paves the future of biodiversity. As anthropogenic damage to the Earth’s biota spans unprecedented temporal and spatial scales, it has become urgent to tear down the traditional scientific barriers between conservation studies of populations, communities, and ecosystems from an evolutionary perspective. Acknowledgment that ecological and evolutionary processes ...

Bertrand competition

Bertrand competition is a model of competition used in economics, named after Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900). Specifically, it is a model of price competition between duopoly firms which results in each charging the price that would be charged under perfect competition, known as marginal cost pricing. The model has the following assumptions: There are at least two firms producing ho...

To Anne

Thanks to Carol O'Sullivan

In this issue, I wish farewell to Carol O’Sullivan, who has served as associate editor in chief (AEIC) for special issues since 2010. During this same period, she has also been coeditor in chief of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. Through 2013, Carol will be a visiting professor at Seoul National University, working with Jehee Lee on animation and perception. She has therefore decided to...