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Reforming Capital Taxation in Italy

By: Luc Eyraud

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Reforming Capital Taxation in Italy

By: Luc Eyraud

This paper reviews capital taxation issues in Italy based on a comprehensive definition encompassing taxes on income, transactions, and ownership. It discusses options to enhance the neutrality of the capital income tax system, followed by a detailed analysis of the property tax, the inheritance tax, and various transaction taxes. The paper also examines the case for replacing the set of existing taxes on financial and real assets with a single net wealth tax.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484370724

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The Fleur de Sel Murders

A Brittany Mystery

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

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The Fleur de Sel Murders

A Brittany Mystery

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

Commissaire Dupin is back in The Fleur de Sel Murders, this Brittany mystery from international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec. The old salt farmers have always said that the violet scent of the Fleur de Sel at harvest time on the salt marshes of the Guérande Peninsula has been known to cause hallucinations. Commissaire Dupin also starts to believe this when he’s attacked out of the blue in the salt works. He had actually been looking forward to escaping his endless paperwork and taking a trip to the “white country” between the raging Atlantic Ocean and idyllic rivers. But when he starts snooping around mysterious barrels on behalf of Lilou Breval, a journalist friend, he finds himself unexpectedly under attack. The offender remains a mystery, and a short time later, Breval disappears without a trace. It is thanks to his secretary Nolwenn and the ambition of the prefect that Dupin is assigned to the case. But he won’t be working alone because Sylvaine Rose is the investigator responsible for the department—and she lives up to her name... What’s going on in the salt works? Dupin and Rose search feverishly for clues and stumble upon false alibis, massive conflicts of interest, personal feuds—and ancient Breton legends.

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Minotaur Books

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1466883138

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Synthetic Biology

Volume 2

By: Luc Brunsveld,Hiroaki Suga

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Synthetic Biology

Volume 2

By: Luc Brunsveld,Hiroaki Suga

Leading researchers draw on the recent literature in Synthetic Biology, from both dedicated journals and broader sources, making this an essential reference to any library supporting this research in this emerging field.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1782621202

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence

19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June 7-9, Proceedings

By: Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. Conference,Luc Lamontagne,Mario Marchand

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence

19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, June 7-9, Proceedings

By: Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence. Conference,Luc Lamontagne,Mario Marchand

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2006, held in Québec City, Québec, Canada in June 2006. The 47 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents, bioinformatics, constraint satisfaction and distributed search, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language, reinforcement learning and, supervised and unsupervised learning.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540346287

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A Future for Knowledge Acquisition

8th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'94, Hoegaarden, Belgium, September 26 - 29, 1994. Proceedings

By: Luc Steels

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A Future for Knowledge Acquisition

8th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'94, Hoegaarden, Belgium, September 26 - 29, 1994. Proceedings

By: Luc Steels

In the last few years rapid advances have been made in reproductive medicine, making it necessary for those involved to regularly update their knowledge. The purpose of this book is to describe the state of the art in this field, making it possible for the reader to gain an orientation among all the diagnostic and therapeutic potentials of modern reproductive medicine in order to advise patients fully. Chapters from the fields of gynecology, and reproductive medicine in a specific sense provide knowledge about these subjects. Authors of international standing have contributed chapters on their specialties. These chapters together form a book describing the state of the art in the diagnosis and therapy of sterility in gynecology and andrology.

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3540584870

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Oxidative Stress in Cancer, AIDS, and Neurodegenerative Diseases

By: Luc Montagnier,Rene Olivier,Catherine Pasquier

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Oxidative Stress in Cancer, AIDS, and Neurodegenerative Diseases

By: Luc Montagnier,Rene Olivier,Catherine Pasquier

Based on a conference on Oxidative Stress and Redox Regulation, held at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, this work examines fundamental, chemical, biological and medical studies of free radicals on different targets and the consequences of their reactivity. It covers the chemistry and biochemistry of free radicals, free radicals as second messengers t

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1482292211

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VLSI: Integrated Systems on Silicon

IFIP TC10 WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration 26–30 August 1997, Gramado, RS, Brazil

By: Ricardo A. Reis,Luc Claesen

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VLSI: Integrated Systems on Silicon

IFIP TC10 WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration 26–30 August 1997, Gramado, RS, Brazil

By: Ricardo A. Reis,Luc Claesen

This book contains the papers that have been presented at the ninth Very Large Scale Integrated Systems conference VLSI'97 that is organized biannually by IFIP Working Group 10.5. It took place at Hotel Serra Azul, in Gramado Brazil from 26-30 August 1997. Previous conferences have taken place in Edinburgh, Trondheim, Vancouver, Munich, Grenoble and Tokyo. The papers in this book report on all aspects of importance to the design of the current and future integrated systems. The current trend towards the realization of versatile Systems-on-a-Chip require attention of embedded hardware/software systems, dedicated ASIC hardware, sensors and actuators, mixed analog/digital design, video and image processing, low power battery operation and wireless communication. The papers as presented in Jhis book have been organized in two tracks, where one is dealing with VLSI System Design and Applications and the other presents VLSI Design Methods and CAD. The following topics are addressed: VLSI System Design and Applications Track • VLSI for Video and Image Processing. • Microsystem and Mixed-mode design. • Communication And Memory System Design • Cow-voltage & Low-power Analog Circuits. • High Speed Circuit Techniques • Application Specific DSP Architectures. VLSI Design Methods and CAD Track • Specification and Simulation at System Level. • Synthesis and Technology Mapping. • CAD Techniques for Low-Power Design. • Physical Design Issues in Sub-micron Technologies. • Architectural Design and Synthesis. • Testing in Complex Mixed Analog and Digital Systems.

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0387353119

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Small Scale Modeling and Simulation of Incompressible Turbulent Multi-Phase Flow

By: Stéphane Vincent,Jean-Luc Estivalèzes,Ruben Scardovelli

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Small Scale Modeling and Simulation of Incompressible Turbulent Multi-Phase Flow

By: Stéphane Vincent,Jean-Luc Estivalèzes,Ruben Scardovelli

The book provides basic and recent research insights concerning the small scale modeling and simulation of turbulent multi-phase flows. By small scale, it has to be understood that the grid size for the simulation is smaller than most of the physical time and space scales of the problem. Small scale modeling of multi-phase flows is a very popular topic since the capabilities of massively parallel computers allows to go deeper into the comprehension and characterization of realistic flow configurations and at the same time, many environmental and industrial applications are concerned such as nuclear industry, material processing, chemical reactors, engine design, ocean dynamics, pollution and erosion in rivers or on beaches. The work proposes a complete and exhaustive presentation of models and numerical methods devoted to small scale simulation of incompressible turbulent multi-phase flows from specialists of the research community. Attention has also been paid to promote illustrations and applications, multi-phase flows and collaborations with industry. The idea is also to bring together developers and users of different numerical approaches and codes to share their experience in the development and validation of the algorithms and discuss the difficulties and limitations of the different methods and their pros and cons. The focus will be mainly on fixed-grid methods, however adaptive grids will be also partly broached, with the aim to compare and validate the different approaches and models.

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Springer Nature

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3031092651

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Quantum Potential Theory

By: Philippe Biane,Luc Bouten,Fabio Cipriani,Norio Konno,Quanhua Xu

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Quantum Potential Theory

By: Philippe Biane,Luc Bouten,Fabio Cipriani,Norio Konno,Quanhua Xu

This book offers the revised and completed notes of lectures given at the 2007 conference, "Quantum Potential Theory: Structures and Applications to Physics." These lectures provide an introduction to the theory and discuss various applications.

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3540693653

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Biodegradable and Biobased Polymers for Environmental and Biomedical Applications

By: Susheel Kalia,Luc Avérous

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Biodegradable and Biobased Polymers for Environmental and Biomedical Applications

By: Susheel Kalia,Luc Avérous

This volume incorporates 13 contributions from renowned experts from the relevant research fields that are related biodegradable and biobased polymers and their environmental and biomedical applications. Specifically, the book highlights: Developments in polyhydroxyalkanoates applications in agriculture, biodegradable packaging material and biomedical field like drug delivery systems, implants, tissue engineering and scaffolds The synthesis and elaboration of cellulose microfibrils from sisal fibres for high performance engineering applications in various sectors such as the automotive and aerospace industries, or for building and construction The different classes and chemical modifications of tannins Electro-activity and applications of Jatropha latex and seed The synthesis, properties and applications of poly(lactic acid) The synthesis, processing and properties of poly(butylene succinate), its copolymers, composites and nanocomposites The different routes for preparation polymers from vegetable oil and the effects of reinforcement and nano-reinforcement on the physical properties of such biobased polymers The different types of modified drug delivery systems together with the concept of the drug delivery matrix for controlled release of drugs and for antitumor drugs The use of nanocellulose as sustainable adsorbents for the removal of water pollutants mainly heavy metal ions, organic molecules, dyes, oil and CO2 The main extraction techniques, structure, properties and different chemical modifications of lignins Proteins and nucleic acids based biopolymers The role of tamarind seed polysaccharide-based multiple-unit systems in sustained drug release

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119117348

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Biopolymers

Biomedical and Environmental Applications

By: Susheel Kalia,Luc Avérous

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Biopolymers

Biomedical and Environmental Applications

By: Susheel Kalia,Luc Avérous

This handbook focuses on biopolymers for both environmental and biomedical applications. It shows recent advances in technology in all areas from chemical synthesis or biosynthesis to end use applications. These areas have not been covered in a single book before and they include biopolymers for chemical and biotechnological modifications, material structures, characterization, processing, properties, and applications. After the introduction which summarizes the importance of biopolymer in the market, the book covers almost all the topics related to polysaccharides, biofibers, bioplastics, biocomposites, natural rubber, gums, bacterial and blood compatible polymers, and applications of biopolymers in various fields.

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1118164776

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Financial Crises

Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses

By: Mr.Stijn Claessens,Mr.Ayhan Kose,Mr.Luc Laeven,Mr.Fabian Valencia

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Financial Crises

Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses

By: Mr.Stijn Claessens,Mr.Ayhan Kose,Mr.Luc Laeven,Mr.Fabian Valencia

The lingering effects of the economic crisis are still visible—this shows a clear need to improve our understanding of financial crises. This book surveys a wide range of crises, including banking, balance of payments, and sovereign debt crises. It begins with an overview of the various types of crises and introduces a comprehensive database of crises. Broad lessons on crisis prevention and management, as well as the short-term economic effects of crises, recessions, and recoveries, are discussed.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484355261

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The Use and Effectiveness of Macroprudential Policies

New Evidence

By: Mr.Eugenio Cerutti,Mr.Stijn Claessens,Mr.Luc Laeven

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The Use and Effectiveness of Macroprudential Policies

New Evidence

By: Mr.Eugenio Cerutti,Mr.Stijn Claessens,Mr.Luc Laeven

Using a recent IMF survey and expanding on previous studies, we document the use of macroprudential policies for 119 countries over the 2000-13 period, covering many instruments. Emerging economies use macroprudential policies most frequently, especially foreign exchange related ones, while advanced countries use borrower-based policies more. Usage is generally associated with lower growth in credit, notably in household credit. Effects are less in financially more developed and open economies, however, and usage comes with greater cross-border borrowing, suggesting some avoidance. And while macroprudential policies can help manage financial cycles, they work less well in busts.

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1498321054

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Biomass in the Bioeconomy

Focus on the EU and US

By: Jean-Luc Wertz,Philippe Mengal,Serge Perez

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Biomass in the Bioeconomy

Focus on the EU and US

By: Jean-Luc Wertz,Philippe Mengal,Serge Perez

Biomass is the physical basis of the bioeconomy, the renewable segment of the circular economy, and as a CO2-neutral part of the carbon cycle, biomass is an efficient carbon sink. Demand for biomass is increasing worldwide because of its advantages in replacing fossil-based materials and fuels, which presents the challenge of reconciling this increased demand with the sustainable management of ecosystems, including forests and crops. This reference book discusses the role of biomass in the bioeconomy and focuses on the European Union and the United States, the first two regions to develop a bioeconomy strategy with an obvious effect on the bioeconomy developments in the rest of the world. Significant developments in other areas of the world are addressed. Features: Provides strategies for optimal use of biomass in the bioeconomy Defines and details sources, production, and chemical composition of biomass Describes conversion, uses, and sustainability of biomass Biomass in the Bioeconomy: Focus on the EU and US will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of readers working in the fields of chemical and environmental engineering.

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CRC Press

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1000735702

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Membrane Proteins in Aqueous Solutions

From Detergents to Amphipols

By: Jean-Luc Popot

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Membrane Proteins in Aqueous Solutions

From Detergents to Amphipols

By: Jean-Luc Popot

This book is the first to be entirely devoted to the challenging art of handling membrane proteins out of their natural environment, a key process in biological and pharmaceutical research, but one plagued with difficulties and pitfalls. Written by one of the foremost experts in the field, Membrane Proteins in Aqueous Solutions is accessible to any member of a membrane biology laboratory. After presenting the structure, functions, dynamics, synthesis, natural environment and lipid interactions of membrane proteins, the author discusses the principles of extracting them with detergents, the mechanisms of detergent-induced destabilization, countermeasures, and recent progress in developing detergents with weaker denaturing properties. Non-conventional alternatives to detergents, including bicelles, nanodiscs, amphipathic peptides, fluorinated surfactants and amphipols, are described, and their relative advantages and drawbacks are compared. The synthesis and solution properties of the various types of amphipols are presented, as well as the formation and properties of membrane protein/amphipol complexes and the transfer of amphipol-trapped proteins to detergents, nanodiscs, lipidic mesophases, or living cells. The final chapters of the book deal with applications: membrane protein in vitro folding and cell-free expression, solution studies, NMR, crystallography, electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, amphipol-mediated immobilization of membrane proteins, and biomedical applications. Important features of the book include introductory sections describing foundations as well as the state-of-the-art for each of the biophysical techniques discussed, and topical tables which organize a widely dispersed literature. Boxes and annexes throughout the book explain technical aspects, and twelve detailed experimental protocols, ranging from in vitro folding of membrane proteins to single-particle electron cryomicroscopy, have been contributed by and commented on by experienced users. Membrane Proteins in Aqueous Solutions offers a concise, accessible introduction to membrane protein biochemistry and biophysics, as well as comprehensive coverage of the properties and uses of conventional and non-conventional surfactants. It will be useful both in basic and applied research laboratories and as a teaching aid for students, instructors, researchers, and professionals within the field.

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3319731483

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The Handbook of Global Shadow Banking, Volume I

From Policy to Regulation

By: Luc Nijs

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The Handbook of Global Shadow Banking, Volume I

From Policy to Regulation

By: Luc Nijs

This global handbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of shadow banking, or market-based finance as it has been recently coined. Engaging in financial intermediary services outside of normal regulatory parameters, the shadow banking sector was arguably a critical factor in causing the 2007-2009 financial crisis. This volume focuses specifically on shadow banking activities, risk, policy and regulatory issues. It evaluates the nexus between policy design and regulatory output around the world, paying attention to the concept of risk in all its dimensions—the legal, financial, market, economic and monetary perspectives. Particular attention is given to spillover risk, contagion risk and systemic risk and their positioning and relevance in shadow banking activities. Newly introduced and incoming policies are evaluated in detail, as well as how risk is managed, observed and assessed, and how new regulation can potentially create new sources of risk. Volume I concludes with analysis of what will and still needs to happen in the event of another crisis. Proposing innovative suggestions for improvement, including a novel Pigovian tax to tame financial and systemic risks, this handbook is a must-read for professionals and policy-makers within the banking sector, as well as those researching economics and finance.

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3030347435

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Systemic Risk, Crises, and Macroprudential Regulation

By: Xavier Freixas,Luc Laeven,Jose-Luis Peydro

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Systemic Risk, Crises, and Macroprudential Regulation

By: Xavier Freixas,Luc Laeven,Jose-Luis Peydro

A framework for macroprudential regulation that defines systemic risk and macroprudential policy, describes macroprudential tools, and surveys the effectiveness of existing macroprudential regulation. The recent financial crisis has shattered all standard approaches to banking regulation. Regulators now recognize that banking regulation cannot be simply based on individual financial institutions' risks. Instead, systemic risk and macroprudential regulation have come to the forefront of the new regulatory paradigm. Yet our knowledge of these two core aspects of regulation is still limited and fragmented. This book offers a framework for understanding the reasons for the regulatory shift from a microprudential to a macroprudential approach to financial regulation. It defines systemic risk and macroprudential policy, cutting through the generalized confusion as to their meaning; contrasts macroprudential to microprudential approaches; discusses the interaction of macroprudential policy with macroeconomic policy (monetary policy in particular); and describes macroprudential tools and experiences with macroprudential regulation around the world. The book also considers the remaining challenges for establishing effective macroprudential policy and broader issues in regulatory reform. These include the optimal size and structure of the financial system, the multiplicity of regulatory bodies in the United States, the supervision of cross-border financial institutions, and the need for international cooperation on macroprudential policies.

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MIT Press

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0262549018

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