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    Industrial Nationalism versus European Partnerships: An Analysis of State-led Franco-German Inter-firm Linkages

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    YesThis paper examines the impact of state intervention in French-German inter-firm linkages and discusses the implications of conflicting national interests for the furthering of single market integration. It demonstrates that despite initial success in launching large-scale cross-border alliances in strategic sectors, France and Germany have remained divided by their own industrial nationalism. It argues that their respective attitudes towards industrial policy are less contradictory than would appear at first sight, but that transcending industrial nationalism by Europeanising the notion of economic patriotism would be an essential pre-condition for a more efficient EU-wide industrial policy within a better integrated internal market

    A922 Sequential measurement of 1 hour creatinine clearance (1-CRCL) in critically ill patients at risk of acute kidney injury (AKI)

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    Benefits of protected areas for nonbreeding waterbirds adjusting their distributions under climate warming

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    Climate warming is driving changes in species distributions and community composition. Many species have a so-called climatic debt, that is, shifts in range lag behind shifts in temperature isoclines. Inside protected areas (PAs), community changes in response to climate warming can be facilitated by greater colonization rates by warm-dwelling species, but also mitigated by lowering extirpation rates of cold-dwelling species. An evaluation of the relative importance of colonization-extirpation processes is important to inform conservation strategies that aim for both climate debt reduction and species conservation. We assessed the colonization-extirpation dynamics involved in community changes in response to climate inside and outside PAs. To do so, we used 25 years of occurrence data of nonbreeding waterbirds in the western Palearctic (97 species, 7071 sites, 39 countries, 1993-2017). We used a community temperature index (CTI) framework based on species thermal affinities to investigate species turnover induced by temperature increase. We determined whether thermal community adjustment was associated with colonization by warm-dwelling species or extirpation of cold-dwelling species by modeling change in standard deviation of the CTI (CTISD). Using linear mixed-effects models, we investigated whether communities in PAs had lower climatic debt and different patterns of community change than communities outside PAs. For CTI and CTISD combined, communities inside PAs had more species, higher colonization, lower extirpation, and lower climatic debt (16%) than communities outside PAs. Thus, our results suggest that PAs facilitate 2 independent processes that shape community dynamics and maintain biodiversity. The community adjustment was, however, not sufficiently fast to keep pace with the large temperature increases in the central and northeastern western Palearctic. Our results underline the potential of combining CTI and CTISD metrics to improve understanding of the colonization-extirpation patterns driven by climate warming

    Le problème d'une région économique de Suisse occidentale

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    Assessment of the 153^{153}Eu and 154^{154}Eu neutron capture cross sections from the Integral Data Assimilation of spent nuclear fuel experiments

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    International audienceThe purpose of this paper is to make the most of a large set of used nuclear fuel experiments for determining integral trends on the 153^{153}Eu(n,γ\gamma) and 154^{154}Eu(n,γ\gamma) reactions cross sections. The assimilation of the integral trends is based on a linear least-square fitting procedure relying on the Bayes’ theorem.Realistic uncertainties are obtained thanks to a marginalization technique. The method is applied to the 153^{153}Eu and 154^{154}Eu capture cross sections recommended in the evaluated nuclear data library JEFF-3.1.1. Our results indicate an underestimation of both capture cross-sections of approximately 4.9% and 7.1%, respectively. For 153^{153}Eu, our study suggests to increase the capture resonance integral from I0_0=1409 barns to I0_0=1502 ±\pm 68 barns. This trend is consistent with the capture resonance integral I0_0=1560 barns obtained from recent time-of-flight measurements carried out at the Renssealer Polytechnic Institute. The trend obtained in this work on 154^{154}Eu capture cross section is also consistent with a recent analysis carried out on ENDF/B-VII.1, for which 154^{154}Eu capture cross section is very similar to JEFF-3.1.1, therefore confirming its underestimation
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