Noticia de Carlos Gimbernat y de sus mapas geológicos de Europa Central, Alpes, Francia e Italia a principios del siglo XIX

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Un curieux microfossile de la Molasse oligocène de Suisse occidentale et de Haute-Savoie (France)

Nouvelle description de l’incertae sedis Calcicarpinum? fallax. Détermination de son âge oligocène supérieur et de sa répartition biogéographique. Il s’agit d’un nucule de Boraginaceae désormais nommé Boraginocarpus fallax (Taugourdeau-Lantz & Rosset 1966) comb. novA re-analysis and new description of the incertae sedis Calcicarpinum? fallax is presented, and its Late Oligocene age and paleobiogeographical distribution is ascertained. It is identified as a nutlet of a Boraginaceae and is named Boraginocarpus fallax (Taugourdeau-Lantz & Rosset 1966) comb. nov

Données nouvelles sur la géologie des collines de Chiètres

La géologie des collines de Chiètres et de l’ancien sillon glaciaire du Rhône a été révisée. Les excavations de la couverture meuble de la carrière de Sous-Vent ont révélé une succession de dépôts où l’on identifie les débris de deux éboulements majeurs, datés d’environ 10’000 et 4’500 ans BP. Les calculs de volume et l’étude des débris montrent que ces masses provenant de l’encoche d’érosion du Courset se sont mises en place lors d’évènements catastrophiques particulièrement rapides. Des forages profonds destinés à la prospection d’eau souterraine permettent de préciser la forme du substratum rocheux dans le sillon glaciaire de Châtel-sur-Bex, ainsi que la nature des sédiments qui le remplissent. En aval du hameau, sous une épaisse série de graviers de cônes de déjection, une formation fluvioglaciaire rhodanienne témoigne d’un épandage frontal en relation avec la langue glaciaire restée sur le seuil rocheux. Paradoxalement, il n’y a pas de dépôt des éboulements dans l’axe du sillon, ce qui témoigne de la grande énergie cinétique de la masse en mouvement

Assessment of acceptable Swiss post-2012 climate policies

In the framework of the revision of the Swiss CO2-Law and in view for the international negotiations that will take place at the next Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) has proposed a set of instruments and two levels of abatement to define the Swiss climate policy for the post-2012 period. The proposed policies are the results of a consultation procedure that took place at the beginning of 2009 and has allowed major stakeholders and lobbies to defend their interests. Using a hybrid model, we evaluate two proposed scenarios at the 2030 horizon and find important disparities in the prices of carbon faced by the different economic sectors and higher welfare costs than those that would be triggered by a uniform carbon tax

Rift Valley Fever during Rainy Seasons, Madagascar, 2008 and 2009

The virus reemerged during an outbreak in Madagascar in 2008

Age and gender differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000 participants

Age and gender differences in narcissism have been studied often. However, considering the rich history of narcissism research accompanied by its diverging conceptualizations, little is known about age and gender differences across various narcissism measures. The present study investigated age and gender differences and their interactions across eight widely used narcissism instruments (i.e., Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale, Dirty Dozen, Psychological Entitlement Scale, Narcissistic Personality Disorder Symptoms from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Version IV, Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire-Short Form, Single-Item Narcissism Scale, and brief version of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory). The findings of Study 1 (N = 5,736) revealed heterogeneity in how strongly the measures are correlated. Some instruments loaded clearly on one of the three factors proposed by previous research (i.e., Neuroticism, Extraversion, Antagonism), while others cross-loaded across factors and in distinct ways. Cross-sectional analyses using each measure and meta-analytic results across all measures (Study 2) with a total sample of 270,029 participants suggest consistent linear age effects (random effects meta-analytic effect of r = -.104), with narcissism being highest in young adulthood. Consistent gender differences also emerged (random effects meta-analytic effect was -.079), such that men scored higher in narcissism than women. Quadratic age effects and Age × Gender effects were generally very small and inconsistent. We conclude that despite the various conceptualizations of narcissism, age and gender differences are generalizable across the eight measures used in the present study. However, their size varied based on the instrument used. We discuss the sources of this heterogeneity and the potential mechanisms for age and gender differences