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The focus of the article is to challenge the prevailing notion of a finite world and emphasize the dynamic nature of Earth's resources and landscapes, encouraging a more nuanced and complex understanding of these issues.

The choice of a set of capacitors for a dc link may be very different depending on the system requirements and user constraints. This paper shows how to achieve the best choice of a hybrid association of electrolytic capacitor and higher frequency technology (polyester for instance). Maximum allowed rms current in the electrolytic capacitor is obviously taken into account. The input filter of a buck converter is chosen as example. Various constraints are considered: voltage ripple, differential-mode electromagnetic-interference level, losses, weight, volume, surface, etc. Objective function for optimization is defined by the user and may be any of the previous parameters. The optimized result consists in the number and the values of components for both capacitor technologies. Index Terms--Circuit optimization, dc-dc power conversion, electrolytic capacitors, electromagnetic compatibility, power electronics.

Since 1982, the residents of Iwaishima, tiny island in the west of the Seto Inland Sea, have opposed plans to build a nuclear power plant opposite them across the channel. Their motives: loss of fishing grounds, disfigurement of the landscape, environmental damage, changes to their way of life, and a highlevel decision that was taken without any real concertation. But as a demographic minority in Kaminoseki (Yamaguchi Prefecture), they are unable to obtain a majority in the municipal council. Their strong community traditions (Kanmai festival, the kabu-uchi system of communal work, etc.), despite rural exodus, and their fishermen's tenacious defence of their rights over the marine area, have unified them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The anarchist geographers Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) and Léon Metchnikoff (1838-1888) offered an innovative vision of Meiji Japan that is as original now as it was in its day. Having spent over two years in Tokyo (1874-1876) at the invitation of Satsuma leaders, Metchnikoff provided Reclus with crucial elements that enabled him to consider the evolution of Japan as something other than a simple process of Westernisation or servile imitation. Instead, he saw it as an endogenous process rooted in Japan's awareness and memory of the imperialist danger and in the country's biogeographical abundance. Reclus also warned of the rising imperialist and militarist threat from Japan, which was underestimated at the time by the majority of his contemporaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the literary works of Elisée Reclus, a geographer and author, with specific reference to his book, "Nouvelle Géographie Universelle" and his work about animals.

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