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The article lists online books "Paper Revolutions: An Invisible AvantGarde" by Sarah E. James, "L'Ėcrivain et la publicité: Histoire d'une tentation" by Myriam Boucharenc, and "Poétique du patrimoine: Entre Narcisse et Ulysse" by Xavier Greffe and Anne Krebs-Poignant.

The article focuses on the changes brought about by the use of radio on paper-related mediums, especially books. It starts with a discussion of the burning of books in Germany during Adolf Hitler's regime. This is told through the analysis of several accounts of the book burning, including the memoirs of a Jewish intellectual, Raymond Aron. The radio play "Death of Paper", which was broadcast in Paris is also being discussed. It was about the disappearance of paper and how people must learn how to live without it. The different sociological changes brought by the innovation of radio, including its appeal to the illiterate are also given emphasis. It concludes by mentioning the threat of television to the radio.

On the basis of a variety of evidence, including the paper with Professor Harold Watts and a paper by the author, the case for seeking and frequently using disaggregated data seemed strong, but one nagging concern remained. Suppose, as seems likely, the microcomponents exhibit different behaviors. In this case it might not be sensible to pool the data and treat it as a single sample from a single universe. This paper copes directly with this issue, and demonstrates the importance of using disaggregated data even when microcomponents. Instead of using a simulation to study aggregation across components with different behaviors, one could have attempted a mathematical deduction of the effects. In order to do this certain simplifying assumptions would need to be introduced in order to make the problem tractable. Another approach to the problem of aggregation is to use data from the real world to fit models at different levels of aggregation, and then to evaluate the relative worth of these models by means of some quantitative measure.

The author presents a history of his efforts to design sustainable and economical circuit construction on paper, which he finds more akin to craft than industry. He focuses on a collection of modules called Rollz-5, which creates organic rhythms out of geometrical forms. A future application of this work will be to create radio devices based on the Platonic solids. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes an Enhanced Memetic Differential Evolution (EMDE) for designing digital filters which aim at detecting defects of the paper produced during an industrial process. Defect detection is handled by means of two Gabor filters and their design is performed by the EMDE. The EMDE is a novel adaptive evolutionary algorithm which combines the powerful explorative features of Differential Evolution with the exploitative features of three local search algorithms employing different pivot rules and neighborhood generating functions. These local search algorithms are the Hooke Jeeves Algorithm, a Stochastic Local Search, and Simulated Annealing. The local search algorithms are adaptively coordinated by means of a control parameter that measures fitness distribution among individuals of the population and a novel probabilistic scheme. Numerical results confirm that Differential Evolution is an efficient evolutionary framework for the image processing problem under investigation and show that the EMDE performs well. As a matter of fact, the application of the EMDE leads to a design of an efficiently tailored filter. A comparison with various popular metaheuristics proves the effectiveness of the EMDE in terms of convergence speed, stagnation prevention, and capability in detecting solutions having high performance.