Ferme Generale

Lavoisier s government commitments did not slow his own investigations. Recause he was personally wealthy, both from family money and as a partner in the Ferme Generale (a private company that collected taxes for the government), Lavoisier had the best equipped laboratory in Europe. Everything from the most delicate balances for measuring the mass of gases to powerful furnaces was at his disposal. 

Lavoisier did not invent the law of conservation of matter. It was a firm assumption in the minds of contemporary and earlier scientists. However, his careful trapping of gases in preweighed liquids and his requirement that all matter in a chemical reaction must be accounted for brought chemistry to a new level as a science—some even called it physics. If the mass at the start of a reaction and at the end could not be matched then there was not much point in analyzing the chemistry. It was as if the Ferme Generale were conducting an audit. 

But in 1788 Lavoisier was at the height of his prestige and authority. As one of 40 wealthy partners in the Ferme Generale, he was a shareholder in the company empowered to collect taxes on all imports. This included the very salt that sustained people s lives. The General Farm also exercised some control of the... 

Academicians who had not abandoned their elitist views and wholeheartedly joined the people were now in danger. The Reign of Terror fully radicalized the Revolution, and Lavoisier, Paulze, and 26 other members of the Ferme Generale were guillotined over the course of 35 minutes on May 8, 1794. ... 

The rate equation describes the variation in response variable R (with initial value of Rq) the measure response appears at a constant rate (zero order) of and is eliminafed by the first-order constant. The indirect response models will generally fall info fwo caf-egories inhibition or stimulation function. The inhibition response is classically described in ferms of IC q, fhe drug concenfration fhaf produce 50% of maximal inhibition (e.g., action of S5mfhefic glucocorticoid on adrenal glands or effecf of furosemide on sodium absorption in fhe loop of Henley) and is a number from 0 fo 1 where 1 represents total inhibition ... 

Because of potential extrapyramidal symptoms, akathisia, and theoretical risk of tardive dyskinesia, first consider other TCAs/tetracyclics for long-ferm use in general and fortreatmenf of chronic patients... 

II est faux en general qu un cycle forme d un ferme irreductible compte avec multiplicite 1 soit un cycle regulier, comme le montre 1 exemple suivant ... 

Lavoisier s international reputation as a scientist and his valuable services to France were as dust in the balance when weighed against his profession as a Fermier-General. In 1793 he and other members of the Ferme were arrested on... 

The costs are then balanced against tiie benefits (both qualitative and quantitative) and then an objective decision may be made on whether to allocate resources to the project or not. This will usually be based on the length of the pay-back period. Most health and safety projects will generally have a pay-back period of between three and five years - i.e. medium-ferm rather than short term. 

---