…research groups may all find areas appropriate for their labors. We are well aware that researchers are conducting a considerable amount of high-quality, relevant work in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands,…
…the second spurt is only about one-tenth of the first. Divorce, common in countries such as Canada, permits longitudinal polygamy, and consequently the final result may be the same. Canadian…
…(Hourcade, this volume). Long-run price elasticities in the energy sector are not well-understood. A problem is that energy prices do not want to change. Crude oil prices, one of the…
…1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) agreement allows on-site inspections of nuclear missiles, including surprise inspections. The United States has established an On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) to conduct inspections and…
…warned that once he drove around the site, the car would be contaminated and its use restricted to the site. So, the so-called “Pripet Research Industrial Association” (PRIA), which now…
…Online at URL https://www.bts.gov/ntl/. 34US Department of Transportation (1997) National Transportation Statistics 1997 (Washington, DC: Bureau of Transportation Statistics). Online at https://www.bts.gov/btsprod/nts/. 35J. H. Ausubel and C. Marchetti (1996) ‘Elektron’, Daedalus 125, 139-169. 36M. Jufer…
…concern mounted. Most public water supplies in the area do not contain industrial pollution–many, however, have toxic byproducts of water purification–but large numbers of people started buying bottled water or…
…The late Yale historian of science Derek de Solla Price resignedly conjectured that scientific results grow at the discouraging price of the cube root of the expense (Little Science, Big…
…how entrepreneurs in a competitive market will try to minimize their labor costs by seeking the hours schedule that will attract the best labor at the cheapest cost. He argued…
…cheap and reliable. Already engineers consider post-silicon power electronics with diamond plasma switches. The requisite oxygen for the ZEPP, say, 1,000 tons/hr for a 5 GW plant, also exceeds present…