…and ecological effects, dates to 1974. Understanding of the problem changed significantly with detection of the Antarctic ozone “hole” in 1985 and subsequent studies to explain it. Despite these major…
…the nation and reflecting glory instead of disenchantment on the university. Another positive prescription is reducing the cost of research without a youthful army of exploited inductees minimizing labor cost….
…after another of chip introduced at lower initial cost and the price for each chip falling over its lifetime. Contrast the chipsters with the record of the coal industry since…
…sweep of time sufficient for long-term effects to become apparent. Efforts at developing multiuser online simulation games (e.g., the Internet-based “President ‘96” and “Reinventing America,” developed by Crossover Technologies under…
…by jointly considering the magnitudes of the disparities and the costs of reducing them. Fortunately, the environmental justice issue has emerged at a time when a new information technology has…
…synthesis methods (e.g., Bayesian network theory, neural nets, relational data bases, and data mining approaches). Neither does it contain multi-disciplinary approaches that would combine two or more sensor or data-processing/synthesis…
…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…
…energy sector anyway, with regard to preferred primary fuels as well as efficiency. What appear as costs in our current cost-benefit calculus for mitigating, and adapting to, the greenhouse effect…
…from concerns about the local effects of SO2 on air quality and health than from acid rain. NOx emissions, from automobiles as well as power plants, remain steady with some…
…the improved variety resists pests, it lessens the external effects of pesticides compared to a sprayed crop. By minimally changing the external effects of things that farmers do per area,…