In my company the energy management function is charged with: 1. assuring adequate and reliable supply at lowest reasonable cost,2. forecasting and planning needs and projecting costs for existing and new facilities, 3. coordinating companywide programs designed to achieve maximum efficiency and...

OAK-B135 The results produced by this project include: (1) Development of econometrically estimated marginal abatement and associated production curves describing response of agricultural and forestry emissions/sink/offsets enhancements for use in integrated assessments. Curves were developed...

For informed climate change policy, it is important for decision makers to be able to assess how the costs and benefits of federal energy subsidies are distributed and to be able to have some measure to compare them. One way to do this is to evaluate the implied price of carbon (IPC) for a...

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This study focuses on clarifying factors that influence the sustainability of a development project, by examining a bilateral aid project in Vietnam: "The HIV/AIDS/STI Commune Clinics Network Project." This is a CIDA funded project which started in 2003 and is still going on. The purpose of this...

This paper develops multivariate methods for analyzing (1) effects of socioeconomic variables on the total fertility rate and its components and (2) effects of socioeconomic variables on the trend in the total fertility rate and its components. For the multivariate methods to be applicable, the...

The mature market presents challenges to marketers because much of theinformation about the marketplace is based on younger consumers, differing fromolder consumers in many important ways. The research project was commisionedwith two main objectives: to determine what is required to cater for...

Recent literature contains many examples of reputation systems which are constructed in anad hoc way or rely upon some heuristic which has been found to be useful. However,comparisons between these reputation systems has been impossible because there are noestablished methods of comparing...

Color poster with text and graph (Spring 2009)