scholarly journals Financial incentives for behavioral change in the ecological city

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (424-426) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Rodney R. White
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
State University ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Management Project ◽  
Short Courses ◽  
The University

The author is a Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto and former Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies. His research interests are in urban environmental management/urban infrastructure; adaptation to climate change; catastrophes, environmental liability and the insurance industry; and risk analysis and environmental finance. He has extensive overseas experience, especially in Africa and China. He was the Principal Investigator for the GIS-based Soil Erosion Management Project in North China and for the Toronto component of the Sustainable Water Management Project in the Beijing-Tianjin Region, both funded by CIDA. He has held teaching appointments at North-western University, McMaster University and Ibadan University, and has also taught short courses in Senegal, Malawi and Vietnam. He holds degrees in geography from Oxford (B.A., 1965), Pennsylvania State University (M.Sc., 1967) and Bristol University (Ph.D, 1971). His most recent books are Building the Ecological City, published by Woodhead Publishing in 2002 and Environmental Finance: A Guide to Environmental Risk Assessment and Financial Products (with Sonia Labatt) published by Wiley in 2002. The text that follows is an edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "The Natural City," Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

scholarly journals Preface: Modern Heterocycle Synthesis and Functionalization

Synlett ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 140-141
Author(s):  
Louis-Charles Campeau ◽  
Tomislav Rovis
Keyword(s):  
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
State University ◽  
Heterocycle Synthesis ◽  
Colorado State University ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Process Chemistry ◽  
The University ◽  
Small Molecule Therapeutics

obtained his PhD degree in 2008 with the late Professor Keith Fagnou at the University of Ottawa in Canada as an NSERC Doctoral Fellow. He then joined Merck Research Laboratories at Merck-Frosst in Montreal in 2007, making key contributions to the discovery of Doravirine (MK-1439) for which he received a Merck Special Achievement Award. In 2010, he moved from Quebec to New Jersey, where he has served in roles of increasing responsibility with Merck ever since. L.-C. is currently Executive Director and the Head of Process Chemistry and Discovery Process Chemistry organizations, leading a team of smart creative scientists developing innovative chemistry solutions in support of all discovery, pre-clinical and clinical active pharmaceutical ingredient deliveries for the entire Merck portfolio for small-molecule therapeutics. Over his tenure at Merck, L.-C. and his team have made important contributions to >40 clinical candidates and 4 commercial products to date. Tom Rovis was born in Zagreb in former Yugoslavia but was largely raised in southern Ontario, Canada. He earned his PhD degree at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1998 under the direction of Professor Mark Lautens. From 1998–2000, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (USA) with Professor David A. Evans. In 2000, he began his independent career at Colorado State University and was promoted in 2005 to Associate Professor and in 2008 to Professor. His group’s accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards including an Arthur C. Cope Scholar, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a ­Katritzky Young Investigator in Heterocyclic Chemistry. In 2016, he moved to Columbia University where he is currently the Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry.

scholarly journals Energy Production and Pollution Mitigation from Broilers Houses on Poultry Farms in Jamaica and Pennsylvania

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanique Grant ◽  
Alicia Marshalleck
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Chicken Manure ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Energy Demands ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
32 Factorial Design ◽  
The University

Increasing energy demands and diminishing fuel supplies have left nations desirous of avenues to minimize their reliance on traditional energy sources and a need to infuse supplementary technologies. Biogas technology is one such trajectory that can contribute to the reduction of dependency on fossil fuel as well as allay environmentally problems. The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) and Pennsylvania State University (PSU), in pursuit of investigating the potential of biogas in the agricultural sectors of Jamaica and Pennsylvania, United States, sought to use biogas generated from livestock (chicken, swine and cow) waste as an alternative energy source. A 32 factorial design resulted in the construction of seven (7) laboratory scale biodigesters, each with a volumetric capacity of 8 L. Variations of the ratio, (i.e. chicken manure in combination with pig or cow manure) and retention time enabled the monitoring of biogas flow-rates, temperature, pH, residual mass along with percentage methane production. From the data collected mathematical models relating the flow-rate and percentage methane concentration were deduced in order to facilitate the design of a pilot scale digester on the Silverdene poultry farm in the Parish of St. Catherine, Jamaica.

Factors Affecting Variability in Strategic Highway Research Program Binder Tests

2000 ◽  
Vol 1728 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Anderson ◽  
Mihai O. Marasteanu ◽  
James M. Mahoney ◽  
Jack E. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Asphalt Binder ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
Asphalt Binders ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Testing Procedures ◽  
Testing Practice ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Connecticut

Two binder technician workshops were held in January 1998, one at the Connecticut Advanced Pavement Laboratory at the University of Connecticut and one at the Northeast Center of Excellence for Paving Technology at Pennsylvania State University. These workshops were followed by a second set in 1999. The overall objective was to improve the repeatability of the test methods used to grade Superpave® asphalt binders. During the workshops, participants demonstrated and discussed the techniques used in their own laboratories. A document, Manual of Practice for Testing Asphalt Binders in Accordance with the Superpave PG Grading System, was developed for use by asphalt binder technicians and as a training aid for a proposed binder technician certification program. The results of the discussions that were held during the workshops and the items that are presented in the manual of practice are summarized. The results were grouped into four main categories: ( a) handling, sampling, and sample preparation; ( b) temperature measurements; ( c) equipment calibration; and ( d) testing procedures. The items discussed here and in the manual of practice supplement and clarify the current AASHTO test methods. The test methods in themselves are not sufficient to ensure uniformity in testing practice from one laboratory to the other.

Another look at the role of the industrial structure of markets for international diversification strategies1We are especially grateful to Pat Casey and Virge Cavalli at Dow Jones for providing the Dow Jones World Stock Index data and for their assistance with numerous queries. We gratefully acknowledge the comments of Geert Bekaert, William Brigham, Shane Corwin, Steve Foerster, Jeff Harris, Steve Heston, Ajay Khorana, David Mayers, John Persons, René Stulz, and particularly, the referee (Geert Rouwenhorst) and editor (John Long). We also thank participants at the University of Alberta, University of Toronto and Ohio State University, the 1996 UBC Global Investment Conference (Whistler), 1996 International Finance Conference (Georgia Tech), 1996 Western Finance Association Conference, and 1996 Financial Management Association Conference for helpful suggestions. Karolyi thanks the Dice Center for Financial Economics and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support.1

1998 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M Griffin ◽  
G Andrew Karolyi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Stock Index ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Management Association ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University
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