The issue of climate change poses to be one of the most pressing challenges facing community of nation states in the 21st century. While both developed and developing nations will feel the far-reaching impacts of climate ...

This study evaluates the state-level impacts of different energy and climate policy approaches on the US manufacturing industry for their environmental benefits and cost effectiveness. The study uses Data Envelopment ...

<p>Heightened awareness of the evolutionary, socio-cultural, and psychological origins of our moral judgments pushes many of us in the direction of moral skepticism, in the direction of doubting the objective truth of our ...

With the world full of situations in which information that is potentially useful to decision-making is dispersed among various individuals, research into how this information can be efficiently shared has been the focus ...

The southern resident population of killer whales declined dramatically in the late 1990s. The number of animals in the population dropped from 97 in 1996 to 78 in 2001, a 20% decline in just five years. Although the reasons ...

Ratification of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and its deep-sea mining Implementing Agreement of 1994 form the framework for the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Mining Code. The major ...

<p>Studies in the ankyrin-B+/- mouse reveal that ankyrin-B deficiency is associated with both the benefits of enhanced cardiac contractility and the costs of arrhythmia, early senescence, reduced lifespan, and impaired ...

<p>The cell cycle is a series of ordered events that culminates in a single cell dividing into two daughter cells. These events must be properly coordinated to ensure the faithful passage of genetic material. How cell ...

<p>Regenerative medicine holds the promise of providing relief for people suffering from diseases where treatment has been unattainable. The research is advancing rapidly; however, there are still many hurdles to overcome ...

The traditional approach to water resources management in the Southeastern United States does not take full advantage of economic tools for managing scarcity. It fails to prevent economically inefficient uses of water, ...