Efficiency improvement opportunities in TVs: Implications for market transformation programs

Quality improvement opportunities in prescriber alert programs.

Battles may be won, but the war against threats to patient safety continues, and time will tell if escalation of the war will reduce casualties. Brent James, MD, the well-known advocate of process improvement, several years ago described himself as a “terrorist” for health care safety. Despite Dr. James’ commitment to escalate the war in an attempt to reduce medical errors, particularly errors ...

The Economics of Energy Market Transformation Programs

This paper evaluates three energy-sector market transformation programs: the Environmental Protection Agency’s on-going Green Lights program to promote on-grid efficient lighting, the World Bank Group’s new Photovoltaic Market Transformation Initiative, and the federal grain ethanol subsidy. We develop a benefit-cost model that uses experience curves to estimate unit cost reductions as a functi...

Testing the efficiency of different improvement programs

We study the finite-size behaviour of a tree-level on-shell improved action for the N -vector model. We present numerical results for N = 3 and analytic results in the large-N limit for the mass gap. We also report a perturbative computation at one loop of the mass gap for states of spatial momentum p. We present a detailed comparison of the behaviour of this action with that of other formulati...

A Scoping Study on Energy-Efficiency Market Transformation by California Utility DSM Programs

The Emergent Market for Information Professionals: Educational Opportunities and Implications

DURINGTHE 1980s, information technology proliferated in corporations. While the technology permitted information professionals to add much more value, i t also greatly increased information expense. Rising expense made financial management the fundamental library management competency, while intensifying top management pressure on the library more generally. Unfortunately, librarians continue t...