Ocean Dumping of Containerized DDT Waste Was a Sloppy Process

Land Based Alternatives to Ocean Dumping

Mortgaging the future: dumping ethics with nuclear waste.

On August 22, 2005 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued proposed new regulations for radiation releases from the planned permanent U.S. nuclear-waste repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The goal of the new standards is to provide public-health protection for the next million years - even though everyone admits that the radioactive wastes will leak. Regulations now guarantee individ...

A Selectable Sloppy Heap

We study the selection problem, namely that of computing the ith order statistic of n given elements. Here we offer a data structure called selectable sloppy heap handling a dynamic version in which upon request: (i) a new element is inserted or (ii) an element of a prescribed quantile group is deleted from the data structure. Each operation is executed in (ideal!) constant time— and is thus in...

Social Dumping in the Transformation Process?

Business representatives and union leaders in highly industrialised countries often accuse the governments of lessdeveloped countries of practising social dumping in the sense of deliberately neglecting work-place safety legislation, codetermination rights and other fringe benefits which define the quality of workplaces. This paper refutes this view by modelling the transition path of a less-de...

Containerized A/B Testing