Teenage consumption of cleanliness: how to make it sustainable?

It Won’t Be Easy: How to Make Universal Pharmacare Work in Canada

One of the glaring gaps in Canada’s universal healthcare system is the low level of public financing of prescription drugs - 42.7% of total spending in 2018. At the federal level there is renewed interest in moving towards universal coverage, supported by a recently commissioned report on how to achieve it. It will take superb political navigation to extract Canadian ph...

Embedded Software: How To Make It Efficient?

This paper stresses the importance of designing efficient embedded software and it provides a global view of some of the techniques that have been developed to meet this goal. These techniques include high-level transformations, compiler optimizations reducing the energy consumption of embedded programs and optimizations exploiting architectural features of embedded processors. Such optimizatio...

Mobile Reception of Dvb-h: How to Make It Work?

This paper describes the conception and development of a solution for improved mobile reception of the digital video broadcast standard for handheld (DVB-H) at Philips Research. It includes a simple characterization of mobility-induced interference based on a suitable model for the doubly selective channel. We further describe estimation and interference cancellation algorithms explaining the t...

WP No 611 October , 2005 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT : HOW SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS MAKE IT HAPPEN

This paper demonstrates that entrepreneurs who have created innovative organizations and service provision models are contributing to sustainable development. The processes, structures and outcomes of their initiatives are contrasted with more traditional efforts. World leaders have recently renewed the momentum for ‘buying’ sustainable development through massive allocation of development fund...

Consumption: How to Prevent It and How to Live with It