The Fenton process activated by Zero Valent Iron (ZVI-Fenton) is shown here to effectively remove antibiotics reserved for hospital settings (specifically used treat antibiotic-resistant infections) from wastewater, thereby helping in the fight against bacterial resistance. Effective degradation of cefazolin, imipenem and vancomycin real urban wastewater was achieved at pH 5, which quite near n...

These are notes from T. Schedler’s talk (with D. Ben-Zvi) on smooth/strong Gcategories at U. Oregon, Eugene, OR, on Aug 16, 2012. Acknowledgements. This talk was part of the workshop on Categorical Representation Theory at U. Oregon, 13 August–17 August, 2012, organized by N. Proudfoot, led mathematically by D. Ben-Zvi, and funded by an NSF CAREER grant. Thanks especially to D. Ben-Zvi for his ...

We are grateful to Martin N. Baily, Ernst Berndt, Bronwyn Hall, Christopher Jencks, seminar participants at Duke, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, the European University Institute, and to participants in the CRIW meeting on "Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Memory of Zvi Griliches" in September 2003. Weiping Zhou and Daniel Gottlieb provided superb data analysis. ...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, statistical reasoning (SR), statistical literacy (SL) and statistical thinking (ST) have been declared as the three overarching goals of modern statistics teaching (see for example, Ben-Zvi & Garfield, 2004). In many countries, e.g., in Germany, these goals involve a considerable change from teaching probability to teaching statistics. Hence, Garfield (2002) mentio...

This paper was prepared for the NBER Conference on Organizational Change and Performance Improvement. We gratefully acknowledge funding from POPI, the Program for the Study of the Pharmaceutical Industry at MIT, by the MIT Center for Innovation in Product Development under NSF Cooperative Agreement Number EEC-9529140, and the Sloan Foundation. Stern completed this paper as an NBER Fellow in Hea...

An earlier version of this paper circulated under the title: ”International R&D Spillover and Intersectoral Trade Flows: Do they Match?”. Thanks are due to seminar audiences at ColoradoBoulder, the 1995 NBER Summer Institute, Purdue, Wisconsin-Madison, and Yale, especially Robert Evenson, Zvi Griliches, James Harrigan, Keith Maskus, F.M. Scherer, T.N. Srinivasan, Marie Thursby, and an anonymous...

Benaya Rozen-Zvi, Tomoko Hayashida, Susan C. Hubchak, Christian Hanna, Leonidas C. Platanias, and H. William Schnaper Division of Kidney Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Ann & Robert H. Lurie C...

This research was funded by four pharmaceutical companies and by the Sloan Foundation. Their support is gratefully acknowledged. We would also like to express our appreciation to all of those firms that contributed data to the study, to Bronwyn Hall, Richard Caves and Zvi Griliches, and to seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, MIT, the NBER, Northwestern, Stanford, UBC and UCLA for...