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Ethical Consumption: US/Leap Views on Fair Trade, Other Certification Programs, and Consumer Power
This article presents US/Leap’s views Fair Trade labeling schemes and their benefits to workers and consumers globally. Examples of effective certification labels and other tools that serve mainly as corporate marketing tools are included. US/Leap mostly takes the position that certification programs have not yet demonstrated that they are effective enough to ensure protection for worker rights and justice for workers
Finding Resources for Health Reform and Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
Examines policy options for slowing healthcare spending growth, improving outcomes, and financing comprehensive reform, including changes to Medicare Advantage and hospital pay-for-performance. Compares their estimated budget impact over ten years
Carting Away the Oceans 9
The Carting Away the Oceans report, released annually since 2008, identifies which major grocery chains are leaders in sustainable seafood and which are falling behind.The findings are telling.In the latest update, Whole Foods, Wegmans, Hy-Vee, and Safeway topped the list for their sustainable seafood practices. Roundy's, Publix, A&P, and Save Mart were the worst ranked companies. Publix and Kroger, both top ten supermarkets based on their annual sales, sell more Red List species than any other U.S. grocery chain.Applauding industry leaders and exposing those lagging behind is key to getting supermarkets to take responsibility and play their part in protecting our oceans and the people who depend on the
Auction-based Resource Allocation for Multi-relay Asynchronous Cooperative Networks
Resource allocation is considered for cooperative transmissions in
multiple-relay wireless networks. Two auction mechanisms, SNR auctions and
power auctions, are proposed to distributively coordinate the allocation of
power among multiple relays. In the SNR auction, a user chooses the relay with
the lowest weighted price. In the power auction, a user may choose to use
multiple relays simultaneously, depending on the network topology and the
relays' prices. Sufficient conditions for the existence (in both auctions) and
uniqueness (in the SNR auction) of the Nash equilibrium are given. The fairness
of the SNR auction and efficiency of the power auction are further discussed.
It is also proven that users can achieve the unique Nash equilibrium
distributively via best response updates in a completely asynchronous manner.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, March
30 to April 4, 200
Pacific Economic Monitor: Budget Analysis
The Monitor provides an update of developments in Pacific economies and explores topical policy issues
February 2009 Newsletter
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.ILRF_SweatFree_Communities__February_2009.pdf: 15 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Use-cases on evolution
This report presents a set of use cases for evolution and reactivity for data in the Web and
Semantic Web. This set is organized around three different case study scenarios, each of them
is related to one of the three different areas of application within Rewerse. Namely, the scenarios
are: “The Rewerse Information System and Portal”, closely related to the work of A3
– Personalised Information Systems; “Organizing Travels”, that may be related to the work
of A1 – Events, Time, and Locations; “Updates and evolution in bioinformatics data sources”
related to the work of A2 – Towards a Bioinformatics Web
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