Joanna Szurmak

• M. A. Sc. (U of Toronto), M. I. St. (U of Toronto)
• Librarian at University of Toronto

Objective This paper provides the first comprehensive assessment of the outcome of Paul Ehrlich's and Stephen Schneider's counteroffer (1995) to economist Julian Simon following Ehrlich's loss in the famous Ehrlich‐Simon wager on economic growth and the price of natural resources (1980‐1990). Our main conclusion in a previous article is that, for i...

Objective This paper provides the first comprehensive assessment of the outcome of Paul Ehrlich and Stephen Schneider's counteroffer (1995) to economist Julian Simon following Ehrlich's loss in the famous Ehrlich‐Simon wager on economic growth and the price of natural resources (1980‐1990). Methods Literature review, data gathering and critical as...

Narratives are the heuristics the brain uses to make sense of the world. When they are embraced in teaching, they make the process more efficient, engaging and enjoyable for both students and instructors. While the insights of psychologists, neuroscientists and education researchers into the cognitive and affective mechanisms of meaning-making are...

Using the historical development of the American cottonseed value chain as a case study, we show that the factors usually deemed significant in the spontaneous development of localized industrial symbiosis (e.g., high volumes of potentially valuable yet environmentally problematic residuals, an economically diverse industrial base, as well as perso...

In 2010, the University of Toronto’s Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) and University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) jointly launched Partnering for Academic Student Success (PASS), a partnership to foster new opportunities for collaboration between academic librarians and those involved in developing excellence in university teaching. Th...

First-year computer science (CS1) requires students to simultaneously acquire a technical vocabulary and to develop an array of technical and communication skills. As a result, fewer than two-thirds of students typically complete the course. To improve the course success rate, this facultylibrarian collaboration developed the Learning Outcomes Asse...

Although accessing grey literature has received a lot of attention in recent years, the study of grey literature has been problematic. Information specialists lack agreement even on a definition. For this paper, grey literature is that which cannot be found using traditional indexing and abstracting sources. Information seekers who turn to grey lit...

Hydrogenated amorphous carbon films (a-C:H) were deposited using the DC saddle-field discharge. The reflectance and transmittance in the visible and UV ranges, infrared absorption, X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) and Raman spectroscopy were studied. The Tauc energy gap, Urbach energy, sp2 CC content, sp3 C–C content, and C–H bond type and c...

The electrical characteristics of a dc saddle-field discharge were studied for methane. The dc saddle-field configuration consists of a semitransparent anode sandwiched between two semitransparent cathodes, and an electrically isolated substrate holder plate positioned behind each of the cathodes. In comparison to the standard dc discharge, the dc...

The dc saddle-field glow-discharge technique was employed to deposit undoped, phosphorus-doped and boron-doped hydrogenated diamond-like amorphous carbon films. The undoped films were grown using pure methane, while the doped films were grown using methane diluted with dopant gases (phosphine and diborane) in mole fraction ranging from 0.05 to 1×10...

Our preliminary results show that controllable doping of amorphous hydrogenated DLC films prepared by DC saddle-field glow-discharge technique is possible. We have found deposition conditions when the doping with boron is electrically effective. How to Cite This Article Link to This Abstract Blog This Article Copy and paste this link Highlight...

Purely concentration-gradient driven liquid-liquid interface laser beam deflection detection was studied theoretically and used experimentally to monitor the kinetics of diffusion between water and sugar as a simple model system. The combination of data from both sides of the interface was used to determine the initial position of the interface pla...