J M Pearce
Biographic Data
| ID | 16354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J M Pearce |
| GIVEN NAMES | J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearce |
| SIGNATURE | PEARCE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9802-3056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ethics as if Your Life Depended on It
PurposeThis Commentary examines whether current ethics approval systems for medical research, grounded in the Belmont Report's principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice, paradoxically result in preventable deaths by delaying patient access to experimental therapies and proposes a framework for democratizing ethics oversight while maintaining safety.FindingsPeer-reviewed evidence demonstrates that ethics delays impose mortality c…
Land use for alcohol production and its implications for food security and public health: A case study of the United States
Open source technology readiness level assessment and application to the case study of distributed recycling for additive manufacturing
Assessing technology maturity in open source hardware ecosystems presents specific challenges connected to the openness of the technologies involved. Traditional Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) and other complementary frameworks cannot fully address the readiness assessment of open source technologies, as they rely on intellectual property-based mechanisms, assume well-defined contexts for implementation, and lack a comprehensive evaluation of…
Agrivoltaic Lettuce Production Under Future Climates: A Sustainable Strategy for Optimizing Food and Energy Yields
Food system resilience is increasingly challenged by climate change and global trade volatility, even in high‐income nations like Canada. Agrivoltaics—co‐locating crops and photovoltaics (PV)–offers a sustainable production strategy to optimize land use and address both food and energy security. While most agrivoltaic studies focus on current climates, this research evaluates lettuce production under simulated 2025 and 2050 climates using sealed …
Social acceptance of agrivoltaics in Canada: Insights on public perceptions across technologies and provinces from a nationwide survey
Canada possesses significant potential to reduce fossil fuel dependence through agrivoltaics - systems that integrate agricultural production with solar photovoltaic energy generation. Previous agrivoltaic research has consistently demonstrated multiple benefits, including enhanced crop yields for a wide variety of food crops. Additionally, only 1% of Canada's agrivoltaic potential could eliminate the country's reliance on fossil fuel-based elect…
The monetary relationship between carbon emissions and mortality: A review
Quantifying administrative efficiency: Proposed figures of merit for university comparisons and ranking
Administrative costs at universities have been steadily increasing in U.S. schools. These overheads are not currently directly captured in university ranking systems. In this study two approaches to administrative efficiency are proposed to overcome this oversight by measuring the ratio of administrators to faculty members and the ratio of students to administrators. Both values can be acquired from free publicly available databases and calculate…
Government Economics of Expanding Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying to Vulnerable Populations and the Ethical Implications of Allowing the State to Control Death
This study explores the potential economic savings from expanding medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada, where it is currently a leading cause of death, to include vulnerable groups that cost the government more than they contribute in taxes. These groups include individuals with severe mental health issues, the homeless, drug users, retired elderly, and indigenous communities. Both voluntary and non-voluntary scenarios were analyzed, proj…
Climate‐Resilient Crop Production Under Agrivoltaics: Experimental Evaluation of Amaranth Production With Semi‐Transparent Photovoltaic Modules in Canada Under Changing Climates
Climate change threatens global food security, requiring climate‐smart systems that enhance both crop resilience and sustainable energy production. While agrivoltaics is recognized for combining solar power generation with agriculture, its effects on emerging stress‐tolerant crops such as amaranth remain largely unexplored, particularly under future climatic scenarios. This study evaluates the growth of amaranth, a highly nutritious and stress‐to…
The unexpected reason firms should institute policies to remove email signatures: Quantifying human mortality costs of email signature-based reputation signaling
Extra information exchange, however, has environmental and social impacts including human mortality from climate destabilization. To illustrate the human mortality cost of carbon-emitting information technology the 1000-ton rule can be used to quantify the cost in human lives. The results of the carbon emission induced human mortality from adding only 3 words in emails to identify gender in a relatively small nations like Canada (∼40 million peop…
Professors want to share: Preliminary survey results on establishing open-source-endowed professorships
This study proposes a novel policy to provide incentives for open science: to offer open-source (OS)-endowed professorships. To hold an open-source-endowed chair , in addition to demonstrated excellence in their field, professors would need to agree to (1) ensuring all of their writing is distributed via open access in some way and (2) releasing all of their intellectual property in the public domain or under appropriate open-source licenses. The…
Long term cost-effectiveness of resilient foods for global catastrophes compared to artificial general intelligence safety
Life cycle assessment of pasture-based agrivoltaic systems: Emissions and energy use of integrated rabbit production
Agrivoltaic systems, which deliberately maximize the utility of a single parcel of land for both solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity production and agriculture , have been demonstrated as a viable technology that can ameliorate competing land uses and meet growing energy and food demands efficiently. The goal of this study is to assess the environmental impacts of a novel pasture-based agrivoltaic concept: co-farming rabbits and solar PV. A life …
Low emissions analysis platform model for renewable energy: Community-scale case studies in Nigeria
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics
Long-term cost-effectiveness of interventions for loss of electricity/industry compared to artificial general intelligence safety
Extreme solar storms, high-altitude electromagnetic pulses, and coordinated cyber attacks could disrupt regional/global electricity. Since electricity basically drives industry, industrial civilization could collapse without it. This could cause anthropological civilization (cities) to collapse, from which humanity might not recover, having long-term consequences. Previous work analyzed technical solutions to save nearly everyone despite industri…
The energy crises revealed by Covid: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health
From Open Access to Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality to Open Scientific Communication
Although opening up of research is considered an appropriate and trend-setting model for future scientific communication, it can still be difficult to put open science into practice. How open and transparent can a scientific work be? This article investigates the potential to make all information and the whole work process of a qualification project such as a doctoral thesis comprehensively and freely accessible on the internet with an open free …
Could 79 People Solarize the U.S. Electric Grid
Although wealth inequality has many established negatives, this study investigates a potential positive, unprecedented wealth concentration makes it possible for solutions to large and seemingly intractable problems to be deployed by convincing a relatively small number of individuals to invest. In order to probe this potential outcome of inequality, this study quantifies the number of people necessary to radically reduce the greenhouse gas emiss…
Economic impact of substituting solar photovoltaic electric production for tobacco farming
D printing open-source click-Muac bands for identification of malnutrition
International audience
Decarbonizing the boardroom? Aligning electric utility executive compensation with climate change incentives
Educational Pathways to Remote Employment in Isolated Communities
Those who live in isolated communities often lack reliable, skilled employment opportunities, which fundamentally undermines their human security. For individuals who wish to remain in their isolated communities for family, religious, philosophical or other reasons, their attachment to their communities creates a disincentive for higher education. This promotes low educational achievement, which in turn results in low socioeconomic status, lack o…
Feeding everyone: Solving the food crisis in event of global catastrophes that kill crops or obscure the sun
Community Voices: Perspectives on Renewable Energy in Nunavut
Nunavut communities currently depend on imported diesel fuel for virtually all of their energy needs. This dependency not only hinders the ability of communities to be self-sufficient, but also has negative impacts on their environment, health, and social well-being. The current practices waste 65% of the energy created and place a serious economic strain on the society by consuming 20% of the government’s annual budget. Although renewable energy…
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics
Photovoltaics — a path to sustainable futures
Feeding everyone: Solving the food crisis in event of global catastrophes that kill crops or obscure the sun
Foreign Languages and Sustainability: Addressing the Connections, Communities, and Comparisons Standards in Higher Education
This article describes an interdisciplinary collaboration that combined the study of German language with instruction in environmental issues (sustainable development). The project, involving both an independent study and a classroom unit, allowed students to make connections between disciplines, establish contact with German‐speaking communities outside the university, and make cultural and linguistic comparisons. By expanding the German‐languag…
From Open Access to Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality to Open Scientific Communication
Although opening up of research is considered an appropriate and trend-setting model for future scientific communication, it can still be difficult to put open science into practice. How open and transparent can a scientific work be? This article investigates the potential to make all information and the whole work process of a qualification project such as a doctoral thesis comprehensively and freely accessible on the internet with an open free …
Climate‐Resilient Crop Production Under Agrivoltaics: Experimental Evaluation of Amaranth Production With Semi‐Transparent Photovoltaic Modules in Canada Under Changing Climates
Climate change threatens global food security, requiring climate‐smart systems that enhance both crop resilience and sustainable energy production. While agrivoltaics is recognized for combining solar power generation with agriculture, its effects on emerging stress‐tolerant crops such as amaranth remain largely unexplored, particularly under future climatic scenarios. This study evaluates the growth of amaranth, a highly nutritious and stress‐to…
Economic impact of substituting solar photovoltaic electric production for tobacco farming
The Use of Self-Directed Learning to Promote Active Citizenship in STS Classes
The purpose of this article is to outline the viability of a student-directed assignment within collegiate-level STS curricula for the improvement of the utilization of scientific knowledge and technology in society. The assignment, christened the Do Something! assignment, is a novel teaching tool that utilizes students’ individual interests to encourage in-depth learning across disciplines and capitalizes on their personal skills and talents to …
Photovoltaics — a path to sustainable futures
Student Inquiries into Neglected Research for a Sustainable Society: Communication and Application
By applying the interdisciplinary approach of science, technology, and society, students can solve often-neglected research problems of shifting society's operation toward a sustainable state. A recent Penn State University student research report titled The Mueller Report: Moving Beyond Sustainability Indicators to Sustainability Action contained a detailed ecological analysis of one campus building and addressed methods to optimize its ecologic…
Using the Internet to reduce market risk for alternative energy sources: The case of large–scale solar photovoltaic production
Although tremendous progress has been made in improving the conversion of sunlight into electricity with solar photovoltaic cells, their widespread adoption is primarily limited by high costs. This paper explores the use of the Internet as a catalyst for the diffusion of solar photovoltaic technology by reducing market risk. With market risk minimized by a database generated by a community of pledged consumers, solar cell companies would be motiv…
Solar Photovoltaic Energy for Mitigation of Climate Change: A Catalytic Application of Catholic Social Thought
This paper explores an application of Catholic theology to mitigate the current destruction of God's creation underway due to global climate destabilization. Specifically it describes the possibility of the U.S. Catholic Church adopting a systematic plan to catalyze the world energy market to shift to solar photovoltaic energy, a non-polluting renewable energy source. The science behind the ecological crisis and climate change in the context of t…
Viability of small‐scale arsenic‐contaminated‐water purification technologies for sustainable development in Pakistan
Drinking arsenic‐contaminated water leads to a series of health problems that has limited development for the largely poor rural people of Pakistan who are unable to afford bottled water, centralized treatment plants or expensive water filter systems. This paper reviews the available appropriate technologies for the removal of arsenic from drinking water to assist in just sustainable development in Pakistan. Several technologies were found to be …
Foreign Languages and Sustainability: Addressing the Connections, Communities, and Comparisons Standards in Higher Education
This article describes an interdisciplinary collaboration that combined the study of German language with instruction in environmental issues (sustainable development). The project, involving both an independent study and a classroom unit, allowed students to make connections between disciplines, establish contact with German‐speaking communities outside the university, and make cultural and linguistic comparisons. By expanding the German‐languag…
Renewable Energy Policies and Programs in Nunavut: Perspectives from the Federal and Territorial Governments
Nunavut, the youngest Canadian territory, has developed a complete dependence on diesel-generated electricity over the last 50 years, which has led to environmental and economic stress on the territory. However, renewable energy technologies (RETs) could provide substantial electricity to communities, thereby reducing the use of diesel fuel. This study explored the perspectives of government policy-makers, northern energy consultants, and NGOs in…
The case for open source appropriate technology
Much of the widespread poverty, environmental desecration, and waste of human life seen around the globe could be prevented by known (to humanity as a whole) technologies, many of which are simply not available to those that need it. This lack of access to critical information for sustainable development is directly responsible for a morally and ethically unacceptable level of human suffering and death. A solution to this general problem is the c…
Community Voices: Perspectives on Renewable Energy in Nunavut
Nunavut communities currently depend on imported diesel fuel for virtually all of their energy needs. This dependency not only hinders the ability of communities to be self-sufficient, but also has negative impacts on their environment, health, and social well-being. The current practices waste 65% of the energy created and place a serious economic strain on the society by consuming 20% of the government’s annual budget. Although renewable energy…
Educational Pathways to Remote Employment in Isolated Communities
Those who live in isolated communities often lack reliable, skilled employment opportunities, which fundamentally undermines their human security. For individuals who wish to remain in their isolated communities for family, religious, philosophical or other reasons, their attachment to their communities creates a disincentive for higher education. This promotes low educational achievement, which in turn results in low socioeconomic status, lack o…
Feeding everyone: Solving the food crisis in event of global catastrophes that kill crops or obscure the sun
D printing open-source click-Muac bands for identification of malnutrition
International audience
Decarbonizing the boardroom? Aligning electric utility executive compensation with climate change incentives
Economic impact of substituting solar photovoltaic electric production for tobacco farming
Could 79 People Solarize the U.S. Electric Grid
Although wealth inequality has many established negatives, this study investigates a potential positive, unprecedented wealth concentration makes it possible for solutions to large and seemingly intractable problems to be deployed by convincing a relatively small number of individuals to invest. In order to probe this potential outcome of inequality, this study quantifies the number of people necessary to radically reduce the greenhouse gas emiss…
The energy crises revealed by Covid: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health
From Open Access to Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality to Open Scientific Communication
Although opening up of research is considered an appropriate and trend-setting model for future scientific communication, it can still be difficult to put open science into practice. How open and transparent can a scientific work be? This article investigates the potential to make all information and the whole work process of a qualification project such as a doctoral thesis comprehensively and freely accessible on the internet with an open free …
Life cycle assessment of pasture-based agrivoltaic systems: Emissions and energy use of integrated rabbit production
Agrivoltaic systems, which deliberately maximize the utility of a single parcel of land for both solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity production and agriculture , have been demonstrated as a viable technology that can ameliorate competing land uses and meet growing energy and food demands efficiently. The goal of this study is to assess the environmental impacts of a novel pasture-based agrivoltaic concept: co-farming rabbits and solar PV. A life …
Low emissions analysis platform model for renewable energy: Community-scale case studies in Nigeria
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics
Long-term cost-effectiveness of interventions for loss of electricity/industry compared to artificial general intelligence safety
Extreme solar storms, high-altitude electromagnetic pulses, and coordinated cyber attacks could disrupt regional/global electricity. Since electricity basically drives industry, industrial civilization could collapse without it. This could cause anthropological civilization (cities) to collapse, from which humanity might not recover, having long-term consequences. Previous work analyzed technical solutions to save nearly everyone despite industri…
Professors want to share: Preliminary survey results on establishing open-source-endowed professorships
This study proposes a novel policy to provide incentives for open science: to offer open-source (OS)-endowed professorships. To hold an open-source-endowed chair , in addition to demonstrated excellence in their field, professors would need to agree to (1) ensuring all of their writing is distributed via open access in some way and (2) releasing all of their intellectual property in the public domain or under appropriate open-source licenses. The…
Long term cost-effectiveness of resilient foods for global catastrophes compared to artificial general intelligence safety
The monetary relationship between carbon emissions and mortality: A review
Economics (18 works) · Engineering (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Natural resource economics (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (8 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Photovoltaic system (8 works)