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I Contemporary park and wilderness carryil'\g capacity frameworks rely on formulation of standards of quality. which are defined as minimum acceptable resource and social condtIons. Formulation of standal'ds of quality involves elements of both science and values. and both of these elements mJat be integated into informed judgments on the part of park and wilderness managers. That is. managers ...

•We offer a Sustainable Agriculture Matrix to track performance of countries worldwide•Priority areas for improving agricultural sustainability depend on development stage•Analysis trade-offs and synergies among indicators can inform national policies The 2015 Development Goals present pathways toward sustainable future. agriculture sector is fundamental three pillars sustainability: the enviro...

In developing countries, Information Technology education is associated with high cost and is not typically available outside urban areas. Seeking IT education might not be on the priority list of countries battling numerous problems related to healthcare, housing, nutrition and other basic needs of life, but globally, IT education is an increasingly important aspect of human resource developme...

Government regulation of business activity has been recognized as having critical impact on countries economic development. The aim of this research is to empirically explore the role played by information and communication technology (ICT) on the regulatory environment for doing business at the country level. We expect that the greater the access to information, the better the regulatory frame...

The technique of input shaping has been successfully applied to the problem of maneuvering flexible structures without excessive residual vibration. With input shaping, non-negative impulse shapers are often desired because they can be used with any arbitrary (unshaped) commands and not cause actuator saturation (if these original unshaped commands do not cause actuator saturation). We outline ...

We describe a topic tracking system developed at GE Corporate R&D Center in connection with our participation in DARPA TDT3 evaluations. The TDT tracking task is specified as follows: Given Nt training news stories on a topic, the system must find all subsequent stories on the same topic in all tracked news sources. These sources include radio and television news broadcasts, as well as newswire...

While we would expect that cross-border patents are used to protect a technology is made available in another country, could either be produced locally or imported. International patent filings therefore complements substitutes international trade. This study combines data on patenting and trade for 149 countries 249 industries between 1974 2006 with “three-way” panel model addresses several bi...

This study investigates the role of political consensus in accelerating economic reforms and finds a significant negative effect on speed reform votes parliament Tunisia. We analyze number days until bill was adopted to identify causal reforms. Using an endogenous treatment model original database between 2012 2019 Tunisia, we compare social with before after consensus. find that is more likely...