This paper describes two applications of evaluation techniques for the promotion of sustainable development in national and international policy-making. The first is based on a programme of work being undertaken for the European Commission, to carry out Sustainability Impact Assessments of the current round of WTO Trade Negotiations (Kirkpatrick et al 2002). The second application described is ...

Land-grant institutions were designed to improve the lives of individuals and communities by removing barriers education. However, despite years effort address lack scholars color at these institutions, disparities have persisted. Many graduate students faculty reported that workshops meant diversify academia their did not speak unique experiences or challenges. Ultimately, this contributed dec...

Ronce and Kirkpatrick (2001) derived the model on which our first model (eqq. [1], [2]) is based, and our equation for evolution is identical to theirs. Our ecological model differs because we include nonlinear density dependence and mortality due to predation. It is useful to express the ecological model in terms of more familiar ecological and evolutionary parameters to point out a difference...

Abstract. We introduce a Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass model with the addition of elastic degrees of freedom. The problem is formulated in terms of an effective four-spin Hamiltonian in the pressure ensemble, which can be treated by the replica method. In the replica-symmetric approximation, we analyze the pressuretemperature phase diagram, and obtain expressions for the critical boundarie...