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Network Meta-Metrics: Using Evolutionary Computation to Identify Effective Indicators of Epidemiological Vulnerability in a Livestock Production System Model
(SimSoc Consortium, 2019-03-31)We developed an agent-based susceptible/infective model which simulates disease incursions in the hog production chain networks of three U.S. states. Agent parameters, contact network data, and epidemiological spread ... -
Willingness to Comply With Biosecurity in Livestock Facilities: Evidence From Experimental Simulations
(Frontiers Media, 2019-06-03)Disease in U.S. animal livestock industries annually costs over a billion dollars. Adoption and compliance with biosecurity practices is necessary to successfully reduce the risk of disease introduction or spread. Yet, a ... -
Risk Attitudes Affect Livestock Biosecurity Decisions With Ramifications for Disease Control in a Simulated Production System
(Frontiers Media, 2019-06-24)Hog producers' operational decisions can be informed by an awareness of risks associated with emergent and endemic diseases. Outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) have been re-occurring every year since the ... -
Using experimental gaming simulations to elicit risk mitigation behavioral strategies for agricultural disease management
(PLOS ONE, 2020-03-17)Failing to mitigate propagation of disease spread can result in dire economic consequences for agricultural networks. Pathogens like Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, can quickly spread among producers. Biosecurity is ... -
Effects of Social Cues on Biosecurity Compliance in Livestock Facilities: Evidence From Experimental Simulations
(Frontiers Media, 2020-03-26)Disease outbreaks in U.S. animal livestock industries have economic impacts measured in hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Biosecurity, or procedures intended to protect animals against disease, is known to be ... -
Emulating Agricultural Disease Management: Comparing Risk Preferences Between Industry Professionals and Online Participants Using Experimental Gaming Simulations and Paired Lottery Choice Surveys
(Frontiers Media, 2021-01-17)Mitigating the spread of disease is crucial for the well-being of agricultural production systems. Implementing biosecurity disease prevention measures can be expensive, so producers must balance the costs of biosecurity ... -
Message Delivery Strategy Influences Willingness to Comply With Biosecurity
(Frontiers Media, 2021-06-24)As the Covid-19 pandemic continues worldwide, it has become increasingly clear that effective communication of disease transmission risks associated with protective behaviors is essential, and that communication tactics ... -
Compost Quality and Markets Are Pivotal for Sustainability in Circular Food-Nutrient Systems: A Case Study of Sri Lanka
(Frontiers Media, 2021-11-18)Sustainable management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is a critical issue around the world, especially in South Asia where waste generation is expected to double by 2050. Closing the food-nutrient cycle through composting ... -
Climate Change-Legacy Phosphorus Synergy Hinders Lake Response to Aggressive Water Policy Targets
(AGU, 2022-04-27)With mounting scientific evidence demonstrating adverse global climate change (GCC) impacts to water quality, water quality policies, such as the Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) under the U.S. Clean Water Act, have begun ... -
Assessing strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making and risk in a livestock production chain through experimental simulation platforms
(Frontiers Media, 2022-10-19)This paper provides a research summary of a series of serious games and simulations that form the basis of an experimental platform for the study of human decision-making and behavior associated with biosecurity across ... -
Effects of message delivery on cross-cultural biosecurity compliance: Insights from experimental simulations
(Frontiers Media, 2022-11-15)Background: Effective biosecurity communication of transmission risks and associated protective behaviors can reduce the impacts of infectious diseases in US animal agriculture. Yet, more than 1/5 of animal production ... -
Connecting livestock disease dynamics to human learning and biosecurity decisions
(Frontiers Media, 2023-01-19)The acceleration of animal disease spread worldwide due to increased animal, feed, and human movement has driven a growing body of epidemiological research as well as a deeper interest in human behavioral studies aimed at ... -
A network perspective on multi-scale water governance in the Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont
(Ecology and Society, 2023-03-31)The prevalence and persistence of harmful cyanobacterial blooms demonstrate the importance of governance systems that effectively engage with many actors to address nonpoint pollution from a variety of sources across ... -
Rethinking ‘responsibility’ in precision agriculture innovation: lessons from an interdisciplinary research team
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-06-04)We examine the interactions, decisions, and evaluations of an interdisciplinary team of researchers tasked with developing an artificial intelligence-based agricultural decision support system that can provide farmers ... -
Fire Station Gardens and Food Donation: Building and scaling community resilience
(2023-08-25)This brief paper presents the unique idea of firefighters growing gardens at local fire stations and then distributing much of the produce to local food banks to help address food insecurity in local communities. The central ... -
The networked micro-decision context: A new lens on transformative urban governance
(BMC, 2023-04-12)Recent large-scale societal disruptions, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intensifying wildfires and weather events, reveal the importance of transforming governance systems so they can address complex, transboundary, and ... -
Engagement in water governance action situations in the Lake Champlain Basin
(Public Library of Science, 2023-03-16)Water quality governance encompasses multiple “wicked” interacting problems that manifest within social-ecological systems. Concerned governments, institutions, and actors concerned with addressing these issues must wrestle ... -
Advancing biomedical science through investments in elite training
(Public Library of Science, 2023-02-02)How can governments invest in the public good of science in a way that accelerates advancement and encourages innovation at the frontier of science–all the while acknowledging that investing in science means investing in ... -
Assessing strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making and risk in a livestock production chain through experimental simulation platforms
(Frontiers Media, 2022-10-20)This paper provides a research summary of a series of serious games and simulations that form the basis of an experimental platform for the study of human decision-making and behavior associated with biosecurity across ... -
The Relationship Between Social Integration and Physical Activity, Diet, and Sleep Among Youths: Cross-sectional Survey Study
(JMIR Publications, 2022-06-16)Background: Social integration has been shown to predict physical activity (PA), diet, and sleep in adults. However, these associations have not been well-studied in youth samples. Using a life course perspective, it is ...