Sökning: "Meggan Craft"
Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade orden Meggan Craft.
1. Networks and Epidemics : Impact of Network Structure on Disease Transmission
Sammanfattning : The spread of infectious diseases, between animals as well as between humans, is a topic often in focus. Outbreaks of diseases like for example foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza, and swine influenza have in the last decades led to an increasing interest in modelling of infectious diseases since such models can be used to elucidate disease transmission and to evaluate the impact of different control strategies. LÄS MER
2. Quantifying Risk in Epidemiological and Ecological Contexts
Sammanfattning : The rates of globalization and growth of the human population puts ever increasing pressure on the agricultural sector to intensify and grow more complex, and with this intensification comes an increased risk of outbreaks of infectious livestock diseases. At the same time, and for the same reasons, the detrimental effect that humans have on other species with which we share the environment has never been more apparent, as the current rates of species loss from ecological communities rival those of ancient mass extinction events. LÄS MER
