Infectious disease-resistant pigs: Will they fly?

Will they come and will they stay?

Will they buy?

The proliferation of inexpensive video recording hardware and enormous storage capacity has enabled the collection of retail customer behavior at an unprecedented scale. The vast majority of this data is used for theft prevention and never used to better understand the customer. In what ways can this huge corpus be leveraged to improve the experience of customer and the performance of the store...

Pigs might fly.

T here is a phrase in the English language: ''pigs might fly''. The phrase is used, since pigs will never fly, as a metaphor for something that will never, or is highly unlikely to ever happen. It is perhaps somewhat ironic then that although the pigs are not flying it is due to the interaction between pigs, as the source, and aviation, as the vector, that the current influenza outbreak has spr...

The role of infectious aerosols in disease transmission in pigs.

Airborne transmission is of significance for a number of infectious diseases in pigs. The general principles of the airborne pathway, including aerosol production, decay and inhalation, are reviewed. Practical issues regarding aerosol sampling and sample analysis are also discussed. Details of the aerobiology of porcine diseases, including foot-and-mouth disease, Aujesky's disease, and respirat...

Will they stay or will they go: Predicting subsidized housing opt-outs

Over the past 30 years, the share of renters in the United States spending over 30% of their income on rent, and thereby qualifying as rent burdened, has increased. This trend has particularly affected low-income families. At the same time, owners of thousands of privately owned, publicly subsidized rental housing units have left, or ‘‘opted out,’’ of subsidy programs across the country. The ef...