UC program helps small farmers reap big harvest

Low-cost marketing can reap big results.

P roduct, price, place, and promotion. Every business-school academic will tell you those four "Ps" represent the essence of marketing. But after 28 years as a healthcare strategy, marketing, and public relations professional, and after countless frequent flyer miles earned consulting across the country on the topic, I'd like to add a few more "Ps." These are people, passion, persuasion, perfor...

Harvest Regulations and Implementation Uncertainty in Small Game Harvest Management

A main challenge in harvest management is to set policies that maximize the probability that management goals are met. While the management cycle includes multiple sources of uncertainty, only some of these has received considerable attention. Currently, there is a large gap in our knowledge about implemention of harvest regulations, and to which extent indirect control methods such as harvest ...

Emergy Analysis for Small Farmers

DARPA's Big Mechanism program.

Reductionist science produces causal models of small fragments of complicated systems. Causal models of entire systems can be hard to construct because what is known of them is distributed across a vast amount of literature. The Big Mechanism program aims to have machines read the literature and assemble the causal fragments found in individual papers into huge causal models, automatically. The...

Psychological Distancing: Why Happiness Helps You See the Big Picture