Progressive elimination of rabies in wildlife has been a general strategy in Canada and the United States; common campaign tactics are trap-vaccinate-release (TVR), point infection control (PIC), and oral rabies vaccination (ORV). TVR and PIC are labor intensive and the most expensive tactics...

This paper presents a novel methodology for multi-scale and multi-type spatial data integration in support of insect pest risk/vulnerability assessment in the contiguous United States. Probability of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) establishment is used as a case study. A neural network...

We used data collected for the National Animal Health Monitoring Systems' (NAHMS) National Swine Survey to estimate the number and associated opportunity costs of piglet mortalities to producers of various herd sizes and in various regions of the United States in 1990. Opportunity costs are the...