Application of systems analysis in modelling the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

Kybernetes

Volumn 31, Issue 9-10, 2002, Pages 1380-1390

  Habtemariam, T ^a   Tameru, B ^a   Nganwa, D ^a   Ayanwale, L ^a   Ahmed, A ^a   Oryang, D ^b   AbdelRahman, H ^b   Gray, G ^c   Cohen, J ^c   Kreindel, S ^c  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR RISK ANALYSIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Cybernetics; Modelling; Risk

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CYBERNETICS; DYNAMICS; MAMMALS; MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CREUTZFELDT-JACOB DISEASE; MAD COW DISEASE; POTENTIAL RISKS; RENDERING PROCESS; STRUCTURED SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS DYNAMICS; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS;

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 0036943664     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920210443581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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