One-health approach as counter-measure against “autoimmune” responses in biosecurity

One Health and Culling as a Public Health Measure

One of most pertinent and acute risks that the world is now facing is emerging or re-emerging zoonotic diseases. This article focuses on culling as a measure for zoonotic disease control, specifically the culling of 11,000 badgers as part of the Randomized Badger Culling Trial in the UK and the culling exercises in Singapore. The independent expert panel that devised the UK study concluded that...

Queue Management as a DoS Counter-Measure?

In this paper, we study the performance of timeout-based queue management practices in the context of flood denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on connection-oriented protocols, where server resources are depleted by uncompleted illegitimate requests generated by the attacker. This includes both crippling DoS attacks where services become unavailable and Quality of Service (QoS) degradation attacks...

Introducing "One Health" as an Overlooked Concept in Iran

Biosecurity benefits public health.

Making Collusion Hard: Asymmetric Information as a Counter-Corruption Measure∗

We study the problem of a principal who relies on the reports of a monitor to provide incentives to an agent. We allow for collusion, so that the agent and monitor can side-contract on what report to send. We show that the principal can benefit from creating endogenous asymmetric information between the agent and the monitor, thereby making side-contracting more difficult. Specifically, it may ...