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Information technology in agriculture: The value of implementing a whole-chain traceability system to transfer information in beef industry and using eye-tracking technology to improve conjoint analysis
(2018-05)
Information technology has been widely used in agricultural industries. This dissertation evaluates the benefits of two newly-developed information technologies, whole-chain traceability in the beef industry and eye tracking ...
Three essays in energy, environmental and regional economics
(2018-07)
This dissertation is comprised of three studies on the relationship between energy and environmental issues and the regional economy. The first study presents evidence that electricity influx to the U.S. Northeast increased ...
Three essays on broadband adoption
(2018-05)
This dissertation focuses on three issues surrounding broadband internet adoption. The first study examines the recent shift to mobile-only internet connections. The percentage of mobile-only households increased from 9% ...
Influence of perception, recession and income strata on consumer demand for protein sources
(2018-05)
U.S. Consumers see retail beef products in the meat case labeled as produced with no added hormones (NAH). However, they also see similar labels on pork and chicken products despite the fact that added hormones are not ...
Economic analysis of structural change in feedlot cattle death loss
(2018-05)
Anecdotal evidence suggesting that feedlot cattle death loss is increasing over time has revived a need for further research on death loss in feedlots. Death loss may be related to controllable factors including technology ...