Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Notre Dame research shows food-trade network vulnerable to fast spread of contaminants

Notre Dame research shows food-trade network vulnerable to fast spread of contaminants: Notre Dame IN (SPX) Jun 13, 2012


University of Notre Dame network physicists Maria Ercsey-Ravasz and Zoltan Toroczkai of the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications, in collaboration with food science experts, have recently published a rigorous analysis of the international food-trade network that shows the network's vulnerability to the fast spread of contaminants as well as the correlation between known