Publications by authors named "D M Gaughan"

Australia's fisheries have experience in responding individually to specific shocks to stock levels (for example, marine heatwaves, floods) and markets (for example, global financial crisis, food safety access barriers). The COVID-19 pandemic was, however, novel in triggering a series of systemic shocks and disruptions to the activities and operating conditions for all Australia's commercial fisheries sectors including those of the research agencies that provide the information needed for their sustainable management. While these disruptions have a single root cause-the public health impacts and containment responses to the COVID-19 pandemic-their transmission and effects have been varied.

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  • - Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC adapted its existing surveillance system to monitor cases and deaths efficiently, implementing a new aggregate case surveillance system for quicker data collection and emergency response.
  • - This new system enabled the CDC to gather and analyze COVID-19 data at national, state, and county levels, using innovative methods like web scraping and algorithms to streamline data accuracy and validation.
  • - The review emphasizes the importance of having a robust aggregate surveillance system ready for future health emergencies, providing near-real-time data to enhance response efforts beyond traditional individual case reporting.
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The management of human-shark interactions can benefit from the implementation of effective shark hazard mitigation measures. A Shark-Management-Alert-in-Real-Time (SMART) drumline trial in the Capes region of Western Australia was instigated after several serious incidents involving surfers and white sharks (). The project aimed to determine whether white sharks (target species), which were relocated after capture, remained offshore using satellite and acoustic tagging.

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Introduction: Dementia prediction models are necessary to inform the development of dementia risk reduction strategies. Here, we examine the utility of neuropathological-based risk scores to predict clinical dementia.

Methods: Models were developed for predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD) and non-AD neuropathologies using the Honolulu Asia Aging neuropathological sub-study (HAAS; n = 852).

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  • - During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC implemented an aggregate case and death surveillance (ACS) system to effectively track cumulative COVID-19 data, supplementing traditional reporting methods.
  • - As public health jurisdictions updated their historical data, the CDC developed a manual process for updating the ACS dataset to improve the accuracy of reported case and death numbers.
  • - By March 2022, the CDC began integrating data from three jurisdictions via application programming interfaces (APIs), which streamline data transfer and may enhance emergency response efficiency moving forward.
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