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Suppression of sex-ratio drive in <i>Drosophila subobscura</i> Open

Sophie Lyth, Tom Gill, Andri Manser, Jolanta Tanianis, Gregory D. D. Hurst , et al. · 2025

Selfish genetic elements enjoy an evolutionary advantage by enhancing their own transmission to offspring, and their genetic suppressors are favored when they re-establish fair inheritance patterns. Here, we study an X-linked sex ratio dri…

Assessing Rwandan restaurant preferences for procuring broiler and indigenous chicken: implications for the development of a sustainable poultry industry Open

Bhishma Raj Dahal, Karen L. DeLong, Andrew Muhammad, Martin R. Prince, Regis Nisengwe , et al. · 2025

Public and private efforts have attempted to increase Rwandan smallholder broiler commercial production to help alleviate poverty and food insecurity. While these interventions have created economic opportunities for producers, many Rwanda…

Conservation agriculture and cover crop adoption by smallholder farmers in Cambodia: Understanding perceptions, challenges, and opportunities for soil improvement Open

Presley Nickens, David Ader, M. F. Miller, Pao Srean, Tom Gill , et al. · 2023

Practical solutions for soil conservation are needed to ensure sustainable food production. Conservation agriculture and the use of cover crops are promising strategies for soil improvement in agricultural systems. These strategies are bei…

Where do Smallholder Farmers get Their Information? An Exploration of the Sources of Agricultural Information in Northwest Cambodia. Open

Presley Nickens, David Ader, Jean Pierre Enríquez, Ricky M. Bates, Tom Gill , et al. · 2023

A significant emphasis on scaling up food security efforts is needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) by 2030. Scaling up sustainable intensification efforts for Cambodian smallholder farmers is key since they face g…

Assessing the impact of parental involvement on scaling agricultural technologies from school garden to home farm in Cambodia Open

Gracie Pekarcik Carter, David Ader, Tom Gill, Jennifer Richards · 2023

Cambodia is a predominantly rural nation with a heavy dependence on agriculture, particularly smallholder rice farming systems. While several sustainable agricultural technologies have been successfully piloted on research stations or wit…

Introduction to the Minitrack on Interpretable Machine Learning Open

Tom Gill · 2023

The machine learning scientific community has concentrated on interpretable machine learning (IML) in terms of algorithmic interpretability, explainability, and transparency.This minitrack includes applications of IML in the fields of tran…

U-series and Sr isotope systematics in soil carbonates from natural and managed dryland Critical Zones: Implications for inorganic carbon storage and transformation in dryland soils of the American Southwest Open

Lin Ma, Syprose Nyachoti, V. García, Curtis Monger, C. E. Tweedie , et al. · 2023

Can Food–Energy–Water Nexus Research Keep Pace with Agricultural Innovation? Open

Jie Zhuang, Tom Gill, Frank E. Löffler, Mingzhou Jin, Gary S. Sayler · 2022

The interconnection among food–energy–water (FEW) systems in meeting societal demands is broadly acknowledged. Similarly, competitive or synergistic allocations of water and energy resources for agricultural production, manufacturing, and …

Effects of timing, customer, and location on smallholder broiler sales in Rwanda Open

Andrew Muhammad, Martin R. Prince, Karen L. DeLong, Tom Gill · 2022

SUMMARY: Studies of broiler sales in Sub-Saharan Africa have mostly focused on West Africa, particularly Nigeria. Similar studies in countries like Rwanda are lacking. The absence of marketing and sales strategies is a major constraint to …

Building Global Leaders through Field Research and Extension Experiences in Belize Open

Tom Gill, Adam S. Willcox · 2022

One of the most complex agricultural and natural resources challenges of our time is reconciling sustainable global food security and biodiversity conservation. Providing undergraduate students effective, learning experiences to develop te…

Wild gardening as a sustainable intensification strategy in northwest Cambodian smallholder systems Open

Sarah Eissler, David Ader, Sovanneary Huot, Stuart C. Brown, Ricky M. Bates , et al. · 2021

Within the last decade, Sustainable Intensification (SI) has emerged as a strategy to respond to future food security challenges. It incorporates increased food production without the cultivation of more land while incurring no net environ…

Interactions of gene expression, alternative splicing, and DNA methylation in determining nodule identity Open

Daniel Niyikiza, Sarbottam Piya, Pratyush Routray, Long Miao, Won‐Seok Kim , et al. · 2020

SUMMARY Soybean nodulation is a highly controlled process that involves complex gene regulation at both transcriptional and post‐transcriptional levels. In the present study, we profiled gene expression changes, alternative splicing events…

Piloting a commercial broiler production model for smallholders in Rwanda Open

Tom Gill, Emily Urban, David Ader, Regis Nisengwe, Elisabeth Garner · 2020

Increasing food security is premised on improving economic empowerment as well as nutrition across the household.As such, development projects across Africa are integrating nutrition objectives into pro-poor value chain development interve…

Sellers Characterization in Direct Selling Systems through Data Mining and Analytics. Open

Tom Gill, Mathias M. Riquelme, Julián Tornillo · 2020

The direct selling industry presents many opportunities for people who wish to obtain income through the generation of their own business, based on a sales network. In this business model, direct sellers have objectives that transcend the …

Farmer adoption of living fences, Battambang, Cambodia Open

Tom Gill · 2019

Data from 36 smallholder farmers in Battambang Province, NW Cambodia, about their adoption of living fence technologies. 49 farmers were trained at the Battambang CE SAIN tech park in Jan 2019. These survey data were collected in Dec 2018 …

Living fences cattle feeding trial Open

Tom Gill · 2019

Feeding trial data conducted Jan-May 2019 in Battambang, Cambodia. This trial observed 24 cows during the NW Cambodian dry season to understand the effects of adding supplemental leguminous feed to cattle diets. Cows were split into two eq…

On-farm living fence harvest weights, NW Cambodia Open

Tom Gill · 2019

These data are from dry season harvests of an on-farm research trial of 81 Leucaena leucocephala trees. Fresh weights and dry weights were measured from harvests in January, February and March 2019

Leucaena harvests in Battambang, Cambodia Open

Tom Gill · 2019

Data were collected on the growth of 100 Leucaena leucocephala trees on-station at the Battambang CE SAIN tech park. These data were collected throughout the 2019 dry season and into the start of the rainy season, Jan-Jul 2019.

Living fence household survey, Anlong Thmey Open

Tom Gill · 2019

This set includes data collected from 63 households (24 male respondents, 39 female) in Anlong Thmey village, Battambang Province, Cambodia on their production of living fences, and their attitudes and barriers towards adopting the product…

Living-Fence-Data-Survey.csv Open

Tom Gill · 2019

Fake News and Informing Science [Abstract] Open

Tom Gill, Grandon Gill · 2019

Aim/Purpose: The goal of the paper is to consider how the informing phenomenon referred to as “fake news” can be characterized using existing informing science conceptual schemes. Background: A brief review of articles relating to fake new…

Feeding-Trial-Data July 2019.tab Open

Tom Gill · 2019

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UT_Cambodia_LSIL_on-farm_leucaena_biomass.tab Open

Tom Gill · 2019

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Dataset_Workshop_Follow up_Dec18-Jan19_36_final_surveys.tab Open

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Synthesizing Design and Informing Science Rationales for Driving a Decentralized Generative Knowledge Management Agenda Open

Ulrich Schmitt, Tom Gill · 2019

[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 22.] Aim/Purpose: In a world of rapidly expanding complexity and exponentially incre…

UT_Cambodia_LSIL_Biomass Data UBB.tab Open

Tom Gill · 2019

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Informing on a Rugged Landscape: How Complexity Drives Our Preferred Information Sources Open

Tom Gill, Matthew Mullarkey, Ronald K. Satterfield · 2018

Aim/Purpose: [This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2018 issue of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 21] Provides a theoretical model as to where we should source our infor…

Grandon.com Got Hacked! Open

Tom Gill, Taufeeq Mohammed, Utkarsh Shrivastava, Ashish Kumar Das, Quynh T. Nguyen · 2017

Dr. T. Grandon Gill, a Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department at the University of South Florida, was traveling with his family in England when he received a strange phone message. Not being able to respond, …

A Cybersecurity Executive DBA? Open

Tom Gill, Grandon Gill · 2017

Grandon Gill, Academic Director of the Doctorate of Business Administration Program (DBA) at the University of South Florida’s (USF) Muma College of Business pondered the email he had just sent to Moez Limayem, the dean of the college (see…

Food security, sweet potato production, and proximity to markets in northern Ghana Open

Leland Glenna, Yetkin Borlu, Tom Gill, Janelle Larson, Vincent Ricciardi , et al. · 2017

Debates concerning how to achieve food security tend to fall into one of two camps. The first is that high-technology, market-oriented approaches promise to enhance agricultural productivity and improve food security. The counterargument i…

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