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Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: AI and Optimization Model Leads to More Accessible, Equitable Treatment Resource Distribution
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BALTIMORE, MD, October 15, 2024 – The opioid epidemic is a crisis that has plagued the United States for decades. One central issue of the epidemic is inequitable access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), which puts certain populations at a higher risk of opioid overdose.

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The Impact of Weather on the Supply Chain
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The supply chain for many small parcel shipping companies is typically long. Products are often made in distant lands, travel on oceans and waterways, arrive at ports, are then transported to warehouses, from where a third-party logistics provider delivers the product to its intended destination. In a stable world, shippers and customers alike can expect a product to be delivered within the promised time window. However, in a world facing high levels of uncertainty caused by war, pandemic, political instability, raw material shortages, freak accidents (recall the regional and national impact of the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore caused by a container ship), and weather, the shipper must work overtime to ensure customer expectations are met at no additional cost, despite these uncertainties.

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Trump and Harris Are Courting Workers. Their Minimum Wage Plans Are Muddled.
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The minimum wage is getting lip service on the campaign trail. Well-intentioned plans can backfire, Christopher Tang writes in a guest commentary.

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Decision Science Digest: February 27, 2024

Decision Science Digest: February 27, 2024

News Release, February 27, 2024

BALTIMORE, MD, February 27, 2024 – 

EDITOR’S NOTE: Decision Science Digest is a periodic communique highlighting recent peer-reviewed research published by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, across its 17 journals. This issue highlights four press releases based on the findings of new peer-reviewed articles.

  • New Research Finds Silver Lining in Virtual Learning During COVID-19, The Importance of Online Student Engagement (INFORMS journal INFORMS Transactions on Education)
  • The Impact of User-Generated Content on Video Streaming Platforms – New Artists Win, At the Expense of Established Artists (INFORMS journal Marketing Science)
  • New Research Shows Investors Respond Meaningfully to CEO Activism (INFORMS journal Management Science)
  • Fighting Inequities in School Resources – Why Research Shows Nonprofits Working with U.S. Public Schools Could Unknowingly Be Part of the Problem (INFORMS journal Management Science)
The Best and Worst States for Health Care

The Best and Worst States for Health Care

Money Geek, February 25, 2024

Access to health care services and the affordability of health insurance are crucial to overall health but vary widely across the United States. MoneyGeek analyzed a host of statistics, from health outcomes — such as preventable deaths and rates of certain diseases or risk factors — to health access and cost — such as how many people are uninsured and have low-cost health insurance options available — to find the best and worst states for health care in 2023.

The Houthis Proved Ballistic Missiles Can Hit Moving Vessels

The Houthis Proved Ballistic Missiles Can Hit Moving Vessels

The National Interest, February 22, 2024

The Houthi conflict has provided some important data points for military analysts. It turns out that ballistic missiles can indeed hit vessels in motion, though not reliably. U.S. warships can block such missiles very well, with a dozen interceptions to their credit so far

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