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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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How Mathematics Can Help You Vote This November

How Mathematics Can Help You Vote This November

The Hill, September 14, 2020

We are just under two months before Election Day. As voters weigh the choices, mathematics offers a clue in how you should cast your vote in November. Every decision we make is weighed amongst several criteria. When we opt for the fries over the salad, the satisfying taste of greasy potatoes outweighs the health benefits of greens and fiber. Other days, we pick the apple over the apple pie, for the exact opposite reason. These choices are made with limited thought, often more by impulse rather than with sound reason. 

CEOs Bring in Big Bucks, Even More When a CFO is Hired after Them

CEOs Bring in Big Bucks, Even More When a CFO is Hired after Them

CEOWorld Magazaine, September 9, 2020

It’s common knowledge that chief executive officers (CEOs) of companies are highly paid, but new research shows a certain phenomenon can bump that yearly salary up even higher—about 10% higher. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds CEO compensation climbs if they appoint a chief financial officer (CFO) after them. The increased compensation is mostly concentrated in the early years of the newly hired CFO’s tenure and in components of compensation that vary with hitting analyst-based earnings targets. The work suggests that some finance chiefs might be pressured to tweak earnings to boost the stock price, and as a result, CEO compensation.

The Sensible Way to Return to College During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Sensible Way to Return to College During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Washington Times, September 9, 2020

A normal return to college this fall is anything but normal. The variety of COVID-19 impacted education plans range from fully online to fully in-person, and everything in between. Many colleges have cancelled or delayed football and other sports this fall. Colleges have welcomed students back to campus, and students are glad to be back; some have reciprocated with new infections, mostly asymptomatic. College life has been upended, with no end in sight.

 Two COVID Vaccines in Phase 3; CDC Plans Distribution

Two COVID Vaccines in Phase 3; CDC Plans Distribution

The Corvallis Advocate, September 8, 2020

Currently, dozens of experimental COVID-19 vaccines are being developed in the United States and throughout the world, including seven vaccine candidates funded by the U.S. government, according to a report by the Statesman Journal. Two of the seven vaccines are in Phase 3 clinical trials, which now begs the question: how will the vaccine be distributed, and who will be first to receive it when it’s available?

Coronavirus Update: Vaccine Makers Promise Safety, Lingering Effects From Severe Cases

Coronavirus Update: Vaccine Makers Promise Safety, Lingering Effects From Severe Cases

Consumer Affairs, September 8, 2020

Nine of the pharmaceutical companies actively working on a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine have pledged to make sure whatever drug they come up with is safe for people, even if it means taking longer to develop. In a joint statement, the U.S. and European firms, including AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline, promised to “uphold the integrity of the scientific process as they work towards potential global regulatory filings and approvals of the first Covid-19 vaccines.”

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