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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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Sunny, rainy, or cloudy: New study shows how weather can impact consumer purchase response to mobile ads

Sunny, rainy, or cloudy: New study shows how weather can impact consumer purchase response to mobile ads

News Release, July 20, 2017

CATONSVILLE, MD, July 20, 2017 – Among the many factors that impact digital marketing and online advertising strategy, a new study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science provides insight to a growing trend among firms and big brands … weather-based advertising. According to the study, certain weather conditions are more amenable for consumer responses to mobile marketing efforts, while the tone of your ad content can either help or hurt such response depending on the current local weather.

New study provides BRCA mutation carriers guidance for when surgery has greatest impact

New study provides BRCA mutation carriers guidance for when surgery has greatest impact

News Release, July 19, 2017

CATONSVILLE, MD, July 19, 2017 – Of the women who carry the mutated BRCA1/2 genes, 45-65 percent will develop breast cancer, and 15-39 percent will develop ovarian cancer in their lifetimes. Many women, especially those who have experienced the death of family members to these cancers, elect to undergo preventive surgeries that can significantly increase life expectancy, but require extensive recovery time and can impact later fertility and quality-of-life. However, few guidelines exist that shed light on the optimal age to undergo these procedures, and in what sequence. A new study in the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis provides insight to help enable physicians and patients make better-informed choices.

Bonding among women co-workers can reduce conflict

Bonding among women co-workers can reduce conflict

The Indian Express, July 18, 2017

Strong bonding among female co-workers can be favorable for the workplace as it can help in reducing conflict among female employees, a study has revealed. According to a study in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, when employers encourage an office environment that supports positive and social relationships between women co-workers, especially in primarily male dominated organisations, they are less likely to experience conflict among women employees.

Strong work friendships reduce social conflict in female workforce

Strong work friendships reduce social conflict in female workforce

Carlisle Wellness Network, July 17, 2017

New research suggests an employer-facilitated workplace culture that supports positive, social relationships between women coworkers reduces the risk of conflict among women employees. The study, “Gender and Negative Work Ties: Exploring Difficult Work Relationships Within and Across Gender at Two Firms” appears in the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) journal Organization Science.

Strong bonds among women co-workers leads to less conflict

Strong bonds among women co-workers leads to less conflict

CNN News 18, July 17, 2017

According to a study in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, when employers encourage an office environment that supports positive and social relationships between women co-workers, especially in primarily male dominated organizations, they are less likely to experience conflict among women employees.

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