BALTIMORE, MD, January 13, 2025 – A groundbreaking new study in the INFORMS journal Transportation Science reveals the severe and far-reaching consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on global food security. The research highlights an urgent need to address disruptions in the transportation of Ukrainian grains, which have caused dramatic price spikes and worsened food insecurity worldwide, particularly in vulnerable regions such as the Middle East and North Africa.
Cutting-edge chips, especially those designed to power emerging AI applications, tend to receive the most attention in the media and generate the most excitement. However, so-called “legacy” chips are just as important — if not more — to our daily lives.
January is National Blood Donor Month and, not coincidentally, a time when donations tend to ebb. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood for serious injuries, childbirth, cancer treatments and more, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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CATONSVILLE, MD, November 3, 2021 – Online sellers and marketers are quite familiar with reputation systems that seek to understand and shape online reputations, oftentimes in the form of online reviews.
The holiday season is fast approaching. Families and friends are looking forward to festive meals and social events. The CDC recently issued guidance on how to hold holiday gatherings safely, with vaccination as the best strategy for all eligible participants. However, with over 30 percent of those 12 years of age and older still not fully vaccinated, are holiday gatherings reasonable or reckless?
As we continue to move forward through the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans grapple with the enormous strain on humanity and the health system. We are presented with the challenge—and opportunity—of asking how health care can adapt to provide more efficient methods of addressing the needs of patients, fostering resiliency and preparedness for the future, and providing higher-value care. For decades, the field of economics and outcomes research has designed and deployed methods to conduct clinical and economic evaluation of health interventions. These tools serve as an important foundation to derive information on value and efficiency across the health care system.
"Like others, I received death threats." -- Andrew Hill, PhD, of the University of Liverpool, discussing what happened after he announced that his meta-analysis of ivermectin in COVID-19 needed to be re-analyzed after it was revealed that a potentially fraudulent study had been included.
The Illinois remapping committee posted a blatantly gerrymandered Illinois congressional map on Oct. 15. Our research group scored the map across multiple fairness metrics and found all but one clearly indicating gerrymandering.
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