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A new AI model predicts which short-form videos triggering suicidal thoughts in vulnerable viewers pose higher risk before they reach large audiences, which can improve user safety.

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While generative AI (GenAI) can help define viable objectives for organizational and policy decision-making, the overall quality of those objectives falls short unless humans intervene.

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A new study finds that telling consumers their returned items will be “kept out of landfills” significantly increases participation in take-back programs; telling them they may be resold? Not so much.

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Overwhelming numbers, frequency of uninsured dialysis patients in public hospital emergency rooms may have a systemic solution

Overwhelming numbers, frequency of uninsured dialysis patients in public hospital emergency rooms may have a systemic solution

Southern Methodist University, February 8, 2022

DALLAS (SMU) – Screening protocols to determine who qualifies for “compassionate dialysis” in hospitals with high numbers of uninsured patients are driving an unintended consequence, an SMU analysis has found. The protocols are putting too much strain on the emergency room, as measured by how long ER patients are waiting to be seen and other metrics.

Three INFORMS Members Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Three INFORMS Members Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

News Release, February 16, 2022

BALTIMORE, MD, February 16, 2022 – Three INFORMS members have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Richard O'Neill is a distinguished senior fellow at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Martin Reiman is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University and Nikolaos Sahinidis is the Gary C. Butler Family Chair and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. They join more than 100 new members recently elected. 

Distribution delays disrupt home goods delivery

Distribution delays disrupt home goods delivery

Toronto Sun, February 11, 2022

If you’ve been waiting six months for a sofa, washer, kitchen cabinets, or a special-order part, your frustration is understandable. Delivery delays of soft furnishings, textiles, large and small appliances, electronics, and other housewares have been a huge hassle.

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