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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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Marketing Lessons from a Hurricane: Research Finds the Effects of Brand-switching Only Temporary

Marketing Lessons from a Hurricane: Research Finds the Effects of Brand-switching Only Temporary

News Release, September 13, 2023

BALTIMORE, MD, September 13, 2023 – Using data from pre- and post-hurricane purchasing of consumer-packaged goods (CPG), new research has found that while consumers may switch brands in the lead-up to a natural disaster, they will likely switch back to their previously purchased brands when the crisis has passed. This has implications for the extent to which companies can expect to capture consumers using temporary price promotions.

Another study finds vertical integration among healthcare providers is not all it's cracked up to be

Another study finds vertical integration among healthcare providers is not all it's cracked up to be

DOT Med Healthcare Business News, September 11, 2023

Tighter margins and the need for more resources are driving independent physician practices under the ownership of hospitals and health systems, a trend known as vertical integration. Proponents say these bigger organizations allow smaller providers to compete more in highly concentrated markets and improve care coordination and quality. But studies from the past few years say the opposite, that vertical integration increases pricing without improving quality and harms competition.

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