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作者：Salem, Mojtaba; Van Quaquebeke, Niels; Besiou, Maria; Meyer, Louisa
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University
摘要：International humanitarian organizations (IHOs) always strive to improve their operational performance in the field. While anecdotes from practice suggest that IHO field office leadership plays a crucial role in this regard, these claims have not been deeply substantiated by primary data. In response, we collected survey data from 125 humanitarian workers, concentrated in disaster response and development programs, on the issues of field office leadership and operational performance. Building ...
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作者：Wang, Tao; Liu, Bingsheng; Zhang, Jiaming; Li, Guijun
作者单位：Chongqing University; Tianjin University; Central University of Finance & Economics; Central University of Finance & Economics
摘要：Extreme precipitation caused by global climate change is expected to have a severe impact on urbanized areas. While decision-makers struggle with climate uncertainty, an effective infrastructure adaptation strategy attaches great importance to preventing disasters resulting from rainfall. We propose a decision-making model to incorporate the probability of rainfall disasters and recommend investing time when evaluating projects related to climate adaptation. We use a hydrological statistical m...
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作者：Sharma, Luv; Queenan, Carrie; Ozturk, Orgul
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Health care organizations have substantially invested in Health Information Technology (HIT) as part of an effort to improve quality. However, many hospitals fail to generate positive returns on this significant investment, based on reimbursements for quality measures through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Given the high cost of lawsuits, we investigate if HIT adoption reduces lawsuits, and their attendant costs, as another consideration in HIT payoffs. We use operational transparency theory t...
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作者：Webb, Eric M.; Mills, Alex F.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：The emergency medical services (EMS) system is designed to handle life-threatening emergencies, but a large and growing number of non-emergency patients are accessing hospital-based health care through EMS. A national survey estimated that 17% of ambulance trips to hospital emergency departments (EDs) were medically unnecessary, and these unnecessary trips make up an increasing proportion of all EMS trips. These non-emergency patients are a controllable arrival stream that can be redirected to...
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作者：Chen, Yu-Hung; Jiang, Baojun
作者单位：National Taiwan University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：The car-insurance market is plagued with problems of adverse selection and moral hazard. In-vehicle data recorders can collect massive amount of information about the drivers' driving behaviors and risk factors. This monitoring technology allows the firm to charge a premium based on the customer's recorded driving behaviors; this helps to reduce the driver's moral hazard. It can also allow the firm to set its insurance premium based on better estimates of the driver's risk factors, alleviating...
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作者：Bittencourt Bravo, Raissa Zurli; Leiras, Adriana; Cyrino Oliveira, Fernando Luiz
作者单位：Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
摘要：Researchers have proposed the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in humanitarian relief to search for victims in disaster-affected areas. Once UAVs must search through the entire affected area to find victims, the path-planning operation becomes equivalent to an area coverage problem. In this study, we propose an innovative method for solving such problem based on a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), which considers the observations made from UAVs. The formulation of the...
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作者：Lu, Tao; Chen, Ying-Ju; Tomlin, Brian; Wang, Yimin
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Dartmouth College; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：A vertical co-product technology simultaneously produces multiple outputs that differ along a rankable quality metric. Co-product manufacturers often sell products through a distributor. We examine a setting in which a manufacturer sells vertically differentiated co-products through a self-interested distributor to quality-sensitive end customers. The manufacturer determines its production, product line design, and wholesale prices. The distributor determines its purchase quantities and retail...
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作者：Abbey, James D.; Geismar, H. Neil; Souza, Gilvan C.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Through analytical modeling and a numerical study grounded in observations from automotive remanufacturing, this study examines seeding-selling new products as remanufactured at the start of a new product's lifecycle-in order to increase core recovery quantities, to allow firms to start efficient remanufacturing earlier, and to fulfill demand for remanufactured products throughout the product's lifecycle. Though seeding has received little attention in the academic literature, many durable goo...
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作者：Wang, Xiaofang; Wu, Qi; Lai, Guoming; Scheller-Wolf, Alan
作者单位：Renmin University of China; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：This study studies discretionary healthcare services with consumption of medical goods (e.g., tests, drugs). Specifically, we focus on a setting where the service provider obtains revenue from the medical consumption, and the perceived service value improves while the amount of medical consumption decreases in the service time (e.g., due to more thorough inquiry and examination). We find that the equilibrium service and demand rates both decrease if the service provider's share of revenue from...
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作者：Mutha, Akshay; Bansal, Saurabh; Guide, V. Daniel R.
作者单位：University of Vermont; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：This paper analyzes the business-to-business transactions in which a supplier sells assortments of used products to third-party remanufacturers. The supplier offers used products in different quality conditions, called grades. We model this buyer-supplier transaction as a Stackelberg game in which the buyer chooses his optimal purchase quantity of various grades, and the supplier chooses the optimal assortment and the prices of the grades in the assortment anticipating buyer's behavior. We fir...
