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New Research Showcases Pivotal Shift Toward Energy Democracy
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BALTIMORE, MD, November 12, 2024 – New research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management is guiding the development of more inclusive and efficient electricity markets. The work demonstrates how aggregating small-scale, distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar panels can effectively balance the power of large utility companies.

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Spikes in violent theft frightening customers, damaging business of brick-and-mortar retailers
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Retail insiders blame soft-on-crime policies, understaffing, urban trends

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De-risking global supply chains: Looking beyond material flows
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Global supply chains are undergoing an irrevocable shift. While material flows remain critical, they are only the most visible aspect of this transition. Beneath the surface, changes in information exchanges, financial reconfigurations, and human capital movements are posing far greater risks to the benefits of global trade. The US, China, and the rest the world must handle these changes with care and perspective.

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Sheldon H. Jacobson: Are you an average American?

Sheldon H. Jacobson: Are you an average American?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 9, 2023

What happens on an “average day” for the “average American”? Let’s start with our driving habits and then look at our eating, drinking and traveling, and then at America’s averages for population growth, immigration and government spending, and finally at the sad figures for mass shootings and addiction.

Drug shortages put Americans in hard spot. What's on the list?

Drug shortages put Americans in hard spot. What's on the list?

KSL.com, December 8, 2023

SALT LAKE CITY — Chemotherapy drugs. Antibiotics. Medication for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. They're among the categories of drugs that have been in rolling shortages in the United States, putting patients at risk of adverse outcomes and in the case of cancer and other drugs, potentially death.

Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used to Produce Better, More Cost-effective Product Designs

Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used to Produce Better, More Cost-effective Product Designs

News Release, December 11, 2023

BALTIMORE, MD, December 11, 2023 – Researchers have found that machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly reduce cost and time in the product design phase, not only in the actual generative design of the product, but also in the predictive analysis of whether consumers will be attracted to certain designs.

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