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Friday, October 26, 2018

Key to improving MRI access is data-driven time management

New scheduling policies could double the number of patients able to access magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) testing within recommended waiting periods.

In a recent study involving analysis of 3.7 million anonymous patient records and computer simulations, management sciences researchers, led by Prof. Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, developed strategies that increased the proportion of patients receiving timely scans to 66 per cent from the current rate of 33 per cent.

Friday, October 19, 2018 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Management Sciences seminar | Mahdi Roghanizad: "Predicting Cooperativeness: The Medium is the Message"

Is communicating via Skype or other video media equivalent to a face-to-face meeting? We have known for some time that after interacting face-to-face, people can predict the cooperative behaviour of strangers with better-than-chance accuracy. But is this ability affected when communications are mediated by video technology? This study reports four laboratory experiments examining how different communication conditions affect cooperation prediction efficacy.

Monday, September 24, 2018 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Management Sciences Seminar | Xuan Zhao: "Tax or Subsidy? An Analysis of Environmental Policies in Supply Chains with Retail Competition"

This paper investigates the impacts of two environmental policies: pollution abatement subsidy and emission tax, on a three-tier supply chain, where the manufacturer distributes via multiple competitive retailers and invests in a pollution abatement technology in manufacturing. The government pursues social welfare maximization, while the manufacturer and retailers are profit driven. We find that the subsidy policy offers the manufacturer greater incentives to abate pollution and yields higher profits for channel members.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

MASc Thesis Seminar | Saravanan Natarajan: "Optimization & Comparison of Manual & Semi-Automated Material Handling in Cross-Dock using Discrete-Event Simulation"

A Cross-Dock (CD) is a synchronized unit of a supply chain network, used to sort the goods received from inbound trucks (from a warehouse or factory), and load those products to outbound trucks (for delivery of the goods to retail stores in the supply chain network). Most cross-docks use forklifts, and other manual material handling equipment (MHE) to process the goods on pallets received from inbound trucks. Those pallets are sorted and loaded onto outbound trucks.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Applicants to Engineering programs sell themselves differently based on gender

In new research by Management Sciences professor Lukasz Golab, it was found that engineering applicants sell themselves differently based on their gender. Males often described how their technical skills and experience matched the profession. In contrast, female applicants want a career that enables them to impact and improve society. These findings could help universities better market themselves to attract more female engineering applicants.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

MASc Thesis Seminar | Huiwen Zhang: "A Dual Toll Policy for Regulating the Transportation of Hazardous Materials"

The transportation of hazardous materials (hazmat) has drawn significant attention from various stakeholders due to the undesirable impacts on the environment and public health. Focusing on the connection between the traffic and the risk associated with the hazmat shipments, the present research aims to assist the regulator in designing a policy of dual tolls, imposed on both hazmat and non-hazmat shipments, to mitigate the hazmat risk in a road network.