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Operations Research. 71:536-562
Gerrymandering has been a fundamental issue in American democracy for more than two centuries, with significant implications for electoral representation. Traditional optimization models for political districting primarily model nonpolitical fairness
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. 16:1-15
Each year, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament attracts popular attention, including bracket challenges where fans seek to pick the winners of the tournament’s games. However, the quantity and unpredictable nature of games suggest a s
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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 119:162-169
There is increasing evidence on the association between public transit usage and obesity. To further understand the causal impact of changes in county public transit usage on county obesity rates, this paper presents a longitudinal study on this topi
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Computational Optimization and Applications. 69:25-49
Every 10 years, United States Congressional Districts must be redesigned in response to a national census. While the size of practical political districting problems is typically too large for exact optimization approaches, heuristics such as local s
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Preventive Medicine. 99:264-268
The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of county-level public transit usage on obesity prevalence in the United States and assess the potential for public transit usage as an intervention for obesity. This study adopts an instrumental
Autor:
Douglas M. King, Sheldon H. Jacobson
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Violence and Victims. 32:1014-1023
Recent mass killings, such as those in Newtown, Connecticut, and Aurora, Colorado, have brought new attention to mass killings in the United States. This article examines 323 mass killings taking place between January 1, 2006, and October 4, 2016, to
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Omega. 50:141-148
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) men's Division I college basketball tournament is an annual competition that draws widespread attention in the United States. Predicting the winner of each game is a popular activity undertaken by
Autor:
Douglas M. King, Sheldon H. Jacobson
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Current obesity reports. 6(1)
Traveling by automobile rather than walking or cycling can encourage obesity by eliminating physical activity. As national obesity rates in the USA have reached 37.9% in 2014, understanding the connections between obesity and transportation choices c
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Mathematical Programming. 149:425-457
Graph partitioning is an intractable problem that arises in many practical applications. Heuristics such as local search generate good (though suboptimal) solutions in limited time. Such heuristics must be able to explore the solution space quickly a
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Preventive Medicine. 56:103-106
Objective The objective of this study is to assess the association between average adult body mass index (BMI), automobile travel, and caloric intake in the US in order to predict future trends of adult obesity. Methods Annual BMI data (1984–2010)