In recovery mode: manufacturers try to bounce back after COVID-19 disruptions

Tailoring E-Commerce Sites to Ease Recovery after Disruptions

Developers of e-commerce applications are often unrealistic about how their site will be used, and about possible outcomes during site usage. The most commonly considered outcomes of a user’s visit to a site are firstly that the visit culminates in a sale, and secondly that the user leaves the site without buying anything — perhaps to return later. In the second case sites often “remember” any ...

How to bounce back from adversity.

The brief resilience scale: assessing the ability to bounce back.

BACKGROUND While resilience has been defined as resistance to illness, adaptation, and thriving, the ability to bounce back or recover from stress is closest to its original meaning. Previous resilience measures assess resources that may promote resilience rather than recovery, resistance, adaptation, or thriving. PURPOSE To test a new brief resilience scale. METHOD The brief resilience sca...

Recovery of disruptions in rapid transit networks

This paper studies the disruption management problem of rapid transit rail networks. Besides optimizing the timetable and the rolling stock schedules, we explicitly deal with the effects of the disruption on the passenger demand. We propose a two-step approach that combines an integrated optimization model (for the timetable and rolling stock) with a model for the passengers' behavior. We repor...

Return to Work in COVID-19: Review of Current Guidelines

Background and aims: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is mainly a respiratory disease which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. The outbreak first began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and then expanded globally. COVID-19 can result in illness ranging from mild to severe. However, some of the affected individuals might be asymptomatic. Symptoms of the disease may appear in as few as 2 days...