Social Science and Operations Research Initiative on adolescent sexual and reproductive health In 1998, the Strategic Component of Social Science Research on Sexual and Reproductive Health launched this research initiative with a background paper reviewing the literature, and a widely distributed Call for Proposals and Concept Papers outlining research gaps in the area of adolescent sexual and ...

In this study, the implications of the government’s tariffs on optimal pricing decisions in a dual-channel SC with one manufacturer and one retailer by taking into account the retailer services are examined. First, the best response strategies of retailer and manufacturer have obtained following the government’s tariffs by using a Stackelberg game model. Then, the government problem has modeled...

Research about the nature of psychology, its subject matter, its level of analysis, its scientific laws, its relationship with other disciplines, and its social relevance has been a matter of great concern and interest during the development of psychology. This problem can be analyzed in terms of the dilemmas of the psychological discipline, which have been choice points, crossroads, alternativ...

I am a third year Ph.D. student in Applied Science & Technology. My research advisor is Graham Fleming, in the Department of Chemistry. Our group studies energy transfer and photoprotection in photosynthesis of fundamental concern for alternative energy and food production applications. I hold a B.S. in Physics and Political Science from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and hope to find...

A number of journal classification systems have been developed in bibliometrics since the launch of the Citation Indices by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) in the 1960s. The best known system is the so-called “Web-of-Science Subject Categories” (WCs). Each system has its own advantages and disadvantages. Using the Journal Citation Reports 2014 of the Science Citation Index and the...