CONTEXT The dramatic rise in the use of prescription opioids to treat non-cancer pain has been paralleled by increasing prescription opioid abuse. However, detailed analyses of these trends and programs to address them are lacking. OBJECTIVE To study the association between state shipments of prescription opioids for medical use and prescription opioid abuse admissions and to assess the effec...

We present the first comprehensive description of how shipments of cattle connect the geographic extent and production diversity of the United States cattle industry. We built a network of cattle movement from a state-stratified 10% systematic sample of calendar year 2009 Interstate Certificates of Veterinary Inspection (ICVI) data. ICVIs are required to certify the apparent health of cattle mo...

In this paper, employing transaction level data for Russian imports, we explore the role of multi-product shipments in explaining shipping patterns across countries. our data, an average shipment includes five different products. We document that firms from higher income countries on include a larger number products into single and have per period with lower quantity value. then propose mechani...

This paper deals with the determination of production-shipment policy for an integrated vendor-buyer system. The inventory model contains two decision variables: the replenishment lot size and the number of deliveries. This paper solves the inventory model considering two cases: 1) the replenishment lot size as continuous variable and the number of shipments as discrete variable, and 2) the rep...

The degree of effectiveness of a marketing order limiting shipments was examined by simulating prices, shipments, and total revenue. The results suggest that a supply management marketing order would be beneficial to Southeastern sweet onion producers, These findings reinforce the importance of a marketing plan for achieving price and revenue goals over the course of a shipping season. Optimal ...

This paper empirically studies (i) forecasting emergency relief aid shipments and (ii) redesigning upstream humanitarian supply chains as means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response. The United States Agency for International Development provided unique data about its emergency food aid shipments over a period of about eleven years. We find that while it is not possib...