When food governance matters to consumer food choice: Consumer perception of and preference for food quality certifications.

Food quality certifications have been widely promoted for sustainable goals and addressing consumers' increasing concern for food safety. However, these mechanisms have achieved varied success in practice. Prior research notes the importance of certification and certifying agencies in making tangible an invisible process to build consumer trust in certified food.

Are trust and consumption values important for buyers of organic food? A comparison of regular buyers, occasional buyers, and non-buyers.

Although many countries have promoted organic farming for its benefits, organic food remains a niche market. This study investigates the drivers of purchasing organic food by examining if and how consumers' consumption values influence the food choices of regular buyers, occasional buyers, and non-buyers of organic food. We use consumption values as a theoretical lens for classifying different motives for purchasing organic food.

Integrated Scheduling and Capacity Planning with Considerations for Patients' Length-of-Stays.

Motivated by the shortcoming of current hospital scheduling and capacity planning methods which often model different units in isolation, we introduce the first dynamic multi-day scheduling model that integrates information about capacity usage at more than one location in a hospital. In particular, we analyze the first dynamic model that accounts for patients' length-of-stay and downstream census in scheduling decisions. Via a simple and innovative variable transformation, we show that the optimal number of patients to be allowed in the system is increasing in the state of the system and in the downstream capacity.

Case Sequencing of Diagnostic Imaging Studies Performed Under General Anesthesia or Monitored Anesthesia Care During Nights and Weekends.

General anesthesia or monitored anesthesia care sometimes is provided in nonoperating room (OR) locations during nights and weekends (e.g., for magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] or computerized tomography [CT]).

The pediatric vaccine stockpiling problem.

The U.S. has experienced many major interruptions of its pediatric vaccine production in the past decade.