Publications by authors named "Van-Anh Truong"

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.

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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.

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Article Synopsis
  • The text discusses the limitations of traditional hospital scheduling practices that treat different units separately, introducing a new model that considers multiple locations' capacity usage.
  • This dynamic multi-day scheduling model factors in patient length-of-stay and the overall census, optimizing scheduling decisions based on system states and downstream capacity.
  • Results from numerical experiments indicate that integrated scheduling can significantly reduce costs compared to localized approaches, potentially saving up to 60% in expenses.
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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]).

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

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