Large scale food retail interventions and diet

Large scale food retail interventions and diet.

units make decisions about discharge also need to be explored. Nurses may, rightly or wrongly, be more conservative in discharging patients. They may err on the side of caution, but the benefits of these conservative decisions can only be judged with longer term follow up. Do these two new studies help us understand the differences between medical and nursing care? We think they usefully remind...

Mining Large-Scale Retail Data

Understanding customer buying patterns is of great interest in the retail industry. Applications include targeted advertising, optimized product placement, and cross-promotions. Association rules, expressed as A → B (if A then B) are a common and easily understandable ways to represent buying patterns. While the problem of mining such rules has received considerable attention over the past year...

Large Scale Environmental Assessment and Degradation Management: The Case of Food Insecurity in Ethiopia

Integrating expert knowledge in a GIS to optimize siting decisions for small-scale healthy food retail interventions

BACKGROUND The availability of healthy foods in a neighborhood remains a key determinant of diet and diet-related disease in disadvantaged communities. Innovative solutions to the 'food desert' problem include the deployment of mobile markets and healthy corner store initiatives. Such initiatives, however, do not always capitalize on the principles guiding retail development and the possibiliti...

Large-scale optimization in online-retail inventory management

This thesis studies the related decisions of inventory placement and inventory replenishment in online retail. The placement decision focuses on the selection of fulfillment centers in which to place items, while the replenishment decision concerns the amount of inventory to order for each item. In contrast with traditional retail, a distinctive feature of online retail is the flexibility to sh...