Human antibiotic consumption is considered the main driver of antibiotic resistance. Reducing human antibiotic consumption without compromising health care quality poses one of the most important global health policy challenges. A crucial condition for designing effective policies is to identify...

Large-scale data show promise to provide efficiency gains through individualized risk predictions in many business and policy settings. Yet, assessments of the degree of data-enabled efficiency improvements remain scarce. We quantify the value of the availability of a variety of data...

To show the cross-market evidence on how social referral helps business growth, we analyze a full set of the actively used instant mobile apps (46,929 in total) embedded in one of the world’s largest social networking sites, WeChat. The WeChat platform provides on average over 350 million...

1. Introduction -- 2. Theories and Methodology Applied -- 3. The Case of E Group Corporation – An SOE in Sichuan, post-1949 -- 4. Workers’ Returning to a Proletarian Position in post-1978 -- 5. Nostalgia” and “Protests”: Class Consciousness and Class-for-itself -- 6. Reconstruction of...

Social media-transmitted online information, which is associated with emotional expressions, shapes our thoughts and actions. In this study, we incorporate social network theories and analyses and use a computational approach to investigate how emotional expressions, particularly negative...

Although social advertising has become a major online advertising channel in recent years, its effectiveness is not fully understood. In this study, we use data from a large-scale field experiment with a major social media platform (WeChat Moments) to investigate how the display of social cues...

This paper proposes two types of parking choice models, a static game theoretic model and a dynamic neo-additive capacity model, to capture the competition among drivers for limited desirable parking spaces. The static game assumes that drives make decisions simultaneously and with perfect...

<title>Abstract</title> This article documents the authors' experience with the modeling, simulation, and analysis of a university transportation system, using the TRansportation ANalysis and SIMulation System (TRANSIMS). The processes of data preparation and network coding are described, followed by the...