William Cooper

Jul 31, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tongqing Chen |William Cooper

1 INTRODUCTION A product displays network effects if it has the property that individual customers value it more when more other customers have purchased it. In this paper, we consider a dynamic pricing problem for a product that exhibits network effects. The pricing problem takes as input a model of demand for the product in question. The model has a fixed population of individual customers, each of whom may be interested in purchasing the product at most once.

Jul 23, 2024 | inforum.com | William Cooper

Donald Trump has announced his vice presidential pick is J.D. Vance. The Ohio senator is a controversial figure. He has, for example, criticized how then-Vice President Mike Pence certified the 2020 presidential election results in favor of Joe Biden. “If I had been vice president,” Vance explained , “I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there.

Jun 6, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | William Cooper |Gerald B Hickson |Roger Dmochowski |Henry Domenico

Key PointsQuestion  Are there differences by specialty in the proportion of physicians who are identified in safety event reports submitted by coworkers describing unprofessional behaviors? Findings  In this cohort study of 35 120 physicians, 9.1% had at least 1 report from a coworker describing unprofessional behavior. Surgeons were most likely to receive a coworker report, and physicians with a pediatric focus were the least likely to receive a report of unprofessional behavior.

May 1, 2024 | itij.com | William Cooper

International private medical insurance (IPMI) distribution is changing, but not all brokers would characterise the change positively. So perhaps ‘evolution’, with its connotations of progress, isn’t the right word. What follows is an incomplete snapshot of the changing role of brokers in IPMI distribution – from the perspective of an insurance provider. First and foremost, brokers need clients. And signing up new clients is tougher than ever.

Feb 5, 2024 | chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Stephen W Tatarchuk |Alexander Mackay |William Cooper |Kayla Snyder

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