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Every four years, top athletes gather to compete in the Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Both provide a setting for the best athletes in the world to shine while [...]

Vegetable sushi isn't what it used to be. Looking back on the limp, thin cucumber rolls of yore, that's a very good thing indeed. No one misses the obligatory meatless [...]

Though they're just a blip on the legume radar as one of over 400 types of beans in the world, there's something special about the humble black bean. Hungry inhabitants [...]

Jakob Sperry AGE: 12 then, 21 now INVENTION: GyRings WHAT DOES IT DO? 'GyRings is a fidget toy that helps with focus, concentration, and dexterity. It has five spinning rings [...]

Tea is more than a drink, more than a designated hour or moment on the clock. First and foremost, it's a state of mind. Teatime fits neatly into the yawning [...]

For a kid who hated writing, I grew up into an adult who does a whole lot of it. Words, the basic building blocks of language that used to torture […]

Swaddled in tortillas big and small, soft and crunchy, corn- or wheat-based, tacos are as ubiquitous as they are diverse. However, it hasn't always been this way. A relative newcomer [...]

A RABBI AND A PRIEST were talking about the perks of each job. The priest mentioned that he gets a rectory to live in that comes with a housekeeper and [...]

At the age of 16, figure skater Alysa Liu already has an impressive collection of medals and trophies as well as several amazing firsts. When she was 13, she mastered [...]

Get cozy and settle into a sofa, letting the plush ^ cushions envelop you like an endless hug. Imagine your favorite drink in your hands: steaming mug of hot cocoa, [...]

Keeping clean at work can be overrated. There are many different kinds of jobs in the world. At some, getting cranberries in your hair or chimney soot on your arms [...]

Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach. The closed book: how the rabbis taught the Jews (not) to read the Bible. Princeton, 2023. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780691243290 cloth, $39.95; ISBN 9780691243306 ebook, contact [...]

At age 18, Jordan Stolz won three gold medals at the 2023 World Speed Skating Championships. 1 YOU EXCEL AT SEVERAL EVENTS. DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE? I think the [...]

A new era of plant-based eggs has dawned. WunderEggs by Crafty Counter is sold in Whole Foods Markets, right alongside cartons of conventional chicken eggs, as well as online. Almonds, [...]

Add a touch of elegance and affordable, sustainable opulence to your next party with a dollop of kelp-based caviar. Subtly oceanic in flavor, the crunchy, popping texture is a delightful [...]

Get a quicker, cleaner coffee fix at home or on the go with these single-serving powdered creamer packets. Made with limited ingredients and lightly sweetened, they're specifically designed to blend [...]

61-0982 BS660 MARC The Oxford handbook of the Bible and ecology, ed. by Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris. Oxford, 2022. 494p bibl index ISBN 9780190606732 cloth, $150.00; ISBN 9780190606756 ebook, [...]

A new day is dawning in the kitchen, jostling the soundest of sleepers awake. Far removed from the dusty boxes of cereal and granola bars, bold, bright aromas infused with [...]

Lesch, Charles H. T. Solidarity in a secular age: from political theology to Jewish philosophy. Oxford, 2022. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780197583791 cloth, $74.00; ISBN 9780197583814 ebook, contact publisher for [...]

Legend has it that if you live near an avid gardener and happen to leave your gate open, you're liable to discover bundles of zucchini on your front porch come [...]

Noll, Mark A. America's book: the rise and decline of a Bible civilization, 1794-1911. Oxford, 2022. 864p bibl index ISBN 9780197623466 cloth, $39.95; ISBN 9780197623480 ebook, contact publisher for price [...]

TANUMIHARDJA, Pat. The Sugar Plum Bakers: A Tale of 12 Holiday Treats. illus. by Bonnie Lui. 48p. Melissa de la Cruz Studio. Sept. 2023. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9781368089579. K-Gr 2--This [...]

Soaring temperatures are both the advantage and drawback of a typical summer's day. As the mercury inevitably pushes higher, breaking new records with every passing season, the desire to spend [...]

Like many kids, these adults have dyslexia. Here are their success stories. Learning to read is easy for some students. But kids with dyslexia have difficulty sounding out words. With [...]

The New Cambridge companion to biblical interpretation, ed. by Ian Boxall and Bradley C. Gregory. Cambridge, 2022. 400p bibl index ISBN 9781108490924 cloth, $105.00; ISBN 9781108796675 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108856966 [...]

Carter Bonas, age 12, overcame bullying, discovered golf, and started a business. 1 WHAT WAS SCHOOL LIKE? There was a lot of bullying. Because I have autism, I was looked [...]

JOHN, Jory. Nothing's Wrong!: A Hare, a Bear, and Some Pie to Share. illus. by Erin Kraan. 40p. Farrar. May 2023. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9780374312176. K-Gr 2--This book gives new [...]

DIAZ, Lucky. La Guitarrista. illus. by Micah Player. 40p. HarperCollins. May 2023. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780063254152. K-Gr 3--A young girl finds a guitar in the trash and dreams of becoming [...]

Schmid, Konrad. The making of the Bible: from the first fragments to sacred scripture, by Konrad Schmid and Jens Schroter, tr. by Peter Lewis. Belknap, Harvard, 2021. 440p bibl index [...]

Feder, Yitzhaq. Purity and pollution in the Hebrew Bible: from embodied experience to moral metaphor. Cambridge, 2022. 350p bibl index ISBN 9781316517574 cloth, $99.00; ISBN 9781009051354 ebook, $80.00 60-1677 BS1171 [...]

Balberg, Mira. When near becomes far: old age in rabbinic literature, by Mira Balberg and Halm Weiss. Oxford, 2021. 232p bibl Index ISBN 9780197501481 cloth, $99.00; ISBN 9780197501504 ebook, contact [...]

We consider the constrained assortment optimization problem under the mixed multinomial logit model. Even moderately sized instances of this problem are challenging to solve directly using standard mixed-integer linear optimization formulations. This has motivated recent research exploring customized optimization strategies and approximation techniques. In contrast, we develop a novel conic quadratic mixed-integer formulation. This new formulation, together with McCormick inequalities exploiting the capacity constraints, enables the solution of large instances using commercial optimization software. Funding: A. Sen was supported by a 2219 fellowship grant from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He acknowledges with gratitude the financial support of TUBITAK and hospitality of the University of California, Berkeley. A. Atamturk was supported, in part, by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering [Grant FA9550-10-1-0168]. P. Kaminsky was supported, in part, by industry members of the I/UCRC Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution and by the National Science Foundation [Grant 1067994]. Keywords: assortment optimization * mixed multinomial logit * conic integer optimization, 1. Introduction Assortment planning, the selection of products that a firm offers to its customers, is a key problem faced by retailers, with direct impact on profitability, market share, and [...]

We consider a multiperiod planning problem faced by a biopharmaceutical firm that must coordinate the production and allocation of batches of intermediate products to end products for multiple markets. This is a challenging problem to solve optimally, so we derive a theoretical bound on the performance of a deterministic control (DC) in which all random variables are replaced by their expected values and the corresponding deterministic optimization problem is solved. This is a variant of an approach that is widely used in practice. We show that while DC can perform poorly in some instances, simple reoptimizations of DC (i.e., certainty equivalent control (CEQ) improve the performance of DC. That said, the benefit of reoptimization decreases as the magnitude of demand variation increases. To address this, and also to provide guidance for heuristic design, we derive performance bounds for two additional heuristic controls--(1) open-loop feedback control (OLFC), which reoptimizes a sequence of stochastic programs with a complete demand distribution information, and (2) multipoint approximation control (MPAC), which solves a dynamic program using an approximate demand distribution that incorporates slightly more distributional information beyond simple expected values. We show that although OLFC outperforms CEC, its improvement can be limited. On the other hand, with carefully chosen approximate demand distributions, MPAC can significantly outperform OLFC. This suggests that, in our setting, fully capturing decision dynamics coupled with a small amount of additional distributional information beyond expected values is more useful than fully capturing the demand distribution but coupling that with insufficient modeling of decision dynamics. Funding: This work was supported by industry members of CELDi: The Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution and by the National Science Foundation [Grant 1067994]. Supplemental Material: The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2017.1647. Keywords: production planning * batch allocation * certainty equivalent control * reoptimization, 1. Introduction As product lines expand to target smaller and more segmented markets, the need to effectively determine stocking levels for end products is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, [...]

LOVE LIKE WATER, LOVE LIKE FIREBy Mikhail Iossel In a memorable moment from Mikhail Iossel's new collection of linked stories, ''Love Like Water, Love Like Fire,'' the narration skips from [...]