Since 2004, almost $1.23 billion federal dollars have been spent on Great Lakes restoration efforts. But how did all of these cleanup efforts affect housing markets in the polluted areas?
Remember the early days of videotape, when the Betamax and VHS formats battled it out for dominance? Millions of dollars in sales rested on the public’s perception of what counted as videotape, whether they pictured one format or another in their minds. Only one understanding of the technology—only one frame—could dominate. Not so, though, in 2023.
Research drives innovation in everything from data analytics to product design. But what if we cannot trust that the latest research is accurate?
When it comes to Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s Bing Chat, the current debate in the field of business goes something like this: Supporters point out LLMs can outperform any single human on the breadth of topics in which they are capable. On the flip side, critics highlight the instances in which LLMs produce work that is remarkably shoddy and even downright wrong.
Nearly one in ten people worldwide suffer from food insecurity, or inconsistent access to enough nutritious food. Food banks are critical to addressing this fundamental human need since they serve as intermediaries between donors like food drives, farms, and grocers, and charitable agencies such as food pantries and soup kitchens.
The University of Alabama is spearheading an effort to reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease in West Alabama.
With $6 million from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention spread out over the next five years, UA faculty, staff and students will work with local health care providers to implement programs and resources designed to reduce risk factors for heart attacks, strokes and other issues stemming from poor cardiovascular health. The work will focus on nine counties around the University that include rural and underserved areas of the state.
Financier Bernie Madoff was a high-profile executive who owned Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. The one-time Nasdaq chairman was highly respected and well-liked in the business community, with an incredibly successful record of earning strong returns for his clients. Unfortunately, Madoff used his expertise and relationships to perpetrate the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors of billions of dollars.
“If we think about a football team, as great as the quarterback might be, what good is it going to do if you’ve got 11 quarterbacks?” Culverhouse’s Institute of Data & Analytics (IDA) Director Jason Parton explained the institute’s interdisciplinary approach to research with a football analogy. “This team is interdisciplinary, and the skill sets of the team members are complementary.”
It goes beyond simple cleaning: Someone must schedule play dates for the kids, stay on top of school updates, and remember that the family will soon be out of eggs. These responsibilities are well-known, but rarely studied. It’s widely agreed that they are real work, and that they are largely unappreciated. But what do we call this kind of work, and who shoulders most of the load – men or women?
What do heart murmurs, housing prices during the Obama administration, and migration flows into Europe have in common? For Culverhouse econometrician Dr. Daniel Henderson, the answer is in the numbers, and his research centers on the ways that numbers can explain and predict complex relationships.
