Land value sometimes needs to be extracted from the price of a developed property for a number of purposes. For instance, land value tax has long gained recognition of being an efficient and equitable tax. Despite the theoretical significance, daunting difficulties in valuing land often cause...

Taiwan is one of the few countries where a split-rate or differential-rate property tax is applied. Under the split-rate taxation, land is taxed at a higher rate than the structure. The scarce transactions of vacant land in the cities have led the government assessors to separating land and...

In many practical problems, both decision and estimation are involved. This dissertationintends to study the relationship between decision and estimation in these problems, so thatmore accurate inference methods can be developed.Hybrid estimation is an important formulation that deals with state...

In many practical problems, both decision and estimation are involved. This dissertation intends to study the relationship between decision and estimation in these problems, so that more accurate inference methods can be developed. Hybrid estimation is an important formulation that deals with...

What distinguishes cancer from other more treatable diseases is perhaps the random, multi-strain nature of the disease. Here we apply tools from statistical mechanics to model cancer vaccine design. The difficulty of controlling cancer by many of the standard therapies has led to substantial...

We investigate the dynamics of quantum discord during the purification process. In the case of Werner states, it is shown that quantum discord is increased after a round of purification protocol. Furthermore, quantum mutual information and classical correlation is also increased during this...