Multi-way tensor data are prevalent in many scientific areas such as genomics and biomedical imaging. We consider a K-way tensor-normal distribution, where the precision matrix for each way has a graphical interpretation. We develop an l1 penalized maximum likelihood estimation and an efficient...

Dynamic ride-share systems aim to bring together travelers with similar itineraries and time schedules on short-notice. These systems may provide significant societal and environmental benefits by reducing the number of cars used for personal travel and improving the utilization of available...

Smartphone technology enables dynamic ride-sharing systems that bring together people with similar itineraries and time schedules to share rides on short-notice. This paper considers the problem of matching drivers and riders in this dynamic setting. We develop optimization-based approaches that...

As a drought tolerant plant, jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) is commonly planted in semiarid Northwest China under rainfed conditions. To clarify the response of water use to climatic conditions, sap flow (SF) in 8 non-irrigated jujube trees was monitored using thermal dissipation probes. Also...

Prior studies contend that an unexpected increase in inventory reflects a firm’s difficulty in generating sales and results in negative earnings growth and stock returns. Using a sample with over 85,000 observations for the period of 1950-2005, we confirm the negative relation between...