There is an acknowledged growing need for efficient and sustainable systems that use available energy resources in an “optimal” (including constraints) way. Such a goal cannot be effectively achieved without taking into account the limits posed by the second law of thermodynamics. A possible...

Stepped wedge randomised trials are increasingly popular. Here we derive the optimal design for a fixed number of periods; this does not allocate an equal number of cluster units to each treatment sequence as might otherwise have been expected.

This article studies the semifoldover designs when initial designs are blocked regular designs. The properties and the structures of semifoldover blocked designs are investigated. Optimal blocking and semifoldover plans are tabulated for 16 and 32 run designs.

Abstract Understanding how people make decisions from risky choices has attracted increasing attention of researchers in economics, psychology and neuroscience. While economists try to evaluate individual’s risk preference through mathematical modeling, neuroscientists answer the question by...

Emotion regulation impacts the expected emotional responses to the outcomes of risky decisions via activation of cognitive control strategies. However, whether the regulation of emotional responses to preceding, incidental stimuli also impacts risk-taking in subsequent decisions is still poorly...