Soil carbon (C) cycling is mainly mediated by microorganisms. Natural restoration projects have been widely implemented in the degraded karst areas of southwest China. However, their impacts on the functional genes and microbial communities involved in soil C cycling have not been well...

We develop an analytical framework to appropriately model and adequately analyze A/B tests in presence of nonparametric non-stationarities in the targeted business metrics. A/B tests, also known as online randomized controlled experiments, have been used at scale by data-driven enterprises to...

In many jurisdictions, dispersants are included in contingency plans as a viable countermeasure that can help reduce the overall environmental impact of marine oil spills. When used, it is imperative to monitor the progression of dispersant and oil to assess their environmental fate and...

Bio-based controlled release fertilizers (BCRFs) are cost-effective and renewable thus gradually replacing traditional petroleum-based controlled release fertilizers (CRFs). However, most of current BCRFs are single functional with poor controlled release characteristic. It is critical to...

We propose estimators and analyze their large-sample distribution for two problems, data-oriented expected performance evaluation and data-oriented stochastic optimization, in presence of a specific class of non-stationarities in the observed data. The considered non-stationarities reflect...