This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s ...

The results include a comparison between two different basis functions for temporal selectivity and how these generate different predictions for the dynamics of neural populations. The conclusions are ...

To enable more accurate estimation of connectivity, we propose a data-driven and theoretically grounded framework for optimally designing perturbation inputs, based on formulating the neural model as ...

Abstract: We investigate discrete-time mean–variance portfolio selection problems viewed as a Markov decision process. We transform the problems into a new model with a deterministic transition ...

Abstract: The classical linear-quadratic Gaussian problem is reexamined in this paper with a purpose to better control the dispersion of its randomly valued performance index. A closed-loop optimal ...

Amusement park patrons, wanting to go on a log ride, might not have to wait in line at all, they might have to wait for hours, or the wait could be anywhere in between. For a random log rider, the ...