In the context of global climate change, the solar photovoltaic (PV) energy has regained its attention by many governments. The purpose of this paper is to study the coordination mechanisms of the photovoltaic supply chain considering the strategic consumers' behavior under the government's...

The eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD-ER) project is a massive-scale interbasin system to transfer water from the Yangtze River to North China. With the infrastructure construction close to completion, the project is now faced with many complicated operations management...

The comparison of increasing doses of a compound to a zero dose control is of interest in medical and toxicological studies. Assume that the mean dose effects are non-decreasing among the non-zero doses of the compound. A simple procedure that modifies Dunnett's procedure is proposed to...

Alvo and Cabilio [Alvo, M., Cabilio, P., 1995b. Testing ordered alternatives in the presence of incomplete data. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 90, 1015-1024] extended the Page and Jonckheere tests when randomized blocks are incomplete. Here we use the step-down testing procedure of Marcus...

Dykstra and Robertson [1983. On testing monotone tendencies. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 78, 342-350] proposed the likelihood ratio tests for testing "decreasing on the average" which is closely related to the "starshaped ordering" discussed in Shaked [1979. Estimation of starshaped sequences of...

In this paper, we consider convex optimization problems with cone constraints (CPC in short). We study generalized weak sharp minima properties for (CPC) in the Banach space and Hilbert space settings, respectively. Some criteria and characterizations for the solution set to be a set of...