This study examines the impact of incentives on commuters’ travel behavior based upon a questionnaire survey conducted on the Beijing Subway System. Overall, we find that giving incentives to commuters, especially fast food restaurant-related services and reduced ticket fares, has a positive...

This article conducts a brief analysis of the factors that affect the quality safety of organic mango, and discusses the organic production measures for improving the quality and quality safety of mango, including the choice of environment of place of origin, varieties and seedlings, fertilizers...

In order to study the development of organic agriculture in Taiwan in recent years, and based on relevant agriculture, economic and social statistics, the general scale of organic agriculture and industrial structure were treated with statistic analysis. Results suggest that the general scale of...

Using a large cross section of intraday data from 25 developed countries, we study commonality in liquidity, both within and across international equity markets, over 15‐minute intervals. Within‐country and cross‐border liquidity commonalities are found to be significant and, after...

We compare simple logistic regression with an alternative robust procedure for constructing linear predictors to be used for the two state classification task. Theoritical advantages of the robust procedure over logistic regression are: (i) although it assumes a generalized linear model for the...

Surgical nurses are essential resources in the surgery delivery system. However, staffing decisions present a challenge due to the stochastic nature of surgical demand, nurse availability, skill requirements, and hospital regulations. Based on collaboration with a large academic hospital, we...

This paper explores the predictive ability of volatility in the crude oil market. A comparison in the CBOE crude oil volatility index (OVX), GARCH and Stochastic Volatility Models are employed to investigate the forecasting performance. The daily price dataset, spanning from 2010 to 2022,...