The transporting sugarcane from cane fields to a mill factory is a potential cost in sugarcane logistics. The poorly operating vehicle (six-wheel truck) services and transportation lot size results in lost or excess of cane supplied. In this paper, we consider the integrated districting problem of whole cane field region and transportation lot size of each cane field. We formulate the combining...

We develop a model of repeated microcredit lending to study how group size affects optimal group-lending contracts with joint liability. In the setting being studied, a benevolent lender provides microcredit to a group of borrowers to invest in projects. The outcome of each risky project is not observable by the lender; therefore, if some of the borrowers default on their loan repayments, the l...

Analyses of functional and structural imaging data typically involve testing hypotheses at each voxel in the brain. However, it is often the case that distributed spatial patterns may be a more appropriate metric for discriminating between conditions or groups. Multivariate pattern analysis has been gaining traction in neuroimaging of adult healthy and clinical populations; studies have shown t...