Deleveraging is the process by which households decide that their level of debt is inconsistent with their revised economic outlook and adjust their leverage accordingly, primarily by substituting debt repayment for consumption. Household deleveraging is a commonly cited reason for the sluggish consumption growth experienced during the current economic recovery from the Great Recession. This po...

A Bayesian latent variable model with classification and regression tree approach is built to overcome three challenges encountered by a bank in credit-granting process. These three challenges include (1) the bank wants to predict the future performance of an applicant accurately; (2) given current information about cardholders’ credit usage and repayment behavior, financial institutions would ...

Coronary reactive hyperemia (CRH) is a physiological response to ischemic insult that prevents the potential harm associated with an interruption of blood supply. The relationship between the pharmacologic inhibition of soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) and CRH response to a brief ischemia is not known. sEH is involved in the main catabolic pathway of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), which are c...

This paper is considered with the robust stability problem for linear discretetime systems with polytopic uncertainty and an interval time-varying delay in the state. On the basis of a novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, new delay-range-dependent stability criteria are established by employing the freeweighting matrix approach and a Jensen-type sum inequality. It is shown that the newly propo...

This paper proposes improved delay-dependent stability conditions of the linear time-delay systems of neutral type. The proposed methods employ a suitable Lyapunov-Krasovskii’s functional and a new form of the augmented system. New delay-dependent stability criteria for the systems are established in terms of Linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) which can be easily solved by various effective opti...

The problem of delay-range-dependent exponential synchronization is investigated for Lur’e master-slave systems with delay feedback control and Markovian switching. Using LyapunovKrasovskii functional and nonsingular M-matrix method, novel delayrange-dependent exponential synchronization in mean square criterions are established. The systems discussed in this paper is advanced system, and takes...