Miranda-Thompson majorization is a group-induced cone ordering on $mathbb{R}^{n}$ induced by the group of generalized permutation with determinants equal to 1. In this paper, we generalize Miranda-Thompson majorization on the matrices. For $X$, $Yin M_{m,n}$, $X$ is said to be  Miranda-Thompson majorized by $Y$ (denoted by $Xprec_{mt}Y$) if there exists some $Din rm{Conv(G)}$ s...

This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings decisions. We use individual data from the staff of a university to study whether individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university (and the choice of the mutual fund vendor for people who choose to enroll) are affected by the decisions of other employees in the same...

By using different evaluation strategies, we systemically evaluated the performance of Molecular Mechanics/Generalized Born Surface Area (MM/GBSA) and Molecular Mechanics/Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (MM/PBSA) methodologies based on more than 1800 protein-ligand crystal structures in the PDBbind database. The results can be summarized as follows: (1) for the one-protein-family/one-binding-lig...