... of physical activity programmes for
elderly people - a descriptive study using the
EFQM’ criteria
Ana I Marques
1*
, Maria J Rosa
2
, Pedro Soares
3
, Rute Santos
1,4
, Jorge Mota
1
, Joana Carvalho
1
Abstract
Background: ... web page of the organization.
We used standard approaches to statistical analysis of
data including frequencies and percentages fo...
... paper. By calculating the average of the three Brazilian companies
and comparing with the international Paper performance, the Brazilian group reaches an
average lower than foreign subsidiary in ... increase their educational level because they feel a
mental and physical fatigue.
Table 7 presents the quantitative indicators of human capital efforts and the wages expe...
... check that the results
are meaningful.
There is an elegant and subtle implementation of Euler’s transformation due
to van Wijngaarden
[1]
: It incorporates the terms of the original alternating ... of the sum thus far accumulated. (But watch out
if isolated instances of a
k
=0are possible!).
A weakness of a power series representation is that it is guaranteed not to
co...
... store and
evaluate my Chebyshev approximation as an array of Chebyshev coefficients for a
transformed variable y? Can’t I convert the c
k
’s into actual polynomial coefficients
in the original variable ... 1-8 0 0-8 7 2-7 423 (North America only),or send email to trade@cup.cam.ac.uk (outside North America).
5.10 Polynomial Approximation from
Chebyshev Coefficients
You may well a...
... has at the extreme end of the interval, then we can
replace the 13-term series by one that is significantly shorter.
Here are the steps for doing so:
1. Change variables from x to y, as in equation ... largest values of x. This is the feature that allows
“economization”: if we are willing to let the error elsewhere in the interval rise to about the
same value that the fi...
... twice as fast as the original continued fraction, and so if their terms are not
much more complicated than the terms in the original there can be a big savings in
computation. The formula for the ... rewrite them
in forms that can speed up numerical computation. An equivalence transformation
a
n
→ a
n
,b
n
→λb
n
,a
n+1
→ a
n+1
(5.2.11)
leaves the value of a continued...
... There are two kindsof manipulationsthat youcan dowitha polynomial:
numerical manipulations (such as evaluation) , where you are given the numerical
value of its argument, or algebraic manipulations, ... yields the polynomial as p and its derivative as dp.
The above trick, which is basically synthetic division
[1,2]
, generalizes to the
evaluation of the polynomial and nd of...
... done in the obvious way, performing the operation separately on the real and
imaginary parts of the operands. Multiplicationcan also be done in the obvious way,
with 4 multiplications, one addition, ... READING:
Acton, F.S. 1970,
Numerical Methods That Work
; 1990, corrected edition (Washington: Mathe-
matical Association of America), pp. 183, 190. [1]
Mathews, J., and Walker, R...