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... exposition of the paper The paper was done while the authors were visit to Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) The authors would like to thank the VIASM for hospitality and ... a constant only depending on Ω , Ω , Ω and χ Proof Repeating the proof of Lemma 3.2 in [HHQ] The next lemma isa crucial tool for the proof of the local property of the class Em,χ andfor lower ... Bedford and B A. Taylor, A new capacity for plurisubharmonic functions, Acta Math, 149(1982), no 1–2,1–40 ˘ [BT2] E Bedford and B A. Taylor, Fine topology, Silov boundary, and (ddc )n , J Funct Anal,...
... FACT BOOK 2011 DIVISION OFHEALTHCARE FINANCING AND POLICY FACT BOOK MEDICAID PROGRAM MISSION The mission of the Nevada Division ofHealthCare Financing and Policy (DHCFP) isto purchase and ... Medicaid and NCU recipients Managed Care Managed careisa method of payment andacare delivery model DHCFP contracts for the delivery of healthcare through managed care organizations for certain ... Hearings Unit Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) The HIPAA of 1996 was enacted to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system by adopting standards...
... assessments for all patients There isa medical assessment, including a physical examination andhealth history, anda nursing assessmentfor all patients admitted forcareandtreatment in the organization ... balances that reduce risk Itis essential that all healthcare professionals have appropriate and valid credentials and are competent to provide careandtreatmentto patients A primary activity ... that the training program is integrated into the quality and patient safety program SAFETY AND QUALITY LINK Many hospitals are training sites for medical, nursing, and other health professional...
... Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 23 (2007) 201-209 209 [4] J.R Galo, I Albarreal, M.C Calzada, J.L Cruz, E Fernandez-Cara, M Mari´n, Stability and Convergence ofa Parallel ´ Fractional ... Estrade, Parallel SOR Iterative Algorithms and Performance Evaluation on a Linux Cluster, Proceedings by the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications ... symmetric and positive define matrix D ∈ R r×r Here Ir and On−r stand for the identity and zero matrices of appropriate dimensions respectively Proof The symmetric and nonnegative matrix A can be diagonalized...
... the class HT of factors M having HT Cartan subalgebras A ⊂ M , i.e., maximal abelian ∗ -subalgebras A ⊂ M such that M has the property H relative toAandA contains a subalgebra A0 ⊂ A with A0 ... organizers of the Operator Algebra year 2000–2001, for their hospitality andfora most stimulating atmosphere This article is an expanded version ofa paper with the same title which appeared as MSRI ... version of this paper I am particularly grateful to Alain Connes and Dima Shlyakhtenko formany fruitful conversations and constant support I want to express my gratitude to MSRI and the organizers...
... is that of Problem 3.3 Automatic summarization evaluation Automatic evaluation of summary quality is important for the researchof document summarization as it avoids the labor-intensive and potentially ... function F is called modular, and in such case F (A) = c + aA fa fora sized |V | vector f of real values and constant c A set function F is monotone nondecreasing if A ⊆ B, F (A) ≤ F(B) As shorthand, ... query with synonyms and observed a performance decrease, presumably due to noisy information in a query expression While itis possible to use an approach that is similar to (Toutanova et al.,...
... equally and significantly in writing this paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to the Spanish Ministry of Education for its partial support ... 78363-8202, USA *Corresponding author: manuel.delasen@ehu.es Email address: RPA: Agarwal@tamuk.edu Abstract This article discusses three weak φ-contractive conditions of rational type foraclassof 2cyclic ... results foraclassof extended cyclic self-mappings under three general weak contractive conditions of rational type Manuel De la Sen*1 and Ravi P Agarwal2 Instituto de Investigacion y Desarrollo...
... solutions foraclassof higher-order difference equations Huantao Zhu1 and Weibing Wang∗2 Hunan College of Information, Changsha, Hunan 410200, P.R China Department of Mathematics, Hunan University of ... Science and Technology, Xiangtan, Hunan 411201, P.R China *Corresponding author: gfwwbing@yahoo.com.cn Email address: HZ: zhu-huan-tao@163.com Abstract In this article, we discuss the existence of ... the NNSF of China (10871063) and Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (10B017) References [1] Agarwal, RP: Difference Equations and Inequalities, 2nd edn Marcel Dekker,...
... Journal 2005, 2:18 mixture containing mM ATP, CTP, UTP, and GTP (Pharmacia-Pfizer, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), 0.7 µl of T7 polymerase (Ambion), and nuclease-free water toa final volume of ... ORF into the TBSV vector and inoculated itto N benthamiama, N tabacum, C quinoa, and C amaranticolor (data not shown) plants, the SBWMV 19K CRP did not have any effect on symptomology (data not ... Northern analysis of total RNAs from 16C plants infiltrated with Agrobacterium containing GFP constructs and probed with a labeled GFP sequence probe Lanes 1–4 are RNA samples taken from plants that...
... Lyapunov inequalities and stability for discrete linear Hamiltonian system Appl Math Comput 2, 574–582 (2011) [14] Zhang, Q, Tang, XH: Lyapunov inequalities and stability for discrete linear Hamiltonian ... Lyapunov-type inequalities for certain higher order differential equations J Math Anal Appl 195, 527–536 (1995) [9] Tang, XH, Zhang, M: Lyapunov inequalities and stability for linear Hamiltonian systems ... Since x (a) = x(b) = 0, x(t) ≡ for t ∈ [a, b], and taking into account of the definition of f (t), we can easily obtain that b a f (t)dt = and f (α) = f (β) Moreover, itis obvious that f (t) and f...
... motivated by Ceng et al [2], Takahashi and Zembayashi [14], Takahashi and Zembayashi [9], the main aim of this paper isto introduce and investigate a new iterative method for finding a solution of ... YJC and ZW carried out the studies on nonlinear analysis and applications, wrote this article together and participated in its design of this paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... Y: Metric and generalized projection operators in Banach spaces: properties and applications In: Kartsatos AG (ed.) Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Operators of Monotonic and Accretive Type...
... conditions for existence and uniqueness of solutions for generalized linear discrete-time boundary value problems ofaclassof linear rectangular matrix difference equations whose coefficients are ... provide analytical formulas when we have a consistent problem Moreover, as a further extension of this article, we can discuss the case where the pencil is singular Thus, the Kronecker canonical form ... (12) Main results-Solution space form ofa consistent boundary value problem In this section, the main results fora consistent boundary value problem of types (1) and (2) are analytically presented...
... authors carried out the proof All authors conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors ... globally asymptotically stable when k Î (0, 1] and l Î (0, +∞) Proof We must prove that the positive equilibrium point x of Equation (1.1) is both ¯ locally asymptotically stable and globally attractive ... Science andResearch Program of Science and Technology Department of Hunan Province (Grant no.2010FJ3163, 2011ZK3066) Author details School of Economics and Management, University of South China,...
... P-Kirchhoff problem began to attract the attention of several researchers mainly after the work of Lions [1], where a functional analysis approach was proposed to attack it The reader may consult ... {0}, andis finite dimensional Suppose J Î C1(X, R) satisfies (PS) and (i) there isa constant aanda bounded neighborhood D of in X2 such that J|∂D ≤ a and, (ii) there isa constant b >a such ... Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems Chapman and hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton (2005) 10 Gasiński, L, Papageorgiou, NS: Nontrivial solutions foraclassof resonant p-Laplacian Neumann problems Nonlinear...
... domains andfor p = to [4-6] andfor p >1 to [7-11], while in ℝN andfor p = to [12,13], andfor p >1 to [3,14-17], and the references therein In the present paper, our researchis mainly related ... p-Laplace operator J Math Anal Appl 352, 99–111 (2009) doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.06.021 16 Kang, D: Solution of the quasilinear elliptic problem with a critical Sobolev-Hardy exponent anda Hardy ... term J Math Anal Appl 341, 764–782 (2008) doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.10.058 17 Pucci, P, Servadei, R: Existence, non-existence and regularity of radial ground states for p-Laplace weights Ann Inst...
... u)φ, a ≤ t ≤ b(α) (3:2) By (2.4), itis easy to show that u(t, a) has a unique critical point c (a) in (a, b (a) ), and at this point, u(t, a) obtains a local maximum value Lemma 3.1 Assume that (F2) ... will give a simple proof with a slight modification to [8] Lemma 3.2 Assume a Î N and f(t,u) satisfies (F1), then (H1) j(t ,a) vanishes at least once and at most finitely many times in (a, b (a) ), (H2) ...