... effect ofpositive feedback is positive, but the effect of negative feedback is nega-tive, as can be seen by the sign of the β value.4 A tutoring system for linked listsA new ITS in the domain of ... following defi-nition of student activity has been adopted:student activity =# of turns − # of short turnssession lengthTurns are the sequences of uninterrupted speech of the student. Short ... might be the educational value of positive feedback in ITSs? First of all, positive feedbackmay be an effective motivational technique (Lepperet al., 1997). Positive feedback can also have...
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... theexistence of organized religions and theirchurches cannot be taken as proof of the exis-tence of God, the existence of the mental healthprofessions and their clinics is not proof of theexistence of ... Agingand Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madi-sonPETER SALOVEY, Professor of Psychologyand of Epidemiology and Public Health, De-partment of Psychology, ... De-partment of Psychology, State University of New York at BuffaloJAMES W.PENNEBAKER, Professor, Depart-ment of Psychology, University of TexasCHRISTOPHER PETERSON, Professor of Psy-chology...
... with the T-method utilizing the standard cut-off of 20% positive cells, as well as with the T/B Ratio-method; in the latter case, the cut-off of 3.0 identified inthe test set was chosen.According ... cases marked as ZAP-70 positive, can theoreti-cally represent the result of a high expression level of ZAP-70 in the CLL component, but also of a low expres-sion level of ZAP-70 by residual ... reports by our groups[19,20] Flow cytometric analyses of CD38 and CD49dwere done as previously described [18], using the cut-offpoint of 30% ofpositive cells for both markers[18,21-23]. Patients...
... structure of the set o f positive solutions of (1.1), (1.2), and obtain the existence ofpositive solutions of (1.1) and (1.2). More-over, we can also obtain the existence of negative solutions of ... isacharacteristicvalueofT if there exists v Î E, v ≠ 0, such that v =μTv,i.e.,μ-1is a nonz ero eigenvalue of T. Let r(T) denote the set of real characte risticvalues of T and Γ denote the closure of the set of ... definition of a positive solution and a negative solution of (1.1) and(1.2).Definition 1.1. A positive solution of problem (1.1) and (1.2) refers to a pair (r, u),where r ≠ 0, u is a solution of (1.1)...
... value problems of ordinary differential equations (BVPs for short)arise in a variety of different areas of applied mathematics and physics. For example, thevibrations of a guy wire of a uniform ... Lian1and Weigao Ge21School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, P.R. China2Department of Mathematics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, ... and composed of N parts of differentdensities can be set up as a multi-point boundary value problem [3]. Many problems in thetheory of elastic stability can be handled by the method of multi-point...
... Classification of solutions for an integral equation. Comm. PureAppl. Math. 59, 330–343 (2006)Nonexistence ofpositive solutions of an integral system with weightsZhengce ZhangSchool of Mathematics ... Mitidieri, E: Positive solutions of semilinear elliptic systems.Comm. Partial Diff. Equ. 17, 923–940 (1992)[5] Peletier, LA, Van der Vorst, RCAM: Existence and nonexistence ofpositive solutions of non-linear ... someassumptions of p, q, α, and β. Furthermore, using Doubling Lemma indicated in [14],which is an extension of an idea of Hu [15], Chen and Li [16, Theorem 4.3] obtained thenonexistence of positive...
... symmetry of solutions of (1.1) onthe hyperbola (1.3). For ξ = η = 0 and max{1, 2/(N − 2)} < p, q < ∞, Chen andLi [16, Theorem 4.3] obtained the nonexistence ofpositive solutions of (1.1) ... Mitidieri, E: Positive solutions of semilinear elliptic systems.Comm. Partial Diff. Equ. 17, 923–940 (1992)[5] Peletier, LA, Van der Vorst, RCAM: Existence and nonexistence ofpositive solutions of non-linear ... someassumptions of p, q, α, and β. Furthermore, using Doubling Lemma indicated in [14],which is an extension of an idea of Hu [15], Chen and Li [16, Theorem 4.3] obtained thenonexistence of positive...
... uniqueness of nonnegative solutions of quasilinear equations in Rn. AdvMath. 118, 177–243 (1996). doi:10.1006/aima.1996.002111. Ma, R, An, Y: Uniqueness ofpositive solutions of a class of O.D.E. ... Kwong, MK: Uniqueness ofpositive solutions of Δu-u + up=0inRn. Arch Ration Mech Anal. 105, 243–266 (1989)3. Erbe, L, Tang, M: Uniqueness ofpositive radial solutions of Δ u+K(|x|)γ(u) = 0. ... appropriate valuer, the same proof can be reapplied as often as necessary to give uniqueness of any con-tinuation of the solution whose values lie in (a, b ). The proof is complete.3 UniquenessTheorem...
... 2011:25http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2011/1/25Page 2 of 9In the sequel, we present a sufficient condition for the existence and uniqueness of posit ive solutions for Problem (2) (positive solution means x(t)>0fort Î (0,1)).Theproof of this ... (0,1)).Theproof of this condi tion is similar to the proof of Theorem 2.3 of [23]. We present thisproof for completeness.Theorem 4. Under assumptions of Theorem 3 and suppose that f( t0,0)≠ 0 for ... 2011:25http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2011/1/25Page 8 of 9RESEA R C H Open AccessOn existence and uniqueness of positive solutions to a class of fractional boundary valueproblemsJ Caballero*,...
... People’sRepublic of ChinaAbstractBy obtaining intervals of the parameter l, this article investigates the existence of a positive solution for a class of nonlinear boundary value problems of second-orderdifferential ... case of main results of this study, let us make use of the following lemmas.Lemma 2.1 Assume that (H) holds, then x is a nonnegative solution of (1.1) i f andonly if x is a fixed point of the ... Banach space with norm || · || and P ⊂E be a cone of E. The purpose of this article is to i nvestigate the existence of po sitive solutions of the fo llowing sec-ond-order integral boundary...
... 2011:25http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2011/1/25Page 2 of 9In the sequel, we present a sufficient condition for the existence and uniqueness of posit ive solutions for Problem (2) (positive solution means x(t)>0fort Î (0,1)).Theproof of this ... (0,1)).Theproof of this condi tion is similar to the proof of Theorem 2.3 of [23]. We present thisproof for completeness.Theorem 4. Under assumptions of Theorem 3 and suppose that f( t0,0)≠ 0 for ... 2011:25http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2011/1/25Page 8 of 9andtheyprovedtheexistenceofpositivesolutionsbymeansoftheKrasnosel’skiifixed-point theorem and Legget-Williams fixed-point...
... changes sign. The existence result ofpositive solutions is established by usingthe fixed point index theory of cone mapping.Keywords: periodic boundary value problem, positive solution, sign-changingGreen’s ... Multiplicity ofpositive periodic solutions to supperlinear repulsive singular equations. J DifferEqu. 210, 282–320 (2005)4. Torres, PJ: Existence of one-signed periodic solutions of some second-order ... AccessExistence ofpositive solutions to periodicboundary value problems with sign-changingGreen’s functionShengren Zhong1and Yukun An2** Correspondence: anykna@nuaa.edu.cn2Department of Mathematics,Nanjing...