by using the trigonometric uniform splines of order 3 with a real tension factor, a numericalmethod is developed for solving a linear second order boundary value problems (2vbp) withdirichlet, neumann and cauchy types boundary conditions. the moment at the knots isapproximated by central finite-difference method. the order of convergence of the methodand the theory is illustrated by solving tes...

Using historical time-series data, we test for convergence and common trends in real per capita output for New Zealand and her four major trading partners. Both bivariate and multivariate time-series methods are used, and we also implement the fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm as an alternative basis for detecting convergence. The results of our time-series analysis accord with earlier studies...

JOHANNESBURG IN ophthalmology there are two schools of thought, the physiological and the physical or mechanical school. Thus Williamson-Noble', dealing with my method of treating eyestrain, states: "curiously enough, Stutterheim designates the condition which his exercises are designed to improve as " involuntary convergence," whereas, as you will shortly see, it is the ability to perform the ...

In this paper, we test whether aggregate productivity movements, especially convergence, are also reflected at the industry level. Using a new result on the asymptotic normality of panel unit root estimators, we find evidence for convergence in total factor productivity for sectors such as services and construction in 14 OECD countries from 1970-1987. However, surprisingly, we find that converg...

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is one of the most powerful algorithms for optimization. Traditional PSO algorithm tends to suffer from slow convergence and trapping into local optimum. In this paper, an improved PSO algorithm is proposed by combining dynamic fractional order technology and the wavelet mutation strategy. In the proposed method, a dynamic fractional order velocity update equat...

Convergence is an issue being widely concerned about. Thus, in this paper, we mainly put forward two types of concepts of convergence in mean and convergence in distribution for the sequence of uncertain random variables. Then some of theorems are proved to show the relations among the three convergence concepts that are convergence in mean, convergence in measure and convergence in distributio...

the effect of boundary conditions on the solution of the inverse problem of identifying the geometry and location of a cavity inside an elastic solid body using displacement measurements obtained from a tension test is investigated. the boundary elements method (bem) coupled with the genetic algorithm (ga) and the conjugate gradient method (cgm) are implemented in this identification problem. a...

in this work the collocation method based on quartic b-spline is developed and applied to two-point boundary value problem in ordinary diferential equations. the error analysis and convergence of presented method is discussed. the method illustrated by two test examples which verify that the presented method is applicable and considerable accurate.