1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand 2Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8511, Japan 3Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences, College of Agriculture & Biological Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57006, USA 4Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, Nation...

The binary tree is an important interconnection pattern for VLSI chip layouts. Suppose that the nodes are separated by at least unit distance and that a wire has unit width. The usual layout of a complete binary tree with n leaves takes chip area Ω(n log n), but it can be arranged that all the leaves are on the boundary of the chip. In contrast, the “recursive H” layout has area of order n, but...

The mathematical formalism of interactive games, which extends one of ordinary differential games [1] and is based on the concept of an interactive control, was proposed by the author [2] to take into account the complex composition of controls of a real human person, which are often complicated couplings of his/her cognitive and known controls with the unknown subconscious behavioral reactions...

The mathematical formalism of interactive games, which extends one of ordinary differential games [1] and is based on the concept of an interactive control, was proposed by the author [2] to take into account the complex composition of controls of a real human person, which are often complicated couplings of his/her cognitive and known controls with the unknown subconscious behavioral reactions...

in this paper, we present a fourth order method for computing simple roots of nonlinear equations by using suitable taylor and weight function approximation. the method is based on weerakoon-fernando method [s. weerakoon, g.i. fernando, a variant of newton's method with third-order convergence, appl. math. lett. 17 (2000) 87-93]. the method is optimal, as it needs three evaluations per ite...

To my parents, and my wife Leihong Li iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to all whose direct and indirect support helped me complete my thesis. First, I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Gee-Kung Chang who has continuously supported my work and ideas throughout my studies at Georgia Institute of Technology. I appreciate his close guidance and great efforts to prepare m...

Song Deng 1,*, Le-Chan Yang 2,†, Dong Yue 1,†, Xiong Fu 3,† and Zhuo Ma 4,† 1 Institute of Advanced Technology, Nanjing University Post & Telecommunication, Nanjing 210003, China; [email protected] 2 International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China; [email protected] 3 School of Computer, Nanjing University Post & Telecommunication, Nanjing 210003, Ch...

1 Szu-chia Lo, National Cheng-Kung University, University Library, Tainan 701, TAIWAN, R.O.C [email protected] Abstract  This paper describes the results of the study of undergraduates’ information literacy and skills. The purpose of this study is to determine their strengths and weaknesses in terms of their information literacy and skills by observing the information search behavior. The ...

Erratum Unfortunately, the original version of this article was published with incorrect details for one authors name and address. Cheng-Yi Cheng’s name, which had been incorrectly spelled as Chen-Yi Cheng, has been corrected. The author’s correct address is as follows: PET Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine, TriService General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, 325 Sec. 2, Cheng-Ku...