This article is devoted to the study of existence and multiplicity of positive solutions to a class of nonlinear fractional order multi-point boundary value problems of the type−Dq0+u(t) = f(t, u(t)), 1 < q ≤ 2, 0 < t < 1,u(0) = 0, u(1) =m−2∑ i=1δiu(ηi),where Dq0+ represents standard Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative, δi, ηi ∈ (0, 1) withm−2∑i=1δiηi q−1 < 1, and f : [0, 1] × [0, ∞) → [0, ...

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between wages, human capital and investment in financial assets with risky returns at the individual level. To explore this relationship from an international perspective, we analyse individual level data from the British Household Panel Survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our findings suggest ...

This paper reports a set of experiments motivated by the observation that the design of group decision processes is crucial to the success of electronic meeting room usage. Decision processes can be designed with more emphasis either on exchanging meanings (discussing issues) or exchanging artefacts (generating and structuring topics). Our problem is that, given a particular case to be discusse...