In this paper D-optimal designs for free knot least squares spline estimation are investigated. In contrast to most of the literature on optimal design for spline regression models it is assumed that the knots of the spline are also estimated from the data, which yields to optimal design problems for nonlinear models. In some cases local D-optimal designs can be found explicitly. Moreover, it i...

The present paper examines the effect of government consumption expenditures on economic growth in D-8 countries during the period of 1988 to 2010 using the panel data method. Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia are the countries that have been researched in this study. Fixed effect method is used for the model estimation that has been acquired from Lizard...

A weighted orthogonal system on the half-line based on the Chebyshev rational functions is introduced. Basic results on Chebyshev rational approximations of several orthogonal projections and interpolations are established. To illustrate the potential of the Chebyshev rational spectral method, a model problem is considered both theoretically and numerically: error estimates for the Chebyshev ra...

A weighted orthogonal system on the half line based on the Chebyshev rational functions is introduced. Basic results on Chebyshev rational approximations of several orthogonal projections and interpolations are established. To illustrate the potential of the Chebyshev rational spectral method, a model problem is considered both theoretically and numerically: error estimates for the Chebyshev ra...

This paper addresses the integrated design of civil engineering inelastic structures with embedded control systems and devices. Simultaneous optimization of such controlled structures is considered, showing that new structural forms and configurations can be achieved through integrated design. An optimization procedure for controlled structural systems is developed. The optimal design of (i) an...

This paper undertakes a reliability study using a Bayesian survival analysis framework to explore the impact of a locomotive wheel’s installed position on its service lifetime and to predict its reliability characteristics. The Bayesian Exponential Regression Model, Bayesian Weibull Regression Model and Bayesian Log-normal Regression Model are used to analyze the lifetime of locomotive wheels u...

plant tissue culture techniques were used to study the effect of nacl on tropane alkaloids accumulation and proline content of both datura metel and datura stramonium. callus cultures were established for both datura species. however, ms medium supplemented with 1mg/l of both ba and naa was the best for callus production in d. metel, while ms supplemented with 3 mg/l kin and 1 mg/l 2, 4-d was t...

This paper considers the problem of localization and circumnavigation of a group of targets, which are either stationary or moving slowly with unknown speed, by a single agent. An estimator is proposed, initially for the stationary target case, to localize the targets and the center of mass of them as well as a control law that forces the agent to move on a circular trajectory around the center...

We develop a martingale approach for studying continuous-time stochastic differential games of control and stopping, in a non-Markovian framework and with the control affecting only the drift term of the state-process. Under appropriate conditions, we show that the game has a value and construct a saddle pair of optimal control and stopping strategies. Crucial in this construction is a characte...

We propose a generalization of the Structured Doubling Algorithm (SDA) to compute invariant subspaces of structured matrix pencils that arise in the context of solving linear quadratic optimal control problems. The new algorithm is designed to attain better accuracy when the classical Riccati equation approach for the solution of the optimal control problem is not well suited because the stable...