When we solve an ordinary nonlinear programming problem by the most and popular sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method, one of the difficulties that we must overcome is to ensure the consistence of its QP subproblems. In this paper, we develop a new SQP method which can assure that the QP subproblem at every iteration is consistent. One of the main techniques used in our method involves ...

Qualitative Process theory provides a formal representation for human-like models of continuous processes. Prior research mapped qualitative process elements onto English language constructions, but did not connect the representations to existing frame semantic resources. Here we identify and classify QP language constituents through their instantiation in FrameNet frames to provide a unified s...

Current management of ventricular septal defect (VSD) after myocardial infarction (MI) is aimed at improving left ventricular (LV) performance by afterload reduction as a means of hemodynamic stabilization or shunt control. The current investigation was undertaken to determine whether primary manipulation of right venticular (RV) performance by afterload enhancement was an effective means of re...

Research on teaching and learning quantum physics (QP) frequently explores students’ conceptual difficulties to identify common patterns in their reasoning. The abstractness of QP is often found be at the origin difficulties. Due this abstract nature students resort sense reasoning or classical thinking when they make meaning phenomena. In literature review, ‘abstractness’ closely investigated ...

The rst arrival quasi-P wave traveltime eld in an anisotropic elastic solid solves a rst order nonlinear partial diierential equation, the qP eikonal equation. Since the qP slowness surface is convex, the rst arrival traveltime along downward propagating rays solves the paraxial qP eikonal equation, an evolution equation in depth. A second order upwind nite diierence scheme solves this paraxial...

We study experimentally the critical depinning current I(c) versus applied magnetic field B in Nb thin films which contain 2D arrays of circular antidots placed on the nodes of quasiperiodic (QP) fivefold Penrose lattices. Close to the transition temperature T(c) we observe matching of the vortex lattice with the QP pinning array, confirming essential features in the I(c)(B) patterns as predict...

Let Ω be an algebraic closure of Qp and let F be a finite extension of Qp contained in Ω. Given positive integers f and e, the number of extensions K/F contained in Ω with residue degree f and ramification index e was computed by Krasner. This paper is concerned with the number I(F, f, e) of F -isomorphism classes of such extensions. We determine I(F, f, e) completely when p2 ∤ e and get partia...

The paging signaling overhead is occurred in Paging extensions for Mobile IP(P-MIP) which was proposed to reduce registration signaling overhead of Mobile IP(MIP). And quick paging IP scheme using residence pattern of mobile user(QP-MIP) is proposed to overcome the above inefficiency. To the exact analysis of QP-MIP and P-MIP, the Mobile Node(MN) state transition behavior is modeled and the ste...