Applied Mathematics Letters, Volume 15

Volume 15, Number 1, January 2002

• Mehmet Cem Ece, E. Büyük:
  Similarity solutions for free convection to power-law fluids from a heated vertical plate. 1-5
  
• Wasfi S. Kafri:
  Robust D-stability. 7-10
  
• Burkhard Morgenstern:
  A simple and space-efficient fragment-chaining algorithm for alignment of DNA and protein sequences. 11-16
  
• Petr Castulík:
  The Compressible boundary layer and the Boltzmann equation. 17-23
  
• Benito Hernández-Bermejo:
  Stability conditions and Liapunov functions for quasi-polynomial systems. 25-28
  
• Maria Groppi, Giampiero Spiga:
  The linear Boltzmann equation with inelastic scattering. 29-34
  
• Wenming Zou:
  Solitary waves of the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations. 35-39
  
• Naihua Xiu, Jianzhong Zhang:
  A characteristic quantity of P-matrices. 41-46
  
• Natalia Borovykh, Driss Drissi, Marc Nico Spijker:
  A bound on powers of linear operators, with relevance to numerical stability. 47-53
  
• John A. Adam:
  Healing times for circular wounds on plane and spherical bone surfaces. 55-58
  
• John A. Adam:
  The effect of surface curvature on wound healing in bone. 59-62
  
• Shigeyoshi Owa, Mamoru Nunokawa, Hitoshi Saitoh, Hari M. Srivastava:
  Close-to-convexity, starlikeness, and convexity of certain analytic functions. 63-69
  
• Chiu-Ya Lan, Chi-Kun Lin:
  Renormalization in dispersive and dissipative equation. 71-75
  
• Muhammad Aslam Noor:
  Iterative methods for generalized variational inequalities. 77-82
  
• Michael L. Frankel, Victor Roytburd:
  Finite-dimensional attractors for a free boundary problem with a kinetic condition. 83-87
  
• Mark J. Kaiser:
  The polygonal containment model. 89-94
  
• Gilles Carbou, Pierre Fabrie, Frank Jochmann:
  A remark on the weak \omega-limit set for micromagnetism equation. 95-99
  
• P. Biler J. Dolbeault, M. J. Esteban:
  Intermediate asymptotics in L1 for general nonlinear diffusion equations. 101-107
  
• Byung Soo Lee, Gue Myung Lee, Suk-Jin Lee:
  Variational-type inequalities for (omega, theta, delta)-pseudomonotone-type set-valued mappings in nonreflexive Banach spaces. 109-114
  
• M. Consuelo Casabán, Lucas Jódar, José Albeiro Sánchez Cano:
  Stable numerical solution of strongly coupled mixed diffusion problems. 115-119
  
• Guozhen Li:
  The existence theorems of the random solutions for random Hammerstein equation with random kernel (II). 121-125
  
• Glenn Ledder, John D. Logan:
  Corrigendum to "Contamination and remediation waves in a filtration model" : Applied Mathematics Letters 13(7) 75-84, 2000. 127
  
• M. Rahman:
  Erratum to "Fourier-transform solution to the problem of steady-state transonic motion of a line load across the surface of an elastic half-space (The corrected Cole-Huth solution)" : Applied Mathematics Letters 14(4) 437-441, 2001. 129
  

Volume 15, Number 2, February 2002

• Pierre Degond, Axel Klar:
  A relaxation approximation for transport equations in the diffusive limit. 131-135
  
• George A. Constantinides, Gerhard J. Woeginger:
  The complexity of multiple wordlength assignment. 137-140
  
• V. Sundarapandian:
  Stabilizability and a separation principle for periodic orbits. 141-146
  
• Boris Mirkin, Ilya B. Muchnik:
  Layered clusters of tightness set functions. 147-151
  
• George A. Anastassiou, Vassilis G. Papanicolaou:
  Probabilistic inequalities and remarks. 153-157
  
• Juntang Ding:
  Blow-up of solutions for a class of semilinear reaction diffusion equations with mixed boundary conditions. 159-162
  
• Kholmatzhon Kh. Imomnazarov, A. Kh. Matevosyan:
  The diffraction of a nonstationary SH-wave on a semi-infinite crack in a porous elastic medium. 163-166
  
• Hans Peter Wolfram Gottlieb:
  Exact solution of a Stefan problem in a nonhomogeneous cylinder. 167-172
  
• Juan J. Nieto:
  Differential inequalities for functional perturbations of first-order ordinary differential equations. 173-179
  
• Deren Han, Hong K. Lo:
  A new stepsize rule in He and Zhou's alternating direction method. 181-185
  
• Valentin E. Brimkov, Stefan S. Dantchev:
  An alternative to Ben-Or's lower bound for the knapsack problem complexity. 187-191
  
• Yu-Ru Syau, Chinyao Low, Tai-Hsi Wu:
  A note on convex fuzzy processes. 193-196
  
• Jichun Li:
  Finite element analysis for a nonlinear diffusion model in image processing. 197-202
  
• Mingshu Peng, Weigao Ge, Qianli Xu:
  Preservation of nonoscillatory behavior of solutions of second-order delay differential equations under impulsive perturbations. 203-210
  
• Ruyun Ma:
  Existence and uniqueness of solutions to first-order three-point boundary value problems. 211-216
  
• Tom E. Simos:
  Exponentially-fitted Runge-Kutta-Nystro"m method for the numerical solution of initial-value problems with oscillating solutions. 217-225
  
• Qingliu Yao, Yuqiang Feng:
  The existence of solution for a third-order two-point boundary value problem. 227-232
  
• Wenchang Sun, Xingwei Zhou:
  Average sampling in spline subspaces. 233-237
  
• P. M. Jordan, Ashok Puri:
  Qualitative results for solutions of the steady fisher-KPP equation. 239-250
  
• Alexey S. Matveev, Andrey V. Savkin:
  Limit cycles in switched single-server flow networks. 251-256
  
• Kholmatzhon Kh. Imomnazarov:
  The movement of bubbles in a vibrating liquid: Applied Mathematics Letters 13(4) 49-50, 2000. 257
  

Volume 15, Number 3, April 2002

• Wan-Tong Li, Sui-Sun Cheng:
  An oscillation criterion for nonhomogeneous half-linear differential equations. 259-263
  
• Arturo de Pablo, Fernando Quirós, Julio D. Rossi:
  Nonsimultaneous quenching. 265-269
  
• V. Sundarapandian:
  A necessary condition for local asymptotic stability of discrete-time nonlinear systems with parameters. 271-274
  
• V. Sundarapandian:
  Global asymptotic stability of nonlinear cascade systems. 275-277
  
• Sandi Klavzar, Petra Zigert:
  A min-max result on catacondensed benzenoid graphs. 279-283
  
• Angelo Morro:
  Modelling of optically active electromagnetic media. 285-291
  
• Boris Mirkin, Ilya B. Muchnik:
  Induced layered clusters, hereditary mappings, and convex geometries. 293-298
  
• A. K. Gupta, D. G. Kabe:
  Some generalized multiple integrals involving zonal polynomials. 299-303
  
• S. Stevo:
  The recursive sequence xn+1 = g(xn, xn-1)/(A + xn). 305-308
  
• Aldo Tagliani:
  Entropy estimate of probability densities having assigned moments: Hausdorff case. 309-314
  
• M. A. Noor:
  Modified projection method for pseudomonotone variational inequalities. 315-320
  
• Daoyi Xu, Hongyong Zhao:
  Invariant set and attractivity of nonlinear differential equations with delays. 321-325
  
• Ouayl Chadli, Yungyen Chiang, Jen-Chih Yao:
  Equilibrium problems with lower and upper bounds. 327-331
  
• François Dubeau, Jamila Karrakchou:
  State-dependent impulsive delay-differential equations. 333-338
  
• Robert A. Gatenby, Philip K. Maini, Edward T. Gawlinski:
  Analysis of tumor as an inverse problem provides a novel theoretical framework for understanding tumor biology and therapy. 339-345
  
• Olivier D. Lafitte:
  Existence and positivity of a system k- with a production term of the Rayleigh-Taylor type. 347-354
  
• Vladimir Kolmanovskii, Leonid E. Shaikhet:
  Some peculiarities of the general method of Lyapunov functionals construction. 355-360
  
• Jiu Ding:
  Minimal distance upper bounds for the perturbation of least squares problems in Hilbert spaces. 361-365
  
• Mustafa Ç. Pinar:
  A global error bound for quadratic perturbation of linear programs. 367-370
  
• Bing Liu, Jian She Yu:
  Note on third-order boundary value problem for differential equations with deviating arguments. 371-379
  
• Azmy S. Ackleh, H. T. Banks, Gabriella A. Pinter:
  A nonlinear beam equation. 381-387
  

Volume 15, Number 4, May 2002

• Kambiz Farahmand, Alexander Grigorash:
  Expected density of complex zeros of random hyperbolic polynomials. 389-393
  
• Miguel A. Hernández, M. Jóse Rubio:
  The Secant method for nondifferentiable operators. 395-399
  
• George L. Karakostas, P. Ch. Tsamatos:
  Sufficient conditions for the existence of nonnegative solutions of a nonlocal boundary value problem. 401-407
  
• Abdelkader Boucherif:
  First-order differential inclusions with nonlocal initial condition. 409-414
  
• Ana Carpio:
  Wavefronts for discrete two-dimensional nonlinear diffusion equations. 415-421
  
• Wendi Wang:
  Global behavior of an SEIRS epidemic model with time delays. 423-428
  
• José Emilio Enrique Navarro, Lucas Jódar, María Vicenta Ferrer:
  Constructing eigenfunctions of strongly coupled parabolic boundary value systems. 429-434
  
• Soon-Mo Jung, Prasanna K. Sahoo:
  Stability of a functional equation for square root spirals. 435-438
  
• Ravi P. Agarwal, Donal O'Regan:
  Countably P-Concentrative Pairs and the coincidence index. 439-444
  
• Daqing Jiang, Ravi P. Agarwal:
  A uniqueness and Existence theorem for a singular third-order boundary value Problem on [0, infinity). 445-451
  
• Ricardo Berlanga, Javier F. Rosenblueth:
  Jacobi's condition for singular extremals: An extended notion of conjugate points. 453-458
  
• Bilal Chanane:
  Fliess series approach to the computation of the eigenvalues of fourth-order Sturm-Liouville problems. 459-463
  
• Takao Nambu:
  Enhancement of stability of linear parabolic systems by static feedback. 465-471
  
• Ramón Quintanilla:
  Uniqueness in exterior domains for the generalized heat conduction. 473-479
  
• Jose Luis Morales:
  A numerical study of limited memory BFGS methods. 481-487
  
• Juan J. Nieto:
  Impulsive resonance periodic problems of first order. 489-493
  
• Samir Karaa, Jun Zhang:
  A note on convergence of line iterative methods for a nine-point matrix. 495-503
  
• Edward J. Dean, Roland Glowinski, Jacques-Louis Lions:
  An operator splitting approach to multilevel methods. 505-511
  
• K. Jayakumar, R. N. Pillai:
  A class of stationary Markov processes. 513-519
  

Volume 15, Number 5, July 2002

• Chengjian Zhang, Gen Sun:
  The discrete dynamics of nonlinear infinite-delay-differential equations. 521-526
  
• Yawvi A. Fiagbedzi:
  Finite-dimensional representation of delay systems. 527-532
  
• Liping Huang, Wasin So:
  Quadratic formulas for quaternions. 533-540
  
• Shi-hai Dong, Renato Lemus:
  The overlap integral of three associated Legendre polynomials. 541-546
  
• David A. Edwards, Seth A. Jackson:
  Testing the validity of the effective rate constant approximation for surface reaction with transport. 547-552
  
• H. Yang, J. Yu:
  Essential components of the set of weakly Pareto-Nash equilibrium points. 553-560
  
• Wei-Fan Wang, Ko-Wei Lih:
  Choosability and edge choosability of planar graphs without five cycles. 561-565
  
• Jian-Guo Si, Xin-Ping Wang, Wei-Nian Zhang:
  Analytic invariant curves for a planar map. 567-573
  
• Daqing Jiang:
  Multiple positive solutions for boundary value problems of second-order delay differential equations. 575-583
  
• D. Erdem, Varga K. Kalantarov:
  A remark on nonexistence of global solutions to quasi-linear hyperbolic and parabolic equations. 585-590
  
• Hong Bum Il, Nahmwoo Hahm:
  Approximation order to a function in Image(Image) by superposition of a sigmoidal function. 591-597
  
• Andrew J. Bernoff, Thomas P. Witelski:
  Linear stability of source-type similarity solutions of the thin film equation. 599-606
  
• Agamirza E. Bashirov, S. Ugural:
  Representation of systems disturbed by wide band noise. 607-613
  
• Xiaojing Yang:
  Generalized form of Hurwitz-Routh criterion and Hopf bifurcation of higher order. 615-621
  
• Zhongfu Zhang, Linzhong Liu, Jianfang Wang:
  Adjacent strong edge coloring of graphs. 623-626
  
• Stefano De Marchi:
  Polynomials arising in factoring generalized Vandermonde determinants II: A condition for monicity. 627-632
  
• Gheorghe Isac, Ahmed Ould Bahya:
  Full nuclear cones associated to a normal cone. Application to Pareto efficiency. 633-639
  
• Sehie Park:
  Remarks on acyclic versions of generalized von Neumann and Nash equilibrium theorems. 641-647
  
• Maurizio Romeo:
  Uniqueness of the solution to the secular equation for viscoelastic surface waves. 649-653
  

Volume 15, Number 6, August 2002

• Eduardo Liz, Juan Bosco Ferreiro:
  A note on the global stability of generalized difference equations. 655-659
  
• Arnaud Debussche, Laurent Di Menza:
  Numerical resolution of stochastic focusing NLS equations. 661-669
  
• Rafael Bru, Carmen Coll, Nestor Javier Thome:
  Symmetric singular linear control systems. 671-675
  
• Cristina Jordán, Juan R. Torregrosa, Ana M. Urbano:
  Inverse M-matrix completion problem with zeros in the inverse completion. 677-684
  
• Cristina Jordán, Juan R. Torregrosa, Ana M. Urbano:
  r-Numbers completion problems of partial upper canonical form I. 685-691
  
• M. J. Rodriguez, M. D. Roselló, S. Jerez, Lucas Jódar:
  Solving Dirichlet's problem in a rectangle for separate variable coefficient elliptic equations. 693-696
  
• Daniel Lesnic:
  The Cauchy problem for the wave equation using the decomposition method. 697-701
  
• Carles Padró, Germán Sáez:
  Taking cube roots in ^Zm. 703-708
  
• Bassan Targui, Mondher Farza, Houbekeur Hammouri:
  Constant-gain observer for a class of multi-output nonlinear systems. 709-720
  
• Michel Fournié:
  Numerical discretization of energy-transport model for semiconductors using high-order compact schemes. 721-726
  
• Tao Pan, Hongxoa Liu:
  Asymptotic behaviors of the solution to an initial-boundary value problem for scalar viscous conservation laws. 727-734
  
• Xie Ping Ding, Jong Yeoul Park, Il Hyo Jung:
  Existence of solutions for nonlinear inequalities in G-convex spaces. 735-741
  
• Lorenzo Héctor Juárez, Roland Glowinski, B. Montgomery Pettitt:
  Numerical simulation of the sedimentation of a tripole-like body in an incompressible viscous fluid. 743-747
  
• Daniel A. Schult, Cyndi A. Spade, Vladimir A. Volpert:
  Dopant distribution in isothermal frontal polymerization. 749-754
  
• Gang Bao, Karim Ramdani:
  Resonant frequencies for diffraction gratings. 755-760
  
• H. Bevan Thompson, Christopher C. Tisdell:
  Boundary value problems for systems of difference equations associated with systems of second-order ordinary differential equations. 761-766
  
• Chuan Jen Chyan, John L. Henderson:
  Positive solutions of 2m^th-order boundary value problems. 767-774
  
• Juan Carlos Jimenez:
  A simple algebraic expression to evaluate the local linearization schemes for stochastic differential equations. 775-780
  
• Blaz Zmazek, Janez Zerovnik:
  Behzad-Vizing conjecture and Cartesian-product graphs. 781-784
  

Volume 15, Number 7, October 2002

• Yong Zhou:
  Existence of nonoscillatory solutions of higher-order neutral difference equations with general coefficients. 785-791
  
• Changming Ding, Sam B. Nadler Jr.:
  The periodic points and the invariant set of an small epsilon, Greek-contractive map. 793-801
  
• B. Sri Padmavati, T. Amaranath:
  A note on decomposition of solenoidal fields. 803-805
  
• Alexander V. Bobylev, Carlo Cercignani:
  The inverse laplace transform of some analytic functions with an application to the eternal solutions of the Boltzmann equation. 807-813
  
• Y. Yavin:
  Modelling of the motion of a disk rolling on a smooth rigid surface. 815-818
  
• Jorge Iván Castaño, Lucas Jódar, Enrique Ponsoda, Jose Albeiro Sánchez:
  Continuous numerical solution of coupled parabolic initial value problems. 819-823
  
• Murat Adivar, Elgiz Bairamov:
  Spectral singularities of the nonhomogeneous Sturm-Liouville equations. 825-832
  
• Nuh Aydin, Irfan Siap:
  New quasi-cyclic codes over F5. 833-836
  
• Ramesh C. Gupta:
  Reliability of a k out of n system of components sharing a common environment. 837-844
  
• Krishnan Balachandran, J. Y. Park, M. Chandrasekaran:
  Nonlocal Cauchy problem for delay integrodifferential equations of Sobolev type in Banach spaces. 845-854
  
• Dietmar Cieslik, Andreas W. M. Dress, Walter M. Fitch:
  Steiner's problem in double trees. 855-860
  
• Sebastian Böcker:
  Exponentially many supertrees. 861-865
  
• Yong Zhou, B. G. Zhang:
  Existence of nonoscillatory solutions of higher-order neutral differential equations with positive and negative coefficients. 867-874
  
• Stephen Tse, Verónica Dahl:
  Learning and using mathematics software the natural way. 875-879
  
• Horst Martini, Walter Wenzel:
  Tetrahedra are not reduced. 881-884
  
• Cristina Jordán, Juan R. Torregrosa, Ana M. Urbano:
  r-Numbers completion problems of partial upper canonical form II. 885-891
  
• Gordon G. Cash:
  Relationship between the Hosoya polynomial and the hyper-Wiener index. 893-895
  
• Syed Ikram A. Tirmizi, Edward H. Twizell:
  Higher-order finite-difference methods for nonlinear second-order two-point boundary-value problems. 897-902
  
• Yongqing Li, Zhaoli Liu:
  Perturbations of symmetric eigenvalue problems. 903-906
  
• Fred J. Molz III, George J. Fix III, Silong Lu:
  A physical interpretation for the fractional derivative in Levy diffusion. 907-911
  
• Abhay K. Gaur:
  Banach-valued probability measures. 913-916
  

Volume 15, Number 8, November 2002

• Moffak Benchohra, Johnny Henderson, Sotiris K. Ntouyas:
  Impulsive neutral functional differential inclusions in Banach spaces. 917-924
  
• Jiahong Wu:
  The 2D dissipative quasi-geostrophic equation. 925-930
  
• Patrizio Frosini:
  A note on the representability of compact sets by real sequences. 931-935
  
• Xiaoming He, Weigao Ge, Mingshu Peng:
  Multiple positive solutions for one-dimensional p-Laplacian boundary value problems. 937-943
  
• Geoffrey D. Dietz, David E. Dobbs:
  Limiting values of the variance and the moments of the dimension of a sum or intersection of random vector subspaces. 945-953
  
• Andrei Korobeinikov, Graeme C. Wake:
  Lyapunov functions and global stability for SIR, SIRS, and SIS epidemiological models. 955-960
  
• Josef Málek, Jindrich Necas, K. R. Rajagopal:
  Global existence of solutions for flows of fluids with pressure and shear dependent viscosities. 961-967
  
• Frank Harary, Gopal Gupta:
  A constraint logic programming approach for generating all perfect matchings. 969-973
  
• Yuming Chen:
  All solutions of a class of difference equations are truncated periodic. 975-979
  
• Ali Messaoudi:
  Tribonacci multiplication. 981-985
  
• Hon-Wah Tam, Xing-Biao Hu:
  Soliton solutions and Bäcklund transformation for the Kupershmidt five-field lattice: a bilinear approach. 987-993
  
• Andreas W. M. Dress:
  Proper gromov transforms of metrics are metrics. 995-999
  
• Stefan Grünewald:
  Harmonic trees. 1001-1004
  
• Jialin Hong, Meng-Zhao Qin:
  Multisymplecticity of the centred box discretization for hamiltonian PDEs with m >= 2 space dimensions. 1005-1011
  
• Messaoud Boulbrachene:
  Optimal Linfinity-error estimate for variational inequalities with nonlinear source terms. 1013-1017
  
• Weixi Shen, Songmu Zheng:
  Maximal attractors for the phase-field equations of penrose-fife type. 1019-1023
  
• Qi-Ru Wang:
  Oscillation criteria for first-order neutral differential equations. 1025-1033
  
• Swanhild Bernstein:
  Multidimensional inverse-scattering and clifford analysis. 1035-1041