Computers and Mathematics
WITH APPLICATIONS
Contents Volume 39, Number 1-2, 2000
B. G. Zhang and Y. Zhou M.-C. Leung
A. Cabada, V. Otero-Espinar and R. L. Pouso V. Ayala,
A. Hacibekiroglu and E. Kizil Q. He, H.-X. Li, C. L. P. Chen and E. S. Lee S. Serra
L K. Argyros
R. Y. Zhang,
Z. C. Wang, Y. Chen and J. Wu
J. Cui, L. Chen and W. Wang N. C. Ghosh, B. C. Ghosh
(Published 15 November 1999)
1 Oscillation and Nonoscillation for Second-Order Linear Difference Equations
9 Unbounded Positive Entire Solutions of Rotationally Symmetric Harmonic Map Equations
21 Existence and Approximation of Solutions for First-Order Discontinuous Difference Equations with Nonlinear Global Conditions in the Presence of Lower and Upper Solutions 35 Observability of General Linear Pairs
45 Extension Principles and Fuzzy Set Categories
55 The Analysis of a Chebyshev Problem via Spectral Matrix Theory
69 Local Convergence of Inexact Newton-Like-Iterative Methods and Applications
77 Periodic Solutions of a Single Species Discrete Population Model with Periodic Harvest/Stock
91 The Effect of Dispersal on Population Growth with Stage- Structure
103 The Hydromagnetic Flow of a Dusty Visco-Elastic Fluid Between Two Infinite Parallel Plates
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computers & mathematics with applications
Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2000Contents—continued from outside back cover]
117 K. Balachandran,
R. Sakthivel and J. P. Dauer
J. A. Piotrowski 127 K. M. Liu 145
L. Jodar, 169 J. A. Sanchez
and M. V. Ferrer
K. K. Nambiar 183 P.-Q. Pan 187 B. Gleyse and 209 M. Moflih
H. Okamura, T. Do hi 215 and S. Osaki
S. M. Choo, 229 S. K. Chung
and K. I. Kim
H. Li, V. C. Yen 245 and E. S. Lee
Controllability of Neutral Functional Integrodifferential Systems in Banach Spaces
Building a Model of a Useful Turing Machine
Dimensional Reduction for the Beam in Elasticity on a Bounded Domain
The Stable Discrete Numerical Solution of Strongly Coupled Mixed Partial Differential Systems
Intuitive Set Theory
A Projective Simplex Algorithm Using LU Decomposition The Exact Computation of the Number of Zeros of a Real Polynomial in the Open Unit Disk: An Algebraic Approach Optimal Policies for a Controlled Queueing System with Removable Server under a Random Vacation Circumstance Conservative Nonlinear Difference Scheme for the Cahn- Hilliard Equation—II
Factor Space Theory in Fuzzy I n f o r m a t i o n Processing—Composition of States of Factors and Multifactorial Decision Making
