一类二阶中立型时滞差分方程的振动定理

研究了一类具有变系数的二阶中立型时滞差分方程的振动性,得到了该类方程振动及差分算子△振动的一个充分条件.     

Delaying factors for maternal health service utilization in eastern Ethiopia: A qualitative exploratory study

BackgroundIn Ethiopia, maternal health service utilization is still unacceptably low. The societal and cultural factors that constrain women from attending these services have not yet been sufficiently explored. Using qualitative methods, we aimed to explore the factors that delay maternal health service utilization in eastern Ethiopia.MethodA total of 13 audio-recorded focus group discussions were conducted comprising 88 participants. We conducted separate group discussions with reproductive aged women, mothers-in-law, traditional birth attendants, husbands, and Health Extension Workers to capture their knowledge, practices, feelings, thoughts and attitudes towards maternal health service utilization. The recorded sessions were transcribed into the local language and then translated into English for analysis.ResultThe study identified a number of factors that may delay maternal health service utilization. Factors were grouped using the Three Delays model as a framework. Low level of awareness regarding need, poor involvement of husband, perceived absence of health problems, social power, community misperceptions and cultural restrictions, negative attitudes towards male midwives, acceptance of traditional birth attendants and poor social networking were Delay One factors. Lack of physical accessibility and high transportation costs were categorised as Delay Two factors for skilled birth care attendance. Perceived or experienced poor quality of care were categorised as Delay Three factors for both skilled birth and postnatal care utilization.ConclusionDespite the ongoing government measures to improve maternal health service utilization in Ethiopia, numerous factors continue to contribute to delays in service use, which in turn contribute to high maternal mortality.     

Delay causes analysis in complex construction projects: a Semantic Network Analysis approach

Delays are among the most crucial adversaries to the success and performance of construction projects, making delay analysis and management a critical task for project managers. This task will be highly complicated in large-scale projects such as construction, which usually consist of a complex network of heterogeneous entities in continuous interaction. Traditional approaches and methods for the analysis of delays and their causes have been criticised for their ability to handle complex projects, and for considering the interrelationships between delay causes. Addressing this gap, this research introduces an alternative approach for delay causes analysis by adopting Semantic Network Analysis (SNA) method. The paper reports the results from an investigation of delays in construction projects in the Oil-Gas-Petrochemical sector using SNA. The method’s capacity to identify and rank delay causes, which can assist managers in selecting appropriate measures for eliminating them, are empirically examined and discussed. The paper argues that SNA leads to a more comprehensive understanding of the main causes of delay in large and complex projects, allowing a better identification and mapping of the interrelationships between these discrete factors.     

AN APPROXIMATION TO THE HYPERCUBE MODEL WITH PATROL-INITIATED ACTIVITIES: AN APPLICATION TO POLICE

This paper applies the patrol-initiated-activity hypercube queuing model to historical data from a police agency. The model allows servers to handle both calls assigned by a central dispatcher and activities initiated by the servers. By duplicating a fairly complex dispatch strategy, the model was found to predict both assigned and server-initiated work loads accurately for the overall system and individual servers. The model is apparently ineffective in predicting small unit-travel-time differences for this police agency.     

线性抛物型时滞微分方程组解的振动性定理

本文研究线性抛物型时滞微分方程组 φU_i/φt+sun from j=1 to m(P_(ij)(x,t)U_i(x,t-τ(t)))=a_i(t)△U_i+sun from j=1 to m_1(a_(ij)(t)△U_i(x,t-σ_j)),i=1,2…,m (1)解的振动性,其中(x,t)∈Ω×(0,∞),ΩR~n是具有逐片光滑的边界的有界区域,U_1=U_1(x,t),△U_1=sun from j=1 to n(φ~2Ui(x,t)/φx_j~2),获得了方程组(1)的所有解振动的充分条件,同时给出了应用这些充分条件的例子。     

An efficient polynomial space and polynomial delay algorithm for enumeration of maximal motifs in a sequence

In this paper, we consider the problem of enumerating all maximal motifs in an input string for the class of repeated motifs with wild cards. A maximal motif is such a representative motif that is not properly contained in any larger motifs with the same location lists. Although the enumeration problem for maximal motifs with wild cards has been studied in Parida et al. (2001), Pisanti et al. (2003) and Pelfrêne et al. (2003), its output-polynomial time computability has been still open. The main result of this paper is a polynomial space polynomial delay algorithm for the maximal motif enumeration problem for the repeated motifs with wild cards. This algorithm enumerates all maximal motifs in an input string of length n in O(n ³) time per motif with O(n) space, in particular O(n ³) delay. The key of the algorithm is depth-first search on a tree-shaped search route over all maximal motifs based on a technique called prefix-preserving closure extension. We also show an exponential lower bound and a succinctness result on the number of maximal motifs, which indicate the limit of a straightforward approach. The results of the computational experiments show that our algorithm can be applicable to huge string data such as genome data in practice, and does not take large additional computational cost compared to usual frequent motif mining algorithms. This work is done during the Hiroki Arimura’s visit in LIRIS, University Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, France.     

多时滞差分方程的频率振动性(英文)

讨论了多时滞差分方程的频率振动性，获得的振动判定准则，改进了文献［２］中的相应结果     

变换的勒让德多项式用于线性延迟系统的分析和参数估计

本文根根Legendre多项式的基本性质,首先导出在任意区间上的积分运算矩阵和延迟运算矩阵,然后应用它求得线性延迟系统的近似解,进一步讨论延迟系统的参数估计。     

一类非线性滞后微分方程的振荡性

本文讨论了一阶非线性滞后型微分方程组■，（1）所有解振荡的充分条件，发展了文[1]的方法，并推广强化了文[1]的有关结论。     

Dependent Insurance Risk Model: Deterministic Threshold

This article considers a dependent insurance risk model. We assume that the inter-arrival time depends on the previous claim size through a deterministic threshold structure. Adjustment coefficient and Lundberg-type upper bound for the ruin probability are obtained. In case of exponential claim size, an explicit solution for the ruin probability is obtained by solving a system of ordinary delay differential equations. Some numerical results are included for illustration purposes.