1. I N T R O D U C T I O N In recent years, there has been a marked interest in the so-called meshless methods. The possibility of obtaining approximate solutions to various problems of mechanics (of engineering, in general) without the need for a mesh is quite appealing, in particular due to the reduction in time consumption and the time taken in preparing the data or analysing the results. Th...

Park, Sohee. 2003. Lexical Collocation Use by Korean EFL College learners. SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language 2, 19-40. This study investigated Korean EFL college students' lexical collocation use. The specific research questions were as follows: 1) Which factors affect the collocational competence?; 2) Which collocation types are the most problematic to Korean EFL college l...

INTRODUCTION To assess changes in renal blood flow (RBF) in human and experimental sepsis, and to identify determinants of RBF. METHOD Using specific search terms we systematically interrogated two electronic reference libraries to identify experimental and human studies of sepsis and septic acute renal failure in which RBF was measured. In the retrieved studies, we assessed the influence of ...

The Meshless Finite Volume Method (MFVM) is developed for solving elasto-static problems, through a new Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) “Mixed” approach. In this MLPG mixed approach, both the strains as well as displacements are interpolated, at randomly distributed points in the domain, through local meshless interpolation schemes such as the moving least squares(MLS) or radial basis fun...

Scattered data interpolation using Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) involves solving ill-conditioned Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) linear systems; refer e.g. to [6] for further details. We will discuss the properties (conditioning, density) of the interpolation matrices for both global and compactly supported kernels, depending on the value of the shape parameter for both classical global inte...

Proximate composition, pH and amylose content of ripe Cavendish banana flour (RBF) prepared in this study were compared with all-purpose wheat flour (WF). RBF was found to be significantly (P < 0.05) higher in total carbohydrates and minerals content, while significantly (P < 0.05) lower in protein and fat contents compared with those of WF. Wheat-ripe banana composite flours (W-RBF) prepared b...

Collocation has always been an important issue in language research, especially in Chinese language researches. Chinese is an isolated language, which lacks morphological changes.Establishing a relatively complete dictionary of Chinese collocation will be a great contribution to Chinese study and research. Collocation plays a significant supporting role in many fields of NLP, such as informatio...

In this paper, a new localized radial basis function (RBF) method based on partition of unity (PU) is proposed for solving boundary and initial-boundary value problems. The benefits from direct discretization approach called the “direct RBF (D-RBF-PU)” method. Thanks to avoiding all derivatives PU weight functions as well lower local approximants, faster simpler than standard RBF-PU Besides, di...

In this paper, learning algorithms for radial basis function (RBF) networks are discussed. Whereas multilayer perceptrons (MLP) are typically trained with backpropagation algorithms, starting the training procedure with a random initialization of the MLP's parameters, an RBF network may be trained in many different ways. We categorize these RBF training methods into one-, two-, and three-phase ...

We present a generalization of the RBF-FD method that allows full control of the overlap between RBF-FD stencils. We accomplish this by introducing a continuous overlap parameter δ ∈ [0, 1] such that δ = 1 recovers the standard RBF-FD method and δ = 0 results in a full decoupling of the RBF-FD stencils. We show with a simple example that global interpolation with both RBFs and RBFs augmented wi...