the problem of mental causation was one of the most important problems in philosophy of mind at least from the time of descartes. since cartesian philosophers found the causal interaction of the soul and the body problematic, they explained away the direct relation between the soul and the body in different ways. however, the problem was not resolved in contemporary philosophy of mind when the ...

In today’s competitive market place, companies seek an efficient structure of supply chain so as to provide customers with highest value and achieve competitive advantage. This requires a broader perspective than just the borders of an individual company during a supply chain. This paper investigates an aggregate production planning problem integrated with distribution issues in a supply chain ...

the present study is an attempt to investigate some features of radial basis functions (rbfs) approximation methods related to variational problems. thereby authors applied some properties of rbfs to develop a direct method which reduces constrained variational problem to a static optimization problem. to assess the applicability and effectiveness of the method, some examples are examined. dyna...

In the present work, under some di¤erentiability conditions on the potential functions , we …rst reduce the inverse scattering problem (ISP) for the polynomial pencil of the Scroedinger equation to the corresponding ISP for the generalized matrix Scrödinger equation . Then ISP will be solved in analogy of the Marchenko method. We aim to establish an e¤ective algorithm for uniquely reconstructin...

In this paper, we propose a technique for determining a source term in an inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP) using Radial Basis Functions (RBFs). Because of being very suitable instruments, the RBFs have been applied for solving Partial Dierential Equations (PDEs) by some researchers. In the current study, a stable meshless method will be pro- posed for solving an (I...

Since the lack of creative potential in graduating engineers has been and continues to be a concern for industry leaders, most educators have added a common ideation approachÐbrainstormingÐto engineering design curricula. However, because brainstorming requires the designer to look inward for inspiration, it can be a daunting task, which is not always fruitful. Some systematic creativity method...