‎In this paper a new family of fifteenth-order methods with high efficiency index is presented‎. This family include four evaluations of the function and one evaluation of its first derivative per iteration.‎ ‎Therefore‎, ‎this family of methods has the efficiency index which equals 1.71877‎. ‎In order to show the applicability and validity of the class‎, ‎some numerical examples are discussed‎.

Extensive empirical experience suggests that traditional forecasting approaches are subject to more or less severe model misspecifications which affect true (out-of-sample) oneas well as multi-step ahead forecasting performances. The main problems are due to non-stationarity and non-Gaussianity. In order to overcome these difficulties, we propose a prototypical design derived from a traditional...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether integrating influence strategies (reciprocation, consistency, consensus, feeling liked, authority, and scarcity) throughout Chickasaw Nation Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics (1) changed participants' perception of the WIC experience and (2) affected breastfeeding initiation rates. METHODS Two-part, quasi-exper...

Strains are applied to the integration procedure in nonlinear increments todecrease the errors arising from the linearization of plastic equations. Two deformationvectors are used to achieve this. The first vector is based on the deformations obtained bythe first iteration of the equilibrium step, and the second is acquired from the sum of thesucceeding iterations. By applying these vectors and...

The neutron density is one of the most important dynamical parameters in a reactor. It is directly related to the control and stability of the reactor power. Any change in applied reactivity and some of dynamical parameters in the reactor causes a change in the neutron density. Lyapunov exponent method is a powerful tool for investigating the range of stability and the transient behavior of the...

Multi-digital camera systems (MDCS) are constantly being improved to meet the increasing requirement of high-resolution spatial data. This study identifies the insufficiencies of traditional MDCSs and proposes a new category MDCS based on tilt-shift photography to improve ability of the MDCS to acquire high-accuracy spatial data. A prototype system, including two or four tilt-shift cameras (TSC...