Menghau Sung a, C.P. Huang b,∗, Yu-Hsiang Weng c, Yao-Tung Lin d, Kung-Cheh Li c a Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan 717, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA c Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Ta...

1 Department of Geography and Spatial Information Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan, Republic of China. 2 Department of Tourism, Aletheia University, Tamsui, New Taipei City, 25103, Taiwan, Republic of China. 3 Spatial Information Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan, Republic of China. 4 Institute of Maritime Information an...

DEDICATION To my parents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My foremost appreciation goes to my advisor, Prof. Gee-Kung Chang. I am truly grateful for his guidance throughout my graduate studies at Georgia Tech. In addition, I would like to thank the members of my thesis committee for their time and dedication. I have also benefited greatly from the interaction and collaboration with Dr. Jianjun Yu and many of th...

We develop n-point optimal derivative-free root finding methods of order 2n, based on the Hermite interpolation, by applying a first-order derivative transformation. Analysis of convergence confirms that the optimal order of convergence of the transformed methods is preserved, according to the conjecture of Kung and Traub. To check the effectiveness and reliability of the newly presented method...

In this research article, we present sixteenth-order iterative method for solving nonlinear equations. The Iterative method has optimal order of convergence sixteen in the sense of Kung-Traub conjecture [1], It means iterative scheme uses five function evaluations to achieve 16(= 25−1) order of convergence. The proposed iterative method utilize one derivative evaluation and weight functions. Nu...

Guaranteed cost control for uncertain non-linear systems with timevarying delays using T-S fuzzy model Yi-You Hou a; Teh-Lu Liao b; Jun-Juh Yan c; Chang-Hua Lien d a Industrial Technology Research Institute, Medical Electronics and Device Technology Centre, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, ROC b Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC c Department of Computer and...

1 Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), University of Grenoble and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France, 2 Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, 3 Department of Agronomy, Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, 4 Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 5 Department...

Pailou Village which is the hometown of Song Yingxing, who author Tien-kung K’ai-wu, taken as research object in this paper. From perspective tourism development traditional villages, types cultural resources are summarized through combing content existing resources. Then value its analyzed from three aspects: history and culture, art society, economy. Therefore, path integration culture propos...

Quiescence conserves the properties of stem cells whilst they are dormant. The mechanisms associated with dormancy involve various cell regulators. Here, the effects of hyaluronan (HA; a polysaccharide associated with the extracellular matrix), on the mesenchymal stem cell cycle and the involvement of p130 and E2F family proteins in mesenchymal stem cell cycle regulation, were evaluated. Placen...

A family of simple derivative-free multipoint iterative methods, based on the interpolating polynomials, for solving nonlinear equations is presented. It is shown that the presented n-point iterative method has the convergence order 2n−1 with n function evaluations per iteration. It is an optimal iterative method in the sense of the Kung-Traub’s conjecture. Numerical examples are included to su...