Background. In current economic downturn, industries have to set good control on production cost, tomaintain their profitmargin.Maintenance department as an imperative unit in industries should attain all maintenance data, process information instantaneously, and subsequently transform it into a useful decision. Then act on the alternative to reduce production cost. Decision Making Grid model i...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce Kirk-type new iterative schemes called Kirk-SP and Kirk-CR schemes and to study the convergence of these iterative schemes by employing certain quasi-contractive operators. By taking an example, we will compare Kirk-SP, Kirk-CR, Kirk-Mann, Kirk-Ishikawa, and Kirk-Noor iterative schemes for aforementioned class of operators. Also, using computer programs...

Ryo Ishikawa,a Shojiro Tamaki,a Shuji Yokoi,a Noritoshi Inagaki,b Tomoko Shinomura,c Makoto Takano,b and Ko Shimamotoa1 a Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma 630-0101, Japan b Department of Plant Physiology, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan c Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, H...

We demonstrate that whether a good of a rival firm is a strategic substitute or astrategic complement is endogenously determined when the market inverse demand is hyperbolic. The relative competitiveness, which is expressed by the ratio of firms’ marginal costs, is the key determinant. We derive optimal trade policies, which are dependant upon the firms’ form of strategic action. In particular,...

1 Department of Information and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan 2 Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan 3 Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo,...

Recent empirical literature (Jeannerod & Pacherie, 2004; Mizumoto & Ishikawa, 2005) purports to challenge the thesis that certain forms of self-awareness are immune to errors of misidentification with respect to the first-person (IEM). I argue, first, that these studies do not present a challenge to the IEM thesis, and furthermore that IEM is indicative of a fundamental distinction between two ...

1School of Material Science, JAPAN Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi city, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan 2Biotechnology Industrialization Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), c/o Katayanagi Advanced Research Laboratories, Tokyo University of Technology, 1404-1 Katakura, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0982, Japan 3Biomedical Research Ins...

In this paper we introduce the Jungck-Agarwal et al. iteration procedure and obtain strong convergence as well as stability results for a pair of non-self mappings. The results obtained are generalization of some existing results in the literature. In addition, we show that the rate of convergence of this newly defined iteration procedure is better than JungckMann, Jungck-Ishikawa and JungckNoo...

In this paper, we introduce an iteration process for approximating common fixed points of two nonself asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces. Our process contains Mann iteration process and some other processes for nonself mappings but is independent of Ishikawa iteration process. We prove some weak and strong convergence theorems for this iteration process. Our results generaliz...