The linear stability theory is applied to investigate the effects of rotation and feedback control on the onset of steady and oscillatory thermocapillary convection in a horizontal fluid layer heated from below with a free-slip bottom. The thresholds and codimension-2 points for the onset of steady and oscillatory convection are determined. The effect of feedback control on the parameter space dividing the steady and oscillatory convection regions is demonstrated.
A question of interest in the demografic and actuarial fields is the estimation of the complete sets of qx-values when the data are given in age groups. This study presents two techniques of expanding an abridged life table to a complete ones. The two expansion techniques used in the study are King’s Osculatory Interpolation and Heligman-Pollard model. This work evaluated and compared the performance of King’s Osculatory Interpolation and Heligman-Pollard model. For that purpose, empirical data sets on abridged life tables for Malaysian populations for the period of 1991, 1995 and 1999 for both gender were collected. Then each of the expanding techniques considered was applied to these abridged data sets. The complete sets of qx-values obtained from these two techniques were then used to produce the estimated abridged ones. These results were then compared with the actual values published in the abridged life tables.
This study deals with the presence and distinction of bounded m-solutions (type mild) for a family of generalized integral and differential equations of spot order with fractional resolvent and indefinite delay.