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which treat the problem as an expectation max-imization problem (Knight et al., 2006; Knight,1999). These later algorithms are, however, highlydependent on their initial states, and require anumber of restarts in order to find the globally op-timal solution. A further contribution was m[r]

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that u is sign-changing if u is neither positive nor negative. Under convenient assumptions,we will prove the existence of five or six solutions to 1.1, which include positive, negative,and sign-changing solutions.Difference BVP has widely occurred as the mathematical models describing real-l[r]

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