In this study,a wavelet multi-resolution interpolation Galerkin method(WMIGM)is proposed to solve linear singularly perturbed boundary value problems.Unlike conventional wavelet schemes,the proposed algorithm can be r...In this study,a wavelet multi-resolution interpolation Galerkin method(WMIGM)is proposed to solve linear singularly perturbed boundary value problems.Unlike conventional wavelet schemes,the proposed algorithm can be readily extended to special node generation techniques,such as the Shishkin node.Such a wavelet method allows a high degree of local refinement of the nodal distribution to efficiently capture localized steep gradients.All the shape functions possess the Kronecker delta property,making the imposition of boundary conditions as easy as that in the finite element method.Four numerical examples are studied to demonstrate the validity and accuracy of the proposedwavelet method.The results showthat the use ofmodified Shishkin nodes can significantly reduce numerical oscillation near the boundary layer.Compared with many other methods,the proposed method possesses satisfactory accuracy and efficiency.The theoretical and numerical results demonstrate that the order of theε-uniform convergence of this wavelet method can reach 5.展开更多
A new digital watermarking algorithm based on the contourlet transform is proposed to improve the robustness and anti-attack performances of digital watermarking. The algorithm uses the Arnold scrambling technique and...A new digital watermarking algorithm based on the contourlet transform is proposed to improve the robustness and anti-attack performances of digital watermarking. The algorithm uses the Arnold scrambling technique and the singular value decomposition (SVD) scheme. The Arnold scrambling technique is used to preprocess the watermark, and the SVD scheme is used to find the best suitable hiding points. After the contourlet transform of the carrier image, intermediate frequency sub-bands are decomposed to obtain the singularity values. Then the watermark bits scrambled in the Arnold rules are dispersedly embedded into the selected SVD points. Finally, the inverse contourlet transform is applied to obtain the carrier image with the watermark. In the extraction part, the watermark can be extracted by the semi-blind watermark extracting algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better hiding and robustness performances than the traditional contourlet watermarking algorithm and the contourlet watermarking algorithm with SVD. Meanwhile, it has good robustness performances when the embedded watermark is attacked by Gaussian noise, salt- and-pepper noise, multiplicative noise, image scaling and image cutting attacks, etc. while security is ensured.展开更多
By dint of the summer precipitation data from 21 stations in the Dongting Lake region during 1960-2008 and the sea surface temperature(SST) data from NOAA,the spatial and temporal distributions of summer precipitation...By dint of the summer precipitation data from 21 stations in the Dongting Lake region during 1960-2008 and the sea surface temperature(SST) data from NOAA,the spatial and temporal distributions of summer precipitation and their correlations with SST are analyzed.The coupling relationship between the anomalous distribution in summer precipitation and the variation of SST has between studied with the Singular Value Decomposition(SVD) analysis.The increase or decrease of summer precipitation in the Dongting Lake region is closely associated with the SST anomalies in three key regions.The variation of SST in the three key regions has been proved to be a significant previous signal to anomaly of summer rainfall in Dongting region.展开更多
The singularly perturbed elliptic equation boundary value problem with turning point is considered. Using the method of multiple scales and the comparison theorem, the asymptotic behavior of solution for the boundary ...The singularly perturbed elliptic equation boundary value problem with turning point is considered. Using the method of multiple scales and the comparison theorem, the asymptotic behavior of solution for the boundary value problem is studied.展开更多
A class of singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for the reaction diffusion equations in a part of domain are considered. Using the operator theory the asymptotic behavior of solution for the problems i...A class of singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for the reaction diffusion equations in a part of domain are considered. Using the operator theory the asymptotic behavior of solution for the problems is studied.展开更多
Vibration acceleration signals are often measured from case surface of arunning machine to monitor its condition. If the measured vibration signals display to have periodicimpulse components with a certain frequency, ...Vibration acceleration signals are often measured from case surface of arunning machine to monitor its condition. If the measured vibration signals display to have periodicimpulse components with a certain frequency, there may exist a corresponding local fault in themachine, and if further extracting the periodic impulse components from the vibration signals, theseverity of the local fault can be estimated and tracked. However, the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs)of the vibration acceleration signals are often so small that the periodic impulse components aresubmersed in much background noises and other components, and it is difficult or inconvenient for usto detect and extract the periodic impulse components with the current common analyzing methods forvibration signals. Therefore, another technique, called singular value decomposition (SVD), istried to be introduced to solve the problem. First, the principle of detecting and extracting thesignal periodic components using singular value decomposition is summarized and discussed. Second,the infeasibility of the direct use of the existing SVD based detecting and extracting approach ispointed out. Third, the approach to construct the matrix for SVD from the signal series is improvedlargely, which is the key program to improve the SVD technique; Other associated improvement is alsoproposed. Finally, a simulating application example and a real-life application example ondetecting and extracting the periodic impulse components are given, which showed that the introducedand improved SVD technique is feasible.展开更多
This paper deals with the singular nonlinear third-order periodic boundary value problem u'' + p(3)u = f (t, u), 0 less than or equal to t less than or equal to 2pi, with u((i)) (0) = u((i)) (2pi), i = 0, 1, 2...This paper deals with the singular nonlinear third-order periodic boundary value problem u'' + p(3)u = f (t, u), 0 less than or equal to t less than or equal to 2pi, with u((i)) (0) = u((i)) (2pi), i = 0, 1, 2, where p is an element of (Graphics) and f is singular at t = 0, t = 1 and u = 0. Under suitable weaker conditions than those of [1], it is proved by constructing a special cone in C[0, 2pi] and employing the fixed point index theory that the problem has at least one or at least two positive solutions.展开更多
This paper deals with the existence of positive solutions to the singular boundary value problemwhere q(t) may be singular at t = 0 and t = 1, f(t,y) may be superlinear at y =∞ and singular, at y = 0.
Extracting implicit anomaly information through deformation monitoring data mining is highly significant to determining dam safety status.As an intelligent singular value diagnostic method for concrete dam deformation...Extracting implicit anomaly information through deformation monitoring data mining is highly significant to determining dam safety status.As an intelligent singular value diagnostic method for concrete dam deformation monitoring, shallow neural network models result in local optima and overfitting, and require manual feature extraction.To obtain an intelligent singular value diagnosis model that can be used for dam safety monitoring, a convolutional neural network (CNN) model that has advantages of deep learning (DL), such as automatic feature extraction, good model fitting, and strong generalizability, was trained in this study.An engineering example shows that the predicted result of the intelligent singular value diagnostic method based on CNN is highly compatible with the confusion matrix, with a precision of 92.41%, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) coordinates of (0.03, 0.97), an area-under-curve (AUC) value of 0.99, and an F1-score of 0.91.Moreover, the performance of the CNN model is better than those of models based on decision tree (DT) and k-nearest neighbor (KNN) methods.Therefore, the intelligent singular value diagnostic method based on CNN is simple to operate, highly intelligent, and highly reliable, and it has a high potential for application in engineering.展开更多
The singular value decomposition is derived when the Radon transform is restricted to functions which are square integrable on the unit ball in R-n with respect to the weight W-lambda(x). It fulfilles mainly by means ...The singular value decomposition is derived when the Radon transform is restricted to functions which are square integrable on the unit ball in R-n with respect to the weight W-lambda(x). It fulfilles mainly by means of the projection-slice theorem. The range of the Radon transform is spanned by products of Gegenbauer polynomials and spherical harmonics. The inverse transform of the those basis functions are given. This immediately leads to an inversion formula by series expansion and range characterizations.展开更多
The existence and asymptotic behavior of solution for a class of quasilinear singularly perturbed boundary value problems are discussed under suitable conditions by the theory of differential inequalities and matching...The existence and asymptotic behavior of solution for a class of quasilinear singularly perturbed boundary value problems are discussed under suitable conditions by the theory of differential inequalities and matching principle.展开更多
In this paper, a class of strongly nonlinear singular perturbed boundary value problems are coasidered by the theory of differential inequalities and the correction of boundary layer, under which the existence of solu...In this paper, a class of strongly nonlinear singular perturbed boundary value problems are coasidered by the theory of differential inequalities and the correction of boundary layer, under which the existence of solution is proved and the uniformly valid asymptotic expansions is obtained as well.展开更多
The traditional K-singular value decomposition(K-SVD)algorithm has poor imagedenoising performance under strong noise.An image-denoising algorithm is proposed based on improved K-SVD and dictionary atom optimization.F...The traditional K-singular value decomposition(K-SVD)algorithm has poor imagedenoising performance under strong noise.An image-denoising algorithm is proposed based on improved K-SVD and dictionary atom optimization.First,a correlation coefficient-matching criterion is used to obtain a sparser representation of the image dictionary.The dictionary noise atom is detected according to structural complexity and noise intensity and removed to optimize the dictionary.Then,non-local regularity is incorporated into the denoising model to further improve image-denoising performance.Results of the simulated dictionary recovery problem and application on a transmission line dataset show that the proposed algorithm improves the smoothness of homogeneous regions while retaining details such as texture and edge.展开更多
The singularly perturbed boundary value problem for the nonlinear boundary conditions is considered.Under suitable conditions,the asymptotic behavior of solution for the original problems is studied by using theory of...The singularly perturbed boundary value problem for the nonlinear boundary conditions is considered.Under suitable conditions,the asymptotic behavior of solution for the original problems is studied by using theory of differential inequalities.展开更多
In this paper a singular perturbation of boundary value problem for elliptic partial differential equations of higher order is considered by using the differential inequalities. The uniformly valid asymptotic expansio...In this paper a singular perturbation of boundary value problem for elliptic partial differential equations of higher order is considered by using the differential inequalities. The uniformly valid asymptotic expansion in entire region is obtained.展开更多
In this paper a recursive state-space model identification method is proposed for non-uniformly sampled systems in industrial applications. Two cases for measuring all states and only output(s) of such a system are co...In this paper a recursive state-space model identification method is proposed for non-uniformly sampled systems in industrial applications. Two cases for measuring all states and only output(s) of such a system are considered for identification. In the case of state measurement, an identification algorithm based on the singular value decomposition(SVD) is developed to estimate the model parameter matrices by using the least-squares fitting. In the case of output measurement only, another identification algorithm is given by combining the SVD approach with a hierarchical identification strategy. An example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed identification method.展开更多
In this article, we consider the existence of two positive solutions to nonlinear second order three-point singular boundary value problem: -u′′(t) = λf(t, u(t)) for all t ∈ (0, 1) subjecting to u(0) = ...In this article, we consider the existence of two positive solutions to nonlinear second order three-point singular boundary value problem: -u′′(t) = λf(t, u(t)) for all t ∈ (0, 1) subjecting to u(0) = 0 and αu(η) = u(1), where η ∈ (0, 1), α ∈ [0, 1), and λ is a positive parameter. The nonlinear term f(t, u) is nonnegative, and may be singular at t = 0, t = 1, and u = 0. By the fixed point index theory and approximation method, we establish that there exists λ* ∈ (0, +∞], such that the above problem has at least two positive solutions for any λ ∈ (0, λ*) under certain conditions on the nonlinear term f.展开更多
The singularly perturbed boundary value problem for quasilinear third-order ordinary differential equation involving two small parameters has been considered. For the three cases epsilon/mu (2) --> 0(mu --> 0), ...The singularly perturbed boundary value problem for quasilinear third-order ordinary differential equation involving two small parameters has been considered. For the three cases epsilon/mu (2) --> 0(mu --> 0), mu (2)/epsilon --> 0(epsilon --> 0) and epsilon = mu (2), the formal asymptotic solutions are constructed by the method of two steps expansions and the existences of solution are proved by using the differential inequality method. In addition, the uniformly valid estimations of the remainder term are given as well.展开更多
The existence of at least two positive solutions is presented for the singular second-order boundary value problem{1/p(t)( p(t)x′(t))′+Φ(t)f(t,x(t),p(t)x′(t))=0,0〈t〈1, limt→0 p(t)x′(t)=...The existence of at least two positive solutions is presented for the singular second-order boundary value problem{1/p(t)( p(t)x′(t))′+Φ(t)f(t,x(t),p(t)x′(t))=0,0〈t〈1, limt→0 p(t)x′(t)=0,x(1)=0by using the fixed point index, where f may be singular at x = 0 and px ′= 0.展开更多
New existence results are presented for the singular second-order nonlinear boundary value problems u ' + g(t)f(u) = 0, 0 < t < 1, au(0) - betau ' (0) = 0, gammau(1) + deltau ' (1) = 0 under the cond...New existence results are presented for the singular second-order nonlinear boundary value problems u ' + g(t)f(u) = 0, 0 < t < 1, au(0) - betau ' (0) = 0, gammau(1) + deltau ' (1) = 0 under the conditions 0 less than or equal to f(0)(+) < M-1, m(1) < f(infinity)(-)less than or equal to infinity or 0 less than or equal to f(infinity)(+)< M-1, m(1) < f (-)(0)less than or equal to infinity where f(0)(+) = lim(u -->0)f(u)/u, f(infinity)(-)= lim(u --> infinity)f(u)/u, f(0)(-)= lim(u -->0)f(u)/u, f(infinity)(+) = lim(u --> infinity)f(u)/u, g may be singular at t = 0 and/or t = 1. The proof uses a fixed point theorem in cone theory.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.12172154)the 111 Project (No.B14044)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province (No.23JRRA1035)the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui University of Finance and Economics (No.ACKYC20043).
文摘In this study,a wavelet multi-resolution interpolation Galerkin method(WMIGM)is proposed to solve linear singularly perturbed boundary value problems.Unlike conventional wavelet schemes,the proposed algorithm can be readily extended to special node generation techniques,such as the Shishkin node.Such a wavelet method allows a high degree of local refinement of the nodal distribution to efficiently capture localized steep gradients.All the shape functions possess the Kronecker delta property,making the imposition of boundary conditions as easy as that in the finite element method.Four numerical examples are studied to demonstrate the validity and accuracy of the proposedwavelet method.The results showthat the use ofmodified Shishkin nodes can significantly reduce numerical oscillation near the boundary layer.Compared with many other methods,the proposed method possesses satisfactory accuracy and efficiency.The theoretical and numerical results demonstrate that the order of theε-uniform convergence of this wavelet method can reach 5.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China( No. 69092008)
文摘A new digital watermarking algorithm based on the contourlet transform is proposed to improve the robustness and anti-attack performances of digital watermarking. The algorithm uses the Arnold scrambling technique and the singular value decomposition (SVD) scheme. The Arnold scrambling technique is used to preprocess the watermark, and the SVD scheme is used to find the best suitable hiding points. After the contourlet transform of the carrier image, intermediate frequency sub-bands are decomposed to obtain the singularity values. Then the watermark bits scrambled in the Arnold rules are dispersedly embedded into the selected SVD points. Finally, the inverse contourlet transform is applied to obtain the carrier image with the watermark. In the extraction part, the watermark can be extracted by the semi-blind watermark extracting algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better hiding and robustness performances than the traditional contourlet watermarking algorithm and the contourlet watermarking algorithm with SVD. Meanwhile, it has good robustness performances when the embedded watermark is attacked by Gaussian noise, salt- and-pepper noise, multiplicative noise, image scaling and image cutting attacks, etc. while security is ensured.
基金Supported by The Special Foundation of Chinese Meteorological Bureau Climate Changes Program(200920)The Special Foundation of Hunan Major Scientific and Technological Research Program(2008FJ1006)~~
文摘By dint of the summer precipitation data from 21 stations in the Dongting Lake region during 1960-2008 and the sea surface temperature(SST) data from NOAA,the spatial and temporal distributions of summer precipitation and their correlations with SST are analyzed.The coupling relationship between the anomalous distribution in summer precipitation and the variation of SST has between studied with the Singular Value Decomposition(SVD) analysis.The increase or decrease of summer precipitation in the Dongting Lake region is closely associated with the SST anomalies in three key regions.The variation of SST in the three key regions has been proved to be a significant previous signal to anomaly of summer rainfall in Dongting region.
文摘The singularly perturbed elliptic equation boundary value problem with turning point is considered. Using the method of multiple scales and the comparison theorem, the asymptotic behavior of solution for the boundary value problem is studied.
文摘A class of singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for the reaction diffusion equations in a part of domain are considered. Using the operator theory the asymptotic behavior of solution for the problems is studied.
基金This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.59905011, 60275041).
文摘Vibration acceleration signals are often measured from case surface of arunning machine to monitor its condition. If the measured vibration signals display to have periodicimpulse components with a certain frequency, there may exist a corresponding local fault in themachine, and if further extracting the periodic impulse components from the vibration signals, theseverity of the local fault can be estimated and tracked. However, the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs)of the vibration acceleration signals are often so small that the periodic impulse components aresubmersed in much background noises and other components, and it is difficult or inconvenient for usto detect and extract the periodic impulse components with the current common analyzing methods forvibration signals. Therefore, another technique, called singular value decomposition (SVD), istried to be introduced to solve the problem. First, the principle of detecting and extracting thesignal periodic components using singular value decomposition is summarized and discussed. Second,the infeasibility of the direct use of the existing SVD based detecting and extracting approach ispointed out. Third, the approach to construct the matrix for SVD from the signal series is improvedlargely, which is the key program to improve the SVD technique; Other associated improvement is alsoproposed. Finally, a simulating application example and a real-life application example ondetecting and extracting the periodic impulse components are given, which showed that the introducedand improved SVD technique is feasible.
文摘This paper deals with the singular nonlinear third-order periodic boundary value problem u'' + p(3)u = f (t, u), 0 less than or equal to t less than or equal to 2pi, with u((i)) (0) = u((i)) (2pi), i = 0, 1, 2, where p is an element of (Graphics) and f is singular at t = 0, t = 1 and u = 0. Under suitable weaker conditions than those of [1], it is proved by constructing a special cone in C[0, 2pi] and employing the fixed point index theory that the problem has at least one or at least two positive solutions.
文摘This paper deals with the existence of positive solutions to the singular boundary value problemwhere q(t) may be singular at t = 0 and t = 1, f(t,y) may be superlinear at y =∞ and singular, at y = 0.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51579207)the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-Hydraulic Engineering in Arid Area(Grant No.2016ZZKT-8)the Key Projects of Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province(Grant No.2018JZ5010)
文摘Extracting implicit anomaly information through deformation monitoring data mining is highly significant to determining dam safety status.As an intelligent singular value diagnostic method for concrete dam deformation monitoring, shallow neural network models result in local optima and overfitting, and require manual feature extraction.To obtain an intelligent singular value diagnosis model that can be used for dam safety monitoring, a convolutional neural network (CNN) model that has advantages of deep learning (DL), such as automatic feature extraction, good model fitting, and strong generalizability, was trained in this study.An engineering example shows that the predicted result of the intelligent singular value diagnostic method based on CNN is highly compatible with the confusion matrix, with a precision of 92.41%, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) coordinates of (0.03, 0.97), an area-under-curve (AUC) value of 0.99, and an F1-score of 0.91.Moreover, the performance of the CNN model is better than those of models based on decision tree (DT) and k-nearest neighbor (KNN) methods.Therefore, the intelligent singular value diagnostic method based on CNN is simple to operate, highly intelligent, and highly reliable, and it has a high potential for application in engineering.
文摘The singular value decomposition is derived when the Radon transform is restricted to functions which are square integrable on the unit ball in R-n with respect to the weight W-lambda(x). It fulfilles mainly by means of the projection-slice theorem. The range of the Radon transform is spanned by products of Gegenbauer polynomials and spherical harmonics. The inverse transform of the those basis functions are given. This immediately leads to an inversion formula by series expansion and range characterizations.
基金Supported by the NNSF of China(10901003) Supported by the Natural Science Foundation from the Education Bureau of Anhui Province(KJ2011A135)
文摘The existence and asymptotic behavior of solution for a class of quasilinear singularly perturbed boundary value problems are discussed under suitable conditions by the theory of differential inequalities and matching principle.
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Provivce (102009)Supported by the Natural Foundation of Huzhou Teacher's College(200302)
文摘In this paper, a class of strongly nonlinear singular perturbed boundary value problems are coasidered by the theory of differential inequalities and the correction of boundary layer, under which the existence of solution is proved and the uniformly valid asymptotic expansions is obtained as well.
基金supported by Science and Technology Research Program of Hubei Provincial Department of Education(T201805)Major Technological Innovation Projects of Hubei(No.2018AAA028)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61703201)NSF of Jiangsu Province(BK20170765).
文摘The traditional K-singular value decomposition(K-SVD)algorithm has poor imagedenoising performance under strong noise.An image-denoising algorithm is proposed based on improved K-SVD and dictionary atom optimization.First,a correlation coefficient-matching criterion is used to obtain a sparser representation of the image dictionary.The dictionary noise atom is detected according to structural complexity and noise intensity and removed to optimize the dictionary.Then,non-local regularity is incorporated into the denoising model to further improve image-denoising performance.Results of the simulated dictionary recovery problem and application on a transmission line dataset show that the proposed algorithm improves the smoothness of homogeneous regions while retaining details such as texture and edge.
文摘The singularly perturbed boundary value problem for the nonlinear boundary conditions is considered.Under suitable conditions,the asymptotic behavior of solution for the original problems is studied by using theory of differential inequalities.
文摘In this paper a singular perturbation of boundary value problem for elliptic partial differential equations of higher order is considered by using the differential inequalities. The uniformly valid asymptotic expansion in entire region is obtained.
基金Supported in part by the National Thousand Talents Program of Chinathe National Natural Science Foundation of China(61473054)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China
文摘In this paper a recursive state-space model identification method is proposed for non-uniformly sampled systems in industrial applications. Two cases for measuring all states and only output(s) of such a system are considered for identification. In the case of state measurement, an identification algorithm based on the singular value decomposition(SVD) is developed to estimate the model parameter matrices by using the least-squares fitting. In the case of output measurement only, another identification algorithm is given by combining the SVD approach with a hierarchical identification strategy. An example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed identification method.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11071149, 10771128)the NSF of Shanxi Province (2006011002, 2010011001-1)
文摘In this article, we consider the existence of two positive solutions to nonlinear second order three-point singular boundary value problem: -u′′(t) = λf(t, u(t)) for all t ∈ (0, 1) subjecting to u(0) = 0 and αu(η) = u(1), where η ∈ (0, 1), α ∈ [0, 1), and λ is a positive parameter. The nonlinear term f(t, u) is nonnegative, and may be singular at t = 0, t = 1, and u = 0. By the fixed point index theory and approximation method, we establish that there exists λ* ∈ (0, +∞], such that the above problem has at least two positive solutions for any λ ∈ (0, λ*) under certain conditions on the nonlinear term f.
文摘The singularly perturbed boundary value problem for quasilinear third-order ordinary differential equation involving two small parameters has been considered. For the three cases epsilon/mu (2) --> 0(mu --> 0), mu (2)/epsilon --> 0(epsilon --> 0) and epsilon = mu (2), the formal asymptotic solutions are constructed by the method of two steps expansions and the existences of solution are proved by using the differential inequality method. In addition, the uniformly valid estimations of the remainder term are given as well.
基金the NNSFC(10571111)the Fundation of Natural Science of Shandong Province(Y2005A07)
文摘The existence of at least two positive solutions is presented for the singular second-order boundary value problem{1/p(t)( p(t)x′(t))′+Φ(t)f(t,x(t),p(t)x′(t))=0,0〈t〈1, limt→0 p(t)x′(t)=0,x(1)=0by using the fixed point index, where f may be singular at x = 0 and px ′= 0.
文摘New existence results are presented for the singular second-order nonlinear boundary value problems u ' + g(t)f(u) = 0, 0 < t < 1, au(0) - betau ' (0) = 0, gammau(1) + deltau ' (1) = 0 under the conditions 0 less than or equal to f(0)(+) < M-1, m(1) < f(infinity)(-)less than or equal to infinity or 0 less than or equal to f(infinity)(+)< M-1, m(1) < f (-)(0)less than or equal to infinity where f(0)(+) = lim(u -->0)f(u)/u, f(infinity)(-)= lim(u --> infinity)f(u)/u, f(0)(-)= lim(u -->0)f(u)/u, f(infinity)(+) = lim(u --> infinity)f(u)/u, g may be singular at t = 0 and/or t = 1. The proof uses a fixed point theorem in cone theory.