• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.1223-1228
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• 2019

In the paper, the authors supply complete monotonicity of linear combination of finite psi functions and extend some known results.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.141-145
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• 2014

In the paper, by directly verifying an inequality which gives a lower bound for the first order modified Bessel function of the first kind, the authors supply a new proof for the complete monotonicity of a difference between the exponential function $e^{1/t}$ and the trigamma function ${\psi}^{\prime}(t)$ on (0, ${\infty}$).

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.1261-1278
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• 2019

It is well-known that if ${\phi}^{{\prime}{\prime}}$ > 0 for all x, ${\phi}(0)=0$, and ${\phi}/x$ is interpreted as ${\phi}^{\prime}(0)$ for x = 0, then ${\phi}/x$ increases for all x. This has been extended in [Complete monotonicity and logarithmically complete monotonicity properties for the gamma and psi functions, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 336 (2007), 812-822]. In this paper, we extend the above result to the very general cases, and then use it to prove some (logarithmically) completely monotonic functions related to the gamma function. We also establish some inequalities for the gamma function and generalize some known results.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.987-998
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• 2015

In the paper, the authors discover an integral representation, some inequalities, and complete monotonicity of the Bernoulli numbers of the second kind.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.355-363
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• 2016

By employing a refined version of the $P{\acute{o}}lya$ type integral inequality and other techniques, the authors establish some inequalities and absolute monotonicity for modified Bessel functions of the first kind with nonnegative integer order.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.55-71
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• 2015

This paper presents a novel harmony search (HS)-based data-driven single input rule modules (SIRMs)-connected fuzzy inference system (FIS) for the prediction of stress in externally prestressed tendon. The proposed method attempts to extract causal relationship of a system from an input-output pairs of data even without knowing the complete physical knowledge of the system. The monotonicity property is then exploited as an additional qualitative information to obtain a meaningful SIRMs-connected FIS model. This method is then validated using results from test data of the literature. Several parameters, such as initial tendon depth to beam ratio; deviators spacing to the initial tendon depth ratio; and distance of a concentrated load from the nearest support to the effective beam span are considered. A computer simulation for estimating the stress increase in externally prestressed tendon, ${\Delta}f_{ps}$, is then reported. The contributions of this paper is two folds; (i) it contributes towards a new monotonicity-preserving data-driven FIS model in fuzzy modeling and (ii) it provides a novel solution for estimating the ${\Delta}f_{ps}$ even without a complete physical knowledge of unbonded tendons.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.103-111
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• 2010

In the present paper, we give two new proofs for the necessary and sufficient condition $\alpha\leq1$ such that the function $x^{\alpha}[lnx-\psi(x)]$ is completely monotonic on (0,$\infty$).

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.1283-1297
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• 2010

In this article, the logarithmically complete monotonicity of some functions such as $\frac{1}{[\Gamma(x+1)]^{1/x}$, $\frac{[\Gamma(x+1)]^{1/x}}{x^\alpha}$, $\frac{[\Gamma(x+1)]^{1/x}}{(x+1)^\alpha}$ and $\frac{[\Gamma(x+\alpha+1)]^{1/(x+\alpha})}{[\Gamma(x+1)^{1/x}}$ for $\alpha{\in}\mathbb{R}$ on ($-1,\infty$) or ($0,\infty$) are obtained, some known results are recovered, extended and generalized. Moreover, some basic properties of the logarithmically completely monotonic functions are established.