JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS Volume 126, Numbers 1-2, 30 December 2000 Contents J. Koekoek and R. Koekoek Differential equations for generalized Jacobi polynomials K. Stys and T. Stys A higher-order finite difference method for solving a system of integro-differential equations J.P. Coleman and S.C. Duxbury Mixed collocation methods for y” = f(x,y) M. Iqbal On photon correlation measurements of colloidal size distributions using Bayesian strategies X.-1. Cheng, W. Han and H.-c. Huang Some mixed finite element methods for biharmonic equation P. Wang and C. Feng Oscillation of parabolic equations of neutral type A. Xiao, S. Li, H. Fu and G. Chen Extending convergence of BDF methods for a class of nonlinear strongly stiff problems M.A. Hernandez and M.A. Salanova Modification of the Kantorovich assumptions for semilocal convergence of the Chebyshev method G. Han, J. Wang, K. Hayami and Y. Xu Correction method and extrapolation method for singular two-point boundary value problems O. Davydov and G. Nurnberger Interpolation by C' splines of degree g > 4 on triangulations B.S. Mazumder and D.C. Dalal Contaminant dispersion from an elevated time-dependent source vi Contents P. Kim and U.J. Choi A quadrature rule of interpolatory type for Cauchy integrals P. Kim and U.J. Choi A quadrature rule for weighted Cauchy integrals F.J. Vermolen and C. Vuik A mathematical model for the dissolution of particles in multi-component alloys S. Alonso and C. Gonzalez-Concepcion Linear approximation in the discrete frequency domain |.R. Khan and R. Ohba New finite difference formulas for numerical differentiation J.-G. Si and X.-P. Wang Analytic solutions of a second-order iterative functional differential equation B. Kalantari Generalization of Taylor's theorem and Newton’s method via a new family of determinantal interpolation formulas and its applications 287 D. Yang Improved error estimation of dynamic finite element methods for second-order parabolic equa- tions 319 C.-Y. Lin Quasilinear parabolic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions 339 J. Chavarriga, J. Giné and I.A. Garcia lsochronous centers of a linear center perturbed by fifth degree homogeneous polynomials 351 L. Gemignani Computing a Hurwitz factorization of a polynomial 369 J.G. Blom and J.G. Verwer A comparison of integration methods for atmospheric transport-chemistry problems 381 Z. Dostal, F.A.M. Gomes Neto and S.A. Santos Duality-based domain decomposition with natural coarse-space for variational inequalities 397 Y. Wei and H. Wu The representation and approximation for Drazin inverse 417 L.J. Alvarez-Vazquez and J.M. Viario Asymptotic modelling of a nonsymmetric beam Contents W. Becken and P. Schmelcher The analytic continuation of the Gaussian hypergeometric function 5F, (a, b; c; Zz) for arbitrary parameters Author Index Vol. 126 Newsletter on Computational and Applied Mathematics