************************************************************************************************** Linear Algebra and its Applications Volume 395, Pages 1-372 (15 January 2005) 1. Editorial board Pages ii-iii 2. A family of inequalities originating from coding of messages Pages 1-82 Joel E. Cohen, Johannes H.B. Kemperman and Gheorghe H. ZbÄ^Ãganu 3. On the sensitivity of the spectral projection Pages 83-94 Ji-Guang Sun 4. Equality of immanantal decomposable tensors, II Pages 95-119 Henrique F. da Cruz and J.A. Dias da Silva 5. Asymptotic behavior of the condition number of two-level Toeplitz matrix sequences Pages 121-140 D. Noutsos, S. Serra Capizzano and P. Vassalos 6. The generalized spectral radius is strictly increasing Pages 141-153 Fabian Wirth 7. Eigenvalues and perfect matchings Pages 155-162 Andries E. Brouwer and Willem H. Haemers 8. Siegel transformations for even characteristic Pages 163-174 Erich W. Ellers and Oliver Villa 9. Lengths of finite dimensional representations of PBW algebras Pages 175-181 D. Constantine and M. Darnall 10. A note on eigenvalues of perturbed Hermitian matrices Pages 183-190 Chi-Kwong Li and Ren-Cang Li 11. Connections between the total least squares and the correction of an infeasible system of linear inequalities Pages 191-210 Paula Amaral and Pedro Barahona 12. The determinantal regions of complex sign pattern matrices and ray pattern matrices Pages 211-228 Jia-Yu Shao and Hai-Ying Shan 13. Ray solvable linear systems and ray S NS matrices Pages 229-246 Jia-Yu Shao, Hai-Ying Shan and Li-Hua You 14. Mixed mean inequalities for several positive definite matrices Pages 247-263 Yongjian Hu, Xiuping Zhang and Zhenghong Yang 15. The Witt kernels of purely inseparable quartic extensions Pages 265-273 Hamza Ahmad 16. Spectral theory of copositive matrices Pages 275-281 Charles R. Johnson and Robert Reams 17. Asymptotic behavior of solutions of perturbed linear difference systems Pages 283-302 Guojing Ren, Yuming Shi and Yi Wang 18. (±1)-Invariant sequences and truncated Fibonacci sequences Pages 303-312 Gyoung-Sik Choi, Suk-Geun Hwang, Ik-Pyo Kim and Bryan L. Shader 19. Perturbation analysis for solutions of X ± A * X A = Q Pages 313-331 I.G. Ivanov 20. Additive rank-1 preservers between hermitian matrix spaces and applications Pages 333-342 Xiao-Min Tang 21. The spectral radius of trees on k pendant vertices Pages 343-349 Baofeng Wu, Enli Xiao and Yuan Hong 22. On trace inequalities and their applications to noncommutative communication theory Pages 351-359 Kenjiro Yanagi, Shigeru Furuichi and Ken Kuriyama 23. Some stability properties of T. Chanâ^À^Ùs preconditioner Pages 361-365 Che-Man Cheng and Xiao-Qing Jin 24. On the construction of nearest defective matrices to a normal matrix Pages 367-370 Rafikul Alam 25. Author index Pages 371-372 ******************************************************************************************* Linear Algebra and its Applications Volume 396, Pages 1-392 (1 February 2005) 1. Editorial board Pages ii-iii 2. On the solution of Steinâ^À^Ùs equation and Fisherâ^À^Ùs information matrix of an ARMAX process Pages 1-34 André Klein and Peter Spreij 3. Nilpotent linear transformations and the solvability of power-associative nilalgebras Pages 35-53 Ivan Correa, Irvin Roy Hentzel, Pedro Pablo Julca and Luiz Antonio Peresi 4. A structure-preserving doubling algorithm for continuous-time algebraic Riccati equations Pages 55-80 E.K.-W. Chu, H.-Y. Fan and W.-W. Lin 5. On generalized H -matrices Pages 81-90 Ting-Zhu Huang, Shu-Qian Shen and Hou-Biao Li 6. Linear/additive preservers of rank 2 on spaces of alternate matrices over fields Pages 91-102 Xian Zhang 7. On the sensitivity of Lanczos recursions to the spectrum Pages 103-125 Vladimir Druskin, Liliana Borcea and Leonid Knizhnerman 8. Geometry of skew-Hermitian matrices Pages 127-157 Li-Ping Huang and Zhe-Xian Wan 9. Linear maps preserving Drazin inverses of matrices over fields Pages 159-173 Changjiang Bu 10. Some functions reversing the order of positive operators Pages 175-187 Josip PeÄ^ÍariÄ^Ç and Jadranka MiÄ^ÇiÄ^Ç 11. Symmetric triality relations and structurable algebras Pages 189-222 Susumu Okubo 12. On the comparison of some realizability criteria for the real nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem Pages 223-241 Ricardo Soto, Alberto Borobia and Julio Moro 13. The exponent and circumdiameter of primitive digraphs Pages 243-258 L.F. Dame, D.D. Olesky and P. van den Driessche 14. A Perron Theorem for positive componentwise bilinear maps Pages 259-272 Joseph E. Carroll, Timothy Lauck and Roland H. Lamberson 15. On sensitivity of eigenvalues and eigendecompositions of matrices Pages 273-301 R. Alam and S. Bora 16. Combinatorial designs with two singular values II. Partial geometric designs Pages 303-316 E.R. van Dam and E. Spence 17. A pathway to matrix-variate gamma and normal densities Pages 317-328 A.M. Mathai 18. Convex invertible sets and matrix sign function Pages 329-352 Izchak Lewkowicz, Leiba Rodman and Elad J. Yarkoni 19. Convergence of logarithmic trace inequalities via generalized Lieâ^À^ÓTrotter formulae Pages 353-372 Takayuki Furuta 20. The geometric mean decomposition Pages 373-384 Yi Jiang, William W. Hager and Jian Li 21. The structure of alternating-Hamiltonian matrices Pages 385-390 William C. Waterhouse 22. 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