In this paper, we evaluate in closed forms two families of infinite integrals containing hyperbolic and trigonometric cosine functions in their integrands. We call them Ramanujan-Berndt-type integrals of order four since they initiated the study of similar integrals. We establish explicit evaluations of twelve classes of hyperbolic sums by special values of the Gamma function by two completely different approaches, which extend those sums considered by Xu, Yang, Zhao and the second author previously. We discover the first by refining two results of Ramanujan concerning some q-series. For the second we compare both the Fourier series expansions and the Maclaurin series expansions of a few Jacobi elliptic functions. Furthermore, by contour integrations we convert two families of Ramanujan-Berndt-type integrals of order four to the above hyperbolic sums, all of which can be evaluated in closed forms. We then discover explicit formulas for one of the two families. Moreover, we provide many examples which enable us to formulate a conjectural explicit formula for the other family of the Ramanujan-Berndt-type integrals at the end, and obtain some results on Barnes' multiple zeta function.
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