Compact fuzzy topological spaces were first introduced by Chang [3]. o-compact fuzzy topological spaces were introduced by Gantner et al. [4]. Abd El-Monsef et al. [1] introduced the notion of e-aimost compact fuzzy topological spaces. Mashhour et al. [8] introduced the notion of bifuzzy topological spaces and defined the notion of o-compactness in those spaces. In this paper, we obtain some ne...

‎‎‎Recently Samet et al. introduced the notion of $alpha$-$psi$-contractive type mappings and established some fixed point theorems in complete metric spaces. In this paper, we introduce $alpha$-$(psi,varphi)$-contractive mappings and stablish coincidence and common fixed point theorems for two mapping in complete metric spaces. We present some examples to illustrate our results. As application...

It is known that both functional reversible, and organic, narrowing of the pulmonary arterioles play a part in the increased pulmonary arteriolar resistance found in many cases of mitral stenosis. Parker and Weiss (1936), Larrabee et al. (1949), Henry (1952), and Harrison (1953) have demonstrated occlusive changes in the small arteries. The observations of Hickam and Cargill (1948), Bayliss et ...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a relatively new data oriented approach to evaluate performance of a set of peer entities called decision-making units (DMUs) that convert multiple inputs into multiple outputs. Within a relative limited period, DEA has been converted into a strong quantitative and analytical tool to measure and evaluate performance. In an article written by Toloo et al. (2009...

The replication-competent Friend leukemia virus (F-MuLV) induces leukemias involving three hematopoietic lineages after a latent period of several months. In an attempt to elucidate the early events of the leukemogenic process. we looked for a method allowing the isolation and the long term in vitro maintenance of preleukemic cells. When established as long-term cultures according to the techni...

gregate formation (Horn, 1990; Zhang, 1994). Understanding of mechanical properties of aggregates is cruAggregate properties determine the macroscale structural condicial to explain the macroscale functions of soil for plant tion of the soil. Understanding of impacts of no-till and traditional growth (DeFreitas et al., 1996). agricultural practices on the mechanical properties of aggregates is ...

Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view. Forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. Translation of externally generated i...

After many years of hypertext research, the Dexter model was defined [7] to capture the features of most existing hypertext systems in a single, formal reference model. Likewise, the AHAM model [5] (based on Dexter) describes most features that are found in adaptive hypermedia systems (ahs). In the AHA! project funded by the NLnet Foundation we are extending the simple AHA system [4, 6] with th...

The paradigm of treating security properties on the blocklevel in sanitizable signature schemes was introduced by Brzuska et al. at EuroPKI ’12. In this paper we extend their work in two respects: First, we provide a new construction which retains transparency, a stronger privacy property. In particular, we formalize the property of block-level accountability for sanitizable signatures with tra...