Wound contraction can substantially reduce the amount of new tissue needed to reestablish organ integrity after tissue loss. Fibroblasts, rich in F-actin bundles, generate the force of wound contraction. Fibronectin-containing microfibrils link fibroblasts to each other and to collagen bundles and thereby provide transduction cables across the wound for contraction. The temporal relationships o...

Compared with the previous work, the aim of  this paper is to introduce the more general concept of the generalized $F$-Suzuki type contraction mappings in $b$-metric spaces, and to establish some fixed point theorems in the setting of $b$-metric spaces. Our main results unify, complement and generalize the previous works in the existing literature.

[Purpose] This study aimed to determine the differences in the excitability of spinal motor neurons during motor imagery of a muscle contraction at different contraction strengths. [Methods] We recorded the F-wave in 15 healthy subjects. First, in a trial at rest, the muscle was relaxed during F-wave recording. Next, during motor imagery, subjects were instructed to imagine maximum voluntary co...

Part 4. Biregular geometry 28 4.1. Fano-Mori contractions on a smooth n-fold with n ≤ 4 29 4.2. Fano-Mori contractions on a smooth n-fold with fibers of small dimension 34 4.3. The fibers of a Fano-Mori contraction 35 4.3.1. Using the vanishing theorem 35 4.3.2. Existence of a ladder for a fiber of a F-M contraction; horizontal slicing 37 4.3.3. Rational curves on the fiber of F-M contractions ...

This article contributes to the ongoing discussion on multiple belief change. Based on earlier work, we devise a new condition, called (K−̇F), that reduces infinite contraction to sentence contraction. Two representation results reported herein characterize (K−̇F) in terms of two well known constructive models for set contraction; namely the partial meet model and the comparative possibility mode...

In this paper, we investigate a new type of random $F$-contraction and obtain a common random fixed point theorem for a pair of self stochastic mappings in a separable Banach space. The existence of a unique solution for nonlinear fractional random differential equation is proved under suitable conditions.