Several classes of hereditarily normal spaces are characterized in terms of extending upper semi-continuous compact-valued mappings. The case of controlled extensions is considered as well. Applications are obtained for real-valued semi-continuous functions.

If U and V are topologies on an abstract set X, then the triple (X, U, V) is a bitopological space. Using the theorem of Priestley on the representation of distributive lattices, results of Dilworth concerning the normal completion of the lattice of bounded, continuous, realvalued functions on a topological space are extended to include the lattice of bounded, semi-continuous, real-valued funct...

Assume that X is a metrizable separable space, and each clopen-valued lower semicontinuous multivalued map Φ : X ⇒ Q has a continuous selection φ : X → Q. Our main result is that in this case, X is a σ-space. We also derive a partial converse implication, and present a reformulation of the Scheepers Conjecture in the language of continuous selections.

Fluorine 18 Sodium Fluoride ((18)F-NaF) (sodium fluoride) PET/CT is a highly sensitive but is a non-specific method for identifying bone metastases. Qualitative scan interpretation using low dose CT for lesion localization is often complicated by the presence of co-existing degenerative joint disease (DJD). A semi-quantitative analysis might help in accurately differentiating benign from metast...

This research aimed to conduct a passive layer state study on martensitic and semi-austenitic precipitation hardening stainless steels (PHSS) passivated in citric acid nitric baths at 49 70 °C for 50 75 min subsequently exposed 5 wt.% NaCl 1 H2SO4 solutions. Corrosion behavior of the material was observed by using potentiodynamic polarization (PP) according ASTM G5-11 standard. The microstructu...

In this paper, we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions of equilibrium problems in a metric space, that do not involve any convexity assumption either for the domain or for the function. To prove these results, a weak notion of semicontinuity is considered. Furthermore, some existence results for systems of equilibrium problems are provided.

A number of semicontinuity concepts and the relations between them are discussed. Characterizations are given for when the (set-valued) metric projection P M onto a proximinal subspace M of a normed linear space X is approximate lower semicontinuous or 2-lower semicontinuous. A geometric characterization is given of those normed linear spaces X such that the metric projection onto every one-dim...

Flesch et al [3] showed that, if the payoff functions are bounded and lower semicontinuous, then such a game always has a pure, subgame perfect -equilibrium for > 0. Here we prove the same result for bounded, upper semicontinuous payoffs. Moreover, Example 3 in Solan and Vieille [7] shows that if one player has a lower semicontinuous payoff and another player has an upper semicontinuous payoff,...

We introduce the concept of fuzzy co-r-M -semicontinuous, and investigate the relationships between fuzzy co-r-M -semicontinuous mappings and several types of fuzzy r-minimal semicompactness.