in the paper‎, ‎some new existence theorems of maximal elements for‎ ‎$mathscr{f}_{c,theta}$-mappings and $mathscr{f}_{c,theta}$-majorized mappings are established‎. ‎as applications, ‎some new existence theorems of equilibrium points for‎ ‎one-person games‎, ‎qualitative games and generalized games are obtained‎. ‎our results unify and generalize most known results‎ ‎in recent literature‎.

Misinformation about tobacco products is ubiquitous in the public communication environment. This information is promulgated via tobacco product marketing strategies as well as the inferences that consumers make and then circulate to others in the fast-moving new media world. Misinformation can be explicit or implicit. Explicit misinformation is factually incorrect (low nicotine cigarettes are ...

The recent emergence of positive psychology gave rise to the idea to conceptualize humor from a “good character” perspective. Present constructs, however, show a “virtue gap,” and the two concepts of benevolent and corrective humor were developed to fill this gap. The former describes a humorous outlook on life that entails the realistic observations and understanding of human weaknesses (and t...

1. When a hind leg of a walking cat fails to contact the ground at the end of swing, the limb is rapidly lifted and replaced in an attempt to seek support. In this investigation we tested the hypothesis that one factor in the initiation of this corrective response is the absence of signals from the group I afferents of extensor muscles. 2. Experiments were performed on decerebrate cats walking ...

introduction: computer games have attracted remarkable attentions in general publics with different cultures and their effects are subject of research by cognitive neuroscientists. in the present study, possible effects of the game fifa 2015 on cognitive performance, hormonal levels, and electroencephalographic (eeg) signals were evaluated in young male volunteers. methods: thirty two subjects ...

Objective: To assess psychomotor development and neurological sequelae in infants after surgery for congenital heart defects. Design and setting: Single institution prospective cohort study. Patients: 90 of 112 consecutive surviving infants of less than 1 year of age, without brain anomalies, conditions, or syndromes associated with delayed mental development, who underwent cardiac surgery duri...

This paper addresses a core question in distributed systems: how should applications be notified of failures? When a distributed system acts on failure reports, the system’s correctness and availability depend on the granularity and semantics of those reports. The system’s availability also depends on coverage (failures are reported), accuracy (reports are justified), and timeliness (reports co...

This paper describes the Fracas computer-integrated or-thopaedic system for assisting surgeons in closed long bone fracture reduction. Fracas' goals are to reduce the surgeon's cumulative exposure to radiation and improve the positioning accuracy by replacing uncorre-lated static uoroscopic images with a virtual reality display of 3D bone models created from preoperative CT and tracked intraope...