Context : Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) combined with blood flow restriction (BFR) has been shown to improve muscular strength and size better than NMES alone. However, previous studies used varied methodologies not recommended by or BFR research. Objective The present study investigated the acute effects of varying degrees using research-recommended procedures enhance understandi...

This paper shows the usefulness of Perov's contraction principle, which generalizes Banach's principle to a vector-valued metric, for studying dynamic programming problems in discount factor can be stochastic. The discounting condition β<1 is replaced by ρ(B)<1, where B an appropriate nonnegative matrix and ρ denotes spectral radius. Blackwell's sufficient also generalized this setting. Applica...

Abstract We develop a method for calculating the persistence landscapes of affine fractals using parameters corresponding transformations. Given an iterated function system transformations that satisfies certain compatibility condition, we prove there exists transformation acting on space landscapes, which intertwines action system. This latter is strict contraction and its unique fixed point l...

background: there is much debate about effects of medicinal plants such as saffron (crocus sativus) on human health. women are highly involved in farming and processing of this plant. this study is aimed at evaluating the saffron impacts on miscarriage rate of female farmers working in saffron fields. methods: this was a prospective case-control study on pregnant female farmers during harvestin...

We give an example of an operator that satisfies the curvature condition as defined in [2], but is not similar to the backward shift S ∗ on the Hardy class H. We conclude therefore that the contraction assumption in the similarity characterization given in [2] is a necessary requirement.

In this paper, we establish a sufficient condition for the controlla-bility of impulsive quasi-linear fractional mixed Volterra-Fredholm-type inte-grodifferential equations in Banach spaces. The results are obtained by using Banach contraction fixed point theorem combined with the fractional calculus theory.

We discuss existence, and uniqueness of solutions of nonlinear differential equations of fractional order. The differential operators are taken in the Caputo sense and the initial condition is a fuzzy number. To this aim, contraction mapping principle and the fixed point theorem are used and finally an example is given to more illustration of obtained results.

In this paper we study the absolute continuity of self-similar measures defined by iterated function systems (IFS) whose contraction ratios are not uniform. We introduce a transversality condition for a multi-parameter family of IFS and study the absolute continuity of the corresponding self-similar measures. Our study is a natural extension of the study of Bernoulli convolutions by Solomyak, P...

The intent of the paper is to study semi-cyclic type contraction condition for a pair of maps (S, T). Our aim is to establish an existence theorem for common fixed points and best proximity points for such a pair in Banach spaces. The results obtained herein extend some recent results.