OBJECTIVES Intra-uterine growth retardation is often of unknown origin, and is of great interest as a "Fetal Origin of Adult Disease" has been now well recognized. We built a benchmark based upon a previously analysed data set related to Intrauterine Growth Retardation with 46 subjects described by 14 variables, related with the insulin-like growth factor system and pro-inflammatory cytokines, ...

A complete contraction on a C-algebra A, which preserves all closed two sided ideals J , can be approximated pointwise by elementary complete contractions if and only if the induced map on B⊗A/J is contractive for every C-algebra B, ideal J in A and C-tensor norm on B ⊗ A/J . A lifting obstruction for such an approximation is also obtained.

The existence of coincidence points and common fixed points for four mappings satisfying generalized contractive conditions without exploiting the notion of continuity of any map involved therein, in a cone metric space is proved. These results extend, unify and generalize several well known comparable results in the existing literature. 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

In the piece of this note, we mention various Suzuki-type fuzzy contractive inequalities in 1-Z-complete metric-like spaces for uniqueness and existence a fixed point prove few theorems, which are appropriate generalizations some latest famed results literature. Mainly, generalize Θ-contraction terms also ϓ-contractive mapping view Suzuki-type. For new group functions, acceptable conditions for...

In this paper, we first propose a new concept of Z-Z-B spaces, which is generalization Z-C-X spaces. Meanwhile, the superior cone introduced. Secondly, study some problems for semi-closed 1-set-contractive operators in space and obtain results. These theorems are proven by combining partial order theory with fixed point index theory. Regarding these theorems, latter part proofs omitted since me...

For any semifinite von Neumann algebra ${\mathcal M}$ and $1\leq p<\infty$, we introduce a natutal $S^1$-valued noncommutative $L^p$-space $L^p({\mathcal M};S^1)$. We say that bounded map $T\colon L^p({\mathcal M})\to N})$ is $S^1$-bounded (resp. $S^1$-contractive) if $T\otimes I_{S^1}$ extends to contractive) $T\overline{\otimes} from $ M};S^1)$ into N};S^1)$. show completely positive $S^1$-bo...

Recently, there has been a considerable research activity in extending topographic maps of vectorial data to more general data structures, such as sequences or trees. However, the representational capabilities and internal representations of the models are not well understood. We rigorously analyze a generalization of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) for processing sequential data, Recursive SOM (...

It is well known that contractive representations of the disk algebra are completely contractive. Let A denote the subalgebra of the disk algebra consisting of those functions f for which f ′(0) = 0. We prove that there are contractive representations of A which are not completely contractive, and furthermore characterize those contractive representations which are completely contractive.

The monoid $Cb$ of name substitutions and the notion of finitely supported $Cb$-sets introduced by Pitts as a generalization of nominal sets. A simple finitely supported $Cb$-set is a one point extension of a cyclic nominal set. The support map of a simple finitely supported $Cb$-set is an injective map. Also, for every two distinct elements of a simple finitely supported $Cb$-set, there exists...