Measurement of just noticeable difference of hip joint for implementation of self-efficacy: in active and passive sensation and in different speed Qi An, Yuki Ishikawa, Junki Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Oka, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Atsushi Yamashita & Hajime Asama a Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. b 22nd Century Medical and Research Center, The University of Tokyo, ...

We present a combinatorial solution to the problem of determining the number of lozenge tilings of a hexagon with sides a, b + 1, b, a + 1, b, b + 1, with the central unit triangle removed. For a = b, this settles an open problem posed by Propp 7]. Let a, b, c be positive integers, and denote by H the hexagon whose side-lengths are (in cyclic order) a, b, c, a, b, c and all whose angles have 12...

Debabrata Payra, Masanobu Naito, * Yoshihisa Fujii, and Yuki Nagao a Research Center for Strategic Materials, Structural Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan b Advanced Key Technologies Division, Polymer Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan c School ...

In this paper, we continue to study convergence problems for a Ishikawa-like iterative process for a finite family of m-accretive mappings. Strong convergence theorems are established in uniformly smooth Banach spaces.

In this paper, we establish some strong convergence results for Mann and Ishikawa iterative processes in a Banach space setting by employing some general contractive conditions as well as weakening further the conditions on the parameter sequence { n} ⊂ [0, 1]. In addition, in some of our results, we introduce some innovative ideas which make our results distinct from some previous ones. In par...

Unit-load warehouses store and retrieve unit-loads, typically pallets. When storage and retrieval operations are not coordinated, travel is from a pickup and deposit (P&D) point to a pallet location and back again. In some facilities, workers interleave storage and retrieval operations to form a dual-command cycle. Two new aisle designs proposed by Gue and Meller (2006) use diagonal aisles to r...

This paper deals with Kansei evaluation focusing on consumers’ psychological needs and personal taste. To do so, a preparatory study is conducted beforehand to obtain Kansei data of the products to be evaluated, in which products are assessed according to Kansei attributes by means of the semantic differential method and linguistic variables. These Kansei data are then used to generate Kansei p...

In this paper, the equivalence of the convergence among Mann-Ishikawa and Noor iterations is obtained for uniformly L-Lipschitzian mappings in real Banach spaces. Our results extend and improve the corresponding results in Chang [3] and Ofoedu [4]. Mathematics subject classification (2010): 47H10, 47H09, 46B20..

J Kamimura, Y Endo, N Kurotaki, A Kinoshita, N Miyake, O Shimokawa, N Harada, R Visser, H Ohashi, K Miyakawa, J Gerritsen, A M Innes, L Lagace, M Frydman, N Okamoto, R Puttinger, S Raskin, B Resic, V Culic, K Yoshiura, T Ohta, T Kishino, M Ishikawa, N Niikawa, N Matsumoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

In this communication we give the following corrigendum for the paper ‘‘Strong convergence of the modified Ishikawa iterativemethod for infinitelymany nonexpansivemappings in Banach spaces’’ [Comput. Math. Appl. 59 (2010) 1473–1483, doi: 10.1016/j.camwa.2010.01.025]: The conditions (ii) in Theorem3.1 should be revised to 0 < lim infn→∞ βn ≤ lim supn→∞ βn < 1 and (γn(1+βn)−2βn) > a for some a ∈ ...