A new and simpler proof is given of the result of P. Rabinowitz for nontrivial time periodic solutions of a vibrating string equation utt-ux, + g(u) = 0 and Dirichlet boundary conditions on a finite interval. We assume essentially that g is nondecreasing, and g(u)/u+m as Iu(+w. The proof uses a modified form (PS), of the Palais-Smale condition (PS). Let g : R-+R be a continuous nondecreasing fu...

Let f be a positive smooth function on a close Riemann surface (M,g). The f − energy of a map u from M to a Riemannian manifold (N, h) is defined as E f (u) = M f |∇u| 2 dV g. In this paper, we will study the blow-up properties of Palais-Smale sequences for E f. We will show that, if a Palais-Smale sequence is not compact, then it must blows up at some critical points of f. As a sequence, if an...

From studies investigating the differences in evolutionary rates between genes, gene compactness and gene expression level have been identified as important determinants of gene-level protein evolutionary rate, as represented by nonsynonymous to synonymous substitution rate (d(N)/d(S)) ratio. However, the causes of exon-level variances in d(N)/d(S) are less understood. Here, we use principal co...

We provide a characterization of those nonmonotonic inference operations C for which C(X) may be described as the set of all logical consequences of X together with some set of additional assumptions S(X) that depends anti-monotonically on X (i.e., X ⊆ Y implies S(Y ) ⊆ S(X)). The operations represented are exactly characterized in terms of properties most of which have been studied in [3]. Sim...

In this paper, the concept of countably near PS-compactness inL-topological spaces is introduced, where L is a completely distributive latticewith an order-reversing involution. Countably near PS-compactness is definedfor arbitrary L-subsets and some of its fundamental properties are studied.

In this paper, some topological properties are discussed and results on completeness, totally boundedness, compactness parametric S-metric spaces developed.