Nine new species of the genus Stedocys Ono, 1995 are described: Stedocys gaolingensis Wu & Li sp. n. (♂♀, Guangxi), S. huangniuensis Wu & Li sp. n. (♀, Guangxi), S. ludiyanensis Wu & Li sp. n. (♂♀, Guangxi), S. matuoensis Wu & Li sp. n. (♀, Guangxi), S. pulianensis Wu & Li sp. n. (♂, Guangxi), S. shilinensis Wu & Li sp. n. (♂♀, Hainan), S. xianrenensis Wu & Li sp. n. (♂♀, Guangxi), S. xiangzhou...

It is shown that the result of Tso-Wu on the elliptical shape of the numerical range of quadratic operators holds also for the C*-algebra numerical range.

Background: Internet disease management has the promise of improving care in patients with heart failure but evidence supporting its use is limited. We have designed a Heart Failure Internet Communication Tool (HFICT), allowing patients to enter messages for clinicians, as well as their daily symptoms, weight, blood pressure and heart rate. Clinicians review the information on the same day and ...

An ELISA for urine microalbumin using microtiter plates has been developed. The assay uses polyclonal anti-human albumin antibody for coating the microtiter plates and the same antibody conjugated with horseradish peroxidase for detection. The assay sensitivity is 1.6 μg/ml. Results by this in-house ELISA show good correlation (r = 0.99) with those obtained by a commercial assay using the Behri...

In order to study the compatibility of some theoretical models referring to the size effects on the fracture parameters relative to the experimental data, some experimental results [1], [2], referring to the tensile strength σN, critical strain wu, and to the fracture energy GF of some concrete and rock specimens, respectively, were studied by means of the procedures of the numerical analysis [...

We consider the relaxed and contraction-proximal point algorithms in Hilbert spaces. Some conditions on the parameters for guaranteeing the convergence of the algorithm are relaxed or removed. As a result, we extend some recent results of Ceng-Wu-Yao and Noor-Yao.