Case Study: Ms. L was 56 years old when she was fi rst diagnosed with left breast cancer in 1998. During a routine examination, a 0.9 cm, hard, fi xed, nontender mass was palpated below her left nipple in the areola. Ms. L previously had refused to have a mammogram because of a history of “mastitis” and felt that the clinician was concerned needlessly; nevertheless, she was referred to a surger...

This paper reveals an appropriate ingredient to operating the hazardous and radioactive electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) from steel production factory using cement immobilization technique. The specimens were prepared by mixing tap water with binders (i.e., ordinary Portland cement: OPC, EAFD) at different EAFD replacement of 0%, 15%, 25%, 35%, 40%, 45%, 50% weight. water-to-binders ratio was f...

In this paper, we introduce and study a new iterative scheme toapproximate a common xed point for a nite family of generalized asymptoticallyquasi-nonexpansive nonself-mappings in Banach spaces. Several strong and weakconvergence theorems of the proposed iteration are established. The main resultsobtained in this paper generalize and rene some known results in the currentliterature.

An idea of fuzzy reexivity of Felbin's type fuzzy normed linear spaces is introduced and its properties are studied. Concept of fuzzy uniform normal structure is given and using the geometric properties of this concept xed point theorems are proved in fuzzy normed linear spaces.

Jachymski [ Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 136 (2008), 1359-1373] gave modified version of a Banach fixed point theorem on a metric space endowed with a graph. In the present paper, (G, Φ)-graphic contractions have been de ned by using a comparison function and studied the existence of fixed points. Also, Hardy-Rogers G-contraction have been introduced and some fixed point theorems have been proved. S...

An automatic scaling C program translator is developed for the eecient execution of application programs in xed-point digital signal processors. The program for range estimation is automatically generated by inserting codes which collect the statistics of each signal during the simulation. With the range information, the number of shifts needed for the scaling is determined and the oating-point...

Resumen Background: Likelihood-based methods can work poorly when the residuals are not normally distributed and the variances across clusters are heterogeneous. Method: The performance of two estimation methods, the non-parametric residual bootstrap (RB) and the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) for fi tting multilevel models are compared through simulation studies in terms of bias, coverag...

Two xed-point optimization utility programs, the range estimator and the xed-point simulator, are developed for scaling and wordlength determination of digital signal processing algorithms written in C or C++ language. By exploiting the operator overloading characteristics of C++ language, range estimation and xed-point simulation can be conducted just by modifying the variable declaration of t...

We say a functional equation () is stable if any function g satisfying the equation () approximatelyis near to true solution of (). Using xed point methods, we investigate approximately higherternary derivations in Banach ternary algebras via the Cauchy functional equationf(1x + 2y + 3z) = 1f(x) + 2f(y) + 3f(z) :