OBJECTIVE We compared the multi-sample and two-sample methods for measuring total energy expenditure (TEE) using doubly labelled water (DLW) in pre-school children to establish whether taking multiple samples provides any advantage in free-living conditions. METHODS Sixty-five children (32 boys; aged 2-6 years) were recruited from Aberdeen, UK. TEE was measured over 7 and 14 days using the mu...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Department of Mathematics, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, P.R. China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this paper, a new concept of the common property (E.A) for two hybrid pairs of mappings is introduced in Menger PM-spaces. Utilizing this concept, some common fixed point theorems, which shed some new...