Bounding Regions to Plane Steepest Descent Curves of Quasiconvex Families by Marco Longinetti, Paolo Manselli, Adriana Venturi

“…Extensions SDC of minimal length are constructed. Self-contracting sets (with opposite orientation) are considered: necessary and/or sufficient conditions for them to be subsets of SDC are proved.…”
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Asymptotic stability of a repairable system with imperfect switching mechanism by Houbao Xu, Weihua Guo, Jingyuan Yu, Guangtian Zhu

“…We show that the system operator generates a positive C0-semigroup of contraction in a Banach space, therefore there exists a unique, nonnegative, and time-dependant solution. …”
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide: a Christian ethical perspective by E. de Villiers

“… This article introduces and compares the contrasting views of two well-known theologians, Gilbert Meilaender and Harry Kuitert, on euthanasia and medically assisted suicide. …”
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Boundary Value Problem for the Langevin Equation and Inclusion with the Hilfer Fractional Derivative by Khalid Hilal, Ahmed Kajouni, Hamid Lmou

“…Second of all, we give our first existence result, based on Krasnoselskii’s fixed point, and to deal with the uniqueness result, we use Banach’s contraction principle. Third of all, in the inclusion case, to obtain the existence result, we use the Leray–Schauder alternative. …”
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New Existence Results for Nonlinear Fractional Integrodifferential Equations by Lahcen Ibnelazyz, Karim Guida, Khalid Hilal, Said Melliani

“…In particular, we make use of the Banach contraction mapping principle and Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem under some weak conditions. …”
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On the Abstract Subordinated Exit Equation by Hassen Mejri, Ezzedine Mliki

“…Let ℙ=(𝑃𝑡)𝑡>0 be a 𝐶0-contraction semigroup on a real Banach space ℬ. A ℙ-exit law is a ℬ-valued function 𝑡∈]0,∞[→𝜑𝑡∈ℬ satisfying the functional equation: 𝑃𝑡𝜑𝑠=𝜑𝑡+𝑠, 𝑠,𝑡>0. …”
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Some Common Fixed Point Theorems in Complex Valued b-Metric Spaces by Aiman A. Mukheimer

“…In this paper, we generalize the results of Azam et al. (2011), and Bhatt et al. (2011), by improving the conditions of contraction to establish the existence and uniqueness of common fixed point for two self-mappings on complex valued b-metric spaces. …”
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Some Results on Fixed and Best Proximity Points of Multivalued Cyclic Self-Mappings with a Partial Order by M. De la Sen

“…This paper is devoted to investigate the fixed points and best proximity points of multivalued cyclic self-mappings on a set of subsets of complete metric spaces endowed with a partial order under a generalized contractive condition involving a Hausdorff distance. …”
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Four-Step <i>T</i>-Stable Generalized Iterative Technique with Improved Convergence and Various Applications by Quanita Kiran, Shaista Begum

“…This research presents a new form of iterative technique for Garcia-Falset mapping that outperforms previous iterative methods for contraction mappings. We illustrate this fact through comparison and present the findings graphically. …”
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La gestion des déchets urbains au Liban entre politiques publiques et privées by Nada Chbat

“…The second obstacle is financial (the necessary means to finance this sector) and the third is social (the localization of the waste/discharges and the contrasted nature of their social representations : from fear to utility). …”
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UltraTimTrack: a Kalman-filter-based algorithm to track muscle fascicles in ultrasound image sequences by Tim J. van der Zee, Paolo Tecchio, Daniel Hahn, Brent J. Raiteri

“…Over 120 cyclical contractions, fascicle length and fascicle angle deviations of UltraTimTrack accumulated to 2.1 ± 1.3 mm (mean ± sd) and 0.8 ± 0.7 deg, respectively. …”
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Les choix de tracé des grandes infrastructures de transport : quelle place pour la biodiversité ? by Jean-Christophe Vandevelde

“…Different methodological tools have been developed recently by contractors to integrate biodiversity into the decision-making process. …”
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The Agency Theory Applied to the Investment Funds by Flávia Zóboli Dalmácio, Valcemiro Nossa

“…The Agency Theory seeks to explain the conflicts of interest that can arise from the contractual relationship between a principal and an agent. …”
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Les « amazoones », des chimères du mouvement antispéciste ? by Nolwenn Veillard

“…Then, based on the case study of a militant collective that claims a femalist identity, the article highlights the discursive appropriations made of these theoretical works on the scale of the organization and its activists, as well as the contrasting reception of this current within the antispeciesist movement itself.…”
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Constitutions as Chains? On the Intergenerational Challenges of Constitution-Making by Konstantin Chatziathanasiou

“…I prioritise the latter. After contrasting classic ideas of Burke and Paine, I discuss different ways of addressing the challenge, such as the amendability of a constitution, eternity clauses or recurring constitutional assemblies. …”
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Advances in the etiopathogenesis of vitiligo by Thomas Mathew, Sachin Vaidya

“…Vitiligo is a disorder that causes depigmentation of the skin and can impact an individual’s quality of life, especially in those with darker skin types due to the contrasting nature. Over the last 30 years, a rise in vitiligo focused research has been observed. …”
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Double Controlled Partial Metric Type Spaces and Convergence Results by Haroon Ahmad, Mudasir Younis, Mehmet Emir Köksal

“…Secondly, our aim is to study the existence of fixed points for Kannan type contractions in the context of double controlled partial metric type spaces. …”
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Sostenibilità e partecipazione in due aree rurali marginali: una comparazione di progetti di sviluppo locale by Oscar Biffi

“…The San Martino and Stura valleys are compared and contrasted regarding their investments on local sustainable agriculture and ecomuseums. …”
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OSAD: Open-Set Aircraft Detection in SAR Images by Xiayang Xiao, Zhuoxuan Li, Xiaolin Mi, Dandan Gu, Haipeng Wang

“…PCL employs prototype-based contrastive encoding loss to promote instance-level intraclass compactness and interclass variance, aiming to minimize the overlap between known and unknown distributions and reduce the empirical classification risk of known categories. …”
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Senegalin-2: A Novel Hexadecapeptide from <i>Kassina senegalensis</i> with Antibacterial and Muscle Relaxant Activities, and Its Derivative Senegalin-2BK as a Bradykinin Antagonist by Yueyang Lu, Yanguo Zhu, Chengbang Ma, Lei Wang, Mei Zhou, Tianbao Chen, Xiaonan Ma, Xu Zhang, Zhimin Fan

“…Furthermore, Senegalin-2BK contracted the bladder (EC₅₀ 2.83 μM) and ileum (EC₅₀ 56.64 nM)’s smooth muscle. …”
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