Objectives: Population ageing and the subsequent increase of joint disorders prevalence requires development non-invasive early diagnostic methods to enable timely medical assistance promote healthy aging. Over last decades, acoustic emission (AE) monitoring, a technique widely used in non-destructive testing, has also been introduced orthopedics as tool. This review aims synthesize literature ...

*Correspondence: [email protected] School of Mathematics and Information Science, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Baoji, P.R. China Abstract An alternative error bound for linear complementarity problems for BS-matrices is presented. It is shown by numerical examples that the new bound is better than that provided by García-Esnaola and Peña (Appl. Math. Lett. 25(10):1379–1383, 2012) i...

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herb of the family Labiatae, which is distributed in Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. In Nepal, the plant is called Gumpati or Gumma and its whole herb is a crude drug which is known as Dronapuspi and has been used as diaphretic, anti-inflammatory, edema, and obstinate urinary troubles including diabetes for diseases due to the aggravator of pitta (the force governing heat, temperature,...

Here we prove a probabilistic contraction mapping principle in Menger spaces. This is in line with research in fixed point theory using control functions which was initiated by Khan et al. [Bull. Austral. Math. Soc., 30(1984), 1-9] in metric spaces and extended by Choudhury et al. [Acta Mathematica Sinica, 24(8) (2008), 1379-1386] in probabilistic metric spaces. An example has also been constru...

Previous research has shown that receiving social support in the face of negative events (i.e., enacted support) is sometimes correlated with positive outcomes, sometimes unrelated to outcomes, and sometimes associated with negative outcomes. However, people's perception that they have high-quality support available to them when they have a stressor (i.e., perceived support) is consistently and...