PURPOSE Cone function and survival are compromised in the guanylate cyclase-1 (GC1) knockout mouse. Disruption of the light-driven translocation of cone arrestin is one of the phenotypes of cone cells in this retina: the cone arrestin in these cells is localized to the outer segments and synaptic terminals, regardless of the state of light adaptation. The purpose of this study was to determine ...

soil compaction is an important aspect of agriculture and different methods are available to measure this parameter. one method is called the cone index; measuring the force required per unit area for penetration of a standard steel cone into the ground. cone penetrometers are used for cone index measurement. in this study, a tractor mounted, hydraulically-operated penetrometer was designed, bu...

 In this paper, we prove some coupled coincidence point theorems for mappings satisfying generalized contractive conditions under a new invariant set in ordered cone metric spaces. In fact, we obtain sufficient conditions for existence of coupled coincidence points in the setting of cone metric spaces. Some examples are provided to verify the effectiveness and applicability of our results.

In this paper, we prove the existence of fixed point for Chatterjea type mappings under $c$-distance in cone metric spaces endowed with a graph. The main results extend, generalized and unified some fixed point theorems on $c$-distance in metric and cone metric spaces.

During 2006 to 2009, two sediment tracer studies were implemented at the mouth of the Columbia River (MCR) to improve our understanding of littoral sediment transport pathways along the ocean margins of the inlet. Science-based data from these tracer studies is being integrated with other analysis methods to evaluate if dredged material can be preferentially placed within the coastal near shore...

Mental representation and proper understanding of the three-dimensional structure of the human body is commonly challenging to the learner. Advances in computing science hold promise to significantly contribute to scientific visualization, including three-dimensional visualization of anatomical structures. This paper describes the implementation of a computer application designed for addressing...

We analyze the injective deformations on Lipschitz domains, motivated by the configurations of solid elastic materials. Our goal is to rigorously derive the first order optimality conditions when minimizing over deformations with a self-contact constraint. In a previous work, we established a variational equation for minimizers of a second-gradient hyper-elastic energy. This involved obtaining ...