Perceived continuity was studied by varying the direction (steady-state, upward glide, or downward glide), the frequency separation, and the slope of two sinusoidal tones separated by a louder burst of white noise. When the two tones had different directions, continuity was perceived according to a frequency-proximity principle (frequency-interpolation effect). On the other hand, when the tones...

The aims of the present study were to evaluate the extent of continuity of care and to investigate its association with several factors among a sample of outpatients with chronic diseases in Italy. The survey was conducted, using face to face interview, from March to December 2014 in a random sample of 633 outpatients with chronic conditions who were going in cardiology, metabolic disorders, an...

This paper deals with the problem of multi-degree reduction of a composite Bézier curve with the parametric continuity constraints at the endpoints of the segments. We present a novel method which is based on the idea of using constrained dual Bernstein polynomials to compute the control points of the reduced composite curve. In contrast to other methods, ours minimizes the L2-error for the who...

In this paper, the definition of meet-continuity on $L$-directedcomplete posets (for short, $L$-dcpos) is introduced. As ageneralization of meet-continuity on crisp dcpos, meet-continuity on$L$-dcpos, based on the generalized Scott topology, ischaracterized. In particular, it is shown that every continuous$L$-dcpo is meet-continuous and $L$-continuous retracts ofmeet-continuous $L$-dcpos are al...

in this paper, the definition of meet-continuity on $l$-directedcomplete posets (for short, $l$-dcpos) is introduced. as ageneralization of meet-continuity on crisp dcpos, meet-continuity on$l$-dcpos, based on the generalized scott topology, ischaracterized. in particular, it is shown that every continuous$l$-dcpo is meet-continuous and $l$-continuous retracts ofmeet-continuous $l$-dcpos are al...

We study several properties of a homotopy solution mapping, based on Zhang and Zhang's homotopy formulation, for continuous nonlinear complementarity problems with such non-monotone maps as quasi-monotone, E 0-, and exceptional regular functions. For these classes of complementarity problems, we establish several suucient conditions to assure the nonemptyness and boundedness of the homotopy sol...