Since the early 1970's there have been many papers devoted to tangent cones and their applications to optimization. Much of the debate over which tangent cone is \best" has centered on the properties of Clarke's tangent cone and whether other cones have these properties. In this paper it is shown that there are an innnite number of tangent cones with some of the nicest properties of Clarke's co...

Threshold spectral sensitivities (in the dark, or against bright colored backgrounds) are identical in the red-green range for both protanopes (dichromats) and protanomalous trichromatic color defectives. The latter, however, must have an additional photolabile cone pigment in the red-green range, and its presence is revealed by heterochromatic brightness matching through the spectrum (i.e. lum...

A scotopic electroretinogram with an a-wave amplitude larger than the b-wave amplitude traditionally is termed 'negative'. Six male patients with negative photopic electroretinograms were examined; three of them suffered from progressive cone dystrophy, in which negative electroretinograms are unusual. Another patient without symptoms was the brother of a patient with cone dystrophy. These pati...

Delayed rod ERG b-waves in patients with an unusual retinal dystrophy have been attributed by some to an abnormality in receptor cGMP activity. Here the sites of disease action are studied by analyzing rod and cone ERGs using new analytical methods and a wide range of stimulus intensities. Consistent with previous reports, the five patients studied showed rod b-waves that were normal or superno...

The existing literature of fixed point theory contains many results enunciating fixed point theorems for self-mappings in metric and Banach spaces. Recently, Huang and Zhang [4] introduced the concept of cone metric spaces which generalized the concept of the metric spaces, replacing the set of real numbers by an ordered Banach space, and obtained some fixed point theorems for mapping satisfyin...

We propose a new estimate of the process B → (ρ, ω) + γ by using the light-cone QCD sum rule. The aim is to choose the chiral quark current operators in order to eliminate the uncertainty arising from the chiral-even operators in the correlator. In the case of neglecting the corrections from ρ-meson mass, the sum rules for form factors are obtained, which are valid to the twist-three accuracy. ...