The main purpose of this paper is to study the approximate best proximity pair of cyclic maps and their diameter in fuzzy normed spaces defined by Bag and Samanta. First, approximate best point proximity points on fuzzy normed linear spaces are defined and four general lemmas are given regarding approximate fixed point and approximate best proximity pair of cyclic maps on fuzzy normed spaces. U...

Hundreds of experiments over the last decade on the retrieval of OCR documents performed by the Information Science Research Institute have shown that OCR errors do not significantly affect retrievability. We extend those results to show that in the case of proximity searching, the removal of running headers and footers from OCR text will not improve retrievability for such searches.

Let X be an arrangement of n algebraic sets Xi in d-space, where the Xi are either parametrized or zero-sets of dimension 0 ≤ mi ≤ d − 1. We study a number of decompositions of d-space into connected regions in which the distance-squared function to X has certain invariances. Each region is contained in a single connected component of the complement of the bifurcation set B of the family of dis...

In order to retrieve best documents for finding answers, we developed a robust proximity search engine. It efficiently finds relevant passages. In addition, our search engine has two disjunction operators: or and or2. The former works just like addition, whereas the latter works just like logical disjunction. The operator or2 is used to introduce synonyms and antonyms of a query term. The searc...

In this paper, we propose a novel ICP variant that uses a histogram in conjunction with multiple closest points to detect the overlap area between range images geing registered. Tentative correspondences sharing similar distances are normally all within, or all outside, the overlap area. Thus, the overlap area can be detected in a bin by bin batch manner using a histogram. Using multiple closes...

Audition and vision are combined for the perception of speech segments and recent studies have shown that this is also the case for some types of supra-segmental information such as prosodic focus. The integration of vision and audition for the perception of speech segments however seems to be less important in Japanese. This study aims at comparing auditory-visual perception of prosodic contra...

We developed and tested a theoretical model for the attachment of fluid-infused porous supra-particles to a fluid-liquid interface. We considered the wetting behaviour of agglomerated clusters of particles, typical of powdered materials dispersed in a liquid, as well as of the adsorption of liquid-infused colloidosomes at the liquid-fluid interface. The free energy of attachment of a composite ...

ketotifen is a benzocycloheptathiophene with a range of pharmacological activities. the present study was carried out to evaluate the action of ketotifen on isolated rat bladder contractions induced by kci and acetylcholine, compared with the effects of other drugs. ketotifen (5 µm) reduced the response to acetylcholine on rat isolated bladder without altering the maximum response and shifted t...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful tool that has enabled experimentalists to characterize molecular dynamics and kinetics spanning a wide range of time-scales from picoseconds to days. This review focuses on addressing the previously inaccessible supra-tc window (defined as τ(c) < supra-τ(c) < 40 μs; in which tc is the overall tumbling time of a molecule) from the persp...

This study investigated the clinical effects of using a supragingival biofilm control regimen (SUPRA) as a step prior to scaling and root planing (SRP). A split-mouth clinical trial was performed in which 25 subjects with periodontitis (47.2 ± 6.5 years) underwent treatment (days 0–60) and monitoring (days 90–450) phases. At Day 0 (baseline) treatments were randomly assigned per quadrant: SUPRA...