A method for quantitative measurement of air volume changes in upper airway is presented in this paper. The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of a state-of-the-art Cone Beam Computerized Tomography (CBCT) technique for quantitative measurement of volume in upper airway. Our application is defining and tracking minute volume changes (a few milliliters) of upper airways caused by sur...

In this manuscript the controllability of Hilfer fractional neutral differential inclusions with non-instantaneous impulse in Banach space is investigated by using semi-group theory, calculus, upper semi-continuous (u.s.c), multi-functions and Mönch fixed point theorem. Sufficient conditions are derived Hausdorff measure non-compactness (MNC). Further, obtained result illustrated an example.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE The diagnosis of repetitive strain injury (RSI) is subjective and solely based on clinical signs and physical examination. The aim of this paper was to assess the usefulness of three-phase bone scintigraphy (TPBS) in diagnosing RSI. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective study at the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, School of Medical Sciences, Universidade ...

Our main goal is to compute or estimate the calmness modulus of the argmin mapping of linear semi-infinite optimization problems under canonical perturbations, i.e., perturbations of the objective function together with continuous perturbations of the right-hand side of the constraint system (with respect to an index ranging in a compact Hausdorff space). Specifically, we provide a lower bound ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine optimal extent of prophylactic irradiation of paraaortic lymph nodes (PALN) in patients with uterine cervical cancer who had metastatic pelvic LNs. METHODS AND MATERIALS We retrospectively evaluated 103 patients with cervical cancer and pelvic lymph node metastasis who were treated with prophylactic semi-extended field radiotherapy (SEFRT) be...

In this article, we establish sufficient conditions for the solution sets of parametric generalized quasi-variational relation problems with the stability properties such as the upper semicontinuity, lower semi-continuity, the Hausdorff lower semicontinuity, continuity, Hausdorff continuity, and closedness. Our results improve recent existing ones in the literature. Mathematics Subject Classifi...

In this paper we introduce a concept of the R0-condition for the extended homogeneous complementarity problem, and show that the upper semi-continuity of the solution map is equivalent to the R0-condition in the extended homogeneous complementarity problem. AMS subject classifications: 90C33

The BCQ and the Abadie CQ for infinite systems of convex inequalities in Banach spaces are characterized in terms of the upper semi-continuity of the convex cones generated by the subdifferentials of active convex functions. Some relationships with other constraint qualifications such as the CPLV and the Slate condition are also studied. Applications in best approximation theory are provided.

Any monotone Boolean circuit computing the n-dimensional Boolean convolution requires at least n2 and-gates. This matches the obvious upper bound. The previous best bound for this problem was Ω(n4/3), obtained by Norbert Blum in 1981. More generally, exact bounds are given for all semi-disjoint bilinear forms.