background: there is much debate about effects of medicinal plants such as saffron (crocus sativus) on human health. women are highly involved in farming and processing of this plant. this study is aimed at evaluating the saffron impacts on miscarriage rate of female farmers working in saffron fields. methods: this was a prospective case-control study on pregnant female farmers during harvestin...

‎‎Many authors such as Amini-Harandi‎, ‎Rezapour ‎et al., ‎Kadelburg ‎et al.‎‎, ‎have tried to find at least one fixed point for quasi-contractions when $alphain[frac{1}{2}‎, ‎1)$ but no clear answer exists right now and many of them either have failed or changed to a lighter version‎. In this paper‎, ‎we introduce some new strict fixed point results in the set of multi-valued '{C}iri'{c}-gener...

This paper analyzes the complexity of the contraction fixed point problem: compute an ε-approximation to the fixed point V ∗ = Γ(V ∗) of a contraction mapping Γ that maps a Banach space Bd of continuous functions of d variables into itself. We focus on quasi linear contractions where Γ is a nonlinear functional of a finite number of conditional expectation operators. This class includes contrac...

Berinde [V. Berinde, Approximating fixed points of weak contractions using the Picard iteration, Nonlinear Anal. Forum {bf 9} (2004), 43-53] introduced almost contraction mappings and proved Banach contraction principle for such mappings. The aim of this paper is to introduce the notion of multivalued almost $Theta$- contraction mappings andto prove some best proximity point results for t...

The structural, dynamical, and thermodynamic properties of different carbon allotropes are computed using a combination of ab-initio methods: density-functional theory for total-energy calculations and density-functional perturbation theory for lattice dynamics. For diamond, graphite, graphene, and armchair or zigzag singlewalled nanotubes we first calculate the ground-state properties: lattice...

A (complex) Enriques surface is a projective smooth connected algebraic surface Y over C with H(Y,OY ) = H (Y,OY ) = (0), (Ω 2 Y ) ⊗ 2 ≃ OY but Ω 2 Y 6≃ OY ([CF]). In this note we give a short proof of the fact that the coarse moduli space of complex Enriques surfaces is quasi-affine. This was first shown by Borcherds [B] using the denominator function of a generalized Kac-Moody superalgebra (t...

For a quasidifferentiable function f defined on R 2 , it is proved, in the sense of Demyanov and Rubinov, that the following assertion [∂f (x),∂f (x)]∈Df (x) (∂f (x) + ∂f (x)), [∂f (x),∂f (x)]∈Df (x) (∂f (x) − ∂f (x)) ∈ Df (x) in this paper, where Df (x) denotes the set of all quasidifferentials of f at x. It is shown that this way can be viewed as an approach to determining or choosing a repre...

modern world revolutions have created some instruments known as ‎quasi-negotiable instruments which are different from negotiable ones, ‎despite having some similarities to them. commercial custom recognizes ‎them as quasi-negotiable instruments. the principle is that we don’t ‎need new legal regime for this new category because they are right in ‎personam when they are created and rights in re...

Surface X-ray diffraction has been used to analyze in situ the room-temperature adsorption behaviour and the structure of K and Cs on Cu(OO1) at submonolayer coverages. Adsorption of K takes place in fourfold hollow sites up to coverages of about 0.25 monolayers (ML), where 1 ML corresponds to 1.53 X lOI atoms/cm2. At higher coverages the formation of a quasi-hexagonal incommensurate adlayer is...