A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the risk factors of job-related depression in laboratory technicians in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) and Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM) Hospitals in Kelantan, between September 2001 and February 2002. One hundred and two laboratory technicians from HUSM and 79 from KKM Hospitals were selected and 84 (82.4%) from HUSM and 71 (...

In this paper, a general version of the KKM theorem is derived by using the concept of generalized KKM mappings introduced by Chang and Zhang. By employing our general KKM theorem, we obtain a general minimax inequality which contains several existing ones as special cases. As applications of our general minimax inequality, we derive an existence result for saddle-point problems under general s...

In the present paper, we extend known KKM theorems and matching theorems for generalized KKM maps to G-convex spaces. From these results, we deduce generalized versions of main results of Kassay and Kolumbán [KK] and some others.

The partial KKM principle for an abstract convex space is an abstract form of the classical KKM theorem. In this paper, we derive generalized forms of the Ky Fan minimax inequality, the von Neumann-Sion minimax theorem, the von Neumann-Fan intersection theorem, the Fan-type analytic alternative, and the Nash equilibrium theorem for abstract convex spaces satisfying the partial KKM principle. Th...

Karasek's job strain model postulates that workers chronically exposed to adverse psychosocial work environment (high strain job)--high psychological job demands and low job control, including poor social support, increased physical demand and hazardous work condition--will eventually develop both physical illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases and psychological disorders such as depression....

In this paper, we present some fixed point theorems for generalized condensing multimaps on KKM uniform spaces. We also obtain some new fixed point results for generalized condensing multimaps in KC class (or KKM class) in the setting of abstract convex uniform spaces. Mathematics Subject Classification: 47H10, 47H04, 46A16, 52A07, 54C60, 54H25, 55M20

*Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected] The National Academy of Sciences, ROK, Seoul, 137-044, Korea Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-747, Korea Abstract Recently we established the Knaster, Kuratowski, and Mazurkiewicz (KKM) theory on abstract convex spaces. In our research, we noticed that there are quite a few generalizations and a...

For convex subsets X of a topological vector space E, we show that a KKM principle implies a Fan-Browder type fixed point theorem and that this theorem implies generalized forms of the Sion minimax theorem. The von Neumann-Sion minimax theorem is fundamental in convex analysis and in game theory. von Neumann [8] proved his theorem for simplexes by reducing the problem to the 1-dimensional cases...

In this paper, after reviewing some results in minimal space, some new results in this setting are given. We prove a generalized form of the Fan-KKM typetheorem in minimal vector spaces. As some applications, the open type of matching theorem and generalized form of the classical KKM theorem in minimal vector spaces are given.