Each closed oriented 3-manifoldM is naturally associated with a set of integersD(M), the degrees of all self-maps on M . D(M) is determined for each torus bundle and torus semi-bundle M . The structure of torus semi-bundle is studied in detail. The paper is a part of a project to determine D(M) for all 3-manifolds in Thurston’s picture.

Background: Scoliosis is the most common type of spinal deformity. A universal and standard method for evaluating scoliosis is Cobb angle measurement, but several studies have shown that there is intra- and inter- observer variation in measuring cobb angle manually.Objective: Develop a computer- assisted system to decrease operator-dependent errors in Cobb angle measurement.Methods: The spinal ...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of dynamical distance on a nuclear conguration space. We partition the nuclear conguration space into disjoint classes. This classification coincides with the classical partitioning of molecular systems via the concept of conjugacy of dynamical systems. It gives a quantitative criterion to distinguish dierent molecular structures.

in this paper, we introduce and study the concept of $r$-fuzzy regular semi open (closed) sets in smooth topological spaces. by using $r$-fuzzy regular semi open (closed) sets, we define a new fuzzy closure operator namely $r$-fuzzy regular semi interior (closure) operator. also, we introduce fuzzy regular semi continuous and fuzzy regular semi irresolute mappings. moreover, we investigate the ...

Ever since the introduction of fuzzy sets by L. A. Zadeh [14], the fuzzy concept has invaded almost all branches of Mathematics. The concept of fuzzy topological space was introduced and developed by C.L. Chang [3] and since then many fuzzy topologists [1,6-13] have extended various notions in classical topology to fuzzy topological spaces. The concept of somewhat continuous functions was intro...

A subset A of a space X is called regular open if A = IntA, and regular closed if X\A is regular open, or equivalently, if A= IntA. A is called semiopen [16] (resp., preopen [17], semi-preopen [3], b-open [4]) ifA⊂ IntA (resp.,A⊂ IntA,A⊂ IntA ,A⊂ IntA∪ IntA). The concept of a preopen set was introduced in [6] where the term locally dense was used and the concept of a semi-preopen set was introd...

In conclusion, I may point out that Theorem II may be generalized by a weakening of the hypothesis (d) . (1) In the first place, continuity of [a, g] f with respect to the pair of variables a, /3 may be replaced by upper semi-continuity . This generalization requires no change in the proof . (2) This continuity (or upper semi-continuity) with respect to (a, /3) is used only to show that the set...

In some past works by the author and collaborators, the notion of ageing function of an exchangeable survival model was introduced and several properties of it were analyzed. Generally, the ageing function turns out to be a semi-copula. Here we focus attention on the special class of survival models whose ageing function is actually a copula. For pairs of models in this class we define a notion...

The solvability in Sobolev spaces is proved for divergence form second order elliptic equations in the whole space, a half space, and a bounded Lipschitz domain. For equations in the whole space or a half space, the leading coefficients a are assumed to be measurable in one direction and have small BMO semi-norms in the other directions. For equations in a bounded domain, additionally we assume...

In generalized semi-infinite programming the feasible set is known to be not closed in general. In this paper, under natural and generic assumptions, the closure of the feasible set is described in explicit terms.