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10 Citations
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28 September 2018

In this paper, we prove some fixed point theorems in a b-metric-like space setting using a new class of admissible mappings and types of α − k and ( ψ , ϕ )-contractive conditions. Our results are supported by the applic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,719 Views
8 Pages

Picard-Jungck Operator for a Pair of Mappings and Simulation Type Functions

  • Sumit Chandok,
  • Aiman Mukheimer,
  • Azhar Hussain and
  • Ljiljana Paunović

In this manuscript, we propose a new class of Picard-Jungck operators for a pair of mappings on complete metric spaces by taking into account of the C G -simulation function. Also, some new results for the existence of such operators for a pai...

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  • Open Access
286 Views
26 Pages

13 December 2025

We introduce and study a new class of noncyclic Chatterjea-type C-nonexpansive mappings in geodesic spaces. We establish a notable existence theorem for best proximity pairs by employing the pivotal geometric property of proximal normal structure wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,712 Views
18 Pages

C*-Algebra Valued Fuzzy Soft Metric Spaces and Results for Hybrid Pair of Mappings

  • Daripally Ram Prasad,
  • Gajula Naveen Venkata Kishore,
  • Hüseyin Işık,
  • Bagathi Srinuvasa Rao and
  • Gorantla Adi Lakshmi

16 August 2019

In this paper, we establish some results on coincidence point and common fixed point theorems for a hybrid pair of single valued and multivalued mappings in complete C * -algebra valued fuzzy soft metric spaces. In addition, we provided some c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,825 Views
9 Pages

23 September 2019

Recently, George et al. (in Georgea, R.; Radenovicb, S.; Reshmac, K.P.; Shuklad, S. Rectangular b-metric space and contraction principles. J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. 2015, 8, 1005–1013) furnished the notion of rectangular b-metric pace (RBMS) by t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,629 Views
12 Pages

15 February 2019

This paper is devoted to studying the existence of best proximity points and convergence for a class of generalized contraction pairs by using the concept of proximally-complete pairs and proximally-complete semi-sharp proximinal pairs. The obtained...

  • Article
  • Open Access
868 Views
19 Pages

23 May 2025

Let nonempty subsets E and F of a Banach space X be given, along with a mapping S:E∪F→E∪F defined as noncyclic when S(E)⊆E and S(F)⊆F. In this case, an optimal pair of fixed points is defined as a point (p,q)∈E×F whe...

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  • Open Access
1,508 Views
13 Pages

26 February 2023

In this paper, a new class of generalized distance functions with respect to a pair of mappings is introduced. Next, some inequalities involving such distance functions are established. Our obtained results generalize and cover some recent results fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,150 Views
20 Pages

Fixed Point Results for Compatible Mappings in Extended Parametric Sb-Metric Spaces

  • Sunil Beniwal,
  • Naveen Mani,
  • Rahul Shukla and
  • Amit Sharma

8 May 2024

This study aims to establish common fixed point theorems for a pair of compatible self-mappings within the framework of extended parametric Sb-metric spaces. To support our assertions, we provide corollaries and examples accompanied with graphic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
4,665 Views
21 Pages

16 March 2020

In this paper, we initiate the notion of Ćirić type rational graphic Υ , Λ -contraction pair mappings and provide some new related common fixed point results on partial b-metric spaces endowed with a directed graph G. We also gi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
977 Views
27 Pages

Common φ-Fixed Point Results for S-Operator Pair in Symmetric M-Metric Spaces

  • Sadia Farooq,
  • Naeem Saleem,
  • Maggie Aphane and
  • Ali Althobaiti

7 February 2025

In this article, we define a new class of noncommuting self mappings known as the S-operator pair. Also, we provide the existence and uniqueness of common fixed point results involving the S-operator pair satisfying the (F,φ,ψ,Z)-contractive...

  • Discussion
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,458 Views
23 Pages

The Role of Geographical Landscape Studies for Sustainable Territorial Planning

  • Iván Franch-Pardo,
  • Brian M. Napoletano,
  • Gerardo Bocco,
  • Sara Barrasa and
  • Luis Cancer-Pomar

17 November 2017

One of the primary objectives of physical geography is to determine how natural phenomena produce specific territorial patterns. Therefore, physical geography offers substantial scientific input into territorial planning for sustainability. A key are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,325 Views
24 Pages

Intermediate Inheritance with Disomic Tendency in Tetraploid Intergeneric Citrus × Poncirus Hybrids Enhances the Efficiency of Citrus Rootstock Breeding

  • Leny Calvez,
  • Alexis Dereeper,
  • Pierre Mournet,
  • Yann Froelicher,
  • Saturnin Bruyère,
  • Raphaël Morillon and
  • Patrick Ollitrault

13 December 2020

Rootstocks are crucial for the sustainability of the citrus industry worldwide. Diploid intergeneric Citrus × Poncirus hybrids have contributed considerably to citrus rootstock improvement and their tetraploid (doubled-diploid) forms are import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,244 Views
8 Pages

7 September 2020

In this paper, we study a problem of global optimization using common best proximity point of a pair of multivalued mappings. First, we introduce a multivalued Banach-type contractive pair of mappings and establish criteria for the existence of their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,557 Views
11 Pages

15 May 2023

Well-separated pair decomposition (WSPD) is a well known geometric decomposition used for encoding distances, introduced in a seminal paper by Paul B. Callahan and S. Rao Kosaraju in 1995. WSPD compresses O(n2) pairwise distances of n given points fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,064 Views
35 Pages

Indoor and Outdoor Backpack Mapping with Calibrated Pair of Velodyne LiDARs

  • Martin Velas,
  • Michal Spanel,
  • Tomas Sleziak,
  • Jiri Habrovec and
  • Adam Herout

12 September 2019

This paper presents a human-carried mapping backpack based on a pair of Velodyne LiDAR scanners. Our system is a universal solution for both large scale outdoor and smaller indoor environments. It benefits from a combination of two LiDAR scanners, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,617 Views
17 Pages

Prediction of the Trimer Protein Interface Residue Pair by CNN-GRU Model Based on Multi-Feature Map

  • Yanfen Lyu,
  • Ting Xiong,
  • Shuaibo Shi,
  • Dong Wang,
  • Xueqing Yang,
  • Qihuan Liu,
  • Zhengtan Li,
  • Zhixin Li,
  • Chunxia Wang and
  • Ruiai Chen

24 January 2025

Most life activities of organisms are realized through protein–protein interactions, and these interactions are mainly achieved through residue–residue contact between monomer proteins. Consequently, studying residue–residue contact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,992 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2022

Reversible data hiding is a technique for embedding secret data into a cover media. Such technique has the ability to recover marked cover media to its original version after extracting the secret data. In this paper, a new reversible data hiding alg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
774 Views
10 Pages

15 June 2025

Free energy landscapes are pivotal for understanding molecular interactions in solution, yet their reconstruction in complex systems remains computationally demanding. In this study, we integrated Gaussian process regression (GPR) with well-tempered...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,183 Views
11 Pages

15 September 2020

Congenic strains have been utilized in numerous model organisms to determine the genetic underpinning of various phenotypic traits. Congenic strains are usually derived after 10 backcrosses to a recipient parent, at which point they are 99.95% geneti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,177 Views
8 Pages

4 January 2019

The purpose of this article is to resolve a global optimization problem for quasi-noncyclic relatively nonexpansive mappings by giving an algorithm that determines an optimal approximate solution of the following minimization problem, min x &is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,678 Views
28 Pages

4 April 2023

Landslides are one of the most destructive and common geological disasters in the Tonglvshan mining area, which seriously threatens the safety of surrounding residents and the Tonglvshan ancient copper mine site. Therefore, to effectively reduce the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,900 Views
15 Pages

An Optimal Image–Selection Algorithm for Large-Scale Stereoscopic Mapping of UAV Images

  • Pyung-chae Lim,
  • Sooahm Rhee,
  • Junghoon Seo,
  • Jae-In Kim,
  • Junhwa Chi,
  • Suk-bae Lee and
  • Taejung Kim

28 May 2021

Recently, the mapping industry has been focusing on the possibility of large-scale mapping from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) owing to advantages such as easy operation and cost reduction. In order to produce large-scale maps from UAV images, it is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,035 Views
19 Pages

(C , Ψ * , G ) Class of Contractions and Fixed Points in a Metric Space Endowed with a Graph

  • Reny George,
  • Ekta Tamrakar,
  • Jelena Vujaković,
  • Hemant Kumar Pathak and
  • Selvavinayagam Velusamy

In this paper, we introduce the ( C , Ψ * , G ) class of contraction mappings using C-class functions and some improved control functions for a pair of set valued mappings as well as a pair of single-valued mappings, and prove common fixed...

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  • Open Access
1,009 Views
24 Pages

14 November 2025

Targeting mutation-derived neoantigens is a promising strategy for personalized immunotherapies. However, identifying true neoantigens and cognate T cell receptors (TCRs) remains challenging because computational prediction of neoantigen peptides is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,488 Views
14 Pages

Existence of Coupled Best Proximity Points of p-Cyclic Contractions

  • Miroslav Hristov,
  • Atanas Ilchev,
  • Diana Nedelcheva and
  • Boyan Zlatanov

22 March 2021

We generalize the notion of coupled fixed (or best proximity) points for cyclic ordered pairs of maps to p-cyclic ordered pairs of maps. We find sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the coupled fixed (or best proximity) points. W...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,448 Views
10 Pages

Linear Jointly Disjointness-Preserving Maps Between Rectangular Matrix Spaces

  • Ru-Jheng Li,
  • Yu-Ju Lin,
  • Ming-Cheng Tsai and
  • Ya-Shu Wang

18 January 2025

This paper studies pairs of linear maps that preserve the disjointness of matrices in rectangular matrix spaces. We present a complete characterization of all pairs of bijective linear maps that jointly preserve disjointness. Additionally, we apply t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,365 Views
19 Pages

Some Generalized Contraction Classes and Common Fixed Points in b-Metric Space Endowed with a Graph

  • Reny George,
  • Hossam A. Nabwey,
  • Rajagopalan Ramaswamy and
  • Stojan Radenović

18 August 2019

We have introduced the new notions of R-weakly graph preserving and R-weakly α -admissible pair of multivalued mappings which includes the class of graph preserving mappings, weak graph preserving mappings as well as α -admissible mappings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,941 Views
12 Pages

Three Representation Types for Systems of Forms and Linear Maps

  • Abdullah Alazemi,
  • Milica Anđelić,
  • Carlos M. da Fonseca,
  • Vyacheslav Futorny and
  • Vladimir V. Sergeichuk

24 February 2021

We consider systems of bilinear forms and linear maps as representations of a graph with undirected and directed edges. Its vertices represent vector spaces; its undirected and directed edges represent bilinear forms and linear maps, respectively. We...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,224 Views
10 Pages

26 December 2024

I identify a point-symmetrical morphology in the core-collapse supernova remnant (CCSNR) W44 compatible with shaping by three or more pairs of jets in the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM). Motivated by recent identifications of point-symmetr...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,546 Views
15 Pages

9 May 2021

As one of the key requirements for underwater exploration, underwater depth map estimation is of great importance in underwater vision research. Although significant progress has been achieved in the fields of image-to-image translation and depth map...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,677 Views
13 Pages

New Results for Weakly Compatible (WC) and R-Weakly Commuting (RWC) Mappings with an Applicationin Dynamic Programming

  • Penumarthy Parvateesam Murthy,
  • Sanjay Kumar,
  • Rajesh Kumar,
  • Pusplata Sahu,
  • Zoran D. Mitrović and
  • Reny George

The aim of this paper is to obtain some new results about common fixed points. Our results use weaker conditions than those previously used. We have relaxed the conditions for commutating pair mappings and compatible mappings of the type (A), which w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,015 Views
16 Pages

15 April 2015

This paper investigates the positioning accuracy of image pairs achieved by integrating images from multiple satellites. High-resolution satellite images from IKONOS, QuickBird, and KOMPSAT-2 for Daejeon, Korea were combined to produce pairs of stere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,543 Views
13 Pages

Recognizing Indonesian Acronym and Expansion Pairs with Supervised Learning and MapReduce

  • Taufik Fuadi Abidin,
  • Amir Mahazir,
  • Muhammad Subianto,
  • Khairul Munadi and
  • Ridha Ferdhiana

15 April 2020

During the previous decades, intelligent identification of acronym and expansion pairs from a large corpus has garnered considerable research attention, particularly in the fields of text mining, entity extraction, and information retrieval. Herein,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,283 Views
20 Pages

The main objective of this paper is to deal with some properties of interest in two types of fuzzy ordered proximal contractions of cyclic self-mappings T integrated in a pair ( g , T ) of mappings. In particular, g is a n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,508 Views
8 Pages

Reference Mapping Considering Swaps of Adjacent Bases

  • Youngho Kim,
  • Munseong Kang,
  • Ju-Hui Jeong,
  • Dae Woong Kang,
  • Soo Jun Park and
  • Jeong Seop Sim

29 May 2021

Since the time of the HGP, research into next-generation sequencing, which can reduce the cost and time of sequence analysis using computer algorithms, has been actively conducted. Mapping is a next-generation sequencing method that identifies sequen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,064 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2022

In the current paper, we first introduce a new class of contractions via a new notion called p-cyclic contraction mapping by combining the ideas of cyclic contraction mapping and p-contraction mapping. Then, we give a new definition of a cyclically 0...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,243 Views
19 Pages

Map Merging with Suppositional Box for Multi-Robot Indoor Mapping

  • Baifan Chen,
  • Siyu Li,
  • Haowu Zhao and
  • Limei Liu

For the map building of unknown indoor environment, compared with single robot, multi-robot collaborative mapping has higher efficiency. Map merging is one of the fundamental problems in multi-robot collaborative mapping. However, in the process of g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,227 Views
17 Pages

High-Light versus Low-Light: Effects on Paired Photosystem II Supercomplex Structural Rearrangement in Pea Plants

  • Alessandro Grinzato,
  • Pascal Albanese,
  • Roberto Marotta,
  • Paolo Swuec,
  • Guido Saracco,
  • Martino Bolognesi,
  • Giuseppe Zanotti and
  • Cristina Pagliano

16 November 2020

In plant grana thylakoid membranes Photosystem II (PSII) associates with a variable number of antenna proteins (LHCII) to form different types of supercomplexes (PSII-LHCII), whose organization is dynamically adjusted in response to light cues, with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,805 Views
16 Pages

Multivalued Fixed Point Results in Dislocated b-Metric Spaces with Application to the System of Nonlinear Integral Equations

  • Tahair Rasham,
  • Abdullah Shoaib,
  • Nawab Hussain,
  • Badriah A. S. Alamri and
  • Muhammad Arshad

2 January 2019

The purpose of this paper is to find out fixed point results for a pair of semi α * -dominated multivalued mappings fulfilling a generalized locally F-dominated multivalued contractive condition on a closed ball in complete dislocated b-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,529 Views
27 Pages

12 September 2023

In a uniformly smooth and p-uniformly convex Banach space, let the pair of variational inequality and fixed-point problems (VIFPPs) consist of two variational inequality problems (VIPs) involving two uniformly continuous and pseudomonotone mappings a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,776 Views
15 Pages

Applications of Coupled Fixed Points for Multivalued Maps in the Equilibrium in Duopoly Markets and in Aquatic Ecosystems

  • Gana Gecheva,
  • Miroslav Hristov,
  • Diana Nedelcheva,
  • Margarita Ruseva and
  • Boyan Zlatanov

26 March 2021

We have obtained a new class of ordered pairs of multivalued maps that have pairs of coupled fixed points. We illustrate the main result with two examples that cover a wide range of models. We apply the main result in models in duopoly markets to get...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,618 Views
18 Pages

Integration of Spatial and Co-Existence Relationships to Improve Administrative Region Target Detection in Map Images

  • Kaixuan Du,
  • Fu Ren,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Xianghong Che,
  • Jiping Liu,
  • Jiaxin Hou and
  • Zewei You

Administrative regions are fundamental geographic elements on maps, thus making their detection in map images crucial to enhancing intelligent map interpretation. However, existing methods in this field primarily depend on the texture features within...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,875 Views
20 Pages

30 October 2020

The paper presents a novel depth-estimation method for light-field (LF) images based on innovative multi-stereo matching and machine-learning techniques. In the first stage, a novel block-based stereo matching algorithm is employed to compute the ini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,698 Views
21 Pages

20 August 2018

This study proposes a workflow that enables the accurate identification of earthquake-induced damage zones by using coherence image pairs of the Sentinel-1 satellite before and after an earthquake event. The workflow uses interferometric synthetic ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,724 Views
12 Pages

Common Fixed Point Results for Generalized Wardowski Type Contractive Multi-Valued Mappings

  • Hüseyin Işık,
  • Vahid Parvaneh,
  • Babak Mohammadi and
  • Ishak Altun

18 November 2019

In this paper, we introduce generalized Wardowski type quasi-contractions called α - ( φ , Ω ) -contractions for a pair of multi-valued mappings and prove the existence of the common fixed point for such mappings. An illust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,075 Views
16 Pages

20 April 2022

We introduce a new pair of mappings (S,T) on D*-metric spaces called DS*-W.C. and DRS*-W.C. Many examples are presented to show the difference between these mappings and other types of mappings in the literature. Moreover, we obtain several common fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,425 Views
15 Pages

On Chaos in the Fractional-Order Discrete-Time Unified System and Its Control Synchronization

  • Amina-Aicha Khennaoui,
  • Adel Ouannas,
  • Samir Bendoukha,
  • Xiong Wang and
  • Viet-Thanh Pham

15 July 2018

In this paper, we propose a fractional map based on the integer-order unified map. The chaotic behavior of the proposed map is analyzed by means of bifurcations plots, and experimental bounds are placed on the parameters and fractional order. Differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,439 Views
15 Pages

Velvet Family Members Regulate Pigment Synthesis of the Fruiting Bodies of Auricularia cornea

  • Xiaoxu Ma,
  • Lixin Lu,
  • Youmin Zhang,
  • Ming Fang,
  • Kaisheng Shao,
  • Xu Sun,
  • Fangjie Yao and
  • Peng Wang

27 March 2023

Color is a crucial feature to consider when breeding and improving strains of Auricularia cornea. To uncover the mechanism of white strain formation in A. cornea, this study selected parental strains that were homozygous for the color trait and analy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,912 Views
14 Pages

BAC-FISH Based Physical Map of Endangered Catfish Clarias magur for Chromosome Cataloguing and Gene Isolation through Positional Cloning

  • Vishwamitra Singh Baisvar,
  • Basdeo Kushwaha,
  • Ravindra Kumar,
  • Murali Sanjeev Kumar,
  • Mahender Singh,
  • Anil Rai and
  • Uttam Kumar Sarkar

15 December 2022

Construction of a physical chromosome map of a species is important for positional cloning, targeted marker development, fine mapping of genes, selection of candidate genes for molecular breeding, as well as understanding the genome organization. The...

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