... liquid–solid interface In our case, the angle a equals to zero at the beginning stages of nucleation As growth begins, the angle a has to increase, which is accompanied by an increase in the contact ... nm on average and the height H is about nm Incidentally, such faceting is observed only in tapered nanowires and not in straight ones as seen in Figure 5d, indicating such faceting might have ... diameter, inset in figure c shows diffraction pattern (d) TEM image of straight and tapered nanowires indicating the growth directions seen here in the case of the tapered ZnO wire in Figure 5d, and...
... Electrical Engineering, University, S-58183 Linkoping, Sweden [reiner@isy.liu.se] Linkoping R E I N E R LENZ CHUN L I (395), Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100080, China Contributors ... in an expandable W-H system M An et al 16 A window of size 151 centered at 600 results in an expandable W-H system A window of size 201 results in point (20,10) being a zero singular value in ... signal ip[n] ^ in an interval of length A ^ and vanishes outside that ^^ interval, and that the window function w[n\ ^ Q in an interval of length A^^^ and vanishes outside that interval; then...
... point theorems for such contractions (see Theorems 2.1-2.8) The definitions and the results are new in uniform and locally convex spaces and even in metric spaces Examples (see Section 12) and ... 12.7 and 12.8 Authors’ contributions The authors have equitably contributed in obtaining the new results presented in this article All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests ... points of Banach and Kannan contractions These aspects have been successfully studied in various papers; see, for example, [5-21] and references therein It is interesting that Theorem 1.2 is independent...
... for the variational inequality problem over the intersection of fixed point sets of nonexpansive mappings,” in Inherently Parallel Algorithms in Feasibility and Optimization and Their Applications ... Hilbert spaces,” Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, vol 69, no 2, pp 456–462, 2008 14 F E Browder and W V Petryshyn, “Construction of fixed points of nonlinear mappings in Hilbert space, ” ... follows from the inequality 3.31 that μF q, q − x ≤ 3.32 μF x, x − q ≤ 3.33 Interchange q and x to obtain Adding up 3.32 and 3.33 yields μη Hence, q q−x ≤ q − x, μF q − μF x ≤ 3.34 x, and therefore...
... Mann, ¸ and Ishikawa iterations, and proved the following results Theorem 1.2 [1, Theorem 1] Let X be a normed space, D a nonempty, convex, closed subset of X, and T : D → D an operator satisfying ... D, and let {un }∞ be defined by (1.2) for u0 ∈ D with {an } in [0,1] and n= satisfying ∞ an = ∞ Then the following are equivalent: n= (i) the Picard iteration (1.1) converges to the fixed point ... (1.3) for x0 ∈ D with {an } and {bn } in n= [0,1] and satisfying ∞ an = ∞ Then the following are equivalent: n= (i) the Picard iteration (1.1) converges to the fixed point of T; (ii) the Ishikawa...
... Elements Cx and Sx are said to be cosine and sine elements The mappings C and S are said to be cosine and sine mappings (trigonometric mappings) We can see that trigonometric mappings and elements ... surjective mapping (onto its domain) Thus, R( X ) consists of all right invertible elements Indeed, it is enough to know one right inverse in order to determine all right inverses and all initial operators ... linear space over R and L( X ) be the family of all linear operators in X with the domains being linear spaces of X Then for any A ∈ L( X ), let D A denote the domain of A and let L0 = A ∈ L(...
... fixed points of contraction mapping in finite dimensional spaces to many other classes of mappings, for instance Lipschitzian mappings, pseudocontractive mappings in Hilbert spaces and Banach spaces ... variational inequality and fixed point problems”, Vietnam J Math., 41, pp 353-366, (2014) ”Hybrid Mann-Halpern iteration methods for finding fixed points involving asymptotically nonexpansive mappings and ... have the following theorem: Theorem 2.5 Let C1 and C2 be two nonempty, closed and convex subsets in a real Hilbert space H and let T1 and T2 be two nonexpansive mappings on C1 and C2 , respectively,...
... China Rural-to-urban migration and urbanization in India are far less extensive and slower than in China Literacy and educational attainment in India trail far behind the progress in China India’s ... countries, newly industrialized countries, and some developing countries in Latin America Populations are aging earlier in most such countries than in China China is already studying and learning from ... urban and rural China, how will China’s older population be supported in the future? 14 In the 1970s, China had a sharp decline in fertility in both rural and urban areas, and fertility decline...
... very-KIND-MAP2 interaction v-KIND KIND2 KIND2-1 KIND2-2 KIND2-3 KIND2-4 KIND2-5 A 620 521 555 488 589 EGFP EGFP-KIND2-1 EGFP-KIND2-2 EGFP-KIND2-3 EGFP-KIND2-4 EGFP-KIND2-5 EGFP-KIND2 EGFP-KIND1 ... the structural and functional determinants of the protein–protein interaction between v-KIND and MAP2 (i.e the MAP2-binding core module in v-KIND and the v-KIND-binding core module in MAP2) across ... deletion of RasGEF; KIND1, KIND1 domain; KIND2, KIND2 domain (B) KIND2 domain anchors v-KIND to dendrites Flag-tagged v-KIND, DKIND1, DKIND2, DKIND1 + 2, DRasN, DGEF, KIND1 or KIND2 together with...
... data are in line with previous observations indicating that physiological activators of the p38 and PtdIns 3-kinase pathways including thrombin, dexamethasone, angiotensin II and prostaglandins stimulate ... compound that induces actin polymerization by increasing actin nucleationand stabilizing actin filaments and swinholide A, a drug that sequesters G-actin as dimers [28] As shown in Fig 6A, cells ... barbed-end actin and determine the level and distribution of F-actin [34] Therefore, it is tempting to speculate that interactions between monomeric G-actin and actin-binding proteins are a potential...
... available financing capacity represents major constraints to growth opportunities in business financing, and accords with one of NEEDS (2004) strategy of stimulating real sector financing by mobilizing ... This is in agreement with Uchendu (1993)’s finding “that nominal savings interest rate is the main determinant of financial savings in Nigeria” However, real rate is still Bank Savings and Bank ... increase in volume of all monies in circulation in the economy Efficient financial intermediation will increase financial deepening Effective financial deepening (which is also a proxy for financial...
... government: lines 22a, 22b and 22c; interest rates: lines 60b,c,l,p and 61; CPI and PPI: lines 64 and 63; nominal GDP: lines 99b and 99b.c; real GDP: lines 99bvp and 99bvr; industrial production in industry ... shown in Table andin the Appendix, there is reasonably robust empirical support for nominal lending rates being negatively linked to private credit in the CEE-5, and also in emerging markets and ... emerging markets and transition economies and relying on a unifying framework including both factors capturing the demand for and the supply of private credit 21 We have emphasised that relying...
... Introduction i Access to Finance and Economic Growthin Egypt ii Access to Finance and Economic Growthin Egypt Introduction iii Middle East and North African Region Access to Finance and ... Savings Industry Potentials for Growth E Developing the Mortgage Finance Market F Increasing the Financial Leasing Industry’s Contributions to Access G Developing the Factoring Industry H Improving ... Limits—Life Insurers in Egypt Assets and Investments in Egypt Insurance Investment Allocation in Egypt Private Pension Investment Allocation in Egypt Investment Approach of the Contractual Savings Industry...
... Role in Industrial Land Markets The Low Access to Land in MENA Countries Sources of Inefficiencies in Land Markets Getting the Incentives Right in Enclaves Power and Rent Seeking in Public Land ... ertainty and disc retio n in implementing the rules c o nstrain investment Investors in MENA—especially managers of small and medium-sized firms—consistently point to policy uncertainty and an ... redibility and suppo rt by remo ving rents and fo stering c o mpetitio n, refo rming institutio ns, and pro mo ting mo re inc lusive po lic y making Make investo rs c o nfident that things are...
... policies in making possible the ‘delinking’ between economic growthand environmental deterioration There is no evidence that this ‘de-linking’ arises in an endogenous way from the growth process, ... and environment in each individual case In fact, there is growing interest in longitudinal analysis, as in the aforementioned study of CO2 emissions in several countries (Unruh and Moomaw, 1998), ... support the EKC generally find inversion points in the relationship between economy and environment that are a very long way from current income in the developing countries This indicates that much...
... small business finance the financial intertwining investors and intermediaries of owners and their businesses (Ang 1992) Outside often put considerable weight on the financial conditions and reputations ... regarding institutional small firm finance in financial system architecture are just beginning to attract research attention The private markets that finance small businesses different investing in ... those funds by investing in informationally Venture capitalists perform taking funds from one group of investors and opaque issuers In addition to screening, contracting, and monitoring, venture...
... explore the general feasibility of this principle and to gain some insight into the growth mechanism of this novel growth approach Experimental part Titanium and tungsten foils (0.1 mm, 99.6% purity, ... observations and as confirmed by a time sequence of experiments, the tube growthin every case starts randomly on certain points on the surface, and the amount of these tubular bundles increases ... cooling, medium concentrations of perchlorates (0.1–0.5 M) and applying rather higher voltages (>40 V for Ti and >50 V for W) in one or just a few steps and stabilizing the pH with buffers In contrast...
... Introduction i Access to Finance and Economic Growthin Egypt ii Access to Finance and Economic Growthin Egypt Introduction iii Middle East and North African Region Access to Finance and ... Savings Industry Potentials for Growth E Developing the Mortgage Finance Market F Increasing the Financial Leasing Industry’s Contributions to Access G Developing the Factoring Industry H Improving ... Limits—Life Insurers in Egypt Assets and Investments in Egypt Insurance Investment Allocation in Egypt Private Pension Investment Allocation in Egypt Investment Approach of the Contractual Savings Industry...