A number of authors have studied various aspects of fixed point theory in the setting of 2-metric and 2-Banach spaces. In this paper we prove a fixed point theorem for mappings in quasi-2-Banach space via an implicit relation. The results of this paper extend a host of previously...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9655
This paper examined the household energy consumption patterns in different apartments of various households. An assessment of the energy sources in Offa Kwara State, Federal Republic of Nigeria was undertaken with the intention to guage their consumption patterns. Analysis to see...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8077
Background: Complex relationships exist between socio-economic inequality, social stratification, drug addiction, and criminality in society. A great deal is now known regarding the neurobiology underlying behaviours such as drug addiction and criminality. Most sociological and p...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7109
Aims: To ascertain the effectiveness of edge detection and contour detection algorithms to identify hard exudates and hemorrhage region in fundus images of diabetic patients. Study Design: Canny’s algorithm was selected as the edge detection algorithm, and Snakes’ algorithm was s...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/7812
The present study is an analysis of the evolution of the ecological environment natural habitats on a number of years framed in three decades. It is interested in the coastal ecosystem (ecosystem, habitat nature, and Posidonia) in Oran (Algeria). The research activity has exactly...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9033
Rheology of polymer concentrated solutions represents a cross-disciplinary field, using wide spectra of theoretical tools from physics and chemistry. They effectively thicken the oil at all temperatures, but the increase of viscosity is more pronounced at high temperatures. The l...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9271
This paper describes an experimental study of the improvement of bi-directional AC (Alternating Current) electrothermal micropump velocity by a surface modification process and the addition of a temperature bias. The work focuses on exploiting external temperature bias to enhance...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8876
Ghana is one of the thriving democracies in sub-Saharan Africa. It has held relatively free, fair, and transparent elections and in 2000 and 2008, it passed Samuel Huntington’s (1991) ‘two turn-over test’ of democratic consolidation when peaceful alternation of power occurred. Ho...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9223
Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations (SODEs) are present in engineering, mathematics, and sciences. Identifying them for effective simulation (or prediction) and perhaps hardware implementation in aerospace control systems is imperative. This paper considers only linear Initial...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/9842
A food with low calorie density has high importance in managing health concerns attributed to food and nutrition. Replacing sucrose with natural intense sweeteners such as Stevia has been suggested as a way to produce foods with low caloric value. The present study has been condu...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2014/8623