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  • Article
    Complex Partial Differential Equations
    (Springer, 2025) Aksoy, Ü.; Begehr, H.; Çelebi, A.; Shupeyeva, B.
    The Schwarz and iterated Dirichlet boundary-value problems are reported on for the polyanalytic operator in certain plane domains having a harmonic Green function. Hybrid polyharmonic Green functions are reviewed upon which open a variety of boundary-value problems for the polyharmonic operator. This topic is far from being complete. The higher the order of the polyharmonic operator the richer is the theory of related hybrid Green functions: they are constructed by continued convoluting harmonic Green, Neumann, Robin functions also incorporating polyharmonic Green–Almansi functions. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
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    Common Fixed Point Results for Meir-Keeler-Type Contraction Mappings
    (Springer, 2025) Karapńar, Erdal; Cvetković, Marija, S.; Yeşilkaya, Seher Sultan
    Meir–Keeler contraction presents an interesting and widely studied topic in the area of Metric Fixed Point Theory. We intend to present several results concerning common fixed problem and the impact of Meir-Keeler-type contractions on this type of results. We will present results on common fixed problem for a Meir–Keeler contraction mapping in various settings—metric space, b-metric space, partial metric space, Branciari metric space, etc. It is our intention to present a comprehensive study on this topic that will present a good starting point for the researchers in the Fixed Point Theory. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
  • Editorial
    Preface
    (Springer, 2020) Peng, Zhiwei; Hwang, Jiannyang; Downey, Jerome, P.; Gregurek, Dean; Zhao, Baojun; Yücel, Onuralp; Mahmoud, Morsi, M.
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    A Niche-Based Perspective to Stem and Cancer Stem Cells of the Lung
    (Springer, 2025) Boyacıoğlu, Özge; Kalali, Berfin Deniz; Tongün, Ege; Korkusuz, Petek
    Lungs carry the principle function for the conduction and exchange of air through the primary, secondary, tertiary bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli, resulting in the exchange of oxygen to carbon dioxide within the human tissues. Lung stem and progenitor cells enable differentiation of parenchymal and stromal elements and provide homeostasis and regeneration in the microenvironment against pulmonary diseases. Tumor-initiating cancer cells (TICs) refer to a subpopulation named as cancer stem cells (CSCs) of lung cancer exhibiting high self-renewal and proliferation capacity by Notch, Hippo, Hedgehog, and Wnt signaling pathways that leads to tumor development or recurrence. Lung cancer stem cells (LCSCs) are characterized by distinct genotypic or phenotypic alterations compared to healthy lung stem cells (LSCs) that provide a potential target to treat lung cancer. Therefore, understanding the cascades responsible for the transformation of healthy to CSCs is essential to develop new targeted therapy approaches. In this chapter, we precisely highlight the latest researches on LSCs and CSCs, key signaling mechanisms within the perspective of novel targeted therapy strategies. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Ensuring Circularity Through Outsourcing Decisions in Solar Photovoltaic Supply Chains
    (Springer, 2025) Erol, Ismail; Peker, Iskender; Benli, Tolga; Ar, Ilker Murat
    Because solar photovoltaic (SPv) panels have seen such significant cost reductions in recent years, it has proven to be by far the most dynamic forms of renewable power generation. However, the transition from linear to circular is also crucial for building sustainability in SPv supply chains. The circular economy (CE) is appealing in part because of its ability to bring economic and environmental development objectives together to ensure sustainable production and consumption. To aid in the shift to a more circular economy, several circular-based strategies for various functions such as procurement can be developed. In this study, critical success factors (CSFs) to ensure circular outsourcing structure in SPv supply chains are identified and scrutinized. To achieve this, a multi-criteria-based methodology is proposed. The findings of this study argue that understanding the actual implications of not converting to circular outsourcing (C12) is the most significant cause CSF. This study also provides several implications. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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    Software Product System Model: a Customer-Value Oriented, Adaptable, Devops-Based Product Model
    (Springer, 2022) Altunel, H.; Say, B.
    DevOps pipelines have brought notable advantages, such as fast and frequent software delivery to software production paradigms, but dynamically dealing with quality attributes desired by the customer employing a DevOps pipeline remains a challenge. This work aims to define the design of a systems thinking inspired model, called Software Product System Model (SPSM), applying a customer-value oriented, holistic approach for implementing quality requirements, and its application and evaluation in a large software house. The main features include dynamic control of quality gates, the parameters of which are driven by customer requirements and feedback from surveys. All of the inputs are collected in a product backlog and fed forward to the quality gates over the DevOps pipeline. SPSM was successfully deployed in a large software house extending a DevOps pipeline with an accompanying improvement of customer-value oriented key performance indicators for projects. In a 2-year-long case study, security and code quality were the main quality attributes, with the metrics on security vulnerabilities and unit test coverage. At the end of the 2020, the DevOps pipeline within SPSM provided a 69.50% decrease of security vulnerabilities of all software products, and a 29.43% increase in unit test coverage for the whole code base for increasing code quality. At the end of 2020, the project completion ratio was measured to be 99.50% and the Schedule Performance Index (SPI) was measured to be 99.78% as the average of 762 projects delivered. The flexibility of SPSM allowed the software house to adapt to changing customer expectations. A checklist is provided for the replicability of the model application. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2021.