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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0122-7483</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Universitas Scientiarum]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Univ. Sci.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0122-7483</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Facultad de Ciencias de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá.]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0122-74832018000100009</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.11144/javeriana.sc23-1.bosa</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Between Open Sets and Semi-Open Sets]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Intermedio entre conjuntos abiertos y semiabiertos]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Intermédio entre conjuntos abertos e semiaberto]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ghour]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Samer Al]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Mansur]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Kafa]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Salcedo-Reyes]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Juan Carlos]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Jordan University of Science and Technology  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Irbid ]]></addr-line>
<country>Jordan</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>23</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>9</fpage>
<lpage>20</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0122-74832018000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0122-74832018000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0122-74832018000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract We introduce and investigate &#969; s-open sets as a new class of sets which lies strictly between open sets and semi-open sets. Then we use &#969; s-open sets to introduce &#969; s-continuous functions as a new class of functions between continuous functions and semi-continuous functions. We give several results and examples regarding our new concepts. In particular, we obtain some characterizations of &#969; s-continuous functions.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Introducimos e investigamos los conjuntos &#969; s -abiertos como una nueva clase de conjuntos que se ubica estrictamente entre los conjuntos abiertos y semi-abiertos. Usamos los conjuntos &#969; s -abiertos para introducir las funciones &#969; s -continuas como un nuevo tipo de funciones que se encuentran entre las funciones continuas y semicontinuas. Proporcionamos varios resultados y ejemplos relacionados con nuestros nuevos conceptos. En particular, obtenemos algunas caracterizaciones de las funciones &#969; s -continuas.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo Introduzimos e investigamos os conjuntos &#969; s-abertos como uma nova classe de conjuntos que se localiza estritamente entre os conjuntos abertos e semiabertos. Usamos os conjuntos &#969; s-abertos para introduzir as funções &#969; s-contínuas como um novo tipo de função que se encontram entre as funções contínuas e semicontinuas. Proporcionamos vários resultados e exemplos relacionados com nossos novos conceitos. Particularmente, obtemos algumas caracterizações das funções &#969; s-contínuas.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Semi-open set]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[&#969;-open set]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Semi-continuous function]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Conjunto semiabierto]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Conjunto &#969;-abierto]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Función semicontinua]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Conjunto semiaberto]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Conjunto &#969;-aberto]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Função semicontínua]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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