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    "Software Development Department, Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey",
    "Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Southern Punjab, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan",
    "IT4Innovations, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic"
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  "published": "2026-09-28",
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  "title": "A unified fixed point approach for enriched bivariate mappings with applications to volterra systems and fractional-order chaos",
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