In this Letter, a (2 + 1)-dimensional soliton equation is studied by He’s variational approach. The solitary solutions are obtained using the Ritz method.

Large isoparametric macroelements with closed-form cardinal global shape functions under the label ‘Coons-patch macroelements’ (CPM) have been previously proposed and used in conjunction with the finite element method and the boundary element method. This paper continues the research on the performance of CPM in conjunction with the collocation method. In contrast to the previous CPM that was b...

Accurate systems for extracting ProteinProtein Interactions (PPIs) automatically from biomedical articles can help accelerate biomedical research. Biomedical Informatics researchers are collaborating to provide metaservices and advance the state-of-art in PPI extraction. One problem often neglected by current Natural Language Processing systems is the characteristic complexity of the sentences ...

Advance care planning is a process to help people to formulate and communicate their preferences regarding future care during critical illness. Reviews of the advance care planning process in its current form have been disappointing. Improvements in care at the end of life and palliative care are necessary for the provision of modern medical care. Medical research has led to many improvements a...

Many written forms required by businesses and governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial self-interests-at great costs to society. We test an easy-to-implement method to discourage dishonesty: signing at the beginning rath...

Existing malware propagation models mainly concentrate on malware epidemic consequences modeling, i.e. forecasting the number of infected computers, and are based only on current malware propagation strategies. In this article we propose a genetic algorithm based model, which aims at evaluating existing as well as modeling other potentially dangerous Internet worms’ propagation strategies. The ...

The purpose of this paper is to advance the knowledge on peat soil stabilization by critically examining and documenting the current state of practice. Deep mixing method is emphasized on column type techniques using lime/cement. This paper is essentially a comprehensive review of available academic literature on deep soil stabilization utilizing this approach. Deep mixing with lime or lime-cem...

Current wireless personal area network (WPAN) standards provide no method for two previously unacquainted parties to authenticate to one another in a trusted manner upon first encounter. The paper details the research leading up to the development of Friendly Authentication and Communication Experience (FACE). The FACE methodology will be developed to be independent of wirelessly enabled mobile...

We present a simple method that allows statistical inferences to be made about the significance of regional effects in statistical parametric maps (SPMs) when the approximate location of the effect is specified in advance. The test can be thought of as analogous to assessing activations with uncorrected P values based on the height of SPMs but, in this instance, using the spatial extent or volu...