It is suspected that diet influences the risk of getting breast cancer. A study of diet and breast
cancer was done among 200 Singapore Chinese women with histologically confirmed …

In view of the increasing popularity of the application of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)
methods in engineering fields and the loose description of connections among the POD …

Recently, support vector machine (SVM) has become a popular tool in time series forecasting.
In developing a successful SVM forecastor, the first step is feature extraction. This paper …

Background: Colorectal cancer is a major public health problem in both North America and
western Europe, and incidence and mortality rates are rapidly increasing in many previously …

The extremely small size of the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) makes them
widely suitable for some special applications. The simplicity of the piezoelectric micro-generators …

Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibition is an effective treatment approach for patients with
Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM). The phase 3 ASPEN study compared the efficacy and …

A novel particle swarm optimization (PSO)-based algorithm for the traveling salesman
problem (TSP) is presented. An uncertain searching strategy and a crossover eliminated …

In this paper, a nonlocal Bernoulli-Euler beam model is established based on the theory of
nonlocal elasticity. Frequency equations and modal shape functions of beam structures with …

Ring-disk electrode studies of anodic polarization of Cu in acidic chloride solutions indicate
four distinct potential regions: the apparent Tafel region, the peak current and current …

In the paper, a general thin plate theory including surface effects, which can be used for size-dependent
static and dynamic analysis of plate-like thin film structures, is proposed. This …