This paper presents Cache Digest, a novel protocol and optimization technique for cooperative Web caching. Cache Digest allows proxies to make information about their cache contents available to peers in a compact form. A peer uses digests to identify neighbors that are likely to have a given document. Cache Digest is a promising alternative to traditional per-request query/reply schemes such a...

The Finite Element Method is a powerful numerical technique for solving ordinary and partial differential equations in a range of complex science and engineering applications, such as multi-domain analysis and structural engineering. It involves decomposing the analysis domain into a discrete mesh before constructing and then solving a system of equations built over mesh elements. The number of...

‎This paper considers a non-local initial-boundary value problem containing a first order partial differential equation with variable coefficients‎. ‎At first‎, ‎the non-self-adjoint spectral problem is derived‎. ‎Then its adjoint problem is calculated‎. ‎After that‎, ‎for the adjoint problem the associated eigenvalues and the subsequent eigenfunctions are determined‎. ‎Finally the convergence ...

Consent in surgery. Wheeler R Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2006 May;88(3):261-4. A review of consent for surgery is timely. As the length of surgeons' training diminishes, despite the increasing interest in the content of the surgical curriculum, the law governing the process of gaining consent has been given scant attention. The advent of non-medically qualified surgical practitioners raises question...

Welcome to the third CELMR Research Digest! We have had an excellent reception to the first two editions and are pleased to bring you further highlights of some of the recent papers and projects authored by faculty and students associated with CELMR. As always, we intend that the summaries will be as nontechnical as possible to allow for the widest dissemination of the ideas and findings from C...