Many complex systems produce outcomes having recurring, power law-like distributions over wide ranges. However, the form necessarily breaks down at extremes, whereas the Weibull distribution has been demonstrated over the full observed range. Here the Weibull distribution is derived as the asymptotic distribution of generalized first-order kinetic processes, with convergence driven by autocorre...

The authors of the paper "Two-dimensional third- and fifth-order nonlinear evolution equations for shallow water waves with surface tension" \cite{Fok} claim that they derived equation which generalizes KdV to two space dimensions both in first second order small parameters. Moreover, obtain soliton solution (2+1)-dimension equation. has been obtained by applying perturbation method \cite{burde...

Reactivation of long-term memory can render the memory item temporarily labile, offering an opportunity to modify it via behavioral or pharmacological intervention. Declarative memory reactivation is accompanied by a metamemory ability to subjectively assess the knowledge available concerning the target item (Feeling of knowing, FOK). We set out to examine whether FOK can predict the extent of ...

Cognitive awareness in patients with schizophrenia is crucial for clinical management of cognitive deficits. Traditional approaches using self-report inventories have questionable validity and reliability. Using the Feeling-of-Knowing (FOK) procedure to measure metamemory might overcome such weakness. A cross-sectional study comparing 40 patients and 40 demographically matched normal controls, ...

Episodic memory feeling-of-knowing (FOK) was examined in 16 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 16 elderly participants, and 16 younger adults. Participants were given cued recall and recognition tests of 20 critical cue-target words. Subsequently, they judged their FOK for non-recalled words in terms of how likely they thought they would be to recognize the keywords on a subsequent recogni...

About the Authors, Paper: Douglas M. Bates is with the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin. Donald G. Watts is a member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University at Kingston. The work reported on was supported by the National Science Foundation in the United States and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. We consider syst...

This chief aim of this paper is to explore the concept of Funds of Knowledge (FOK) in relation to Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). This study unveils the basic tenets of FOK from the lens of activity theory and analyzes pertinent discoveries, key concepts, and scholars’ arguments relating to FOK and literacy development over time. The major purpose of this study is to expand the pers...