When the going gets tough the beautiful get going: aesthetic appeal facilitates task performance.

The current studies examined the effect of aesthetic appeal on performance. According to one hypothesis, appeal would lead to overall decrements or enhancements in performance [e.g. Sonderegger & Sauer, (Applied Ergonomics, 41, 403-410, 2010)]. Alternatively, appeal might influence performance only in problem situations, such as when the task is difficult [e.g. Norman, (2004)]. The predictions of these hypotheses were examined in the context of an icon search-and-localisation task. Icons were used because they are well-defined stimuli and pervasive to modern everyday life. When search was made difficult using visually complex stimuli (Experiment 1), or abstract and unfamiliar stimuli (Experiment 2), icons that were appealing were found more quickly than their unappealing counterparts. These findings show that in a low-level visual processing task, with demand characteristics related to appeal eliminated, appeal can influence performance, especially under duress

New exact solutions of stochastic KdV equation

In this paper, the multi-wave method is used to find new exact solitary solutions of nonlinear stochastic KdV equation. By using this approach and with the help of Mathematica we obtain a new type of multi-wave solution, periodic one and two-solitary-wave solution for the stochastic KdV equation are researched. The results presented in this paper improve the previous results

Elliptic function solutions for some nonlinear PDES in mathematical physics

In this work, we have constructed various types of soliton solu-tions of the generalized regularized long wave and generalized nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations by the using of the extended trial equation method. Some of the obtained exact traveling wave solutions to these nonlinear problems are the rational function, 1-soliton, singular, the elliptic integral functions F, E, ? and the Jacobi elliptic function sn solutions. Also, all of the solutions are compared with the exact solutions in literature, and it is seen that some of the solutions computed in this paper are new wave solutions. © 2017, Wilmington Scientific Publisher. All rights reserved

New Exact Solutions of the Davey–Stewartson Equation with Power-Law Nonlinearity

This work obtains the soliton solutions of the generalized Davey–Stewartson equation with the complex coefficients. First, the extended Weierstrass transformation method is used to carry out the solutions of this equation, and some new solutions, known as Weierstrass elliptic function solutions, are obtained by this method. Then, the trial equation method is used to obtain the soliton solutions of this equation. © 2014, Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society and Universiti Sains Malaysia

New Exact Solutions of the Davey-Stewartson Equation with Power-Law Nonlinearity

WOS: 000355625100021This work obtains the soliton solutions of the generalized Davey-Stewartson equation with the complex coefficients. First, the extended Weierstrass transformation method is used to carry out the solutions of this equation, and some new solutions, known as Weierstrass elliptic function solutions, are obtained by this method. Then, the trial equation method is used to obtain the soliton solutions of this equation.Yozgat University FoundationBozok UniversityWe would like to thank the referees for their valuable suggestions. Also, the research has been supported by Yozgat University Foundation