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Symmetry, Volume 10, Issue 11

2018 November - 129 articles

Cover Story: We found that the tension between CMB (Planck 2015) and cosmic shear data (CFHTLenS and KiDS-450), arising in the σ8 - Ωm plane and described by the S8 parameter in the ΛCDM scenario, can be solved by allowing the Alens parameter to vary. We found that the higher incorrect amount of lensing in the Planck 2015 power spectra could be responsible for this tension. The CMB lensing amplitude Alens, a phenomenological parameter expected equal to 1, is in fact more than 2 sigma higher in the Planck 2015 data, and it is not supported by the trispectrum analysis that measures the true amount of lensing. By varying Alens, the S8 values of CMB and cosmic shear data agree within one sigma. Moreover, we showed that massive neutrinos, which are usually varied to change the σ8 constraints, do not relieve the S8 tension. View this paper.
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Articles (129)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,188 Views
14 Pages

1, 2, 3, Many—Perceptual Integration of Motif Repetitions

  • Mikhail Katkov,
  • Hila Harris and
  • Dov Sagi

21 November 2018

It is generally assumed that the initial integration of visual information is limited in its spatial extent. Of particular interest is the extent to which image symmetries are detected and integrated. Here we studied the spatial extent of visual inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,424 Views
25 Pages

21 November 2018

The existing construction methods of granularity importance degree only consider the direct influence of single granularity on decision-making; however, they ignore the joint impact from other granularities when carrying out granularity selection. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,370 Views
11 Pages

Neutrosophic Logic Based Quantum Computing

  • Ahmet Çevik,
  • Selçuk Topal and
  • Florentin Smarandache

20 November 2018

We introduce refined concepts for neutrosophic quantum computing such as neutrosophic quantum states and transformation gates, neutrosophic Hadamard matrix, coherent and decoherent superposition states, entanglement and measurement notions based on n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,683 Views
14 Pages

20 November 2018

The new product development process (NPD) is considered to be the key factor of competition among different markets. The identification of a suitable material is an important issue in the conception and improvement of new products. Material selection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,880 Views
37 Pages

Triangular Cubic Hesitant Fuzzy Einstein Hybrid Weighted Averaging Operator and Its Application to Decision Making

  • Aliya Fahmi,
  • Fazli Amin,
  • Florentin Smarandache,
  • Madad Khan and
  • Nasruddin Hassan

20 November 2018

In this paper, triangular cubic hesitant fuzzy Einstein weighted averaging (TCHFEWA) operator, triangular cubic hesitant fuzzy Einstein ordered weighted averaging (TCHFEOWA) operator and triangular cubic hesitant fuzzy Einstein hybrid weighted averag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,784 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2018

Radar electronic reconnaissance is an important part of modern and future electronic warfare systems and is the primary method to obtain non-cooperative intelligence information. As the task requirement of radar electronic reconnaissance, it is neces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,179 Views
30 Pages

20 November 2018

Large numbers of images are produced in many fields every day. The content security of digital images becomes an important issue for scientists and engineers. Inspired by the magic cube game, a three-dimensional (3D) permutation model is established...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,132 Views
11 Pages

The Influence of Organs on Biochemical Properties of Tunisian Thuja occidentalis Essential Oils

  • Sana Bellili,
  • Chedia Aouadhi,
  • Wissal Dhifi,
  • Hanene Ghazghazi,
  • Chaima Jlassi,
  • Carmen Sadaka,
  • Marc El Beyrouthy,
  • Abderrazak Maaroufi,
  • Ameur Cherif and
  • Wissem Mnif

19 November 2018

In this study, the chemical composition and biological activities of the essential oil (EO) extracts (from leaves and cones) of the Tunisian Thuja occidentalis were evaluated. The composition of the leaf EO extract was more complex than that of the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,554 Views
20 Pages

19 November 2018

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem. This research focuses on the problem under which a manufacturer needs to outsource materials from other suppliers and to ship the materials back to the company. He...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,541 Views
19 Pages

19 November 2018

Biometry based authentication and recognition have attracted greater attention due to numerous applications for security-conscious societies, since biometrics brings accurate and consistent identification. Face biometry possesses the merits of low in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,535 Views
16 Pages

A New Class of Hermite-Apostol Type Frobenius-Euler Polynomials and Its Applications

  • Serkan Araci,
  • Mumtaz Riyasat,
  • Shahid Ahmad Wani and
  • Subuhi Khan

19 November 2018

The article is written with the objectives to introduce a multi-variable hybrid class, namely the Hermite–Apostol-type Frobenius–Euler polynomials, and to characterize their properties via different generating function techniques. Several...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,811 Views
16 Pages

Design of a New Synthetic Acceptance Sampling Plan

  • Saeed A. Dobbah,
  • Muhammad Aslam and
  • Khushnoor Khan

19 November 2018

In this paper, we propose a new synthetic sampling plan assuming that the quality characteristic follows the normal distribution with known and unknown standard deviation. The proposed plan is given and the operating characteristic (OC) function is d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,411 Views
26 Pages

19 November 2018

In this paper, we propose a new scale-free social networks (SNs) evolution model that is based on homophily combined with preferential attachments. Our model enables the SN researchers to generate SN synthetic data for the evaluation of multi-facet S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,720 Views
13 Pages

19 November 2018

In this paper, new conditions on parameters in difference sets are derived to satisfy symplectic inner product, and new constructions of quantum stabilizer codes are proposed from the conditions. The conversion of the difference sets into parity-chec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,858 Views
19 Pages

Transceiver Design and Power Allocation for SWIPT in MIMO Cognitive Radio Systems

  • Fahui Wu,
  • Lin Xiao,
  • Dingcheng Yang,
  • Laurie Cuthbert and
  • Xiaoping Liu

18 November 2018

In this paper, we consider a symmetric wireless communication network, i.e., each user is equipped with the same number of antennas. Specifically, this paper studies simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a K-user multiple-in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
15,628 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2018

Artificial neural networks (ANN) have attracted significant attention from researchers because many complex problems can be solved by training them. If enough data are provided during the training process, ANNs are capable of achieving good performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
9,281 Views
14 Pages

Fuzzy AHP Application for Supporting Contractors’ Bidding Decision

  • Agnieszka Leśniak,
  • Daniel Kubek,
  • Edyta Plebankiewicz,
  • Krzysztof Zima and
  • Stanisław Belniak

16 November 2018

This paper proposes the author’s model based on the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) to improve the efficiency of contractor bidding decisions. The essence of the AHP method is to make pairwise comparisons of available options against al...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,265 Views
9 Pages

Neutrosophic Computability and Enumeration

  • Ahmet Çevik,
  • Selçuk Topal and
  • Florentin Smarandache

16 November 2018

We introduce oracle Turing machines with neutrosophic values allowed in the oracle information and then give some results when one is permitted to use neutrosophic sets and logic in relative computation. We also introduce a method to enumerate the el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,941 Views
18 Pages

Characterization of HIV-2 Protease Structure by Studying Its Asymmetry at the Different Levels of Protein Description

  • Guillaume Ollitrault,
  • Sandrine Fartek,
  • Diane Descamps,
  • Anne-Claude Camproux,
  • Benoît Visseaux and
  • Leslie Regad

16 November 2018

HIV-2 protease (PR2) is a homodimer, which is an important target in the treatment of the HIV-2 infection. In this study, we developed an in silico protocol to analyze and characterize the asymmetry of the unbound PR2 structure using three levels of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,538 Views
25 Pages

16 November 2018

The article analyzes Bernoulli’s binary sequences in the representation of empirical events about water usage and continuous expenditure systems. The main purpose is to identify among variables that constitute water resources consumption at pub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,484 Views
21 Pages

A Q-Learning-Based Approach for Deploying Dynamic Service Function Chains

  • Jian Sun,
  • Guanhua Huang,
  • Gang Sun,
  • Hongfang Yu,
  • Arun Kumar Sangaiah and
  • Victor Chang

16 November 2018

As the size and service requirements of today’s networks gradually increase, large numbers of proprietary devices are deployed, which leads to network complexity, information security crises and makes network service and service provider manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,052 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2018

The probabilistic algorithms are widely applied in designing computational applications such as distributed systems and probabilistic databases, to determine distributed consensus in the presence of random failures of nodes or networks. In distribute...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,448 Views
18 Pages

15 November 2018

Present research in the domain of wireless sensor network (WSN) has unearthed that energy restraint of sensor nodes (SNs) encumbers their perpetual performance. Of late, the encroachment in the vicinity of wireless power transfer (WPT) technology has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,186 Views
15 Pages

15 November 2018

In this paper, a new approach and framework based on the interval dependent degree for multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems with simplified neutrosophic sets (SNSs) is proposed. Firstly, the simplified dependent function and distribu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,346 Views
9 Pages

Design of a New Variable Shewhart Control Chart Using Multiple Dependent State Repetitive Sampling

  • Mansour Sattam Aldosari,
  • Muhammad Aslam,
  • Nasrullah Khan and
  • Chi-Hyuck Jun

15 November 2018

In this paper, a new variable control chart is proposed using multiple dependent-state repetitive sampling by assuming that the data follows a normal distribution having a symmetry property. Its efficiency will be evaluated in terms of in-control and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,322 Views
18 Pages

14 November 2018

Many scholars have attempted to use an encryption method to resolve the problem of data leakage in data outsourcing storage. However, encryption methods reduce data availability and are inefficient. Vertical fragmentation perfectly solves this proble...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,604 Views
15 Pages

Energy-Efficient Swarm Behavior for Indoor UAV Ad-Hoc Network Deployment

  • Fidel Aznar,
  • Mar Pujol,
  • Ramon Rizo,
  • Francisco A. Pujol and
  • Carlos Rizo

13 November 2018

Building an ad-hoc network in emergency situations can be crucial as a primary tool or even when used prior to subsequent operations. The use of mini and micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is increasing because of the wide range of possibilities t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,856 Views
17 Pages

An Iterated Hybrid Local Search Algorithm for Pick-and-Place Sequence Optimization

  • Jinsheng Gao,
  • Xiaomin Zhu,
  • Anbang Liu,
  • Qingyang Meng and
  • Runtong Zhang

13 November 2018

This paper shows the results of our study on the pick-and-place optimization problem. To solve this problem efficiently, an iterated hybrid local search algorithm (IHLS) which combines local search with integer programming is proposed. In the section...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,062 Views
9 Pages

Symmetric Properties of Carlitz’s Type q-Changhee Polynomials

  • Yunjae Kim,
  • Byung Moon Kim and
  • Jin-Woo Park

13 November 2018

Changhee polynomials were introduced by Kim, and the generalizations of these polynomials have been characterized. In our paper, we investigate various interesting symmetric identities for Carlitz’s type q-Changhee polynomials under the symmetr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
5,452 Views
15 Pages

Tsallis, Rényi and Sharma-Mittal Holographic Dark Energy Models in Loop Quantum Cosmology

  • Abdul Jawad,
  • Kazuharu Bamba,
  • Muhammad Younas,
  • Saba Qummer and
  • Shamaila Rani

13 November 2018

The cosmic expansion phenomenon is being studied through the interaction of newly proposed dark energy models (Tsallis, Rényi and Sharma-Mittal holographic dark energy (HDE) models) with cold dark matter in the framework of loop quantum cosmol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,833 Views
29 Pages

13 November 2018

Aggregation operators are important tools for solving multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problems. The main challenging issue for aggregating data in a MAGDM problem is how to develop a symmetric aggregation operator expressing the decisio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,704 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2018

Image caption generation is a fundamental task to build a bridge between image and its description in text, which is drawing increasing interest in artificial intelligence. Images and textual sentences are viewed as two different carriers of informat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,520 Views
9 Pages

12 November 2018

The rather impressive extension library of medical image-processing platform 3D Slicer lacks a wide range of machine-learning toolboxes. The authors have developed such a toolbox that incorporates commonly used machine-learning libraries. The extensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,196 Views
18 Pages

12 November 2018

Recently, the application of digital cable transmission standards as a second generation digital transmission system for cable systems (DVB-C2) in addition to MPEG-2 video compression has offered ways to provide a variety of digital high definition t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,454 Views
21 Pages

12 November 2018

An aggregation operator performs the task of fusing multiple sources of information, which plays a pivotal part in realizing a collective opinion in most decision-making activities. Considering the increasing complexity of decision-making situations,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,443 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2018

This paper focuses on estimation of a nonlinear functional of state vector (NFS) in discrete-time linear stochastic systems. The NFS represents a nonlinear multivariate functional of state variables, which can indicate useful information of a target...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,056 Views
18 Pages

Time-Varying Ultra-Wideband Channel Modeling and Prediction

  • Ahmed M. Al-Sammna,
  • Marwan Hadri Azmi and
  • Tharek Abd Rahman

12 November 2018

This paper considers the channel modeling and prediction for ultra-wideband (UWB) channels. The sparse property of UWB channels is exploited, and an efficient prediction framework is developed by introducing two simplified UWB channel impulse respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,176 Views
18 Pages

10 November 2018

The paper proposes a method of automatic knuckle image acquisition for continuous verification systems. The developed acquisition method is dedicated for verification systems in which the person being verified uses a computer keyboard. This manner of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,287 Views
13 Pages

Ephemeral ID Beacon-Based Improved Indoor Positioning System

  • Jinsu Kang,
  • Jeonghoon Seo and
  • Yoojae Won

10 November 2018

Recently, the rapid development of mobile devices and communication technologies has dramatically increased the demand for location-based services that provide users with location-oriented information and services. User location in outdoor spaces is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,203 Views
16 Pages

Theoretical Analysis of Empirical Mode Decomposition

  • Hengqing Ge,
  • Guibin Chen,
  • Haichun Yu,
  • Huabao Chen and
  • Fengping An

10 November 2018

This work suggests a theoretical principle about the oscillation signal decomposition, which is based on the requirement of a pure oscillation component, in which the mean zero is extracted from the signal. Using this principle, the validity and robu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,585 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2018

A columnar joint network is a natural fracture pattern with high symmetry, which leads to the anisotropy mechanical property of columnar basalt. For a better understanding the mechanical behavior, a novel modeling method for columnar jointed rock mas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,125 Views
18 Pages

On Degree-Based Topological Indices of Symmetric Chemical Structures

  • Jia-Bao Liu,
  • Haidar Ali,
  • Muhammad Kashif Shafiq and
  • Usman Munir

9 November 2018

A Topological index also known as connectivity index is a type of a molecular descriptor that is calculated based on the molecular graph of a chemical compound. Topological indices are numerical parameters of a graph which characterize its topology a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,889 Views
13 Pages

Parametric Blending of Triangular Meshes

  • Min-Chul Shin,
  • Hae-Do Hwang,
  • Seung-Hyun Yoon and
  • Jieun Lee

9 November 2018

We present a new method for constructing a parametric blending surface that smoothly connects two triangular meshes. A user selects a subregion on each triangular mesh. The local parameterizations of two selected regions are found by using geodesic p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,361 Views
16 Pages

9 November 2018

Neutrosophic triplet structure yields a symmetric property of truth membership on the left, indeterminacy membership in the centre and false membership on the right, as do points of object, centre and image of reflection. As an extension of a neutros...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,491 Views
24 Pages

Design and Application of Fuzzy Logic Based Fire Monitoring and Warning Systems for Smart Buildings

  • Barera Sarwar,
  • Imran Sarwar Bajwa,
  • Shabana Ramzan,
  • Bushra Ramzan and
  • Mubeen Kausar

9 November 2018

Typical fire monitoring and warning systems use a single smoke detector that is connected to a fire management system to give early warnings before the fire spreads out up to a damaging level. However, it is found that only smoke detector-based fire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,304 Views
13 Pages

9 November 2018

A recommender system can effectively solve the problem of information overload in the era of big data. Recent research on recommender systems, specifically Collaborative Filtering, has focused on Matrix Factorization methods, which have been shown to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,857 Views
14 Pages

Connection Problem for Sums of Finite Products of Chebyshev Polynomials of the Third and Fourth Kinds

  • Dmitry Victorovich Dolgy,
  • Dae San Kim,
  • Taekyun Kim and
  • Jongkyum Kwon

9 November 2018

This paper treats the connection problem of expressing sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the third and fourth kinds in terms of five classical orthogonal polynomials. In fact, by carrying out explicit computations each of them are e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,081 Views
10 Pages

8 November 2018

The fixed-pattern noise (FPN) caused by nonuniform optoelectronic response limits the sensitivity of an infrared imaging system and severely reduces the image quality. Therefore, nonuniform correction of infrared images is very important. In this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,021 Views
12 Pages

Neutrosophic Triplet Non-Associative Semihypergroups with Application

  • Muhammad Gulistan,
  • Shah Nawaz and
  • Nasruddin Hassan

8 November 2018

In this paper, we extended the idea of a neutrosophic triplet set to non-associative semihypergroups and define neutrosophic triplet LA-semihypergroup. We discuss some basic results and properties. At the end, we provide an application of the prop...

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