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Symmetry, Volume 10, Issue 12

2018 December - 112 articles

Cover Story: Zebra finches show well-defined asymmetry of brain specialisation: for food search using the right eye, but for viewing a predator, it is a left eye fixation and for neutral stimuli no eye preference. View Paper here.
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Articles (112)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,523 Views
9 Pages

19 December 2018

A new type of ordinary differential equation is introduced and discussed: time-dependent order ordinary differential equations. These equations are solved via fractional calculus by transforming them into Volterra integral equations of second kind wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,798 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2018

Cellular automata (CA) are parallel computational models that comprise of a grid of cells. CA is mainly used for modeling complex systems in various fields, where the geometric structure of the lattices is different. In the absence of a CA model to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,929 Views
15 Pages

Universal Quantum Computing and Three-Manifolds

  • Michel Planat,
  • Raymond Aschheim,
  • Marcelo M. Amaral and
  • Klee Irwin

19 December 2018

A single qubit may be represented on the Bloch sphere or similarly on the 3-sphere S 3 . Our goal is to dress this correspondence by converting the language of universal quantum computing (UQC) to that of 3-manifolds. A magic state and the Pau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,761 Views
16 Pages

19 December 2018

Noticing that E -convexity, m-convexity and b-invexity have similar structures in their definitions, there are some possibilities to treat these three class of mappings uniformly. For this purpose, the definitions of the ( E , m ) -convex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,643 Views
11 Pages

Synthesis of 3,4-Biaryl-2,5-Dichlorothiophene through Suzuki Cross-Coupling and Theoretical Exploration of Their Potential Applications as Nonlinear Optical Materials

  • Nasir Mahmood,
  • Nasir Rasool,
  • Hafiz Mansoor Ikram,
  • Muhammad Ali Hashmi,
  • Tariq Mahmood,
  • Muhammad Zubair,
  • Gulraiz Ahmad,
  • Komal Rizwan,
  • Tahir Rashid and
  • Umer Rashid

18 December 2018

We report herein the efficient one-pot synthesis of 3,4-biaryl-2,5-dichlorothiophene derivatives (2a2i) via a palladium-catalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling reaction. A series of thiophene derivatives were synthesized, starting from 3,4-dibromo-2,5-dichl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,443 Views
11 Pages

Relation Theoretic (Θ,R) Contraction Results with Applications to Nonlinear Matrix Equations

  • Hamed H. Al-Sulami,
  • Jamshaid Ahmad,
  • Nawab Hussain and
  • Abdul Latif

18 December 2018

Using the concept of binary relation R , we initiate a notion of Θ R -contraction and obtain some fixed point results for such mappings in the setting of complete metric spaces. Furthermore, we establish some new results of fixed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,137 Views
23 Pages

18 December 2018

Recently, prediction modelling has become important in data analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to analyze the past dataset of crop yields and predict future yields using regression-based approximation of time series fuzzy data. A f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,703 Views
15 Pages

Oscillatory Behavior of Three Dimensional α-Fractional Delay Differential Systems

  • Adem Kilicman,
  • Vadivel Sadhasivam,
  • Muthusamy Deepa and
  • Nagamanickam Nagajothi

18 December 2018

In the present work we study the oscillatory behavior of three dimensional α -fractional nonlinear delay differential system. We establish some sufficient conditions that will ensure all solutions are either oscillatory or converges to zer...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,513 Views
14 Pages

18 December 2018

As the most important properties in the gasoline blending process, octane number is difficult to be measured in real time. To address this problem, a novel deep learning based soft sensor strategy, by using the near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy obtain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,403 Views
11 Pages

17 December 2018

Three dinuclear metal complexes (comprised of six-coordinated nNi2L and five-coordinated nCu2L and nZn2L) were confirmed by means of elemental analysis, UV-vis and IR spectra, and single X-ray crystal structural analysis in a spectroscopic study. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,153 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2018

In this paper, an intelligent approach is presented to measure customers’ loyalty to a specific product and assist new customers regarding a product’s key features. Our approach uses an aggregated sentiment score of a set of reviews in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,881 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of the Cortical Deformation Induced by Distal Cantilevers Supported by Extra-Short Implants: A Finite Elements Analysis Study

  • Enrique Fernández-Bodereau,
  • Viviana Yolanda Flores,
  • Rafael Arcesio Delgado-Ruiz,
  • Juan Manuel Aragoneses and
  • José Luis Calvo-Guirado

17 December 2018

Background: The aim of the study was to analyze the distribution of stresses caused by an axial force in a three-dimensional model with the finite element method in the implant-supported fixed partial denture with distal overhang (PPFIVD) on short de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,776 Views
14 Pages

17 December 2018

It is well known that not every symmetry of a classical field theory is also a symmetry of its quantum version. When this occurs, we speak of quantum anomalies. The existence of anomalies imply that some classical Noether charges are no longer conser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,104 Views
27 Pages

17 December 2018

Pixel value ordering (PVO) hiding scheme is a kind of data embedding technique that hides a secret message in the difference of the largest and second largest pixels of a block. After that, the scholars improved PVO scheme by using a threshold to det...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,012 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2018

This paper presents a new route planning system for the purpose of evaluating the strategic prospects for future Arctic routes. The route planning problem can be regarded as a multi criteria decision making problem with large uncertainties originatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
12,294 Views
25 Pages

A New Methodology for Improving Service Quality Measurement: Delphi-FUCOM-SERVQUAL Model

  • Olegas Prentkovskis,
  • Živko Erceg,
  • Željko Stević,
  • Ilija Tanackov,
  • Marko Vasiljević and
  • Mladen Gavranović

16 December 2018

The daily requirements and needs imposed on the executors of logistics services imply the need for a higher level of quality. In this, the proper execution of all sustainability processes and activities plays an important role. In this paper, a new m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,038 Views
12 Pages

Some Generating Functions for q-Polynomials

  • Howard S. Cohl,
  • Roberto S. Costas-Santos and
  • Tanay V. Wakhare

16 December 2018

Demonstrating the striking symmetry between calculus and q-calculus, we obtain q-analogues of the Bateman, Pasternack, Sylvester, and Cesàro polynomials. Using these, we also obtain q-analogues for some of their generating functions. Our q-gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,700 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2018

In this paper, a new approach is proposed to identify sectional deformation modes of the doubly symmetric thin-walled cross-section, which are to be employed in formulating a one-dimensional model of thin-walled structures. The approach considers the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,288 Views
9 Pages

15 December 2018

The acceptance sampling plans are one of the most important tools for the inspection of a lot of products. Sometimes, it is difficult to study the variable of interest, and some additional or auxiliary information which is correlated to that variable...

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

Optimal Allocation of Virtual Machines in Cloud Computing

  • Ming-Hua Lin,
  • Jung-Fa Tsai,
  • Yi-Chung Hu and
  • Tzu-Hsuan Su

15 December 2018

Virtualization is one of the core technologies used in cloud computing to provide services on demand for end users over the Internet. Most current research allocates virtual machines to physical machines based on CPU utilization. However, for many ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,749 Views
15 Pages

Probabilistic Modeling of Speech in Spectral Domain using Maximum Likelihood Estimation

  • Mohammed Usman,
  • Mohammed Zubair,
  • Mohammad Shiblee,
  • Paul Rodrigues and
  • Syed Jaffar

14 December 2018

The performance of many speech processing algorithms depends on modeling speech signals using appropriate probability distributions. Various distributions such as the Gamma distribution, Gaussian distribution, Generalized Gaussian distribution, Lapla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
4,732 Views
16 Pages

Edge-Version Atom-Bond Connectivity and Geometric Arithmetic Indices of Generalized Bridge Molecular Graphs

  • Xiujun Zhang,
  • Xinling Wu,
  • Shehnaz Akhter,
  • Muhammad Kamran Jamil,
  • Jia-Bao Liu and
  • Mohammad Reza Farahani

14 December 2018

Topological indices are graph invariants computed by the distance or degree of vertices of the molecular graph. In chemical graph theory, topological indices have been successfully used in describing the structures and predicting certain physicochemi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,088 Views
14 Pages

Cubic Intuitionistic q-Ideals of BCI-Algebras

  • Tapan Senapati,
  • Chiranjibe Jana,
  • Madhumangal Pal and
  • Young Bae Jun

14 December 2018

In this paper, the notion of cubic intuitionistic q-ideals in B C I -algebras is introduced. A relationship between a cubic intuitionistic subalgebra, a cubic intuitionistic ideal, and a cubic intuitionistic q-ideal is discussed. Conditions fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,471 Views
26 Pages

14 December 2018

In this paper, the existing definition of the group-based generalized intuitionistic fuzzy soft set is clarified and redefined by merging intuitionistic fuzzy soft set over the set of alternatives and a group of intuitionistic fuzzy sets on parameter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,267 Views
10 Pages

Comparative Study of Natural Radioactivity and Radiological Hazard Parameters of Various Imported Tiles Used for Decoration in Sudan

  • Saifeldin M. Siddeeg,
  • Mohamed A. Suliman,
  • Faouzi Ben Rebah,
  • Wissem Mnif,
  • Amel Y. Ahmed and
  • Isam Salih

13 December 2018

Various commercially imported ceramic materials used in the building of Sudanese dwellings were examined in order to determine their natural radioactivity and radiological hazard parameters. In this context, twenty-five different consignments were sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,809 Views
26 Pages

Empirical Research on the Evaluation Model and Method of Sustainability of the Open Source Ecosystem

  • Zhifang Liao,
  • Libing Deng,
  • Xiaoping Fan,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Xiaofei Qi and
  • Yun Zhou

13 December 2018

The development of open source brings new thinking and production modes to software engineering and computer science, and establishes a software development method and ecological environment in which groups participate. Regardless of investors, devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,658 Views
38 Pages

PV Forecasting Using Support Vector Machine Learning in a Big Data Analytics Context

  • Stefan Preda,
  • Simona-Vasilica Oprea,
  • Adela Bâra and
  • Anda Belciu (Velicanu)

13 December 2018

Renewable energy systems (RES) are reliable by nature; the sun and wind are theoretically endless resources. From the beginnings of the power systems, the concern was to know “how much” energy will be generated. Initially, there were volt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,139 Views
13 Pages

13 December 2018

The discovery of meteoritic alpha-amino acids with significant enantiomeric excesses of the L-form has suggested that some cosmic factors could serve as the initial source for chiral imbalance of organic compounds delivered to the early Earth. The pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,712 Views
21 Pages

Noether’s Theorem and Symmetry

  • Amlan K. Halder,
  • Andronikos Paliathanasis and
  • Peter G.L. Leach

12 December 2018

In Noether’s original presentation of her celebrated theorem of 1918, allowance was made for the dependence of the coefficient functions of the differential operator, which generated the infinitesimal transformation of the action integral upon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,176 Views
9 Pages

12 December 2018

A set to locate all eigenvalues for matrices with a constant main diagonal entry is given, and it is proved that this set is tighter than the well-known Geršgorin set, the Brauer set and the set proposed in (Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 60:...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
98 Citations
8,899 Views
10 Pages

11 December 2018

Lateralization, i.e., the different functional roles played by the left and right sides of the brain, is expressed in two main ways: (1) in single individuals, regardless of a common direction (bias) in the population (aka individual-level lateraliza...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,515 Views
9 Pages

Symmetry Identities of Changhee Polynomials of Type Two

  • Joohee Jeong,
  • Dong-Jin Kang and
  • Seog-Hoon Rim

11 December 2018

In this paper, we consider Changhee polynomials of type two, which are motivated from the recent work of D. Kim and T. Kim. We investigate some symmetry identities for the Changhee polynomials of type two which are derived from the properties of symm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,630 Views
29 Pages

A Novel Adaptive Non-Local Means-Based Nonlinear Fitting for Visibility Improving

  • Hongtao Wu,
  • Lei Jia,
  • Ying Meng,
  • Xiao Liu and
  • Jinhui Lan

11 December 2018

The spatial-based method has become the most widely used method in improving the visibility of images. The visibility improving is mainly to remove the noise in the image, in order to trade off denoising and detail maintaining. A novel adaptive non-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,872 Views
14 Pages

11 December 2018

In this paper, we consider sums of finite products of Chebyshev polynomials of the first, third, and fourth kinds, which are different from the previously-studied ones. We represent each of them as linear combinations of Chebyshev polynomials of all...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,249 Views
16 Pages

Hyperparameter Optimization for Image Recognition over an AR-Sandbox Based on Convolutional Neural Networks Applying a Previous Phase of Segmentation by Color–Space

  • Andrés Ovidio Restrepo Rodríguez,
  • Daniel Esteban Casas Mateus,
  • Paulo Alonso Gaona García,
  • Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marín and
  • Rubén González Crespo

11 December 2018

Immersive techniques such as augmented reality through devices such as the AR-Sandbox and deep learning through convolutional neural networks (CNN) provide an environment that is potentially applicable for motor rehabilitation and early education. Ho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,582 Views
34 Pages

10 December 2018

Dispersion interactions are long-range interactions between neutral ground-state atoms or molecules, or polarizable bodies in general, due to their common interaction with the quantum electromagnetic field. They arise from the exchange of virtual pho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,556 Views
14 Pages

Cutting Pattern Identification for Coal Mining Shearer through Sound Signals Based on a Convolutional Neural Network

  • Jing Xu,
  • Zhongbin Wang,
  • Chao Tan,
  • Daohua Lu,
  • Baigong Wu,
  • Zhen Su and
  • Yanbing Tang

10 December 2018

Recently, sound-based diagnosis systems have been given much attention in many fields due to the advantages of their simple structure, non-touching measurement style, and low-power dissipation. In order to improve the efficiency of coal production an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,827 Views
12 Pages

10 December 2018

We show that probabilities in quantum physics can be derived from permutation-symmetry and the principle of indifference. We then connect unitary-symmetry to the concept of “time” and define a thermal time-flow by symmetry breaking. Final...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,681 Views
17 Pages

Random Untargeted Adversarial Example on Deep Neural Network

  • Hyun Kwon,
  • Yongchul Kim,
  • Hyunsoo Yoon and
  • Daeseon Choi

10 December 2018

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in machine learning areas such as image recognition, speech recognition, intrusion detection, and pattern analysis. However, it has been revealed that DNNs have weaknesses in the fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,791 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2018

Taking inspiration principally from some of the latest research, we develop a new series representation for the λ-generalized Hurwitz-Lerch zeta functions. This representation led to important new results. The Fourier transform played a founda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,680 Views
18 Pages

8 December 2018

Augmented Reality (AR) is crucial for immersive Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and the vision of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Labeled data drives object recognition in AR. However, manually annotating data is expensive, labor-intensive, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,997 Views
14 Pages

7 December 2018

Because of the cyclic symmetric structure of rolling bearings, its vibration signals are regular when the rolling bearing is working in a normal state. But when the rolling bearing fails, whether the outer race fault or the inner race fault, the symm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,093 Views
15 Pages

On Some Statistical Approximation by (p,q)-Bleimann, Butzer and Hahn Operators

  • Khursheed J. Ansari,
  • Ishfaq Ahmad,
  • M. Mursaleen and
  • Iqtadar Hussain

7 December 2018

In this article, we propose a different generalization of ( p , q ) -BBH operators and carry statistical approximation properties of the introduced operators towards a function which has to be approximated where ( p , q ) -integers cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,367 Views
21 Pages

Unification of the Fixed Point in Integral Type Metric Spaces

  • Sumati Kumari Panda,
  • Badriah A. S. Alamri,
  • Nawab Hussain and
  • Sumit Chandok

7 December 2018

In metric fixed point theory, the conditions like “symmetry” and “triangle inequality” play a predominant role. In this paper, we introduce a new kind of metric space by using symmetry, triangle inequality, and other condition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,773 Views
18 Pages

Generalized Modified Slash Birnbaum–Saunders Distribution

  • Jimmy Reyes,
  • Inmaculada Barranco-Chamorro,
  • Diego I. Gallardo and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

6 December 2018

In this paper, a generalization of the modified slash Birnbaum–Saunders (BS) distribution is introduced. The model is defined by using the stochastic representation of the BS distribution, where the standard normal distribution is replaced by a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,592 Views
16 Pages

6 December 2018

Image feature description and matching is widely used in computer vision, such as camera pose estimation. Traditional feature descriptions lack the semantic and spatial information, and give rise to a large number of feature mismatches. In order to i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,100 Views
15 Pages

Robust Adaptive Full-Order TSM Control Based on Neural Network

  • Qianlei Cao,
  • Chongzhen Cao,
  • Fengqin Wang,
  • Dan Liu and
  • Hui Sun

6 December 2018

Existing full-order terminal sliding mode (FOTSM) control methods often require a priori knowledge of the system model. To tackle this problem, two novel neural-network-based FOTSM control methods were proposed. The first one was model based but did...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,761 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2018

A convex polytope or simply polytope is the convex hull of a finite set of points in Euclidean space R d . Graphs of convex polytopes emerge from geometric structures of convex polytopes by preserving the adjacency-incidence relation between v...

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