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Symmetry, Volume 11, Issue 8

2019 August - 117 articles

Cover Story: We find that the Hubble constant tension can be significantly alleviated, or even removed, if we account for varying dark energy when we consider type-Ia supernovae (SNIa) and cosmic microwave background data (CMB). However, the tension remains when we add baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data into the analysis, even after adding extra SNIa systematic uncertainties. This points towards the need for either new physics beyond late-time dark energy or other unaccounted systematic effects (particularly in BAO measurements) to fully solve the present tension. View this paper.
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Articles (117)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,951 Views
17 Pages

20 August 2019

An effective method to enhance the contrast of digital images is proposed in this paper. A histogram function is developed to make the histogram curve smoother, which can be used to avoid the loss of information in the processed image. Besides the hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,486 Views
15 Pages

20 August 2019

Energy efficiency and renewable energy are the two main research topics for sustainable energy. In the past ten years, countries around the world have invested a lot of manpower into new energy research. However, in addition to new energy development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,003 Views
17 Pages

20 August 2019

Rolling bearings are the most important parts in rotating machinery, and one of the most vulnerable parts to failure. The rolling bearing is a cyclic symmetrical structure that is stable under normal operating conditions. However, when the rolling be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
3,778 Views
14 Pages

18 August 2019

Non-standard Lagrangians play an important role in the systems of non-conservative dynamics or nonlinear differential equations, quantum field theories, etc. This paper deals with quasi-fractional dynamical systems from exponential non-standard Lagra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
3,919 Views
26 Pages

17 August 2019

With the development of the social economy and enlarged volume of information, the application of multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM) has become increasingly complex, uncertain, and obscure. As a further generalization of hesitant fuzzy set (HF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,998 Views
26 Pages

Goal Recognition Control under Network Interdiction Using a Privacy Information Metric

  • Junren Luo,
  • Xiang Ji,
  • Wei Gao,
  • Wanpeng Zhang and
  • Shaofei Chen

17 August 2019

Goal recognition (GR) is a method of inferring the goals of other agents, which enables humans or AI agents to proactively make response plans. Goal recognition design (GRD) has been proposed to deliberately redesign the underlying environment to acc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,833 Views
13 Pages

17 August 2019

In this paper, we promote the refinement method for estimating asymptotic expression of the fundamental solutions of a fourth order linear differential equation with discontinuous weight function and transmission conditions. These refinement solution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,751 Views
8 Pages

Geodesic Chord Property and Hypersurfaces of Space Forms

  • Dong-Soo Kim,
  • Young Ho Kim and
  • Dae Won Yoon

16 August 2019

In the Euclidean space E n , hyperplanes, hyperspheres and hypercylinders are the only isoparametric hypersurfaces. These hypersurfaces are also the only ones with chord property, that is, the chord connecting two points on them meets the hy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,113 Views
16 Pages

16 August 2019

In this work, we construct a family of seventh order iterative methods for finding multiple roots of a nonlinear function. The scheme consists of three steps, of which the first is Newton’s step and last two are the weighted-Newton steps. Hence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,930 Views
14 Pages

16 August 2019

We introduce and discuss a dynamics of interaction of risky assets in a portfolio by resorting to methods of statistical mechanics developed to model the evolution of systems whose microscopic state may be augmented by variables which are not mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,835 Views
18 Pages

16 August 2019

The maglev train is a whole new method of transportation without wheels, consisting of 20 groups of symmetry suspension units. The magnetic levitation system plays a major role in suspending the maglev train stably and following the track quickly wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,457 Views
9 Pages

16 August 2019

We perform Lie symmetry analysis to a zero-coupon bond pricing equation whose price evolution is described in terms of a partial differential equation (PDE). As a result, using the computer software package SYM, run in conjunction with Mathematica, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,127 Views
25 Pages

16 August 2019

In recent years, China’s chemical industry has incurred frequent safety accidents which seriously impact the social environment and public safety. Traditional approaches have reached a bottleneck due to a lack of relevant professionals in the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,617 Views
13 Pages

15 August 2019

A comprehensive investigation, including analytical modelling, numerical analysis and experimental tests, has been carried out on many linear viscoelastic systems and structures. This approach is the result of research conducted by two research insti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,983 Views
17 Pages

Retardant Effects of Collapsing Dynamics of a Laser-Induced Cavitation Bubble Near a Solid Wall

  • Xiaofei Li,
  • Yaxin Duan,
  • Yuning Zhang,
  • Ningning Tang and
  • Yuning Zhang

15 August 2019

In the present paper, the dynamic behavior of cavitation bubbles near a wall is experimentally investigated with a focus on the retardant effects of the wall on the collapsing dynamics of the bubble. In the present experiments, a cavitation bubble is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,236 Views
11 Pages

Degenerate Stirling Polynomials of the Second Kind and Some Applications

  • Taekyun Kim,
  • Dae San Kim,
  • Han Young Kim and
  • Jongkyum Kwon

14 August 2019

Recently, the degenerate λ -Stirling polynomials of the second kind were introduced and investigated for their properties and relations. In this paper, we continue to study the degenerate λ -Stirling polynomials as well as the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,439 Views
21 Pages

On Z -Invariant Self-Adjoint Extensions of the Laplacian on Quantum Circuits

  • Aitor Balmaseda,
  • Fabio Di Cosmo and
  • Juan Manuel Pérez-Pardo

14 August 2019

An analysis of the invariance properties of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators under the action of a group of symmetries is presented. For a given group G, criteria for the existence of G-invariant self-adjoint extensions of the Laplace&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,003 Views
14 Pages

14 August 2019

Nowadays, in the world of science, an important goal is to create new nanostructures that may act as potential drug carriers. Among different, real or hypothetical, polymeric networks, rhombellanes are very promising and, therefore, attempts were mad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
7,324 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2019

Engineering design optimization in real life is a challenging global optimization problem, and many meta-heuristic algorithms have been proposed to obtain the global best solutions. An excellent meta-heuristic algorithm has two symmetric search capab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,971 Views
14 Pages

13 August 2019

In this manuscript, the numerical coal-rock combined bodies with different height ratios of rock part to coal-rock combined body (HRRC) were established by particle flow code (PFC) firstly, and then the influence of different HRRC on mechanical prope...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,564 Views
15 Pages

13 August 2019

The naturally occurring radionuclides (radium-226, thorium-232, potassium-40 and radon-222) were investigated in the alkaline rocks of Abu Khuruq Ring, southern Eastern Desert, Egypt. A high-resolution germanium detector was used for the detection of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,866 Views
15 Pages

Class of Analytic Functions Defined by q-Integral Operator in a Symmetric Region

  • Lei Shi,
  • Mohsan Raza,
  • Kashif Javed,
  • Saqib Hussain and
  • Muhammad Arif

13 August 2019

The aim of the present paper is to introduce a new class of analytic functions by using a q-integral operator in the conic region. It is worth mentioning that these regions are symmetric along the real axis. We find the coefficient estimates, the Fek...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,820 Views
18 Pages

13 August 2019

We know a good deal about brain lateralization in birds and a good deal about animal welfare, but relatively little about whether there is a noteworthy relationship between avian welfare and brain lateralization. In birds, the left hemisphere is spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,280 Views
23 Pages

Testing New Methods for Boarding a Partially Occupied Airplane Using Apron Buses

  • Liviu-Adrian Cotfas,
  • Camelia Delcea,
  • R. John Milne,
  • Mostafa Salari,
  • Liliana Crăciun and
  • Anca Gabriela Molănescu

13 August 2019

The use of apron buses has become a common practice at many European airports. Previous studies related to airplane boarding rarely apply when apron buses are used, leaving airlines with no well-researched option except to use the random boarding met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,932 Views
29 Pages

13 August 2019

In this paper, we studied symmetries of string scattering amplitudes in the high energy limits of both the fixed angle or Gross regime (GR) and the fixed momentum transfer or Regge regime (RR). We calculated high energy string scattering amplitudes (...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,256 Views
19 Pages

Locality Sensitive Discriminative Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction

  • Yun-Long Gao,
  • Si-Zhe Luo,
  • Zhi-Hao Wang,
  • Chih-Cheng Chen and
  • Jin-Yan Pan

12 August 2019

Graph-based embedding methods receive much attention due to the use of graph and manifold information. However, conventional graph-based embedding methods may not always be effective if the data have high dimensions and have complex distributions. Fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,530 Views
12 Pages

12 August 2019

The aim of this paper is to show the existence and attainability of Karush–Kuhn–Tucker optimality conditions for weakly efficient Pareto points for vector equilibrium problems with the addition of constraints in the novel context of Hadam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Citations
6,965 Views
25 Pages

12 August 2019

The basic motivation of this investigation is to develop an innovative mathematical model for electro-osmotic flow of Couette–Poiseuille nanofluids. The power-law model is treated as the base fluid suspended with nano-sized particles of aluminu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,523 Views
20 Pages

12 August 2019

We investigate the particle creation, as well as the thermodynamics phenomenon of viscous generalized cosmic Chaplygin gas as a cosmic fluid by assuming the flat FRW universe. For this purpose, we extract various parameters such as the energy density...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
177 Citations
7,041 Views
24 Pages

Revisiting a Negative Cosmological Constant from Low-Redshift Data

  • Luca Visinelli,
  • Sunny Vagnozzi and
  • Ulf Danielsson

10 August 2019

Persisting tensions between high-redshift and low-redshift cosmological observations suggest the dark energy sector of the Universe might be more complex than the positive cosmological constant of the Λ CDM model. Motivated by string theory, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,430 Views
21 Pages

Damage Characteristics Analysis of the Truncated Cone-Shaped PELE Projectile

  • Liangliang Ding,
  • Jingyuan Zhou,
  • Wenhui Tang and
  • Xianwen Ran

9 August 2019

The PELE (penetrator with enhanced lateral efficiency) projectile is a new type of penetrator, which has both penetration and fragmentation effects. The damage characteristics of the PELE projectile have never been studied from the perspective of cha...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
47 Citations
3,959 Views
8 Pages

9 August 2019

Molecular conformation as a subproblem of the geometrical shaping of the molecules is essential for the expression of biological activity. It is well known that from the series of all possible sugars, those that are most naturally occurring and usabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,045 Views
18 Pages

A New on-Demand Recharging Strategy Based on Cycle-Limitation in a WRSN

  • Yuhou Wang,
  • Ying Dong,
  • Shiyuan Li,
  • Ruoyu Huang and
  • Yuhao Shang

9 August 2019

Recently, Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) have been attracting increasing attention and seen rapid development. However, in previous studies, pioneering work on charging issues and data gathering strategies are always discussed separate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,746 Views
14 Pages

9 August 2019

This article presents a multilevel design for infill patterns. The method partitions an input model into subareas and each subarea are applied with different scales of infill patterns. The number of subareas can be decided by users. For each subarea,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,002 Views
21 Pages

From Symmetry to Asymmetry on the Disc Manifold: Modeling of Marion Island Data

  • Andriette Bekker,
  • Priyanka Nagar,
  • Mohammad Arashi and
  • Hannes Rautenbach

9 August 2019

The joint modeling of angular and linear observations is crucial as data of this nature are prevalent in multiple disciplines, for example the joint modeling of wind direction and another climatological variable such as wind speed or air temperature,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,726 Views
23 Pages

9 August 2019

The paper is basically dedicated to the problem of effort estimation for the Product Backlog items of IT projects led accordingly to the Scrum framework. The effort estimation issue is important, because low quality estimation decreases the efficienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,918 Views
13 Pages

9 August 2019

This paper considers a generalized double dispersion equation depending on a nonlinear function f ( u ) and four arbitrary parameters. This equation describes nonlinear dispersive waves in 2 + 1 dimensions and admits a Lagrangian formulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,870 Views
17 Pages

Attention Bilinear Pooling for Fine-Grained Classification

  • Wenqian Wang,
  • Jun Zhang and
  • Fenglei Wang

9 August 2019

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging problem because of its large intra-class differences and low inter-class variance. Bilinear pooling based models have been shown to be effective at fine-grained classification, while most previous ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,879 Views
21 Pages

The Maximum Hosoya Index of Unicyclic Graphs with Diameter at Most Four

  • Weijun Liu,
  • Jingwen Ban,
  • Lihua Feng,
  • Tao Cheng,
  • Frank Emmert-Streib and
  • Matthias Dehmer

9 August 2019

The Hosoya index of a graph is defined by the total number of the matchings of the graph. In this paper, we determine the maximum Hosoya index of unicyclic graphs with n vertices and diameter 3 or 4. Our results somewhat answer a question proposed by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,776 Views
10 Pages

Asymmetry of Quantum Correlations Decay in Nonlinear Bosonic System

  • Anna Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk and
  • Grzegorz Chimczak

8 August 2019

We study the problem of the influence of one-sided different noisy channels to the quantum correlations decay in a symmetric bosonic system. We concentrate on one type of these correlations—the entanglement. The system under consideration is co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,856 Views
15 Pages

Diffusive and Anti-Diffusive Behavior for Kinetic Models of Opinion Dynamics

  • Mirosław Lachowicz,
  • Henryk Leszczyński and
  • Elżbieta Puźniakowska–Gałuch

8 August 2019

In the present paper, we study a class of nonlinear integro-differential equations of a kinetic type describing the dynamics of opinion for two types of societies: conformist ( σ = 1 ) and anti-conformist ( σ = 1 ). The essential role i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,333 Views
15 Pages

Public Key Protocols over Twisted Dihedral Group Rings

  • María Dolores Gómez Olvera,
  • Juan Antonio López Ramos and
  • Blas Torrecillas Jover

7 August 2019

Key management is a central problem in information security. The development of quantum computation could make the protocols we currently use unsecure. Because of that, new structures and hard problems are being proposed. In this work, we give a prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,699 Views
12 Pages

7 August 2019

Quantum behavior of two oscillator modes, with mutually balanced gain and loss and coupled via linear coupling (including energy conserving as well as energy non-conserving terms) and nonlinear cross-Kerr effect, is investigated. Stationary states ar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
232 Citations
28,879 Views
26 Pages

An Overview of End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition

  • Dong Wang,
  • Xiaodong Wang and
  • Shaohe Lv

7 August 2019

Automatic speech recognition, especially large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, is an important issue in the field of machine learning. For a long time, the hidden Markov model (HMM)-Gaussian mixed model (GMM) has been the mainstream speech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,184 Views
23 Pages

Modeling the Performance Indicators of Financial Assets with Neutrosophic Fuzzy Numbers

  • Marcel-Ioan Bolos,
  • Ioana-Alexandra Bradea and
  • Camelia Delcea

7 August 2019

This research sets the basis for modeling the performance indicators of financial assets using triangular neutrosophic fuzzy numbers. This type of number allows for the modeling of financial assets performance indicators by taking into consideration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,115 Views
22 Pages

7 August 2019

In road construction, environmental protection issues often become a challenge, both in the case of new routes and the existing network expansion projects. A number of specific issues are involved in severing of bat commuting routes and the relevant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,636 Views
9 Pages

Self-Consistent Two-Gap Description of MgB2 Superconductor

  • Hyunsoo Kim,
  • Kyuil Cho,
  • Makariy A. Tanatar,
  • Valentin Taufour,
  • Stella K. Kim,
  • Sergey L. Bud’ko,
  • Paul C. Canfield,
  • Vladimir G. Kogan and
  • Ruslan Prozorov

6 August 2019

A self-consistent two-gap γ -model is used to quantitatively describe several thermodynamic properties of MgB 2 superconductor. The superconducting coupling matrix, ν i j , was obtained from the fitting of the superflui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,712 Views
14 Pages

The Hosoya Entropy of Graphs Revisited

  • Modjtaba Ghorbani,
  • Matthias Dehmer,
  • Abbe Mowshowitz,
  • Jin Tao and
  • Frank Emmert-Streib

6 August 2019

In this paper we extend earlier results on Hosoya entropy (H-entropy) of graphs, and establish connections between H-entropy and automorphisms of graphs. In particular, we determine the H-entropy of graphs whose automorphism group has exactly two orb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,848 Views
29 Pages

6 August 2019

Development of railway infrastructure at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the speeds of trains in passenger and freight traffic are the result of improving the structure of modern rail vehicles and railway infrastructure optimizati...

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