Symmetry, Volume 12, Issue 3

The purpose of this study is to provide a method to investigate the effects of thermal relaxation times in a poroelastic material by using the finite element method. The formulations are applied under the Green and Lindsay model, with four thermal re...

This paper presents a virtual private storage framework (VPSF) using Internet of Things (IoT) local networks. The VPSF uses the extra storage space of sensor devices in an IoT local network to store users’ private data, while guaranteeing expec...

Aiming at the problems of poor efficiency of the intelligent fault diagnosis method of the main reducer and the poor effectiveness of multichannel data fusion, this paper proposes a multichannel data fusion method based on deep belief networks and ra...

Multiple attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) methods have a significant influence on decision-making in a variety of strategic fields, including science, business and real-life studies. The problem of evaluation in green building energy-saving de...

Digital watermarking has been utilized effectively for copyright protection of multimedia contents. This paper suggests a blind symmetric watermarking algorithm using fan beam transform (FBT) and QR decomposition (QRD) for color images. At first, the...

In this article, the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of Casson nanofluid with thermal radiation over an unsteady shrinking surface is investigated. The equation of momentum is derived from the Navier–Stokes model for non-Newtonian fluid where co...

Space non-integer order convection–diffusion descriptions are generalized form of integer order convection–diffusion problems expressing super diffusive and convective transport processes. In this article, we propose finite difference app...

As the Moore’s law era will draw to a close, some domain-specific architectures even non-Von Neumann systems have been presented to keep the progress. This paper proposes novel annealing in memory (AIM) architecture to implement Ising calculati...

Our primary objective is to construct a plausible, unified model of inflation, dark energy and dark matter from a fundamental Lagrangian action first principle, wherein all fundamental ingredients are systematically dynamically generated starting fro...

Guillain–Barré Syndrome (GBS) is an unusual disorder where the body’s immune system affects the peripheral nervous system. GBS has four main subtypes, whose treatments vary among them. Severe cases of GBS can be fatal. This work ai...

In this paper, we deal with the asymptotics and oscillation of the solutions of fourth-order neutral differential equations of the form ${\left(r\left(t\right){\left(z^{‴}\left(t\right)\right)}^{\alpha }\right)}^{\prime }+q\left(t\right)x^{\alpha }\left(g\left(t\right)\right)=0,$ where $z\left(t\right):=x\left(t\right)+p$...

This manuscript investigates the fractional Phi-four equation by using $q$ -homotopy analysis transform method ( $q$ -HATM) numerically. The Phi-four equation is obtained from one of the special cases of the Klein-Gordon model. Moreover, it is u...

In this study, a general type-2 fractional order fuzzy PID (GT2FO-FPID) controller is proposed to fulfil the balance adjustment of the Power-line Inspection (PLI) robot system. It is a combination of Mamdani general type-2 fuzzy logic controller (GT2...

Since it is difficult for lateral stiffness of rope-guided rails to meet industry criteria in deep construction shaft, schematic diagrams of displacement suppression mechanisms (DSMs) are designed with a systematic approach demonstrated to reduce the...

Numerical simulations are performed to examine the effect of size of control rods (d1) and spacing ratio (g) on flow around a square rod with upstream and downstream control rods aligned in-line using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The Reynolds...

In the current paper, we study a majorization issue for a general category ${\mathcal{S}}^{*}\left(\vartheta \right)$ of starlike functions, the region of which is often symmetric with respect to the real axis. For various special symmetric functions $\mathrm{\&thetasy}$...

D- and most L-enantiomers of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing compounds occur naturally in plants and other organisms. These enantiomers play many important roles in plants including building up biomass, defense against pathogens, herbivory,...

In this paper, a modified interval-valued variational control problem involving first-order partial differential equations (PDEs) and inequality constraints is investigated. Specifically, under some generalized convexity assumptions, we formulate and...

Cutter rings form an integral part of tunnel boring machines (TBM). These cutters are deployed in various hard rock tunneling projects. The life of the cutter rings governs the economics of tunneling significantly. This paper presents a novel methodo...

The presented study analyzes the usage of the didactic efficiency of multiple representations in a computer environment in learning absolute value functions and equations. It is known that the axis of symmetry of the graph of the absolute value funct...

In the real world, multi-objective optimization problems always change over time in most projects. Once the environment changes, the distribution of the optimal solutions would also be changed in decision space. Sometimes, such change may obey the la...

In this paper, we focus on the bending behavior of isotropic doubly-curved nanoshells based on a high-order shear deformation theory, whose shape functions are selected as an accurate combination of exponential and trigonometric functions instead of...

In this paper, we initiate the notion of Ćirić type rational graphic $\left(\mathsf{{\rm Y}},\Lambda \right)$ -contraction pair mappings and provide some new related common fixed point results on partial b-metric spaces endowed with a directed graph G. We also gi...

We discuss the possibility that inflation is driven by supersymmetry breaking with the scalar component of the goldstino superfield (sgoldstino) playing the role of the inflaton and charged under a gauged $U\left(1\right)$ R-symmetry. Imposing a linear...

A dynamic model is structurally identifiable (respectively, observable) if it is theoretically possible to infer its unknown parameters (respectively, states) by observing its output over time. The two properties, structural identifiability and obser...

This paper presents a three-parameter family of distributions which includes the common exponential and the Marshall–Olkin exponential as special cases. This distribution exhibits a monotone failure rate function, which makes it appealing for p...

In this article, we focus on improving the sub-gradient extra-gradient method to find a solution to the problems of pseudo-monotone equilibrium in a real Hilbert space. The weak convergence of our method is well-established based on the standard assu...

Gearbox is an important structure of rotating machinery, and the accurate fault diagnosis of gearboxes is of great significance for ensuring efficient and safe operation of rotating machinery. Aiming at the problem that there is little common compoun...

One of the advantages of multimedia-assisted instruction is that it makes students more interested in sustainable learning and assists them to access information and learn more effectively. This research sought to explore the asymmetric effects of th...

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) dramatically compromises the free and complete development of many women around the world, therefore leading to social asymmetry regarding the right to personal safety. In many cases, a woman who has reported her partn...

We consider the magnetic monopole in the axionic dark matter environment (axionic dyon) in the framework of the Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter model. Our aim is to study the distribution of the pseudoscalar (axion) and electric fields near the so-...

This editorial paper presents a special issue devoted to the development of mathematical tools from kinetic and swarms theory to the modeling and simulations of the dynamics of living systems constituted by very many interacting living entities. Appl...

Smart agriculture systems with combinations of advanced technologies are used in an attempt to increase the competence of certain farming activities and the standard of living for farm employees by reducing significant labor and tedious tasks. Intern...

Symmetries play very important roles in the dynamics of electrical systems. The relevant electronic circuits with fault diagnostics, including the optimized neural network algorithm model, are designed on the basis of symmetry principles. In order to...

We use a conformable fractional derivative $G_T^{\alpha }$ through two kernels $T(t,\alpha )=e^{(\alpha -1)t}$ and $T(t,\alpha )=t^{1-\alpha }$ in order to model the alcohol concentration...

In general, the group decompositions are formulated by employing automorphisms and semidirect products to determine continuity and compactification properties. This paper proposes a set of constructions of novel topological decompositions of groups a...

High-dynamic range imaging technology is an effective method to improve the limitations of a camera’s dynamic range. However, most current high-dynamic imaging technologies are based on image fusion of multiple frames with different exposure le...

Accurate detection and identification of obstacles plays an important role in the navigation and behavior planning of the patrol robot. Aiming at the patrol robot with camera mounted symmetrically, an obstacle detection method based on structural con...

We provide a comprehensive overview of metric-affine geometries with spherical symmetry, which may be used in order to solve the field equations for generic gravity theories which employ these geometries as their field variables. We discuss the most...

This paper presents a failure prediction model using iterative feature selection, which aims to accurately predict the failure occurrences in industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments. In general, vast amounts of data are collected from vario...

A low-light image enhancement method based on a deep symmetric encoder–decoder convolutional network (LLED-Net) is proposed in the paper. In surveillance and tactical reconnaissance, collecting visual information from a dynamic environment and...

This paper is concerned with the problem of finite-time control for nonlinear systems with time-varying delay and exogenous disturbance, which can be represented by a Takagi–Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy model. First, by constructing a novel augmented Lya...

In recent years, the common algorithms for image super-resolution based on deep learning have been increasingly successful, but there is still a large gap between the results generated by each algorithm and the ground-truth. Even some algorithms that...

Although security is an integral aspect of any web application’s growth, sustainability is also a pivotal factor in maintaining the web application. It is clear that the software industry aims to develop different methods and initiatives for ac...

In this work, material symmetries in homogenized composites are analyzed. Composite materials are described as materials made of rigid particles and elastic interfaces. Rigid particles of arbitrary hexagonal shape are considered and their geometry de...

Although the Poisson distribution is appropriate for modelling equi-dispersed distributions, it reflects bimodality less well. In this paper, we propose a distribution which is more suitable for the latter purpose. It can be fitted to both positively...

By using the contemporary theory of inequalities, this study is devoted to proposing a number of refinements inequalities for the Hermite-Hadamard’s type inequality and conclude explicit bounds for two new definitions of $(p_1{p}_2,q_{}$...

Biometrics is a scientific technology to recognize a person using their physical, behavior or chemical attributes. Biometrics is nowadays widely being used in several daily applications ranging from smart device user authentication to border crossing...

The drawback of several metaheuristic algorithms is the dropped local optimal trap in the solution to complicated problems. The diversity team is one of the promising ways to enhance the exploration of searching solutions in algorithm to avoid the lo...

We propose a bicosmology model which reduces to the classical analog of noncommutative quantum mechanics. From this point of view, one of the sources in the so modified Friedmann-Robertson- Walker equations is a kind of dark energy governed by a Chap...