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Symmetry, Volume 12, Issue 8

2020 August - 181 articles

Cover Story: The visible electronic absorption band of pyridinium dicarbethoxy methylid due to intramolecular charge transfer can be used to characterize the excited electronic state. This band is very sensitive to the solvent nature, allowing the determination of the nature and strength of intermolecular interactions. View this paper.
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Articles (181)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,323 Views
16 Pages

Lagrange Multiplier Test for Spatial Autoregressive Model with Latent Variables

  • Anik Anekawati,
  • Bambang Widjanarko Otok,
  • Purhadi Purhadi and
  • Sutikno Sutikno

18 August 2020

The focus of this research is to develop a Lagrange multiplier (LM) test of spatial dependence for the spatial autoregressive model (SAR) with latent variables (LVs). It was arranged by the standard SAR, where the independent variables were replaced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,942 Views
20 Pages

A Fast and Noise Tolerable Binarization Method for Automatic License Plate Recognition in the Open Environment in Taiwan

  • Chun-Cheng Peng,
  • Cheng-Jung Tsai,
  • Ting-Yi Chang,
  • Jen-Yuan Yeh,
  • Hsun Dai and
  • Min-Hsiu Tsai

18 August 2020

License plate recognition is widely used in our daily life. Image binarization, which is a process to convert an image to white and black, is an important step of license plate recognition. Among the proposed binarization methods, Otsu method is the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,558 Views
45 Pages

18 August 2020

The Transactional Interpretation of quantum mechanics exploits the intrinsic time-symmetry of wave mechanics to interpret the ψ and ψ* wave functions present in all wave mechanics calculations as representing retarded and advanced waves movin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,432 Views
24 Pages

18 August 2020

Developmental noise—which level may vary within a certain backlash allowed by natural selection—is a reflection of the state of a developing system or developmental stability. Phenotypic variations inside the genetically determined norm o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,697 Views
15 Pages

18 August 2020

To enrich the form of film and television production, improve the level of film and television production, and satisfy the film-watching experiences of audiences, based on Virtual Reality (VR) and the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, with the hel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,606 Views
13 Pages

18 August 2020

In this paper, we mainly put the Lie symmetry analysis method on the Gibbons-Tsarev equation (GTe) to obtain some new results, including some Lie symmetries, one-parameter transformation groups, explicit invariant solutions in the form of power serie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,170 Views
15 Pages

18 August 2020

The paper is focused on Taylor series expansion for statistical analysis of functions of random variables with special attention to correlated input random variables. It is shown that the standard approach leads to significant deviations in estimated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,492 Views
19 Pages

18 August 2020

The current nondestructive testing methods such as ultrasonic, magnetic, or eddy current signals, and even the existing image processing methods, present certain challenges and show a lack of flexibility in building an effective and real-time quality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,134 Views
12 Pages

A Definition of Two-Dimensional Schoenberg Type Operators

  • Camelia Liliana Moldovan and
  • Radu Păltănea

17 August 2020

In this paper, a way to build two-dimensional Schoenberg type operators with arbitrary knots or with equidistant knots, respectively, is presented. The order of approximation reached by these operators was studied by obtaining a Voronovskaja type asy...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,730 Views
27 Pages

17 August 2020

Motion and radiative transitions of an electron in a magnetic field under the influence of an external electromagnetic wave are studied for various confining conditions in semiconductor, graphene, in quantum wells, and relativistic generalization in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,074 Views
23 Pages

17 August 2020

As an effective carrier of renewable distributed power sources, such as wind power and photovoltaics, microgrids have attracted increasing attention as the energy crisis becomes more serious. This paper focuses on the symmetry between the dynamic opt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,347 Views
57 Pages

Characterisation and Manipulation of Polarisation Response in Plasmonic and Magneto-Plasmonic Nanostructures and Metamaterials

  • Pritam Khan,
  • Grace Brennan,
  • James Lillis,
  • Syed A. M. Tofail,
  • Ning Liu and
  • Christophe Silien

17 August 2020

Optical properties of metal nanostructures, governed by the so-called localised surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effects, have invoked intensive investigations in recent times owing to their fundamental nature and potential applications. LSPR scatter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,771 Views
14 Pages

17 August 2020

In this paper, we study the problem of minimizing a general quadratic function subject to a quadratic inequality constraint with a fixed number of additional linear inequality constraints. Under a regularity condition, we first introduce two convex q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,187 Views
12 Pages

Recognition of Stator Winding Inter-Turn Fault in Interior-Mount LSPMSM Using Acoustic Signals

  • Luqman S. Maraaba,
  • Ssennoga Twaha,
  • Azhar Memon and
  • Zakariya Al-Hamouz

17 August 2020

This paper presents a novel stator inter-turn fault diagnosis method for Line Start Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (LSPMSMs) using the frequency analysis of acoustic signals resulting from asymmetrical faults. In this method, acoustic data are e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,407 Views
25 Pages

17 August 2020

In view of the structural form and common construction methods of traffic tunnels, the bearing performance of the closed-type CFST support designed for traffic tunnels is studied. The closed-type CFST support, which consist of a CFST girder with exte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,303 Views
14 Pages

17 August 2020

With the increasing automation of mechanical equipment, fault diagnosis becomes more and more important. However, the factors that cause mechanical failures are becoming more and more complex, and the uncertainty and coupling between the factors are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,498 Views
22 Pages

14 August 2020

Under the double pressure of global energy consumption and climate change, nuclear power has become a low-carbon alternative energy source that could transform the energy structure of the globe. In the nuclear power industry, selecting suitable suppl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,698 Views
24 Pages

Simulation of Boiling Heat Transfer at Different Reduced Temperatures with an Improved Pseudopotential Lattice Boltzmann Method

  • Matheus dos Santos Guzella,
  • Luiz Eduardo Czelusniak,
  • Vinícius Pessoa Mapelli,
  • Pablo Fariñas Alvariño,
  • Gherhardt Ribatski and
  • Luben Cabezas-Gómez

14 August 2020

The pseudopotential Lattice Boltzmann Method has attracted much attention in the recent years for the simulation of boiling heat transfer. Many studies have been published recently for the simulation of the bubble cycle (nucleation, growth and depart...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,336 Views
22 Pages

14 August 2020

The shortest path problem is a topic of increasing interest in various scientific fields. The damage to roads and bridges caused by disasters makes traffic routes that can be accurately expressed become indeterminate. A neutrosophic set is a collecti...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,946 Views
12 Pages

14 August 2020

This express brief deals with the problem of the state variables regulation in the ball and beam system by applying the discrete-inverse optimal control approach. The ball and beam system model is defined by a set of four-order nonlinear differential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,618 Views
17 Pages

Combination of the Single-Valued Neutrosophic Fuzzy Set and the Soft Set with Applications in Decision-Making

  • Ahmed Mostafa Khalil,
  • Dunqian Cao,
  • Abdelfatah Azzam,
  • Florentin Smarandache and
  • Wedad R. Alharbi

14 August 2020

In this article, we propose a novel concept of the single-valued neutrosophic fuzzy soft set by combining the single-valued neutrosophic fuzzy set and the soft set. For possible applications, five kinds of operations (e.g., subset, equal, union, inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,697 Views
18 Pages

14 August 2020

Seeking truth is an important objective of agents in social groups. Opinion leaders in social groups may help or hinder the other agents on seeking the truth by symmetric nature. This paper studies the impact of opinion leaders by considering four ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,165 Views
15 Pages

14 August 2020

Consensus string is a significant feature of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence. The median string is one of the most popular exact algorithms to find DNA consensus. A DNA sequence is represented using the alphabet Σ= {a, c, g, t}. The algo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,205 Views
17 Pages

13 August 2020

In this paper, a non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) coded high-order continuous phase modulation (CPM) system is designed and optimized to improve power and iterative efficiencies. Firstly, the minimum squared normalized Euclidean distance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,102 Views
15 Pages

Cloud Computing Services: Taxonomy of Discovery Approaches and Extraction Solutions

  • Fathey Mohammed,
  • Abdullah Marish Ali,
  • Abdullah Saad Al-Malaise Al-Ghamdi,
  • Fawaz Alsolami,
  • Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin and
  • Fathy E. Eassa

13 August 2020

Cloud computing offers new features of sharing resources and applications to meet users’ computing requirements. It is a model by which the users can access computing resources as services offered on the Internet (cloud services). Cloud service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,335 Views
10 Pages

13 August 2020

In this paper, two forms of an exact solution and an analytical–numerical solution of the three-term fractional differential equation with the Caputo derivatives are presented. The Prabhakar function and an asymptotic expansion are utilized to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,803 Views
17 Pages

Non-Linear Behaviors of Transient Periodic Plasma Dynamics in a Multifractal Paradigm

  • Stefan-Andrei Irimiciuc,
  • Alexandra Saviuc,
  • Florin Tudose-Sandu-Ville,
  • Stefan Toma,
  • Florin Nedeff,
  • Cristina Marcela Rusu and
  • Maricel Agop

13 August 2020

In a multifractal paradigm of motion, nonlinear behavior of transient periodic plasmas, such as Schrodinger and hydrodynamic-type regimes, at various scale resolutions are represented. In a stationary case of Schrodinger-type regimes, the functionali...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
44,520 Views
24 Pages

A Review on Electronic Payments Security

  • Md Arif Hassan,
  • Zarina Shukur,
  • Mohammad Kamrul Hasan and
  • Ahmed Salih Al-Khaleefa

12 August 2020

Modern technology is turning into an essential element in the financial trade. We focus the emphasis of this review on the research on the E-wallet and online payment, which is an element of an electric payment system, to get the pattern of using thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,368 Views
10 Pages

12 August 2020

Leaves, as the most important photosynthetic organ of plants, are intimately associated with plant function and adaptation to environmental changes. The scaling relationship of the leaf dry mass (or the fresh mass) vs. leaf surface area has been refe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,205 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2020

In this paper, we study the number of limit cycles of a new class of polynomial differential systems, which is an extended work of two families of differential systems in systems considered earlier. We obtain the maximum number of limit cycles that b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,652 Views
11 Pages

12 August 2020

Based on the discrete phase model (DPM), solid–liquid two-phase flow calculation, particle settling theory and MATLAB image processing technology, the influence of the installation position of submersible pumps on the deposition characteristics...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,603 Views
53 Pages

12 August 2020

The interaction of the actin cytoskeleton with cell–substrate adhesions is necessary for cell migration. While the trajectories of motile cells have a stochastic character, investigations of cell motility mechanisms rarely elaborate on the orig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,825 Views
20 Pages

12 August 2020

While the importance of Corporate Sociable Responsibility (CSR) has been widely acknowledged, research on how to guide a company in evaluating and improving its CSR performance is relatively under-explored. This paper adopts the predominant framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,403 Views
14 Pages

12 August 2020

High competition between universities has been increasing over the years, and stimulates higher education institutions to attain higher positions in the ranking list. Ranking is an important performance indicator of university status evaluation, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,380 Views
20 Pages

Do Products Respond to User Desires? A Case Study. Errors and Successes in the Design Process, under the Umbrella of Emotional Design

  • María Alonso-García,
  • Miguel-Ángel Pardo-Vicente,
  • Lucía Rodríguez-Parada and
  • Daniel Moreno Nieto

12 August 2020

This article introduces a methodological approach to the evaluation of different industrial products according to Norman’s approach and dimensions, focusing on a specific case study. The study also shows different possibilities to guide industr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,353 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2020

In order to solve the problem of environmental governance investment planning in the transportation industry, a cost prediction model is proposed under technological constraints, where the input output indictors emphasizes the flexibility of predicti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,777 Views
25 Pages

11 August 2020

Product evaluation is very important for product improvement and development, and subjective product evaluation determines customer’s evaluation of products to some extent, so the purpose of this study is to establish a reasonable subjective pr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,932 Views
16 Pages

Computational Properties of General Indices on Random Networks

  • R. Aguilar-Sánchez,
  • I. F. Herrera-González,
  • J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez and
  • José M. Sigarreta

11 August 2020

We perform a detailed (computational) scaling study of well-known general indices (the first and second variable Zagreb indices, M1α(G) and M2α(G), and the general sum-connectivity index, χα(G)) as well as of general versions of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,791 Views
16 Pages

11 August 2020

Narrowband Internet of Things is one of the most promising technologies to support low cost, massive connection, deep coverage, and low power consumption. In this paper, a computationally efficient narrowband secondary synchronization signal detectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,123 Views
21 Pages

11 August 2020

In this study, the problem of axisymmetric deformation of peripherally fixed and uniformly laterally loaded circular membranes with arbitrary initial stress is solved analytically. This problem could be called the generalized Föppl–Hencky...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,284 Views
23 Pages

10 August 2020

In this article, we propose a new modified extragradient-like method to solve pseudomonotone equilibrium problems in real Hilbert space with a Lipschitz-type condition on a bifunction. This method uses a variable stepsize formula that is updated at e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,091 Views
26 Pages

10 August 2020

In this paper, we define a gyrogeometric mean on the Einstein gyrovector space. It satisfies several properties one would expect for means. For example, it is permutation-invariant and left-translation invariant. It is already known that the Einstein...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,338 Views
33 Pages

10 August 2020

Electric vehicles are a major trend in research and development in the automobile industry. A vehicle’s handling ability is changed when the structure of the power system is altered, which is more obvious in medium-sized buses with higher load...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,868 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2020

Based on a new kind of analytical approach, namely the Optimal Auxiliary Functions Method (OAFM), a new analytical procedure is proposed to solve the problem of the annular axisymmetric stagnation flow and heat transfer on a moving cylinder with fini...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,243 Views
14 Pages

10 August 2020

Time reversal invariance (TRI) of particles systems has many consequences, among which the celebrated Onsager reciprocal relations, a milestone in Statistical Mechanics dating back to 1931. Because for a long time it was believed that (TRI) dos not h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,504 Views
18 Pages

10 August 2020

In this paper, we propose a new three-parameter lifetime distribution for modeling symmetric real-life data sets. A simple-type Copula-based construction is presented to derive many bivariate- and multivariate-type distributions. The failure rate fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,166 Views
15 Pages

Design, Construction, and Characterization of a New Regioisomer and Diastereomer Material Based on the Spirooxindole Scaffold Incorporating a Sulphone Function

  • Abdullah Mohammed Al-Majid,
  • Saied M. Soliman,
  • Matti Haukka,
  • M. Ali,
  • Mohammad Shahidul Islam,
  • Mohammed Rafi Shaik and
  • Assem Barakat

10 August 2020

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction is one of the most rapid, and efficient protocols to access, and construct highly divergent heterocycle chiral auxiliaries. Free catalyst synthesis of spirooxindole scaffold incorporating sulphone moiety via one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,042 Views
7 Pages

10 August 2020

The transverse momentum pT spectra of both hadrons and jets produced in pp collisions at beam energies from hundreds GeV to a few TeV exhibit power-law behavior of 1/pTn at high pT, with similar power indices n. The respective nonextensivity paramete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,327 Views
21 Pages

10 August 2020

Based on the symmetrical public transportation network data of Xi’an, China obtained by geographic information system (GIS) technology in 2019, three urban public transportation indexes of walking accessibility, bus accessibility, and metro acc...

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