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Symmetry, Volume 13, Issue 1

January 2021 - 154 articles

Cover Story: The blossom of a cyclamen contains different elements of chirality, the sepals and the petals. The molecule Ibuprofen contains different elements of chirality, the configuration at Cα, the conformation of the bond Cα–C’, and the flat tetrahedron of the formerly planar carboxylic group CαC’OOH, which interact selectively. View this paper.
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Articles (154)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,941 Views
17 Pages

Properties of Quantizer and Dequantizer Operators for Qudit States and Parametric Down-Conversion

  • Peter Adam,
  • Vladimir A. Andreev,
  • Margarita A. Man’ko,
  • Vladimir I. Man’ko and
  • Matyas Mechler

14 January 2021

We review the method of quantizers and dequantizers to construct an invertible map of the density operators onto functions including probability distributions and discuss in detail examples of qubit and qutrit states. The biphoton states existing in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,655 Views
14 Pages

14 January 2021

The problem of setting prices for construction works is significant for both the investor and contractor companies. The periodically occurring instabilities in the economy require investment process participants to perform detailed market analyses an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,340 Views
20 Pages

Design and Optimization of a Fuzzy Logic System for Academic Performance Prediction

  • Juan A. Rojas,
  • Helbert E. Espitia and
  • Lilian A. Bejarano

14 January 2021

Currently, in Colombia, different problems in education exist; one of them is the inconvenience in tracing and controlling the learning trajectories that decide the topics taught in the country’s educational institutions. This work aims to impl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,770 Views
27 Pages

14 January 2021

The Stern–Gerlach experiment is notoriously counter-intuitive. The official theory is that the spin of a fermion remains always aligned with the magnetic field. Its directions are thus quantized: It can only be spin-up or spin-down. However, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,666 Views
11 Pages

Analysis of Fractal Structures in Dehydrated Films of Protein Solutions

  • Maksim Baranov,
  • Elena Velichko and
  • Konstantin Greshnevikov

13 January 2021

The article deals with dendritic structures resulting from self-organization processes in aqueous solutions of albumin proteins. The methods for obtaining the structures and experimental results are presented. It is shown that dendrites are fractal s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,848 Views
16 Pages

13 January 2021

We study the hadron–quark hybrid equation of state (EOS) of compact-star matter. The Nambu–Jona-Lasinio (NJL) local SU (3) model with vector-type interaction is used to describe the quark matter phase, while the relativistic mean field (R...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,418 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2021

Access management of IoT devices is extremely important, and a secure login authentication scheme can effectively protect users’ privacy. However, traditional authentication schemes are threatened by shoulder-surfing attacks, and biometric-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,941 Views
18 Pages

Influence of Mach Number of Main Flow on Film Cooling Characteristics under Supersonic Condition

  • Bo Zhang,
  • Yuan-Xiang Chen,
  • Zhi-guo Wang,
  • Ji-Quan Li and
  • Hong-hu Ji

13 January 2021

The flow and heat transfer characteristics of a film jet inclined to different supersonic situations with a varying Mach number of the main flow were numerically investigated. In supersonic situations, complicated waves are generated by the obstacle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,428 Views
16 Pages

Unpaired Image Denoising via Wasserstein GAN in Low-Dose CT Image with Multi-Perceptual Loss and Fidelity Loss

  • Zhixian Yin,
  • Kewen Xia,
  • Ziping He,
  • Jiangnan Zhang,
  • Sijie Wang and
  • Baokai Zu

13 January 2021

The use of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in medical practice can effectively reduce the radiation risk of patients, but it may increase noise and artefacts, which can compromise diagnostic information. The methods based on deep learning can eff...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
12,566 Views
18 Pages

Research Review on Parking Space Detection Method

  • Yong Ma,
  • Yangguo Liu,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Yuanlong Cao,
  • Shihui Guo and
  • Hanxi Li

13 January 2021

The parking assist system is an essential application of the car’s active collision avoidance system in low-speed and complex urban environments, which has been a hot research topic in recent years. Parking space detection is an important step...

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