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Symmetry, Volume 13, Issue 2

2021 February - 209 articles

Cover Story: As a tetrahedron could be assembled out of four identical pieces, a tetramer of phosphonic acid self-assembles out of four chemically equivalent monomers. Each monomer is interlinked to three others, which sums up to eight strong hydrogen bonds per tetramer, giving a robust and rigid structure to the resulting cage-like supramolecular complex. View this paper.
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Articles (209)

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,022 Views
21 Pages

On the Development of Triple Homogeneously Weighted Moving Average Control Chart

  • Muhammad Riaz,
  • Zameer Abbas,
  • Hafiz Zafar Nazir and
  • Muhammad Abid

23 February 2021

To detect sustainable changes in the manufacturing processes, memory-type charting schemes are frequently functioning. The recently designed, homogenously weighted moving average (HWMA) technique is effective for identifying substantial changes in th...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,862 Views
6 Pages

Isolation and Structure Elucidation of a Novel Symmetrical Macrocyclic Phthalate Hexaester

  • Michiya Kamio,
  • Weina Jiang,
  • Hiroki Osada,
  • Masayuki Fukuoka,
  • Hajime Uchida,
  • Ryuichi Watanabe,
  • Toshiyuki Suzuki and
  • Hiroshi Nagai

23 February 2021

A novel symmetrical macrocyclic phthalate hexaester (1) and a known macrocyclic phthalate tetraester (2) were isolated during a natural product-exploring program on the cyanobacterium Moorea producens. Their structures were elucidated based on spectr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,990 Views
20 Pages

GLM-Based Flexible Monitoring Methods: An Application to Real-Time Highway Safety Surveillance

  • Arshad Jamal,
  • Tahir Mahmood,
  • Muhamad Riaz and
  • Hassan M. Al-Ahmadi

23 February 2021

Statistical modeling of historical crash data can provide essential insights to safety managers for proactive highway safety management. While numerous studies have contributed to the advancement from the statistical methodological front, minimal res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,607 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2021

This paper adopts the Kinetic Theory for Active Particles (KTAP) approach to model the dynamics of liquidity profiles on a complex adaptive network system that mimic a stylized financial market. Individual incentives of investors to form or delete a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,335 Views
11 Pages

22 February 2021

The dynamics of two charged qubits containing Josephson Junctions inside a cavity are investigated under the intrinsic decoherence effect. New types of quantum correlations via local quantum Fisher information and Bures distance norm are explored. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,279 Views
9 Pages

Sliding Mode Control and Geometrization Conjecture in Seismic Response

  • Ligia Munteanu,
  • Dan Dumitriu,
  • Cornel Brisan,
  • Mircea Bara,
  • Veturia Chiroiu,
  • Nicoleta Nedelcu and
  • Cristian Rugina

22 February 2021

The purpose of this paper is to study the sliding mode control as a Ricci flow process in the context of a three-story building structure subjected to seismic waves. The stability conditions result from two Lyapunov functions, the first associated wi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,341 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2021

Using a special case of the Efros theorem which was derived by Wlodarski, and operational calculus, it was possible to derive many infinite integrals, finite integrals and integral identities for the function represented by the inverse Laplace transf...

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

22 February 2021

The ocean occupies more than two-thirds of the earth’s area, providing a lot of oxygen and materials for human survival and development. However, with human activities, a large number of sewage, plastic bags, and other wastes are discharged into the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,666 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2021

Plant species recognition from visual data has always been a challenging task for Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers, due to a number of complications in the task, such as the enormous data to be processed due to vast number of floral species....

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
12,687 Views
28 Pages

22 February 2021

The ageing population’s problems directly impact countries’ socio-economic structure, as more resources are required to monitor the aged population’s health. The growth in human life expectancy is increasing due to medical technologies and nutritiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,349 Views
8 Pages

22 February 2021

Bootstrapped Newtonian gravity was developed with the purpose of estimating the impact of quantum physics in the nonlinear regime of the gravitational interaction, akin to corpuscular models of black holes and inflation. In this work, we set the grou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,513 Views
12 Pages

22 February 2021

In this paper, we study two-dimensional divisor problems of the Fourier coefficients of some automorphic product L-functions attached to the primitive holomorphic cusp form f(z) with weight k for the full modular group SL2(Z). Additionally, we establ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,743 Views
11 Pages

Gait Symmetry Analysis in Patients after Treatment of Pilon Fractures by the Ilizarov Method

  • Łukasz Pawik,
  • Paweł Wietecki,
  • Artur Leśkow,
  • Andżelika Pajchert Kozłowska,
  • Sławomir Żarek,
  • Radosław Górski,
  • Malwina Pawik,
  • Felicja Fink-Lwow,
  • Wiktor Urbański and
  • Piotr Morasiewicz

21 February 2021

The aim of this study was to comprehensively assess the gait parameters in patients who had undergone treatment of pilon fractures by the Ilizarov method. We analyzed gait parameters in patients who had undergone treatment for pilon fractures by the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,480 Views
19 Pages

Supersymmetric Partners of the One-Dimensional Infinite Square Well Hamiltonian

  • Manuel Gadella,
  • José Hernández-Muñoz,
  • Luis Miguel Nieto and
  • Carlos San Millán

21 February 2021

We find supersymmetric partners of a family of self-adjoint operators which are self-adjoint extensions of the differential operator d2/dx2 on L2[a,a], a>0, that is, the one dimensional infinite square well. First of all, we classify these self-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,470 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2021

In this work we establish a few equivalent statements of a Hilbert-type integral inequality in the whole plane related to the kernel of the arc tangent function. We prove that the constant factor, which is associated with the cosine function, is opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,747 Views
14 Pages

Complexity and Chimera States in a Network of Fractional-Order Laser Systems

  • Shaobo He,
  • Hayder Natiq,
  • Santo Banerjee and
  • Kehui Sun

20 February 2021

By applying the Adams-Bashforth-Moulton method (ABM), this paper explores the complexity and synchronization of a fractional-order laser dynamical model. The dynamics under the variance of derivative order q and parameters of the system have examined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,842 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2021

Three-complex numbers are introduced for using a geometric vector product in the three-dimensional Euclidean vector space R3 and proving its equivalence with a spherical coordinate product. Based upon the definitions of the geometric power and geomet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,363 Views
13 Pages

20 February 2021

The study is a part of a research project, which explores the role of creative perception in creative behavior. We operationalized creative behavior as an ability to overcome structured imagination, as measured by the Invented Alien Creature test, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,963 Views
13 Pages

Assessing a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm with a Simulated Environment for Energy-Saving of Air Conditioning Systems with User Preferences

  • Alejandro Humberto García Ruiz,
  • Salvador Ibarra Martínez,
  • José Antonio Castán Rocha,
  • Jesús David Terán Villanueva,
  • Julio Laria Menchaca,
  • Mayra Guadalupe Treviño Berrones,
  • Mirna Patricia Ponce Flores and
  • Aurelio Alejandro Santiago Pineda

20 February 2021

Electricity is one of the most important resources for the growth and sustainability of the population. This paper assesses the energy consumption and user satisfaction of a simulated air conditioning system controlled with two different optimization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,936 Views
17 Pages

A Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm for Unstructured Campus Big Data Fusion

  • Zhenfei Wang,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Liying Zhang,
  • Chuchu Zhang and
  • Xingjin Zhang

20 February 2021

Data modeling and dimensionality reduction are important research points in the field of big data. At present, there is no effective model to realize the consistent representation and fusion of different types of data of students in unstructured camp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,585 Views
19 Pages

A Reduction of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Based Faster-Than-Nyquist Quadrature Signals for Satellite Communication

  • Sergey B. Makarov,
  • Mingxin Liu,
  • Anna S. Ovsyannikova,
  • Sergey V. Zavjalov,
  • ILya Lavrenyuk,
  • Wei Xue and
  • Yidong Xu

20 February 2021

The increase in the throughput of digital television and radio broadcasting (DVB) channels can be achieved due to application of signals with a compact spectrum and a relatively small peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). The reason is the usage of tra...

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

Off-Shell Noether Currents and Potentials for First-Order General Relativity

  • Merced Montesinos,
  • Diego Gonzalez,
  • Rodrigo Romero and
  • Mariano Celada

20 February 2021

We report off-shell Noether currents obtained from off-shell Noether potentials for first-order general relativity described by n-dimensional Palatini and Holst Lagrangians including the cosmological constant. These off-shell currents and potentials...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,855 Views
17 Pages

20 February 2021

The adaptive trajectory and attitude control is essential for the four-dimensional (4D) trajectory operation of civil aircraft in symmetric thrust flight. In this work, an integrated trajectory and attitude control scheme is proposed based on the =mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,977 Views
13 Pages

19 February 2021

In the paper, we futher consider a fractional-order system from a modified Chua’s circuit system with the smooth degree of 3 proposed by Fu et al. Bifurcation analysis, multistability and coexisting attractors in the the fractional-order modified Chu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,456 Views
12 Pages

Evolutive 3D Modeling: A Proposal for a New Generative Design Methodology

  • Jaime Nebot,
  • Juan A. Peña and
  • Carmelo López Gómez

19 February 2021

At present, traditional 3D modeling programs consist of a set of tools that reflect conventional means of mechanical manufacturing and have limitations in relation with the current manufacturing capacities. On the other hand, organic and morphing 3D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,128 Views
14 Pages

18 February 2021

In this paper, we establish generalized sampling theorems, generalized stability theorems and new inequalities in the setting of shift-invariant subspaces of Lebesgue and Wiener amalgam spaces with mixed-norms. A convergence theorem of general iterat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,851 Views
26 Pages

18 February 2021

Assembly lines are often indispensable in factories, and in order to attain a certain level of assembly line productivity, multiple goals must be considered at the same time. However, these multiple goals may conflict with each other, and this is a m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
7,279 Views
20 Pages

Assessing Renewable Energy Production Capabilities Using DEA Window and Fuzzy TOPSIS Model

  • Chia-Nan Wang,
  • Thanh-Tuan Dang,
  • Hector Tibo and
  • Duy-Hung Duong

18 February 2021

Climate change and air pollution are among the key drivers of energy transition worldwide. The adoption of renewable resources can act as a peacemaker and give stability regarding the damaging effects of fossil fuels challenging public health as well...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,549 Views
18 Pages

18 February 2021

Engineering graphics are present in the design stage, but also constitute a way to communicate, analyse, and synthesise. In the Architecture-Engineering-Construction sector, graphical data become essential in analysing buildings and constructions thr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,437 Views
13 Pages

18 February 2021

This article presents a study devoted to the emerging method of synthesized optimal control. This is a new type of control based on changing the position of a stable equilibrium point. The object stabilization system forces the object to move towards...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
3,929 Views
10 Pages

17 February 2021

Both the theory of differential subordination and its dual, the theory of differential superordination, introduced by Professors Miller and Mocanu are based on reinterpreting certain inequalities for real-valued functions for the case of complex-valu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,184 Views
23 Pages

17 February 2021

Inventory-pooling (IP) is an effective tool to mitigate demand uncertainty and variability, to reduce operational costs, and consequently to increase the profit. The major assumptions of the previous works in literature on IP include the following: (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,716 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2021

Blockchain technology has been applied to logistics tracking, but it is not cost-effective. The development of smart lockers has solved the problem of repeated distribution to improve logistics efficiency, thereby becoming a solution with convenience...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,613 Views
16 Pages

EEG and fMRI Correlates of Insight: A Pilot Study

  • Gennady G. Knyazev,
  • Vadim L. Ushakov,
  • Vyacheslav A. Orlov,
  • Denis G. Malakhov,
  • Sergey I. Kartashov,
  • Alexander N. Savostyanov,
  • Andrey V. Bocharov and
  • Boris M. Velichkovsky

17 February 2021

Insight is described as the sudden solution of a problem and is contrasted with an analytical, step-by-step approach. Traditionally, insight is thought to be associated with activity of the right hemisphere, whereas analytical solutions are thought t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,361 Views
10 Pages

Cryptanalysis of a Group Key Establishment Protocol

  • Jorge Martínez Carracedo and
  • Adriana Suárez Corona

17 February 2021

In this paper, we analyze the security of a group key establishment scheme proposed by López-Ramos et al. This proposal aims at allowing a group of users to agree on a common key. We present several attacks against the security of the proposed protoc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,002 Views
12 Pages

Recurrent Multi-Fiber Network for 3D MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation

  • Yue Zhao,
  • Xiaoqiang Ren,
  • Kun Hou and
  • Wentao Li

16 February 2021

Automated brain tumor segmentation based on 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is critical to disease diagnosis. Moreover, robust and accurate achieving automatic extraction of brain tumor is a big challenge because of the inherent heterogeneity of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,999 Views
16 Pages

Local Feature Extraction Network for Point Cloud Analysis

  • Zehao Zhou,
  • Yichun Tai,
  • Jianlin Chen and
  • Zhijiang Zhang

16 February 2021

Geometric feature extraction of 3D point clouds plays an important role in many 3D computer vision applications such as region labeling, 3D reconstruction, object segmentation, and recognition. However, hand-designed features on point clouds lack sem...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,015 Views
21 Pages

16 February 2021

As one of the common methods to construct classifiers, naïve Bayes has become one of the most popular classification methods because of its solid theoretical basis, strong prior knowledge learning characteristics, unique knowledge expression forms, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,060 Views
15 Pages

Electromagnetic Safety of Remote Communication Devices—Videoconference

  • Artur Przybysz,
  • Krystian Grzesiak and
  • Ireneusz Kubiak

16 February 2021

Devices powered by electricity become sources of electromagnetic emissions in the course of their operation. In the case of devices oriented to process information, these emissions can have a character of revealing emissions, i.e., those whose recept...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,326 Views
23 Pages

16 February 2021

The general coupling between particle transport and ionization-recombination processes in hot plasma is considered on the key concept of equilibrium charge state (CS) transport. A theoretical interpretation of particle and CS transport is gained in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,066 Views
15 Pages

16 February 2021

The electronic circular dichroism (CD)-silent 2,5-bis(biphen-2-yl)terephthalaldehyde has been used as a sensor (reporter) of chirality for primary amines. The through-space inductor–reporter interactions force a change in the chromophore conformation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,256 Views
18 Pages

A Logit Model for Bivariate Binary Responses

  • Purhadi Purhadi and
  • M. Fathurahman

16 February 2021

This article provides a bivariate binary logit model and statistical inference procedures for parameter estimation and hypothesis testing. The bivariate binary logit (BBL) model is an extension of the binary logit model that has two correlated binary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,249 Views
12 Pages

15 February 2021

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a powerful tool for qualitative and quantitative analysis. Component analysis is a significant issue for the LIBS instrument onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity ChemCam and SuperCam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,297 Views
19 Pages

Symmetry Based Material Optimization

  • Zeyun Shi,
  • Jinkeng Lin,
  • Jiong Chen,
  • Yao Jin and
  • Jin Huang

14 February 2021

Many man-made or natural objects are composed of symmetric parts and possess symmetric physical behavior. Although its shape can exactly follow a symmetry in the designing or modeling stage, its discretized mesh in the analysis stage may be asymmetri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,580 Views
12 Pages

Construction of 2-Gyrogroups in Which Every Proper Subgyrogroup Is Either a Cyclic or a Dihedral Group

  • Soheila Mahdavi,
  • Ali Reza Ashrafi,
  • Mohammad Ali Salahshour and
  • Abraham Albert Ungar

14 February 2021

In this paper, a 2-gyrogroup G(n) of order 2n, n3, is constructed in which every proper subgyrogroup is either a cyclic or a dihedral group. It is proved that the subgyrogroup lattice and normal subgyrogroup lattice of G(n) are isomorphic to the sub...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
7,165 Views
18 Pages

14 February 2021

The increasing demand for cloud computing has shifted business toward a huge demand for cloud services, which offer platform, software, and infrastructure for the day-to-day use of cloud consumers. Numerous new cloud service providers have been intro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,108 Views
10 Pages

14 February 2021

In this paper, we establish new sufficient conditions for the oscillation of solutions of a class of second-order delay differential equations with a mixed neutral term, which are under the non-canonical condition. The results obtained complement and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,738 Views
19 Pages

13 February 2021

This paper presents a large eddy simulation of a centrifugal pump impeller during a transient condition. The flow rate is sinusoidal and oscillates between 0.25Qd (Qd indicates design load) and 0.75Qd when the rotating speed is maintained. Research s...

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