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Symmetry, Volume 13, Issue 4

2021 April - 209 articles

Cover Story: The gate of a potassium channel, from its X-ray structure, has been studied. Parts have been calculated, and, with protons properly placed, calculation and X-ray structure agree. The figure shows four S6 helices bordering the gate. The purple sphere is a K+ ion, the small central molecules are water molecules, and the outer lines are six amino acids. View this paper.
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Articles (209)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,613 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2021

This paper describes the stability and Hopf bifurcation analysis of the Brusselator system with delayed feedback control in the single domain of a reaction–diffusion cell. The Galerkin analytical technique is used to present a system equation compose...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Equations: Mathematical Models, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,054 Views
16 Pages

New Method for Generating New Families of Distributions

  • Lamya A. Baharith and
  • Wedad H. Aljuhani

20 April 2021

This article presents a new method for generating distributions. This method combines two techniques—the transformed—transformer and alpha power transformation approaches—allowing for tremendous flexibility in the resulting distributions. The new app...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Number Theory and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,492 Views
15 Pages

20 April 2021

All external electromagnetic fields in which the Klein-Gordon-Fock equation admits the first-order symmetry operators are found, provided that in the space-time V4 a group of motion G3 acts simply transitively on a non-null subspace of transitivity V...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry: Feature Papers 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,321 Views
7 Pages

20 April 2021

I exploit the close connection between the tessellation of space-time in the Regge calculus and an Eilenberg homology to investigate the deep quantum nature of space-time in a simple bubble universe of a size consistent with the Planck regime. Follow...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,000 Views
16 Pages

Examination and Comparison of Theta Band Connectivity in Left- and Right-Hand Dominant Individuals throughout a Motor Skill Acquisition

  • Jessica McDonnell,
  • Nicholas P Murray,
  • Sungwoo Ahn,
  • Stefan Clemens and ,
  • Erik Everhart and
  • J. Chris Mizelle
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 April 2021

The majority of the population identifies as right-hand dominant, with a minority 10.6% identifying as left-hand dominant. Social factors may partially skew the distribution, but it remains that left-hand dominant individuals make up approximately 40...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Sport Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,180 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2021

In this paper a system of nonlinear Riemann–Liouville fractional differential equations with non-instantaneous impulses is studied. We consider a Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative with a changeable lower limit at each stop point of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,596 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Criteria Seed Selection for Targeting Multi-Attribute Nodes in Complex Networks

  • Artur Karczmarczyk,
  • Jarosław Jankowski and
  • Jarosław Wątrobski

20 April 2021

Online environments have evolved from the early-stage technical systems to social platforms with social communication mechanisms resembling the interactions which can be found in the real world. Online marketers are using the close relations between...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Uncertain Multi-Criteria Optimization Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,456 Views
19 Pages

Chirality, Gelation Ability and Crystal Structure: Together or Apart? Alkyl Phenyl Ethers of Glycerol as Simple LMWGs

  • Alexander A. Bredikhin,
  • Aidar T. Gubaidullin,
  • Zemfira A. Bredikhina,
  • Robert R. Fayzullin and
  • Olga A. Lodochnikova

20 April 2021

Chiral recognition plays an important role in the self-assembly of soft materials, in particular supramolecular organogels formed by low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs). Out of 14 pairs of the studied racemic and enantiopure samples of alkyl-substi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chiral Molecules: Properties, Synthesis and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,499 Views
12 Pages

Room Temperature Syntheses of ZnO and Their Structures

  • Domenica Tommasa Donia,
  • Elvira Maria Bauer,
  • Mauro Missori,
  • Ludovica Roselli and ,
  • Daniele Cecchetti,
  • Pietro Tagliatesta,
  • Lorenzo Gontrani and
  • Marilena Carbone
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

20 April 2021

ZnO has many technological applications which largely depend on its properties, which can be tuned by controlled synthesis. Ideally, the most convenient ZnO synthesis is carried out at room temperature in an aqueous solvent. However, the correct temp...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,286 Views
23 Pages

19 April 2021

When the double-rope winding hoisting system (DWHS) is in operation, tensions of two wire ropes of the DWHS will not be symmetrical because of some factors such as different manufacturing deviation between the twin winding drum and two wire ropes, di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,139 Views
17 Pages

Applying Ateb–Gabor Filters to Biometric Imaging Problems

  • Mariia Nazarkevych,
  • Natalia Kryvinska and
  • Yaroslav Voznyi

19 April 2021

This article presents a new method of image filtering based on a new kind of image processing transformation, particularly the wavelet-Ateb–Gabor transformation, that is a wider basis for Gabor functions. Ateb functions are symmetric functions. The d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safe and Reliable AI for Smart Sustainable Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,643 Views
13 Pages

Power Laws Derived from a Bayesian Decision-Making Model in Non-Stationary Environments

  • Shuji Shinohara,
  • Nobuhito Manome,
  • Yoshihiro Nakajima,
  • Yukio Pegio Gunji and ,
  • Toru Moriyama,
  • Hiroshi Okamoto,
  • Shunji Mitsuyoshi and
  • Ung-il Chung
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 April 2021

The frequency of occurrence of step length in the migratory behaviour of various organisms, including humans, is characterized by the power law distribution. This pattern of behaviour is known as the Lévy walk, and the reason for this phenomenon has...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,771 Views
22 Pages

19 April 2021

Target Tracking (TT) is an application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) which necessitates constant assessment of the location of a target. Any change in position of a target and the distance from each intermediate sensor node to the target is pass...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,661 Views
14 Pages

19 April 2021

Symmetric organic compounds are generally obtained inexpensively, and therefore they can be attractive building blocks for the total synthesis of various pharmaceuticals and natural products. The drawback is that discriminating the identical function...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,240 Views
26 Pages

Multiscale Thermodynamics: Energy, Entropy, and Symmetry from Atoms to Bulk Behavior

  • Ralph V. Chamberlin,
  • Michael R. Clark,
  • Vladimiro Mujica and
  • George H. Wolf

19 April 2021

Here, we investigate how the local properties of particles in a thermal bath may influence the thermodynamics of the bath, and consequently alter the statistical mechanics of subsystems that comprise the bath. We are guided by the theory of small-sys...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,343 Views
12 Pages

Second-Order Impulsive Delay Differential Systems: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Oscillatory or Asymptotic Behavior

  • Shyam Sundar Santra,
  • Khaled Mohamed Khedher,
  • Osama Moaaz,
  • Ali Muhib and
  • Shao-Wen Yao

19 April 2021

In this work, we aimed to obtain sufficient and necessary conditions for the oscillatory or asymptotic behavior of an impulsive differential system. It is easy to notice that most works that study the oscillation are concerned only with sufficient co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Equations: Mathematical Models, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,038 Views
14 Pages

19 April 2021

In this paper, we use an SIRD model to analyze the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, caused by a new virus called SARS-CoV-2 from the coronavirus family. This model is governed by a nonlinear system of differential equations that allows us...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,705 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2021

We review some of the main achievements of the orbit method, when applied to Poisson–Lie groups and Poisson homogeneous spaces or spaces with an invariant Poisson structure. We consider C∗-algebra quantization obtained through groupoid techniques, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Group Symmetry and Quantum Geometry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,929 Views
22 Pages

18 April 2021

In this article, a new four-parameter lifetime model called the beta generalized inverse Rayleigh distribution (BGIRD) is defined and studied. Mixture representation of this model is derived. Curve’s behavior of probability density function, reliabil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Skewed (Asymmetrical) Probability Distributions and Applications across Disciplines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,299 Views
25 Pages

Sensitivity Analysis of Key Formulations of Topology Optimization on an Example of Cantilever Bending Beam

  • Martin Sotola,
  • Pavel Marsalek,
  • David Rybansky,
  • Martin Fusek and
  • Dusan Gabriel

18 April 2021

Topology optimization is a modern method for optimizing the material distribution in a given space, automatically searching for the ideal design of the product. The method aims to maximize the design performance of the system regarding given conditio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,528 Views
15 Pages

18 April 2021

Based on the technique of enriching contractive type mappings, a technique that has been used successfully in some recent papers, we introduce the concept of a saturated class of contractive mappings. We show that, from this perspective, the contract...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, Geometry of Banach Spaces and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,417 Views
15 Pages

18 April 2021

Traditionally, the special function theory has many applications in various areas of mathematical physics, economics, statistics, engineering, and many other branches of science. Inspired by certain recent extensions of the k-analogue of gamma, the P...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Functions and Polynomials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,847 Views
19 Pages

A Family of Fifth and Sixth Convergence Order Methods for Nonlinear Models

  • Ioannis K. Argyros,
  • Debasis Sharma,
  • Christopher I. Argyros,
  • Sanjaya Kumar Parhi and
  • Shanta Kumari Sunanda

18 April 2021

We study the local convergence of a family of fifth and sixth convergence order derivative free methods for solving Banach space valued nonlinear models. Earlier results used hypotheses up to the seventh derivative to show convergence. However, we on...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,179 Views
14 Pages

17 April 2021

Owing to the increased use of urban rail transit, the flow of passengers on metro platforms tends to increase sharply during peak periods. Monitoring passenger flow in such areas is important for security-related reasons. In this paper, in order to s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,361 Views
12 Pages

Analogies between Logistic Equation and Relativistic Cosmology

  • Steve Dussault,
  • Valerio Faraoni and
  • Andrea Giusti

17 April 2021

We develop several formal analogies between the logistic equation and the spatially homogeneous and isotropic relativistic cosmology described by the Einstein–Friedmann equations. These analogies produce an effective Lagrangian and Hamiltonian and ne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physics and Symmetry Section: Feature Papers 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,229 Views
21 Pages

17 April 2021

Dynamic models, such as double pendulums, can generate similar dynamics as human limbs. They are versatile tools for simulating and analyzing the human walking cycle and performance under various conditions. They include multiple links, hinges, and m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Biomechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
157 Citations
15,649 Views
16 Pages

17 April 2021

It is important to accurately classify the defects in hot rolled steel strip since the detection of defects in hot rolled steel strip is closely related to the quality of the final product. The lack of actual hot-rolled strip defect data sets current...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,791 Views
19 Pages

17 April 2021

In response to the problem that weights in product planning and design are difficult to accurately reflect the real needs of users, a design method for hexagonal shaft straightening machines based on quality function configuration and evidence theory...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Manufacturing Systems Engineering — Concept and Theory to Improve Design, Process, Quality and Circularity as the Basis for Future Manufacturing Philosophy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,075 Views
28 Pages

Multi-Objective Caching Optimization for Wireless Backhauled Fog Radio Access Network

  • Alaa Bani-Bakr,
  • MHD Nour Hindia,
  • Kaharudin Dimyati,
  • Effariza Hanafi and
  • Tengku Faiz Tengku Mohmed Noor Izam

17 April 2021

Proactive content caching in a fog radio access network (F-RAN) is an efficient technique used to alleviate delivery delay and traffic congestion. However, the symmetric caching of the content is impractical due to the dissimilarity among the content...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,815 Views
16 Pages

Self-Adaptive Genetic Programming for Manufacturing Big Data Analysis

  • Sanghoun Oh,
  • Woong-Hyun Suh and
  • Chang-Wook Ahn

17 April 2021

While black-box-based machine learning algorithms have high analytical consistency in manufacturing big data analysis, those algorithms experience difficulties in interpreting the results based on the manufacturing process principle. To overcome this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,910 Views
10 Pages

Orbit Polynomial of Graphs versus Polynomial with Integer Coefficients

  • Modjtaba Ghorbani,
  • Maryam Jalali-Rad and
  • Matthias Dehmer

17 April 2021

Suppose ai indicates the number of orbits of size i in graph G. A new counting polynomial, namely an orbit polynomial, is defined as OG(x) = ∑i aixi. Its modified version is obtained by subtracting the orbit polynomial from 1. In the present paper, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,229 Views
13 Pages

16 April 2021

Purpose: Plyometric exercises, in the form of jumping, are extreme physical activities. The aim of the study was to determine how symmetrical-single versus asymmetrical-continued plyometric exercises differ between men and women and affect speed abil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Biomechanics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
23,161 Views
25 Pages

16 April 2021

The alignment of visceral and brain asymmetry observed in some vertebrate species raises the question of whether this association also exists in humans. While the visceral and brain systems may have developed asymmetry for different reasons, basic vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive and Neurophysiological Models of Brain Asymmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,633 Views
14 Pages

Axisymmetric Finite Element Modelling of the Human Lens Complex under Cataract Surgery

  • M. T. Cardoso,
  • B. Feijóo,
  • A. P. G. Castro,
  • F. J. Ribeiro and
  • P. R. Fernandes

16 April 2021

Cataract is a disease opacifying the crystalline, leading to a blurred vision and ultimately to blindness. With an aging population, the incidence of cataract is increasing, as well as the number of treatments. The solution available is its complete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Medicine and Biomechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,704 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2021

In a smart city, there are different types of entities, such as nature persons, IoT devices, and service providers, which have different computational limitations and storage limitations. Unfortunately, all of the existing authentication and key exch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,171 Views
13 Pages

16 April 2021

The collision effects on the low-frequency ion-acoustic Trivelpiece–Gould wave are investigated in weakly and completely ionized plasma waveguides by using the normal mode analysis. In weakly ionized plasma waveguides, it is found that the dependence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,491 Views
23 Pages

16 April 2021

A lack of memory can lead to job failures or increase processing times for garbage collection. However, if too much memory is provided, the processing time is only marginally reduced, and most of the memory is wasted. Many big data processing tasks a...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,368 Views
12 Pages

Inter-Frame Based Interpolation for Top–Bottom Packed Frame of 3D Video

  • Phan Van Duc,
  • Phu Tran Tin,
  • Anh Vu Le,
  • Nguyen Huu Khanh Nhan and
  • Mohan Rajesh Elara

16 April 2021

The frame-compatible packing for 3D contents is the feasible approach to archive the compatibility with the existing monocular broadcasting system. To perceive better 3D quality, the packed 3D frames are expanded to the full size at the decoder. In t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,785 Views
10 Pages

16 April 2021

A scheme for the generalized Chaplygin gas equation of state is shown by using the holographic Ricci dark energy. Regression analysis and a chi-square test were performed. A second order polynomial regression has been established as the relation betw...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,770 Views
20 Pages

High Area-Efficient Parallel Encoder with Compatible Architecture for 5G LDPC Codes

  • Yufei Zhu,
  • Zuocheng Xing,
  • Zerun Li,
  • Yang Zhang and
  • Yifan Hu

16 April 2021

This paper presents a novel parallel quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) encoding algorithm with low complexity, which is compatible with the 5th generation (5G) new radio (NR). Basing on the algorithm, we propose a high area-efficient pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technologies and Electronics Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,107 Views
19 Pages

EAMA: Efficient Adaptive Migration Algorithm for Cloud Data Centers (CDCs)

  • Muhammad Ibrahim,
  • Muhammad Imran,
  • Faisal Jamil,
  • Yun-Jung Lee and
  • Do-Hyeun Kim

15 April 2021

The rapid demand for Cloud services resulted in the establishment of large-scale Cloud Data Centers (CDCs), which ultimately consume a large amount of energy. An enormous amount of energy consumption eventually leads to high operating costs and carbo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,809 Views
17 Pages

15 April 2021

An ongoing debate in the first-principles description of conduction in molecular devices concerns the correct definition of current in the presence of non-local potentials. If the physical current density j=(−ieℏ/2m)(Ψ*∇Ψ−Ψ∇Ψ*) is not locally conserv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry, Extended Maxwell Equations and Non-local Wavefunctions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,681 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2021

To study the influence of the near-fault vertical earthquake, the beam-spring-damper-pier model is used to simulate the double-span continuous beam bridge. The transient wave function expansion method and the indirect mode function method are used to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,702 Views
11 Pages

15 April 2021

The performance of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is highly dependent on the processes that are implemented in the Medium Access Control (MAC) sublayer regulated by the IEEE 802.11 standard. In turn, various parameters affect the performance of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safe and Reliable AI for Smart Sustainable Cities)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,711 Views
5 Pages

15 April 2021

We study the effect of two metallic slabs on the collective dynamics of electrons in graphene positioned between the two slabs. We show that if the slabs are perfect conductors, the plasmons of graphene display a linear dispersion relation. The veloc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Many-Body Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,993 Views
22 Pages

A Continuous Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Using Tree-Based Pipeline Optimization Tool

  • Suliman Mohamed Fati,
  • Amgad Muneer,
  • Nur Arifin Akbar and
  • Shakirah Mohd Taib

15 April 2021

High blood pressure (BP) may lead to further health complications if not monitored and controlled, especially for critically ill patients. Particularly, there are two types of blood pressure monitoring, invasive measurement, whereby a central line is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multidimensional Signal Processing and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,796 Views
17 Pages

15 April 2021

The emergence of computer-aided design (CAD) has propelled the evolution of the sheet metal engineering field. Sheet metal design software tools include parameters associated to the part’s forming process during the pattern drawing calculation. Curre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances on Engineering Graphics: Improvements and New Proposals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,300 Views
17 Pages

15 April 2021

With the development and promotion of driverless technology, researchers are focusing on designing varied types of external interfaces to induce trust in road users towards this new technology. In this paper, we investigated the effectiveness of a mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,142 Views
10 Pages

15 April 2021

Observations of the synchrotron and inverse Compton emissions from ultrarelativistic electrons in astrophysical sources can reveal a great deal about the energy–momentum relations of those electrons. They can thus be used to place bounds on the possi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Space-Time Symmetries and Violations of Lorentz Invariance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,915 Views
15 Pages

Bounds on the Arithmetic-Geometric Index

  • José M. Rodríguez,
  • José L. Sánchez,
  • José M. Sigarreta and
  • Eva Tourís

15 April 2021

The concept of arithmetic-geometric index was recently introduced in chemical graph theory, but it has proven to be useful from both a theoretical and practical point of view. The aim of this paper is to obtain new bounds of the arithmetic-geometric...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical and Computational Properties of Topological Indices)

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