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Symmetry, Volume 14, Issue 1

2022 January - 181 articles

Cover Story: Liquid crystal director distributions have been numerically analyzed between asymmetric anchoring surfaces, that is, infinite strong and very weak anchoring surfaces in a hybrid aligned nematic (HAN) cell and a twisted nematic (TN) cell. When the weak anchoring strength is lower than a critical one, HAN and TN orientations turn to a homogeneous orientation. Such quasi-homogeneous orientations return to original HAN and TN orientations under the application of voltage. A unique voltage transmission curve of 0–100–0% appears in the quasi-homogeneous TN cell between crossed polarizers. View this paper
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Articles (181)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,324 Views
19 Pages

17 January 2022

In this research, a novel adaptive frontier-assessment-based environment exploration strategy for search and rescue (SAR) robots is presented. Two neutrosophic WASPAS multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method extensions that provide the tools for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,814 Views
11 Pages

17 January 2022

In this paper, we study yrast states of two N=126 isotones 210Po and 212Rn using the nucleon-pair approximation with particle–hole excitations and using a low-momentum interaction Vlowk renormalized from the free CD-Bonn NN potential. An...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,806 Views
109 Pages

17 January 2022

This is a pedagogical introduction to the physics of confinement on R3×S1, using SU(2) Yang–Mills with massive or massless adjoint fermions as the prime example; we also add fundamental flavours to conclude. The small-S1 limit is remarkab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,006 Views
17 Pages

Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase

  • Jeff Greensite and
  • Kazue Matsuyama

17 January 2022

We show that the Higgs and confinement phases of a gauge Higgs theory, with the Higgs field in the fundamental representation of the gauge group, are distinguished both by a broken or unbroken realization of the global center subgroup of the gauge gr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,145 Views
11 Pages

On the Optimality of the LR Test for Mediation

  • Kees Jan Van Garderen and
  • Noud Van Giersbergen

17 January 2022

Testing for mediation, or indirect effects, is empirically very important in many disciplines. It has two obvious symmetries that the testing procedure should be invariant to. The ordered absolute t-statistics from two ordinary regressions are maxima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,593 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Urban Visual Memes Based on Dictionary Learning: An Example with Urban Image Data

  • Ming Zhang,
  • Xin Gu,
  • Jun Xiao,
  • Pu Zou,
  • Zuoqin Shi,
  • Silu He,
  • Haifeng Li and
  • Sumin Li

17 January 2022

The coexistence of different cultures is a distinctive feature of human society, and globalization makes the construction of cities gradually tend to be the same, so how to find the unique memes of urban culture in a multicultural environment is very...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,727 Views
15 Pages

17 January 2022

An image encryption and decryption algorithm based on Arnod transform and fractional chaos is proposed in this work for solving the problem that the encrypted image is easily cracked and the content of the decrypted image is distorted. To begin with,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,921 Views
23 Pages

16 January 2022

This paper proposes a modification of the imperialist competitive algorithm to solve multi-objective optimization problems with hybrid methods (MOHMICA) based on a modification of the imperialist competitive algorithm with hybrid methods (HMICA). The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,059 Views
23 Pages

16 January 2022

Software is a very important part to implement advanced information systems, such as AI and IoT based on the latest hardware equipment of the fourth Industrial Revolution. In particular, decision making for software upgrade is one of the essential pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,450 Views
17 Pages

Symmetry Control of Comfortable Vehicle Suspension Based on H

  • Jiguang Hou,
  • Xianteng Cao and
  • Changshu Zhan

16 January 2022

Suspension is an important part of intelligent and safe transportation; it is the balance point between the comfort and handling stability of a vehicle under intelligent traffic conditions. In this study, a control method of left-right symmetry of ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,690 Views
19 Pages

15 January 2022

Modern engineering technology often involves the physical application of heat and mass transfer. These processes are associated with the creeping motion of a relatively homogeneous swarm of small particles, where the spheroidal geometry represents th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,141 Views
22 Pages

The CMS Magnetic Field Measuring and Monitoring Systems

  • Vyacheslav Klyukhin,
  • Austin Ball,
  • Felix Bergsma,
  • Henk Boterenbrood,
  • Benoit Curé,
  • Domenico Dattola,
  • Andrea Gaddi,
  • Hubert Gerwig,
  • Alain Hervé and
  • Jerry Zimmerman
  • + 4 authors

15 January 2022

This review article describes the performance of the magnetic field measuring and monitoring systems for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector. To cross-check the magnetic flux distribution obtained with the CMS magnet model, four systems for meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
3,639 Views
21 Pages

Microgrid Operations Planning Based on Improving the Flying Sparrow Search Algorithm

  • Trong-The Nguyen,
  • Truong-Giang Ngo,
  • Thi-Kien Dao and
  • Thi-Thanh-Tan Nguyen

15 January 2022

Microgrid operations planning is crucial for emerging energy microgrids to enhance the share of clean energy power generation and ensure a safe symmetry power grid among distributed natural power sources and stable functioning of the entire power sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,116 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2022

There are many typical symmetric large plastic deformation problems in aluminum alloy stamping. Warm stamping technology can improve the formability of materials and obtain parts with high-dimensional accuracy. Friction behavior in the stamping proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,467 Views
17 Pages

14 January 2022

When a traffic tunnel passes through special strata such as soft rock with high geo-stress, expansive rock, and fault fracture zones, the traditional supporting structure is often destroyed due to complicated loads, which threatens the construction a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,697 Views
12 Pages

14 January 2022

This paper presents an efficiency optimization controller for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) of an electric vehicle. A new loss model is obtained based on the permanent magnet synchronous motor’s energy balance equation utilizing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,528 Views
12 Pages

14 January 2022

We consider the Cauchy problem of the three-dimensional primitive equations of geophysics. By using the Littlewood–Paley decomposition theory and Fourier localization technique, we prove the global well-posedness for the Cauchy problem with the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,453 Views
28 Pages

14 January 2022

This review is related to the Einstein-Bohr debate and to Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen’s (EPR) and Bohm’s (EPRB) Gedanken-experiments as well as their realization in actual experiments. I examine a significant number of papers, fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
6,846 Views
13 Pages

14 January 2022

Meeting the required amount of energy between supply and demand is indispensable for energy manufacturers. Accordingly, electric industries have paid attention to short-term energy forecasting to assist their management system. This paper firstly com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,201 Views
23 Pages

14 January 2022

Anti-shatter safety films (ASFs) are often used for structural glass applications. The goal is to improve the response of monolithic elements and prevent fragments from shattering. Thus, the main reason behind their use is the possibility to upgrade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,507 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2022

The complexity of network intrusion detection systems (IDSs) is increasing due to the continuous increases in network traffic, various attacks and the ever-changing network environment. In addition, network traffic is asymmetric with few attack data,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,590 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2022

Much research has been conducted on two-sided Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) control charts, while less work has been devoted to the one-sided EWMA charts. Traditional one-sided EWMA charts involve resetting the EWMA statistic to the ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,951 Views
20 Pages

Smooth Group L1/2 Regularization for Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Yuan Bao,
  • Zhaobin Liu,
  • Zhongxuan Luo and
  • Sibo Yang

13 January 2022

In this paper, a novel smooth group L1/2 (SGL1/2) regularization method is proposed for pruning hidden nodes of the fully connected layer in convolution neural networks. Usually, the selection of nodes and weights is based on experience, and the conv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,993 Views
13 Pages

Practical Criteria for H-Tensors and Their Application

  • Min Li,
  • Haifeng Sang,
  • Panpan Liu and
  • Guorui Huang

13 January 2022

Identifying the positive definiteness of even-order real symmetric tensors is an important component in tensor analysis. H-tensors have been utilized in identifying the positive definiteness of this kind of tensor. Some new practical criteria for ide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,551 Views
19 Pages

13 January 2022

Estimation of a conditional covariance matrix is an interesting and important research topic in statistics and econometrics. However, modelling ultra-high dimensional dynamic (conditional) covariance structures is known to suffer from the curse of di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,698 Views
18 Pages

13 January 2022

A velocity-free state feedback fault-tolerant control approach is proposed for the rigid satellite attitude stabilization problem subject to velocity-free measurements and actuator and sensor faults. First, multiplicative faults and additive faults a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,430 Views
16 Pages

Capturing a Change in the Covariance Structure of a Multivariate Process

  • Andriette Bekker,
  • Johannes T. Ferreira,
  • Schalk W. Human and
  • Karien Adamski

13 January 2022

This research is inspired from monitoring the process covariance structure of q attributes where samples are independent, having been collected from a multivariate normal distribution with known mean vector and unknown covariance matrix. The focus is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,378 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2022

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy into the power system, the voltage source converter (VSC) for integrating renewable energy has become the most common device in the electric network. However, the operating stability of the VSC is s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,105 Views
12 Pages

DIGDH: A Novel Framework of Difference Image Grafting Deep Hiding for Image Data Hiding

  • Xintao Duan,
  • Lei Li,
  • Yao Su,
  • Wenxin Wang,
  • En Zhang and
  • Xianfang Wang

13 January 2022

Data hiding is the technique of embedding data into video or audio media. With the development of deep neural networks (DNN), the quality of images generated by novel data hiding methods based on DNN is getting better. However, there is still room fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,322 Views
8 Pages

Deep Vision Servo Hand-Eye Coordination Planning Study for Sorting Robots

  • Tao Ning,
  • Changcheng Wang,
  • Yumeng Han,
  • Yuchen Jin,
  • Yan Gao,
  • Jizhen Liu,
  • Chunhua Hu,
  • Yangyang Zhou and
  • PinPin Li

13 January 2022

Within the context of large-scale symmetry, a study on deep vision servo multi-vision tracking coordination planning for sorting robots was conducted according to the problems of low recognition sorting accuracy and efficiency in existing sorting rob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,028 Views
23 Pages

Online Streaming Features Selection via Markov Blanket

  • Waqar Khan,
  • Lingfu Kong,
  • Brekhna Brekhna,
  • Ling Wang and
  • Huigui Yan

13 January 2022

Streaming feature selection has always been an excellent method for selecting the relevant subset of features from high-dimensional data and overcoming learning complexity. However, little attention is paid to online feature selection through the Mar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,878 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Control Methods for the Traction Drive of an Alternating Current Electric Locomotive

  • Sergey Goolak,
  • Viktor Tkachenko,
  • Pavol Šťastniak,
  • Svitlana Sapronova and
  • Borys Liubarskyi

13 January 2022

The analysis of operating conditions of traction drives of electric locomotives with asynchronous traction motors has been carried out. It was found that during operation in the output converter of an asynchronous motor, defects may occur, which lead...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
10,905 Views
14 Pages

Intelligent System for Estimation of the Spatial Position of Apples Based on YOLOv3 and Real Sense Depth Camera D415

  • Nikita Andriyanov,
  • Ilshat Khasanshin,
  • Daniil Utkin,
  • Timur Gataullin,
  • Stefan Ignar,
  • Vyacheslav Shumaev and
  • Vladimir Soloviev

13 January 2022

Despite the great possibilities of modern neural network architectures concerning the problems of object detection and recognition, the output of such models is the local (pixel) coordinates of objects bounding boxes in the image and their predicted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
2,985 Views
8 Pages

13 January 2022

In the present analysis, we aim to construct a new subclass of analytic bi-univalent functions defined on symmetric domain by means of the Pascal distribution series and Gegenbauer polynomials. Thereafter, we provide estimates of Taylor–Maclaur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,449 Views
12 Pages

Twisted Waves near a Plasma Cutoff

  • José Tito Mendonça,
  • Camilla Willim and
  • Jorge Vieira

12 January 2022

This work considers twisted wave propagation in inhomogeneous and unmagnetised plasma, and discusses the wave properties in the cutoff region. The qualitative differences between twisted waves described by a single Laguerre–Gauss (LG) mode, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,697 Views
10 Pages

Experimental Review of ΛΛ¯ Production

  • Xiaorong Zhou,
  • Liang Yan,
  • Rinaldo Baldini Ferroli and
  • Guangshun Huang

12 January 2022

Exclusive hyperon-antihyperon production provides a unique insight for understanding of the intrinsic dynamics when strangeness is involved. In this paper, we review the results of ΛΛ¯ production via different reactions from variou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,428 Views
19 Pages

12 January 2022

Substituted heterocyclic arenes play important roles in biochemistry, catalysis, and in the design of functional materials. Exemplary six-membered heteroaromatic molecules, that differ from benzene by inclusion of one heteroatom, are pyridine, phosph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,142 Views
12 Pages

A Vibration Similarity Model of Converter Transformers and Its Verification Method

  • Hao Wang,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Youliang Sun,
  • Guan Wang and
  • Liang Zou

12 January 2022

According to the vibration characteristics of converter transformers, considering the Maxwell equation, magnetostrictive effect, Lorentz force and structural mechanics, the similarity criterion suitable for converter transformers is deduced in this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,196 Views
13 Pages

12 January 2022

The specific loading-path change during sheet metal forming may lead to some abnormal deformation phenomena. Two-stage orthogonal loading paths without elastic unloading have revealed a phenomenon of apparent loss of normality, further modeled in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,536 Views
13 Pages

A Nonstandard Finite Difference Method for a Generalized Black–Scholes Equation

  • Mohammad Mehdizadeh Khalsaraei,
  • Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi,
  • Ali Shokri,
  • Higinio Ramos and
  • Pari Khakzad

12 January 2022

An implicit finite difference scheme for the numerical solution of a generalized Black–Scholes equation is presented. The method is based on the nonstandard finite difference technique. The positivity property is discussed and it is shown that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,428 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2022

Point cloud registration is used to find a rigid transformation from the source point cloud to the target point cloud. The main challenge in the point cloud registration is in finding correct correspondences in complex scenes that may contain many no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,873 Views
14 Pages

12 January 2022

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) are capable of transforming chemical energy into electrical energy with zero emissions. Therefore, these devices had been a point of attention for the scientific community as to provide another solution to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,047 Views
18 Pages

12 January 2022

The tail risk management is of great significance in the investment process. As an extension of the asymmetric tail risk measure—Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR), higher moment coherent risk (HMCR) is compatible with the higher moment informati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,768 Views
41 Pages

Group Theoretical Description of the Periodic System

  • Vadim V. Varlamov,
  • Larisa D. Pavlova and
  • Olga S. Babushkina

11 January 2022

The group theoretical description of the periodic system of elements in the framework of the Rumer–Fet model is considered. We introduce the concept of a single quantum system, the generating core of which is an abstract C*-algebra. It is shown...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,276 Views
20 Pages

11 January 2022

Most linguistic-based approaches to multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) use symmetric, uniformly distributed sets of additive linguistic terms to express the opinions of decision makers. However, in reality, there are also some problems tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,012 Views
15 Pages

Visualization of Escher-like Spiral Patterns in Hyperbolic Space

  • Chongyang Qiu,
  • Xinfei Li,
  • Jianhua Pang and
  • Peichang Ouyang

11 January 2022

Spirals, tilings, and hyperbolic geometry are important mathematical topics with outstanding aesthetic elements. Nonetheless, research on their aesthetic visualization is extremely limited. In this paper, we give a simple method for creating Escher-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,123 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2022

Picture fuzzy sets (PFSs) can be used to handle real-life problems with uncertainty and vagueness more effectively than intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs). In the process of information aggregation, many aggregation operators under PFSs are used by dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,111 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Pulsatility on the Transport of Thrombin in an Idealized Cerebral Aneurysm Geometry

  • Struan Hume,
  • Jean-Marc Ilunga Tshimanga,
  • Patrick Geoghegan,
  • Arnaud G. Malan,
  • Wei Hua Ho and
  • Malebogo N. Ngoepe

11 January 2022

Computational models of cerebral aneurysm thrombosis are designed for use in research and clinical applications. A steady flow assumption is applied in many of these models. To explore the accuracy of this assumption a pulsatile-flow thrombin-transpo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,785 Views
12 Pages

Improved Path Planning for Indoor Patrol Robot Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Jianfeng Zheng,
  • Shuren Mao,
  • Zhenyu Wu,
  • Pengcheng Kong and
  • Hao Qiang

11 January 2022

To solve the problems of poor exploration ability and convergence speed of traditional deep reinforcement learning in the navigation task of the patrol robot under indoor specified routes, an improved deep reinforcement learning algorithm based on Pa...

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