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Mathematics, Volume 7, Issue 10

2019 October - 132 articles

Cover Story: We studied the homotopy analysis method as a tool for finding the exact and approximate solutions of integrodifferential equations, and we applied this method to determine the vibrations of freely supported reinforced concrete beam as well as to solve the equation of movement of the electromagnet jumper mechanical system. View this paper.
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Articles (132)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,009 Views
18 Pages

Periodic Modification of the Boerdijk–Coxeter Helix (tetrahelix)

  • Garrett Sadler,
  • Fang Fang,
  • Richard Clawson and
  • Klee Irwin

22 October 2019

The Boerdijk–Coxeter helix is a helical structure of tetrahedra which possesses no non-trivial translational or rotational symmetries. In this document, we develop a procedure by which this structure is modified to obtain both translational and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,070 Views
24 Pages

22 October 2019

In this paper, we introduce and study a new three-parameter lifetime distribution constructed from the so-called type I half-logistic-G family and the inverted Kumaraswamy distribution, naturally called the type I half-logistic inverted Kumaraswamy d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,834 Views
14 Pages

22 October 2019

In this paper, approximation properties in Felbin fuzzy normed spaces are considered. These approximation properties are new concepts in Felbin fuzzy normed spaces. Definitions and examples of such properties are given and we make a comparative study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,076 Views
13 Pages

Strong Equality of Perfect Roman and Weak Roman Domination in Trees

  • Abdollah Alhevaz,
  • Mahsa Darkooti,
  • Hadi Rahbani and
  • Yilun Shang

21 October 2019

Let G = ( V , E ) be a graph and f : V { 0 , 1 , 2 } be a function. Given a vertex u with f ( u ) = 0 , if all neighbors of u have zero weights, then u is called undefended with respect to f. Furthermore, if every vertex u wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,659 Views
12 Pages

21 October 2019

Governments often support their preferences for decentralised (centralised) bureaucracies on the grounds of efficiency considerations (production side). Here, we consider the demand side, i.e., whether the government perception of citizens’ dem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,194 Views
12 Pages

A Multi-Attribute Pearson’s Picture Fuzzy Correlation-Based Decision-Making Method

  • Yun Jin,
  • Hecheng Wu,
  • Dechao Sun,
  • Shouzhen Zeng,
  • Dandan Luo and
  • Bo Peng

21 October 2019

As a generalization of several fuzzy tools, picture fuzzy sets (PFSs) hold a special ability to perfectly portray inherent uncertain and vague decision preferences. The intention of this paper is to present a Pearson’s picture fuzzy correlation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,964 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Robot Selection Based on 2-Tuple Picture Fuzzy Linguistic Aggregation Operators

  • Arshad Ahmad Khan,
  • Muhammad Qiyas,
  • Saleem Abdullah,
  • Jianchao Luo and
  • Mahwish Bano

21 October 2019

The aim of this article is to propose the 2-tuple picture fuzzy linguistic aggregation operators and a decision-making model to deal with uncertainties in the form of 2-tuple picture fuzzy linguistic sets; 2-tuple picture fuzzy linguistic operators h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,190 Views
9 Pages

A New Extension of the τ-Gauss Hypergeometric Function and Its Associated Properties

  • Hari Mohan Srivastava,
  • Asifa Tassaddiq,
  • Gauhar Rahman,
  • Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar and
  • Ilyas Khan

20 October 2019

In this article, we define an extended version of the Pochhammer symbol and then introduce the corresponding extension of the τ-Gauss hypergeometric function. The basic properties of the extended τ-Gauss hypergeometric function, including int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,946 Views
29 Pages

Efficient Dynamic Flow Algorithms for Evacuation Planning Problems with Partial Lane Reversal

  • Urmila Pyakurel,
  • Hari Nandan Nath,
  • Stephan Dempe and
  • Tanka Nath Dhamala

19 October 2019

Contraflow technique has gained a considerable focus in evacuation planning research over the past several years. In this work, we design efficient algorithms to solve the maximum, lex-maximum, earliest arrival, and quickest dynamic flow problems hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,234 Views
11 Pages

Hybrid Contractions on Branciari Type Distance Spaces

  • Kamaleldin Abodayeh,
  • Erdal Karapınar,
  • Ariana Pitea and
  • Wasfi Shatanawi

19 October 2019

In this manuscript, we consider some hybrid contractions that merge linear and nonlinear contractions in the abstract spaces induced by the Branciari distance and the Branciari b-distance. More precisely, we introduce the notion of a ( p , c ) ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,757 Views
24 Pages

19 October 2019

Suppose that G is a simple undirected connected graph. Denote by D ( G ) the distance matrix of G and by T r ( G ) the diagonal matrix of the vertex transmissions in G, and let α [ 0 , 1 ] . The generalized distanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,328 Views
10 Pages

18 October 2019

In this paper, noise removing of the well test data is considered. We use the Legendre expansion to approximate well test data and a truncated strategy has been employed to reduce noise. The parameter of the truncation will be chosen by a discrepancy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,913 Views
12 Pages

18 October 2019

We investigate the main statistical parameters of the integral over time of the fractional Brownian motion and of a kind of pseudo-fractional Gaussian process, obtained as a classical Gauss–Markov process from Doob representation by replacing B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
216 Citations
15,148 Views
9 Pages

18 October 2019

This article concerns the expressive power of depth in neural nets with ReLU activations and a bounded width. We are particularly interested in the following questions: What is the minimal width w min ( d ) so that ReLU nets of width ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,097 Views
23 Pages

Different Estimation Methods for Type I Half-Logistic Topp–Leone Distribution

  • Ramadan A. ZeinEldin,
  • Christophe Chesneau,
  • Farrukh Jamal and
  • Mohammed Elgarhy

17 October 2019

In this study, we propose a new flexible two-parameter continuous distribution with support on the unit interval. It can be identified as a special member of the so-called type I half-logistic-G family of distributions, defined with the Topp–Le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,143 Views
9 Pages

The Second Hankel Determinant Problem for a Class of Bi-Close-to-Convex Functions

  • Nak Eun Cho,
  • Ebrahim Analouei Adegani,
  • Serap Bulut and
  • Ahmad Motamednezhad

17 October 2019

The purpose of the present work is to determine a bound for the functional H 2 ( 2 ) = a 2 a 4 a 3 2 for functions belonging to the class C Σ of bi-close-to-convex functions. The main result presented here pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,935 Views
22 Pages

Continuum Modeling of Discrete Plant Communities: Why Does It Work and Why Is It Advantageous?

  • Ehud Meron,
  • Jamie J. R. Bennett,
  • Cristian Fernandez-Oto,
  • Omer Tzuk,
  • Yuval R. Zelnik and
  • Gideon Grafi

17 October 2019

Understanding ecosystem response to drier climates calls for modeling the dynamics of dryland plant populations, which are crucial determinants of ecosystem function, as they constitute the basal level of whole food webs. Two modeling approaches are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,612 Views
7 Pages

16 October 2019

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the new notion of a specific point in the space of the bounded real-valued functions on a given non-empty set and present a result based on the existence and uniqueness of such points. As a consequence of our...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,523 Views
18 Pages

A New Radial Basis Function Approach Based on Hermite Expansion with Respect to the Shape Parameter

  • Saleh Abobakur Bawazeer,
  • Saleh Saeed Baakeem and
  • Abdulmajeed Mohamad

16 October 2019

Owing to its high accuracy, the radial basis function (RBF) is gaining popularity in function interpolation and for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The implementation of RBF methods is independent of the locations of the points and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,184 Views
12 Pages

16 October 2019

The first part of the article contains integral expressions for products of two Bessel functions of the first kind having either different integer orders or different arguments. A similar question for a product of modified Bessel functions of the fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,428 Views
17 Pages

Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making Model (MCDM) for Raw Materials Supplier Selection in Plastics Industry

  • Chia-Nan Wang,
  • Van Thanh Nguyen,
  • Jiin-Tian Chyou,
  • Tsung-Fu Lin and
  • Tran Ngoc Nguyen

16 October 2019

To be able to compete in the domestic plastic industry, small and medium-sized enterprises producing plastic need to proactively find the supply of raw materials, avoiding shortages like in the previous years. Purchasing is extremely important and wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,473 Views
23 Pages

16 October 2019

The prevalence of business-to-business (B2B) has made the relationship among firms more closer than ever. Whether in simple arm-length transactions or business cooperation, many firms, in order to reduce costs and achieve efficiency, have shifted the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,144 Views
16 Pages

16 October 2019

This paper presents a new procedure for designing a fractional order unknown input observer (FOUIO) for nonlinear systems represented by a fractional-order Takagi–Sugeno (FOTS) model with unmeasurable premise variables (UPV). Most of the curren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,165 Views
22 Pages

15 October 2019

A convex combined expectations regularized gap function with uncertain variable is presented to deal with uncertain nonlinear variational inequality problems (UNVIP). The UNVIP is transformed into a minimization problem through an uncertain weighted...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,635 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2019

Managing invasive species in rivers can be assisted by appropriate adjustment of flow rates. Using a partial differential equation (PDE) model representing an invasive population in a river, we investigate controlling the water discharge rate as a ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,284 Views
19 Pages

15 October 2019

In this paper, we propose a separable reversible data hiding method in encrypted image (RDHEI) based on two-dimensional permutation and exploiting modification direction (EMD). The content owner uses two-dimensional permutation to encrypt original im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,062 Views
16 Pages

Developing an ANFIS-PSO Model to Predict Mercury Emissions in Combustion Flue Gases

  • Shahaboddin Shamshirband,
  • Masoud Hadipoor,
  • Alireza Baghban,
  • Amir Mosavi,
  • Jozsef Bukor and
  • Annamária R. Várkonyi-Kóczy

14 October 2019

Accurate prediction of mercury content emitted from fossil-fueled power stations is of the utmost importance for environmental pollution assessment and hazard mitigation. In this paper, mercury content in the output gas of power stations’ boilers was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,890 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2019

In this paper, we proposed a high accurate and stable Legendre transform algorithm, which can reduce the potential instability for a very high order at a very small increase in the computational time. The error analysis of interpolative decomposition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,341 Views
17 Pages

14 October 2019

In this paper, we obtain multifractals (attractors) in the framework of Hausdorff b-metric spaces. Fractals and multifractals are defined to be the fixed points of associated fractal operators, which are known as attractors in the literature of fract...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,539 Views
18 Pages

A Statistical Investigation into Assembly Tolerances of Gradient Field Magnetic Angle Sensors with Hall Plates

  • Serkan Ergun,
  • Udo Ausserlechner,
  • Michael Holliber,
  • Wolfgang Granig and
  • Hubert Zangl

14 October 2019

Magnetic field-based sensors are used for reliable applications in automotive and aerospace industry because of their robustness. The electrification of powertrains and propulsion requires gradiometric sensing principles, because they suppress ubiqui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,021 Views
11 Pages

Coefficient Bounds for Certain Subclasses of q-Starlike Functions

  • Lin-Lin Fan,
  • Zhi-Gang Wang,
  • Shahid Khan,
  • Saqib Hussain,
  • Muhammad Naeem and
  • Tahir Mahmood

14 October 2019

By making use of q-calculus, we define and investigate several new subclasses of bi-univalent mappings related to the q-Noor integral operator. The coefficient bounds | u 2 | , | u 3 | and the Fekete–Szegő problem ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,591 Views
19 Pages

14 October 2019

In this work by the index of fixed point and matrix theory, we discuss the positive solutions for the system of Riemann–Liouville type fractional boundary value problems D 0 + α u ( t ) + f 1 ( t , u ( t ) , v ( t ) , w ...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,257 Views
16 Pages

Backward Bifurcation and Optimal Control Analysis of a Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense Model

  • Mlyashimbi Helikumi,
  • Moatlhodi Kgosimore,
  • Dmitry Kuznetsov and
  • Steady Mushayabasa

14 October 2019

In this paper, a mathematical model for the transmission dynamics of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense that incorporates three species—namely, human, animal and vector—is formulated and analyzed. Two controls representing awareness campaigns...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,680 Views
11 Pages

14 October 2019

We consider a system, established by Beris and Edwards in the Q-tensor framework, modeling the incompressible flow of nematic liquid crystals. The coupling system consists of the Navier–Stokes equation and the evolution equation for the Q-tenso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,322 Views
11 Pages

13 October 2019

We consider online scheduling with bi-criteria on parallel batch machines, where the batch capacity is unbounded. In this paper, online means that jobs’ arrival is over time. The objective is to minimize the maximum machine cost subject to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,172 Views
14 Pages

13 October 2019

With the rapid development of advanced sensor technologies, it has become popular to monitor multiple quality variables for a manufacturing process. Consequently, multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts have been commonly used for moni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,482 Views
15 Pages

13 October 2019

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solution for some Riemann–Liouville fractional nonlinear boundary value problems. The positivity of the solution and the monotony of iterations are also considered. Some examples are prese...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,223 Views
28 Pages

13 October 2019

In this paper, the non-eigenvalue forms of Liouville’s formulas for delta, nabla and α -diamond matrix dynamic equations on time scales are given and proved. Meanwhile, a diamond matrix exponential function (or α -matrix e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,831 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Agile Distributed Development Method

  • Muhammad Asgher Nadeem and
  • Scott Uk-Jin Lee

13 October 2019

“Agile” is an effective software engineering model with a high trust and acceptance rate among its users. The term agility comes from the concept of rapid development and working in a team for better results and a faster competition rate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,208 Views
15 Pages

13 October 2019

In this paper, we derive and discuss the hierarchical radial basis functions method for the approximation to Sobolev functions and the collocation to well-posed linear partial differential equations. Similar to multilevel splitting of finite element...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,560 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2019

The purpose of this article is to obtain the exact and approximate numerical solutions of linear and nonlinear singular conformable pseudohyperbolic equations and conformable coupled pseudohyperbolic equations through the conformable double Laplace d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,206 Views
12 Pages

12 October 2019

In this paper, we establish the results on the existence, nonexistence and multiplicity of positive solutions to singular boundary value problems involving φ -Laplacian. Our approach is based on the fixed point index theory. The interesting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,258 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2019

Gibbs effect represents the non-uniform convergence of the nth Fourier partial sums in approximating functions in the neighborhood of their non-removable discontinuities (jump discontinuities). The overshoots and undershoots cannot be removed by addi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,123 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2019

This paper explores a certain relationship between the almost fixed point property (AFPP for short) of a compact and n-dimensional Euclidean space and that of its digitized space. Based on several types of digitizations, we prove that the AFPP of a c...

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