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13 Citations
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Parameterised Enumeration for Modification Problems

  • Nadia Creignou,
  • Raïda Ktari,
  • Arne Meier,
  • Julian-Steffen Müller,
  • Frédéric Olive and
  • Heribert Vollmer

9 September 2019

Recently, Creignou et al. (Theory Comput. Syst. 2017), introduced the class DelayFPT into parameterised complexity theory in order to capture the notion of efficiently solvable parameterised enumeration problems. In this paper, we propose a framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,742 Views
40 Pages

5 October 2019

In this paper, we will study the key enumeration problem, which is connected to the key recovery problem posed in the cold boot attack setting. In this setting, an attacker with physical access to a computer may obtain noisy data of a cryptographic s...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,248 Views
9 Pages

Neutrosophic Computability and Enumeration

  • Ahmet Çevik,
  • Selçuk Topal and
  • Florentin Smarandache

16 November 2018

We introduce oracle Turing machines with neutrosophic values allowed in the oracle information and then give some results when one is permitted to use neutrosophic sets and logic in relative computation. We also introduce a method to enumerate the el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,908 Views
20 Pages

Application of Discrete Pruned Enumeration in Solving BDD

  • Luan Luan,
  • Yanan Shi,
  • Chunxiang Gu and
  • Yonghui Zheng

28 January 2023

The bounded distance decoding (BDD) is a fundamental problem in lattice-based cryptography which is derived from the closest vector problem (CVP). In this paper, we adapt the lattice enumeration with discrete pruning, a burgeoning method for the shor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
14,035 Views
15 Pages

Circulating Tumor Cells, Enumeration and Beyond

  • Jian-Mei Hou,
  • Matthew Krebs,
  • Tim Ward,
  • Karen Morris,
  • Robert Sloane,
  • Fiona Blackhall and
  • Caroline Dive

9 June 2010

The detection and enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) has shown significant clinical utility with respect to prognosis in breast, colorectal and prostate cancers. Emerging studies show that CTCs can provide pharmacodynamic information to ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,455 Views
13 Pages

Detection of Username Enumeration Attack on SSH Protocol: Machine Learning Approach

  • Abel Z. Agghey,
  • Lunodzo J. Mwinuka,
  • Sanket M. Pandhare,
  • Mussa A. Dida and
  • Jema D. Ndibwile

17 November 2021

Over the last two decades (2000–2020), the Internet has rapidly evolved, resulting in symmetrical and asymmetrical Internet consumption patterns and billions of users worldwide. With the immense rise of the Internet, attacks and malicious behaviors p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,105 Views
39 Pages

29 August 2022

Motivated by the problem arising out of DNA origami, we give a general counting framework and enumeration formulas for various cellular embeddings of bouquets and dipoles under different kinds of symmetries. Our algebraic framework can be used constr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,071 Views
12 Pages

Enumeration of Pentahexagonal Annuli in the Plane

  • Andrey A. Dobrynin and
  • Vladimir R. Rosenfeld

1 December 2019

Pentahexagonal annuli are closed chains consisting of regular pentagons and hexagons. Such configurations can be easily recognized in various complex designs, in particular, in molecular carbon constructions. Results of computer enumeration of annuli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,322 Views
33 Pages

3 February 2023

Lattice enumeration is a linear-space algorithm for solving the shortest lattice vector problem (SVP). Extreme pruning is a practical technique for accelerating lattice enumeration, which has a mature theoretical analysis and practical implementation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
608 Views
20 Pages

EBTM: An Enumeration-Based Thresholding Method for Degraded Circular Dot Segmentation

  • Baoquan Shi,
  • Qian He,
  • Xianmin Chen,
  • Wendong Zhang and
  • Lin Yang

28 March 2025

Circular dots are widely used in various measurement applications due to their inherent symmetry, ease of detection, and scalability. However, when degraded by factors such as specular highlights, low contrast, strong noise, or friction damage, accur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,021 Views
16 Pages

Probiotic Lactobacilli in Fermented Dairy Products: Selective Detection, Enumeration and Identification Scheme

  • Nasim Farahmand,
  • Labia I. I. Ouoba,
  • Shahram Naghizadeh Raeisi,
  • Jane Sutherland and
  • Hamid B. Ghoddusi

A selection of 36 commercial probiotic fermented dairy products from UK and Europe markets were evaluated for the numbers, types, and viability of Lactobacillus strains against the stated information on their packages. A comparative study was carried...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,788 Views
26 Pages

14 December 2024

Perfect Roman Dominating Functions and Unique Response Roman Dominating Functions are two ways to translate perfect code into the framework of Roman Dominating Functions. We also consider the enumeration of minimal Perfect Roman Dominating Functions...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,535 Views
24 Pages

Searching for an Optimal Hexagonal Shaped Enumeration Unit Size for Effective Spatial Pattern Recognition in Choropleth Maps

  • Izabela Karsznia,
  • Izabela Małgorzata Gołębiowska,
  • Jolanta Korycka-Skorupa and
  • Tomasz Nowacki

Thoughtful consideration of the enumeration unit size in choropleth map design is important to ensure the correct communication of spatial information. However, the enumeration unit size and its influence on pattern conveying in choropleth maps have...

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  • Open Access
5,349 Views
17 Pages

18 August 2015

An accurate performance analysis on the MDL criterion for source enumeration in array processing is presented in this paper. The enumeration results of MDL can be predicted precisely by the proposed procedure via the statistical analysis of the sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,562 Views
16 Pages

Automated Mobile System for Accurate Outdoor Tree Crop Enumeration Using an Uncalibrated Camera

  • Thuy Tuong Nguyen,
  • David C. Slaughter,
  • Bradley D. Hanson,
  • Andrew Barber,
  • Amy Freitas,
  • Daniel Robles and
  • Erin Whelan

28 July 2015

This paper demonstrates an automated computer vision system for outdoor tree crop enumeration in a seedling nursery. The complete system incorporates both hardware components (including an embedded microcontroller, an odometry encoder, and an uncalib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,691 Views
36 Pages

9 August 2024

The whimsical Las Vegas/Monte Carlo cubic dice are generalized to construct the combinatorial problem of enumerating all n-dimensional hypercube dice and dice of other shapes that exhibit cubic, icosahedral, and higher symmetries. By utilizing powerf...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,426 Views
18 Pages

Source Enumeration Approaches Using Eigenvalue Gaps and Machine Learning Based Threshold for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation

  • Yunseong Lee,
  • Chanhong Park,
  • Taeyoung Kim,
  • Yeongyoon Choi,
  • Kiseon Kim,
  • Dongho Kim,
  • Myung-Sik Lee and
  • Dongkeun Lee

23 February 2021

Source enumeration is an important procedure for radio direction-of-arrival finding in the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm. The most widely used source enumeration approaches are based on the eigenvalues themselves of the covariance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,916 Views
12 Pages

Quantitative PCR Assays for the Strain-Specific Identification and Enumeration of Probiotic Strain Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus X253

  • Lei Zhao,
  • Dong Zhang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Yi-Nan Zhang,
  • Dong-Qing Meng,
  • Qiong Xu,
  • Jiang Zhong,
  • Qiu-Yue Jiang,
  • Yu Zhao and
  • Shi-Jie Wang

30 July 2022

Probiotics are universally recognized for their health benefits, despite the fact that their effects depend on the strain. Identification and enumeration of probiotic strains are required prior to evaluating their effectiveness. Lacticaseibacillus rh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,912 Views
12 Pages

28 July 2022

In this article, we present a microfluidic technique for the rapid enumeration of bacterial density with a syringe filter to trap bacteria and the quantification of the bacterial density through pressure difference measurement across the membrane. Fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,949 Views
13 Pages

26 October 2022

We compute the exact root-mean-square end-to-end distance of the interacting self-avoiding walk (ISAW) up to 27 steps on the simple cubic lattice. These data are used to construct a fixed point equation to estimate the theta temperature of the collap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,542 Views
11 Pages

31 October 2018

Accurately measuring the number of viable microorganisms plays an essential role in microbiological studies. Since the conventional agar method of enumerating visible colonies is time-consuming and not accurate, efforts have been made towards overcom...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
912 Views
13 Pages

Enumerating Finitary Processes

  • Benjamin D. Johnson,
  • James P. Crutchfield,
  • Christopher J. Ellison and
  • Carl S. McTague

17 December 2024

We show how to efficiently enumerate a class of finite-memory stochastic processes using the causal representation of ϵ-machines. We characterize ϵ-machines in the language of automata theory and adapt a recent algorithm for generating ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,370 Views
19 Pages

New Genetic Determinants for qPCR Identification and the Enumeration of Selected Lactic Acid Bacteria in Raw-Milk Cheese

  • Milena Alicja Stachelska,
  • Adam Ekielski,
  • Piotr Karpiński,
  • Tomasz Żelaziński and
  • Bartosz Kruszewski

29 March 2024

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) play an important role in the ripening of cheeses and contribute to the development of the desired profile of aroma and flavor compounds. Therefore, it is very important to monitor the dynamics of bacterial proliferation in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,915 Views
19 Pages

Enumerating Minimal Vertex Covers and Dominating Sets with Capacity and/or Connectivity Constraints

  • Yasuaki Kobayashi,
  • Kazuhiro Kurita,
  • Kevin Mann,
  • Yasuko Matsui and
  • Hirotaka Ono

17 February 2025

In this paper, we consider the minimal vertex cover and minimal dominating sets with capacity and/or connectivity constraint enumeration problems. We develop polynomial-delay enumeration algorithms for these problems on bounded-degree graphs. For the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,189 Views
17 Pages

Enumerating Tree-Like Graphs and Polymer Topologies with a Given Cycle Rank

  • Naveed Ahmed Azam,
  • Aleksandar Shurbevski and
  • Hiroshi Nagamochi

13 November 2020

Cycle rank is an important notion that is widely used to classify, understand, and discover new chemical compounds. We propose a method to enumerate all non-isomorphic tree-like graphs of a given cycle rank with self-loops and no multiple edges. To a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,724 Views
24 Pages

Analytical Enumeration of Redundant Data Anomalies in Energy Consumption Readings of Smart Buildings with a Case Study of Darmstadt Smart City in Germany

  • Purna Prakash Kasaraneni,
  • Venkata Pavan Kumar Yellapragada,
  • Ganesh Lakshmana Kumar Moganti and
  • Aymen Flah

31 August 2022

High-quality data are always desirable for superior decision-making in smart buildings. However, latency issues, communication failures, meter glitches, etc., create data anomalies. Especially, the redundant/duplicate records captured at the same tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,135 Views
19 Pages

Exhaustive Enumeration of Spatial Prime Structures

  • Takahiro Aruga and
  • Nobuyuki Iwatsuki

2 August 2024

Prime structures are link chains with 0 DoF (degrees of freedom), not including subchains with 0 or fewer DoF, which are expected to be used in systematic kinematic and dynamic analyses of link mechanisms. This paper describes the exhaustive enumerat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
530 Views
22 Pages

Complete Weight Enumerator of Torsions and Their Applications

  • Daotong Qiu,
  • Fanghui Ma,
  • Jian Gao and
  • Juan Li

1 April 2025

Let R=F2+w1F2+w2F2, where w12=w1, w22=w2, w1w2=w2w1=0. Firstly, we explore the algebraic structure of the torsion codes of MacDonald codes of types α and β over R. Secondly, the complete weight enumerator of Sk,hα and Sk,hβ are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,555 Views
14 Pages

3 December 2022

At present, static text passwords are still the most widely-used identity authentication method. Password-generation technology can generate large-scale password sets and then detect the defects in password-protection mechanisms, which is of great si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,357 Views
7 Pages

A New Record of Graph Enumeration Enabled by Parallel Processing

  • Zhipeng Xu,
  • Xiaolong Huang,
  • Fabian Jimenez and
  • Yuefan Deng

10 December 2019

Using three supercomputers, we broke a record set in 2011, in the enumeration of non-isomorphic regular graphs by expanding the sequence of A006820 in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS), to achieve the number for 4-regular graphs of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,030 Views
39 Pages

28 December 2021

This review article highlights recent developments in symmetry, combinatorics, topology, entropy, chirality, spectroscopy and thermochemistry pertinent to 2D and 1D nanomaterials such as circumscribed-cyclopolyarenes and their heterocyclic analogs, c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,934 Views
30 Pages

29 December 2024

Enumerating the extremal submodular functions defined on subsets of a fixed base set has only been done for base sets up to five elements. This paper reports the results of attempting to generate all such functions on a six-element base set. Using im...

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  • Open Access
599 Views
33 Pages

30 June 2025

Periodic train timetables provide passengers with easily accessible rail transport services. However, in networked railway operations, some long-distance cross-line trains have high operational priority and pose difficulties for scheduling local serv...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,631 Views
10 Pages

31 October 2022

A local ring is an associative ring with unique maximal ideal. We associate with each Artinian local ring with singleton basis four invariants (positive integers) p,n,s,t. The purpose of this article is to describe the structure of such rings and cla...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,359 Views
14 Pages

6 September 2024

Let u,v, and w be indeterminates over Fpm and let R=Fpm+uFpm+vFpm+wFpm, where p is a prime. Then, R is a ring of order p4m, and R≅Fpm[u,v,w]I with maximal ideal J=uFpm+vFpm+wFpm of order p3m and a residue field Fpm of order pm, where I is an app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,199 Views
9 Pages

Enumeration of Brettanomyces in Wine Using Impedance

  • Sanelle van Wyk and
  • Filipa V. M. Silva

Brettanomyces bruxellensis is a wine spoilage concern in wineries around the world. In order to maintain wine quality during storage and ageing, it is imperative to control and monitor this yeast. Being a fastidious slow growing yeast, which requires...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,331 Views
9 Pages

Impact of Staining Methods and Human Factors on Accuracy of Manual Reticulocyte Enumeration

  • Lin-Lin Pan,
  • Hsiu-Chen Yu,
  • Ching-Hui Lee,
  • Kuo-Chuan Hung,
  • I-Ting Tsai and
  • Cheuk-Kwan Sun

5 September 2022

Although peripheral blood reticulocyte enumeration reflects bone marrow functional integrity, which is important for differential diagnosis of hematological diseases, the factors affecting its accuracy have not been adequately addressed. Using 100 co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,623 Views
22 Pages

14 March 2025

Polyominoes are shapes formed by joining edge-connected unit squares in the square lattice. We review their symmetry classification using dihedral group actions and enumerate their distinct, coloured variants, called “chrominoes”, which a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,354 Views
10 Pages

Current and emerging legislation in North Carolina and other regions calls for the enumeration of Clostridium perfringens as a surrogate indicator for protozoan parasites in various types of waters. Past studies that have evaluated selective media fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,376 Views
13 Pages

Circulating Tumor Cells and Breast Cancer Metastasis: From Enumeration to Somatic Mutational Profile

  • Chengjun Zhu,
  • Jing Xu,
  • Jinyu Sun,
  • Shiyun Cui,
  • Yue Sun,
  • Tao Yu,
  • Cenzhu Wang,
  • Tianyao Wang,
  • Yufeng Wu and
  • Xiaoxiang Guan
  • + 4 authors

14 October 2022

Aims: This study investigates the association between circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and breast cancer metastasis. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted using patients with histologically confirmed breast cancer recruited from the First Affili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,783 Views
11 Pages

11 June 2018

One of the main problems in the theory of strongly regular graphs (SRGs) is constructing and classifying SRGs with given parameters. Strongly regular graphs with parameters (37,18,8,9), (41,20,9,10), (45,22,10,11), (49,24,11,12), (49,18,7,6) and (50,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,577 Views
19 Pages

Process validation studies often require the inoculation of select foodborne pathogens into targeted foods to determine the lethality of the process or antimicrobial ingredients, and quantitative recovery of surviving inoculum bacteria helps to make...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,954 Views
20 Pages

31 May 2021

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been recognized as a major contributor to distant metastasis. Their unique role as metastatic seeds renders them a potential marker in the circulation for early cancer diagnosis and prognosis as well as monitoring...

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  • Open Access
1,391 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2024

In abstract argumentation frameworks, the computation of stable extensions is an important semantic task for evaluating the acceptability of arguments. The current approaches for the computation of stable extensions are typically conducted through me...

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