Amit V. Patel¹, Arpan Desai¹, Issa Elfergani^2,3,*, Hiren Mewada⁴, Chemseddine Zebiri⁵, Keyur Mahant¹, Jonathan Rodriguez², Raed Abd-Alhameed³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.3, pp. 2867-2879, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026200

Abstract A four-element compact dual-band patch antenna having a common ground plane operating at 28/38 GHz is proposed for millimeter-wave communication systems in this paper. The multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna geometry consists of a slotted ellipse enclosed within a hollow circle which is orthogonally rotated with a connected partial ground at the back. The overall size of the four elements MIMO antenna is 2.24λ × 2.24λ (at 27.12 GHz). The prototype of four-element MIMO resonator is designed and printed using Rogers RT Duroid 5880 with ε_r = 2.2 and loss tangent = 0.0009 and having a thickness of 0.8 mm. It covers… More >

Priyanka Chauhan^a , Himani Pathania^a, Shriya^a, Neetika^a, Nidhi^a, Sakshi^a, Sheetal Choudhary^a, Rajesh Kumar^b,*, Mamta Sharma^a,c,*, Sameer Rahatekar^d, Anil Kumar^e,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.18, pp. 1-20, 2022, DOI:10.5098/hmt.18.34

Abstract Solar dryers have proven to be one of the best environmentally friendly approaches for drying purpose of medicinal plants and agricultural crops. Use of solar radiations in drying purpose of plant parts has proven economically as well as environmentally responsible and sensible application. Plants are the treasure of nature with hidden medicinal properties to treat diseases. Plant material should be processed properly for extraction of medicinal molecules in terms drying to decrease the manufacturing loss and to increase the standard of product. Cognizances of ethnobotanical knowledge on plant wealth are extremely beneficial in utilization and exploration of natural resources. Conventionally,… More >

Syed Ali Zafar^1,*, Muhammad Aslam², Haroon Zaman Khan³, Sehrish Sarwar¹, Rao Saad Rehman⁴, Mariam Hassan¹, Ramala Masood Ahmad², Rafaqat A. Gill⁵, Basharat Ali⁶, Ibrahim Al-Ashkar⁷, Abdullah Ibrahim⁷, Md Atikur Rahman⁸, Ayman El Sabagh^9,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.6, pp. 1887-1906, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.027679

Abstract The availability of favorable genetic diversity is a thriving vitality for the success of a breeding program. It provides a firm basis of selecting superior breeding lines for the development of high yielding crop genotypes. In this context, present investigation aimed to generate information on genetic divergence and character association in a diversity panel of 123 local and exotic soybean genotypes. Analysis of variance revealed significant response of the evaluated genotypes based on studied attributes. It depicted the probability of selecting desirable soybean genotypes by focusing on character association studies and genetic diversity analysis. Correlation analysis revealed that seed yield… More >

Vidit Kumar^1,*, Hemant Petwal², Ajay Krishan Gairola¹, Pareshwar Prasad Barmola¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 2711-2724, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.032047

Abstract Fine-grained image search is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision that aims to retrieve similar images at the fine-grained level for a given query image. The key objective is to learn discriminative fine-grained features by training deep models such that similar images are clustered, and dissimilar images are separated in the low embedding space. Previous works primarily focused on defining local structure loss functions like triplet loss, pairwise loss, etc. However, training via these approaches takes a long training time, and they have poor accuracy. Additionally, representations learned through it tend to tighten up in the embedded… More >

Jameel M. Al-Khayri^1,*, Salha M. Alshamrani², Adel A. Rezk¹, Wael F. Shehata¹, Mustafa I. Almaghasla³, Tarek A. Shalaby^3,4, Ahmed M. Saad⁵, Fatmah A. Safhi⁶, Muhammad N. Sattar⁷, Arafat A. Abdel Latef⁸, Mahmoud Z. Sitohy⁵, Abdallah A. Hassanin^9,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.5, pp. 1493-1512, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.027375

Abstract Appropriate knowledge of the parental cultivars is a pre-requisite for a successful breeding program. This study characterized fruit yield, quality attributes, and molecular variations of ten tomato cultivars during three consecutive generations under greenhouse conditions. Peto 86, Castle Rock, and Red Star cultivars showed the highest fruit yield (kg/plant), total phenolic compounds (TPC), and sap acidity. Principal component analysis categorized the evaluated fruit yield into three groups based on their quality attributes. A robust positive correlation appeared among traits inside each group. A positive correlation was likewise noticed between the first and the second groups. However, a negative correlation was… More >

K. Jayanthi^1,*, A. M. Kalpana²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 1689-1705, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034613

Abstract The fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology is the most recent standardization in communication services of interest across the globe. The concept of Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output antenna (MIMO) systems has recently been incorporated to operate at higher frequencies without limitations. This paper addresses, design of a high-gain MIMO antenna that offers a bandwidth of 400 MHz and 2.58 GHz by resonating at 28 and 38 GHz, respectively for 5G millimeter (mm)-wave applications. The proposed design is developed on a RT Duroid 5880 substrate with a single elemental dimension of 9.53 × 7.85 × 0.8 mm³. The patch antenna is fully grounded and is fed with a 50-ohm stepped impedance… More >

Muhammad Awais¹, Shahid Bashir¹, Awais Khan^1,2, Muhammad Asif², Nasim Ullah^3,*, Hend I. Alkhammash⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 669-681, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.033939

Abstract This paper presents a compact Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna with WLAN band notch for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) applications. The antenna is designed on 0.8 mm thick low-cost FR-4 substrate having a compact size of 22 mm × 30 mm. The proposed antenna comprises of two monopole patches on the top layer of substrate while having a shared ground on its bottom layer. The mutual coupling between adjacent patches has been reduced by using a novel stub with shared ground structure. The stub consists of complementary rectangular slots that disturb the surface current direction and thus result in reducing mutual… More >

Rupali Gangarde^1,2,*, Amit Sharma³, Ambika Pawar⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 2171-2190, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035559

Abstract Online Social Networks (OSN) sites allow end-users to share a great deal of information, which may also contain sensitive information, that may be subject to commercial or non-commercial privacy attacks. As a result, guaranteeing various levels of privacy is critical while publishing data by OSNs. The clustering-based solutions proved an effective mechanism to achieve the privacy notions in OSNs. But fixed clustering limits the performance and scalability. Data utility degrades with increased privacy, so balancing the privacy utility trade-off is an open research issue. The research has proposed a novel privacy preservation model using the enhanced clustering mechanism to overcome… More >

Awais Khan^1,2,*, Shahid Bashir¹, Salman Ghafoor³, Hatem Rmili^4,5, Jawad Mirza⁶, Ammar Ahmad¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 911-925, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033866

Abstract Mutual coupling reduction or isolation enhancement in antenna arrays is an important area of research as it severely affects the performance of an antenna. In this paper, a new type of compact and highly isolated Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications is presented. The design consists of four radiators that are orthogonally positioned and confined to a compact 40 × 40 × 0.8 mm³ space. The final antenna design uses an inverted L shape partial ground to produce an acceptable reflection coefficient (S11 < −10 dB) in an entire UWB band (3.1–10.6) giga hertz (GHz). Moreover, the inter-element isolation… More >

Luli Li^1,2, Nigel G. Halford³, Huihui Wang⁴, Yingjie Zong¹, Zhenzhu Guo¹, Ruiju Lu¹, Chenghong Liu¹, Zhiwei Chen^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.92, No.4, pp. 1275-1287, 2023, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2023.026946

Abstract Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is an important economic crop for food, feed and industrial raw materials. In the present research, 112 barley landraces from the Shanghai region were genotyped using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), and the genetic diversity and population structure were analyzed. The results showed that 210,268 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) were present in total, and the average poly-morphism information content (PIC) was 0.1642. Genetic diversity and population structure analyses suggested that these barley landraces were differentiated and could be divided into three sub-groups, with morphological traits of row-type and adherence of the hulls the main distinguishing factors between groups. Genotypes… More >