Hai-Feng Zeng^*, Hai-Yan Qiu^†, Fa-Bo Feng^*

Oncology Research, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 75-75, 2021, DOI:10.3727/096504022X16420719767471

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Qiang Wu¹, Zhaoyang Han², Ghulam Mohiuddin³, Yongjun Ren^1,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.2, pp. 1633-1646, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.030646

Abstract In the data communication system, the real-time information interaction of communication device increases the risk of privacy sensitive data being tampered with. Therefore, maintaining data security is one of the most important issues in network data communication. Because the timestamp is the most important way to authenticate data in information interaction, it is very necessary to provide timestamp service in the data communication system. However, the existing centralized timestamp mechanism is difficult to provide credible timestamp service, and users can conspire with timestamping servers to forge timestamps. Therefore, this paper designs a distributed timestamp mechanism based on continuous verifiable delay… More >

Yuya Hanaoka^1,*, Taku Itoh², Kohei Tateyama³, Susumu Nakata⁴, Keiko Watanabe³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.132, No.1, pp. 43-53, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.016831

Abstract This study evaluates the performance of a model of open-cell metal foams generated by sphere functions. To this end, an electromagnetic shield constructed from the model was inserted between two horn antennas in an electromagnetic wave propagation simulation. The foam-hole diameter in the electromagnetic shield model was varied as d = 2.5 and 5.0 mm, and the frequency of the electromagnetic waves was varied from 3 to 13 GHz. In the numerical experiments of shield effectiveness, the shields with foam holes of both diameters attenuated the electromagnetic waves across the studied frequency range. The shield effectiveness was enhanced at low… More >

Cristina B. Corcino^1,2, Wilson D. Castañeda Jr.³, Roberto B. Corcino^1,2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.132, No.1, pp. 133-151, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.019965

Abstract The tangent polynomials T_n (z) are generalization of tangent numbers or the Euler zigzag numbers T_n. In particular, T_n (0) = T_n. These polynomials are closely related to Bernoulli, Euler and Genocchi polynomials. One of the extensions and analogues of special polynomials that attract the attention of several mathematicians is the Apostoltype polynomials. One of these Apostol-type polynomials is the Apostol-tangent polynomials T_n(z, λ). When λ = 1, T_n (z, 1) = T_n(z). The use of hyperbolic functions to derive asymptotic approximations of polynomials together with saddle point method was applied to the Bernoulli and Euler polynomials by Lopez and… More >

Muhammad Umer¹, Mustansar Mubeen², Yasir Iftikhar^2,*, Haider Ali³, Muhammad Zafar-ul-Hye⁴, Rafia Asghar⁵, Mazhar Abbas⁶, Malik Abdul Rehman⁷, Ernesto A. Moya-Elizondo⁸, Yuejun He^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.10, pp. 2099-2110, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.022013

Abstract Viral diseases have been studied in-depth for reducing quality, yield, health and longevity of the fruit, to highlight the economic losses. Positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses are more devastating among all viruses that infect fruit trees. One of the best examples is papaya ringspot virus (PRSV). It belongs to the genus Potyvirus and it is limited to cause diseases on the family Chenopodiaceae, Cucurbitaceae and Caricaceae. This virus has a serious threat to the production of papaya, which is famous for its high nutritional and pharmaceutical values. The plant parts such as leaves, latex, seeds, fruits, bark, peel and roots may… More >

Muhammad Hamza Azam¹, Mohd Hilmi Hasan^1,*, Azlinda A Malik², Saima Hassan³, Said Jadid Abdulkadir¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1799-1815, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028292

Abstract Electricity price forecasting is a subset of energy and power forecasting that focuses on projecting commercial electricity market present and future prices. Electricity price forecasting have been a critical input to energy corporations’ strategic decision-making systems over the last 15 years. Many strategies have been utilized for price forecasting in the past, however Artificial Intelligence Techniques (Fuzzy Logic and ANN) have proven to be more efficient than traditional techniques (Regression and Time Series). Fuzzy logic is an approach that uses membership functions (MF) and fuzzy inference model to forecast future electricity prices. Fuzzy c-means (FCM) is one of the popular… More >

Chih-Wen Chang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 433-451, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027021

Abstract We retrieve unknown nonlinear large space-time dependent forces burdened with the vibrating nonlinear Euler-Bernoulli beams under varied boundary data, comprising two-end fixed, cantilevered, clamped-hinged, and simply supported conditions in this study. Even though some researchers used several schemes to overcome these forward problems of Euler-Bernoulli beams; however, an effective numerical algorithm to solve these inverse problems is still not available. We cope with the homogeneous boundary conditions, initial data, and final time datum for each type of nonlinear beam by employing a variety of boundary shape functions. The unknown nonlinear large external force can be recuperated via back-substitution of the… More >

ZHENKUI CUI^1,#,*, GUIQIN SUN^2,#,*, QUANZHI ZHAO¹

BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.9, pp. 2133-2144, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.020512

Abstract Cotton is widely distributed worldwide, and improving the quality of its fiber is one of the most important tasks in cotton breeding. Cotton fibers are primarily composed of cellulose, which is synthesized by CesA complexes (CSCs). However, the functions of CesA genes in cotton fiber development have not been comprehensively analysed. In this study, the cotton transcriptome and metabolome were used to investigate the function of CesA genes in fiber development. Finally, 321 metabolites were obtained, 84 of which were associated with the corresponding genes. Interestingly, a target gene named Gh_A08G144300, one of the CesA gene family members, was closely… More >

Hanguang Luo¹, Tao Zou^1,*, Chunming Wu², Dan Li³, Shunbin Li¹, Chu Chu⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5031-5040, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027118

Abstract In the emerging Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), authentication problems have become an urgent issue for massive resource-constrained devices because traditional costly security mechanisms are not suitable for them. The security protocol designed for resource-constrained systems should not only be secure but also efficient in terms of usage of energy, storage, and processing. Although recently many lightweight schemes have been proposed, to the best of our knowledge, they are unable to address the problem of privacy preservation with the resistance of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in a practical way. In this paper, we propose a lightweight authentication protocol based… More >

Bilal Khan^1,*, Zhi-Guo Liu¹, Nazar Khan², Aftab Hussain³, Nasir Khan⁴, Muhammad Tahir²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.131, No.3, pp. 1465-1477, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.016940

Abstract By using the basic (or q)-Calculus many subclasses of analytic and univalent functions have been generalized and studied from different viewpoints and perspectives. In this paper, we aim to define certain new subclasses of an analytic function. We then give necessary and sufficient conditions for each of the defined function classes. We also study necessary and sufficient conditions for a function whose coefficients are probabilities of q-Poisson distribution. To validate our results, some known consequences are also given in the form of Remarks and Corollaries. More >