About the Authors

Ling Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lxu@ncat.edu (LX); yjiang12@gsu.edu (YJ)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America

Pejman Senaei

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Yi Jiang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lxu@ncat.edu (LX); yjiang12@gsu.edu (YJ)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.