• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.67-75
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• 2003

One large topic in comparative genomics is to predict functional annotation by classifying protein sequences. Computational approaches for function prediction include protein structure prediction, sequence alignment and domain prediction or binding site prediction. This paper is on another computational approach searching for sets of homologous sequences from sequence similarity graph. Methods based on similarity graph do not need previous knowledges about sequences, but largely depend on the researcher's subjective threshold settings. In this paper, we propose a genome sequence clustering method of iterative testing and graph decomposition, and a simple method to calculate a strict threshold having biochemical meaning. Proposed method was applied to known bacterial genome sequences and the result was shown with the BAG algorithm's. Result clusters are lacking some completeness, but the confidence level is very high and the method does not need user-defined thresholds.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 1987

The fracture toughness of SA 533 Grade B Class 1 steel has been studied with the Charpy impact test specimens in a range of temperature between -4$0^{\circ}C$ and 288$^{\circ}C$. The dynamic fracture toughness is measured by the instrumented precracked Charpy impact test while the static fracture toughness is by the 3-point bend test based on the unloading compliance method. The results are compared with the data obtained from the large specimens. It is known through the studies that temperature dependence of the appropriate (a low bound) value of the fracture toughness can be estimated by taking the static fracture toughness above the transition temperature and the dynamic fracture toughness below the temperature and it is also shown that the tests are satisfied with the requirements of ASTM E 813 when the side-groove is more than 14%.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.343-348
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• 2011

Since 2005, food waste has been separately collected and recycled to animal feed or aerobic compost in South Korea. However, the conventional recycling methods discharge process wastewater, which contain pollutant equivalent to more than 50% of food waste. Therefore, anaerobic digestion is considered as an alternative recycling method of food waste to reduce pollutant and recover renewable energy. Recent studies showed that hydrogen can be produced at acidogenic stage in two-stage anaerobic digestion. In this study, the authors investigated the effects of pretreatment time and pH low set value on continuous mesophilic hydrogen fermentation of food waste. Food waste was successfully converted to $H_2$ when heat-treated at $70^{\circ}C$ for 60 min, which was milder than previous studies using pH 12 for 1 day or $90^{\circ}C$. Organic acid production dropped operational pH below 5.0 and caused a metabolic shift from $H_2/butyrate$ fermentation to lactate fermentation. Therefore, alkaline addition for operational pH at or over 5.0 was necessary. At pH 5.3, the result showed that the maximum hydrogen productivity and yield of 1.32 $m^3/m^3$.d and 0.71 mol/mol $carbohydrate_{added}$. Hydrogen production from food waste would be an effective technology for resource recovery as well as waste treatment.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.40-59
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• 2011

Korean government is driving the large telescope development project to improve the level of astronomical research. The objective of this study is to assess the economic effects of Korean large telescope project by employing a contingent valuation method (CVM) to provide policy-makers with useful and responsible information. According to estimating results, annually willingness to pay per household is 1,416 Korean Won. Consequently, the annual benefit of large telescope project is about 240.8 billion Korean won. This result contributes to provide policy makers with the quantitative information and for economic feasibility.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.292-292
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• 2015

최근 상수관망의 물 공급 과정에서 여러 가지 원인으로 인해 물의 손실에 따른 비용손실이 발생하고 있다. 급수시스템의 경우에는 파열 및 누수발생과 관련되어 사용되는 비용은 분실되는 물의 직적비용, 급수시스템 수리에 따른 공사비용, 공급중지와 관련된 사회적 비용이 있다. 파열 및 누수를 신속하게 감지하는 것은 물 손실에 의해 발생하는 직접 및 간접비용을 줄일 수 있다. 그러나 국내의 경우 정기적으로 매년 1회 시행되는 상수관로에 대한 누수탐지작업으로 신속한 감지 및 즉각적인 대처를 할 수 없는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 수도관에서 발생되는 파열 및 누수를 탐지하기 위하여 블록 유입부에 설치된 유량계의 샘플링 간격의 영향에 대한 연구를 실시하였다. 적응칼만필터 알고리즘을 이용한 가변 샘플링 간격은 최대 최소 샘플링 간격과 정규화된 잔차의 상한값과 하한값 도입하여 제시하였다. 샘플링 간격의 효과를 강조하기 위해 사인 곡선, 사다리꼴 파열, 불규칙 잡음으로 구성된 가상의 유량 데이터로 알고리즘에 대한 검증실험을 진행하였고 실험 결과 샘플링 간격이 길수록 긴 시간 동안 누수 및 파열에 대한 작은 잔차를 발생시켰다. 모의실험결과 샘플링 주기를 변경함으로써 분석에 필요한 유량 데이터의 샘플수를 크게 줄일 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.20-40
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• 2013

A project of developing marine environmental risk assesment and management technology was proposed to improve the level of marine environmental management research. This paper attempts to measure the non-market benefits of the project. To this end, the dichotomous choice contingent valuation method is used. In particular, recently proposed one and one-half bounded model is applied. The model can reduce the potential for response bias comparing to the double bounded model while maintaining much of its efficiency. Moreover, in order to deal with zero WTP observations, a spike model is adjusted for our data. A survey of randomly selected 600 households was implemented and the respondents were asked in person-to-person interviews about how they would be willing to pay for implementing the project. Respondents overall accepted the contingent market and were willing to contribute a significant amount (2,663 won), on average, per household per year. The aggregate value of the project in the nation amounts to approximately 46.3 billion won per year. The figure 2.16 of cost-benefit ratio shows that economic validity of this technical development.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.53-60
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to make case studies on estimation of shear wave velocity in core zone of some rockfill dams by MASW (Multi-channel Analysis of Surface Waves) and to compare the results of case studies with those of the empirical method. Furthermore, the purpose is to recommend the range of shear wave velocity in core zone by MASW and to supply the preliminary data for estimation of shear wave velocity in core zone which is needed for dynamic analysis. From the results of case studies and the comparison between the results of case studies and those of empirical equation, it was found that the shear wave velocities obtained by MASW were smaller than those by the empirical recommendation (Sawada & Takahashi) in the depth of more than 10 m. Also, it is recommended that using the lower bound of empirical formulation by Sawada and Takahashi be available and resonable in case that MASW is not available due to the field condition and the investigation is preliminary.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.55-62
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• 2015

Recommender systems through collaborative filtering has been utilized successfully in various areas by providing with convenience in searching information. Measuring similarity is critical in determining performance of these systems, because it is the criteria for the range of recommenders. This study analyzes distributions of similarity from traditional measures and investigates relations between similarities and the number of co-rated items. With this, this study suggests a method for selecting reliable recommenders by restricting similarities, which compensates for the drawbacks of previous measures. Experimental results showed that restricting similarities of neighbors by upper and lower thresholds yield superior performance than previous methods, especially when consulting fewer nearest neighbors. Maximum improvement of 0.047 for cosine similarity and that of 0.03 for Pearson was achieved. This result tells that a collaborative filtering system using Pearson or cosine similarities should not consult neighbors with very high or low similarities.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.9-17
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• 2000

A sensor array with 10 discrete sensors integrated on a substrate was developed for discriminating the kinds and quantities of explosive gases. The sensor array consisted of 10 oxide semiconductor gas sensors with $SnO_2$ as base material and had broad sensitivity to specific gas. The sensor array was designed with uniform thermal distribution and had also high sensitivity and reproductivity to low gas concentration through nano-sized sensing materials with different additives. By using the sensitivity signal of the sensor array at $400^{\circ}C$, we could reliably discriminate the kinds and quantities of explosive gases like butane, propane and methane under the lower explosion limit through the principal component analysis (PCA) method.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.446-453
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• 2016

Structural capacity of water channel fabricated of concrete including blast furnace slag were investigated in this paper. An experimental study was consisted of materials test and structural test of concrete water channel. The mechanical properties of concrete including blast furnace slag were investigated. Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) was used as basic binder and the effect of the replacement of blast furnace slag for OPC was investigated. Experiments were performed to measure mechanical properties including compressive strength, elastic modulus and modulus of rupture. Test results show that the compressive strengths and modulus of ruptures of mixtures containing blast furnace slag were equivalent to those of OPC concrete. In addition, the structural capacity of concrete water channel with up to the replacement ratio of blast furnace slag of 45% was greater than the required strength in KS specification.