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Micromorphological Characteristics of Soil with Different Patent Materials (모재별 토양의 미세형태 특성)

  • Zhang, Yong-Seon;Jung, Seog-Jae;Kim, Sun-Kwan;Park, Chang-Jin;Jung, Yeon-Tae
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.293-303
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    • 2004
  • This experiment was conducted to investigate the direction or orientation of clay particle movement in argillic horizons (Bt) for clarifying the soil classification of soils. Soil samples were collected from 22 soil series containing Bt horizons. Physical and chemical characteristics and mineral and chemical compositions of clay in the soils were analyzed. Micoromorphological characteristics of the Bt horizons were also investigated with thin sections of the natural undisturbed and oriented soil samples. Average clay content in the Bt horizons was 28% and 1.33 times higher comparing to that in the surface layer. Soil pH was higher, but cation exchange capacity (CEC) and organic matter content were lower in Bt horizon than those in the surface layer. There was an evidence of clay accumulation in Bt horizons of all soil series examined except Bangog series. Although there was an increase of clay content in the horizons in Bangog series, the clay was not originated from illuviation process. The translocation of clay was in the order of an 2:1 expandable clay minerals > 2:1 non-expandable clay minerals > 1:1 clay minerals. The illuvial substances in argillic horizon were composed with clay, amorphous iron and opaque mineral. The micoromorphological features of Bt horizon were void coating, channel infilling and grain coating. There was an apparent boundary between clay coating and the groundmass in residuum and colluvium, but Bt horizon of alluvium was composed of a skew plane amputated by the physical operation.

A Critical Interpretation of Aesthetical Approach to Nursing (간호의 미학적 접근에 대한 비판적 해석)

  • 공병혜
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.678-685
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    • 2003
  • Purpose: The purpose of the study was to interpretate Caper's view of the aesthetical approach to nursing, to discover problems of her arguments, and to ultimately expand the horizon of the aesthetical thinking of nursing. Method: By means of the critical interpretation of Caper's paper, problems of her arguments were discovered. This then was suggested was the proper way of the aesthetical approach to nursing. Result: Caper's arguments of aesthetics were seen to be confused, regarding the pattern of the nursing art and the relationship between aesthetical knowing and practical art, and to have no the nursing's perspective as moral art. The proper paradigm for the distinct thinking of the nursing aesthetics could be offered here through applying some aesthetical theories as follows; a mode of aesthetical knowing could be characterized as emphatical awareness in relationship between nurse and client, and a practical art of nursing understood as moral art in sense of the expression of the human dignity. Conclusion: This study suggested fundamental theme for the proper aesthetical approach to nursing in view of the aesthetical knowing and the practical art. The horizon of the aesthetical thinking in nursing can be expended through the inquiry into aesthetical theories which offer theoretical the base for nursing as an art.

Heavy Metal Speciation in Soils from the janghang Smelter Area (장항 제련소 지역 토양의 중금속 오염에 대한 환경광물학적 연구)

  • 여상진;김수진
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.139-147
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    • 1997
  • The Janghang smelter is the first lead, zinc and copper smelting facility in Korea which was operated for a half century from 1936 to 1989. The clay minerals and their heavy metal association in the soil profile around the smelter have been studied using XRD, EPMA, SEM-EDS, TEM, EPR and sequential extraction techniques. The soils in A horizon are highly acidic showing pH 4.45. The pH is going up with increasing depth. They have residual water contents of 1.18-1.51 wt%, loss on ignition of 6.32-7.79 wt%, and carbon contents of 0.08-0.88 wt%. Soils consist of quartz, feldspar, muscovite, kaolinite, vermiculite, biotite, chlorite, goethite and hematite in the decreasing abundance. The contents of clay minerals, especially vermiculite and chlorite, decrease with increasing depth. Sequential extraction experiments for the profile samples show that heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Pb, Cd) are highly concentrated in the A horizon of the soil profile as water-extractable (mostly amorphous), MgCl2-extractable (exchangeable in clay minerals), and organic phases. The heavy metal contents decrease with increasing depth. It suggests that the heavy metals are mainly associate with clay minerlas in an exchangeable state. It is also noted that heavy metals are highly concentrated in the manganese and iron oxide phases.

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Finite State Model-based Predictive Current Control with Two-step Horizon for Four-leg NPC Converters

  • Yaramasu, Venkata;Rivera, Marco;Narimani, Mehdi;Wu, Bin;Rodriguez, Jose
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1178-1188
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    • 2014
  • This study proposes a finite-state model predictive controller to regulate the load current and balance the DC-link capacitor voltages of a four-leg neutral-point-clamped converter. The discrete-time model of the converter, DC-link, inductive filter, and load is used to predict the future behavior of the load currents and the DC-link capacitor voltages for all possible switching states. The switching state that minimizes the cost function is selected and directly applied to the converter. The cost function is defined to minimize the error between the predicted load currents and their references, as well as to balance the DC-link capacitor voltages. Moreover, the current regulation performance is improved by using a two-step prediction horizon. The feasibility of the proposed predictive control scheme for different references and loads is verified through real-time implementation on the basis of dSPACEDS1103.

MEASUREMENT OF SPECTRAL-ANGULAR RADIANCES OF COASTAL WATERS IN THE KOREAN SOUTH SEA

  • Ahn, Yu-Hwan;Shanmugam, Palanisamy;Ryu, Joo-Hyung;Moon, Jeong-Eon
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.156-158
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    • 2007
  • The radiance observed from the ocean depends on the illumination and viewing geometry along with the water properties, and this variation is called the bidirectional effect which is important to be considered in ocean color remote sensing. In the present study, as a preliminary step, the spectral-angular radiances in coastal water were investigated with experiments for a range of viewing geometric conditions $(0-70^{\circ})$. Over a phytoplankton-dominated water surface the upward radiance for visible and near-infrared wavelengths (example, SeaWiFS and GOCI) increased at nadir and decreased toward the near-horizon, becoming dependent of viewing angles (with higher radiance at nadir view angle and lower radiance at near-horizon viewing angle). This variations were better expressed by the Q-factor, which relates upwelling radiance to the upwelling irradiance (i.e., $Q=E_u/L_u$, also dependent on Sun's position). The Q-factor for this case was more non-uniform with the considered wavelengths and was dependent on viewing geometric conditions. These experimental results confirm the previous similar findings in other coastal waters.

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Horizon-AGN virtual observatory: SED-fitting performance and forecasts for future imaging surveys

  • Laigle, Clotilde;Davidzon, I.;Ilbert, O.;Devriendt, J.;Kashino, D.;Capak, P.;Arnouts, S.;De la Torre, S.;Dubois, Y.;Gozaliasl, G.;Leborgne, D.;McCracken, H.J.;Pichon, C.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.32.3-32.3
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    • 2018
  • We use the synthetic light-cone from the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN to produce a mock photometric galaxy catalogue on the redshift range 0

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Socially Aware Device-to-multi-device User Grouping for Popular Content Distribution

  • Liu, Jianlong;Zhou, Wen'an;Lin, Lixia
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.4372-4394
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    • 2020
  • The distribution of popular videos incurs a large amount of traffic at the base stations (BS) of networks. Device-to-multi-device (D2MD) communication has emerged an efficient radio access technology for offloading BS traffic in recent years. However, traditional studies have focused on synchronous user requests whereas asynchronous user requests are more common. Hence, offloading BS traffic in case of asynchronous user requests while considering their time-varying characteristics and the quality of experience (QoE) of video request users (VRUs) is a pressing problem. This paper uses social stability (SS) and video loading duration (VLD)-tolerant property to group VRUs and seed users (SUs) to offload BS traffic. We define the average amount of data transmission (AADT) to measure the network's capacity for offloading BS traffic. Based on this, we formulate a time-varying bipartite graph matching optimization problem. We decouple the problem into two subproblems which can be solved separately in terms of time and space. Then, we propose the socially aware D2MD user selection (SA-D2MD-S) algorithm based on finite horizon optimal stopping theory, and propose the SA-D2MD user matching (SA-D2MD-M) algorithm to solve the two subproblems. The results of simulations show that our algorithms outperform prevalent algorithms.

Galaxy identification with the 6D friends-of-friend algorithm for high resolution simulations of galaxy formation

  • Rhee, Jinsu;Elahi, Pascal;Yi, Sukyoung K.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.42.1-42.1
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    • 2021
  • Galaxy/Halo finding based on the friends-of-friend (FoF) algorithm has been widely adopted for its simplicity and expandability to the phase-space. However, cosmological simulations have been progressively bigger in size and more accurate in resolutions, resulting in that galaxy/halo finding gets computationally expensive more and more. In fact, we confirm this issue through our exercise of applying the 6-dimensional (6D) FoF galaxy finder code, VELOCIraptor (Elahi et al.2019) on the NewHorizon simulation (Dubois et al. 2021), in which typical galaxies with about 1e11 Msun (107 particles) are identified with very low speed (longer than a day). We have applied several improvements to the original VELOCIraptor code that solve the low-performance problem of galaxy finding on a simulation with high resolutions. Our modifications find the exact same FoF group and can be readily applied to any tree-based FoF code, achieving a 2700 (12) times speedup in the 3D (6D) FoF search compared to the original execution. We applied the updated version of VELOCIraptor on the entire NewHorizon simulation (834 snapshots) and identified its galaxies and halos. We present several quick comparisons of galaxy properties with those with GALAXYMaker data.

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OPTIMAL BIRTH CONTROL FOR COMPETITION SYSTEM OF THREE SPECIES WITH AGE-STRUCTURE

  • Luo, Zhixue
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.24 no.1_2
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    • pp.49-64
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we investigate optimal policies for three age-dependent populations in a competition system, which is controlled by fertility. By using Dubovitskii-Milyutin's general theory, the maximum principles are obtained for problems with free terminal states, infinite horizon and target sets, respectively.

Growth and Tield Performance of Selected Forage Crops Cultivated on Imperfectly Drained Paddy Field under Subsurface Drainage by PVC Pipes (배수 약간 불량지 논에서 PVC 파이프 암거배수에 의한 사료작물 재배)

  • 김정갑;박근제;김건엽;한민수
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.219-224
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    • 1996
  • Silage comkv, suwwn 19). sorghum $\times$ sudangrass(p. 988) and winter ryeNaton) were cultivated on imperfectly drained paddy field under two different draining methods, subsurface darinage by PVC pipes and open ditsched surface drainage. The crops were harvested at the stage of hard dough for corn and soft dough for wrghum and rye. The soil physical properties. soil colors. soil structure and soil wetness were improved in the subsurface drainage. Gravitational water table occured depth in 110 cm(dry season)~75cm(rain season). In soil profile description, yellowish brown with yellowish red mottles and well developed granular structure were found in the surface A horizon. The portion of solid phase in subsoils(B horizon) was reduced from 48.6%(undrained) to 43.7 %. A blocky structure with dark gray to gray were described in the open ditsched surface drainage. Severe wet depression of the crops was observed due to it's higher moisture contents, where the gravitational water occured depth in 25~37cm during the rainy season. The chemical properties of paddy soils were less affected by drainage methods. The concentration of available phosphate. organic matter and exchangeable K, Ca and Mg were decreased in the subsurface drained soils. The annual dry matter yields of com-rye cropping were 17.8 ton in the undrained, 21.6 ton in the open ditsch drainage and 35.9 ton/ha in the subsurface drainage.

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