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Microbial Community Structure of the Active Layer Soil from Resolute, Canadian High Arctic

  • Kim, Ok-Sun;Kim, Hye Min;Lee, Hong Kum;Lee, Yoo Kyung
    • 한국기후변화학회지
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    • 제5권3호
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    • pp.249-256
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    • 2014
  • Permafrost is frozen soil below $0^{\circ}C$ for two or more years. Surface of permafrost is called as active layer that seasonally thaws during the summer. Although the thawing of permafrost may deepen the active layer and consequently increase the microbial activity, the microbial community structure in this habitat has not yet been well described. In this study, we presented bacterial and archaeal diversity in the active layer soil from Resolute, Canada using pyrosequencing analysis. The soil sample was collected from the surface of the marsh covered with moss and Carex. A total of 7,796 bacterial reads for 40 phyla and 245 archaeal reads for 4 phyla were collected, reflecting the high diversity of bacteria. Predominant bacterial groups were Proteobacteria (37.7%) and Bacteroidetes (30.0%) in this study. Major groups in Archaea were Euryarchaeota (51.4%) and Thaumarchaeota (46.1%). Both methane producing archaea and consuming bacteria were detected in this study. Although it might be difficult to characterize microbial community with only one sample, it could be used for the basis of assessing the relative importance of the specific groups with a high resolution on the bacterial and archaeal community in this habitat.

Development of Transport Parameters affecting on the Removal of Micro Organic Compounds such as Disinfection By-Products and Pharmaceutically Active Compounds by Low-Pressure Nanofiltration

  • Oh, Jeong-Ik;Yamamoto, Kazuo
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.126-133
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    • 2009
  • This study investigated the removal characteristics of various micro organic compounds by low-pressure nanofiltration membranes comprised of disinfection by products and pharmaceutically active compounds. The experimental removal of micro organic compounds by low-pressure nanofiltration membranes was compared with the transport model calculations, which consist of diffusion and convection terms including steric hindrance factor. The selected molecule from the disinfection byproducts and pharmaceutical active compounds showed a much lower removal than polysac-charides with a similar molecular size. However,the difference between model calculation and experimental removal of disinfection by-products and pharmaceutically active compounds could be corrected. The correlation of Ks with solute radius was further considered to clarity transport phenomena of micro organic solutes through nanofiltration membranes.

Active Contour Model과 유전 알고리즘을 이용한 의료 영상 분할 (Segmentation of Medical Images Using Active Contour Models and Genetic Alogorithms)

  • 이성기
    • 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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    • 제21권5호
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    • pp.457-467
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    • 2000
  • 본 논문에서는 active contour model과 유전 알고리즘을 이용하여 의료영상에서 해부학적 객체의 경계선을 자동으로 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. active contour model의 성능은 active contour model의 에너지를 최적화 하는 방법에 크게 영향을 받는다. 본 논문에서는 유전 알고리즘을 이용하여 active contour model의 에너지를 최적화 하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 방법을 대퇴골두 의료영상에 적용하여 실험하였으며, active contour model의 초기화에 관계없이 성공적인 결과를 얻었음을 보였다.

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Ku 대역 선형 능동 위상 배열 안테나 설계 및 제작 (Ku band Linear Active phased Array Antenna Design and Fabrication)

  • 류성욱;엄순영;김남
    • 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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    • pp.215-216
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, the antenna the with linear active phased array of $1{\times}16$ operated in DBS band was designed. The antenna was composed of sixteen radiating elements, sixteen active channels and five Wilkinson power combiners with 4-channel inputs, a digital control board and a stabilizing DC bias board. The radiating element of the array has the structure of a microstrip stack patch with a left-hand circular polarization. And, each active channel consists of a low noise ampilifier, a 3-bit digital phase shifter and a variable analog attenuator. The breadboard of linear active phased array antenna was also fabricated to test the electrical performances. The radiation patterns of the antenna were measured after correcting initial phases of each active channel in aechoic chamber. And also, the beam scanning chracteristcs of $10^{\circ}$, $20^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$ were measured.

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A Cooperative Jamming Based Joint Transceiver Design for Secure Communications in MIMO Interference Channels

  • Huang, Boyang;Kong, Zhengmin;Fang, Yanjun;Jin, Xin
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • 제13권4호
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    • pp.1904-1921
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we investigate the problem of secure communications in multiple-input-multiple-output interference networks from the perspective of physical layer security. Specifically, the legitimate transmitter-receiver pairs are divided into different categories of active and inactive. To enhance the security performances of active pairs, inactive pairs serve as cooperative jammers and broadcast artificial noises to interfere with the eavesdropper. Besides, active pairs improve their own security by using joint transceivers. The encoding of active pairs and inactive pairs are designed by maximizing the difference of mean-squared errors between active pairs and the eavesdropper. In detail, the transmit precoder matrices of active pairs and inactive pairs are solved according to game theory and linear programming respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has fast convergence speed, and the security performances in different scenarios are effectively improved.

Detection of Active Intra-Abdominal Bleeding from Malignant Tumors in Two Dogs Using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography

  • Nam, Jihye;Hwang, Jaewoo;Youn, Hwayoung;Choi, Mincheol;Yoon, Junghee
    • 한국임상수의학회지
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    • 제37권6호
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    • pp.355-359
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    • 2020
  • Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) has been applied to evaluate parenchymal organs in human and veterinary medicine. However, to our knowledge, there is no report on the identification of active bleeding and the bleeding site in veterinary clinical patients. Herein, we describe the use of CEUS in two cases of abdominal bleeding caused by ruptured lesions with malignant abdominal tumors. One dog had a splenic hemangiosarcoma, which had metastasized to the liver; the other dog had hepatic cell carcinomas in the left hepatic lobe, which were lobectomized, and another nodule was identified in the right hepatic lobe. Immediately after the rupture of these oncogenic lesions was suspected, CEUS was performed to identify the bleeding sites. The active bleeding sites were confirmed by hyperechoic pooling signs in the arterial phase, and extravasation could be observed within the defects showing hypoechoic perfusions in the delayed phase of the CEUS. Microbubbles were also observed in the ascites; thus, CEUS could detect the presence of hemorrhage and accurately identify the bleeding site. Collectively, the study findings suggest the usefulness of CEUS in emergent situations as it enables rapid and noninvasive evaluation of bleeding points in case of active bleeding in dogs.

Quantitative Characterization of Solar Active Regions Based on Their Evolutionary Paths

  • Magara, Tetsuya
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제42권2호
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    • pp.59.4-59.4
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    • 2017
  • We present a way of quantitatively characterizing solar active regions on the basis of their evolutionary paths. To determine characteristic properties of active regions with different sizes and configurations, we use a physics-based model to derive a relation between emerged magnetic flux and injected magnetic helicity (Flux-Helicity relation), the former of which gives scale information while the latter represents the magnetic field configuration of an active region. We demonstrate how this relation provides evolutionary paths of active regions and determines their characteristic properties, through a comparison with modeled active regions obtained from magnetohydrodynamic simulations.

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Context-Aware Active Services in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

  • Moon, Ae-Kyung;Kim, Hyoung-Sun;Kim, Hyun;Lee, Soo-Won
    • ETRI Journal
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    • 제29권2호
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    • pp.169-178
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    • 2007
  • With the advent of ubiquitous computing environments, it has become increasingly important for applications to take full advantage of contextual information, such as the user's location, to offer greater services to the user without any explicit requests. In this paper, we propose context-aware active services based on context-aware middleware for URC systems (CAMUS). The CAMUS is a middleware that provides context-aware applications with a development and execution methodology. Accordingly, the applications based on CAMUS respond in a timely fashion to contextual information. This paper presents the system architecture of CAMUS and illustrates the content recommendation and control service agents with the properties, operations, and tasks for context-aware active services. To evaluate CAMUS, we apply the proposed active services to a TV application domain. We implement and experiment with a TV content recommendation service agent, a control service agent, and TV tasks based on CAMUS. The implemented content recommendation service agent divides the user's preferences into common and specific models to apply other recommendations and applications easily, including the TV content recommendations.

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Active clamp 컨버터의 주파수 변조 제어 (Frequency modulation control for active clamp converter)

  • 백주원;손호섭;류명효;유동욱
    • 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 전력전자학회 2003년도 춘계전력전자학술대회 논문집(1)
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    • pp.73-76
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    • 2003
  • A zero voltage soft switching inverter using active clamp is presented for induction heating application. This converter have long been attractive because of its simplicity, high efficiency, and low cost compared to other schemes. In addition to those merits, Input power factor can be improved with a variable frequency control. In this paper, it describe the control method and operational principle to improve a power factor with a single stage US converter using active clamp for induction heating application.

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Recent Research and A, pp.ication of Earthquake Protection System in Taiwan

  • Chang, Kuo-Chun;Tsai, Meng-Hao
    • 한국지진공학회논문집
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    • 제2권3호
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    • pp.37-49
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    • 1998
  • Research and a, pp.ication of earthquake protection system in Taiwan have become very active since about ten years ago. Many passive isolators, etc., have been studied extensively. These studies have resulted in a few practical a, pp.ications and proposals of two draft design provisions for seismic isolation design of bridges and buildings. In addition to the pass control, analytical studies on active semi-active control have also been very active and the experimental studies have scheduled in the near future. This paper summarise the progress on recent research and a, pp.ication of earthquake protection systems in Taiwan. The emphases are given to the control systems that have been a, pp.ied in practical a, pp.ications.

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