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Rainwater Harvesting System as an Alternative Water Source

  • Kim, Phil-S.;Yoo, Kyung-H.;Kim, Sun-Joo;Lee, Nam-Ho
    • 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국수자원학회 2009년도 학술발표회 초록집
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    • pp.524-528
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    • 2009
  • The objectives of this study were to install RCR systems at a typical single family house and a school in Alabama, and evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of using the RCR systems for water harvesting in Alabama. The RCR systemswere equipped with a control system and a CR10X data logger to monitor the system operation and to collect data on precipitation, temperature, overflow, water depth in the storage tank and daily uses of toilet flushing. Daily average water use of the home for toilet flushing was 95 liter and 2100 liter was used at the school during the school days. Rainwater harvesting efficiency was 83.3 and 89 percent and RCR use efficiency was 18 and 98 percent from the home and the school, respectively. A computer program was developed to estimate potential effectiveness of RCR systems. From the analysis result with 10 years rainfall data, a total of 67,000 liters of rainwater could be harvested for domestic uses from a typical single family house which supplies 190 liters per day.

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The Spectral Sharpness Angle of Gamma-ray Bursts

  • Yu, Hoi-Fung;van Eerten, Hendrik J.;Greiner, Jochen;Sari, Re'em;Bhat, P. Narayana;Kienlin, Andreas von;Paciesas, William S.;Preece, Robert D.
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제33권2호
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2016
  • We explain the results of Yu et al. (2015b) of the novel sharpness angle measurement to a large number of spectra obtained from the Fermi gamma-ray burst monitor. The sharpness angle is compared to the values obtained from various representative emission models: blackbody, single-electron synchrotron, synchrotron emission from a Maxwellian or power-law electron distribution. It is found that more than 91% of the high temporally and spectrally resolved spectra are inconsistent with any kind of optically thin synchrotron emission model alone. It is also found that the limiting case, a single temperature Maxwellian synchrotron function, can only contribute up to 58+23−18% of the peak flux. These results show that even the sharpest but non-realistic case, the single-electron synchrotron function, cannot explain a large fraction of the observed spectra. Since any combination of physically possible synchrotron spectra added together will always further broaden the spectrum, emission mechanisms other than optically thin synchrotron radiation are likely required in a full explanation of the spectral peaks or breaks of the GRB prompt emission phase.

Impact Variables of Dump Truck Cycle Time for Heavy Excavation Construction Projects

  • Song, Siyuan;Marks, Eric;Pradhananga, Nipesh
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2017
  • The cycle time of construction equipment for earthwork operations has a significant impact on project productivity. Elements that directly impact a haul vehicle's cycle time must be identified in order to accurately quantify the haul cycle time and implement strategies to decrease it. The objective of this research is to scientifically identify and quantify variables that have a significant impact on the cycle time of a dump truck used for earthwork. Real-time location data collected by GPS devices deployed in an active earthwork moving construction site was analyzed using statistical regression. External data including environmental components and haul road conditions were also collected periodically throughout the study duration. Several statistical analyses including a variance analysis and regression analysis were completed on the dump truck location data. Collected data was categorized by stage of the dump truck cycle. Results indicate that a dump truck's enter idle time, exit idle time, moving speed and driver visibility can significantly impact the dump truck cycle time. The contribution of this research is the identification and analysis of statistically significant correlations of variables within the cycle time.

The Design of SiGe HBT LNA for IMT-2000 Mobile Application

  • Lee, Jei-Young;Lee, Geun-Ho;Niu, Guofu;Cressler, John D.;Kim, J.H.;Lee, J.C.;Lee, B.;Kim, N.Y.
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • 제2권1호
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    • pp.22-27
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    • 2002
  • This paper describes a SiGe HBT low noise amplifier (LNA) design for IMT-2000 mobile applications. This LNA is optimized for linearity in consideration of the out-of-band-termination capacitance. This LNA yields a noise figure of 1.2 dB, 16 dB gain, an input return loss of 11 dB, and an output return loss of 14.3 dB over the desired frequency range (2.11-2.17 GHz). When the RF input power is -2i dBm, the input third order intercept point (IIP3) of 8.415 dBm and the output third order intercept point (OIP3) of 24.415 dBm are achieved.

차넬메기 양식장 주변 하천수의 수질 변동 (Variation in Water Quality of Streams around Channel Catfish Ponds)

  • 이정열;클라우데이보이드
    • 한국양식학회지
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    • 제12권4호
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    • pp.323-331
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    • 1999
  • Most of channel fish farming in Alabama are still earthen pond style, and filled by rainfall and runoff. The water levels of ponds are maintained with stand-pipe, and the effluent from ponds very little discharged at usual time except ant heavy rains and crop season. Overflow from ponds following rains occurs mostly in winter and early spring when stream flows high. In this study to know how much effluents fish ponds affected to streams which are nearby ponds, a survey carried out on the variation of water quality of seven streams and effluents at heavy rains. Water samples were collected at 14 sites on upstream (did not affected by effluents) and downstream(being affect by effluents), and sampled monthly from August 1997 to August 1998. There were no clear trends of difference in most water quality variables between upstream and downstream of catfish farms during a year. The effluents from ponds after heavy rains were not highly polluted, but sometimes have elevated concentrations of TSS. Nitrogen content of effluents was higher than that of routine streams , but phosphorus was not clear. From this result suggest than the effluents from catfish farm are not having adverse impacts on stream water quality still yet .

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Lightweight Acknowledgement-Based Method to Detect Misbehavior in MANETs

  • Heydari, Vahid;Yoo, Seong-Moo
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • 제9권12호
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    • pp.5150-5169
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    • 2015
  • Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are the best choice when mobility, scalability, and decentralized network infrastructure are needed. Because of critical mission applications of MANETs, network security is the vital requirement. Most routing protocols in MANETs assume that every node in the network is trustworthy. However, due to the open medium, the wide distribution, and the lack of nodes' physical protection, attackers can easily compromise MANETs by inserting misbehaving nodes into the network that make blackhole attacks. Previous research to detect the misbehaving nodes in MANETs used the overhearing methods, or additional ACKnowledgement (ACK) packets to confirm the reception of data packets. In this paper a special lightweight acknowledgement-based method is developed that, contrary to existing methods, it uses ACK packets of MAC layer instead of adding new ACK packets to the network layer for confirmations. In fact, this novel method, named PIGACK, uses ACK packets of MAC 802.11 to piggyback confirmations from a receiver to a sender in the same transmission duration that the sender sends a data packet to the receiver. Analytical and simulation results show that the proposed method considerably decreases the network overhead and increases the packet delivery ratio compared to the well-known method (2ACK).

나일틸라피아와 청틸라피아의 성전환과 초기 성장에 미치는 $17\alpha-Methyltestosterone$ 호르몬의 영향 (Effects of Six Levels of Dietary $17\alpha-Methyltestosterone$ on Sex Reversal and Growth of Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner) and O. niloticus (Linnaeus))

  • 조재윤;알 오닐 스미들먼;더글러스 테이브
    • 한국양식학회지
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    • 제8권2호
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 1995
  • 여섯 가지 농도(0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 ppm)의 $17\alpha-Methyltestosterone$ (MT)를 사료에 섞어서 청틸라피아 (Oreochromis aureus)와 나일틸라피아 (O. niloticus)에 30일간 먹여서 성전환율과 성장을 비교한 결과는 다음과 같다. 두 종류 모두 15 pprn의 MT는 $100\%$ 숫컷이 생산되었다. MT를 먹인 것이나 먹이지 않은 나일틸라피아는 청틸라피아보다 빨리 성장하였다(P<0.05)

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