• Applied Microscopy
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.74-79
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• 2015

This study investigated the tongue movement during prey capture by Rana nigromaculata and the location of the frenulum linguae, which effects tongue movement. The tongue of R. nigromaculata are elliptical at the anterior and concave U-shaped at the posterior. The location of the frenulum linguae of R. nigromaculata is located at the front of the submentalis. This is due to the location of the frenulum linguae, which has significantly effects the movement and the expandability of the tongue. In terms of mobility, the tongue of R. nigromaculata and the expandability of the frenulum linguae allow the tongue to increase in length two or more times compared to immobile tongue in the other species. The time required until the swallowing movement after looking at and capturing the prey was 0.692000 seconds. Filming prey capture with a high speed camera showed that the rear part of the U-shaped tongue captures the prey with an appearance of stretching out longer to the front of tongue and turning in a reverse direction to bring the prey to the mouth.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제23권9A호
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• pp.2305-2312
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 Virtual Cellular Network(VCN)을 사용하는 무선 통신망에서 음성 패킷의 지연 특성을 분석하였다. 주기적으로 발생하는 음성 패킷이 슬롯-알로하 프로토콜로 전송될 때의 전송 특성을 Markov Chain으로 모델링하여 정상 상태(steady state)에서의 지연 확률 분포를 구하였고, 무선 채널의 평균 수신확률(prbability of capture), 재전송 방식 등이 성능에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 무선 단말기의 수신 확률의 변화에 따른 음성 패킷의 전송 지연 누적 확률 함수를 구하였다. 재전송 방식의 평균 backoff 시간이 성능에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 음성 패킷 발생 주기(N 슬롯시간)당 평균 재전송 횟수, NPr을 파라미터로 정의하였으며 여러가지의 프레임 크기 N에 대하여 1% outage delay를 비교하였다. 성능 실험 결과 NPr의 최적의 범위는 4~7임을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 프레임 크기 N이 주어졌을 때의 재전송 시도 확률 Pr을 구할 수 있다. 또한 전송큐의 크기가 유한함으로써 발생하는 blocking 확률과 전송큐의 적절한 크기를 구하였다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.141-154
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• 2023

Effects of viscoelastic foundation on vibration of curved-beam structure with clamped and simply-supported boundary conditions is investigated in this study. In doing so, a micro-scale laminate composite beam with two piezoelectric face layer with a carbon nanotube reinforces composite core is considered. The whole beam structure is laid on a viscoelastic substrate which normally occurred in actual conditions. Due to small scale of the structure non-classical elasticity theory provided more accurate results. Therefore, nonlocal strain gradient theory is employed here to capture both nano-scale effects on carbon nanotubes and microscale effects because of overall scale of the structure. Equivalent homogenous properties of the composite core is obtained using Halpin-Tsai equation. The equations of motion is derived considering energy terms of the beam and variational principle in minimizing total energy. The boundary condition is assumed to be clamped at one end and simply supported at the other end. Due to nonlinear terms in the equations of motion, semi-analytical method of general differential quadrature method is engaged to solve the equations. In addition, due to complexity in developing and solving equations of motion of arches, an artificial neural network is design and implemented to capture effects of different parameters on the inplane vibration of sandwich arches. At the end, effects of several parameters including nonlocal and gradient parameters, geometrical aspect ratios and substrate constants of the structure on the natural frequency and amplitude is derived. It is observed that increasing nonlocal and gradient parameters have contradictory effects of the amplitude and frequency of vibration of the laminate beam.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.23-25
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• 2009

Gd-157 material has very large neutron capture cross section in the thermal region. So it is very useful to shield material for thermal neutrons. Futhermore, in the neutron capture experiment and calculation, the neutron absorption and scattering are very important. Especially these effects are conspicuous in the resonance energy region and below the thermal energy region. In the case of very narrow resonance, the effect of scattering is to be more considerable factor. In the present study, we obtained energy dependent neutron absorption ratios of natural indium in energy region from 0.003 to 100 keV by MCNP-4B Code. The coefficients for neutron absorption was calculated for circular type and 1 mm thickness. In the lower energy region, neutron absorption is larger than higher region, because of large capture cross section (1/v). Furthermore it seems very different neutron absorption in the large resonance energy region. These results are very useful to decide the thickness of sample and shielding materials.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권12A호
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• pp.1177-1184
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• 2008

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation can severely weaken the accuracy of ranging and localization in wireless location systems. NLOS bias mitigation techniques have recently been proposed to relieve the NLOS effects, but positively rely on the capability to accurately distinguish between LOS and NLOS propagation scenarios. This paper proposes an energy-capture-based NLOS identification method for LDR-UWB systems, based on the analysis of the characteristics of the channel impulse response (CIR). With this proposed energy capture method, the probability of successfully identifying NLOS is much improved than the existing methods, such as the kurtosis method, the strongest path compare method, etc. This NLOS identification method can be employed in adaptive modulation scheme to decrease bit error ratio (BER) level for certain signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The BER performance with the adaptive modulation can be significantly enhanced by selecting proper modulation method with the knowledge of channel information from the proposed NLOS identification method.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권12호
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• pp.3979-3989
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• 2021

Several parametric effects on the magnetic collection have been evaluated considering dimension, strength of external magnetic field, injected velocity and particle concentration in the working fluid. Besides, accidental environments, expected in the containment of nuclear power plants, have also been addressed for the capture efficiency. The capture efficiency is especially enhanced with magnetic particle size and magnetic field strength through increased magnetic force; the non-magnetic coating thickness and fluid velocity hinder the magnetic collection. Based on the assessment, the magnetic withdrawal system can effectively capture magnetic particles even under accidental environments. Withdrawal of multifunctional magnetic particles or filtering of magnetic impurities can be effectively realized through the system.

• 감성과학
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.107-118
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• 2022

Human can rapidly detect and deal with dangerous elements in their environment, and they generally manifest as attentional bias toward threat. Past studies have reported that this attentional bias is affected by anxiety level. Other studies, however, have argued that children and adolescents show attentional bias to threatening stimuli, regardless of their anxiety levels. Few studies directly have compared the two age groups in terms of attentional bias to threat, and furthermore, most previous studies have focused on attentional capture and the early stages of attention, without investigating further attentional holding by the stimuli. In this study, we investigated both attentional bias patterns (attentional capture and holding) with respect to negative emotional stimulus in neurotypical adults and adolescents. The effects of anxiety level on attentional bias were also examined. The results obtained for adult participants showed that abrupt onset of a distractor delayed attentional capture to the target, regardless of distractor type (angry or neutral faces), while it had no effect on attention holding. In adolescents, on the other hand, only the angry face distractor resulted in longer reaction time for detecting a target. Regarding anxiety, state anxiety revealed a significant positive correlation with attentional capture to a face distractor in adult participants but not in adolescents. Overall, this is the first study to investigate developmental tendencies of attentional bias to negative facial emotion in both adults and adolescents, providing novel evidence on attentional bias to threats at different ages. Our results can be applied to understanding the attentional mechanisms in people with emotion-related developmental disorders, as well as typical development.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.516-521
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• 2012

본 연구는 연소기체로부터 $CO_2$ 기체를 포집하는 기포 유동층 흡착 및 재생 반응기 공정의 주요 운전변수의 영향을 조사하기 위해서 단순화된 공정모델을 개발하였다. 반응속도와 반응기에서 고체입자의 평균체류시간을 이용하여 흡착탑과 재생탑에서 각 반응 전환율을 계산하였다. 실험실 규모 기포 유동층 공정에 적용하여 $CO_2$ 포집효율에 대한 온도, 기체유속, 고체순환속도, 연소기체 중 수분농도의 영향을 조사하였다. $CO_2$ 포집효율은 흡착탑의 온도 혹은 유속이 증가함에 따라서 감소하였다. 그러나 연소기체의 수분농도 혹은 재생탑의 온도가 증가함에 따라서 증가하였다. 계산된 $CO_2$ 포집효율은 측정값과 잘 일치하였다. 그러나 본 모델은 $CO_2$ 포집효율에 대한 고체순환속도의 영향과 잘 일치하지 않았다. 이의 해석을 위해서는 기체-고체 접촉효율에 대한 이해가 더 필요하였다.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.292-298
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• 2020

The effects on the size selectivity for Muraenesox cinereus caught by coastal longline fishery were investigated in the southern coast of Korea from June 2 to 17, 2019. Four sizes of hooks (sizes 15, 17, 18 and 19) and two sizes of bait (sizes 9.9 g and 18.3 g) were tested in seven and three fishing trials, respectively. Such results revealed that smaller hook and bait size improved capture efficiency. And our results demonstrate that there was no significant size selectivity effect for hook size (ANOVA, p>0.05), but small bait improved on catching smaller fish (ANOVA, p<0.05).

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권13호
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• pp.5549-5556
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• 2015

Background: Cancer has important social consequences with cancer registration as the basis of moving towards prevention. The present study aimed to estimate the completeness of registration of the ten most common cancers in patients referred to selected hospitals in Shiraz, Iran by using capture-recapture method. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional analytical study was performed in 2014 based on the data of 2009, on a total of 4,388 registered cancer patients. After cleaning data from two sources, using capture-recapture common findings were identified. Then, the percentage of the completeness of cancer registration was estimated using Chapman and Chao methods. Finally, the effects of demographic and treatment variables on the completeness of cancer registration were investigated. Results: The results showed that the percentages of completeness of cancer registration in the selected hospitals of Shiraz were 58.6% and 58.4%, and influenced by different variables. The age group between 40-49 years old was the highest represented and for the age group under 20 years old was the lowest for cancer registration. Breast cancer had the highest registration level and after that, thyroid and lung cancers, while colorectal cancer had the lowest registration level. Conclusions: According to the results, the number of cancers registered was very few and it seems that factors like inadequate knowledge of some doctors, imprecise diagnosis about the types of cancer, incorrectly filled out medical documents, and lack of sufficient accuracy in recording data on the computer cause errors and defects in cancer registration. This suggests a necessity to educate and teach doctors and other medical workers about the methods of documenting information related to cancer and also conduct additional measures to improve the cancer registration system.