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Charges of TIP4P water model for mixed quantum/classical calculations of OH stretching frequency in liquid water

  • Jeon, Kiyoung;Yang, Mino
    • Rapid Communication in Photoscience
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.8-10
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    • 2016
  • The potential curves of OH bonds of liquid water are inhomogeneous because of a variety of interactions with other molecules and this leads to a wide distribution of vibrational frequency which hampers our understanding of the structure and dynamics of water molecules. Mixed quantum/classical (QM/CM) calculation methods are powerful theoretical techniques to help us analyze experimental data of various vibrational spectroscopies to study such inhomogeneous systems. In a type of those approaches, the interaction energy between OH bonds and other molecules is approximately represented by the interaction between the charges located at the appropriate interaction sites of water molecules. For this purpose, we re-calculated the values of charges by comparing the approximate interaction energies with quantum chemical interaction energies. We determined a set of charges at the TIP4P charge sites which better represents the quantum mechanical potential curve of OH bonds of liquid water.

Effects of Surface Charges on the Retention of Placenta-loaded Liposome Formulations Administered by Intramuscular Route

  • Noh, Sang-Myoung;Park, Da-Eui;Kim, Young-Bong;Oh, Yu-Kyoung
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.333-337
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    • 2009
  • We aimed to optimize the formulation of porcine placental extract (PPE)-loaded liposomes for intramuscular administration and to investigate the effect of surface charges on the muscular retention in mice. PPE-loaded liposomes were formulated to have neutral, anionic, or cationic surface charges. The in vitro release profiles were studied by spectrofluorometry. In vivo distribution patterns at mice were studied using molecular imaging technology. Among the three types of liposomes, 1,2-dioleoyl-3-trimethylammonium-propane and 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-based cationic liposomes showed the most prolonged in vitro release profile. Consistent with the in vitro results, the in vivo distribution study revealed that the cationic liposomes were retained at the site of administration for the longest period. Our results suggest the potential of cationic PPE-loaded liposomes for sustained release of the components after intramuscular administration.

A Stud on the Port Pricing Problems in Korea (수출입화물의 항만유통과금에 관한 연구)

  • 민성규;김영호
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.103-125
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    • 1984
  • All over the world, one finds different types of dues, charges and fees imposed for the use of port facilities. The positiion is further confused by the fact that different names are often used for the same charge in different ports and again the same name can be used for different types of charge. For instance, in some places "tonnage" dues can be dues on cargo tonnage and in others are dues on shipping tonnage. Charges made by port authorities can be of two kinds; charges on ships and charges on goods. One of the abiding complaints of all port tariffs is that they are too complicated. The plea is for simplicity and comprehension. The purpose of this study is to elucidate and to criticize principles for guiding port pricing policy.ng policy.

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The study on fairness issues in mobile telecommunication service charges (이동통신서비스요금의 적정성에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.1975-1985
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    • 2013
  • Telecommunication costs have been increasing successively in Korean households. Even though there are a lot of issues related to the high charges of mobile telecommunication services, plausible solutions have not been provided yet. 99% of Koreans use mobile phones and it is the highest in the world, but charges are relatively high. This situation may be brought by the government policy that supports 'three companies system.' Even the least efficient company might sustain by a tacit bottom price policy and the government did not introduce MVNO into the market. The government can make mobile phone charge system consider cost only in a proper manner and constrain marketing costs to the rational level. And it can reduce mobile charges and rights of consumers must be respected by restraining too much complicated rates system. Fairness of mobile phone charges could be achieved by mobile phone market structure improvement through active introduction of MVNOs and reduction of excessive marketing costs. If proper market structure and policy management are secured, 30% cut of charges could be achieved. And mobile service bills may be made more acceptable if charge is based on a measured rate system according to the amount of data usage.

Comparison of retention characteristics of ferroelectric capacitors with $Pb(Zr, Ti)O_3$ films deposited by various methods for high-density non-volatile memory.

  • Sangmin Shin;Mirko Hofmann;Lee, Yong-Kyun;Koo, June-Mo;Cho, Choong-Rae;Lee, June-Key;Park, Youngsoo;Lee, Kyu-Mann;Song, Yoon-Jong
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.132-138
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    • 2003
  • We investigated the polarization retention characteristics of ferroelectric capacitors with $Pb(Zr,Ti)O_3$ (PZT) thin films which were fabricated by different deposition methods. In thermally-accelerated retention tests, PZT films which were prepared by a chemical solution deposition (CSD) method showed rapid decay of retained polarization charges as the thickness of the films decreased down to 100 nm, while the films which were grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) retained relatively large non-volatile charges at the corresponding thickness. We concluded that in the CSD-grown films, the thicker interfacial passive layer compared with the MOCVD-grown films had an unfavorable effect on retention behavior. We observed the existence of such interfacial layers by extrapolation of the total capacitance with thickness of the films and the capacitance of these layers was larger in MOCVD-grown films than in CSD-grown films. Due to incomplete compensation of surface polarization charges by the free charges in the metal electrodes, the interfacial field activated the space charges inside the interfacial layers and deposited them at the boundary between the ferroelectric layer and the interfacial layer. Such space charges built up an internal field inside the films, which interfered with domain wall motion, so that retention property at last became degraded. We observed less imprint which was a result of less internal field in MOCVD-grown films while large imprint was observed in CSD-grown films.

Analysis on 3G Mobile Spectrum Charges by International Comparison (국제간 비교를 통한 3세대 이동통신 주파수 할당대가 분석)

  • Kim, Tae-Sung;Kim, Min-Jeong;Jun, Hyo-Jung
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.11B
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    • pp.1261-1271
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    • 2009
  • Emergence of new mobile communication services has generated new demand for spectrum. Because spectrum is a scarce public resource, demand for spectrum would exceed supply. As the demand for spectrum grows, the spectrum management policy becomes one of the most important issues in mobile telecommunications industry. Huge license charges for spectrum usage may obstruct the growth of mobile telecommunications industry. We analyze spectrum charges by international comparison for the case of 3G mobile telecommunication spectrum assignment. There are mainly two types of methods in spectrum assignment of 3G service, one is the auction and the other is the beauty contest. This article aims to analyze factors which influence on spectrum charges and to study the characteristic of spectrum charges of some selected countries. This study suggests the multiple regression model about spectrum charges.

A Study on the Impact Factors for the Difference of Mobile Termination Charges among the Countries (국가간 이동착신접속료 차이의 영향 요인 도출에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Eun-Jin;Park, Myeong-Cheol;Byun, Jae-Ho;Heo, Tae-Young
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.10B
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    • pp.1031-1042
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    • 2009
  • Due to liberalization in the early stage, mobile communications market has grown rapidly in the world. However, some dominant operators set higher termination call charges, and thus the market has been distorted and customer welfare has been reduced a lot. The regulation of mobile termination charges is one of key issues of most regulatory agencies in the world. According to the survey, the level of mobile termination charges are quite different from country to country. Why is it so different? This paper investigated the determinants affecting the mobile termination charges for 28 countries by considering country-specific, industry-specific, and regulatory-specific conditions. We found that some regulatory-specific conditions are the most important factors. The rate of pre-paid contract and period of regulation mostly affect the mobile termination charges.

Cavity and Interface effect of PI-Film on Charge Accumulation and PD Activity under Bipolar Pulse Voltage

  • Akram, Shakeel;Wu, Guangning;Gao, GuoQiang;Liu, Yang
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.2089-2098
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    • 2015
  • With the continuous development in insulation of electrical equipment design, the reliability of the system has been enhanced. However, in the manufacturing process and during operation under continues stresses introduce local defects, such as voids between interfaces that can responsible to occurrence of partial discharge (PD), electric field distortion and accumulation of charges. These defects may lead to localize corrosion and material degradation of insulation system, and a serious threat to the equipment. A model of three layers of PI film with air gap is presented to understand the influence of interface and voids on exploitation conditions such as strong electrical field, PD activity and charge movement. The analytical analysis, and experimental results are good agreement and show that the lose contact between interfaces accumulate more residual charges and in consequences increase the electric field intensity and accelerates internal discharges. These residual charges are trapped charges, injected by the electrodes has often same polarity, so the electric field in cavities increases significantly and thus partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV) decreases. Contrary, number of PD discharge quantity increases due to interface. Interfacial polarization effect has opposite impact on electric field and PDIV as compare to void.

Numerical analysis of particle behavior around a bipolar charged electret fiber (정전 섬유필터 주위의 입자포집 및 거동에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • An, Gang-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.1509-1517
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    • 1997
  • Charged and uncharged particle motions and collection characteristics around a bipolar charged rectangular shape electret fiber are studied numerically. Particle inertia, fluid drag, Coulomb force and polarization force are considered to predict the particle motion around the electret fiber. The effects of particle sizes, flow velocities, number of charges and polarities are also systematically investigated. For small size particles, the single fiber collection efficiency is greatly dependent on the charge polarity and the number of charges on a particle. However, particles larger than 5.mu.m do not show charging effect on collection efficiencies in the flow velocity ranges from 1.5 cm/s to 150 cm/s when the maximum charges are within +5 to -10. The results show that a strong electric field gradient at the corner of the bipolar charged fiber plays a very important role on collecting particles regardless of its charge polarity because of the polarization force. It also shows that the most penetrating particle size for a single electret fiber decreases as the flow velocity increases and the number of charges of a particle decreases.

Analysis of charges per case by hospital characteristics - In regard to acute appendicitis and NSVD - (병원 특성에 따른 건당 진료비 분석 - 급성충수염과 정상분만을 대상으로 -)

  • Jung, Sang-Hyuk;Yu, Seung-Hum;Kim, Han-Joong
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.23 no.2 s.30
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    • pp.216-223
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    • 1990
  • To identify the factors influencing the charges per case of acute appendicitis and normal spontaneous vaginal delivery (NSVD), the personal data-base files and hospital-characteristics-reporting data files of Korea Medical Insurance Corporation were analyzed. One hundred and twenty-nine institutions were selected. The results of this study were as follows 1. The differences of charges per case with respect to hospital ownership, location, and equipment levels were statistically significant. 2. The results of multiple regression analysis revealed that bed capacity was the most significant variable in both diseases. 3. Ownership was significant variable in acute appendicitis. In NSVD, ownership and hospital equipment level were statistically significant. In conclusion, bed capacity was statistically the most significant variable in the analysis of charages per case. And we thought that the results of this study would influence the policy of the hospital bed supply.

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