• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.39-42
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• 2001

This paper we study the exact controllability for the nonlinear fuzzy control system in E$^{2}$$_{N}$ by using the concept of fuzzy number of dimension 2 whose values are normal, convex, upper semicontinuous and compactly supported surface in R$^{2}$.>.

• Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.7-15
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• 2009

The objective of this study was to investigate difference in nitrogen, organic, phosphorus and $NH_3$-N removal efficiency according to organic loading, comparing M-DEPHANOX process which has two nitrification reactor with M-eBNR process which has one nitrification reactor. As a result of this study, $NH_3$-N removal efficiency of M-DEPHANOX and M-eBNR resulted in average level of 91.8%, 96.9%, respectively. M-DEPHANOX and M-eBNR processes showed high removal efficiency in view of $NH_3$-N removal efficiency. Comparing organic removal efficiency by M-DEPHANOX and M-eBNR processes, the average removal efficiency in terms of TCOD, SCOD was 84.1%, 78.2% and 83.4%, 75.6%. Also, the results that observed about $NH_3$-N removal efficiency regarding organic loading revealed that nitrification reactor of RBC type are little influenced by flowing organic without precipitating at settling tank. Therefore, although inflow characteristics of municipal wastewater changes, M-eBNR process appeared to remove $NH_3$-N reliably.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.39-52
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• 2000

In this paper, we derive the BER performance of an asynchronous DS/CDMA system and analyze the improvement of BER performance through turbo coding and RAKE receiver in multipath Rayleigh fading and impulsive noise environments. As a result, impulsive noise affects the performance of the system more than multipath fading in lower $E_b/N_o$ than a certain threshold. However, in higher $E_b/N_o$, multipath fading are more dominant than impulsive noise. It is found that in lower $E_b/N_o$, turbo code improves the performance of the system against impulsive noise, and in higher $E_b/N_o$, RAKE receiver improves the performance of the system against multipath fading. Therefore, great improvement can be obtained by employing turbo code and RAKE receiver in multipath Rayleigh fading and impulsive noise environments.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.22-29
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• 2003

Temporal and spatial variability of precipitation (P), evaporation (E), and moisture balance (P-E; precipitation minus evaporation) has been investigated over the tropical ocean during the period from January 1998 to July 2001. Our data were analyzed by the EOF method using the satellite P and E observations made by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I). This analysis has been performed for two three-year periods as follow; The first period which includes the El Ni${\tilde{n}}$o in early 1998 ranges from January 1998 to December 2000, and the second period which includes the La Ni${\tilde{n}}$o events in the early 1999 and 2000 (without El Ni${\tilde{n}}$o) ranges from August 1998 to July 2001. The areas of maxima and high variability in the precipitation and in the P-E were displaced from the tropical western Pacific and the ITCZ during the La Ni${\tilde{n}}$o to the tropical middle Pacific during the El Ni${\tilde{n}}$o, consistent with those in previous P studies. Their variations near the Korean Peninsula seem to exhibit a weakly positive correlation with that in the tropical Pacific during the El Ni${\tilde{n}}$o. The evaporation, out of phase with the precipitation, was reduced in the tropical western Pacific due to humid condition in boreal summer, but intensified in the Kuroshio and Gulf currents due to windy condition in winter. The P-E variability was determined mainly by the precipitation of which the variability was more localized but higher by 2-3 times than that of evaporation. Except for the ITCZ (0-10$^{\circ}$N), evaporation was found to dominate precipitation by ${\sim}$2 mm/day over the tropical Pacific. Annual and seasonal variations of P, E, and P-E were discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.94-97
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• 2009

연 및 계절강수량의 정확한 예보는 수자원관리에 매우 중요하다. 예보 정확도를 높이기 위한 다양한 연구가 계속 진행되어 왔다. 그럼에도 불구하고 강수자료가 가지는 매우 큰 불확실성 때문에 예보의 정확도 향상은 계속되는 숙제로 우리에게 남아 있다. 이를 개선하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 군집화 기법을 이용한 연 및 계절 강수량 예측개선에 대한 연구 결과를 제시하였다. 이를 위하여 연강수량, 계절강수량 및 월강수량의 예측을 위하여 전구에서 일어나는 각종 기후 인자들과의 상관성 분석은 대단히 중요하다. 전 세계적으로 어느 특정 지역에서의 선행 기후인자 변화 양상이 우리나라의 강수량에 높은 상관성을 가지며 영향을 미친다면 예측을 위한 매우 유용한 정보라 하겠으나 국내 강수량과 기후 지수 사이의 선형 상관성은 매우 낮을 뿐만 아니라 지체상관성도 특정 지체에서 매우 큰 상관성을 보이는 인자를 찾기 어려움을 알 수 있다. 이를 극복하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 k-mean clustering을 이용하여 우리나라 주변의 기후조건을 분류하고 기후조건에 따른 강수량의 변화를 분석하였다. 남중국해역($105^{\circ}E\;^{\sim}\;135^{\circ}E$, $0^{\circ}N\;^{\sim}\;35^{\circ}N$), 우리나라 연안 해역 ($110^{\circ}E\;^{\sim}\;150^{\circ}E$, $20^{\circ}N\;^{\sim}\;40^{\circ}N$), 인도양 해역 ($75^{\circ}E\;^{\sim}\;105^{\circ}E$, $0^{\circ}N\;^{\sim}\;25^{\circ}N$) 및 아라비아 해역 ($45^{\circ}E\;^{\sim}\;75^{\circ}E$, $0^{\circ}N\;^{\sim}\;30^{\circ}N$ 평균 해수면 온도 변화에 따라 8개 군집으로 분류한 분석결과로 분석결과 2008년도는 그룹 5에 해당하며 그룹 5의 기후 상태는 근해와 남중국해역의 평균 해수면 온도가 평년보다 낮고 인도양 해역과 아라비아 해역의 평균 해수면 온도는 평년값과 비슷한 상태를 나타낸다. 그룹 5에 해당하는 기후조건에서 차년의 강수평균은 평년값 보다 적음을 보였다. 이러한 특성은 전체 유역에 걸쳐 동일하게 나타났다. 이에 대한 계절적 평균 분포는 군집 5에 대한 차년도 강수의 평균 계절분포는 전체적으로 평년값보다 낮게 나타났다. 이에 근거하여 올해 연 평균 강수량은 평년값보다 적을 것이며 전체 계절에 대하여도 평년값보다 적은 강수량이 올 것으로 판단된다. 이는 기상청의 2009년 봄철 기후전망과 유사한 예측 결과를 보여준다.

• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.147-154
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• 1974

Relationship among grain yield (Y) nitrogen efficiency (E) and nitrogen uptake amount (N) was investigated using the data from Korea and Japan in order to find out the way of increase nitrogen efficiency. The relationship between E and N could be grouped in various classes. In each class the equation. Y=EN=(b-aN)N, is valid where b is a theoretical maximum of E and a is the E/N at theoretial maximum yield. Present technique for high yield in the rice research seems to achieve 56.8 of nitrogen efficiency with 15.5kg of nitrogen uptake. Future target appears to be 63 of efficiency with 17kg of nitrogen uptake at which some farmers in Japan might reach already. It seems that the increase of nitrogen uptake for high yield is restricted without increase of nitrogen efficiency. The increase of efficiency and uptake amount of soil nitrogen seems essential to increase total nitrogen efficiency.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.1843-1851
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• 2018

Objective: We aimed to characterize linkage disequilibrium (LD) and effective population size ($N_e$) in a Korean Yorkshire population using genomic data from thousands of individuals. Methods: We genotyped 2,470 Yorkshire individuals from four major Grand-Grand-Parent farms in Korea using the Illumina PorcineSNP60 version2 BeadChip, which covers >61,565 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located across all chromosomes and mitochondria. We estimated the expected LD and inferred current $N_e$ as well as ancestral $N_e$. Results: We identified 61,565 SNP from autosomes, mitochondria, and sex chromosomes and characterized the LD of the Yorkshire population, which was relatively high between closely linked markers (>0.55 at 50 kb) and declined with increasing genetic distance. The current $N_e$ of this Korean Yorkshire population was 122.87 (106.90; 138.84), while the historical $N_e$ of Yorkshire pigs suggests that the ancestor $N_e$ has decreased by 99.6% over the last 10,000 generations. Conclusion: To maintain genetic diversity of a domesticated animal population, we must carefully consider appropriate breed management methods to avoid inbreeding. Although attenuated selection can affect short-term genetic gain, it is essential for maintaining the long-term genetic variability of the Korean Yorkshire population. Continuous and long-term monitoring would also be needed to maintain the pig population to avoid an unintended reduction of $N_e$. The best way to preserve a sustainable population is to maintain a sufficient $N_e$.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.449-456
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• 2023

N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are ionic glutamine receptors involved in brain development and functions such as learning and memory formation. NMDA receptor inhibition is associated with autophagy activation. In this study, we investigated whether the NMDA receptor antagonists, memantine and ifenprodil, induce autophagy in human retinal pigment epithelial cells (ARPE-19) to remove N-retinylidene-N-retinylethanolamine (A2E), an intracellular lipofuscin component. Fluorometric analysis using labeled A2E (A2E-BDP) and confocal microscopic examination revealed that low concentrations of NMDA receptor antagonists, which did not induce cytotoxicity, significantly reduced A2E accumulation in ARPE-19 cells. In addition, memantine and ifenprodil activated autophagy in ARPE-19 cells as measured by microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B-light chain3-II formation and phosphorylated p62 protein levels. Further, to understand the correlation between memantine- and ifenprodil-mediated A2E degradation and autophagy, autophagy-related 5 (ATG5) was depleted using RNA interference. Memantine and ifenprodil failed to degrade A2E in ARPE-19 cells lacking ATG5. Taken together, our study indicates that the NMDA receptor antagonists, memantine and ifenprodil, can remove A2E accumulated in cells via autophagy activation in ARPE-19 cells.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.693-704
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• 2012

We consider Weierstrass functions and divisor functions arising from $q$-series. Using these we can obtain new identities for divisor functions. Farkas [3] provided a relation between the sums of divisors satisfying congruence conditions and the sums of numbers of divisors satisfying congruence conditions. In the proof he took logarithmic derivative to theta functions and used the heat equation. In this note, however, we obtain a similar result by differentiating further. For any $n{\geq}1$, we have $$k{\cdot}{\tau}_{2;k,l}(n)=2n{\cdot}E_{\frac{k-l}{2}}(n;k)+l{\cdot}{\tau}_{1;k,l}(n)+2k{\cdot}{\sum_{j=1}^{n-1}}E_{\frac{k-1}{2}(j;k){\tau}_{1;k,l}(n-j)$$. Finally, we shall give a table for $E_1(N;3)$, ${\sigma}(N)$, ${\tau}_{1;3,1}(N)$ and ${\tau}_{2;3,1}(N)$ ($1{\leq}N{\leq}50$) and state simulation results for them.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.5
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• pp.1087-1107
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• 2023

Let E be an elliptic curve defined over ℚ of conductor N, c the Manin constant of E, and m the product of Tamagawa numbers of E at prime divisors of N. Let K be an imaginary quadratic field where all prime divisors of N split in K, P_K the Heegner point in E(K), and III(E/K) the Shafarevich-Tate group of E over K. Let 2u_K be the number of roots of unity contained in K. Gross and Zagier conjectured that if P_K has infinite order in E(K), then the integer c · m · u_K · |III(E/K)| $\frac{1}{2}$ is divisible by |E(ℚ)_tor|. In this paper, we prove that this conjecture is true if E(ℚ)_tor ≅ ℤ/2ℤ or ℤ/4ℤ except for two explicit families of curves. Further, we show these exceptions can be removed under Stein-Watkins conjecture.