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Effects of Changes in Fishing Effort on Yield of Kuwait's Commercial Fish Stocks

  • LEE J. U.
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.475-483
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    • 1990
  • An assessment of Kuwait's commercial fish stocks: hamoor (Epinephelus tauvina), zobaidy (Pampus argenteus), nakroor (Pomadasys argenteus) and sheiry (Lethrinus nebulosus), was conducted using length-frequency data, mean growth and mortality estimates obtained during 1981$\~$1988. The length-cohort analysis indicated that increases in fishing effort would not lead to long-term gains in yield of the stocks at the current estimate of natural mortality rate (M). At high M which was assumed arbitrarily, some benefit in yield could be obtained, especially for hamoor and sheiry. At low M, the yield of all stocks decreased with increased fishing effort. Increases in fishing effort resulted in significant dec-line in spawning stock size for all the stocks. Yield-per-recruit analysis indicated that, un-der low M assumption, a higher yield can be obtained for zobaidy and nakroor by reducing fishing effort. At moderate M, decreases in fishing effort brought gains in yield per recruit of the stocks, but it was not substantial compared with the present level of M. At high M, most of the stocks reached the maximum yield-per-recruit. Overall, increased fishing effort either will not be associated with large long-term gains in yield or, in some stocks, might cause a decline from the present level.

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End shape and rotation effect on steel pipe pile installation effort and bearing resistance

  • Saleem, Muhammad A.;Malik, Adnan A.;Kuwano, Jiro
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.523-533
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    • 2020
  • The current study focuses on the effect of the end shape of steel pipe piles on installation effort and bearing resistance using the pressing method of installation under dense ground conditions. The effect of pile rotation on the installation effort and bearing resistance is also investigated. The model steel piles with a flat end, cone end and cutting-edge end were used in this study. The test results indicated that cone end pile with the pressing method of installation required the least installation effort (load) and showed higher ultimate resistance than flat and cutting-edge end piles. However, pressing and rotation during cutting-edge end pile installation considerably reduces the installation effort (load and torque) if pile penetration in one rotation equal to the cutting-edge depth. Inclusion of rotation during pile installation reduces the ultimate bearing resistance. However, if penetration of the cutting-edge end pile equal to the cutting-edge depth in one rotation, the reduction in ultimate resistance can be minimized. In comparing the cone and cutting-edge end piles installed with pressing and rotation, the least installation effort is observed in the cutting-edge end pile installed with penetration rate equal to the cutting-edge depth per rotation.

A Study on the Introduction of Linear Programming Model into the Management of Korean Coastal and Offshore Fisheries (한국 연근해어업의 합리적 관리를 위한 LP모형의 도입방안에 관한 연구)

  • 박장일
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.37-59
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    • 1994
  • Many studies to cope with the present problems of Korean coastal and offshore fisheries has been performed, but these were done partly in necessities and general studies for Korean inshore and offshore fisheries are in early stage. Most of these studies adopted analytical way of approach for each fishery individually and they could not reflect the effect of correlated interaction among fisheries on the several common species/stocks, and thus optimal effort allocation was impossible. To consider general fisheries and optimal effort allocation among competing mixed species, a linear programming (LP) approach is applied in this study and introduced into 16 important inshore and offshore fisheries with 13 constraining species which were chosen by annual yield order. This study is not based on the biological interaction among species (i.e., prey - predator system) but the technological interaction between species and fishing efforts. For the application of LP model in these fisheries, the standardization of fishing efforts through different fishing gears could not be successful and a new way of effort standardization through CPUE for vessel tonnage was originated. Total standardized fishing effort on a particular species i, Ei, is computed as the linear summation of standardized fishing effort generated by each fishery j. That is, (equation omitted) where $f_{j}$ is the total vessel tonnage of fishery j and aij is the coefficients contributing to the standardized fishing effort per ton for species i taken in fishery j. The total fishing effort level on species i due to both directed fishing and by - catch can thus be accounted in the aij's. Optimal effort allocation among the j fisheries may be considered a minimizing problem (minimize $\Sigma$ $f_{j}$), subject to the constraints that standardized fishing effort levels on particular species are maintained at, above, and below certain predefined levels. Fishing effort goals for individual species can be based on various biological and/or economic criteria, i.e., fishing effort level generating maximum sustainable yield and/or maximum economic yield. But in this study the $F_{0.1}$ criteria which was accepted as an approximate level for $F_{mey}$ by Outland and Boerema's (1973) study. The findings of this study are, (1) LP model can be applied to the Korean inshore and offshore fisheries giobally. (2) Through a new way of combining multiple different fisheries' efforts for a particular species together generating standardized fishing effort, Schaefer curve could be applied to the complex system successfully. (3) The results of this study for total reduction scale were mostly the same as those of prior studies, but different much from the individual scales of reduction. This study showed the necessities for exploitation of more concrete parameters to put into consideration of profitability of fisheries and social factors, and this model can be modified according to the actual constraints. Also, considering the age structure of stocks, this model can be developed into better one for better fisheries management.ent.

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Analyzing Influence of Outlier Elimination on Accuracy of Software Effort Estimation (소프트웨어 공수 예측의 정확성에 대한 이상치 제거의 영향 분석)

  • Seo, Yeong-Seok;Yoon, Kyung-A;Bae, Doo-Hwan
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.10
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    • pp.589-599
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    • 2008
  • Accurate software effort estimation has always been a challenge for the software industrial and academic software engineering communities. Many studies have focused on effort estimation methods to improve the estimation accuracy of software effort. Although data quality is one of important factors for accurate effort estimation, most of the work has not considered it. In this paper, we investigate the influence of outlier elimination on the accuracy of software effort estimation through empirical studies applying two outlier elimination methods(Least trimmed square regression and K-means clustering) and three effort estimation methods(Least squares regression, Neural network and Bayesian network) associatively. The empirical studies are performed using two industry data sets(the ISBSG Release 9 and the Bank data set which consists of the project data collected from a bank in Korea) with or without outlier elimination.

Anti-Slip Control of Railway Vehicle Using Load Torque Disturbance Observer and Speed Sensor-less Vector Control (부하토크외란관측기와 속도센서리스 백터제어를 이용한 철도모의장치의 Anti-Slip 제어)

  • Lee S. C.;Jeon K. Y.;Jho J. M.;Lee S. H.;Kang S. U.;Oh B. H.;Lee H. G.;Han K. H.
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.635-642
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    • 2004
  • In electric motor coaches. the rolling stocks move by the adhesive effort between rail and driving wheel. Generally, the adhesive effort is defined by the function of both the weight of electric motor coach and the adhesive effort between rails and driving wheel. The characteristics of adhesive effort is strongly affected by the conditions between rails and driving wheel. When the adhesive effort decreases suddenly, the electric motor coach has slip phenomena. This paper proposes a re-adhesion control based on disturbance observer and sensor-less vector control. The numerical simulation and experimental results point out that the proposed readhesion control system has the desired driving wheel torque response for the tested bogie system of electric coach. Based on this estimated adhesive effort, the re-adhesion control is performed to obtain the maximum transfer of the tractive effort.

Sigmoid Curve Model for Software Test-Effort Estimation (소프트웨어 시험 노력 추정 시그모이드 모델)

  • Lee, Sang-Un
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.11D no.4
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    • pp.885-892
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    • 2004
  • Weibull distribution Iincluding Rayleigh and Exponential distribution is a typical model to estimate the effort distribution which is committed to the software testing phase. This model does not represent standpoint that many efforts are committed actually at the test beginning point. Moreover, it does not properly represent the various distribution form of actual test effort. To solve these problems, this paper proposes the Sigmoid model. The sigmoid function to be applicable in neural network transformed into the function which properly represents the test effort of software in the model. The model was verified to the six test effort data which were got from actual software projects which have various distribution form and verified the suitability. The Sigmoid model nay be selected by the alternative of Weibull model to estimate software test effort because it is superior than the Weibull model.

Anti-Slip Control of Railway Vehicle Using Load Torque Disturbance Observer (부하토크외란관측기를 이용한 철도모의장치의 Anti-Slip 제어)

  • Jang, Jin-Hyog;Hwang, Lak-Hun;Kim, Young-Choon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.1064-1071
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    • 2006
  • In electric motor coaches, the rolling stocks move by the adhesive effort between rail and driving wheel. Generally, the adhesive effort is defined by the function of both the weight of electric motor coach and the adhesive effort between rails and driving wheel. The characteristics of adhesive effort is strongly affected by the conditions between rails and driving wheel. When the adhesive effort decreases suddenly, the electric motor coach has slip phenomena. This paper proposes a re-adhesion control based on disturbance observer and sensor-less vector control. The numerical simulation and experimental results point out that the proposed readhesion control system has the desired driving wheel torque response for the tested bogie system of electric coach. Based on this estimated adhesive effort, the re-adhesion control is performed to obtain the maximum transfer of the tractive effort.

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A Study on Characters gesture of 「Dance of Death」 by Laban's Effort Factor (라반의 Effort Factor에 의한 「죽음의 춤」의 캐릭터 움직임 의미 연구)

  • Lee, myoung ju
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.311-312
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    • 2012
  • 이 연구는 "죽음의 춤"에 나타난 캐릭터 움직임의 의미를 분석하고자 Effort Factor를 적용하였다. 입체적인 공간을 필요로 하는 무용콘텐츠를 미술영역의 시각적 자료를 통해 다양한 가능성과 새로운 시각으로 움직임에 대한 폭넓은 이해를 하는데 그 목적이 있다.

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A Design of Prototype 1C2M Railway Vehicle Propulsion Control System Considering Slip Reduction of Traction Motor

  • Chang, Chin-Young;Kim, Jae-Moon;Kim, Yoon-Ho
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.429-435
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    • 2015
  • This study proposes a re-adhesion algorithm that has stable traction effort for rolling stock slip/slide minimization when deliverable traction decreases by slip. The proposed scheme estimates appropriate reference speed using two encoders for reducing slip and controls traction effort stably and has stable control characteristics for disturbance. The algorithm which uses the maximum adhesive effort by instantaneous estimation of adhesion force stably controls traction effort and gives rolling stock excellent acceleration and deceleration characteristics. And a slip sensing element that can quickly detect slip is used. Load motor and inverter were checked in various slip conditions for creating various line conditions.

A Estimation of Software Development Effort for Distributed Control System by ANFIS

  • Kim, Dong-Hwa
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.375-375
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    • 2000
  • Estimating software development effort remains a complex problem attracting considerable research attention. Improving the estimation techniques available to project managers would facilitate more effective control of time and budgets in software development as well as market. However, estimation is difficult because of its similarity to export judgment approaches and fur its potential as an expert assistant in support of human judgment. Especially, in software development for DCS (Distributed Control System), because of infrastructure software related to target-machines hardware and process characteristics should be considered, estimating software development effort is more complex. This paper suggests software development effort estimation technique using neural network. The methods considered are based on COCOMO and case-based projects. Estimation results applied to case-based project appeared to have value fur software development effort estimation models.

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