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A Study on the Diachronic Evolution of Ancient Chinese Vocabulary Based on a Large-Scale Rough Annotated Corpus

  • Yuan, Yiguo;Li, Bin
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2021
  • This paper makes a quantitative analysis of the diachronic evolution of ancient Chinese vocabulary by constructing and counting a large-scale rough annotated corpus. The texts from Si Ku Quan Shu (a collection of Chinese ancient books) are automatically segmented to obtain ancient Chinese vocabulary with time information, which is used to the statistics on word frequency, standardized type/token ratio and proportion of monosyllabic words and dissyllabic words. Through data analysis, this study has the following four findings. Firstly, the high-frequency words in ancient Chinese are stable to a certain extent. Secondly, there is no obvious dissyllabic trend in ancient Chinese vocabulary. Moreover, the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589 AD) and Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 AD) are probably the two periods with the most abundant vocabulary in ancient Chinese. Finally, the unique words with high frequency in each dynasty are mainly official titles with real power. These findings break away from qualitative methods used in traditional researches on Chinese language history and instead uses quantitative methods to draw macroscopic conclusions from large-scale corpus.

Effects of elastic strain on the agglomeration of silicide films for electrical contacts in integrated circuit applications

  • Choy, J.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2004
  • This paper reports a potential problem in the electrical performance of the silicide film to silicon contacts with respect to the scaling trend in integrated circuit (IC) devices. The effects of elastic strain on the agglomeration of the coherent silicide film embedded in an infinite matrix are studied employing continuum linear elasticity and finite-difference numerical method. The interface atomic diffusion is taken to be the dominant transport mechanism where both capillarity and elastic strain are considered for the driving forces. Under plane strain condition with elastically homogeneous and anisotropic system with cubic symmetry, the dilatational misfit and the tetragonal misfit in the direction parallel to the film thickness are considered. The numerical results on the shape evolution agree with the known trend that the equilibrium aspect ratio of the film increases with the elastic strain intensity. When the elastic strain intensity is taken to be only a function of the film size, the flat film morphology with a large aspect ratio becomes increasingly unstable since the equilibrium aspect ratio decreases, as the film scales. The shape evolution results in a large decrease in contact to silicon area, and may deteriorate the electrical performances.

Management of Neighbor Cell Lists and Physical Cell Identifiers in Self-Organizing Heterogeneous Networks

  • Lim, Jae-Chan;Hong, Dae-Hyoung
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.367-376
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we propose self-organizing schemes for the initial configuration of the neighbor cell list (NCL), maintenance of the NCL, and physical cell identifier (PCI) allocation in heterogeneous networks such as long term evolution systems where lower transmission power nodes are additionally deployed in macrocell networks. Accurate NCL maintenance is required for efficient PCI allocation and for avoiding handover delay and redundantly increased system overhead. Proposed self-organizing schemes for the initial NCL configuration and PCI allocation are based on evolved universal terrestrial radio access network NodeB (eNB) scanning that measures reference signal to interference and noise ratio and reference symbol received power, respectively, transmitted from adjacent eNBs. On the other hand, the maintenance of the NCL is managed by adding or removing cells based on periodic user equipment measurements. We provide performance analysis of the proposed schemes under various scenarios in the respects of NCL detection probability, NCL false alarm rate, handover delay area ratio, PCI conflict ratio, etc.

Hydrogen Evolution by Mixed Culture of Clostridia with Rhodopseudornonas sphaeroides (Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides와 Clostridia의 혼합)

  • Yi, Hye-Joo;Bae, Moo
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.430-436
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    • 1992
  • Hydrogen evolution by mixed fermentation of Clostn"dium butyn"cum and photosynthetic bacteria which were capable of consuming clostridial metabolites and evolving hydrogen was investigated. Acetate and butyrate formed from anaerobic clostridial fermentation were efficiently utilized by Rhodopseudomonas sPhaeroides K-7. For complete bioconversion of clostridial metabolites such as acetate and butyrate into hydrogen, mixed culture of both anaerobic organisms forming molecular hydrogen was performed. By the mixed culture, the yield of hydrogen production increased by 20 to 75% and the levels of clostridial metabolites such as acetate, butyrate decreased in the fermentation broth. Influence of cell mixing ratio. mixing time and inoculum level on hydrogen evolution by mixed culture were examined. And then cometabolic pattern compared with in pure culture was observed as time course.

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Multiband photometry of globular clusters toward the central region of the Fornax cluster: Radial variation of GC color distributions

  • Kim, Hak-Sub;Yoon, Suk-Jin;Sohn, Sangmo Tony;Chung, Chul;Lee, Sangyoon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.84.2-84.2
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    • 2012
  • We present wide-field multiband photometry of globular cluster (GC) systems toward the central region of the Fornax cluster of galaxies, including NGC 1399, NGC 1404, and NGC 1387. Observation was carried out through four optical passbands (U, B, V, and I) with the Mosaic II CCD imager mounted on the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). This marks one of the widest U-band photometric studies on GC systems. GC candidates are selected among point sources based on their two color diagrams together with a magnitude cut. We investigate the radial variation of color distributions for the GC systems, focusing on the fundamental parameters that characterize bimodal distributions; the number ratio between blue and red GCs, the mean colors of the groups, and their color dispersions. We discuss the implication of our result regarding the origin of GC color bimodality.

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Platinum Decoration of a 3D Oxidized Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Graphene Aerogel for Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

  • Thi Kieu Oanh Nguyen;Thanh Truong Dang;Tahereh Mahvelati-Shamsabadi;Jin Suk Chung
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.61 no.4
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    • pp.627-634
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    • 2023
  • Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has attracted considerable attention since its discovery for its catalysis of water splitting to hydrogen and oxygen under visible light irradiation. However, pristine g-C3N4 confers only low photocatalytic efficiency and requires surface cocatalysts to reach moderate activity due to a lack of accessible surface active sites. Inspired by the high specific surface area and superior electron transfer of graphene, we developed a strongly coupled binary structure of graphene and g-C3N4 aerogel with 3D porous skeleton. The as-prepared 3D structure photocatalysts achieve a high surface area that favors efficient photogenerated charge separation and transfer, enhances the light-harvesting efficiency, and significantly improves the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution rate as well. The photocatalyst performance is observed to be optimized at the ratio 3:7 (g-C3N4:GO), leading to photocatalytic H2 evolution of 16125.1 mmol. g-1. h-1 under visible light irradiation, more than 161 times higher than the rate achieved by bulk g-C3N4.

Case Study of Teaching Practices of Biology Teachers with and without Research Experience in Evolution Education (진화 교육 연구 경험 유무에 따른 생명과학 교사의 교수 실행 사례 연구)

  • Ko, Yuseon;Cha, Heeyoung;Lim, Mili
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.747-761
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze differences in the teaching practices of biology teachers according to their awareness of the importance of evolution. For this purpose, two teachers who experienced study of evolution and recognized its importance, along with two teachers with no experience in evolution education in the comparison group, were included in the sample. To observe teaching practices, two classes each on biological evolution and non-evolution were selected, recorded and transcribed. The content analyzed included the teachers' view on evolution education and teachers' evolution concepts reflected in teaching practice. As a result, the level of understanding of the teachers' evolution concept was unrelated to teachers' awareness of the importance of evolution. Instead, each teacher would not feel the need for religious beliefs or awareness of the importance of evolution to have a negative impact on the awareness of the importance of evolution. Inexperienced teachers tend to reject the retraining opportunities to recognize the importance of evolution. In addition, inexperienced teachers were only superficially aware of the evaluation and improvement of evolution presented in textbooks and curricula. In actual teaching practice analysis, inexperienced teachers' utilizing ratio of the evolution key concept was higher than that of experienced teachers. Only experienced teachers were aware of the misconceptions presented in their execution and described the causes that appear in these misconceptions. Teachers who recognized the importance of evolution were widely using the key concepts of evolution, as well as more practical in preventing the misconceptions related to evolution forms. It indicates that biology teachers who do not realize the importance of evolution in biology education need to experience explicit and practical education programs as well as instructional materials on evolution.

Study on Oxygen Evolution Reaction of Ni-Zn-Fe Electrode for Alkaline Water Electrolysis (알칼라인 수전해용 Ni-Zn-Fe 전극의 산소 발생 반응 특성)

  • LEE, TAEKYUNG;KIM, JONGWON;BAE, KIKWANG;PARK, CHUSIK;KANG, KYOUNGSOO;KIM, YOUNGHO;JEONG, SEONGUK
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.549-558
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    • 2018
  • The overall efficiency depend on the overpotential of the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline water electrolysis. Therefore, it is necessary to research to reduce the oxygen evolution overpotential of electrodes. In this study, Ni-Zn-Fe electrodes were prepared by electroplating and the surface area was increased by Zn leaching process. Electroplating variables were studied to optimize the plating parameters(electroplating current density, pH value of electroplating solution, Ni/Fe content ratio). Ni-Zn-Fe electrode, which is electroplated in a modified Watts bath, showed 0.294 V of overpotential at $0.1A/cm^2$. That result is better than that of Ni and Ni-Zn plated electrodes. As the electroplating current density of the Ni-Zn-Fe electrode increased, the particle size tended to increase and the overpotential of oxygen evolution reaction decreased. As reducing pH of electroplating solution from 4 to 2, Fe content in electrode and activity of oxygen evolution reaction decreased.

Assembling the bulge from globular clusters: Evidence from sodium bimodality

  • Lee, Young-Wook;Kim, Jenny J.;Chung, Chul;Jang, Sohee;Lim, Dongwook
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.37.2-37.2
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    • 2019
  • Recent investigations of the double red clump in the color-magnitude diagram of the Milky Way bulge cast serious doubts on the structure and formation origin of the outer bulge. Unlike previous interpretation based on an X-shaped bulge, stellar evolution models and CN-band observations have suggested that this feature is another manifestation of the multiple stellar population phenomenon observed in globular clusters (GCs). This new scenario requires a significant fraction of the outer bulge stars with chemical patterns uniquely observed in GCs. Here we show from homogeneous high-quality spectroscopic data that the red giant branch stars in the outer bulge ($>5.5^{\circ}$ from the Galactic center) are clearly divided into two groups according to Na abundance in the [Na/Fe] - [Fe/H] plane. The Na-rich stars are also enhanced in Al, while the differences in O and Mg are not observed between the two Na groups. The population ratio and the Na and Al differences between the two groups are also comparable with those observed in metal-rich GCs. Since these chemical patterns and characteristics are only explained by stars originated in GCs, this is compelling evidence that the outer bulge was mostly assembled from disrupted proto-GCs in the early history of the Milky Way. We will also discuss the implications of this result on the formation of the early-type galaxies in general.

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A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY ABOUT THE ASYMMETRIC AERODYNAMIC EVOLUTION AROUND A CIRCULAR CYLINDER CAUSED BY A MOVING WALL (이동 벽면에 의한 원형 실린더의 비대칭적 공력 발달에 관한 전산연구)

  • Jung J.Y.;Chang J.W.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.11 no.3 s.34
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 2006
  • A Computational study was carried out in order to investigate the moving wall effect of a circular cylinder at a Reynolds number of $2.0{\times}10^4$. The viscous-incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and Spalart-Almaras turbulent model of the commercial CFD code were adopted for this numerical analysis. The moving wall was set parallel with the freestream, and moving speed was equal to the freestream velocity. The gap ratio is defined as the distance ratio between the circular cylinder diameter and the height from the moving wall. The results show that there is vortex shedding over the critical gap ratio and aerodynamic loads including amplitude and the Strouhal number change according to the gap ratio.