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Fabrication of the Functional Coatings of a Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel by Plasma Spray Processes. (플라즈마 용사법을 이용한 원통형 고체산화물 연료전지의 요소피막 제조)

  • 주원태;홍상희
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.333-346
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    • 1997
  • Plasma spray processes for functional coatings of tubular SOFC ( Soild oxide Fuel Cell).consisting of air electrode, oxide electrolyte, an fuel electrode, are optimized by fully saturated fractional factorial testing. Material and electric characteristics of each coating are analtsed by the implementation of SEM and optical microscope for evaluating microstructure and porosity, X-ray diffraction method for investigating compositional change between raw powder and sprayed coating, and Van der Pauw method for measuring electrical conductivity. LSM ($La_{0.65}Sr_{0.35}MnO_3$air electrode and Ni-YSL fuel electrode coatings have porosities of around 23~30% sufficient for effective fuel and oxidant gas supply to electrochemical reaction interfaces and electrical conductivities of around 90 S/cm and 1000 S/cm, respectively, enough for acting as current collecting electrodes. YSZ($ZrO_2-8mol%Y_2O_3$) electrolyte film has a high ionic conductivities of 0.05~0.07 S/cm at $1000^{\circ}C$ in air atmosphere, but appears to be somewhat too porous to reduce the thickness. for enhancing the cell efficiency. A unit tubular SOFC has beem fabricated by the optimized plasma spray processes for each functional coating and the cell. Its electrochemical chracteristics are investigated by measuring voltage-current and power density with variation of operationg temperature, radio of fuel to air gas flowrates, and total gas flowrate of reactants.

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The Algorithm of Improvement of Production cost using Function based cost estimating (기능 분석에 따른 제품 원가 구조개선 알고리즘에 대한 연구)

  • Seo, Ji-Han;Lee, Jea-Myung;La, Seung-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.207-213
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    • 2010
  • Now days, the marketing environment is rapidly changed. Therefore, a lot of companies try to reduce production cost. Especially, Design is a important activities in new product development. While the concepts of design for manufacturable and concurrent engineering have made significant advances in integrating the design function with other areas in the firm. There are still major gaps in timely and accurate costing information available to designers. Inappropriate design could result in high redesign cost and delay in product relation. The generation of design and improvement is a time-consuming and mentally exhaustion process. It involves combining design features to generate as many potential design as possible. As not all features combinations are feasible, decision-makers have to narrow down the potential solutions and subsequently select appropriate design for further development. This new study is composed of 3 steps aiming at the Low Cost Design of the product. The three steps are consisted that setting up the target Cost, estimating the current functional cost, the design of a unit's reviewing according to the priority of the difference between the target cost and the functional cost.

Spatial Construction and Functional Characteristics of Market Place in Seomjin River -Focused on Gokseong, Gurye, Soonchang, Okgok Market Place- (섬진강유역 장시의 공간구성과 기능 특성에 관한 연구 -순창·곡성·구례·옥곡장시를 중심으로-)

  • Park, Chung-Shin;Kim, Tai-young
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2010
  • This paper aims to clarify the spatial form and functional characteries of traditional market place in Seomjin river. The objects of this study are Gokseong, Gurye, Soonchang, and Okgok market place. The results are as follows. First, the form of the traditional market that it was open focusing on large open space of a village was maintained until now. Second, the spatial form of a market place surrounds market-shop located at the center of a market, and a permanent market-store is located in a line. Spatial element important for constituting a market place is three, market-shop, stall, and the mall of market place, and each spatial element is functioning in linkage. The unit space of market-shop is mainly determined by between pillars, and a store is opened. And the same type of industry adjoins, and market-shop's forms a fixed domain and is distributed. The stall is located with many kinds and forms at street mall, and it is taking charge of the important function of trade.

Fabrication and Characterization of Film Type Light Guide Plates by UV Imprint Lithography (UV 임프린팅법에 의한 필름형 광도광판의 제조 및 특성 연구)

  • Kim, Hyeong-Gwan;Kim, So-Won;Lee, Hee-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.178-185
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    • 2016
  • In this study, we have fabricated light guide plates (LGPs) in thin film form for edge type back light unit (BLU) by using UV imprint lithography. In the LGPs, the pattern of functional resins on PC and PMMA substrates were successfully transferred from original master mold through PVC stamp. Optimized pattern arrays with slowly-sloped density were designed to obtain high brightness and uniformity. We could obtain a relatively improved brightness of $950cd/m^2$ and a uniformity of 87.3% by using the NP-S20 functional resins at an input power of 1.3 W because NP-S20 resin could show high formability after UV hardening process. The LGP prepared on polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) substrate exhibited higher brightness than that on polycarbonate (PC) substrate because PMMA has lower refractive index resulting in more refraction toward the vertical direction.

A Resource-Constrained Scheduling Algorithm for High Level Synthesis (상위레벨 회로합성을 위한 자원제한 스케줄링 알고리즘)

  • Hwang In-Jae
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2005
  • Scheduling for digital system synthesis is assigning each operation in a control/data flow graph(CDFG) to a specific control step without violating precedence relation. It is one of the most important tasks due to its direct influence on the performance of the hardware synthesized. In this paper, we propose a resource-constrained scheduling algorithm. Our algorithm first analyzes the given CDFG to determine the number of functional units of each type, then assigns each operation to a control step while satisfying the constraints. It also tries to improve the solution iteratively by adjusting the number of functional units using the results collected from the previous scheduling. Experiments were performed to test the performance of the proposed algorithm, and results are presented

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A Simultaneous Hardware Resource Allocation and Binding Algorithm for VLSI Design (VLSI 설계를 위한 동시수행 하드웨어 자원 할당 및 바인딩 알고리듬)

  • 최지영
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.25 no.10A
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    • pp.1604-1612
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    • 2000
  • This paper proposes a simultaneous hardware resource allocation and binding algorithm for VLSI design. The proposed algorithm works on scheduled input graph and simultaneously allocates binds functional units, interconnections and registers by considering interdependency between operations and storage elements in each control step, in order to share registers and interconnections connected to functional units, as much as possible. Also, the register allocation is especially executes the allocation optima us-ing graph coloring techniques. Therefore the overall resource is reduced. This paper shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by comparing experiments to determine number of functional unit in advance or to separate executing allocation and binding of existing system.

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A Draft Proposal for Functional Pesticide Protection Clothing Using a Cooling Blower Unit (냉각 송풍장치를 이용한 기능성 농약방제복의 구성시안 제안에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Young Soon;Lee, Kyung Suk;Chae, Hye Seon;Kim, Kyung Ran
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.557-566
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    • 2014
  • This study examines he trend in the development of protective clothing for pesticide spraying based on materials with domestic patents and proposes pesticide protection clothing using a cooling blower unit effective for reducing heat stress in pesticide spraying. There was a total of 54 domestic patents on protective clothing related to pesticide spraying, reflecting a sharp increase based on the increasing demand for protective clothing since 2000. Protective clothing with a lower level of heat stress as the core technology accounted for 35.2% of these patents, and recent years have witnessed the increased development of protective clothing supplying cold air to the interior of the clothing through a separate device. However, this may cause some inconvenience in the activity of farmers. Therefore, this study proposes a lightweight cooling blower unit that does not hinder the user's appearance and activity. In the cooling blower unit, contaminated air from outside is purified through a filter and cools down as it passes a cooling device with refrigerant in the copper pipe. This chilled air is supplied to the interior of the clothing through a bidirectional inhaling blower. The proposed protective clothing is an overall with raglan sleeves. Its chill injection site has an area where the most conspicuous change in temperature is selected, and at the back, there is a large pocket for a cooling blower unit.

Epidemic Trends of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Abnormalities: Hospital-based study on Endoscopic Data Evaluation

  • Mohiuddin, Mohammed Khaliq;Chowdavaram, Suman;Bogadi, Varun;Prabhakar, Boddu;Rao, Kondadasula Pandu Ranga;Devi, Suneetha;Mohan, Vasavi
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.14
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    • pp.5741-5747
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: To understand the epidemiology of different upper gastrointestinal (UGI) tract related abnormalities through endoscopic data analysis. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study of three years from January 2009 to December 2011 was conducted with data from endoscopic surveillance of upper GI tract problems, collected from the Gastroenterology Unit, Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad. MS excel and Medcalc software (comparison of proportions) were used for data analysis. Results: A total of 10,029 (6,468 in males and 3,561 in females) endoscopies were performed during this three-year period. The male to female ratio was 1.8:1. Overall, ~30% of endoscopies evaluated showed patients with acid peptic disorders, 13.6% with vascular-related abnormalities, 10.6% showed structural abnormalities, followed by 6.3% with malignancies. Burden of malignancies was mostly observed in the older age group (60-69 years). Esophageal cancer cases decreased (p=0.0001) whereas stomach cancers increased over this period (p=0.0345). We also observed an increased incidence of acid peptic disease (APD) (p=0.0036) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) (p=0.0002) cases during this period. Conclusions: Endoscopic diagnosis is useful for early detection of UGI anomalies and helpful for physicians to manage and treat varied kinds of UGI disorders. Analysis of data revealed changing trends in the incidence of various pathologies of the UGI tract. Functional dyspepsia and GERD definitely reduce the quality of life of the individual. The role of our diverse dietary habits and lifestyle associated with these problems have not yet been established, though there have been reports on the effect of coffee, spicy food, wheat-based diet, screening of UGI pathologies along with collection of complete personal and medical history details, can h elp in correlating the patients' condition with various aspects of lifestyle and diet.

Metagenomic Analysis of Novel Lignocellulose-Degrading Enzymes from Higher Termite Guts Inhabiting Microbes

  • Nimchua, Thidarat;Thongaram, Taksawan;Uengwetwanit, Tanaporn;Pongpattanakitshote, Somchai;Eurwilaichitr, Lily
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.462-469
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    • 2012
  • A metagenomic fosmid library was constructed from genomic DNA isolated from the microbial community residing in hindguts of a wood-feeding higher termite (Microcerotermes sp.) collected in Thailand. The library was screened for clones expressing lignocellulolytic activities. Fourteen independent active clones (2 cellulases and 12 xylanases) were obtained by functional screening at pH 10.0. Analysis of shotgun-cloning and pyrosequencing data revealed six ORFs, which shared less than 59% identity and 73% similarity of their amino acid sequences with known cellulases and xylanases. Conserved domain analysis of these ORFs revealed a cellulase belonging to the glycoside hydrolase family 5, whereas the other five xylanases showed significant identity to diverse families including families 8, 10, and 11. Interestingly, one fosmid clone was isolated carrying three contiguous xylanase genes that may comprise a xylanosome operon. The enzymes with the highest activities at alkaline pH from the initial activity screening were characterized biochemically. These enzymes showed a broad range of enzyme activities from pH 5.0 to 10.0, with pH optimal of 8.0 retaining more than 70% of their respective activities at pH 9.0. The optimal temperatures of these enzymes ranged from $50^{\circ}C$ to $55^{\circ}C$. This study provides evidence for the diversity and function of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes in the termite gut microbial community, which could be of potential use for industrial processes such as pulp biobleaching and denim biostoning.

Effect of Phytase, Protease and the Mixed Enzyme of Phytase and Protease on the Extraction and Properteis of the Protein from Abolished Soybean Meal (Phytase, Protease 및 Phytase와 Protease 혼합 효소처리가 폐대두박의 단백질 추출율 및 그 기능성에 미치는 영향)

  • 조영제;천성숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2000
  • To extract insoluble proteins from abolished soybean meal, the meal was treatesd with phytase and protease produced by Aspergillus sp. SM-15 and Aspergillus sp. MS-18. The extraction of insoluble soybean protein was increased at alkaline range more than pH 5 in case of phytase, pH 7 to 11 in case of protease and pH 5 to 12 in case of the mixed enzyme of phytase and protease. The optimum extraction temperature of insoluble protein was 5$0^{\circ}C$ for phytase and the mixed enzyme of phytase and protease, and 6$0^{\circ}C$ for protease. The optimum treatment time for extraction of protein was 9 hrs for phytase, 11 hrs for protease and the mixed enzyme of phytase and protease and optimum unit of enzyme for extraction of protein was 600 unit, 40 unit and 900 unit+60 unit in case of phytase, protease, phytase and protease, respectively. The treatment of mixed enzyme showed higher extracton rate of protein than single enzyme treatment. The foaming capacity, foaming stability, emulsion capacity, and emulsion stability of soybean meal protein by the treatment of the enzymes increased at all pH range. Further more oil absorption as well as water absorption capacities by the treatment of the enzymes were also increased. The functional properteis of the soybean meal protein treated by the mixed enzyme were higher than those of soybean meal protein treated by the single enzyme.

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