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Comparison of Magnetic Resonant Coupling Wireless Power Transfer Systems within Aligned and Unaligned Positions and Determining their Limits

  • Agcal, Ali;Bekiroglu, Nur;Ozcira, Selin
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.652-659
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    • 2016
  • In this study, the efficiencies for both the angular aligned and unaligned positions of the receiver and transmitter coils of wireless power transfer (WPT) systems are examined. Some parameters of the equivalent circuit were calculated with Maxwell 3D software. The analytical solution of the circuit was calculated in MATLAB program through the composition of the system's mathematical modeling. The numerical solution of the system, however, was calculated using PSIM, which is circuit simulation software. In addition, with the use of the finite element method (FEM) in Maxwell 3D software, transient analysis of the three-dimensional system was performed. The efficiency of the system was estimated through the calculation of input and output power. The results demonstrated that power was efficiently transmitted to a certain extent in aligned and unaligned positions. The results also revealed that, for aligned positions, high efficiency with air gaps of 15-20 cm can be obtained and that the efficiency quickly dropped with air gaps of more than 20 cm. For spatially unaligned positions, it was observed that wireless power transfer could be realized with high efficiency with air gaps of up to 10 cm and that efficiency quickly dropped with air gaps of more than 10 cm.

A Novel Framework Based on CNN-LSTM Neural Network for Prediction of Missing Values in Electricity Consumption Time-Series Datasets

  • Hussain, Syed Nazir;Aziz, Azlan Abd;Hossen, Md. Jakir;Aziz, Nor Azlina Ab;Murthy, G. Ramana;Mustakim, Fajaruddin Bin
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.115-129
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    • 2022
  • Adopting Internet of Things (IoT)-based technologies in smart homes helps users analyze home appliances electricity consumption for better overall cost monitoring. The IoT application like smart home system (SHS) could suffer from large missing values gaps due to several factors such as security attacks, sensor faults, or connection errors. In this paper, a novel framework has been proposed to predict large gaps of missing values from the SHS home appliances electricity consumption time-series datasets. The framework follows a series of steps to detect, predict and reconstruct the input time-series datasets of missing values. A hybrid convolutional neural network-long short term memory (CNN-LSTM) neural network used to forecast large missing values gaps. A comparative experiment has been conducted to evaluate the performance of hybrid CNN-LSTM with its single variant CNN and LSTM in forecasting missing values. The experimental results indicate a performance superiority of the CNN-LSTM model over the single CNN and LSTM neural networks.

Random vibration-based investigation of required separation gap between adjacent buildings

  • Atefeh Soleymani;Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni;Hashem Jahangir
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.285-297
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    • 2024
  • Due to the imbalanced vibration of the adjacent buildings, the pounding phenomenon occurs as a result of an insufficient gap between them. Providing enough gap between adjacent structures is the most efficient approach to preventing the pounding effect. This paper calculated the required separation gaps between adjacent buildings, including two, four, eight, twelve and twenty stories steel moment-resisting frames, and investigated their related influencing parameters such as time periods, damping ratios, and the number of bays. The linear and nonlinear dynamic time-history analyses under real seismic event records were conducted to calculate the required separation gaps by obtaining relative displacement and velocity functions of two adjacent frames. The results showed that the required separation gap increased when the time periods of adjacent frames were not the same. The resulting separation gaps values of linear and nonlinear analyses were similar only for two and four stories frames. In other frames, the resulting separation gap values of linear analyses surpassed the corresponding nonlinear analyses. Although increasing the damping ratios in adjacent frames causes a decrease in the required separation gaps, the number of bays had no significant effect on them.

The effects of visual and auditory information as A tool of emotional value assessment (감성 가치 평가를 위한 시각적, 청각적 매체의 효용)

  • Kim Myung-Suk;Lee Eun-Chang
    • Journal of Science of Art and Design
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    • v.1
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    • pp.95-123
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    • 1999
  • The goal of this research is a visual and auditory tool development enabling designers to have the same emotional value with users in the process of user centered design. Through the research, we intend to show the aid measure for making cognitive gaps narrow between users and designer in the process of transforming and understanding the emotional needs as a verbal image. because In the business practice of design, most of tools and techniques for assessment and analysis of emotional needs are those used usually in the marketing fields. So the information generated and transformed from users to designers have a form of physical words. When the designer's understanding of the emotional needs is considered as a product mediated communication process, the morphologic and cognitive information gaps become obvious. This difference could be a false basis in designing with emotional user needs. So the alternative needs assessment sub-tools of visual and auditory information form was embodied mainly for designer's cognitive gaps and inter-cultural emotional needs assessment. As the method of embodiment, Firstly, adjectives related to emotion were classified in their cognitive dimension. Secondly, visual and auditory data were extracted, and then the relativity verified. Finally, the practicality and effectiveness were tested through the database generation. In view of the results so far achieved, 1. We could find being of the big information cognitive gaps in the verbal assessment of emotional needs between designers and users. 2. With the visual and auditory assessment tool, we could make the big cognitive gaps narrower than we expected. 3. Also, we could find the chance that the fidelity, recognition, and friendliness of design for emotional user needs would become better.

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Effect of Gaps on Species Diversity in the Naturally Regenerated Mixed Broadleaved-Korean Pine Forest of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, China

  • Jin, Guangze;Liu, Yanyan;Liu, Shuang;Kim, Ji-Hong
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.325-330
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    • 2007
  • Recognizing the ecological importance of forest gap formation for forest community structure, we examined the differences in species diversity between forest gaps and closed canopy areas for trees and shrubs in three developmental stages (seedling, sapling I, and sapling II) in a typical mixed broadleaved-Korean pine forest. We randomly placed 100 sample plots ($2{\times}2m$ for seedling and sapling I, and $5{\times}5m$ for sapling II) in forest gap and closed canopy areas of a 9 ha permanent sample plot for vegetation surveys of plants of each developmental stage in each habitat type. Even though the formation of forest gaps encouraged the occurrence of gap-dependent species and increased overall species diversity, there were no significant differences in species richness among the three developmental stages for both tree and shrub species (p>0.05). Comparing the two types of sites, statistical tests revealed no difference in species richness for trees, but highly significant differences (p<0.01) between forest types for shrubs for seedlings and sapling I, but not sapling II. Analysis of variance test indicated that there were no significant differences in species diversity among the three developmental stages of tree species (p>0.05) for both Simpson and Shannon indices. The variance for shrub seedlings was significantly different between forest gaps and closed canopy areas, but not for sapling I and sapling II. The analysis showed that the species diversity in forest gaps was significantly different from that of closed canopy areas for seedling and sapling I (p<0.01), but not for sapling II (p>0.05).

Gap characteristics and natural regeneration in Mt. Makiling rainforest, the Philippines

  • Kim, Hyun-Ji;Kim, Tae-Geun;Kim, Eun-Hee;Castillo, Manuel L.;Cho, Do-Soon
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.157-165
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    • 2011
  • This study was conducted to determine the characteristics of gaps and natural regeneration of trees on Mt. Makiling, the Philippines. Canopy gaps in or around two 1-ha permanent plots and on 3-km line transects were investigated. Most of the gaps studied were formed or affected by Typhoon Milenyo, which hit the study site in September 2006. The most frequent mode of gap maker death was snap-off, whereas uprooting was relatively less important. The most frequent gap maker was balobo (Diplodiscus paniculatus) followed by magabuyo (Celtis luzonica) and katmon (Dillenia philippinensis). In contrast, the most frequent gap filler was magabuyo (C. luzonica). At the sapling layer, the most important species was magabuyo (C. luzonica), but there was a high proportion of lianas and palms. Most of the gaps had leaf area index (LAI) values between 3 and 5. A clear trend of a decrease in gap size and an increase in LAI was observed for 2 years from 2007 to 2009. New seedlings emerged very abundantly during the same time period. The rapid changes in the gaps were partially due to the excellent capability of tropical trees to resprout after the crown or stem was damaged by the typhoon. This study on gap dynamics may contribute to a better understanding of the natural regeneration process of trees in tropical rainforests.

The Calculation of the Energy Band Gaps of Zincblende GaP1-X NX (질화물계 반도체 GaP1-X NX의 에너지 밴드갭 계산)

  • Chung, Ho-Yong;Kim, Dae-Ik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.783-790
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    • 2017
  • The energy band gaps and the bowing parameters of zincblende GaP1-xNx on the variation of temperature and composition are determined by using an empirical pseudopotential method with another virtual crystal approximation, which includes the disorder effect. The bowing parameter calculated is 13.1eV and the energy band gaps are decreased rapidly for GaP1-xNx ($0{\leq}x{\leq}0.05$, 300K). A refractive index n and a function of real dielectric constant ${\varepsilon}$ are calculated by the results of energy band gaps and the calculation results of energy band gaps are consistent with experimental values.

Regeneration Process after Disturbance of the Pinus densiflora Forest in Korea (한국 소나무림에서의 교란 후 재생과정)

  • Lee, Chang-Seok
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.189-201
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    • 1995
  • In order to clarify regeneration processes and mechanisms of the disturbed Pinus densiflora forest, responses of Pinus densiflora to gap formed by disturbance were analysed by growth of saplings and mature and growth equations were obtained from branch growth of mature trees and height growth of saplings, and age distribution of saplings and young trees recruited within gap was analysed in relation to gap age. Height growth of saplings within gaps was accelerated after gap formation. Such abrupt increases of growth of saplings after the gap formation might be resulted in the difference of growth of saplings between gap and non-gap areas. In fact, height and diameter of saplings in the central part of gap were larger than those of saplings in marginal parts of gap and non-gap area. However, density of saplings was not different in both parts. In addition, growth of annual rings of mature trees bordering on gap also increased after gap formation. Branch growth of mature trees bodering on gap was 6.3 - 6.5 cm /year and the mean radius of gaps created by death of only one canopy tree was about 3 m. Therefore, for those gaps to be closed by branch growth it will take 46 years. Growth of saplings within gap showed exponential equation. Fifty years will be required for the saplings to enter the forest canopy by the exponential growth equation. Therefore, gap created by only one tree might be closed by branch growth of surrounding canopy trees in advance of being done by height growth of saplings. But gaps created by death of trees more than 2 will be closed by the growth of saplings. Among the regenerating saplings and young trees within gaps, individuals established in advance of gap formation were more than those established after the gap formation. From these results, it was assumed that the disturbed Pinus densiflora forests in these sites were regenerated by height growth of saplings recruited in advance of gap formation.

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The Calculation of the Energy Band Gaps and Optical constants of Zincblende GaAs1-X NX on Temperature and Composition (온도 및 조성비 변화에 따른 질화물계 화합물 반도체 GaAs1-X NX의 에너지 밴드갭과 광학상수 계산)

  • Chung, Ho-Yong;Kim, Dae-Ik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.1213-1222
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    • 2018
  • The energy band gaps and the bowing parameters of zincblende $GaAs_{1-x}N_x$ on the variation of temperature and composition are determined by using an empirical pseudo-potential method with another virtual crystal approximation, which includes the disorder effect. The bowing parameter is calculated as 15eV and the energy band gaps are decreasing rapidly in $GaAs_{1-x}N_x$ ($0{\leq}x{\leq}0.05$, 300K). A refractive index n and a function of high-frequency dielectric constant ${\varepsilon}$ are calculated by the results of energy band gaps and the calculation results of energy band gaps are consistent with experimental values.

The Calculation of the Energy Band Gaps and Optical Constants of Zincblende InyGa1-yAs1-xNx on Composition (조성비 변화에 따른 질화물계 화합물 반도체 InyGa1-yAs1-xNx의 에너지 밴드갭과 광학상수 계산)

  • Chung, Ho-Yong;Kim, Dae-Ik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.877-886
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    • 2019
  • The energy band gaps and optical constants of zincblende $In_yGa_{1-y}As_{1-x}N_x$ on the variation of temperature and composition are determined by using band anticrossing method. The energy band gaps are decreasing continuously in $In_yGa_{1-y}As_{1-x}N_x$ ($0{\leq}x{\leq}0.05$, $0{\leq}y{\leq}1.0$, 300K) and the bowing parameter is calculated as 0.522eV. The calculation results of energy band gaps are consistent with those of other studies. A refractive index n and a high-frequency dielectric constant ${\varepsilon}$ are calculated by a proposed modeling equation using the results of energy band gaps.