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Characterization of Host Specificity and Reproductive Compatibility Among Different Isolates of Belonolaimus longicaudatus in Southeastern United States (미국 동남부지역에 분포하는 Belonolaimus longicaudatus 개체군들간의 기주특이성과 생식교합능력 비교)

  • Han, Hye-Rim;Donald, W. Dickson
    • The Korean Journal of Soil Zoology
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    • v.9 no.1_2
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    • pp.12-15
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    • 2004
  • Five isolates of Belonolaimus longicaudatus collected from different geographical locations and hosts in southeastern United Stated were tested to determine their host specificity and reproductive compatibility. Both the Georgia and Lake Alfred isolates reproduced well on cotton, bermudagrass, and citrus. On the other hand, the North Carolina and Gainesville isolates reproduced poorly on all crops. The Hastings isolate reproduced well on cotton and potato. The Lake Alfred and Hastings isolates showed greater host specificity to their original host of citrus and potato, respectively. Except for the Hastings isolate, all isolates reproduced poorly on potato, which clearly differentiated the Hastings isolate from others (P>0.05). Hybridization test presented reproductive compatibility among five different isolates of B. longicaudatus by generating F$_1$ offspring. The Gainesville males showed comparatively poor ability to fertilize other females and generated a lower number of offspring. In contrast, the North Carolina males were attracted by all the other isolates of sting nematode, and produced the highest number of juveniles.

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Analysis of Wind Resources of the South Seashore of JeonNam Province (전남지역 남해안 풍력자원조사 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Chan;Chung, Chin-Wha;Lee, Eung-Chae;Chun, Ch.-H.;Han, Kyung-Seop;Kim, Yong-Whan
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.281-285
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    • 2006
  • As the needs of wind energy increase, the more sites for the wind farm are required. As a part of searching for the prominent wind farm site, specially for offshore wind farm, we chose 4 sites along the southern part seashore of JeonNam province based on the analysis of the data gathered by meteorological observatory ud have gathered wind data for more than a year by use of 40m Met masts installed in the representative locations, ie. small islands of 4 different bay area. The siting for the Met masts were very limited by the geographical circumstances The wind data of those areas show a little lower annual average wind speeds, for the wind farm development, of 4m/s to 5.5m/s at the height of 40m above the ground level of the respective islands. The detail figures of one year wind data of those area are presented in this report.

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Comparison of loads in Turkish earthquake code with those computed statistically

  • Firat, Fatih K.;Yucemen, M. Semih
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.977-994
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    • 2015
  • In this study, earthquake loads are investigated statistically and compared with the nominal earthquake loads calculated according to the Turkish Earthquake Code, namely: "Specifications for Structures to be Built in Earthquake Areas". For this purpose, the "actual" mean load values estimated from statistical methods and the nominal load values computed according the Seismic Code are compared, with respect to some variations in the basic parameters, such as the importance factor, building height, site coefficient, seismic zone and seismic load reduction factor. In addition to the data compiled from different regions of Turkey, the published data and information in the foreign literature are also used in the determination of the earthquake load statistics. Although the dead and live loads acting on a structure are independent of the geographical location of the structure, environmental loads, such as earthquake loads are highly dependent on the location of the structure. Accordingly, for the assessment of statistical parameters associated with earthquake loads, twelve different locations which can represent the different seismic zones of Turkey as accurately as possible are chosen. As a result of the code calibration procedure considered in this study, it is observed that the load values obtained from the Turkish Seismic Code may overestimate or underestimate the actual seismic loads in some of the seismic zones.

Applications of Satellite Imagery to Surveying Archeological Sites and Remains

  • Chin, Yong-Ok;Park, Kyoung-Yoon
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.75-79
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    • 2007
  • Satellite imagery was applied to locating archeological sites and remains around northeastern areas of China, called as Manchuria, and Korean peninsular, such as Mountain Fortress of Goguryeo Dynasty era($37BC{\sim}771AD$), and firing torch and smoke beacon signal sites at mountain tops in Josun Dynasty era($1392{\sim}1910AD$) as well as burial sites below the ground level in the modern era. Information on archeological sites, fire posts and burial places could be found in various literatures, but real figures of such cultural assets have been disappearing due to land development programs and human activities in recent years. Some of these historical sites were identified in satellite images using GPS(Geographical Positioning System). Real locations of these sites would be further necessary to be verified.

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Cluster analysis with Korean weather data: Application of model-based Bayesian clustering method (한국 기상자료의 군집분석: 베이지안 모델기반 방법의 응용)

  • Joo, Yong-Sung;Jung, Hyung-Joo;Kim, Byung-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, 30 main cities are clustered based on precipitation, temperature, wind speed, photo period, and humidity. We found that the resulting clusters has strong relationships with geographical locations. These results make sense because, although Korea is a small country, Korean weather is known to have strong locality. The largest number of clusters is found when wind speed is used as an interested variable for clustering and the smallest number of clusters is found when photo period is used. The large number of clusters based on wind speed indicates that wind speed is affected easily by local geography.

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Microsatellite Analysis of Three Poultry Breeds of India

  • Pandey, A.K.;Tantia, M.S.;Kumar, Dinesh;Mishra, Bina;Chaudhary, Preeti;Vijh, R.K.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.1536-1542
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    • 2002
  • The genetic variability of three poultry breeds namely Aseel, Miri and Nicobari taken from different geographical locations of India were evaluated using 15 microsatellite loci. No. of alleles varied from 3 to 9 in Aseel, 3 to 8 in Miri and 2 to 7 in Nicobari. Mean PIC values in Aseel, Miri and Nicobari breeds were 0.64, 0.66 and 0.63, respectively. Average unbiased heterozygosity and direct count heterozygosity were 0.65 and 0.59, 0.68 and 0.61, and 0.64 and 0.57 in Aseel, Miri and Nicobari breeds, respectively. High heterozygosity values revealed in this study are indicative of low level of inbreeding, large population size and no or low selection pressure for commercial trait in all three populations. The estimate of genetic distances using Nei's standard, Nei's minimum and Reynold's distance revealed Aseel and Nicobari to be more closely related than Miri breed of poultry.

A Simulation Method for Terminal Mobilities with Regularity in Mobile Networks (이동 망에서 규칙성을 갖는 단말기의 이동성을 위한 모의실험 방안)

  • Cho Hyun-joon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.10 no.2 s.34
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    • pp.133-141
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    • 2005
  • We need to study on simulation method of user's mobility Patterns for the performance analysis of the location management in wireless mobile networks. For this purpose ,this paper presents a user mobility model of wireless mobile networks with regular Patterns Sometimes mobile users randomly move , but they show the movement characteristics that regularly change their locations in some patterns in given time slots. So, we suggest the mobility model that can describe user's time related movement patterns. This model consists of some elements-positions, transitions , transition Probabilities which are variable, and some geographical paths for each transitions. We describe the simulation method for users' mobilities with random movements and regular movements , too. The simulation results by the model show that the suggested model can generate movement scenarios having regular patterns related with location and time.

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Development of Topological Correction Algorithms for ADCP Multibeam Bathymetry Measurements (ADCP 다중빔 수심계측자료의 위상학적 보정 알고리즘 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Su;Yang, Sung-Kee;Kim, Soo-Jeong;Jung, Woo-Yul
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.543-554
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    • 2013
  • Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) are increasingly popular in the river research and management communities being primarily used for estimation of stream flows. ADCPs capabilities, however, entail additional features that are not fully explored, such as morphological representation of river or reservoir bed based upon multi-beam depth measurements. In addition to flow velocity, ADCP measurements include river bathymetry information through the depth measurements acquired in individual 4 or 5 beams with a given oblique angle. Such sounding capability indicates that multi-beam ADCPs can be utilized as an efficient depth-sounder to be more capable than the conventional single-beam eco-sounders. The paper introduces the post-processing algorithms required to deal with raw ADCP bathymetry measurements including the following aspects: a) correcting the individual beam depths for tilt (pitch and roll); b) filtering outliers using SMART filters; d) transforming the corrected depths into geographical coordinates by UTM conversion; and, e) tag the beam detecting locations with the concurrent GPS information; f) spatial representation in a GIS package. The developed algorithms are applied for the ADCP bathymetric dataset acquired from Han-Cheon in Jeju Island to validate themselves applicability.

Community Model for Smart TV over the Top Services

  • Pandey, Suman;Won, Young Joon;Choi, Mi-Jung;Gil, Joon-Min
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.577-590
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    • 2016
  • We studied the current state-of-the-art of Smart TV, the challenges and the drawbacks. Mainly we discussed the lack of end-to-end solution. We then illustrated the differences between Smart TV and IPTV from network service provider point of view. Unlike IPTV, viewer of Smart TV's over-the-top (OTT) services could be global, such as foreign nationals in a country or viewers having special viewing preferences. Those viewers are sparsely distributed. The existing TV service deployment models over Internet are not suitable for such viewers as they are based on content popularity, hence we propose a community based service deployment methodology with proactive content caching on rendezvous points (RPs). In our proposal, RPs are intermediate nodes responsible for caching routing and decision making. The viewer's community formation is based on geographical locations and similarity of their interests. The idea of using context information to do proactive caching is itself not new, but we combined this with "in network caching" mechanism of content centric network (CCN) architecture. We gauge the performance improvement achieved by a community model. The result shows that when the total numbers of requests are same; our model can have significantly better performance, especially for sparsely distributed communities.

LOCATION UNCERTAINTY IN ASSET TRACKING USING WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

  • Jo, Jung-Hee;Kim, Kwang-Soo;Lee, Ki-Sung;Kim, Sun-Joong
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.357-360
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    • 2007
  • An asset tracking using wireless sensor network is concerned with geographical locations of sensor nodes. The limited size of sensor nodes makes them attractable for tracking service, at the same time their size causes power restrictions, limited computation power, and storage restrictions. Due to such constrained capabilities, the wireless sensor network basically assumes the failure of sensor nodes. This causes a set of concerns in designing asset tracking system on wireless sensor network and one of the most critical factors is location uncertainty of sensor nodes. In this paper, we classify the location uncertainty problem in asset tracking system into following cases. First, sensor node isn't read at all because of sensor node failure, leading to misunderstanding that asset is not present. Second, incorrect location is read due to interference of RSSI, providing unreliable location of asset. We implemented and installed our asset tracking system in a real environment and continuously monitored the status of asset and measured error rate of location of sensor nodes. We present experimental results that demonstrate the location uncertainty problem in asset tracking system using wireless sensor network.

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