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Evaluating Viability of IVP Embryos

  • Bavister, Barry D.
    • 한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국동물번식학회 2001년도 발생공학 국제심포지움 및 학술대회 발표자료집
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    • pp.44-46
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    • 2001
  • In vitro produced (IVP) embryos produced by in vitro fertilization (IVF) often exhibit wide variations in developmental competence and viability, considerably more than are exhibited by embryos that develop in vivo. These anomalies in IVP embryos may be due to heterogeneity of oocyte quality, suboptimal culture conditions, disturbances in gene expression, or most likely a combination of these factors (Ho et al., 1994; Roth et al., 1994; McKiernan and Bavister, 1998; Hasler, 1998; Schramm and Bavister, 1999; Doherty et al., 2000; Hyttel et al., 2000; Niemann and Wrenzycki, 2000; Wrenzycki et al., 2001). In research studies or in clinical applications with domesticated animals, cats, non-human primates and humans, oocytes used for IVF are usually collected from a heterogeneous cohort of ovarian follicles that include oocytes which normally might not be ovulated and/or are deficient in developmental competence. (omitted)

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Proportional Fair Scheduling Algorithm in OFDMA-Based Wireless Systems with QoS Constraints

  • Girici, Tolga;Zhu, Chenxi;Agre, Jonathan R.;Ephremides, Anthony
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.30-42
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    • 2010
  • In this work we consider the problem of downlink resource allocation for proportional fairness of long term received rates of data users and quality of service for real time sessions in an OFDMA-based wireless system. The base station allocates available power and subchannels to individual users based on long term average received rates, quality of service (QoS) based rate constraints and channel conditions. We formulate and solve a joint bandwidth and power optimization problem, solving which provides a performance improvement with respect to existing resource allocation algorithms. We propose schemes for flat as well as frequency selective fading cases. Numerical evaluation results show that the proposed method provides better QoS to voice and video sessions while providing more and fair rates to data users in comparison with existing schemes.

Autoxidation of Cycloalkenes by the System “Molecular Oxygen-bis(acetylacetonato) Cobalt (II) Complex-butyraldehyde”

  • Fang, Zhao;Tang, Rui-Ren;Zhang, Rui-Rong;Huang, Ke-long
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제30권10호
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    • pp.2208-2212
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    • 2009
  • Oxidation of cycloalkenes with $O_2$ promoted by heterogeneous bis(acetylacetonato) cobalt (II) complex catalyst which can be recycled has been performed under mild conditions. It was found that $\beta$-ionone, cyclohexene, 1-methylcyclohexene, and $\alpha$-ionone were efficiently oxidized with $O_2$ in the presence of Co (II) complex and butyraldehyde at $55\;{^{\circ}C}$. A simple treatment of the resulting products led to epoxides as predominant products and a small amounts of allylic oxides, the chemoselectivity for the former being 82.1 - 90.8% with a 70.6 - 98.6% substrate conversion. On the other hand, oxidation of 1-phenylcyclohexene, 1-cyclohex-1-enylethan-1-one, $\alpha$-pinene, and $\beta$-pinene gave allylic oxides as major products.

Facile Preparation of Copper(I) Halide-Dimethyl Sulfide Complex and Its Application

  • Park, Il-Hyun;So, Myung-Sub;Park, Koon-Ha
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제28권9호
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    • pp.1515-1518
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    • 2007
  • A preparative method of Me2SCuX (X = Cl, Br) via one-pot reaction was developed from common chemicals such as benzyl halide, DMSO, and Cu(0). In the reaction mixture small molecules such as methyl halide and dimethyl sulfide etc. were efficiently generated in situ, resulting in the formation of Me2SCuX. Oxidation of Cu(0) in reacting with both benzyl halide (starting material) and methyl halide (in situ generated product) to Cu(I) followed by complexing with dimethyl sulfide (in situ generated product) could explain the formation of Me2SCuX. In particular we found out that heterogeneous reaction of Me2SCuX and arenediazonium tetrafluoroborate in acetonitrile was so effective to afford corresponding bromoaromatics under mild conditions.

Inter-Conversion Matrix for Transcoding Block DCT and DWT-Based Compressed Images

  • Kim, Donggyun;Lim, Sanghee;Paik, Joonki
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • 제3권3호
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    • pp.103-109
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    • 2014
  • This study derived the inter-conversion matrices, which can be used in heterogeneous image transcoding between the compressed images using different transforms, such as the $8{\times}8$ block discrete cosine transform (BDCT) and the one-level discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Basically, to obtain the one-level DWT coefficients from $8{\times}8$ BDCT, inverse BDCT should be performed followed by forward DWT, and vice versa. On the other hand, if the proposed interconversion approach is used, only one inter-conversion matrix multiplication makes the corresponding transcoding possible. Both theoretical and experimental analyses showed that the amount of computation of the proposed approach decreases over 20% when the inter-conversion matrices are used under specific conditions.

Characteristics of Zeta Potential Distribution in Silica Particles

  • Kim, Jin-Keun;Lawler, Desmond F.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제26권7호
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    • pp.1083-1089
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    • 2005
  • Most experimental studies available in the literature on filtration are based on observed average zeta potential of particles (usually 10 measurements). However, analyses of data using the average zeta potential alone can lead to misleading and erroneous conclusions about the attachment behavior because of the variation of particle zeta potentials and the heterogeneous distribution of the collector surface charge. To study characteristics of zeta potential, zeta potential distributions (ZPDs) of silica particles under 9 different chemical conditions were investigated. Contrary to many researchers’ assumptions, most of the ZPDs of silica particles were broad. The solids concentration removal was better near the isoelectric point (IEP) as many researchers have noticed, thus proper destabilization of particles is very important to achieve better particle removal in particle separation processes. While, the mean zeta potential of silica particles at a given coagulant dose was a function of particle concentration; the amount of needed coagulant for particle destabilization was proportional to the total surface charge area of particles in the suspension.

Short-Term Viral Evolution in Response to Passaging I. Consequences for Population Size

  • Park, Gyung-Soon;Kelley, Steven E.;Hong, Jung-Lim
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • 제25권4호
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    • pp.217-225
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    • 2002
  • The Red Queen hypothesis for the advantage of sex predicts that pathogens will evolve by increasing fitness with frequent encounters with specific host genotypes. In this study, BMV population size, measured as an indicator of fitness, was investigated during repeated passages through the same, or different host genotypes of the crop host, Hordeum vulgare (barley). Overall, mean BMV concentration within individual hosts was significantly higher in genetically homogeneous compared to heterogeneous host passage lines. In addition, BMV populations, passaged through a specific host variety, showed higher growth in that host variety compared to BMV passaged through varying varieties. These results supports the Red Queen hypothesis. However, the decrease in viral populations during passages contradicts the Red Queen. Nevertheless, the results found here show that even under simplified conditions, pathogens do not evolve in simple, predictable ways. Constraints on pathogen evolution may lead to counterintuitive results.

Approximation Method for QoS Analysis of Wireless Cellular Networks with Impatient Calls

  • Eom, Hee-Yeol;Kim, Che-Soong;Melikov, Agassi;Fattakhova, Mehriban
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • 제9권4호
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    • pp.339-347
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    • 2010
  • Simple-closed expressions for approximate calculation of quality of service (QoS) metrics of isolated cell of wireless networks with either finite or infinite queues of both new and handover calls are developed. It is assumed that both kinds of calls might leave the system without receiving service if their waiting times exceed some threshold value. For the models with infinite queues of heterogeneous calls easily checkable ergodicity conditions are proposed. The high accuracy of the developed approximation formulas is shown. Results of numerical experiments are given.

Estimation of Evapotranspiration in Mongolian Grassland using Remotely Sensed and Ground data

  • Tuya, Sanjaa;Kajiwara, Koji;Honda, Yoshiaki
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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    • pp.292-294
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    • 2003
  • Evapotranspiration estimations are essential for monitoring drought, wild land fire risk etc. In this study, a surface energy balance method, which combines meteorological observations with spectral data derived from remote sensing measurements, was used to estimate the regional evapotranspiration in the Mongolia, a large arid and semi-arid region with heterogeneous surface conditions. The Surface Energy Balance method has been applied to Landsat+ETM and NOAA-AVHRR sensors for the estimation of evapotranspiration in the grassland of Mongolia. As a result, a daily evapotranspiration map of Mongolia was produced.

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분말야금법을 이용한 유압펌프용 실린더 블록의 제조 가능성 연구 (Feasibility Study on Making a Cylinder Block of a Hydraulic Pump by Powder Metallurgy)

  • 지창운;정석환;권영삼;강민석;전만수
    • 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국소성가공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.258-261
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, experimental and numerical attempts are made fur application of powder metallurgy forming technology to making the cylinder block of a hydraulic pump of which height reaches nearly 70 mm and is ten times larger than the wall thickness. Leak tests with several compositions are carried out in order to find allowable powder composition to prevent leak under high pressure in service and CAE techniques are applied to finding proper process conditions. Through the research, the possibility of the powder formed cylinder block that is very competitive from the point of both cost and mass production has been shown, even though its thickness exceeds the recommended limit considering heterogeneous density distribution caused by the friction between a powder compact and dies.

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