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NON-CONTACT SENSORS FOR DETECTING DISTANCE FROM THE FIELD SURFACE

  • Lee, Jeyong-;Minoru-Yamazaki;Akira-oida;Hiroshi-Nakashima;Hiroshi-Shimizu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.373-382
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    • 1993
  • A non-contact sensor for detecting distance from field surface to a predetermined location of a tractor will be useful to control precise height of implements such as tillage machinery, mowers etc.. An optical and an ultrasonic sensors were designed and fabricated . The indoor and outdoor experiments were conducted to obtain the static and dynamic characteristics of the two sensors at several moisture levels of four soils and on the soil surface with a designed shape. The results revealed that the optical sensor is unsuitable for soils with high moisture content but showed better detecting accuracy on the irregularity of soil surface.

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Isolation of Bacillus sp. as a Volatile Sulfur-degrading Bacterium and Its Application to Reduce the Fecal Odor of Pig

  • Ushida, Kazunari;Hashizume, Kenta;Miyazaki, Kohji;Kojima, Yoichi;Takakuwa, Susumu
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.1795-1798
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    • 2003
  • Fecal malodor is an acute environmental issue to be solved for the intensive animal agriculture in Japan. Among these substances volatile sulfur such as hydrogen sulfide (HS), methanethiol, and dimethyl sulfide, and dimethyl disulfide are the ones most strictly controlled in the Japanese national regulations. In this experiment, we have screened a range of standard strains of chemoheterotrophic bacteria and of the presently isolated soil bacteria for their capacity to decompose HS. We have demonstrated that Comamonas testosteroni $JCM5832^T$ and our isolate Bacillus sp. had a potential to reduce malodor when applied to the pig feces.

TURN OFF CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING POWER ELECTRONICS DEVICE (S-PED). - IN CASE OF TYPE C AND TYPE D-

  • Hoshino, T.;Eguchi, M.;Konishi, T.;Muta, I.;Nakamura, T.;Tsukiji, H.;Naguchi, Y.;Suzuki, M.
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.841-846
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    • 1998
  • The superconducting permanent current switch (PCS) is an important component to build MRI system. This switch uses a thermal and / or magnetic super-to-normal phase transition of the superconductor. Unfortunately, in the past it was not designed for using in line frequency. We made some superconducting power electronics devices operating up to 100 Hz [1]. The results of development and preliminary studying of the hear controlled S-PED up to line frequency are presented.

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QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS FOR THE RISK MANAGEMENT OF A SUPER-HIGHRISE RESIDENCE

  • Shuzo Furusaka;Takashi Kaneta;Makoto Ohsaki;Kazunori Harada;Yasuhiro Orita;Sohsuke Arai;And Norikazu Katoh
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.748-753
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    • 2005
  • In a super-highrise residence project, a project manager needs to form the long-term risk management plan which covers the problems from the beginning of project to the time of demolition. The cause and responsibility for a risk are clarified and quantitatively evaluated through the life cycle of a project. Development of the system which supports a risk strategy effectively is needed as a project becomes complex. In this paper, through the life cycle of a specific super-highrise residence project, a risk phenomenon is specified from a viewpoint of each participant, and the mathematical model is formulated choosing the combination of the optimal strategy against a risk quantitatively within a fixed risk strategy budget.

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MRI in the Diagnosis of Endometriosis and Related Diseases

  • Aki Kido;Yuki Himoto;Yusaku Moribata;Yasuhisa Kurata;Yuji Nakamoto
    • Korean Journal of Radiology
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.426-445
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    • 2022
  • Endometriosis, a common chronic inflammatory disease in female of reproductive age, is closely related to patient symptoms and fertility. Because of its high contrast resolution and objectivity, MRI can contribute to the early and accurate diagnosis of ovarian endometriotic cysts and deeply infiltrating endometriosis without the need for any invasive procedure or radiation exposure. The ovaries, which are the most frequent site of endometriosis, can be afflicted by multiple related conditions and diseases. For the diagnosis of deeply infiltrating endometriosis and secondary adhesions among pelvic organs, fibrosis around the ectopic endometrial gland is usually found as a T2 hypointense lesion. This review summarizes the MRI findings obtained for ovarian endometriotic cysts and their physiologically and pathologically related conditions. This article also includes the key imaging findings of deeply infiltrating endometriosis.

NUMERICAL MODELLING OF SHEET-FLOW TRANSPORT UNDER WAVE AND CURRENT

  • Bakhtiary, Abbas-Yeganeh;Hotoshi Gotoh;Tetsuo Sakai
    • Water Engineering Research
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2002
  • An Euler-Lagrange two-phase flow model is presented fur simulation sheet-flow transport under wave and current. The flow is computed by solving the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equation in conjunction with the k-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model for turbulence closure. The sediment transport is introduced as a motion of granular media under the action of unsteady flow from the Lagragian point of view. In other word, motion of every single particle is numerically traced with Movable Bed Simulator (MBS) code based on the Distinct Element Method (DEM), in which the frequent interparticle collision of the moving particles during the sheet-flow transport is sophisticatedly taken into account. The particle diameter effect on time-dependent developing process of sheet-flow transport is investigated, by using three different diameter sizes of sediment. The influence of an imposed current on oscillatory sheet-flow transport is also investigated. It is concluded that the sediment transport rate increases due to the relaxation process related to the time-lag between flow velocity and sediment motion.

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The effect of mock Kyoto Protocol class which uses role-playing and discussion in middle school gifted class on student's global scientific literacy (역할극과 토론을 통한 모의 교토의정서 수업이 중학교 영재학급 학생들의 지구적 소양에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Ji-Won;Han, Shin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.228-238
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the effects which applies teaching program that search solution to prevent global warming in middle school gifted class. This program of total 10 class was theoretical and experimental class and the students presented after collecting the synthetic data about climate-change and roleplayed what they debated to firm their country's opinion about Kyoto Protocol. Finally, students as policymaker made mock Kyoto Protocol by discussion. Impression papers and images about climate-changes was made by students in last class. In discussion of making up mock Kyoto Protocol, developed and developing nations had an argument about carbon dioxide emissions because of their economic benefits. In the course of allocating mutual $CO_2$ reduction, they needed yield and negotiation among nations. Although they mainly took passive position about $CO_2$ reduction, atmosphere that all the country make greater effort for the future global environment was formed. Like this, students had more concepts over climate change by making mock Kyoto Protocol. And they could equipped global scientific literacy and responsibility by participating in social decision making process of solving global environmental issues.

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Comparison of South Korean and Japanese Sensibility about Beauty of HIRAGANA

  • PARK Oh-Soon;NONAKA Takaka;NISHIWAKIA Tsuyoshi;MAEKAWA Zen-ichiro;MORIMOTO Kazunari;KUROKAWA Takao
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2005
  • Because hand-written characters, especially drawn by a brush can give readers various impressions, they are not only a communication method but also art works. Authors have already investigated the relationship between brush motion analytical results and sensory testing results obtained from Japanese hiragana and reported quantitative evaluation method for the beauty of hiragana, In this paper, sensory tests for South Koreans who cannot recognize the word are carried out, compared with sensory testing results of Japanese. The evaluation objects are 6 hiragana drawn by 4 beginners and 2 experts, Semantic Differential Method based on 30 paired evaluation words are used in the sensory tests. Therefore South Koreans also feel the beauty in hiragana drawn by experts, as compared with by beginners. On the other hand it was confirmed that South Koreans couldnt recognize the difference among beginners. Judging from the factor analysis results, both Japanese and South Koreans selected stability as the 1st factor, there is interesting difference in the following orders.

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