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Materials Characterization Using A Novel Simultaneous Near-Infrared/X-ray Diffraction Instrument

  • Yeboah, S.Agyare;Blanton, Thomas;Switalski, Steve;Schuler, Julie;Analytical, Craig Barnes
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Near Infrared Spectroscopy Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.1288-1288
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    • 2001
  • X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) is utilized for determination of polymorphism in crystalline organic materials. Though convenient to use in a laboratory setting, XRD is not easily adapted to in situ monitoring of synthetic chemical production applications. Near-Infrared spectroscopy (NIR) can be adapted to in situ manufacturing schemes by use of a source/detector probe. Conversely, NIR is unable to conclusively define the existence of polymorphism in crystalline materials. By combining the two techniques, a novel simultaneous NIR/XRD instrument has been developed. During material's analysis, results from XRD allow for defining the polymorphic phase present, and NIR data are collected as a fingerprint for each of the observed polymorphs. These NIR fingerprints will allow for the development of a library, which can be referenced during the use of a NIR probe in manufacturing settings.

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Selective Response of Dye Rotaxane to Metal Ions (금속 이온에 대한 염료 로택산의 선택적 반응성)

  • Park, Jong-S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Dyers and Finishers Conference
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    • 2011.03a
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    • pp.35-35
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    • 2011
  • The design and preparation of novel dye rotaxanes have gained much interest recently, since such structure usually exhibits peculiar spectral and optical changes. In spite of the promising results to date, increasing pressure remains to develop novel supramolecular structures based on stimuli-responsive systems. This presentation covers the study of inclusion complexes of cyclodextrins and various chromophores, with an emphasis on our most recent outcome of anisotropic hydrogel. In this system, physical gelation prepared from simple mixture of CD and a azo dye is completed through specific host-guest interaction. The obtained hydrogel exhibits respective morphological transitions based on supramolecular assembly and dissociation, leading to either precipitation or a sol-to-gel transition. It can identify different classes of metal ions, and, among them, naked-eye differentiation of lead ion is possible due to the coordination-induced unthreading of dye molecules. Accompanying structural changes were verified by numerous characterization techniques, including 2D-ROESY, HR-MAS, UV-Visible absorption, small-angle X-ray scattering, and induced circular dichroism measurements. Such properties discussed here will find useful in analytical applications, such as metal ion sensing and removal applications.

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An Application of the Novel Techniques Detecting Partial Discharge Employable to GIS Using Optical Sensor

  • Ryu, Cheol-Hwi;Jung, Seung-Yong;Koo, Ja-Yoon;Yeon, Man-Seung
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.396-400
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    • 2007
  • A novel technique has been proposed and related experimental works have been performed in order to detect the partial discharges and the location of the possible defects introduced into the Gas Insulated Switchgear. For this purpose, a prototype HY Pockels sensor has been developed and then employed in order to investigate its field applicability for finding the location of the defects using a 170kV GIS mock-up. Our proposed sensor enables us to measure the electric field variation due to the PD occurrence. In addition, the different PD patterns are observed, which might be dependant on the location and the distance of the sensor with respect to the PD source. Throughout this work, its linear response has been proved to be admissible as a function of the applied voltage. And also the position of the PD source might be distinguished by comparing the PD patterns.

Medical Image Compression using Adaptive Subband Threshold

  • Vidhya, K
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.499-507
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    • 2016
  • Medical imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultrasound (US) produce a large amount of digital medical images. Hence, compression of digital images becomes essential and is very much desired in medical applications to solve both storage and transmission problems. But at the same time, an efficient image compression scheme that reduces the size of medical images without sacrificing diagnostic information is required. This paper proposes a novel threshold-based medical image compression algorithm to reduce the size of the medical image without degradation in the diagnostic information. This algorithm discusses a novel type of thresholding to maximize Compression Ratio (CR) without sacrificing diagnostic information. The compression algorithm is designed to get image with high optimum compression efficiency and also with high fidelity, especially for Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) greater than or equal to 36 dB. This value of PSNR is chosen because it has been suggested by previous researchers that medical images, if have PSNR from 30 dB to 50 dB, will retain diagnostic information. The compression algorithm utilizes one-level wavelet decomposition with threshold-based coefficient selection.

Taxonomy, Purification and Physicochemical Properties of Novel Antifungal Antibiotics AF-011A (신규 항진균 물질 AF-011A의 생산균주 동정, 정제 및 물리 화학적 특성)

  • 김성호;현봉철;서정우;김창완;연창석;이덕근;김광표;정재경;임융호
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.556-563
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    • 1993
  • AF-011A is a novel lipopeptide with potent antifungal activity isolated from Pseudomonas cepacia AF6008 deposited as KFCC 10759. The compound was isolated from the fermentation broth by extraction with 50% isopropyl alcohol. Purification was effected by chromatography on Diaion HP-20, Alumina and C18 followed by HPTLC on silica gel. These techniques affored two closelt related compounds. AF-011A1 ans AF-011A2. The molecular weights of AF-011A1/A2 were determined by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry(A1 m/z 1,215 : A2 m/z 1,199).

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Motor Areas of the Cerebral Cortex-New Vistas

  • Tanji, Jun
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.19-25
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    • 1994
  • On the basis of morphological and functional studies, it is now established that there exist multiple motor representation areas in the frontal lobe of subhuman primates. Recent development of analysis on cerebral critical organization in human subjects, utilizing novel techniques of PET and MRI, provides evidence of corresponding motor areas. Each area has its unique sources of inputs from the thalamus and from other parts of the cerebral cortex. To understand functional roles of these multiple motor areas, it is necessary to study neural activity while subjects are performing a variety of motor tasks. In view of high accuracy in spatial and temporal resolution, the analysis of single cells in relation to specific aspects of motor behavior remains to be a powerful research technique. It is with this technique that a number of novel concepts on functional roles of multiple motor areas have been proposed.

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A novel visual servoing techniques considering robot dynamics (로봇의 운동특성을 고려한 새로운 시각구동 방법)

  • 이준수;서일홍;김태원
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.410-414
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    • 1996
  • A visual servoing algorithm is proposed for a robot with a camera in hand. Specifically, novel image features are suggested by employing a viewing model of perspective projection to estimate relative pitching and yawing angles between the object and the camera. To compensate dynamic characteristics of the robot, desired feature trajectories for the learning of visually guided line-of-sight robot motion are obtained by measuring features by the camera in hand not in the entire workspace, but on a single linear path along which the robot moves under the control of a, commercially provided function of linear motion. And then, control actions of the camera are approximately found by fuzzy-neural networks to follow such desired feature trajectories. To show the validity of proposed algorithm, some experimental results are illustrated, where a four axis SCARA robot with a B/W CCD camera is used.

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Development of Novel Techniques for Determining the Oxygen Tracer Diffusion Coefficients in Oxides II - Measurements of the Depth Profiles of $^{18}O$ Concentration in the solid Samples by Raman Spectroscopy (산화물에서의 산소추적자확산계수를 결정하는 새로운 방법의 개발 II - 라만분광법에 의한 고체시료 중의 시간에 따른 $^{18}O$ 농도변화 측정 -)

  • 김병국;마하구찌히로오;박순자
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.31 no.12
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    • pp.1459-1466
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    • 1994
  • A novel technique for determining the oxygen tracer diffusion coefficients in oxides was developed. After the 16O-18O solid-gas exchange reactions between 16O in the oxides and 18O in the ambient gas, Raman spectra of the cross sections of oxide samples were measured in a spatial resolution of 5 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. From thus obtained Raman spectra, depth profiles of 18O concentration in the oxide samples were calculated. The oxygen tracer diffusion coefficients and the surface exchange coefficients were determined under the assumptions that samples are semi-infinite slab and that the surface exchange reactionsare not negligible. The oxygen tracer diffusion coefficient of 2.8 mol% Y2O3-containing tetragonal ZrO2 polycrystals, 8 mol% Y2O3-containing ZrO2 polycrystals, and 10 mol% Y2O3-containing cubic ZrO2 single crystals (along the a axis) are as follows.

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A Novel Design Technique to Improve the Performance of Flux-Reversal Machine (성능 개선을 위한 자속 역전식 기기의 설계 기법)

  • Kim Tae Heoung;Lee Ju;Lee Sang-Don
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.53 no.12
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    • pp.700-708
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    • 2004
  • Flux-reversal machine (FRM) is a new doubly-salient stator-permanent magnet (PM) machine with flux linkage reversal in the stator concentrated windings. It can operate in both motoring and generating modes. In this paper, a novel design technique to improve the performance of FRM is proposed. Proposed techniques have a new stator winding and a magnet arrangement method. The stator and rotor shape with a concave type and a flux barrier are also proposed. According to the experimental results, it is shown that the proposed FRM have an improved performance.

A novel approach in analyzing agriculture and food systems: Review of modeling and its applications

  • Kim, Do-Gyun;Cho, Byoung-Kwan;Lee, Wang-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.163-175
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    • 2016
  • For the past decades, advances in computational devices have propelled mathematical modeling to become an effective tool for solving the black box of complex biological systems because of its prominent analytical power and comprehensive insight. Nevertheless, modeling is still limitedly used in the fields of agriculture and food which generally concentrate on producing experimental data rather than processing them. This study, hence, intends to introduce modeling in terms of its procedure types of structure, formulation, analyses, and software, with reviews of current notable studies from micro to macro scales so as to propose the modeling technique as a novel approach in discerning conundrums in agriculture and food systems. We expect this review to provide an eligible source for researchers who are willing to apply modeling techniques into the unexplored fields related to bio-systems that comprehensively include biology, nutrition, agriculture, food, animal science, and ecology.