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A Novel Approved Mathematical Equation for Lightning Protection Angle

  • Singhasathein, Arnon;Rungseevijitprapa, Weerapun;Pruksanubal, Aphibal
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.1021-1029
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    • 2018
  • During the past few decades, the lightning protection angle (${\alpha}$) has been proposed through several technical matters, namely graphical technique, numerical data and mathematical equation respectively. Nevertheless, these techniques are very complicated, and are difficult to utilize because they also contain several constraints practically. Hence, this paper proposes a novel equation of the lightning protection angle, which is a simple correlation, concise and easy to be implemented. Furthermore, the reliable result of this equation can confirm accuracy through comparative analysis with all previous techniques. As a result, these solutions are altogether equivalent. This novel equation can analyze the lightning protection angle of the vertical air termination system installed at the vertex of the royal pagoda in a Khema-pirataram temple which is at high risk due to lightning flashes.

Novel Design Techniques for Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays

  • Kim, Jae-Chang;Jhun, Chul-Gyu;Park, Kyoung-Ho;Gwag, Jin-Seog;Lee, Seo-Hern;Lee, Gi-Dong;Yoon, Tae-Hoon
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.283-287
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    • 2003
  • Novel design techniques of half switching method, double layer structure, and multidomain structure for transflective liquid crystal display modes are introduced. Design examples of these techniques which perform excellent display characteristics are described.

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Isolation of Microorganisms for Biotechnological Application

  • Franco, Christopher-M.M.;Mcclure, Nicholas-C.
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.101-110
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    • 1998
  • The extent of biological diversity being revealed by molecular techniques accentuates the need to develop methods to isolate and culture the large numbers of microorganisms that remain to be studied. The discovery and characterization of novel microorganisms will provide information useful in understanding microbial ecosystems and have the potential to lead to new products for the biotechnology industry. In this review, the use of innovative techniques and exploration of unusual ecosystems, that have begun to address the challenge of isolating the "uncultured" members of the microbial population, are examined.

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Fabrication of a novel dry adhesive structure with reduced effective stiffness (유효강성을 줄인 새로운 형상의 건식부착물 제작)

  • Cho, Young-Sam;Jung, Dae-Hwan;Han, Houk-Seop;Kim, Wan-Doo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.421-425
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    • 2007
  • In the fabrication of dry adhesive structure, increasing contact-points or contact-area is the primary goal because the adhesive force grows in proportion to the contact-area. The simplest way to extend the contact surface is the fabrication by using soft materials. However, the column-array structure could confront the matting phenomenon which columns are stuck together. Therefore, we need a novel design to reduce the effective stiffness with adequate stiff materials like a gecko's setae. In this study, we propose a novel design for the dry adhesive structure. Moreover, we analyzed whether the adhesive structure conforms the rough surface sufficiently through finite element method adopted the non-bonding interaction as the body force. Also, we fabricated the novel structures via UV lithography and some techniques. In addition, we examined the adhesive force of the novel structures.

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PWM Control Techniques for Single-Phase Multilevel Inverter Based Controlled DC Cells

  • Sayed, Mahmoud A.;Ahmed, Mahrous;Elsheikh, Maha G.;Orabi, Mohamed
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.498-511
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents a single-phase five-level inverter controlled by two novel pulse width modulation (PWM) switching techniques. The proposed PWM techniques are designed based on minimum switching power loss and minimum total harmonic distortion (THD). In a single-phase five-level inverter employing six switches, the first proposed PWM technique requires four switches to operate at switching frequency and two other switches to operate at line frequency. The second proposed PWM technique requires only two switches to operate at switching frequency and the rest of the switches to operate at line frequency. Compared with conventional PWM techniques for single-phase five-level inverters, the proposed PWM techniques offer high efficiency and low harmonic components in the output voltage. The validity of the proposed PWM switching techniques in controlling single-phase five-level inverters to regulate load voltage is verified experimentally using a 100 V, 500 W laboratory prototype controlled by dspace 1103.

Korean Round-Robin Tests Result for New International Program to Assess the Reliability of Emerging Nondestructive Techniques

  • Kim, Kyung Cho;Kim, Jin Gyum;Kang, Sung Sik;Jhung, Myung Jo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.651-661
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    • 2017
  • The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, as a representative organization of Korea, in February 2012 participated in an international Program to Assess the Reliability of Emerging Nondestructive Techniques initiated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The goal of the Program to Assess the Reliability of Emerging Nondestructive Techniques is to investigate the performance of emerging and prospective novel nondestructive techniques to find flaws in nickel-alloy welds and base materials. In this article, Korean round-robin test results were evaluated with respect to the test blocks and various nondestructive examination techniques. The test blocks were prepared to simulate large-bore dissimilar metal welds, small-bore dissimilar metal welds, and bottom-mounted instrumentation penetration welds in nuclear power plants. Also, lessons learned from the Korean round-robin test were summarized and discussed.

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics approaches of cardiovascular development and disease

  • Roth, Robert;Kim, Soochi;Kim, Jeesu;Rhee, Siyeon
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.53 no.8
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    • pp.393-399
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    • 2020
  • Recent advancements in the resolution and throughput of single-cell analyses, including single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), have achieved significant progress in biomedical research in the last decade. These techniques have been used to understand cellular heterogeneity by identifying many rare and novel cell types and characterizing subpopulations of cells that make up organs and tissues. Analysis across various datasets can elucidate temporal patterning in gene expression and developmental cues and is also employed to examine the response of cells to acute injury, damage, or disruption. Specifically, scRNA-seq and spatially resolved transcriptomics have been used to describe the identity of novel or rare cell subpopulations and transcriptional variations that are related to normal and pathological conditions in mammalian models and human tissues. These applications have critically contributed to advance basic cardiovascular research in the past decade by identifying novel cell types implicated in development and disease. In this review, we describe current scRNA-seq technologies and how current scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomic (ST) techniques have advanced our understanding of cardiovascular development and disease.

A Framework for Semantic Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using Tratz Model and Binary Features

  • Zaeri, Ahmad;Nematbakhsh, Mohammad Ali
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.743-752
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    • 2012
  • Semantic interpretation of the relationship between noun compound (NC) elements has been a challenging issue due to the lack of contextual information, the unbounded number of combinations, and the absence of a universally accepted system for the categorization. The current models require a huge corpus of data to extract contextual information, which limits their usage in many situations. In this paper, a new semantic relations interpreter for NCs based on novel lightweight binary features is proposed. Some of the binary features used are novel. In addition, the interpreter uses a new feature selection method. By developing these new features and techniques, the proposed method removes the need for any huge corpuses. Implementing this method using a modular and plugin-based framework, and by training it using the largest and the most current fine-grained data set, shows that the accuracy is better than that of previously reported upon methods that utilize large corpuses. This improvement in accuracy and the provision of superior efficiency is achieved not only by improving the old features with such techniques as semantic scattering and sense collocation, but also by using various novel features and classifier max entropy. That the accuracy of the max entropy classifier is higher compared to that of other classifiers, such as a support vector machine, a Na$\ddot{i}$ve Bayes, and a decision tree, is also shown.