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Recent Aspects of Eco-friendly Textile Processing

  • Toru Takagishi;Cho, Sung-Mi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.3-4
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    • 2003
  • The recent aspects of eco-friendly textile processing, in particular bio-scouring of cotton and shrinkproofing of wool are described.

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Effect of Carotenoides on the in vitro Aggregation of Bacteriochlorophyll e

  • Hirabayashi, Hiroki;Ohmura, Satoshi;Ishii, Takasada;Uehara, Kaku
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.370-372
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    • 2002
  • In order to investigate effect of the carotenoids (Car) on aggregation of Bacterochlorophyll (BChl) in chlorosome, we studied the spectral difference in aggregates of BChl e formed in the absence and presence of a few kinds of Car in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) -water solution. The absorption spectra of aggregates made of only BChl e and those made of a mixture of BChl e and Car were almost the same. However, the kinetics and circular dichroism (CD) spectra of aggregate of these were markedly different by kind of Car. Specifically, the rate of aggregation for a mixture of BChl e and isorenietene that contains phenyl as end groupe was faster than that for only BChl e. CD spectra of aggregates made of a mixture of BChl e and isorenietene dramatically changed compared to that made of only BChl e. We propose that BChl might form several kinds of rod-like supramolecular structures to in the presence of some kind of Car in chlorosome.

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Matrix Decomposition for Low Computational Complexity in Orthogonal Precoding of N-continuous Schemes for Sidelobe Suppression of OFDM Signals

  • Kawasaki, Hikaru;Matsui, Takahiro;Ohta, Masaya;Yamashita, Katsumi
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.117-123
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    • 2017
  • N-continuous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a precoding method for sidelobe suppression of OFDM signals and seamlessly connects OFDM symbols up to the high-order derivative for sidelobe suppression, which is suitable for suppressing out-of-band radiation. However, it severely degrades the error rate as it increases the continuous derivative order. Two schemes for orthogonal precoding of N-continuous OFDM have been proposed to achieve an ideal error rate while maintaining sidelobe suppression performance; however, the large size of the precoder matrices in both schemes causes very high computational complexity for precoding and decoding. This paper proposes matrix decomposition of precoder matrices with a large size in the orthogonal precoding schemes in order to reduce computational complexity. Numerical experiments show that the proposed method can drastically reduce computational complexity without any performance degradation.

Effect of Heat Treatment on the Morphology and Transparency of Thick Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Films Prepared by the Electrophoretic Sol-Gel Deposition of Polyphenylsilsesquioxane Particles

  • Hasegawa, Koichi;Katagiri, Kiyofumi;Matsuda, Astunori;Tatsumisago, Masahiro;Minami, Tsutomu
    • The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2000
  • Thick inorganic-organic hybrid films were prepared on ITO-coated glass substrates by the electrophoretic sol-gel deposition of polyphenylsilsesquioxane particles. The morphology of the deposited films changed from the aggregate of the spherical particles to monolith by heat treatment at temperatures higher than $200^{\circ}C$. Transparency of the films was significantly improved accompanied by the morphological change of the particles. The degree of the morphological change was governed by two factors; maximum heat treatment temperature and heating rate. Transparent thick films of ca. 3$\mu\textrm{m}$ in thickness were obtained only by heat treatment at $400^{\circ}C$ for 2h with rapid heating from room temperature to $400^{\circ}C$. These films obtained were strongly adhered to the ITO-coated glass substrates and has a very smooth surface.

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Study on Change in Landscape Structure over Time in Suburban Area by Using GIS -Case Study of Kawachinagano City, Osaka-

  • Kaga, Horoyuki;Izaki, Noriaki;Shimomura, Yasuhiko;Masuda, Noboru
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture International Edition
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    • no.1
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    • pp.67-74
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    • 2001
  • Now that importance of landscape planning unique to each area is emphasized, it is necessary to conduct landscape planning by taking advantage of natural environments unique to each ares, because its natural environments are regarded as one of the assets the area possesses. This study targets at Kawachinagano City, Osaka, one of the residential areas that I not only rich in natural and historical elements, but also has been rapidly growing. The purposes of this study are to evaluate change in landscape structure over time by analyzing relation between landform and pattern of expanding the built-up area at three time points of 1932, 1967, and 1994 with GIS (ARC/INFO 7.0.3, ARC/View 3.0 (ESRI)), as well as to make some suggestions for planning landscape unique to the area. Data on main ridges, sub ridges, main rivers, and other landform were read from the elevation map, and data on woodland, and parks and open spaces (having more than 3 ha area) were read from the existing land use map. The data were used to understand the natural structure of the city from topographic viewpoint. Next, the existing land use map prepared with data on the built-up area and urban axes consisting of roads and streets were overlaid on the elevation map in order to understand relation between pattern of expanding the built-up area and the natural structure.

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Forecasting Using Interval Neural Networks: Application to Demand Forecasting

  • Kwon, Ki-Taek;Ishibuchi, Hisao;Tanaka, Hideo
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.135-149
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    • 1994
  • Demand forecasting is to estimate the demand of customers for products and services. Since the future is uncertain in nature, it is too difficult for us to predict exactly what will happen. Therefore, when the forecasting is performed upon the uncertain future, it is realistic to estimate the value of demand as an interval or a fuzzy number instead of a crisp number. In this paper, we propose a demand forecasting method using the standard back-propagation algorithm and then we extend the method to the case of interval inputs. Next, we demonstrate that the proposed method using the interval neural networks can represent the fuzziness of forecasting values as intervals. Last, we propose a demand forecasting method using the transformed input variables that can be obtained by taking account of the degree of influence between an input and an output.

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Fuzzy c-Means Clustering Algorithm with Pseudo Mahalanobis Distances

  • ICHIHASHI, Hidetomo;OHUE, Masayuki;MIYOSHI, Tetsuya
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.148-152
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    • 1998
  • Gustafson and Kessel proposed a modified fuzzy c-Means algorithm based of the Mahalanobis distance. Though the algorithm appears more natural through the use of a fuzzy covariance matrix, it needs to calculate determinants and inverses of the c-fuzzy scatter matrices. This paper proposes a fuzzy clustering algorithm using pseudo mahalanobis distance, which is more easy to use and flexible than the Gustafson and Kessel's fuzzy c-Means.

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Proposal of Approximation Analysis Method for GI/G/1 Queueing System

  • Kong, Fangfang;Nakase, Ippei;Arizono, Ikuo;Takemoto, Yasuhiko
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2008
  • There have been some approximation analysis methods for a GI/G/1 queueing system. As one of them, an approximation technique for the steady-state probability in the GI/G/1 queueing system based on the iteration numerical calculation has been proposed. As another one, an approximation formula of the average queue length in the GI/G/1 queueing system by using the diffusion approximation or the heuristics extended diffusion approximation has been developed. In this article, an approximation technique in order to analyze the GI/G/1 queueing system is considered and then the formulae of both the steady-state probability and the average queue length in the GI/G/1 queueing system are proposed. Through some numerical examples by the proposed technique, the existing approximation methods, and the Monte Carlo simulation, the effectiveness of the proposed approximation technique is verified.