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Flexi-e: Side-by-Side Manufacturing of Flexible Displays and Glass TFT-LCDs

  • French, Ian;Shinn, Ted Hong
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.1005-1008
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    • 2008
  • Electronic Paper Displays (EPDs) incorporating electrophoretic foils have made digital reading as pleasant as reading normal print. We will report on progress to replace glass-based displays with light and robust plastic EPDs using only a few extra process steps in a standard TFT-LCD factory.

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Co-Electrodeposition of Bilirubin Oxidase with Redox Polymer through Ligand Substitution for Use as an Oxygen Reduction Cathode

  • Shin, Hyo-Sul;Kang, Chan
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.11
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    • pp.3118-3122
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    • 2010
  • The water soluble redox polymer, poly(N-vinylimidazole) complexed with Os(4,4'-dichloro-2,2'-bipyridine)$_2Cl]^+$ (PVI-[Os(dCl-bpy)$_2Cl]^+$), was electrodeposited on the surface of a glassy carbon electrode by applying cycles of alternating square wave potentials between 0.2 V (2 s) and 0.7 V (2 s) to the electrode in a solution containing the redox polymer. The coordinating anionic ligand, $Cl^-$ of the osmium complex, became labile in the reduced state of the complex and was substituted by the imidazole of the PVI chain. The ligand substitution reactions resulted in crosslinking between the PVI chains, which made the redox polymer water insoluble and caused it to be deposited on the electrode surface. The deposited film was still electrically conducting and the continuous electrodeposition of the redox polymer was possible. When cycles of square wave potentials were applied to the electrode in a solution of bilirubin oxidase and the redox polymer, the enzyme was co-electrodeposited with the redox polymer, because the enzymes could be bound to the metal complexes through the ligand exchange reactions. The electrode with the film of the PVI-[Os(dCl-bpy)$_2Cl]^+$ redox polymer and the co-electrodeposited bilirubin oxidase was employed for the reduction of $O_2$ and a large increase of the currents was observed due to the electrocatalytic $O_2$ reduction with a half wave potential at 0.42 V vs. Ag/AgCl.

A Comparison of Antimicrobial Effect of Two Waterless Alcohol-based Hand Rubs with a Povidone-Iodine Hand Scrub for Surgical Hand Antisepsis (두 가지 알코올제제 손마찰과 포비돈 아이오다인의 외과적 손소독 효과 비교)

  • Ju, Houng Ley;Jeong, Jae Sim;Kim, Mi Na;Park, Kwang Ok
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.55-65
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the 1% chlorhexidine gluconate/61% ethanol (CHG/ethanol), 45% ethanol/18% 1-propanol (ethanol/propanol) and 7.5% povidone-iodine (PVI) scrub with brush to evaluate their antimicrobial effect. Method: Utilizing repeated measures design, 9 nurses participated in the study. Glove juice sampling procedure was used to evaluate microbial hand counts before the surgical hand antisepsis, one minute after hand wash, and after the surgery. Results: Waterless rub using CHG and ethanol combination resulted in a 3.94 log reduction at 1 min and 2.78 log reduction at 3 hrs. Ethanol/propanol resulted in a 2.42 at 1 min and 2.22 at 3 hrs. The traditional scrub using PVI with brush resulted in a 0.94 at 1 min and 0.95 at 3 hrs (p=.003) and 3 hrs (p=.026) after the surgical hand antisepsis. Repeated measures ANOVA results showed that there was a statistically significant difference among group (p=.002). Duncan post hoc test result showed that the PVI was less effective (p<.05) in sterilizing microbials on hands than CHG/ethanol or ethanol/propanol. Conclusion: Both of the two alcohol-based antiseptic rubs are acceptable alternatives to the PVI with brush for surgical hand antisepsis.

Acquisition of English speech rhythm by Chinese learners of English at different English proficiency levels

  • Zhang, Jiaqi;Lee, Sook-hyang
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to investigate the rhythmic patterns in the English speech produced by Chinese learners of English who learn English as a foreign language (EFL learners). Utilizing interval-based rhythm metrics, namely, VarcoC, VarcoV, nPVI-C, nPVI-V, and %V, the study compared the rhythmic differences in English speech between ten native speakers from the United States and forty Chinese EFL learners from mainland China. A sentence elicitation task consisting of thirty picture prompts and corresponding thirty stimuli sentences with at least five vocalic and four consonantal intervals was conducted. Statistical results reveal that both Chinese advanced learners and beginners had significantly lower degree of stress-timed in their English speech, indicating that the acquisition of the L2 speech rhythm was influenced by the learners' L1 rhythmic pattern. In addition, the results also show that the Chinese advanced learners had significantly higher degree of stress-timed in their English speech than beginners and showed no significant difference with native speakers in VarcoC and nPVI-C. These results indicate that the direction of L2 speech rhythm development was from more syllable-timed to more stress-timed.

A study on the features of English as a lingua franca in Asian contexts: Rhythmic features (아시아 상황의 영어 공통어 자질 연구: 리듬 특성)

  • Chung, Hyunsong;Lee, Sang-Ki;Kim, Yoon-Kyu
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2016
  • This paper investigated the rhythmic features of speakers of English as a lingua franca in Asian contexts. A speech corpus of 150 conversations between speakers of English in Asia with different L1 backgrounds was collected and %V, ${\Delta}V$, VarcoV, and nPVI-V of each speaker were analyzed. It was found that L1 difference of the speakers and the speakers' daily use of English influenced %V, while the speakers' daily use of English influenced ${\Delta}V$. The gender difference of the speakers also affected the rhythm of the utterances in VarcoV. A weak correlation between the two speakers' rhythm in each conversation was also found in %V and ${\Delta}V$. No significant effects were found in nPVI-V. The results revealed that the speakers tended to accommodate the rhythm of their utterance to that of the interlocutors'. Further study on the speaking rate of the speakers is required to overcome some inconsistencies found in the results of the rhythmic metrics used in this study.

Effect of saline irrigation used in combination with antimicrobial agents on salivary bacterial counts (생리식염수 세척이 구강 소독제의 타액 내 세균 수의 변화에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Dong-Joo;Yu, Kyoung-Hwan;Lim, Hyong-Sub;Lee, Sung-Kyu;Kim, Su-Gwan;Kim, Hak-Kyun
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.202-205
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    • 2010
  • Introduction: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of mechanical irrigation in combination with mouthwash of antimicrobial agents on salivary bacterial counts. Materials and Methods: This study was performed with a randomized study employing a panel of 40 healthy volunteers (20 males and 20 females) between the age of 26 and 32 years. Volunteers were randomly put in one of four treatment groups. In the first group, 0.2 mL of non-stimulatory saliva was collected from every subjective person. Then, saliva was collected after rinsing with chlorhexidine (CHX) for 1 minute. In the second group, non-stimulatory saliva was collected, and then saliva was collected after rinsing with CHX and irrigation with saline. In the third and fourth groups, the same procedures as the first and second groups were performed with povidone iodine (PVI) instead of CHX. All of these samples were cultured for 48 hours aerobically. The reduction rates of colony-forming units (CFU) were calculated for each group. The reduction rate between each group was tested statistically using student t-test. Results: Using CHX in combination with saline irrigation showed a significant decrease of the salivary bacterial CFU when compared with only using CHX.(P<0.01) And using PVI with saline irrigation showed a little decrease of the CFU when compared with only using PVI, but there was no statistical significance.(P>0.01) Conclusion: It was concluded that the CHX or PVI used with saline irrigation made the salivary bacterial counts reduced more than when CHX or PVI was used alone as an oral antiseptic agent.

Study on Forest Vegetation Classification with Remote Sensing

  • Yuan, Jinguo;Long, Limin
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.250-255
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    • 2002
  • This paper describes the study methods of identifying forest vegetation types, based on this study, forest vegetation classification method based on vegetation index is proposed. According to reflectance data of vegetation canopy and soil line equation NIR=1.506R+0.0076 in Jingyuetan, Changchun, China, many vegetation index are calculated and analyzed. The relationships between vegetation index and vegetation types are that PVI identifies broadleaf forest and conifer forest the most easily, the next is TSAVI and MSAVI, but their calculation is complex. RVI values of different conifer trees vary obviously, so RVI can classify conifer trees. In a word, combination of PVI and RVI is evaluated to classify different vegetation types.

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A Value Based Service Design Using Kano's Model and QFD (Kano 모델과 QFD를 활용한 가치요소 중심의 서비스 디자인 개선방안)

  • Bae, Yong-Sup;Yu, Yung-Mok
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.109-123
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    • 2011
  • This study proposes a value based service design (VBSD) approach using Kano's model and QFD. Key quality factors and key cost factors are identified, evaluated and then incorporated to produce customer value index (CVI) and provider value index (PVI) which are together used to determine the four value strategy zones. Each value strategy zone suggests its own appropriate service development strategy based on its corresponding CVI and PVI characteristics such as maintaining current service, reducing costs, raising quality or eliminating/creating services. A camping car service design case is applied to this study, which shows the practical contribution of this VBSD approach.

Utility of Separable Evaluation of the Vegetation Cover Rates and Vegetation Vigor Using Spectral Reflectance (분광반사 특성을 이용한 식생피복율과 활력도 분리평가의 효용성)

  • Choi, Seung-Pil;Park, Jong-Sun;Kim, Hyung-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.393-399
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    • 2005
  • Since vegetations are near the wavelength range in 700nm and have absorbent as well as reflective wavelength ranges, there is a much difference in terms of its reflection rate. There are currently many researches on vegetation index being conducted in order to apply the remote-sensing technology to vegetations rising their characteristics of absorbent and reflective wavelength ranges. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Perpendicular Vegetation Index (PVI) have been most commonly used. It is usually the evaporation, carbon-dioxide consumption, and chlorophyll density that represent the activity of vegetation, but chlorophyll density is the most commonly used among them. Since the red wavelength range used to obtain the NDVI and PVI has a strong extinction of chlorophyll, it is also useful to test chlorophyll density. The NDVI, in particular, is used to identify the vegetation conditions summarily, and thus, is suitable for initiative researches. Nevertheless, since these vegetation index produce mixed information of the Vegetation vigor and vegetation cover, it is essential to monitor a wavelength range that is independent from redundancy of the Vegetation vigor and vegetation cover. Although many vegetation indices have evaluated both the vegetation vigor and Vegetation cover simultaneously, this research intends to emphasize the utility of separable evaluations of the Vegetation vigor and Vegetation Cover rate through an experiment with grasses. As a result of evaluating vegetation index using spectral reflectance, a separable evaluation of the vegetation vigor and cover has been found more useful.