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Timing of Sexual Behaviors among Female Adolescents of Mexican-Origin: The Role of Cultural Variables

  • Espinosa-Hernandez, Graciela;Bamaca-Colbert, Mayra Y.;Vasilenko, Sara A.;Mirzoeff, Charlotte A.
    • Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.159-173
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    • 2013
  • We examined the associations between Latino cultural variables and four sexual behaviors among female adolescents of Mexican origin. Participants ages 14 to 19 (N = 153; 70% born in the U.S) completed surveys about four sexual behaviors (making out, receiving and performing oral sex, and vaginal sex) and cultural variables (nativity, language use, familism, and importance of female virginity). Findings indicated that participants who were born in the U.S. were less likely to have engaged in making out and vaginal sex than participants born in Mexico. Participants reporting stronger familism were less likely to have engaged in making out and oral sex than participants reporting less familism. For all behaviors, placing a greater value on female virginity was associated with lesser odds of engaging in that behavior. This study expands our understanding of the role of nativity and Latino values in the sexual behaviors of Mexican-origin female adolescents.

Microwave Effect on Curing of Waterborne Polyurethane

  • Lee, Hoi-Kwan;Fang, Chris. Y.;Pantano, Carlo. G.;Kang, Won-Ho
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.961-963
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    • 2011
  • Spin-coated waterborne polyurethane to protect glass surface from environmental attacks was cured by using microwave heating. The effect of microwave heating on the reaction kinetics, chemical durability, and transmittance of polyurethane was investigated. In comparison to the conventional heating the results show that the microwave heating substantially accelerates the curing process of waterborne polyurethane and the total time for the completion of the reaction is only 1/7 of that in the conventional process. The microwave cured sample showed an excellent caustic resistance compared to conventional cured one. It means that microwave heating produces dense structure during curing process. The dense structure does not affect to the transmittance in the visible region.

High-Speed Access over Copper: Rate Optimization and Signal Construction

  • Enteshari, Ali;Fadlullah, Jarir M.;Kavehrad, Mohsen
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.489-499
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    • 2009
  • This paper focuses on assessment and design of transmission systems for distribution of digital signals over standard Category-7A copper cables at speeds beyond 10 Gbps. The main contribution of this paper is on the technical feasibility and system design for data rates of 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps over copper. Based on capacity analysis and rate optimization algorithms, system parameters are obtained and the design implementation trade-offs are discussed. Our simulation results confirm that with the aid of a decision-feedback equalizer and powerful coding techniques, namely, TCM or LDPC code, 40 Gbps transmission is feasible over 50 m of CAT-7A copper cable. These results also indicate that 100 Gbps transmission can be achieved over 15 m cables.

theory and implementation

  • Lee, Young-Q.;Kumara, Soundar R.T.;Ham, Inyong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 1992.04b
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    • pp.533-544
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    • 1992
  • 한 제품의 구성 부품 수가 증가함에 따라 조립/분해 순서의 방법수는 기하급수적으로 증가한다. 또한 이 순서의 선택에 의하여 조립/분해의 효율성이 결정된다. 본 논문에서는 조립제품의 조립순서(Assembly Sequence)와 특정부품의 효율적 교체(Part Replacement)를 위한 분해순서(Disassembly sequence)에 관한 새로운 Algorithm들을 다음 3가지 경우를 통하여 소개한다 : 1) Full Assembly/Disassembly, 2) Part Replacement by Individual Disassembly, 그리고 3) Part Replacement by Group Disassembly. 이들 Algorithm들은 'Freedom and Interference Space'라는 새로운 개념으로부터 유도되며, Group Disassembly는 Carpenter's Approach를 통하여 실현된다. 이 논문에서 소개되는 Algorithm들은 조립/분해순서와 함께 조립/분해 방향도 제시하는데 비교적 복잡한 예를 통하여 이들을 실현함으로써 실제 제품 Design에의 활용 가능성을 보여준다.

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Low Attenuation Waveguide for Structural Health Monitoring with Leaky Surface Waves

  • Bezdek, M.;Joseph, K.;Tittmann, B.R.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.241-262
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    • 2012
  • Some applications require structural health monitoring in inaccessible components. This paper presents a technique useful for Structural Health Monitoring of double wall structures, such as double wall steam pipes and double wall pressure vessels separated from an ultrasonic transducer by three layers. Detection has been demonstrated at distances in excess of one meter for a fixed transducer. The case presented here is for one of the layers, the middle layer, being a fluid. For certain transducer configurations the wave propagating in the fluid is a wave with low velocity and attenuation. The paper presents a model based on wave theory and finite element simulation; the experimental set-up and observations, and comparison between theory and experiment. The results provide a description of the technique, understanding of the phenomenon and its possible applications in Structural Health Monitoring.

High Magnetoelectric Properties in 0.68Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.32PbTiO3 Single Crystal and Terfenol-D Laminate Composites

  • Ryu, Jung-Ho;Priya, Shashank;Uchino, Kenji;Kim, Hyoun-Ee;Viehland, Dwight
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.39 no.9
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    • pp.813-817
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    • 2002
  • Magnetoelectric(ME) laminate composites of $Pb(Mg_{1/3}Nb_{2/3})O_3-PbTiO_3 (PMN-PT)$ and Terfenol-D were prepared by sandwiching single crystals of PMN-PT between Terfenol-D disks. The magnetoelectric voltage coefficient (dE/dH) of the composite was determined to be 10.30 V/cm${\cdot}$Oe, at 1 kHz and under a dc magnetic bias of 0.4 T. The value of dE/dH is ∼80 times higher than either that of naturally occurring magnetoelectrics or artificially-grown magnetoelectric composites. This superior magnetoelectric voltage coefficient is attributed to the high piezoelectric voltage constant as well as the high elastic compliance of PMN-PT single crystal and the large magnetostrictive response of Terfenol-D.

The Architecture of an Intelligent Digital Twin for a Cyber-Physical Route-Finding System in Smart Cities

  • Habibnezhad, Mahmoud;Shayesteh, Shayan;Liu, Yizhi;Fardhosseini, Mohammad Sadra;Jebelli, Houtan
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2020.12a
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    • pp.510-519
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    • 2020
  • Within an intelligent automated cyber-physical system, the realization of the autonomous mechanism for data collection, data integration, and data analysis plays a critical role in the design, development, operation, and maintenance of such a system. This construct is particularly vital for fault-tolerant route-finding systems that rely on the imprecise GPS location of the vehicles to properly operate, timely plan, and continuously produce informative feedback to the user. More essentially, the integration of digital twins with cyber-physical route-finding systems has been overlooked in intelligent transportation services with the capacity to construct the network routes solely from the locations of the operating vehicles. To address this limitation, the present study proposes a conceptual architecture that employs digital twin to autonomously maintain, update, and manage intelligent transportation systems. This virtual management simulation can improve the accuracy of time-of-arrival prediction based on auto-generated routes on which the vehicle's real-time location is mapped. To that end, first, an intelligent transportation system was developed based on two primary mechanisms: 1) an automated route finding process in which predictive data-driven models (i.e., regularized least-squares regression) can elicit the geometry and direction of the routes of the transportation network from the cloud of geotagged data points of the operating vehicles and 2) an intelligent mapping process capable of accurately locating the vehicles on the map whereby their arrival times to any point on the route can be estimated. Afterward, the digital representations of the physical entities (i.e., vehicles and routes) were simulated based on the auto-generated routes and the vehicles' locations in near-real-time. Finally, the feasibility and usability of the presented conceptual framework were evaluated through the comparison between the primary characteristics of the physical entities with their digital representations. The proposed architecture can be used by the vehicle-tracking applications dependent on geotagged data for digital mapping and location tracking of vehicles under a systematic comparison and simulation cyber-physical system.

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