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Effectiveness of the Verif $EYE^{TM}$ machine -vision technology for complying with reducing microbial indicator counts on beef carcasses

  • Lee, Jeong-Ah;Kim, Sa-Hyun;Lee, Sang-Koan;Kim, Gi-Cheol;Oh, Hye-Won;Jung, Tae-Nam;Lee, Yang-Soo;Jung, Chang-Jin;Jang, Won-Hyuck
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.191-196
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    • 2007
  • The slaughter process for cattle will inevitably transfer some bacteria onto the carcasses. The goal of food safety programs is to minimize and effectively remove this contamination. This study was attempted by the Verif $EYE^{TM}$ machine-vision technology that might be useful for reducing microbial indicator counts and could reduce the contamination chance of E coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp on beef carcasses. For the evaluation of the effectiveness of the Verif $EYE^{TM}$ technology, 80 samples were examined by the inspection device over 15 days. On an examination of FDS-positive samples compared to negative controls from the same carcasses, aerobic plate counts were bigger than the negative control samples (5.26 vs 4.60 log). Enterobacteriaceae counts were greater on the positive samples than the corresponding negative control samples (2.07 vs 1.17log). There was a consistent correlation between samples detected by the Verif $EYE^{TM}$ system with detectable counts. For example, 100% of positive samples had detectable APC and 91.2% of positive samples had detectable TCC. Therefore, if areas detected as positive for contamination by the Verif $EYE^{TM}$ system were removed from the carcasses, significant sources of microbial contamination will be reduced for objective compliance with HACCP. This results suggest that the use of Verif $EYE^{TM}$ machine-vision technology might be useful for reducing microbial indicator counts (APC, TCC) and could help reduce the risk of presence of E coJi O157:H7 and Salmonella spp on Beef carcasses.

A Survey on Nurses' Attitudes for Computerization in Nursing Practice in Kyung In Province (경인지역 임상간호사의 간호업무 전산화활용에 관한 태도 조사연구)

  • Kang, Ik-Wha;Hwang, Eun-Ah
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.325-337
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    • 1995
  • This study attempted to increase quality of nursing care by assessing the nurses' attitudes for computerization in nursing practice and ensuring right recognition and attitude for computerized system. Study subjects are 311 nurses who are working at 4 general hospitals. Those hospitals are selected according to the degree of computerized in Kyoung In Province. Study instrument consists of 20 items and 12 general questionnaire which was developed by Brodt and Stronge(1985) and modified by Lee(1991). Data collection was done from april 19th in 1995 to april 29th. Data gathered were analized number, t-test, ANOVA by using SPSS. The study results are as follows : 1. Study subject's attitude for computer application showed positive response as mean score of 3.44 especially nurses who had experience using computer showed 100% pro-response. 2. Study subject's attitude by age was significant statistically(F=3.9589, p=.0038), among them age 25-30 revealed the highest positive scores, and age 40 showed the lowest positive scores. 3. Study subject's attitude by education level showed no significant difference(F=1.4182, 2437), and those who are more educated showed more positive response. 4. Study subject's attitude by duty years showed no significant difference(F=2.2648, p=.0622), and those who had 7- 9 duty years had the highest positive attitude however those who have 10 duty years showed lowest positive attitude. 5. Study subject's attitude by position revealed no significant difference(F=2.0017, p=.1369), and the charge nurse groups who were using computer showed the highest scores. 6. Study subject's attitude by computerized type showed significant difference(F=23.9665, p=.0000), and G hospital which had computer system in nursing area obtained the highest positive scores. 7. study subject's attitude by presence of computer education showed no significant differenec(F=.9002, P=.3435), and non computer educated groups showed the highest positive response. 8. Study subject's attitude by computer education place revealed no significant difference(F=4.3723, p=.0020). and the groups who were taught individually or in the institution obtained the highest positive scores. 9. Study subject's attitude by duty year computer use showed no significant response(F=.9591, P=.3282), and groups of computer use showed the high degree of positive response. 10. Study subject's attitude by duty year using computer showed significant difference(F=5.9174, p=.0009),and the groups using computer for 6 years or group of 4-6 years showed the highest degree of positive response and the groups using computer for 1 year showed the lowest degree of positive response.

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Bearing Characteristics of Micropile-raft by Failure Mode of Soil (지반파괴거동에 따른 마이크로파일-기초의 지지특성)

  • Hwang, Tae-Hyun;Shin, Jong-Ho;Huh, In-Goo;Kwon, Oh-Yeob
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.13-25
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    • 2015
  • With the increasing usages of micropile, several researchers have been studying the bearing characteristics of micropile or micropile-raft system. But most cases of research were focused on the bearing capacity of micropile-raft system on sand layer. And it was not considered that the bearing capacity of micropile-raft system was affected by the failure mode of soil and pile installation conditions. Thereby this study conducted the numerical analysis to estimate the bearing capacity of micropile-raft system on sand or silt layer with different shear failure mode. It was found that the bearing capacity of micropile-raft system installed in positive or negative angle was larger than that of the system installed in vertical angle, in the case of the sand layer undergoing the general shear failure. In the case of silt layer undergoing the punching shear failure, the bearing capacity of micropile-raft system installed only in negative angle was larger than that installed in vertical or positive angle. And the bearing capacity of foundation system in positive angle was similar to the vertical micropile-raft system.

VPI-based Control Strategy for a Transformerless MMC-HVDC System Under Unbalanced Grid Conditions

  • Kim, Si-Hwan;Kim, June-Sung;Kim, Rae-Young;Cho, Jin-Tae;Kim, Seok-Woong
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.2319-2328
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    • 2018
  • This paper introduces a control method for a transformerless MMC-HVDC system. The proposed method can effectively control the grid currents of the MMC-HVDC system under unbalanced grid conditions such as a single line-to-ground fault. The proposed method controls the currents of the positive sequence component and the negative sequence component without separating algorithms. Therefore, complicated calculations for extracting the positive sequence and the negative sequence component are not required. In addition, a control method to regulate a zero sequence component current under unbalanced grid conditions in the transformerless MMC-HVDC system is also proposed. The validity of the proposed method is verified through PSCAD/EMTDC simulation.

Multi-stage design procedure for modal controllers of multi-input defective systems

  • Chen, Yu Dong
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.527-540
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    • 2007
  • The modal controller of single-input system cannot stabilize the defective system with positive real part of repeated eigenvalues, because some of the generalized modes are uncontrollable. In order to stabilize the uncontrollable modes with positive real part of eigenvalues, the multi-input system should be introduced. This paper presents a recursive procedure for designing the feedback controller of the multi-input system with defective repeated eigenvalues. For a nearly defective system, we first transform it into a defective one, and apply the same method to manage. The proposed methods are based on the modal coordinate equations, to avoid the tedious mathematic manipulation. As an application of the presented procedure, two numerical examples are given at end of the paper.

Development and Performance Test of In-situ Particle Monitoring System using Ion-counter in Vacuum Environments (진공 환경내 실시간 입자 모니터링 시스템의 개발 및 성능평가)

  • Ahn Kang-Ho;Kim Yong-Min;Kwon Yong-Taek
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.5 no.1 s.14
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a new method that monitors the quantity of particles using ion-counter in vacuum environment is introduced. In-situ particle monitoring (ISPM) system is composed by Gerdien type ion-counter (house-made), DC power supply and electrometer. The ion-counter applied by positive voltage detects only positive charged particles. Therefore the particles to be detected should be in known charge state for further data analysis. ion-counter is installed at the exhaust line of process equipment where the pressure loss is structurally low. ISPM system performance has been verified with SMPS (Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer) system. The correlation coefficient is above 0.98 at the particle size range of $20{\sim}300nm$ in diameter with identified charge distribution under $0.1{\sim}10.0$ Torr.

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Mechanical Alloying Effect in Immiscible Cu-Based Alloy Systems.

  • Lee, Chung-Hyo;Lee, Seong-Hee;Kim, Ji-Soon;Kwon, Young-Soon
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.164-167
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    • 2003
  • The mechanical alloying effect has been studied on the three Cu-based alloy systems with a positive heat of mixing. The extended bcc solid solution has been formed in the Cu-V system and an amorphous phase in the Cu-Ta system. However, it is round that a mixture of nanocrystalline Cu and Mo Is formed in the Cu-Mo system. The neutron diffraction has been employed at a main tool to characterize the detailed amorphization process. The formation of an amorphous phase in Cu-Ta system can be understood by assuming that the smaller Cu atoms preferentially enter into the bcc Ta lattice during ball milling.

A Gripping System Capable of Simultaneous Implementation of Pneumatic Gripper and Vacuum Gripper Using a Single Pump (단일 펌프를 이용하여 공압 그리퍼와 진공 그리퍼의 동시 구현이 가능한 그리핑 시스템의 개발)

  • Tae Hwa Hong;Jae-Bok Song
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.456-462
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    • 2023
  • In recent years, the use of robot arms has increased rapidly in both industrial and service applications. Unlike production sites, where only one type of gripper is used for productivity, service sites often use a tool changer to replace fingered grippers or vacuum grippers to cover various objects to be grasped. To this end, a tool changer-based pneumatic grasping system was developed in this study. In order to simultaneously use a positive pressure-based pneumatic gripper and a negative pressure-based vacuum gripper, a small vane pump capable of generating positive and negative pressures depending on the direction of rotation was developed. Experiments with actual prototypes have shown that the pneumatic system based on the developed vane pump can effectively realize both pneumatic grippers and vacuum grippers.

EXISTENCE OF THREE POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF A CLASS OF BVPS FOR SINGULAR SECOND ORDER DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS ON THE WHOLE LINE

  • Liu, Yuji;Yang, Pinghua
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.54 no.2
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    • pp.359-380
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    • 2017
  • This paper is concerned with a kind of boundary value problem for singular second order differential systems with Laplacian operators. Using a multiple fixed point theorem, sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of at least three positive solutions of this kind of boundary value problem are established. An example is presented to illustrate the main results.

Positive solutions for predator-prey equations with nonlinear diffusion rates

  • Ahn, In-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.545-558
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    • 1994
  • In this paper, we will investigate the existence of positive solutions to the predator-prey interacting system $$ {-\varphi(x, u)\Delta u = uf(x, u, \upsilon) in \Omega {-\psi(x, \upsilon)\Delta\upsilon = \upsilon g(x, u, \upsilon) {\frac{\partial n}{\partial u} + ku = 0 on \partial\Omega {\frac{\partial n}{\partial\upsilon} + \sigma\upsilon = 0. $$ in a bound region $\Omega$ in $R^n$ with smooth boundary, where $\varphi$ and $\psi$ are strictly positive functions, serving as nonlinear diffusion rates, and $k, \sigma > 0$ are constants.

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