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Preparation and Characterization of Anionic Emulsified Asphalt with Enhanced Adhesion Properties

  • Lee, Eun-Kyoung
    • Elastomers and Composites
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.304-313
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    • 2015
  • In this study, the anionic emulsified asphalt was prepared by dispersing asphalt particles evenly into water with combination of anionic and nonionic surfactants. Effects of NaOH and $CaCl_2$ on the phase stability of the emulsified asphalt were also investigated through zeta potential value and rheology behavior; the emulsified asphalt added with NaOH and $CaCl_2$ showed higher zeta potential value than that the asphalt with addition of only anionic and nonionic surfactants. In addition, with regard to shear thinning behaviors, it was found that pH of the emulsified anionic asphalt and $Ca^{2+}$, counter ion, affected the phase stability. SBR (styrene-butadiene-rubber) latex, EPD (water dispersed Epoxy), PU (polyurethane) and RI-10S, SBS (styrene-butadiene-styrene)-based property improvement additive, were used and studied to enhance the adhesion properties with the aggregates. RI-10S, however, was found to be only compatible with the anionic emulsified asphalt; the coating rate, adhesion and compression strength were increased with the RI-10S content.

The Effect of Asymmetric Electrode Structure on the Emission Efficiency in ac Gas Discharge (비대칭 전극구조가 교류형 기체 방전의 발광효율에 미치는 영향)

  • Seo, Jeong-Hyun;Shin, Bhum-Jae
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.64 no.5
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    • pp.732-738
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    • 2015
  • In ac discharge, emission efficiency shows an time-varying characteristics during discharge. The phenomenon is caused by the potential distribution changes during the discharge, which indicates that a specific potential distribution can contribute to a high improvement of the emission efficiency. To create an artificial environment for a potential distribution favorable to emission efficiency, we used the asymmetric electrode structure and proved the capability. Our results showed that the ratio of the area of anode to cathode became larger, the emission efficacy was greatly improved.

Analytical Surface Potential Model with TCAD Simulation Verification for Evaluation of Surrounding Gate TFET

  • Samuel, T.S. Arun;Balamurugan, N.B.;Niranjana, T.;Samyuktha, B.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.655-661
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, a new two dimensional (2D) analytical modeling and simulation for a surrounding gate tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) is proposed. The Parabolic approximation technique is used to solve the 2-D Poisson equation with suitable boundary conditions and analytical expressions for surface potential and electric field are derived. This electric field distribution is further used to calculate the tunneling generation rate and thus we numerically extract the tunneling current. The results show a significant improvement in on-current characteristics while short channel effects are greatly reduced. Effectiveness of the proposed model has been confirmed by comparing the analytical results with the TCAD simulation results.

Naphthalene Derivative Supported Activated Carbon Composite Electrode with Enhanced Capacitance and Potential Window

  • Hu, Mengyang;Park, Jeong Ho;Lee, Kwang Se;Ko, Jang Myoun
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.99-103
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    • 2019
  • A derivative of 1,4-Naphthoquinone coded HBU671 was synthesized and used in addition to activated carbon as composite electrode for supercapacitor application. From the electrochemical properties analysis, a specific capacitance of about $300F\;g^{-1}$ exhibited almost two times of that of activated carbon at a scan rate of $100mV\;s^{-1}$ and a potential window of - 0.2 - 1V. This improvement is due to the inherent redox reaction in HBU671. Cycle test also proved that this composite is still stable even after 1000 cycle within the applied potential window and it is highly recommended for practical application.

On optimal correction of gunfire errors (포 사격오차의 최적 수정에 관한 연구)

  • 이양원;김영주;김경기;김경기
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1989.10a
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    • pp.109-112
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    • 1989
  • Gun system operation is represented as a first-order Markov process, and an optimum linear filter is derived for closed-loop control of mean square error. Potential improvement is then estimated by contrasting the variance in performance and the auto correlation for open-loop system with that for the optimum linearly corrected process.

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Can Diagnostics and Simulations of Microplasmas Give Suggestions for New Generation PDPs ?

  • Tachibana, Kunihide
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.1077-1080
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    • 2002
  • Present status of diagnostics and simulations on microplasmas for understandings of the discharge and VUV emission characteristics in a unit cell of plasma display panel is overviewed and their future perspective will be argued towards potential improvement of the characteristics.

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A Case Study on the Potential Severity Assessment for Incident Investigation in the Shipbuilding Industry (잠재 심각도 평가 기반의 조선업 재해 분석 활동에 관한 사례 연구)

  • Ye, Jeong Hyun;Jung, Seung Rae;Chang, Seong Rok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.62-69
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    • 2019
  • Korean shipbuilding companies have taken many efforts for safety over the years by developing Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Management Systems, Procedures, Training, and studying Programs for prevention of incidents. As a result, the shipbuilding industry has succeeded in reducing overall injury rates. Nevertheless, the industry also noticed that incident rates are still not at zero and more importantly, serious injuries and fatalities are still occurring. One factor that may be attributing to this is the lack of managing potential severity during incident investigations, most incident investigations are implemented based on the actual result. Generally, each shipbuilding company develops their customized incident investigation programs and these are also commonly being focused on actual result. This study aimed to develop a shift in strategy toward safety to classify the criteria of potential severity from any incidents and manage that to prevent any recurrence or causing any serious injuries or fatalities in the shipbuilding industry. Several global energy companies have already developed potential severity management tools and applied them in their incident investigations. In order to verify the necessity of improvement for current systems, a case study and comparative analysis between a domestic shipbuilding company and several global energy companies from foreign countries was implemented and comparison of two incident investigation cases from specific offshore projects was conducted to measure the value of a potential severity system. Also, a checklist was established from the data of fatalities and serious injuries in recent 5 years that occurred in Korea shipbuilding industry and a proposal to verify high potential incidents in the incident investigation process and comparative analysis between the assessment by appling proposed checklist and the assessment from a global energy company by using their own system was implemented. As a measure to prevent any incidents, it is required to focus on potential severity assessment during the incident investigation rather than to only control actual result. Hence, this study aims to propose a realistic plan which enables to improve the existing practices of incident investigation and control in the shipbuilding industry.

A Study on the Service Quality Improvement by Kano Model & Weighted Potential Customer Satisfaction Index (Kano 모델 및 가중 PCSI를 통한 서비스품질 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Cheol
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2010
  • The Banking industry is expanding rapidly. To keep the competitive advantages, participating companies concentrate their resource to provide the distinguishable services by increasing the service quality. This study is to find that how three kinds of service quality(process, output, and service environment) affect on the customer satisfaction. In this paper, WPCSI (Weighted Potential Customer Satisfaction Index) was developed using Kano model and PCSI. Kano's model of service quality classification was used to improve customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction index was calculated. Customer satisfaction index was calculated using the existing potential for improving customer satisfaction index (PCSI Index) to complement the limitations of the weighted potential improve customer satisfaction index (WPCSI) were used. Analysis using PCSI improve the quality of service levels may be useful in assessing. However, this figure is a marginal degree of importance on customers and quality characteristics have been overlooked but has its problems. A service provided to customers with some important differences depending on the interpretation of the scope for improvement is to be classified. In other words, the level of customer satisfaction and the satisfaction of the current difference between the comparison factor for the company to provide information about the priority of the improvement was not significant. Companies are also considered important that the customer does not consider the uniform quality of service provided can be fallible. In this study, the weighted potential to improve it improve customer satisfaction index (WPCSI) proposed a new customer satisfaction index. This is for customers to recognize the importance of quality characteristics by weighting factors, to identify practical and improved priority to provide more useful information than has been. Weighted potentially improve customer satisfaction index (WPCSI) presented in this study by the customers aware of the importance of considering the quality factor is an exponent. The results, 'Employees' working ability', 'provided the desired service level', 'staff to handle this task quickly enough' to the customer of the factors had significant effects on satisfaction are met. On the other hand 'aggressiveness on the product description of employees', 'service environment as a whole, beautiful enough to' meet and shows no significant difference between satisfaction. But 'aggressiveness on the product description of employees' and reverse (逆) were attributable to the quality. Small dogs and overly aggressive products that encourage the customer dissatisfaction that can result in widening should be careful because the quality factor can be said. As a result, WPCSI is more effect to find critical factors which can affect customer satisfaction than PCSI. After that, we discuss effects and advantages of customer satisfaction using WPCSI. This study, along with these positive aspects, the limitations are implied. First, this study directly to the bank so that I could visit any other way for customers, utilizing the Internet or mobile to take advantage of the respondents were excluded from the analysis. Second, in survey questionnaires can help improve understanding of the measures will be taken. In addition to the survey targeted mainly focused on Seoul, according to a sample, so sampling can cause problems is the viscosity revealed intends.

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Evaluation of Thermal Environment Improvement Effect from Public Design Improvement Project on the Urban Street Space (도시가로공간의 공공디자인 개선사업에 따른 열환경 개선 효과 평가)

  • Baek, Sang-Hun;Shimizu, Aki;Kim, Hak-Yoon;Jung, Eung-Ho
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.1105-1114
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    • 2011
  • In this study, thermal environment improvements throughout public design improvement project on the urban street space were compared and evaluated. Thermo-Render 3.0, 3D-CAD based thermal environment simulation program, had been used for thermal environment improvement evaluations. Followings are the results. First, clayey blocks which have low heat transfer rate and cool island effect by trees and roof gardens brought cooling effects for buildings and surface of streets. Seconds, MRT values showed low levels because of low radiant mulching materials. Thirds, roof gardens contributed to reduce heat island effect since HIP levels were affected by decreasing heat storage effect of buildings from roof gardens. As a result, reducing heat storage effect throughout selecting and arranging proper materials which would not increase heat island potentials should be performed to improve heat island effects.

Regeneration and Agrobacterium - Mediated Transient Transformation of Button Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)

  • Franklin G.;Alaiwi W. Abou;Goldman S.L.
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2005
  • Explants of button daisy were screened for their regeneration potential and transient GUS gene expression. Medium containing MS salts minerals and $B_5$ vitamins supplemented with $0.1\;\cal{mg/L}$ BA and $0.1\;\cal{mg/L}$ TDZ showed the best regeneration. Disc florets and receptacles were the most responsive explants in regeneration and transient gene expression respectively. Regenerated plants were successfully rooted and established in the green-house conditions. Infection and co-cultivation of explants with Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing pCAMBIA 1301 resulted in transient GUS foci. Among the different explants, receptacles showed the highest percentage of transient GUS gene expression. Enzymatic and molecular analyses of transformed calli confirmed the integration of GUS gene.