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Modern Concepts of Restructured Meat Production and Market Opportunities

  • Abdul Samad;AMM Nurul Alam;Swati Kumari;Md. Jakir Hossain;Eun-Yeong Lee;Young-Hwa Hwang;Seon-Tea Joo
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.284-298
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    • 2024
  • Restructured meat (RM) products are gaining importance as an essential component of the meat industry due to consumers' interest in health benefits. RM products imply the binding or holding of meat, meat by-products, and vegetable proteins together to form a meat product with meat's sensory and textural properties. RM products provide consumers with diversified preferences like the intake of low salt, low fat, antioxidants, and high dietary fiber in meat products. From the point of environmental sustainability, RM may aid in combining underutilized products and low-valued meat by adequately utilizing them instead of dumping them as waste material. RM processing technique might also help develop diversified and new hybrid meat products. It is crucial to have more knowledge on the quality issues, selection of binding agents, their optimum proportion, and finally, the ideal processing techniques. It is observed in this study that the most crucial feature of RM could be its healthy products with reduced fat content, which aligns with the preferences of health-conscious consumers who seek low-fat, low-salt, high-fiber options with minimal synthetic additives. This review briefly overviews RM and the factors affecting the quality and shelf life. Moreover, it discusses the recent studies on binding agents in processing RM products. Nonetheless, the recent advancements in processing and market scenarios have been summarized to better understand future research needs. The purpose of this review was to bring light to the ways of sustainable and economical food production.

Development and application of a technique for detecting beach litter using a Micro-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  • Jang, Seon Woong;Kim, Dae Hyun;Chung, Yong Hyun;Seong, Ki Taek;Yoon, Hong-Joo
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.351-366
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    • 2014
  • The aim of this study was to develop software for beach litter detection that includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and uses images taken by a micro-unmanned aerial vehicle. Videos were taken over Doomo pebble beach, Sogye pebble beach, and Heungnam sand beach on the northeast coast of Geojedo (Geoje Island), Korea. Still images of actual beach litter were obtained from the videos. The image processing involved preprocessing, morphological image processing, and image recognition. Comparison with still images showing beach litter demonstrated that the software could generally detect litter larger than 50 cm in size such as Styrofoam buoys and circular fish traps (excluding small pixel-size ropes). Combining the proposed method with the conventional surveying approach is expected to enhance the accuracy of beach litter detection. The new technique will also aid in predicting the amount of beach litter generated along coastlines, which is currently difficult to monitor.

Bytecode Simulator for Analyzing Java Programs (자바프로그램 분석을 위한 바이트코드 시뮬레이터)

  • Kim, Doo-Woo;Jung, Min-Soo
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.7 no.7
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    • pp.2086-2094
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    • 2000
  • It is not easy to analyze object-oriented programs, including those in Java, Because the control flows of he program is not visible to the users. The users, however, can utilize class files to trace the process of execution, since a lot of information related on control flow are store in the control flows. A Java virtual machine can then execute the bytecods included in classfiles. It means that understanding the execution process of the bytecodes leads users to comprehend and analyze source programs in Java. We design and implement a visual tool for bytecode execution that is an efficient and powerful tool to understand and analyze source programs in Java. It can aid users to thoroughly grasp not only the structure of a program but also the flow of controls among objects.

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Elastic modulus in large concrete structures by a sequential hypothesis testing procedure applied to impulse method data

  • Antonaci, Paola;Bocca, Pietro G.;Sellone, Fabrizio
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.499-516
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    • 2007
  • An experimental method denoted as Impulse Method is proposed as a cost-effective non-destructive technique for the on-site evaluation of concrete elastic modulus in existing structures: on the basis of Hertz's quasi-static theory of elastic impact and with the aid of a simple portable testing equipment, it makes it possible to collect series of local measurements of the elastic modulus in an easy way and in a very short time. A Hypothesis Testing procedure is developed in order to provide a statistical tool for processing the data collected by means of the Impulse Method and assessing the possible occurrence of significant variations in the elastic modulus without exceeding some prescribed error probabilities. It is based on a particular formulation of the renowned sequential probability ratio test and reveals to be optimal with respect to the error probabilities and the required number of observations, thus further improving the time-effectiveness of the Impulse Method. The results of an experimental investigation on different types of plain concrete prove the validity of the Impulse Method in estimating the unknown value of the elastic modulus and attest the effectiveness of the proposed Hypothesis Testing procedure in identifying significant variations in the elastic modulus.

A Heuristic Approach for Simulation of time-course Visual Adaptation for High Dynamic Image Streams

  • Kelvin, Bwalya;Yang, Seung-Ji;Choi, Jong-Soo;Park, Soo-Jun;Ro, Yong-Man
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.285-288
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    • 2007
  • There is substantial evidence from earlier researches that older adults have difficult seeing under low illumination and at night, even in the absence of ocular diseases. During human aging, there is a rampant decrease in rod/cone-meditated adaptation which is caused by delayed rhodopsin regeneration and pigment depletion. This calls for a need to develop appropriate visual gadgets to effectively aid the aging generation. Our research culminates its approach from Pattanaik's model by making extensions to temporal visual filtering, thereby simulating a reduction of visual response which comes with age. Our filtering model paves way and lays a foundation for future research to develop a more effective adaptation model that may be further used in developing visual content adaptation aids and guidelines in MPEG 21 environment. We demonstrate our visual model using a High Dynamic Range image and the experiment results are in conversant with the psychophysical data from previous vision researches.

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Multi-point displacement monitoring of bridges using a vision-based approach

  • Ye, X.W.;Yi, Ting-Hua;Dong, C.Z.;Liu, T.;Bai, H.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.315-326
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    • 2015
  • To overcome the drawbacks of the traditional contact-type sensor for structural displacement measurement, the vision-based technology with the aid of the digital image processing algorithm has received increasing concerns from the community of structural health monitoring (SHM). The advanced vision-based system has been widely used to measure the structural displacement of civil engineering structures due to its overwhelming merits of non-contact, long-distance, and high-resolution. However, seldom currently-available vision-based systems are capable of realizing the synchronous structural displacement measurement for multiple points on the investigated structure. In this paper, the method for vision-based multi-point structural displacement measurement is presented. A series of moving loading experiments on a scale arch bridge model are carried out to validate the accuracy and reliability of the vision-based system for multi-point structural displacement measurement. The structural displacements of five points on the bridge deck are measured by the vision-based system and compared with those obtained by the linear variable differential transformer (LVDT). The comparative study demonstrates that the vision-based system is deemed to be an effective and reliable means for multi-point structural displacement measurement.

Optimal Design for 3D Structures Using Artificial Intelligence : Its Application to Micro Accelerometer (인공지능을 이용한 3차원 구조물의 최적화 설계 : 마이크로 가속도계에 적용)

  • Lee, Joon-Seong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.445-450
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes an optimal design system for multi-disciplinary structural design. An automatic finite element (FE) mesh generation technique, which is based on the fuzzy knowledge processing and computational geometry technique, is incorporated into the system, together with a commercial FE analysis code and a commercial solid modelers. An optimum design solution or satisfactory solutions are then automatically searched using the genetic algorithms modified for real search space, together with the automated FE analysis system. With an aid of genetic algorithms, the present design system allows us to effectively obtain a multi-dimensional solutions. The developed system is successfully applied to the shape design of a micro accelerometer based on a tunnel current concept.

Applied Computational Tools for Crop Genome Research

  • Love Christopher G;Batley Jacqueline;Edwards David
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.193-195
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    • 2003
  • A major goal of agricultural biotechnology is the discovery of genes or genetic loci which are associated with characteristics beneficial to crop production. This knowledge of genetic loci may then be applied to improve crop breeding. Agriculturally important genes may also benefit crop production through transgenic technologies. Recent years have seen an application of high throughput technologies to agricultural biotechnology leading to the production of large amounts of genomic data. The challenge today is the effective structuring of this data to permit researchers to search, filter and importantly, make robust associations within a wide variety of datasets. At the Plant Biotechnology Centre, Primary Industries Research Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, we have developed a series of tools and computational pipelines to assist in the processing and structuring of genomic data to aid its application to agricultural biotechnology resear-ch. These tools include a sequence database, ASTRA, for the processing and annotation of expressed sequence tag data. Tools have also been developed for the discovery of simple sequence repeat (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) molecular markers from large sequence datasets. Application of these tools to Brassica research has assisted in the production of genetic and comparative physical maps as well as candidate gene discovery for a range of agronomically important traits.

Design and Implementation for DC Motor controller Using Embedded Target (Embedded Target을 이용한 DC Motor제어가 설계 및 구현)

  • Shin, Wee-Jae
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.56-62
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents design and implementation of the speed controller for DC motor system using Embeded Target for TI C2000 DSP library in Matlab/Simulink is introduced. Speed controller are easily design and implemented by using the Matlab/Simulink program. Feedback of motor speed is processed through eZdsp F2812 AID converter using encoder and pulse meter as speed sensor. Real-time program of controller is drawn using Simulink and converted program code for speed control of P control, PID control and parameter estimation base adaptive control is downloaded into the TI eZdsp 2812 board. Experiments were carried out to examine validity of speed response for implemented controllers. And even if controlled plant becomes alteration studied controller design and implementation easily method.

Microcomputer-Based Post-Processorfor Large Finite Element Analysis (대규모 유한요소해석에 활용되는 소형컴퓨터용 후처리 그래픽 프로그램)

  • 이성우;이선구;이태연
    • Computational Structural Engineering
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.69-77
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    • 1989
  • Until recently post-processing of finite element model has been heavily relied on expensive graphic peripheral devices. With the aid of inexpensive microcomputers, very economical post-processor graphics program called MICRO-POST has been developed. Model geometry or results of analysis for the unlimited meshes can be easily presented in a number of low-cost graphic devices. The paper presents the procedure obtaining the device-independent graphics, and the structure and functions of the program. It also describes efficient I/O scheme to overcome the memory limitation, and dialogue-type input technique to control the plot operation in an interactive manner. Through the post processing examples for the general purpose finite element programs, it demonstrates the usefulness of the program.

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