• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.583-590
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• 1998

This study was performed to determine the kinetic friction coefficient bulk density, dynamic and static angle of repose, and terminal velocity of the chopped rice straw in the moisture range of 8~23%, which could be used for better design and operation of the processing machinery and handling facilities. Friction coefficient was determined from the horizontal traction force measured by pulling the container holding the mass of rice straw on the various plate materials. Bulk density was measured with an apparatus consisting of a filling funnel and a receiving vessel. Dynamic angle of repose was calculated from the photos of bulk samples piled by gravity flow on a circular platform. Static angle of repose was determined by measuring the side angle of the bulk material which was left in the cylindrical container after natural discharge of the bulk sample through a circular hole in the bottom plate. Kinetic friction coefficients of rice straw on the PVC, mild steel, stainless steel, and galvanized steel were in the range of 0.303~0.434, 0.222~0.439, 0.204~0.448, and 0.206~0.407, respectively. and indicated linear increase with moisture content. The effects of moisture change on the friction coefficients were in the order of PVC, mild steel, galvanized steel, and stainless steel. Bulk density, dynamic and static angle of repose, and terminal velocity were in the range of 56.8~60.3 kg/m$^3$, 41.4~45.9$^{\circ}$, 94.4~100.8$^{\circ}$, and 1.07~4.48 m/s, respectively, and were increased linearly with the moisture content.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.427-430
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• 2008

Serious controls and cares using ID numbers and barcode needed throughly to have appropriate management in clinical tissues and nucleic acids inventories because these samples are the most essential and important materials in the experimental research laboratories. While almost all of the laboratories using and handling DNA samples as starting materials in their research, problems such as mixing up of two or more different samples together, contamination with other samples, and/or mistakes can occur, especially when it comes with large number of samples. These problems are rather frequent even though researchers pay more attentions to be far away from these obstacles. It has been such a long time since PCR became useful as an important and essential biological research tool among lots of bio-scientific research methods. In this research, we tried to set up a simple and cost-effective genotyping method using PCR and agarose gels, instead of expensive automated machines, for identification and discrimination among those DNA samples, as a kind of low level quality control and sample inventory management.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.14-20
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• 2011

다양한 원인과 우연에 의해 발생하는 화재에 관하여, 화재조사관이 현장의 증거물, 화재패턴으로부터 화재원인을 밝혀내기란 쉽지 않다. 본 연구는 다양한 화재 원인 중의 하나인 유류화재와 관련된 화재증거물에서 잔존물을 추출하여 분석하는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 ASTM E 1618에 근거한 유류화재 증거물 속에 잔존유류를 분석하는 기술(다양한 전처리법을 통한 가스크로마토그래프/매스스펙트로미터 분석)을 이용하여 시중에서 유통되는 유류를 먼저 분석한 후, 유류화재 실험을 통한 증거물을 채집하여 분석을 수행하였다. 화재 후 채집 시간, 전처리 방법에 따라 토탈이온크로마토그램의 패턴이 달라지는 것을 관찰하였다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.468-473
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• 2019

This study focused on manufacturing an inorganic insulation material set with various amounts of calcium-sulfoaluminate (CSA) (hauyne) content for enhancing both workability (demolding, handling) and the high thermal insulating property. To carry out the experiment, the amounts of CSA utilized were 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%, with anhydrous gypsum added in equal proportion to produce a stable formation. As the content of CSA increased, a sinking phenomenon occurred because of the hydration reaction from the slurry, so it was difficult to utilize a retarder normally used in the cement manufacturing process. However, an RCOOM surfactant was able to solve the local clumping problem from cement and CSA and obtain a rapid retarding effect, so it was included in this process at 0.3%. Furthermore, the cement fineness was not 7000 ㎠/g but rather 3300 ~ 4000 ㎠/g to prevent a rapid temperature increase in the slurry. The specific gravity of the sample manufactured with 20% CSA was approximately 0.11 g/㎤, and its thermal conductivity was 0.041 W/m·K, providing an excellent insulating property.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제8B권6호
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• pp.601-608
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• 2001

The automated assignment of multiple tasks to executing agents is a key problem in the area of multi-agent systems. In many domains, significant savings can be achieved by reallocating tasks among agents with different costs for handling tasks. The automation of task reallocation among self-interested agents requires that the individual agents use a common negotiation protocol that prescribes how they have to interact in order to come to an agreement on "who does what". In this paper, we introduce the multi-agent Traveling Salesman Problem(TSP) as an example of task reallocation problem, and suggest the Vickery auction as an interagent negotiation protocol for solving this problem. In general, auction-based protocols show several advantageous features: they are easily implementable, they enforce an efficient assignment process, and they guarantce an agreement even in scenarios in which the agents possess only very little domain-specific Knowledge. Furthermore Vickrey auctions have the additional advantage that each interested agent bids only once and that the dominant strategy is to bid one′s true valuation. In order to apply this market-based protocol into task reallocation among self-interested agents, we define the profit of each agent, the goal of negotiation, tasks to be traded out through auctions, the bidding strategy, and the sequence of auctions. Through several experiments with sample multi-agent TSPs, we show that the task allocation can improve monotonically at each step and then finally an optimal task allocation can be found with this protocol.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.131-151
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• 2011

The electrical conductivity of a soil-water system is related to its engineering properties. By measuring the soil electrical conductivity, one may obtain quantitative, semi-quantitative, or qualitative information to estimate the in-situ soil behavior for site characterization. This paper presents the results of electrical conductivity measured on compacted kaolin clay samples using a circular two-electrode cell in conjunction with a specially designed compaction apparatus, which has the advantage of reducing errors due to sample handling and increasing measurement accuracy. The experimental results are analyzed to observe the effects of various parameters on soil electrical conductivity, i.e. porosity, unit weight, water content and pore water salinity. The performance of existing analytical models for predicting the electrical conductivity of saturated and unsaturated soils is evaluated by calculating empirical constants in these models. It is found that the Rhoades model gives the best fit for the kaolin clay investigated. Two general relationships between the formation factor and soil porosity are established based on the experimental data reported in the literature and measured from this study for saturated soils, which may provide insight for understanding electrical conduction characteristics of soils over a wide range of porosity.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.351-356
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• 2014

최근 들어 검체 관리의 부실 및 병리 정보의 불일치 등으로 의료사고가 증가하고 있다. 또한, 향후 불치병 치료와 신약 개발의 결과 검증을 위해 많은 병기 조직의 수요가 예측되며, 환자의 병력, 투약 정보, 검사결과에 따른 맞춤형 의료용 병기 관리가 필요한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 RFID를 기반하여 U-Healthcare 환경을 지원할 수 있는 바이오 병리조직 통합 프린팅 시스템을 제안하였다. 바이오 병리조직의 검사, 관리 시스템 지원을 통해 효율적 업무와 비용 절감 기대되며, 무엇보다도 의료사고를 원천적으로 방지할 수 있는 시스템으로 활용될 것이다.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.601-608
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• 2015

미국의 Jeopardy! 퀴즈쇼와 같은 DeepQA 환경에서 인간을 대신해 컴퓨터가 효과적으로 답하기 위해서는, 광범위한 지식 베이스와 빠른 시공간 추론 능력이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 방향 및 위상 관계 추론을 위한 효율적인 공간 추론 방법 중 하나로, 혼합 공간 추론 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘은 전향 추론과 후향 추론을 결합한 혼합 추론 방식을 취함으로써, 불필요한 추론 계산을 줄여 질의 처리 속도도 향상될 뿐 아니라 공간 지식 베이스의 변화에 효과적인 대처가 가능하도록 설계하였다. 본 연구에서는 이 알고리즘을 기반으로 구현한 혼합 공간 추론기와 샘플 공간 지식베이스를 이용하여 성능 분석 실험들을 수행하였고, 이를 통해 본 논문에서 제안한 혼합 공간 추론 알고리즘의 높은 성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.848-849
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• 2007

This paper presents an efficient approach for solving the economic dispatch (ED) problems with valve-point effects using differential evolution (DE). A DE, one of the evolutionary algorithms (EAs), is a novel optimization method capable of handling nonlinear, non-differentiable, and nonconvex functions. And an efficient constraints treatment method (CTM) is applied to handle the equality and inequality constraints. The resultant DE-CTM algorithm is very effective in solving the ED problems with nonconvex cost functions. To verify the superiority of the proposed method, a sample ED problem with valve-point effects is tested and its results are compared with those of previous works. The simulation results clearly show that the proposed DE-CTM algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms in solving ED problems with valve-point effects

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.169-187
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• 2019

This work presents a practical detailed finite element (FE) approach for the three-dimensional (3D) free-vibration analysis of actual aircraft and spacecraft-type lightweight and thin honeycomb sandwich panels. It consists of calling successively in $MATLAB^{(R)}$, via a developed user-friendly GUI, a detailed 3D meshing tool, a macrocommands language translator and a commercial FE solver($ABAQUS^{(R)}$ or $ANSYS^{(R)}$). In contrary to the common practice of meshing finely the faces and core cells, the proposed meshing tool represents each wall of the actual hexagonal core cells as a single two-dimensional (2D) 4 nodes quadrangularshell element or two 3 nodes triangular ones, while the faces meshes are obtained simply using the nodes at the core-faces interfaces. Moreover, as the same 2D FE interpolation type is used for meshing the core and faces, this leads to an automatic handling of their required FE compatibility relations. This proposed approach is applied to a sample made of very thin glass fiber reinforced polymer woven composite faces and a thin aluminum alloy hexagonal honeycomb core. The unknown or incomplete geometric and materials properties are first collected through direct measurements, reverse engineering techniques and experimental-FE modal analysis-based inverse identification. Then, the free-vibrations of the actual honeycomb sandwich panel are analyzed experimentally under different boundary conditions and numerically using different mesh basic cell shapes. It is found that this approach is accurate for the first few modes used for pre-design purpose.