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Rapid Detection of Ammonia-oxidizing Bacteria in Activated Sludge Based on 16S-rRNA Gene by Using PCR and Fluorometry

  • Hikuma, Motohiko;Nakajima, Masanori;Hirai, Toshiaki;Matsuoka, Hiroshi
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.323-326
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    • 2002
  • To detect whole ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the activated sludge, group-specific primers targeting the 16S-rRNA gene of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria were used. The electrophoresis pattern of the PCR products seemed to produce a single band of approximately 1.0 k bp for the bacteria in activated sludge and Nitrosomonas europaea. No band was observed for nitrite-oxidizer Nitrobacter winogradskyi and heterotrophs such as Pseudomonas putida. Then direct measurement of the PCR product was made by fluorometry using the reagent Hoechist 33258, so that the fluorescent intensity was in proportional to the cell number of the sample up to 240. Total time required for the test was about 4 h including DNA extraction. The DNA fragments produced were cloned and their sequences showed high similarity to those of Nitrosomonas spp. This study showed the feasibility to detect ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and to esti-mate their population rapidly for the control of the nitrogen elimination process.

Implementation of Wearable Heart Activity Monitoring System having Modified Bipolar Electrode and Correlation Analysis with Clinical Electrocardiograph(ECG) (수정된 바이폴라 전극을 갖는 착용형 심장활동 모니터링 시스템 구현 및 임상 심전도와의 상관관계 분석)

  • Lee, Kang-Hwi;Lee, Jeong-Whan;Lee, Young-Jae;Kim, Kyeong-Seop;Yang, Heui-Koung;Shin, Kun-Su;Lee, Myoung-Ho
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.57 no.6
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    • pp.1102-1108
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    • 2008
  • Wearable physiological signal monitoring systems are regarded as an important sensing unit platforms in ubiquitous/mobile healthcare application. In this paper, we suggested the modified bipolar electrodes implemented on the portable heart activity monitoring system, which minimized the distance of electrodes formed on a attachable pad. The proposed electrode configuration is useful in mobile measurement environments, but has a disadvantage of reduced amplitude of the heart action potential. In order to overcome the shortcoming of the suggested electrode configuration, we implemented the amplifying circuit to increase the signal-gain and decrease the artifacts. For evaluations, we analyzed the specificity of measured cardiography using the proposed electrodes through the comparing of heart activity monitoring system with standard clinical ECG(lead2) by pearson correlation coefficients. The result showed that the average correlation coefficient is $0.903{\pm}0.036,\;0.873{\pm}0.072$ at V3, V4 chest lead position, respectively. Thus, the modified bipolar electrode is quite suitable to monitor the electrical activity of the heart in the situation of the mobile environment, and could be considered having high similarity with standard clinical ECG.

Active noise control algorithm based on noise frequency estimation (소음 주파수 추정 기법을 이용한 능동소음제어 알고리즘)

  • 김선민;박영진
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.321-324
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    • 1997
  • In this paper, Active Noise Control(ANC) algorithm is proposed based on the estimated frequency estimator of the reference signal. The conventional feedforward ANC algorithms should measure the reference and use it to calculate the gradient of the squared error and filter coefficients. For ANC systems applied to aircrafts and passenger ships, engines from which reference signal is usually measured is so far from seats where main part of controller is placed that the scheme might be difficult to implement or very costly. Feedback ANC algorithm which doesn't need to measure the reference uses the error signal to update the filter and is sensitive to unexpected transient noise like a sneeze, clapping of hands and so on The proposed algorithm estimates frequencies of the desired signal in real time using adaptive notch filter. New frequency estimation algorithm is proposed with the improved convergence rate, threshold SNR and computational simplicity. Reference is not measured but created with the estimated frequencies. It has strong similarity to the conventional feedback control because reference is made from error signal. Enhanced error signal is used to update the controller for better performance under the measurement noise and impact noise. The proposed ANC algorithm is compared with the conventional feedback control.

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Thrust Estimation Acting on Rotor of LOX Pump for Liquid Rocket Engine (액체로켓엔진용 산화제펌프 회전체의 하중 예측)

  • Kim, Dae-Jin;Choi, Chang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.98-104
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    • 2015
  • Excessive thrust acting on the rotor of pump can cause the damage of pump or the decrease of pump lifetime. Therefore, for ensuring the safety of LOX pump of a liquid rocket engine, the thrust of pump rotor is estimated by similarity tests. Axial thrust is indirectly measured by an axial thrust measurement unit positioned outside pump. Radial thrust is calculated based on pressure distribution of volute scroll. As a result, axial and radial thrust are increased when the flowrate of pump decreases. However, both thrusts do not affect the stability of pump rotor since their values are not large.

Detectability Measurement of GPR for Buried Target in Self-Designed Test Field (자체 제작한 시험장에서의 GPR의 매설물 검출능력에 관한 측정)

  • Son, Soo-Jung;Shin, Byoung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.322-328
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we were investigated the detectability on various specimen in self-designed test field using the GPR system with three antenna elements. The GPR system was constantly radiated 730MHz frequency. To examine the detectability on various condition, the test were experimented using different materials, size and buried depth. As an adjusted wave-propagation velocity, the location of hyperbolic curve pattern were displayed B-scan CRT. And the pattern was exactly positioned when it was compared to the real buried-depth. Therefore, we can confirm similarity between the wave-propagation velocity and previous results.

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A Method for User Sentiment Classification using Instagram Hashtags (인스타그램 해시태그를 이용한 사용자 감정 분류 방법)

  • Nam, Minji;Lee, EunJi;Shin, Juhyun
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1391-1399
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    • 2015
  • In recent times, studies sentiment analysis are being actively conducted by implementing natural language processing technologies for analyzing subjective data such as opinions and attitudes of users expressed on the Web, blogs, and social networking services (SNSs). Conventionally, to classify the sentiments in texts, most studies determine positive/negative/neutral sentiments by assigning polarity values for sentiment vocabulary using sentiment lexicons. However, in this study, sentiments are classified based on Thayer's model, which is psychologically defined, unlike the polarity classification used in opinion mining. In this paper, as a method for classifying the sentiments, sentiment categories are proposed by extracting sentiment keywords for major sentiments by using hashtags, which are essential elements of Instagram. By applying sentiment categories to user posts, sentiments can be determined through the similarity measurement between the sentiment adjective candidates and the sentiment keywords. The test results of the proposed method show that the average accuracy rate for all the sentiment categories was 90.7%, which indicates good performance. If a sentiment classification system with a large capacity is prepared using the proposed method, then it is expected that sentiment analysis in various fields will be possible, such as for determining social phenomena through SNS.

Study of Real Somatotype and Perceived Body Classified by Body Index of College Women (여대생(女大生)들의 지수치(指數値)에 의한 체형(體型) 집단(集團)별 실제체형(實際體型)과 신체인식(身體認識)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Lee, Jung-Soon
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.100-109
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this research is to study the recognition of real somatotype and body of college women. The study was carried out by classifying somatotypes into three categories based on the body index; slim, normal, and obese somatotype. The subject of this study was 106 college women, and real measurement and survey were used. Data was analyzed by SPSS 12.0 and cross tabulation analysis, t-test, Anova, and correlation analysis were operated. The result is as follows. 1. The height of the subjects was 163.5cm, weight was 53.3kg, Rohrer index was 1.2, BMI was 19.9, Vervaeck index was 84.4 and the classification based on the body index belonged to the normal group. 2. The characteristics of groups divided by the body index are that slimmer groups is longer in length factor and smaller in the factors related with volume than other groups. The characteristics of groups classified by self-consciousness shows significant difference in all girth factors, back intersyce breadth, front intersyce breadth, neck to nipple length, and nipple to nipple breadth. 3. Conscious about the somatotype with using body index generally shows similarity. In the length factor including height, slim somatotype group is perceived as longer than normal somatotype group, and in the girth factor including weight, normal somatotype group is recognized as bigger and thicker than others.

Dancing with Partners at SKT: RMM Model with SKT case (SKT 에서 파트너와 함께 춤을 : RMM 모형과 SKT 사례 적용)

  • Gwon, Tae-Hyeong;Bang, Seok-Beom;Lee, Gang-Eop;Choe, Jae-Ung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.3-16
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    • 2006
  • In the age where the Internet changes everything, even the earth has become flat. The boarders between nations, locations, times, and industries are not maningful, and no single company can do the whole process well. Therefore, various types of 'Value network' and 'Relation web' emerge for moving first and fast learning. Bort the relationship maturity model (RMM) proposed and the partnership management initiatives at SKT demonstrate that the concept is important, and that the final goal can be reached only through a series of critical outcome at each phase. In particular, recognizing as core infrastructures various online/offline channels, deep trust, and rich communications is an important finding for a successful relationship management. Also, related literatures suggest the following key factors to be influential in more that two phases: professionalism including expertise, similarity, channel capacity. Based on these findings, future efforts need to be put on the research & development of related measurement and management tools. We do hope more people dance with their partners through these efforts.

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Self-Similarity Characteristic in Data traffic (데이터 트래픽에서의 Self-Similar 특성)

  • 김창호;황인수;최삼길;김동일;이동철;박기식
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.146-151
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    • 1999
  • The classical queuing analysis has been tremendously useful in doing capacity planning and performance prediction. However, in many real-world cases. it has found that the predicted results form a queuing analysis differ substantially from the actual observed performance. Specially, in recent years, a number of studies have demonstrated that for some environments, the traffic pattern is self-similar rather than Poisson. In this paper, we study these self-similar traffic characteristics and the definition of self-similar stochastic processes. Then, we consider the examples of self-similar data traffic, which is reported from recent measurement studies. Finally, we wish you that it makes out about the characteristics of actual data traffic more easily.

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Analyzing Performance of MPEG-7 Video Signature for Video Copy Detection (동영상 복사본 검출을 위한 MPEG-7 Video Signature 성능분석)

  • Yu, Jeongsoo;Ryu, Jaesug;Nang, Jongho
    • KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.586-591
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    • 2014
  • In recent years, we can access to video contents anywhere and at any time. Therefore distributed video is easily copied, transformed and republished. Since it brings copyright problem, similarity/duplicate detection and measurement is essential to identify the excessive content duplication. In this paper, we analysed various discernment of video which has been transformed with various ways using MPEG-7 Video Signature. MPEG-7 Video Signature, one of video copy detection algorithms, is block based abstraction. Thus we assume Video Signature is weak for spatial transform. The experiments show that MPEG-7 Video Signature is very weak for spatial transform which could occur general as we have assumed.