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Observation of the Cold-air Drainage and Thermal Belt Formation in a Small Mountainous Watershed by Using an Infrared Imaging Radiometer (적외선 영상 복사계를 이용한 산간집수역의 찬공기 배수와 온난대 형성 관측)

  • Yun, Jin-I.
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 2011
  • Cold-air drainage and pooling occur in most mountain valleys at night. Local climates with cold-air pooling could affect phenology and distribution of crop plants. A high resolution infrared imaging radiometer was used to visualize the cold-air drainage and thermal belt formation over a small mountainous watershed (ca. $10{\times}5{\times}1$ km for the maximum length${\times}$width${\times}$depth). Thermal images on $640{\times}480$ pixels were scanned across the Akyang valley (south of Mt. Jiri National Park) by the radiometer installed at a local peak ('Hyongjebong', 1,117 m a.s.l.) at dawn of 17 May 2011, when the synoptic condition was favorable for the surface cooling and cold-air drainage. Major findings are: (1) Cold-air drainage and accumulation was clearly identified by the lowest brightness temperature mainly at the valley bottom. (2) So-called 'thermal belt' with higher brightness temperature was found partway up the valley sidewalls and showed up to $5^{\circ}C$ departure from the valley bottom temperature. (3) Digital thermography showed feasibility for validation of the high definition geospatial temperature models currently in use for the plot-specific agrometeorological service.

Virtual Campus Development using 3D GIS (3D GIS를 활용한 가상 캠퍼스 구현)

  • KSong, Sang-Hun;Jeong, Jong-Pil
    • KSCI Review
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.147-152
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    • 2006
  • Data size of moving current GIS great exponentially from 2D to 3D and the processing speed becomes slow thereby and user's real time rendering request is growing. Have problem that time and expense to process data of bulky quantity produce constraint condition of the processing speed. third dimension processing skill, virtual reality processing skill etc. and third dimension GIS about space data of bulk much overmuch to materialize. In this paper DEM data that acquire from satellite or aviation solve these problem embody virtual city in web save topography information that visualization to 3D visualization by VRML, and use modelling tool and acquire 3D campus information for building and road. 3D information acquired this to express texture and natural gifts that have truth stuff more to thing through near texture mapping work 3D imagination illustration of web based embody can.

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Materials Chemical Point of View for Durability Issues in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

  • Yokokawa, Harumi;Horita, Teruhisa;Yamaji, Katsuhiko;Kishimoto, Haruo;Brito, M.E.
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.26-38
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    • 2010
  • Degradation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell performance can be ascribed to the following fundamental processes from the materials chemical point of view; that is, diffusion in solids and reaction with gaseous impurities. For SOFC materials, diffusion in solids is usually slow in operation temperatures $800\sim1000^{\circ}C$. Even at $800^{\circ}C$, however, a few processes are rapid enough to lead to some degradations; namely, Sr diffusion in doped ceria, cation diffusion in cathode materials, diffusion related with metal corrosion, and sintering of nickel anodes. For gaseous impurities, chromium containing vapors are important to know how the chemical stability of cathode materials is related with degradation of performance. For LSM as the most stable cathode among the perovskite-type cathodes, electrochemical reduction reaction of $CrO_3$(g) at the electrochemically active sites is crucial, whereas the rest of the cathodes have the $SrCrO_4$ formation at the point where cathodes meet with the gases, leading to rather complicated processes to the degradations, depending on the amount and distribution of reacted Cr component. These features can be easily generalized to other impurities in air or to the reaction of nickel anodes with gaseous impurities in anode atmosphere.

Angular Leaf Spot of Strawberry Caused by Xanthomonas fragariae (Xanthomonas fragariae에 의한 딸기 세균성모무늬병)

  • Kwon, Jin-Hyeuk;Yoon, Hae-Suk;Kim, Jeong-Soon;Shim, Chang-Ki;Nam, Myeong-Hyeon
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.97-100
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    • 2010
  • Angular leaf spot of strawberry caused by Xanthomonas fragariae occurred sporadically in the farmers open field at Sugok-myon, Jinju city, and greenhouse at Okjong-myon, Hadong-gun, Gyeongnam province, Korea. Typical symptoms of angular leaf spot initially appeared as a minute, water-soaked, rotted lesion on the lower leaf surface and the minute spots expanded to form angular leaf spots, usually delimited by small veins. The lesion was translucent under the transmitted light and dark green under reflected light. The slow growing pathogen was a gram-negative, motile bacterium with single polar flagellum, and producing yellowish orange pigment on YDC medium. It showed very strong pathogenicity on the leaves of strawberry. On the basis of biological characteristics and pathogenicity test on host plants, the bacteria was identified as a Xanthomonas fragariae. This is the first report on angular leaf spot of strawberry caused by X. fragariae in Korea.

A Study on the Volatilization of Ammonia from Flooded Soils Mixed with Rice Straw and Liming Materials (담수토양(湛水土壤)에서 볏짚과 석회물질(石灰物質) 시용(施用)이 암모니아 휘산(揮散)에 미치는 영향(影響))

  • Oh, Wang-Keun;Hwang, Kwang-Nam;Lee, Myong-Gu
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.166-171
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    • 1982
  • A laboratiory experiment incubated at about $30^{\circ}C$ for 34 days was conducted in order to learn the effect of liming materials and rice straw on the volatilization of ammonia from flooded soils applied with urea. 1. The application of calcium hydroxide and calcium silicate increased buffer action of flood soil, though it resulted in increase in the volatilization of ammonia through raising flooded soil pH containing bicarbonate. 2. The mixing of rice straw powder to soil lowered pH of flooded soil, and decreased the volatilization of ammonia. The effect was particulary large when noliming material was used. 3. Calcium hydroxide depressed the evolution of $CO_2$ in the early days of incubation after flooding, while calcium silicate promoted the ammonification of soil nitrogen from the begining of flooding giving slow change in soil chemical properties. The rice straw was also effective in providing a favorable soil condition for the ammonification rather quickly.

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Drying by Microwave Irradiation of Sewage Waste (도시 하수 폐기물의 고주파 건조)

  • Park, Soo In;Park, Kwang Ha
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.418-426
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    • 1997
  • Dewatered digested sewage sludge were heated with microwave and their drying characteristics were investigated on the effect of their surface area, shape, diameter and thickness. The drying characteristics of identical samples in a conventional drying oven were studied. In conventional drying, constant rate period was not found and moisture was evaporated with capillary action. Moisture in the sludge was a bound water and free water was not exist. In microwave drying, the falling rate period was divided into two zones. In falling rate drying period, moisture movement occured by diffusion. The evaporation surface area was a significant variable, the greater heating surface area promoted water removal rate over wide region of water content. Drying rate was slow and constant rate drying period was found in wide moisture content region with increasing diameter. Drying characteristics appeared differently in various shape. In microwave heating, first of all temperature of sludge center was increased and was the highest. Temperature in the constant rate drying period was remained constantly at $80{\sim}100^{\circ}C$.

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Review on the Improvement Works of Ecological Stream in Rural Areal - A Focused on Sijeon-ri Dogo-myeon Asan City - (농촌지역 하천정비공사 실태와 제언 -아산시 도고면 시전리를 대상으로-)

  • Nam, Yun-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2015
  • 10 years ago, in Sijeon-ri, Dogo-myeon, Asan-si, the existing stream was repaired to develope Mt. Dogo trail and irrigation systems through road expansion pavement construction and small stream repair construction. The trees such as persimmon and willow are eliminated that rowed on both sides of the stream and dredging work to dig the rock and sand have been performed. As a result, wide asphalt road was built, also flood damage worries were reduced. 10 years passed and now, how did local residents think about the stream repaired before and after? Village residents, public officials, and the stream construction engineer were interviewed. Villagers indicated a problems that brook became a place where water peppers were taking over and water was stagnating due to the slow velocity so nothing could live and natural landscape like a wash place and the cascade disappeared, because rock and sand were taken out brought soil into the brook. Public officials and engineers were aware of the problems at the time of the stream. Now that construction is completed after 10 years, Both realistically and budgetary to restoration would be difficult. However, it is necessary to seek for waterfront space which can be restored or replaced by a part of the stream like similarly before. In addition, it is necessary to restore to the progression of a natural stream which connect with stairs(or slope) - small waterfalls - pools - wash place. In this paper, we hope to take a lesson from the Sijeon-ri model and make rural stream construction be prepared with consideration about not only distinct characteristics of specific area but also the opinion of local resident.

Qualitative Analysis and Plasma Characteristics of Soil from a Desert Area using LIBS Technique

  • Farooq, W. Aslam;Tawfik, Walid;Al-Mutairi, Fahad N.;Alahmed, Zeyad A.
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.548-558
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    • 2013
  • In this work, laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is used to investigate soil samples collected from different desert areas of Riyadh city in Saudi Arabia. Both qualitative analysis and plasma parameters are studied via the observed LIBS spectra. These experiments have been done using a Spectrolaser-7000 system with 50 mJ fundamental wavelength of Nd:YAG laser and detection delay time of 1 microsecond. Many spectral lines are highly resolved for many elements like Al, Fe, Mg, Si, Mn, Na, Ca and K. The electron temperatures Te and electron densities Ne, for the constituent of generated LIBS plasma, are determined for all the collected samples. It is found that both Te and Ne vary from one desert area to other. This variation is due to the change of the elemental concentration in different desert areas that affects the sample's matrices. Time dependent measurements have also been performed on the soil samples. While the signal-to-base ratio (SBR) reached its optimal value at 1 microsecond, the plasma parameters Ne and Te reach values of $4{\times}10^{17}cm^{-3}$ and 9235 K, respectively, at 2.5 microsecond. The later indicate that the plasma cooling processes are slow in comparison to the previously observed results for metallic samples. The observed results show also that in the future it is possible to enhance the exploitation of LIBS in the remote on-line environmental monitoring application, by following up only the values of Ne and Te for one element of the soil desert sample using an optical fiber probe.

Reinforced concrete structures with damped seismic buckling-restrained bracing optimization using multi-objective evolutionary niching ChOA

  • Shouhua Liu;Jianfeng Li;Hamidreza Aghajanirefah;Mohammad Khishe;Abbas Khishe;Arsalan Mahmoodzadeh;Banar Fareed Ibrahim
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.147-165
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    • 2023
  • The paper contrasts conventional seismic design with a design that incorporates buckling-restrained bracing in three-dimensional reinforced concrete buildings (BRBs). The suboptimal structures may be found using the multi-objective chimp optimization algorithm (MEN-ChOA). Given the constraints and dimensions, ChOA suffers from a slow convergence rate and tends to become stuck in local minima. Therefore, the ChOA is improved by niching and evolutionary operators to overcome the aforementioned problems. In addition, a new technique is presented to compute seismic and dead loads that include all of a structure's parts in an algorithm for three-dimensional frame design rather than only using structural elements. The performance of the constructed multi-objective model is evaluated using 12 standard multi-objective benchmarks proposed in IEEE congress on evolutionary computation. Second, MEN-ChOA is employed in constructing several reinforced concrete structures by the Mexico City building code. The variety of Pareto optimum fronts of these criteria enables a thorough performance examination of the MEN-ChOA. The results also reveal that BRB frames with comparable structural performance to conventional moment-resistant reinforced concrete framed buildings are more cost-effective when reinforced concrete building height rises. Structural performance and building cost may improve by using a nature-inspired strategy based on MEN-ChOA in structural design work.

Position Statements of the Emerging Trends Committee of the Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology on the Adoption and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence for Radiology

  • Nicole Kessa Wee;Kim-Ann Git;Wen-Jeng Lee;Gaurang Raval;Aziz Pattokhov;Evelyn Lai Ming Ho;Chamaree Chuapetcharasopon;Noriyuki Tomiyama;Kwan Hoong Ng;Cher Heng Tan
    • Korean Journal of Radiology
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.603-612
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    • 2024
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining recognition in the radiology domain as a greater number of radiologists are becoming AI-literate. However, the adoption and implementation of AI solutions in clinical settings have been slow, with points of contention. A group of AI users comprising mainly clinical radiologists across various Asian countries, including India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Uzbekistan, formed the working group. This study aimed to draft position statements regarding the application and clinical deployment of AI in radiology. The primary aim is to raise awareness among the general public, promote professional interest and discussion, clarify ethical considerations when implementing AI technology, and engage the radiology profession in the ever-changing clinical practice. These position statements highlight pertinent issues that need to be addressed between care providers and care recipients. More importantly, this will help legalize the use of non-human instruments in clinical deployment without compromising ethical considerations, decision-making precision, and clinical professional standards. We base our study on four main principles of medical care-respect for patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.