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Calculation of Radiation Impedance for Rectangular Piston Vibrators with Finite Baffle (유한배플의 영향을 고려한 정방형 진동면의 방사임피던스계산)

  • 김무준;김천덕;하강열
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.3-6
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    • 2000
  • Because the generally reported radiation impedance has been calculated for vibrating surface with infinite baffle, the results have difficulties to apply for design of the real transducers with finite baffle. In this paper, with assuming a vibrating surface as a set of small point sources, a new calculation method for the vibrating surface with finite baffle is suggested by considering the effect of finite baffle on the source strength of each point source. As an example, the variation of self-radiation impedance for rectangular vibrating surface is calculated according to the size of baffle. The results show that the suggested method is useful.

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Atmospheric Concentrations of Semivolatile Bifunctional Carbonyl Compounds and the Contribution from Motor Vehicles

  • Ortiz, Ricardo;Shimada, Satoru;Sekiguchi, Kazuhiko;Wang, Qinyue;Sakamoto, Kazuhiko
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.152-160
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    • 2013
  • Seven potentially harmful bifunctional carbonyls were measured in particulate and gaseous phases at a roadside site and a suburban site in an area about 30 km north-northwest from Tokyo metropolitan area in the Kanto region in Japan. For the first time, these compounds were measured in both phases with a time resolution of 2 h. We found that wind direction is an important parameter that affects the collection of these compounds near the source, and it can cover the effects of other important variables. Our results confirmed that motor vehicles and especially diesel fuelled vehicles are important sources of these compounds. Photochemical generation is also an important source of these compounds in the gaseous phase. Transportation from the urban area is also important, particularly in the aerosol phase.

The Characteristics of the Aerosol Number Concentration Observed in Seoul and Anmyondo During an Yellow Sand Phenomenon (황사시 서울과 안면도의 대기 중 에어로졸 수농도 특성)

  • 전영신;김지영;최재천;신도식
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.575-586
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    • 1999
  • The size-resolved number concentrations of aerosols ranging from 0.3 to 25 $mu extrm{m}$ were observed in Seoul and Anmyondo in the west coast of Korea during an Yellow Sand phenomenon in April 1998. Number size distributions of aerosols observed in both places are characterized by decrease in small particles of diameter less than 1${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and increase in large size between 1.35 and 10${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ in heavy dust period. For particles in this size range, there was a good correlation between number concentrations observed in both places during the Yellow Sand episode. On the other hand, the number of small particles less than 0.82${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ decreased, but the correlation between these particles in both places was enhanced during more intense dust period. The number of coarse particle larger than 10 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ showed a distince diurnal variation without a significant change in amplitude, which was more visible in Seoul. It suggests that these coarse particles were more affected by local sources. Form these results, it was range of 1~10${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ originated possibly from the dust source regions and the source signature depended on the degree of dust intensity.

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THE EFFECT OF SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS ON GPS HEIGHT DETERMINATION

  • Huang, Yu-Wen;Wang, Chuan-Sheng;Liou, Yuei-An;Yeh, Ta-Kang
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.748-751
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    • 2006
  • Positioning accuracy by the Global Positioning System (GPS) is of great concern in a variety of research tasks. It is limited due to error sources such as ionospheric effect, orbital uncertainty, antenna phase center variation, signal multipath, and tropospheric influence. In this study, the tropospheric influence, primarily due to water vapour inhomogeneity, on GPS positioning height is investigated. The data collected by the GPS receivers along with co-located surface meteorological instruments in 2003 are utilized. The GPS receivers are established as continuously operating reference stations by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI), Central Weather Bureau (CWB), and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan, and International GNSS Service (IGS). The total number of GPS receivers is 21. The surface meteorological measurements include temperature, pressure, and humidity. They are introduced to GPS data processing with 24 troposphere parameters for the station heights, which are compared with those obtained without a priori knowledge of surface meteorological measurements. The results suggest that surface meteorological measurements have an expected impact on the GPS height. The daily correction maximum with the meteorological effect may be as large as 9.3 mm for the cases of concern.

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Development of Monitoring Site Selection Criteria of the Korean Soil Quality Monitoring Network to Meet its Purposes (토양측정망 운영목적에 따른 토양측정망 지점 선정 방안 연구)

  • Jeong, Seung-Woo
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2013
  • This study developed the classification of National Soil Quality Monitoring Network (NSQM) and its site selection criteria to meet the recently established purposes of the NSQM. The NSQM were suggested by this study to classify into the six-purposes site groups from the current classification of land uses. The six purposes site groups were 1) intensive observation sites, 2) contaminant loading sites, 3) human activity sites, 4) background sites, 5) river soil sites, and 6) sites near the groundwater quality monitoring wells. Furthermore, this study developed the site selection criteria of NSQM utilizing the accumulated NSQM data, road traffic data, chemical emission data, census, soil information, and the literature related to soil quality variation due to contaminant loads. For selecting suitable sites for NSQM, this study used road traffic, chemical emission, the distance from the contaminant sources, and population information as specific criteria. The suggested site classification and criteria were appled for the current 100 NSQM sites for evaluation. Forty sites were met to the criteria suggested by this study, but sixty sites were not met to the criteria. However, some of the sixty sites also included the obscure sites that their addresses were not apparent to find them.

A Geochemical Boundary in the East Sea (Sea of Japan): Implications for the Paleoclimatic Record

  • Han, Sang-Joon;Hyun, Sang-Min;Huh, Sik;Chun, Jong-Hwa
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.167-175
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    • 2002
  • Sediment from six piston cores from the East Sea (Sea of Japan) was analyzed for evidence of paleoceanographic changes and paleoclimatic variation. A distinct geochemical boundary is evident in major element concentrations and organic carbon content of most cores near the 10-ka horizon. This distinctive basal Holocene change is interpreted to be largely the result of changing sediment sources, an interpretation supported by TiO_2/Al_2O_3$ ratios. Organic carbon and carbonate contents also differ significantly between the Holocene and glacial intervals. The C/N ratio of organic matter is greater than 10 during the glacial period, but is less than 10 for the Holocene, suggesting that the influx of terrigenous organic matter was more volumetrically important than marine organic matter during glacial times. The chemical index of weathering (CIW) is higher for the Holocene than the glacial interval, and changes markedly at the basal Holocene geochemical boundary. Silt fractions are higher in the glacial interval, suggesting a strong effect of climate on silt particle transportation: terrigenous aluminosilicates and continental organic carbon transport were higher during glacial times than during the Holocene. Differences in sediment composition between the Holocene and glacial period are interpreted to have been climatically induced.

The electrical properties of Ni/Cr/Si thin film with sputtering process parameters (스퍼터링 조건변화에 따른 Ni/Cr/Si 박막의 전기적 특성)

  • Lee, Boong-Joo;Park, Gu-Bum;Kim, Byung-Soo;Lee, Duck-Chool
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.56-60
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    • 2003
  • In this work, we have fabricated thin film resistors using the DC/RF magnetron sputter of 51wt%Ni-41wt%Cr-8wt%Si alloy target and studied the effect of the process parameters on the electrical properties. In fabrication process, sputtering power, substrate temperature and annealing temperature have been varied as controllable parameters. TCR decreases with increasing the substrate temperature, but TCR increases over 300 [$^{\circ}C$]. The films are annealed to 400 [$^{\circ}C$] in air atmosphere, TCR increases with increasing the annealing temperature. The resistivity was 172 [${\mu}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$] and 209 [${\mu}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$] for the RF and DC as a sputtering power sources, respectively. Also, TCR was -52 [$ppm/^{\circ}C$] and -25 [$ppm/^{\circ}C$]. As a results of them, it is suggested that the sheet resistance and TCR of thin films can be controlled by variation of sputter process parameter and annealing of thin film.

Inner Temperature Distribution by Two Appearances of Series-Cell Configured Battery Pack using Cylindrical Cells (원통형셀 기반 직렬배터리팩의 외형(정사/직사면체) 차이에 의한 내부 열분포 기초해석)

  • Han, Dong-Ho;Lee, Pyeng-Yeon;Park, Jin-Hyeng;Kim, Jonghoon;Yoo, Kisoo;Cho, In-Ho
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.408-414
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    • 2018
  • Given that lithium-ion batteries are expected to be used as power sources for electric and hybrid vehicles, thermodynamics experimentation and prediction based on experimental data were performed. Thermal, electrochemical, and electrochemical/electrical-thermal models were used for accurate battery modeling. Various applications of different battery packs were demonstrated, and thermal analysis was performed using the same experimental conditions for square and rectangular battery packs. Accurate thermal analysis for a single cell should be prioritized to determine the thermal behavior of the battery pack. The energy balance equation, which contains heat generation and heat transfer factors, defines the thermal behavior of the battery pack. By comparing battery packs of different shapes tested under the same condition, this study revealed that the rectangular battery pack is superior to the square battery pack in terms of the maximum temperature of inner cells and temperature variation between cells.

Grid-based Gaussian process models for longitudinal genetic data

  • Chung, Wonil
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.65-83
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    • 2022
  • Although various statistical methods have been developed to map time-dependent genetic factors, most identified genetic variants can explain only a small portion of the estimated genetic variation in longitudinal traits. Gene-gene and gene-time/environment interactions are known to be important putative sources of the missing heritability. However, mapping epistatic gene-gene interactions is extremely difficult due to the very large parameter spaces for models containing such interactions. In this paper, we develop a Gaussian process (GP) based nonparametric Bayesian variable selection method for longitudinal data. It maps multiple genetic markers without restricting to pairwise interactions. Rather than modeling each main and interaction term explicitly, the GP model measures the importance of each marker, regardless of whether it is mostly due to a main effect or some interaction effect(s), via an unspecified function. To improve the flexibility of the GP model, we propose a novel grid-based method for the within-subject dependence structure. The proposed method can accurately approximate complex covariance structures. The dimension of the covariance matrix depends only on the number of fixed grid points although each subject may have different numbers of measurements at different time points. The deviance information criterion (DIC) and the Bayesian predictive information criterion (BPIC) are proposed for selecting an optimal number of grid points. To efficiently draw posterior samples, we combine a hybrid Monte Carlo method with a partially collapsed Gibbs (PCG) sampler. We apply the proposed GP model to a mouse dataset on age-related body weight.

Structural, Optical and Electrical Properties of N-doped ZnO Nanofilms by Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (플라즈마 원자층 증착 방법을 이용한 N-doped ZnO 나노박막의 구조적.광학적.전기적 특성)

  • Kim, Jin-Hwan;Yang, Wan-Youn;Hahn, Yoon-Bong
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.357-360
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    • 2011
  • N-doped ZnO nanofilms were prepared by plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition method. $Zn(C_{2}H_{5})_{2}$, $O_{2}$ and $N_{2}$ were used as Zn, O and N sources, respectively, for N-doped ZnO films under variation of radio frequency (rf) power from 50-300W. Structural, optical and electrical properties of as-grown ZnO films were investigated with Xray diffraction(XRD), photoluminescence(PL) and Hall-effect measurements, respectively. Nitrogen content and p-type conductivity in ZnO nanofilms increased with the rf power.