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Marine Biotechnology: from Molecules to Aquaculture and Biomedicine

  • Chen, Thomas T.;Chun, Chang Zoon;Chiou, Peter;Chen, Maria J.
    • Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2006
  • Marine biotechnology encompasses biotechnology in areas such as marine microbiology, biomedical important marine natural products, organisms in extreme environments, and aquaculture. Marine biotechnology, today, poised to flourish more than ever from the confluences that are occurring in fundamental research in modern biology and other areas of science. Using research results from our laboratory and those from others, we will review the current advances of marine biotechnology in this lecture.

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A Grid-connected to Rotor Type Doubly Fed Induction Generator for Wind Turbine Systems (풍력발전 시스템용 회전자 계통연계형 이중여자 권선형 유도발전기)

  • You, Yong-Min;Lipo, Thomas Anthony;Kwon, Byung-Il
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2011.07a
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    • pp.800-801
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    • 2011
  • This paper proposes a grid-connected to rotor type doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) in which the rotor winding is connected to the grid instead of the stator winding. The stator size and weight of the proposed grid-connected to rotor type DFIG can be reduced because the proposed type can use rotor core more efficiently compared to the stator type DFIG. In order to verify the size and weight reduction of the proposed type, the loading distribution method (LDM) is utilized. As a design result, the stator outer diameter and weight of the proposed type were decreased. The equivalent circuit analysis and finite element method also performed to verify the design results and to analyze characteristics of the novel DFIG.

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Text Classification for Patents: Experiments with Unigrams, Bigrams and Different Weighting Methods

  • Im, ChanJong;Kim, DoWan;Mandl, Thomas
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.66-74
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    • 2017
  • Patent classification is becoming more critical as patent filings have been increasing over the years. Despite comprehensive studies in the area, there remain several issues in classifying patents on IPC hierarchical levels. Not only structural complexity but also shortage of patents in the lower level of the hierarchy causes the decline in classification performance. Therefore, we propose a new method of classification based on different criteria that are categories defined by the domain's experts mentioned in trend analysis reports, i.e. Patent Landscape Report (PLR). Several experiments were conducted with the purpose of identifying type of features and weighting methods that lead to the best classification performance using Support Vector Machine (SVM). Two types of features (noun and noun phrases) and five different weighting schemes (TF-idf, TF-rf, TF-icf, TF-icf-based, and TF-idcef-based) were experimented on.

A q-QUEENS PROBLEM V. SOME OF OUR FAVORITE PIECES: QUEENS, BISHOPS, ROOKS, AND NIGHTRIDERS

  • Chaiken, Seth;Hanusa, Christopher R.H.;Zaslavsky, Thomas
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.57 no.6
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    • pp.1407-1433
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    • 2020
  • Parts I-IV showed that the number of ways to place q nonattacking queens or similar chess pieces on an n × n chessboard is a quasipolynomial function of n whose coefficients are essentially polynomials in q. For partial queens, which have a subset of the queen's moves, we proved complete formulas for these counting quasipolynomials for small numbers of pieces and other formulas for high-order coefficients of the general counting quasipolynomials. We found some upper and lower bounds for the periods of those quasipolynomials by calculating explicit denominators of vertices of the inside-out polytope. Here we discover more about the counting quasipolynomials for partial queens, both familiar and strange, and the nightrider and its subpieces, and we compare our results to the empirical formulas found by Kotššovec. We prove some of Kotššovec's formulas and conjectures about the quasipolynomials and their high-order coefficients, and in some instances go beyond them.

Systematic Review of Sustainable Knowledge Transfer Process in Government-Industry-Academia Consortium

  • Faisal, Rouhi;Chong, Aik Lee;Yee, Angelina Seow Voon
    • Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.295-312
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this case study is to understand the sustainability practices of knowledge transfer process at the Malaysian government-industry-academia consortium. At this stage in the research, the R&D consortium is defined as an established entity by two or more organizations that pool resources and shared decision making for cooperative research and development activities. In attempts to understand the formation, outcomes and sustainability of the sustainable knowledge transfer process, this paper conducted a systematic literature review based on Gough, Oliver and Thomas systematic reviews protocol. From the review, the data were enriched and enhanced with a better understanding of sustainable knowledge transfer process. The systematic review resulted in identifying six factors including internal and external perspectives. However, key sustainability factors are not only directly influencing KTP, and the consortium, but are also mediated by other organisational variables.

Structure, Origin, Development and Senescence of Collecters in Nerium indicum Mill. (N. odorum Soland., Apocynaceae)

  • Thomas, Vinoth;Dave, Yash
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.163-172
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    • 1989
  • Nerium indicum has adaxial colleters on each petiole, bract, bracteole, calyx and corolla. The colleters are finger-shaped sometimes lobed structures with tall heads on short stalks. The petiolar colleters are more abundant than those on the bract, bracteole, calyx and corolla but their structure is similar. Meristematic activity in a small group of protodermal and hypodermal cells at the base of the developing leaf gives rise to the colleter that further differentiates by frequent anticlinal and periclinal divisions. Many of the colleters are vascullarized, sometimes a layer of redially elongated cells is present beneath the epithelial cells. Senescence of a colleter begins when the leaves have either completed their growth or are still expanding. In senescent colleters, the central cell cytoplasm and nuclei are considerably reduced. Thin layer chromatography of the freshly harvested exudate of colleter shows the presence of rhamnose, glucose and arabinose sugars.

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One-dimensional consolidation with asymmetrical exponential drainage boundary

  • Mei, Guo-Xiong;Lok, Thomas M.H.;Xia, Jun;Wu, Sheng Shen
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.47-63
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, asymmetric drainage boundaries modeled by exponential functions which can simulate intermediate drainage from pervious to impervious boundary is proposed for the one-dimensional consolidation problem, and the solution for the new boundary conditions was derived. The new boundary conditions satisfy the initial and the steady state conditions, and the solution for the new boundary conditions can be degraded to the conventional solution by Terzaghi. Convergence study on the infinite series solution showed that only one term in the series is needed to meet the precision requirement for larger degree of consolidation, and that more terms in the series for smaller degree of consolidation. Comparisons between the present solution with those by Terzaghi and Gray are also provided.

Flexural analysis of steel fibre-reinforced concrete members

  • Chalioris, Constantin E.;Panagiotopoulos, Thomas A.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.11-25
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    • 2018
  • A numerical approach for the evaluation of the flexural response of Steel Fibrous Concrete (SFC) cross-sections with arbitrary geometry, with or without conventional steel longitudinal reinforcing bars is proposed. Resisting bending moment versus curvature curves are calculated using verified non-linear constitutive stress-strain relationships for the SFC under compression and tension which include post-peak and post-cracking softening parts. A new compressive stress-strain model for SFC is employed that has been derived from test data of 125 stress-strain curves and 257 strength values providing the overall compressive behaviour of various SFC mixtures. The proposed sectional analysis is verified using existing experimental data of 42 SFC beams, and it predicts the flexural capacity and the curvature ductility of SFC members reasonably well. The developed approach also provides rational and more accurate compressive and tensile stress-strain curves along with bending moment versus curvature curves with regards to the predictions of relevant existing models.

The Effect of Oxygenated Crystalloid Cardioplegia for Myocardial Protection (심정지액의 oxygenation이 심근보호에 미치는 영향)

  • 강면식
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.25 no.11
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    • pp.1203-1208
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    • 1992
  • Current methods of myocardial protection has been improved with cardioplegia and hypothermia. We compared St. Thomas hospital cardiopleic solution without oxygenation[Group I], with oxygenation[Group II] and with oxygenation with filter[Group III] under isolated working heart model. Heart rate recovery was more significantly improved in Group II than Group I after 15 minutes of recovery time [p<0.05]. Maximal systolic pressure shows no difference as it increases with time. Cardiac ouputs were not diffrent between groups. Recovery time was shorter significantly in group II and group III than group I [p<0.05] Use of filter showed no difference. As a conclusion, oxygenated cardioplegic solutions improves ability to protect the heart against ischemia and it is manifested by improved recovery time and heart rate.

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A Moving Least Squares weighting function for the Element-free Galerkin Method which almost fulfills essential boundary conditions

  • Most, Thomas;Bucher, Christian
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.315-332
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    • 2005
  • The Element-free Galerkin Method has become a very popular tool for the simulation of mechanical problems with moving boundaries. The internally applied Moving Least Squares interpolation uses in general Gaussian or cubic weighting functions and has compact support. Due to the approximative character of this interpolation the obtained shape functions do not fulfill the interpolation conditions, which causes additional numerical effort for the application of the boundary conditions. In this paper a new weighting function is presented, which was designed for meshless shape functions to fulfill these essential conditions with very high accuracy without any additional effort. Furthermore this interpolation gives much more stable results for varying size of the influence radius and for strongly distorted nodal arrangements than existing weighting function types.