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The Effects of NOx Emission Reductions from Power Plants over the Eastern United States

  • Ghim, Young-Sung;Chang, Young-Soo;David G. Streets
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • 제15권E호
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 1999
  • The effectiveness of NOx emission reductions from power plants to alleviate persistent ozone nonattainment in the esterm Unites States was investigated with a focus on the Northeast Corridor, centered on New York City. The 1995 ozone episode along with the 2007 base case emission scenario was used with the Variable-Grid Urban Airshed Model(UAM-V) to determine ozone concentrations. Several scenarios based on EPA's proposal issued on October 10, 1997 were examined. Although it is widely recognized that the eastern United States includes a large Nox-sensitive region(e.g., Sillman, 1999), the study revealed that reducing NOx emissions from power plants beyond 500 miles (800km) was not effective for reducing ozone exceedances in the region. It was also found that NOx emissions from power plants play an important role in local ozone exceedances.

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White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variable Stars: Surface Temperatures and Evolution

  • Sion, Edward M.
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • 제29권2호
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    • pp.169-173
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    • 2012
  • A summary is presented of what is currently known about the surface temperatures of accreting white dwarfs (WDs) detected in non-magnetic and magnetic cataclysmic variables (CVs) based upon synthetic spectral analyses of far ultraviolet data. A special focus is placed on WD temperatures above and below the CV period gap as a function of the orbital period, $P_{orb}$. The principal uncertainty of the temperatures for the CV WDs in the $T_{eff}-P_{orb}$ distribution, besides the distance to the CV, is the mass of the WD. Only in eclipsing CV systems, an area of eclipsing binary studies, which was so central to Robert H. Koch's career, is it possible to know CV WD masses with high precision.

An Empirical Investigation of Agency Costs in the Determination of Performance of Pakistani Nonfinancial Sector

  • Siddiqui, Muhammad Ayub;Afzal, Usman
    • 유통과학연구
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    • 제10권5호
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2012
  • The study examines the performance and its relationship with capital structure and agency cost with respect to the industrial configurations and economic groups of Pakistan Economy. The study employs data set of 334 listed joint stock companies from the nonfinancial sectors for the period of 1999-2009 from cotton and textile, engineering, chemical, sugar, cement, fuel and energy, paper and board, transport and communication, and miscellaneous economic groups. Pooled data from the Panel data methodology has been applied to observe the significance of different performance measures through determinant of capital structure and agency costs with special focus on the leverage and cash flows as the direct determinant and interactive variables. The empirical test results using redundant variable tests demonstrate support for agency theory in the context of Pakistan's industrial configurations. The implications of the study point towards more investigations on the subject using industrial configurations as control and moderating variables.

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PTZ 카메라를 이용한 얼굴 추적 및 인식 시스템에 관한 연구 (A Study on the system of the Face Tracking and Recognition by a PTZ camera)

  • 김승규;김형수;고동환;조용군;강훈
    • 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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    • pp.883-884
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we propose the real-time system that detects and recognizes the human face by PTZ camara. Generally, Face detection algorithms are disturbed by variable illuminations in a image. To avoid those, we use the robust adaboost algorithm for face detection. For recognition, we use PCA algorithm. we focus on the real-time system. It will be necessary in many applications.

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성공적인 ERP 시스템 구축 예측을 위한 사례기반추론 응용 : ERP 시스템을 구현한 중소기업을 중심으로 (An Application of Case-Based Reasoning in Forecasting a Successful Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems : Focus on Small and Medium sized Enterprises Implementing ERP)

  • 임세헌
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.77-94
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    • 2006
  • Case-based Reasoning (CBR) is widely used in business and industry prediction. It is suitable to solve complex and unstructured business problems. Recently, the prediction accuracy of CBR has been enhanced by not only various machine learning algorithms such as genetic algorithms, relative weighting of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) input variable but also data mining technique such as feature selection, feature weighting, feature transformation, and instance selection As a result, CBR is even more widely used today in business area. In this study, we investigated the usefulness of the CBR method in forecasting success in implementing ERP systems. We used a CBR method based on the feature weighting technique to compare the performance of three different models : MDA (Multiple Discriminant Analysis), GECBR (GEneral CBR), FWCBR (CBR with Feature Weighting supported by Analytic Hierarchy Process). The study suggests that the FWCBR approach is a promising method for forecasting of successful ERP implementation in Small and Medium sized Enterprises.

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지반조사결과에서 설계변수의 결정문제 -지반특성치 산정을 중심으로- (Determination of Design Parameters from Ground Investigation Results -Focus on geotechnical characteristic values-)

  • 윤길림;윤여원;김홍연
    • 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국지반공학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회
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    • pp.126-133
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    • 2008
  • Geotechnical limit state design methods; LRFD of North America is an approach that estimates resistance using design model and then multiplies resistance factor by calculated resistance to reflect the uncertainty of geomaterials and design models; whereas, Eurocode of the Europe employs the partial resistance factor applied directly to each variable in the resistance equation that individual soil properties such as cohesion and angle of internal friction are applied. This discussion paper is a study on characteristic value which has globally been argued through processing of development of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design even to the present. Estimating the characteristic value of soil properties affects not only determination of design value applied directly to design of geotechnical structures, but also economic feasibility and stability of the structures.

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$Co^{60}$ 조사에 대한 A 급 절연채로의 방사선 손상에 관한 연구 (The Experimental Study of Co$^{60)$ Irradiaton Effect on Radiation Damage of A-Kind Insulator)

  • 지철근;김병수
    • 전기의세계
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 1971
  • The main focus of this paper is on the study of the radiation effect upon the electrical property of a A-Kind insulator which is one of the organic insulators. The varnished cloth is so typical of the A-Kind insulators as to be selected for a sample. AC and Impluse voltage is applied to the variable Gamma ray irradiated dose samples with the constant time duration and the dielectric breakdown voltage are measured from the sample. The experimental data of the dielectric breakdown voltage are considerably decreased. The above conclusion is useful for the selection and application of the orgainc insulators under the irradiation effects.

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구조체의 위상학적 최적화를 위한 비선형 프로그래밍 (NLP Formulation for the Topological Structural Optimization)

  • Bark, Jaihyeong;Omar N. Ghattas;Lee, Li-Hyung
    • 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전산구조공학회 1996년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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    • pp.182-189
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    • 1996
  • The focus of this study is on the problem of the design of structure of undetermined topology. This problem has been regarded as being the most challenging of structural optimization problems, because of the difficulty of allowing topology to change. Conventional approaches break down when element sizes approach to zero, due to stiffness matrix singularity. In this study, a novel nonlinear Programming formulation of the topology Problem is developed and examined. Its main feature is the ability to account for topology variation through zero element sizes. Stiffness matrix singularity is avoided by embedding the equilibrium equations as equality constraints in the optimization problem. Although the formulation is general, two dimensional plane elasticity examples are presented. The design problem is to find minimum weight of a plane structure of fixed geometry but variable topology, subject to constraints on stress and displacement. Variables are thicknesses of finite elements, and are permitted to assume zero sizes. The examples demonstrate that the formulation is effective for finding at least a locally minimal weight.

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벌크재료의 신뢰성보증을 위한 샘플링검사 방식 (A Bulk Sampling Plan for Reliability Assurance)

  • 김동철;김종걸
    • 대한안전경영과학회지
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.123-134
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    • 2007
  • This paper focuses on the in-house reliability assurance plan for the bulk materials of each company. The reliability assurance needs in essence a long time and high cost for testing the materials. In order to reduce the time and cost, accelerated life test is adopted. The bulk sampling technique was used for acceptance. Design parameters might be total sample size(segments and increments}, stress level and so on. We focus on deciding the sample size by minimizing the asymptotic variance of test statistics as well as satisfying the consumer's risk. In bulk sampling, we also induce the sample size by adapting the normal life time distribution model when the variable of the lognormal life time distribution is transformed and adapted to the model. In addition, the sample size for both the segments and increments can be induced by minimizing the asymptotic variance of test statistics of the segments and increments with consumer's risk met. We can assure the reliability of the mean life and B100p life time of the bulk materials by using the calculated minimum sample size.

안전위도(EOG)에 의한 입체영상의 평가 (The estimation of 3D image using E.O.G)

  • 조암
    • 대한인간공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한인간공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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    • pp.168-185
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    • 1996
  • In this research, an investigation of the eye movement was performed when the objects perceived by the eye are three-dimensional objects, two dimensional images, and three dimensional image. This investigation was done by observing the EOG(Electro-oculogram) waves which were achived from experiments. The observed waves were categorized into several groups. Differences among the waves were analyzed for each object and image perceived by the eye. In order to obtain waves to be analyzed, two kinds of experiments were performed. In each experiments, the saccadic eye movement and the smooth pusuit eye movement was considered as an independent variable individually. Waves obtained from the experiments were categorized into 4 types(Wave1, Wave2, Wave3, Wave4) depending on their characteristics. Unlike from the other images, three dimensional image was revealed as a key factor for the active movement of the eye. Futhermore, a unique eye movement was observed in the case of three dimensional image where the focus of the eye was achived in three steps.

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