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Novel Fabrication of Designed Silica Structures Inspired by Silicatein-a

  • Park, Ji-Hun;Kwon, Sun-Bum;Lee, Hee-Seung;Choi, In-Sung S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.02a
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    • pp.557-557
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    • 2012
  • Silicatein-${\alpha}$, the enzyme extracted from silica spicules in glass sponges, has been studied extensively in the way of chemistry from 1999, in which the pioneering work by Morse, D. E. - the discovery of the enzymatic hydrolysis in Silicatein-${\alpha}$ - was published. Since its reaction conditions are physiologically favored, synthesis of various materials, such as gallium oxide, zirconium oxide, and silicon oxide, was achieved without any hazardous wastes. Although some groups synthesized oxide films and particles, they have not achieved yet controlled morphogenesis in the reaction conditions mentioned above. With the knowledge of catalytic triad involved in hydrolysis of silicone alkoxide and oligomerization of silicic acid, we designed the novel peptide amphiphiles to not only form self-assembled structure, but also display similar activities to silicatein-${\alpha}$. Designed templates were able to self-assemble into left-handed helices for the peptide amphiphiles with L-form amino acid, catalyzing polycondensation of silicic acids onto the surface of them. It led to the formation of silica helices with 30-50 nm diameters. These results were characterized by various techniques, including SEM, TEM, and STEM. Given the situation that nano-bio-technology, the bio-applicable technology in nanometer scale, has been attracting considerable attention; this result could be applied to the latest applications in biotechnology, such as biosensors, lab-on-a-chip, biocompatible nanodevices.

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LitCovid-AGAC: cellular and molecular level annotation data set based on COVID-19

  • Ouyang, Sizhuo;Wang, Yuxing;Zhou, Kaiyin;Xia, Jingbo
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.23.1-23.7
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    • 2021
  • Currently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) literature has been increasing dramatically, and the increased text amount make it possible to perform large scale text mining and knowledge discovery. Therefore, curation of these texts becomes a crucial issue for Bio-medical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) community, so as to retrieve the important information about the mechanism of COVID-19. PubAnnotation is an aligned annotation system which provides an efficient platform for biological curators to upload their annotations or merge other external annotations. Inspired by the integration among multiple useful COVID-19 annotations, we merged three annotations resources to LitCovid data set, and constructed a cross-annotated corpus, LitCovid-AGAC. This corpus consists of 12 labels including Mutation, Species, Gene, Disease from PubTator, GO, CHEBI from OGER, Var, MPA, CPA, NegReg, PosReg, Reg from AGAC, upon 50,018 COVID-19 abstracts in LitCovid. Contain sufficient abundant information being possible to unveil the hidden knowledge in the pathological mechanism of COVID-19.

The wing structure modeling of the bioinspired aerial robot (생체모방 공중로봇의 날개 구조 모델링)

  • Choi, Youn-Ho;Cho, Nae-Soo;Joung, Jung-Eun;Kwon, Woo-Hyen;Lee, Dong-Ha
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.32 no.spc3
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    • pp.269-274
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    • 2012
  • The research of the biological mimics robot which utilizes the operation of the organism is progressed on the ground, aerial, and underwater robot sector. In the field of flying robot, the research for implementing the wing movement structure of the bird and insect is progressed. The joint structure for the wing movement of the bird is implemented. The operation of the wing is simulated. For this purpose, by using the Matlab/Simulink, the joint structure of the wing is modelled. The joint movement of the wing is tested through the simulation.

Tele-Operating DAQ System for Bio-Inspired Robots (생체모방로봇 제어를 위한 원격 DAQ 시스템)

  • Oh, Seung-Yeop;Choi, Jae-Sung;Son, Byung-Rak;Lee, Dong-Ha;Yoo, Joon-Hyuk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2012.06a
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    • pp.274-275
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    • 2012
  • 생체모방로봇은 인간을 비롯하여 새, 곤충, 물고기 등 동물들의 기본구조, 행동원리 및 메커니즘을 모방한 로봇이다. 정찰, 수색, 테러진압 등 군사작전에서부터 인명구조까지 생체모방로봇은 인간의 눈과 발을 대신하여 인간이 접근할 수 없는 오염 지역을 면밀히 탐지하는 데에도 유용하리라 예상된다. 이와 같은 생체모방로봇이나 MAV 등을 실시간으로 원격에서 모니터링하고 제어할 수 있는 DAQ 시스템의 중요성이 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 생체모방로봇인 가오리를 원격 관제 센터에서 RF무선통신을 이용하여 안정적인 제어 및 모니터링이 가능한 DAQ(Data AcQuisition) 시스템을 제안한다.

Estimating Human Walking Pace and Direction Using Vibration Signals (진동감지를 이용한 사용자 걸음걸이 인식)

  • Jeong, Eunseok;Kim, DaeEun
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.481-485
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    • 2014
  • In service robots, a number of human movements are analyzed using a variety of sensors. Vibration signals from walking movements of a human provide useful information about the distance and the movement direction of the human. In this paper, we measure the intensity of vibrations and detect both human walking pace and direction. In our experiments, vibration signals detected by microphone sensors provide good estimation of the distance and direction of a human movement. This can be applied to HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) technology.

The methods of error detection at Digital circuit using the FPGA 2-dimensional array (FPGA 2 차원 배열을 사용한 디지털 회로에서 오류 검출의 방법)

  • Kim, Soke-Hwan;Hur, Chang-Wu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.202-206
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we proposed on the direction of self-repairing mimicking the cell on the digital system design. Three-dimensional array of cells rather than using the original structure of FPGA, an array of blocks for efficient error detection methods were investigated. With a certain regularity, so the design method in detail by dividing the full array. The digital circuits can be detected fault location easily and quickly.

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Bio-inspired Load Balancing Routing for Delay-Guaranteed Services in Ever-Changing Networks

  • Kim, Young-Min;Kim, Hak Suh;Jung, Boo-Geum;Park, Hea-Sook;Park, Hong-Shik
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.414-424
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    • 2013
  • We consider a new load balancing routing for delay-guaranteed services in the network in which the traffic is dynamic and network topologies frequently change. For such an ever-changing network, we propose a new online load balancing routing called AntLBR, which exploits the ant colony optimization method. Generally, to achieve load balancing, researchers have tried to calculate the traffic split ratio by solving a complicated linear programming (LP) problem under the static network environment. In contrast, the proposed AntLBR does not make any attempt to solve this complicated LP problem. So as to achieve load balancing, AntLBR simply forwards incoming flows by referring to the amount of pheromone trails. Simulation results indicate that the AntLBR algorithm achieves a more load-balanced network under the changing network environment than techniques used in previous research while guaranteeing the requirements of delay-guaranteed services.

Evolutionary Neural Networks based on DNA coding and L-system (DNA Coding 및 L-system에 기반한 진화신경회로망)

  • 이기열;전호병;이동욱;심귀보
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.107-110
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we propose a method of constructing neural networks using bio-inspired emergent and evolutionary concepts. This method is algorithm that is based on the characteristics of the biological DNA and growth of plants. Here is, we propose a constructing method to make a DNA coding method for production rule of L-system. L-system is based on so-called the parallel rewriting mechanism. The DNA coding method has no limitation in expressing the production rule of L-system. Evolutionary algorithms motivated by Darwinian natural selection are population based searching methods and the high performance of which is highly dependent on the representation of solution space. In order to verify the effectiveness of our scheme, we apply it to one step ahead prediction of Mackey-Glass time series.

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Retina-Motivated CMOS Vision Chip Based on Column Parallel Architecture and Switch-Selective Resistive Network

  • Kong, Jae-Sung;Hyun, Hyo-Young;Seo, Sang-Ho;Shin, Jang-Kyoo
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.783-789
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    • 2008
  • A bio-inspired vision chip for edge detection was fabricated using 0.35 ${\mu}m$ double-poly four-metal complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology. It mimics the edge detection mechanism of a biological retina. This type of vision chip offer several advantages including compact size, high speed, and dense system integration. Low resolution and relatively high power consumption are common limitations of these chips because of their complex circuit structure. We have tried to overcome these problems by rearranging and simplifying their circuits. A vision chip of $160{\times}120$ pixels has been fabricated in $5{\times}5\;mm^2$ silicon die. It shows less than 10 mW of power consumption.

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A Flight Mechanics-Centric Review of Bird-Scale Flapping Flight

  • Paranjape, Aditya A.;Dorothy, Michael R.;Chung, Soon-Jo;Lee, Ki-D.
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.267-281
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    • 2012
  • This paper reviews the flight mechanics and control of birds and bird-size aircraft. It is intended to fill a niche in the current survey literature which focuses primarily on the aerodynamics, flight dynamics and control of insect scale flight. We review the flight mechanics from first principles and summarize some recent results on the stability and control of birds and bird-scale aircraft. Birds spend a considerable portion of their flight in the gliding (i.e., non-flapping) phase. Therefore, we also review the stability and control of gliding flight, and particularly those aspects which are derived from the unique control features of birds.