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A Role of Bio-production Robots in Precision Farming Model of Japan

  • Shibusawa S.
    • Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.1-4
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    • 2004
  • Community-based precision farming is a new concept of agricultural systems, which leads to organize groups of wise farmers and technology platforms in Japan. The wisdom farmers create a rational farming system to manage hierarchical variability: variability in farmers' community as well as variability of within-field and between-field. The technology platform develops and provides three key-technologies: mapping technology, variable-rate technology, and decision support systems available for rural constraints. Advancement of bio-production robots leads precision farming to the next level, where two technological innovations: how to produce and manage information-oriented fields and information-added products, can be attained.

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Inferring candidate regulatory networks in human breast cancer cells

  • Jung, Ju-Hyun;Lee, Do-Heon
    • Bioinformatics and Biosystems
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.24-27
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    • 2007
  • Human cell regulatory mechanism is one of suspicious problems among biologists. Here we tried to uncover the human breast cancer cell regulatory mechanism from gene expression data (Marc J. Van de vijver, et. al., 2002) using a module network algorithm which is suggested by Segal, et. al.(2003) Finally, we derived a module network which consists of 50 modules and 10 tree depths. Moreover, to validate this candidate network, we applied a GO enrichment test and known transcription factor-target relationships from Transfac(R) (V. Matys, et. al, 2006) and HPRD database (Peri, S. et al., 2003).

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CiNet: GUI based Literature analysis tool using citation information

  • Lee, Se-Jun;Lee, Kwang-H.
    • Bioinformatics and Biosystems
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.33-36
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    • 2007
  • Scientific literature is the most reliable and comprehensive source of knowledge for scientific and biomedical information. Citation information in the literature is also reliable source for linking between literatures. We proposed CiNet, a graphic user interface based tool that extracts the trend of the research using citation information. We can navigate related literatures and extract keywords from the linked literature using this tool. These extracted keywords will be helpful to researchers who want to survey the information.

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A novel approach in analyzing agriculture and food systems: Review of modeling and its applications

  • Kim, Do-Gyun;Cho, Byoung-Kwan;Lee, Wang-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.163-175
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    • 2016
  • For the past decades, advances in computational devices have propelled mathematical modeling to become an effective tool for solving the black box of complex biological systems because of its prominent analytical power and comprehensive insight. Nevertheless, modeling is still limitedly used in the fields of agriculture and food which generally concentrate on producing experimental data rather than processing them. This study, hence, intends to introduce modeling in terms of its procedure types of structure, formulation, analyses, and software, with reviews of current notable studies from micro to macro scales so as to propose the modeling technique as a novel approach in discerning conundrums in agriculture and food systems. We expect this review to provide an eligible source for researchers who are willing to apply modeling techniques into the unexplored fields related to bio-systems that comprehensively include biology, nutrition, agriculture, food, animal science, and ecology.

A Study on making standards on Performance Criteria and Specialized Factors for Bio-Hosing (바이오하우징 성능평가지표 및 특화요소 기준 선정 마련에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Woo;Kim, Sam-Uel;Kim, Won-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2011
  • The concept of bio-housing comes from the new social and culture housing trends. Previous research have shown standards on performance criteria for bio-housing. However some criteria on that research were overlapped because they were merged from various current housing assessment systems. This current research looks on the duplication of criteria which were impossible to evaluate current housing assessment, and make specialized factors for bio-housing developments. Finally the research shows the magnitude of factors for bio-housing performance criteria.

Bio-mimetic Quadruped Walking Robot with Autonomous Eating Function (자율섭취기능을 갖는 생체 모방형 4족 보행로봇)

  • Park Se-Hoon;Kim Kyung-Ho;Jung Kil-Woong;Kim Goan-Hun;Lee Yun-Jung
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.320-327
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    • 2006
  • This paper introduces a new entertainment robot called ELIRO-II(Eating Lizard RObot version 2)which is a bio-mimetic quadruped walking robot with autonomous eating function. We focus on the realization of the behavior of an animal, i.e., wandering around to find food and eating food. The ELIRO-II is modeled after a lizard, which has four legs, 2-DOF waist-joint, an eye part, a mouth part and a stomach part. The effectiveness of the developed robot is shown through real experiments.

Zero states polynomial-like trajectory (ZSPOT) generation

  • Ahn, Ki-Tak;Chung, Wan-Kyun;Youm, Young-Il
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1587-1592
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    • 2004
  • In the area of tracking control, it is important to design not only the controllers but also the trajectories to which a system has to follow. Position in the form of the $5^{th}$ order polynomial is often used with constraints of initial and final states. Smooth ending with possible minimum time is important for many systems to be away from vibrations or jerky motions. A simple polynomial-like trajectory generation method based on zero final state constraints is suggested and named ZSPOT. The effects of suggested method are shown through experiments in which a system follows an easy and computationally light reference trajectory.

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Application of Biomimetic Surfaces for MEMS Tribology

  • Singh, R.Arvind;Pham, Duc-Cuong;Yoon, Eui-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.1556-1557
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    • 2008
  • "Biomimetics" is the study and simulation of biological systems with desired properties. In recent times, biomimetic surfaces have emerged as novel solutions for tribological applications in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). These biomimetic surfaces are attractive for MEMS application as they exhibit low adhesion/friction and wear properties at small-scales. In this paper, we present some of the examples of biomimetic surfaces that have potential application in small-scale devices.

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BioCovi: A Visualization Service for Comparative Genomics Analysis

  • Lee, Jungsul;Park, Daeui;Bhak, Jong
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.52-54
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    • 2005
  • Visualization of the homology information is an important method to analyze the evolutionary and functional meanings of genes. With a database containing model genomes of Homo sapiens, Mus muculus, and Rattus norvegicus, we constructed a web­based comparative analysis tool, BioCovi, to visualize the homology information of mammalian sequences on a very large scale. The user interface has several features: it marks regions whose identity is greater than that specified, it shows or hides gaps from the result of global sequence alignment, and it inverts the graph when total identity is higher than the threshold specified.