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An Application of Tucker Decomposition for Detecting Epilepsy EEG signals

  • Thieu, Thao Nguyen;Yang, Hyung-Jeong
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.215-222
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    • 2015
  • Epileptic Seizure is a popular brain disease in the world. It affects the nervous system and the activities of brain function that make a person who has seizure signs cannot control and predict his actions. Based on the Electroencephalography (EEG) signals which are recorded from human or animal brains, the scientists use many methods to detect and recognize the abnormal activities of brain. Tucker model is investigated to solve this problem. Tucker decomposition is known as a higher-order form of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), a well-known algorithm for decomposing a matric. It is widely used to extract good features of a tensor. After decomposing, the result of Tucker decomposition is a core tensor and some factor matrices along each mode. This core tensor contains a number of the best information of original data. In this paper, we used Tucker decomposition as a way to obtain good features. Training data is primarily applied into the core tensor and the remained matrices will be combined with the test data to build the Tucker base that is used for testing. Using core tensor makes the process simpler and obtains higher accuracies.

Scaling Resistance of Cement Concrete Incorporating Mineral Admixtures (광물질혼화재를 적용한 콘크리트의 스케일링 저항성 평가)

  • Lee, Seung-Tae;Park, Se-Ho
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2015
  • PURPOSES: The scaling of a concrete surface caused by the combined effects of frost and de-icing salts is one of the main reasons for the need to repair transportation infrastructures in cold-climate regions. This study describes the results of attempts to determine the scaling resistance of concrete incorporating mineral admixtures such as fly ash, GGBFS, and silica fume, and subjected to the actions of frost and salt. METHODS : Conventionally, to evaluate the fundamental properties of concrete, flexural and compressive strength measurements are regularly performed. Based on the ASTM C 672 standard, concrete is subjected to 2%, 4%, and 8% $CaCl_2$ salt solutions along with repeated sets of 50 freeze/thaw cycles, and the scaling resistance was evaluated based on the mass of the scale and a visual examination. RESULTS : It was observed that silica fume is very effective in enhancing the scaling resistance of concrete. Meanwhile, concrete incorporating GGBFS exhibited poor resistance to scaling, especially in the first ten freeze/thaw cycles. However, fly ash concrete generally exhibited the maximum amount of damage as a result of the frost-salt attack, regardless of the concentrations of the solutions. CONCLUSIONS: It can be concluded that the scaling resistance of concrete is highly dependent on the type of the mineral admixture used in the concrete. Therefore, to provide a durable concrete pavement for use in cold-climate regions, the selection of a suitable binder is essential.

Serotonin (5-HT) Receptor Subtypes Mediate Regulation of Neuromodulin Secretion in Rat Hypothalamic Neurons

  • Chin, Chur;Kim, Seong-Il
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2007
  • Serotonin (5-HT), the endogenous nonselective 5-HT receptor agonist, activates the inositol-1,4,5-triphosphate/calcium $(InsP3/Ca^{2+})$ signaling pathway and exerts both stimulatory and inhibitory actions on cAMP production and neuromodulin secretion in rat hypothalamic neurons. Specific mRNA transcripts for 5-HT1A, 5-HT2C and 5-HT4 were identified in rat hypothalamic neurons. These experiments were supported by combined techniques such as cAMP and a $Ca^{2+}$ assays in order to elucidate the associated receptors and signaling pathways. The cAMP production and neuromodulin release were profoundly inhibited during the activation of the Gi-coupled 5-HT1A receptor. Treatment with a selective agonist to activate the Gq-coupled 5-HT2C receptor stimulated InsP3 production and caused $Ca^{2+}$ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Selective activation of the Gs-coupled 5-HT4 receptor also stimulated cAMP production, and caused an increase in neuromodulin secretion. These findings demonstrate the ability of 5-HT receptor subtypes expressed in neurons to induce neuromodulin production. This leads to the activation of single or multiple G-proteins which regulate the $InsP3/Ca^{2+}/PLC-{\gamma}$ and adenyl cyclase / cAMP signaling pathways.

Study on the Relationships between Data from Sensors and Basic Actions of Robots for Robot Programming Education (로봇 프로그래밍 교육을 위한 센서 데이터와 로봇 기본 동작의 관계에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Inkee
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.25-33
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    • 2014
  • Robot assisted programming education has been highlighted because it enhances the involvement of students. Robots are combined with mechanical and program elements. However, in after school Robotics classes, almost all is education for the mechanical elements of robots. On the other hand, education for robot programming is a starting stage. It is difficult for students to programming with sensors. Therefore, in this paper, I researched the relationships between elements from sensors to output devices. And I applied it to Robotics education. As a result, the students can understand robot because they studied the relationships between data from sensors and output devices. We proved it by the survey after the relationship education.

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Task Rescheduling Using a Coordinator in a Structural Decentralized Control of Supervisory Control Systems

  • Lee, Sang-Heon;Kim, Ill-Soo;Kai C. Wong
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.22-31
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    • 2004
  • A problem of task rescheduling using a coordinator in a structural decentralized control of supervisory control theory is formulated. we consider that the overall system is divided into a number of local systems. Using an example of a chemical batch reaction process, it has shown that after local supervisors have been established for a given task, a coordinator can be used to solve some rescheduling problems among local plants for new or modified tasks. The coordination system models the interactions of local plants, and is consisting of only the shared events of local plants, so simpler to synthesize. A coordinator is designed based on the specifications given for the coordination system. Under the 'structural' conditions developed in this paper, the combined concurrent actions of the coordinator with the existing local supervisors will achieve the rescheduling requirements. Again since the conditions are structural (not specification-dependent), once the coordination architecture has been established, it can be used for a number of different tasks without further verifications.

A stemming algorithm for a korean language free-text retrieval system (자연어검색시스템을 위한 스태밍알고리즘의 설계 및 구현)

  • 이효숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.213-234
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    • 1997
  • A stemming algorithm for the Korean language free-text retrieval system has been designed and implemented. The algorithm contains three major parts and it operates iteratively ; firstly, stop-words are removed with a use of a stop-word list ; secondly, a basic removing procedure proceeds with a rule table 1, which contains the suffixes, the postpositional particles, and the optionally adopted symbols specifying an each stemming action ; thirdly, an extended stemming and rewriting procedures continue with a rule table 2, which are composed of th suffixes and the optionally combined symbols representing various actions depending upon the context-sensitive rules. A test was carried out to obtain an indication of how successful the algorithm was and to identify any minor changes in the algorithm for an enhanced one. As a result of it, 21.4 % compression is achieved and an error rate is 15.9%.

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Studies on the Efficacy of Combined Preparation of Crude Drugs (XVIII) -The effect of ‘Palmiwhan’ on the Nephrogenous Hypertension- (생약복합제제(生藥複合製劑)의 약효(藥效) 연구(硏究) (제18보)(第18報) -팔미환(八味丸)이 신성고혈압(腎性高血壓)에 미치는 영향(影響)-)

  • Rho, Young-Soo;Hong, Nam-Doo;Kim, Soo-Ok;Kim, Nam-Jae
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.179-187
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    • 1984
  • To investigate the recorded efficacy in Oriental medical references and effects in clinics, experimental studies were undertaken to estimate 'Palmiwhan' to the diuretic effect in normal rats, rabbits and rats with $HgCl_2-induced$ acute renal failure and hypotensive effects on the nephrogenous hypertension in rabbits with $HgCl_2-induced$ acute renal failure. The results of this study were summarized as follows; Increase in urinary volume, urinary $Na^+\;and\;Cl^-$ excretions were significantly recognized in normal rats and rabbits. Increase in urinary volume, urinary $Na^+\;and\;Cl^-$ excretions were significantly shown in rats with 2mg/kg $HgCl_2-induced$ acute renal failure. Although plasma electrolyte and creatinine levels were little affected, plasma urea nitrogen levels were significantly elevated in normal rats and 2mg/kg $HgCl_2-induced$ acute renal failure of rats. Although the blood pressure was not affected in normal rabbits and cats, hypotensive actions due to the diuretic effect were recognized in rabbits $HgCl_2-induced$ acute renal failure.

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Studies on the Efficacy of Combined Preparation of Crude Drugs(XXX) -Effects of Mahaengkamsuk-tang on Analgesic, Antipyretic, Antiinflammatory, Secretion of Repiratory Tract, Isolated Ileum and Blood Pressure- (생약(生藥) 복합(複合) 제제(製劑)의 약효(藥效) 연구(硏究)(제30보)(第30報) -마행감석탕(麻杏甘石湯)이 진통(鎭痛), 해열(解熱), 소염(消炎), 거담, 적출장관(摘出腸管) 및 혈압(血壓)과 호흡(呼吸)에 미치는 영향(影響)-)

  • Hong, Nam-Doo;Jeong, Gyu-Mahn;Moon, Jeong-Ho;Joo, Soo-Man
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.223-231
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    • 1986
  • Experimental studies were conducted to investigate for the effect of Mahaengkamsuk-tang on analgesic, antipyretic, antiinflammatory, secretion of respiratory tract, isolated ileum. Mahaengkamsuk-tang was composed of Ephedrae Herba, Armenicae Semen, Glycyrrhizae Radix, Gypsum Fibrosum. The following results has been obtained; analgesic and antipyretic actions were obtained. Anti-inflammatory effects in the paw edema induced by 1% dextran was significantly shown in rats. Spontaneous motilities of isolated ileum of mice were strongly suppressed, and contractions of isolated ileum of mice induced by acetylcholine chloride, barium chloride and histamine were remarkably inhibited. Expectorant effect was shown in rabbits. Continuous hypotensive action was seen.

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RECOGNITION ALGORITHM OF DRIED OAK MUSHROOM GRADINGS USING GRAY LEVEL IMAGES

  • Lee, C.H.;Hwang, H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 1996.06c
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    • pp.773-779
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    • 1996
  • Dried oak mushroom have complex and various visual features. Grading and sorting of dried oak mushrooms has been done by the human expert. Though actions involved in human grading looked simple, a decision making underneath the simple action comes from the result of the complex neural processing of the visual image. Through processing details involved in human visual recognition has not been fully investigated yet, it might say human can recognize objects via one of three ways such as extracting specific features or just image itself without extracting those features or in a combined manner. In most cases, extracting some special quantitative features from the camera image requires complex algorithms and processing of the gray level image requires the heavy computing load. This fact can be worse especially in dealing with nonuniform, irregular and fuzzy shaped agricultural products, resulting in poor performance because of the sensitiveness to the crisp criteria or specific ules set up by algorithms. Also restriction of the real time processing often forces to use binary segmentation but in that case some important information of the object can be lost. In this paper, the neuro net based real time recognition algorithm was proposed without extracting any visual feature but using only the directly captured raw gray images. Specially formated adaptable size of grids was proposed for the network input. The compensation of illumination was also done to accomodate the variable lighting environment. The proposed grading scheme showed very successful results.

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Studies on the Efficacy of Combined Preparation of Crude Drugs (XV). -Effects of 'Samulanshin-Tang' on the Central Nervous System and Isolated Ileum- (생약복합제제(生藥複合製劑)의 약효연구(藥效硏究) (제15보)(第15報) -사물안신탕(四物安神湯)이 중추신경계(中樞神經系) 및 적출장관(摘出腸管)에 미치는 영향(影響)-)

  • Hong, N.D.;Lee, K.S.;Wang, W.W.;Kim, N.J.
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.161-169
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    • 1983
  • Although the 'Samulanshin-Tang' has been widely used in clinical purposes in the -oriental medicine, its clinical efficacy is only documented for the case of palpitation in the Oriental medical reference. The present experiments were undertaken to investigate the clinical efficacy of 'Samulanshin-Tang' comparing effects with animal experiments and to validate its oriental medicine description. Following results were obtained; 1)Suppressive action was shown on convulsion due to cerebrocortical and diencephalic causes in Fraction I and II, but no such action was noted myelic causes in mice. 2)Sedative, analgesic and antipyretic actions were noted by Fraction III. 3)Relaxing action was shown on the isolated ileum in mice and antagonistic action was seen on acetylcholine and $BaCl_2$-induced contractions of the ilem that the direct action of the intestinal smooth muscle was recognized in mice and rats.

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