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Laser-Induced Fluorescence Characterization for Real-Time Microplastic Counting (실시간 미세플라스틱 카운팅을 위한 레이저 유도 형광 특성 분석)

  • Ko, Seunghyeon;Oh, Geum-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.149-154
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, laser-induced fluorescence properties of four plastics were characterized through spectrometer analysis for real-time microplastic counting. Recently, environmental problems related to microplastics have emerged. In order to detect microplastics, analysis methods such as FT-IR and Raman are used. However, they have the disadvantages of being time-consuming and requiring a pretreatment process. In most plastic products on the market, 10% to 30% of plasticizers and reinforcing agents are added. Therefore, most microplastics present in seawater and freshwater emit fluorescence signals by 270 nm UV light source regardless of their type due to their molecular structure due to additives. Real-time microplastics counting is possible more easily by using the proposed laser-induced fluorescence detection method because of the fluorescence expression characteristic of 340 nm that appears due to the plasticizer of plastics.

Effects of Illuminating Condition on ERP and Work Performance during a Counting Task (계수작업시 사상관련전위 및 작업성능에 미치는 조명조건의 영향)

  • 임현교
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.167-175
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    • 2000
  • Work performance and human error are complicated phenomena so that it is very difficult to grasp the true nature of them. However, Event Related Potential (ERP) may give a clue to them because human brain reflects diverse psychophysiological process. In the present study, the possibility of ERP application to the ergonomic area was evaluated in view of grasping error symptoms. For that purpose, the subjects were asked to count specific characters in a random character matrix on a computer monitor, and their ERP was compared with their performance data. Based upon the results, the amplitude of P300 was not so high as that in the case of the Odd Ball tasks, correct response corresponded with stable ERP with high P300 amplitude whereas wrong response did with unstable, fluctuating ERP with low P300 amplitude. Those results coincided with the work performance, and it was concluded that 3-wave fluorescent with illumination level of 800 lux would be recommendable for the counting task in concern. Conclusively, ERP including P300 might supply an objective clue to the problem of human errors in cognitive process.

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Analysis of Food Poisoning via Zero Inflation Models

  • Jung, Hwan-Sik;Kim, Byung-Jip;Cho, Sin-Sup;Yeo, In-Kwon
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.859-864
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    • 2012
  • Poisson regression and negative binomial regression are usually used to analyze counting data; however, these models are unsuitable for fit zero-inflated data that contain unexpected zero-valued observations. In this paper, we review the zero-inflated regression in which Bernoulli process and the counting process are hierarchically mixed. It is known that zero-inflated regression can efficiently model the over-dispersion problem. Vuong statistic is employed to compare performances of the zero-inflated models with other standard models.

Preparation of Cationic Chitosan and Its Application as a Multifunctional Chemical Additive

  • Zhong, Liu;Sang, Yi-Zhou
    • Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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    • 2006.06b
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    • pp.401-411
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    • 2006
  • The cationic chitosan is prepared in this paper. This kind of cationic chitosan is a good retention aid for bleached hardwood pulp, the filler retention increased by 33.0% when the cationic chitosan (DS=1.27) dosage was 0.05%. Because many of the materials used in papermaking process are excellent microbiological nutrients, these nutrients will result in the growth of bacteria; uncontrolled growth of bacteria and fungi in the papermaking process adversely affects machine runnability. According to the standard methods of microbe growth inhibition test, cell counting was conducted after proper cultivated time. This paper explored the factors that affecting the cationic chitosan's antibacterial effect.

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Normality of the MPLE of a Proportional Hazard Model for Informative Censored Data (정보적 중도절단을 고려한 최대 편우도 추정량의 정규성)

  • 정대현;원동유
    • Journal of Applied Reliability
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.149-163
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    • 2001
  • We study the normality of the maximum partial likelihood estimators for the proportional hazard model with informative censored data. The proposed models cover the cases in which the times to a primary event may be informatively or randomly censored and the times to a secondary event may be randomly censored. To estimate the parameters and to check the normality of the parameters in the model, we adopt the partial likelihood and counting process to use the martingale central limit theorem. Simulation studies are performed to examine the normality of the MPLE's for the five cases in which they depend upon the proportions of randomly censored and informative censored data.

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The Determination of Gold in Assay Process by Thermal Neutron Activation Analysis (試金工程中의 金의 熱中性子에 依한 放射化分析)

  • J.I. Kim;Chong Kuk Kim;W.P. Chang
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.165-169
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    • 1963
  • 12 samples from an assay process chain were submitted to qualitative and quantitative neutron activation analysis for the determination of gold. Gold was detected and quantitatively determined in three samples after a chemical separation consisting of solvent extraction and precipitation steps. Recoveries ranged between 81.0 and 93.6% and results of duplicated determinations were reproducible. Quantitative data were obtained from gamma-spectrometric photopeak-area counting. Interference from fast neutron reactions was negligible.

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High rate diffusion-scale approximation for counters with extendable dead time

  • Dubi, Chen;Atar, Rami
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.1616-1625
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    • 2019
  • Measuring occurrence times of random events, aimed to determine the statistical properties of the governing stochastic process, is a basic topic in science and engineering, and has been the subject of numerous mathematical modeling approaches. Often, true statistical properties deviate from measured properties due to the so called dead time phenomenon, where for a certain time period following detection, the detection system is not operational. Understanding the dead time effect is especially important in radiation measurements, often characterized by high count rates and a non-reducible detector dead time (originating in the physics of particle detection). The effect of dead time can be interpreted as a suitable rarefied sequence of the original time sequence. This paper provides a limit theorem for a high rate (diffusion-scale) counter with extendable (Type II) dead time, where the underlying counting process is a renewal process with finite second moment for the inter-event distribution. The results are very general, in the sense that they refer to a general inter arrival time and a random dead time with general distribution. Following the theoretical results, we will demonstrate the applicability of the results in three applications: serially connected components, multiplicity counting and measurements of aerosol spatial distribution.

Selection of the Optimal Location of Traffic Counting Points for the OD Travel Demand Estimation (기종점 수요추정을 위한 교통량 관측지점의 적정위치 선정)

  • 이승재;이헌주
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2003
  • The Origin-Destination(OD) matrix is very important in describing transport movements in a region. The OD matrix can be estimated using traffic counts on links in the transport network and other available information. This information on the travel is often contained in a target OD matrix and traffic counts in links. To estimate an OD matrix from traffic counts, they are the major input data which obviously affects the accuracy of the OD matrix estimated, Generally, the quality of an estimated OD matrix depends much on the reliability of the input data, and the number and locations of traffic counting points in the network. Any Process regarding the traffic counts such as the amount and their location has to be carefully studied. The objective of this study is to select of the optimal location of traffic counting points for the OD matrix estimation. The model was tested in nationwide network. The network consists of 224 zones, 3,125 nodes and 6,725 links except to inner city road links. The OD matrix applied for selection of traffic counting points was estimated to 3-constrained entropy maximizing model. The results of this study follow that : the selected alternative to the best optimal counting points of six alternatives is the alternative using common links of OD matrix and vehicle-km and traffic density(13.0% of 6,725 links), however the worst alternative is alternative of all available traffic counting points(44.9% of 6,725 links) in the network. Finally, it should be concluded that the accuracy of reproduced OD matrix using traffic counts related much to the number of traffic counting points and locations.

Fatigue Damage Combination for Spread Mooring System under Stationary Random Process with Bimodal Spectrum Characteristics (바이모달 스펙트럼 특성을 가지는 정상확률과정에 대한 다점계류라인의 피로손상도 조합기법 연구)

  • Lim, Yu-Chang;Kim, Kyung-Su;Choung, Joon-Mo
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.813-820
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    • 2010
  • The spread mooring system for FPSO is developed to explore deep sea area, in which swell is dominant. It is known that the tension response of mooring lines in this sea area shows bimodal spectrum. Assuming normal distribution of tension profile and Rayleigh distribution of tension amplitude, the power spectral density function (PSD) of the mooring tension under the bimodal stationary random process is applied for the calculation of spectrum fatigue. Three popular methods, which are simple summation method, combined spectrum method and Jioa-Moan method, are used to combine fatigue damages from bimodal spectrum characteristics. Each damage value is compared with damage using Rainflow Cycle Counting (RCC) method which is believed to be close to exact solution. Vanmarcke' parameter and RMS(Root Mean Square) ratio are employed to assess relative damage variations between from RCC method and from three combination methods. Finally the most reliable fatigue damage combining method for spread mooring system is suggested.