• Applied Microscopy
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• 제50권
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• pp.6.1-6.6
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• 2020

The cerebellum is a region of the brain that plays an important role in motor control. It is classified phylogenetically into archicerebellum, paleocerebellum and neocerebellum. The Purkinje cells are lined in a row called Purkinje cell layer and it has a unique dendritic branches with many spines. The previous study reported that there is a difference of synapse density according to the lobules based on large two-dimensional data. However, recent study with high voltage electron microscopy showed there was no differences in dendritic spine density of the Purkinje cell according to its phylogenetic lobule. We analyzed Purkinje cell density in the II, VI and X lobules by stereological modules and synaptic density was estimated by double disector based on Purkinje cell density in the molecular layer of each lobule. The results showed that there was significant difference in the Purkinje cell density and synapse number according to their phylogenetic lobules. The number of Purkinje cell in a given volume was larger in the archicerebellum, but synapse density was higher in the neocerebellum. These data suggest that cellular and synaptic organization of the Purkinje cell is different according to their phylogenetic background.

• Educational Technology International
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.49-77
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• 2012

The development of mobile devices and network technology is changing the ways in which people communicate with one another. Mobile text message has emerged as one of the most frequently used form of communication, which also gave rise to various non-verbal texts such as emoticons. Nonetheless, the use of text messages has largely been denied in education because text messages often involve colloquial and non-verbal texts considered inappropriate or grammatically incorrect by the teacher. In efforts to provide a theoretical framework to better understand mobile e-text communication, this research compared the practical usages of non-verbal texts in the mobile e-learning environment. The study developed three types of text messages according to the degree of using non-verbal texts and their phraseology as instructors' messages, which were then distributed to 259 students via mobile text messaging. The perceptions of students were analyzed using a semantic differential scale and a questionnaire. The results showed clear differences in students' perceptions of non-verbal text and traditional text, and that optimally designed non-verbal texts turned out to encourage the students' interaction the most out of the three types of text messages. Following the discussion of the results, an expanded theoretical framework beyond Ong's concepts of orality and literacy is also suggested to understand the evolution of mobile e-text communication in education.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.327-351
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• 2023

This article explores how multi-objective optimization techniques can be used to design cost-effective and structurally optimal spatial steel structures, highlighting that optimizing performance can be as important as minimizing costs in real-world engineering problems. The study includes the minimization of maximum horizontal displacement, the maximization of the first natural frequency of vibration, the maximization of the critical load factor concerning the first global buckling mode of the structure, and weight minimization as the objectives. Additionally, it outlines a systematic approach to selecting the best design by employing four different evolutionary algorithms based on differential evolution and a multi-criteria decision-making methodology. The paper's contribution lies in its comprehensive consideration of multiple conflicting objectives and its novel approach to simultaneous consideration of bracing system, column orientation, and commercial profiles as design variables.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.363-375
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• 2024

Within the optimization field, addressing the intricate posed by fluidic pressure loads on functionally graded structures with frequency-related designs is a kind of complex design challenges. This paper thus introduces an innovative density-based topology optimization strategy for frequency-constraint functionally graded structures incorporating Darcy's law and a drainage term. It ensures consistent treatment of design-dependent fluidic pressure loads to frequency-related structures that dynamically adjust their direction and location throughout the design evolution. The porosity of each finite element, coupled with its drainage term, is intricately linked to its density variable through a Heaviside function, ensuring a seamless transition between solid and void phases. A design-specific pressure field is established by employing Darcy's law, and the associated partial differential equation is solved using finite element analysis. Subsequently, this pressure field is utilized to ascertain consistent nodal loads, enabling an efficient evaluation of load sensitivities through the adjoint-variable method. Moreover, this novel approach incorporates load-dependent structures, frequency constraints, functionally graded material models, and polygonal meshes, expanding its applicability and flexibility to a broader range of engineering scenarios. The proposed methodology's effectiveness and robustness are demonstrated through numerical examples, including fluidic pressure-loaded frequency-constraint structures undergoing small deformations, where compliance is minimized for structures optimized within specified resource constraints.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.52-66
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• 1983

The brown planthopper, N. lugens (Stal), has become a serious pest of rice in tropical Asia during the last decade. At high pest density, its feeding damage causes 'hopperburn' or complete wilting and drying of the rice plant. It also transmits grassy and ragged stunt virus diseases. The estimated losses caused by the pest in tropical Asia exceed $US\$300$ millions. While cultivation of resistant rice varieties has proved to be highly effective against the pest, their long-term stability is threatened because of the evolution of prolific biotypes which can destroy these varieties. At present, identification of biotypes is based principally on the differential reactions of host rice varieties to the pest and on host-mediated behavioral and physiological responses of the pest. Recent findings of morphological differences in adult rostrum, legs, and antennae, body parts that possess receptors for host plant location and discrimination, and cytological differences in N. lugens populations maintained as stock cultures strongly complement other biotype studies. So far, three N. lugens biotypes have been identified in the Philippines. Biotype I can survive on and damage varieties that do not carry and genes for resistance, while Biotype 2 survives on resistant varieties carrying Bph 1 gene and Biotype 3 on varieties carrying gene bph 2. However, none of these biotypes can survive on varieties with genes Bph 3 or bph 4. Several varieties which are resistant in the Philippines are susceptible in India and Sri Lanka as the South Asian biotypes of N. lugens are more virulent than Southeast Asian biotypes. To monitor the pest biotypes in different geographical regions and to identify new sources of resistance, an International Brown Planthopper Nursery has been established in many cooperating countries. The evolution of biotypes is an exceedingly complex process which is governed by the interactions of genetic and biological factors of the pest populations and the genetic makeup of the cultivated varieties. While the strategy for sequential release of varieties with major resistance genes has been fairly successful so far, the monegenic resistance of these varieties makes them vulnerable to the development of the pest biotypes. Therefore, present breeding endeavors envisage utilizing both major and minor resistance genes for effective control of the pest.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2006

The phase-shift method for determining the Langmuir, Frumkin, and Temkin adsorption isotherms ($\theta_H\;vs.\;E$) of H for the cathodic $H_2$ evolution reaction (HER) at a Pt/0.1 M KOH solution interface has been proposed and verified using cyclic voltammetric, differential pulse voltammetric, and electrochemical impedance techniques. At the Pt/0.1 M KOH solution interface, the Langmuir and Temkin adsorption isotherms ($\theta_H\;vs.\;E$), the equilibrium constants ($K_H=2.9X10^{-4}mol^{-1}$ for the Langmuir and $K_H=2.9X10^{-3}\exp(-4.6\theta_H)mol^{-1}$ for the Temkin adsorption isotherm), the interaction parameters (g=0 far the Langmuir and g=4.6 for the Temkin adsorption isotherm), the rate of change of the standard free energy of $\theta_H\;with\;\theta_H$ (r=11.4 kJ $mol^{-1}$ for g=4.6), and the standard free energies (${\Delta}G_{ads}^{\circ}=20.2kJ\;mol^{-1}$ for $k_H=2.9\times10^{-4}mol^{-1}$, i.e., the Langmuir adsorption isotherm, and $16.7<{\Delta}G_\theta^{\circ}<23.6kJ\;mol^{-1}$ for $K_H=2.9\times10^{-3}\exp(-4.6\theta_H)mol^{-1}$ and $0.2<\theta_H<0.8$, i.e., the Temkin adsorption isotherm) of H for the cathodic HER are determined using the phase-shift method. At intermediate values of $\theta_H$, i.e., $0.2<\theta_H<0.8$, the Temkin adsorption isotherm ($\theta_H\;vs.\;E$) corresponding to the Langmuir adsorption isotherm ($\theta_H\;vs.\;E$), and vice versa, is readily determined using the constant conversion factors. The phase-shift method and constant conversion factors are useful and effective for determining the Langmuir, Frumkin, and Temkin adsorption isotherms of intermediates for sequential reactions and related electrode kinetic and thermodynamic data at electrode catalyst interfaces.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 나노 스케일 확산 공정 모사를 위한 방법으로 동력학적 몬테칼로(kinetic Monte Carlo)를 소개하고자 한다. 먼저 동력학적 몬테칼로의 이론과 배경을 살펴보고 실제적인 이해를 돕기 위하여 실리콘 기판에 이온(전자) 주입 후 열처리과정에서 일어나는 점결함의 확산을 동력학적 몬테칼로를 이용하여 모사하는 간단한 예를 보여주고 있다. 동력학적 몬테칼로는 몬테칼로의 일종이지만 기존의 몬테칼로에서 구현하지 못하였던 물리적인 시간을 포아송 확률 과정을 통하여 구현하였다. 동력학적 몬테칼로 확산 공정 모사에서는 연속 확산 미분 방정식의 해를 구하는 기존의 유한 요소 수치 해석적 방법과 달리원자 상호간 혹은 원자와 결함 또는 결함들 간의 화학적 반응과 입자들의 확산 과정을 포아송 확률 과정에 따라 일어나는 화학적 반응, 입자들의 확산 사건의 연속으로 본다. 사건마다 고유의 사건 발생 확률을 갖고 이 사건 발생 확률에 따라 일어나는 확률적 사건의 연속적 발생으로 실제의 반도체 확산 공정을 시간에 따라 직접적으로 모사할 수 있다. 입자들 간의 화학적 반응 사건 확률과 입자들의 확산 공정에 필요한 확률적 인자들은 분자 동역학, 양자 역학적 계산, 흑은 실험으로 얻어진다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2016

Inactive space objects are usually rotating and tumbling as a result of internal or external forces. KOREASAT 1 has been inactive since 2005, and its drift trajectory has been monitored with the optical wide-field patrol network (OWL-Net). However, a quantitative analysis of KOREASAT 1 in regard to the attitude evolution has never been performed. Here, two optical tracking systems were used to acquire raw measurements to analyze the rotation period of two inactive satellites. During the optical campaign in 2013, KOREASAT 1 was observed by a 0.6 m class optical telescope operated by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI). The rotation period of KOREASAT 1 was analyzed with the light curves from the photometry results. The rotation periods of the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite ASTRO-H after break-up were detected by OWL-Net on April 7, 2016. We analyzed the magnitude variation of each satellite by differential photometry and made comparisons with the star catalog. The illumination effect caused by the phase angle between the Sun and the target satellite was corrected with the system tool kit (STK) and two line element (TLE) technique. Finally, we determined the rotation period of two inactive satellites on LEO and geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) with light curves from the photometry. The main rotation periods were determined to be 5.2 sec for ASTRO-H and 74 sec for KOREASAT 1.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.545-556
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• 2016

운영 중 해저 터널의 안정성 평가에 다양한 계측 정보를 사용해서 역해석하면, 효율적인 오차율 이내의 결과를 획득할 수 있다. 선행 연구에서 검증된 차분진화 알고리즘 기반의 역해석 수행 시 FLAC3D 등 범용 지반해석 프로그램을 사용했지만, 상대적으로 해석시간이 오래 걸리고, 제어가 어려운 단점이 있다. 이러한 이유로, 상대적으로 해석시간이 짧게 소요되는 beam-spring 모델기반의 FEM solver를 Python 언어로 개발하여, 기구축된 차분진화 알고리즘과 결합하였다. 계측 데이터로부터 실시간에 가깝게 운영 중 터널의 안정성 평가가 가능할 것으로 판단되며, 우선 솔버 개발에 용이한 종단방향 터널에 대해서 프로그램을 개발하였다.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.183-193
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• 2016

운영 중 터널의 역해석을 통한 안정성 평가는 다루기 어려운 개념이다. 특히, 해저터널처럼 라이닝이 상대적으로 두껍게 시공된 경우에 발생하는 내공변위가 작기 때문에, 일반적으로 터널 역해석에 사용되는 변위 기반의 터널 역해석에는 한계가 있을 것으로 판단된다. 여기서는 FLAC3D 프로그램에 내장된 FISH 언어를 사용해서, 다양한 역해석 알고리즘 중에 차분진화 알고리즘의 구축을 통한 터널 역해석에 대한 적용성을 확인하였다. 또한, 변위 기반의 알고리즘 구축과 더불어 응력 계측값 등 다양한 인자의 적합성을 확인하여 터널 라이닝의 안정성을 평가하고자 한다.