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Barriers to Realization of Forestry Mitigation Potential in India

  • Murthy, Indu K;Prasad KV, Devi
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.405-411
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    • 2018
  • Implementation of mitigation options on land is important for realisation of the goals of the Paris Agreement to stabilize temperature at $2^{\circ}C$. In India, the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) targets include a forestry goal of creation of carbon sinks of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes by 2030. There are however, multiple barriers to implementation of forestry mitigation options in India. They include environmental, social, financial, technological and institutional barriers. The barriers are varied not just across land categories but also for a land category depending on its regional location and distribution. In addition to these barriers is the impeding climate change that places at risk realisation of the mitigation potential as rising temperatures, drought, and fires associated with projected climate change may lead to forests becoming a weaker sink or a net carbon source before the end of the century.

Assessment of the performances of a heat exchanger in a light helicopter

  • Carozza, Antonio
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.469-482
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    • 2015
  • This study has the aim to develop a numerical design regarding the position and the inner performances of a heat exchanger in a light helicopter. the problem was to find first of all the best position of the heat exchanger inside the engine vane in order to maximize the air flow rate capable to pass through the heat exchanger section. It is to be said that the only air contribution in the vane comes from the opening present in the roof under the main rotor. The design has been performed by means of the commercial code Fluent and using the well known grid generator ICEM CFD. Different positions are first investigated so to establish the best one. Subsequently, different areas of the opening on the roof have been considered in order to maximize even more the flow rate in the heat exchanger that was not sufficient based on the first guess of velocity, as aforementioned. At the end interesting design results are presented and discussed by contours of fields and values.

A Study of Determining Priorities of RWIS Installation (RWIS 설치를 위한 우선순위 선정 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Yang, Choong Heon;Kim, In Su;Jeon, Woo Hoon
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.175-182
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    • 2012
  • PURPOSES : This paper presents how to determine priorities of RWIS installation on national highways within the limited budget. METHODS : Analytical hierarchy process was employed to develop the entire methodology. In addition to this, various data such as vulnerable roadway section for snow removal, RWIS, AWS, AADT, and traffic accident were properly collected and analyzed for the future analysis. Then, GIS analysis was performed to find out the final candidate vulnerable roadway section for snow removal. In the end, expert survey was conducted to estimate weights for evaluation criteria. RESULTS : Results showed that metropolitan area has the most high priority, and Gangwon area, ChungCheung, and Honam in order. CONCLUSIONS : The main contribution of this paper is to suggest a logical methodology to prioritize RWIS installation within the limited budget, and thus snow removal operation during the winter season can improve in terms of getting more valuable information.

Ultimate Strength of Composite Beams with Unreinforced Web Opening (유공 합성보의 강도식에 관한 연구)

  • 김창호;박종원;김희구
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.101-110
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    • 2000
  • A practical approach of calculating the ultimate strength of composite beams with unreinforced web opning is proposed through shear behavioral tests. In this method, the slab shear contribution at the opening is calculated as the smaller value of the pullout capacity of shear connector at the high moment end and the one way shear capacity of slab. A simple interaction equation is used to predict the ultimate strength under simultaneous bending moment and shear force. Strength prediction by the proposed method is compared with previous test results and the predictions by other analytical methods. The comparison shows that the proposed method predicts the ultimate capacity with resonable accuracy.

ENHANCEMENT OF NORMAL AND NEOPLASTIC MAMMARY GROWTH BY CROSSBREEDING BETWEEN STRAINS OF FEMALE AND MALE MICE WITH HIGH MAMMARY GROWTH POTENTIALS

  • Nagasawa, Hiroshi;Koshimizu, U.;Yamamoto, K.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.43-46
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    • 1988
  • Based on our previous results that among 4 strains of mice SHN and GR/A showed the highest mammary growth potentials in females and males, respectively. Effects of crossbreeding on normal and neoplastic mammary growth were studied in $(SHN\;{\times}\;GR/A)F_1$ virgin female mice. $F_1$ mice were higher than the parental strains in the end-bud formation and the ductal growth of mammary glands at 60 days of age and at tumorous age, respectively. While there was little difference between $F_1$ and both parental strains in the onset age of the first mammary tumors, mammary tumorigenic potential was apparently higher in the former than in the latters. This would be the first report that demonstrated directly the contribution of mammary growth potential of males to that of female offspring.

Building Energy Management System Coupling with Renewable Energy System

  • Oh, Jin-Seok
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.34 no.9
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    • pp.705-709
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    • 2010
  • Buildings nowadays are increasingly expected to need higher and more economic performance requirements. Energy consumption in buildings accounts for over 30% of total energy use. The Building Energy Management System (BEMS) and renewable energy (RE) technologies are considered as a potential measure to improve energy efficiency and reduce use of grid-power. It is, however, a challenge to utilise the intermittent energy supply of RE in building energy systems. This paper presents an experimental study on a RE-embedded BEMS. A control algorithm for the RE-embedded BEMS was designed to maximise the utilisation of RE and eventually to reduce electrical utility bill. The proposed system is tested at a laboratorial chamber with an air conditioner, fan and heater. The contribution of RE in building energy system is discussed to this end.

A Research on Test Suites for Machine Translation Systems. (기계번역 시스템 측정 장치 연구)

  • Lee, Min-Haeng;Jee, Kwang-Sin;Chung, So-Woo
    • Language and Information
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.185-220
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this research is to propose a set of basic guidelines for the construction of English test suites, a set of basic guidelines for the construction of Korean test suites to objectively evaluate the performance of machine translation systems. For this end, we constructed 650 English test sentences, 650 Korean test sentences, and developed the statistical methods and tools for the comparative evaluation of the English-Korean machine translation systems. It also evaluates the existing commercial English-Korean machine translation systems. The importance of this research lies in that it will promote an awareness of the importance and need of testing machine translation systems within the Natural Language Community. This research will also make a big contribution to the development of evaluation methods and techniques for appropriate test suites for Korean information processing systems. The results of this research can be used by the natural language community to test the performance and development of their information processing systems or machine translation systems.

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Switching Control for End Order Nonlinear Systems by Avoiding Singular Manifolds (특이공간 회피에 의한 2차 비선형 시스템의 스위칭 제어기 설계)

  • Yeom, D.H.;Im, K.H.;Choi, J.Y.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.11b
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    • pp.315-318
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    • 2003
  • This paper proposes a switching control method applicable to any affine, 2nd order nonlinear system with single input. The key contribution is to develop a control design method which uses a piecewise continuous Lyapunov function non-increasing at every discontinuous point. The proposed design method requires no restrictions except full state availability. To obtain a non-increasing, piecewise continuous Lyapunov function, we change the sign of off-diagonal term s of the positive definite matrix composing the former Lyapunov function according to the sign of the Inter-connection term. And we use the solution of inequalities which guarantee each Lyapunov function is non-increasing at any discontinuous point.

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Inventory of Pu-238 and Pu-239,240 in the Soil of Korea

  • Lee, Myung-Ho;Lee, Chang-Woo;Park, Yong-Ho;Kim, Sang-Bok;Kim, Sam-Rang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1995.05a
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    • pp.893-898
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    • 1995
  • The cumulative deposition of Pu-238 and Pu-239,240 by the end of 1994 in undisturbed for the last 40 years, was determined at 9 sites in Korea. The cumulative deposition of Pu-238 and Pu-239 ranged from 0.76 to 3.77 and from 18.42 to 101.84 $Bqm^{-2}$, respectively. The mean values of the cumulative deposition of Pu-238 and Pu-239,240 were 2.16 and 54.75 $Bqm^{-2}$, respectively. These values are close to the value of worldwide fallout. No significant contribution to the cumulative deposition of Pu-238 and Pu-239,240 originating from the Chernobyl accident was found at my site.

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A Whole LCA of the Sustainable Aspects of Structural Systems in Tall Buildings

  • Trabucco, Dario;Wood, Antony;Vassart, Olivier;Popa, Nicoletta
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.71-86
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    • 2016
  • This paper summarizes the results of a two-year-long research project conducted by the CTBUH on the life cycle assessment (LCA) of tall building structural systems. The research project was made possible thanks to a $300,000 contribution from ArcelorMittal and the support of some of the most important structural engineering firms and players in the tall building industry. The research analyzed all life phases of a tall building's structural system: the extraction and production of its materials, transportation to the site, construction operations, final demolition of the building, and the end-of-life of the materials. The impact of the building structure during the operational phase (i.e., impact on daily energy consumption, maintenance, and suitability to changes) was also investigated, but no significant impacts were identified during this phase.