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Development of Biotelemetry Method by Combining the SSBL Method and the Pinger Synchronizing Method (1) - Design and production of system - (SSBL 방식과 핑거동기 방식을 조합한 바이오텔레메터리 방식의 개발 (1) -시스템의 설계 및 제작 -)

  • 박주삼;고탁창언
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.218-229
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    • 2003
  • A new biotelemetry method that the installation and the treatment of equipment is convenient and the instantaneously detailed location of the fish attached the pinger is able to track comparatively easily was developed. The receiving system in this biotelemetry method was advanced for track the detailed behavior of the fish by the miniature tracking pinger, because it was a burden to fish to add the pinger with the water temperature and the pressure sensor. By combining of the super short base line (SSBL) method to detect the direction of pinger and the pinger synchronizing method to measure the range from receiving transducer to pinger, the three dimensional locations of fish to the receiving transducer is gotten instantaneously. The receiving system is devised to realize the high precision or wide detection range by application of the basic design method for receiving system of biotelemetry developed by the present authors and the hydrophone array configuration. The measurement distance error in the pinger synchronizing method is minimized through the correction of which the deviation of transmission pluse period of pinger is caused by changing water temperature. A prototype system which is able to track the instantaneously detailed location of the fish by the SSBL and pinger synchronizing biotelemetry (SPB) method was produced.

Biological Pump in the East Sea Estimated by a Box Model (상자 모형으로 추정한 동해의 생물 펌프)

  • Kim, Jae-Yeon;Kang, Dong-Jin;Kim, Eung;Cho, Jin-Hyung;Lee, Chang-Rae;Kim, Kyung-Ryul;Lee, Tong-Sup
    • The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.295-306
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    • 2003
  • Recently efforts are underway to analyze the impacts of anthropogenic $CO_2$ on the global environments and the amount of oceanic uptake increase. The East Sea is now viewed as a miniature ocean because its circulation pattern is similar to the ocean conveyer belt. The biological pump of the East Sea is a vital component to understand the carbon cycle quantitatively. In this paper, the biological pump is estimated utilizing the stoichiometric ratio between carbon and phosphorus. A simple phosphate budget model is constructed based on the seawater and dissolved oxygen box model that can simulate the recent structural change in deep water circulation of the East Sea. A model run from you 1952 to 2040 shows the steadily intensifying biological pump. Currently it exports about 0.016 Pg C yr$^{-1}$ , which corresponds to 35% of the carbon introduced into the seawater by the air-sea exchange. An increased oxygen supply to the central water mass as a result of from the transition in the ventilation system might enhance the remineralization of sinking biogenic particles. This should strengthen the upward nutrient flux into the surface layer. Consequently, the biological sequestration of anthropogenic carbon is expected to increase with time. The estimated biological uptake of the anthropogenic carbon in the East Sea since the Industrial Revolution is estimated as 0.025 Pg C.

Characteristics of $TiH_2$ under High Pressure (고압하에서 $TiH_2$의 특성화 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Ho
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.72-78
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    • 1992
  • The Earth outer core accomodates moderately considerable amount of lighter elements than pure iron itself. Hydrogen is one of the possible candidates of minor constituents in the outer core. It would be worth while to extend for the pressure effect on the solubility of hydrogen in the metal-hydrides including iron hydride. In view of hydrogen being one of the potential substitutes for petroleum, searching a more efficient way for storing hydrogen in the form of hydrides is of considerable value. For two purposes, $TiH_2$was selected among lot of hydrides for its characteristics under pressure and temperature. There have been two kinds of experiment carried out on $TiH_2$ under different experimental conditions. As one of these attempts, polycrystalline $TiH_2$ was loaded up to 15 GPa stepwise at the constant temperature 500${\circ}$ using a piston-cylinder diamond anvil cell equipped with a miniature furnace of an electric power supply. The X-ra diffraction technique was employed on the quenched samples after the simultaneous high pressure and temperature treatments. During these high pressure-temperature runs, and irreversible phase of $TiH_2$ has been observed at the pressures higher than 11.3 GPa, which would be assigned to the orthorhombic crystal system as one of the new phase(s) of $TiH_2$. Molar volume change on this phase transition is ∼10%.

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Low-Complexity Deeply Embedded CPU and SoC Implementation (낮은 복잡도의 Deeply Embedded 중앙처리장치 및 시스템온칩 구현)

  • Park, Chester Sungchung;Park, Sungkyung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.699-707
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    • 2016
  • This paper proposes a low-complexity central processing unit (CPU) that is suitable for deeply embedded systems, including Internet of things (IoT) applications. The core features a 16-bit instruction set architecture (ISA) that leads to high code density, as well as a multicycle architecture with a counter-based control unit and adder sharing that lead to a small hardware area. A co-processor, instruction cache, AMBA bus, internal SRAM, external memory, on-chip debugger (OCD), and peripheral I/Os are placed around the core to make a system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform. This platform is based on a modified Harvard architecture to facilitate memory access by reducing the number of access clock cycles. The SoC platform and CPU were simulated and verified at the C and the assembly levels, and FPGA prototyping with integrated logic analysis was carried out. The CPU was synthesized at the ASIC front-end gate netlist level using a $0.18{\mu}m$ digital CMOS technology with 1.8V supply, resulting in a gate count of merely 7700 at a 50MHz clock speed. The SoC platform was embedded in an FPGA on a miniature board and applied to deeply embedded IoT applications.

Evaluating Stability and Functionality of Hybrid Erosion Control Dam for Reducing Debris Flow Damage in Forested Catchment Nearby Urban Area (도시생활권의 토석류 피해 저감을 위한 복합형 사방댐의 안정성 및 기능성 평가)

  • Kim, Kidae;Kim, Dongyeob;Seo, Junpyo;Lee, Changwoo;Woo, Choongshik;Kang, Minjeng;Jeong, Sangseom;Lee, Dongkyun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.107 no.1
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 2018
  • The objective of this study was to develop erosion control dam for preventing disaster in consideration of characteristics of forested catchment near urban area, and to assess its stability and functionality to see its practicability in the field. Two types of hybrid erosion control dams were developed including debris flow prevention dam by using pillar and float board screen type and debris flow control dam by using groyne. Also, review about their static (sliding, overturning, bearing capacity) and dynamic (member force) stability was carried out. According to the result, most of the assessed items met standard safety level although there were some cases where assessed items were short of stability criteria against impact. Also, after miniature flume experiments based on the developed erosion control dam to prove structure function (material catch, deposit), it turned out the dam decreased flow sediment amount and velocity while increasing sediment-capturing capacity by 3.5 times on average compared to the one controlled without erosion control dam. When function of erosion control dam for forested catchment near urban area is quantified based on future flume experiments in a variety of conditions, the dams can be practically used in the urban area, contribution to effectively reducing debris flow damage.

Seawater N/P ratio of the East Sea (동해 해수의 질소:인의 비)

  • LEE, TONGSUP;RHO, TAE-KEUN
    • The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.199-205
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    • 2015
  • Nitrogen and phosphorus are the limiting elements for growth of phytoplankton, which is a major primary producer of marine ecosystem. Incidentally the stoichiometry of N/P of ocean waters, measured by the (nitrate + nitrite)/phosphate ratio converges to a constant of 16. This characteristic ratio has been used widely for the understanding the ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemical cycles in the ocean. In the East Sea, several key papers were issued in recent years regarding the climate change and its impact on ecosystem dynamic and biogeochemical cycles using N/P ratio because the East Sea is a "miniature ocean" having her own meridional overturning circulation with the appropriate responding time and excellent accessibility. However, cited N/P values are different by authors that we tried to propose a single representative value by reanalyzing the historical nutrient data. We present N/P of the East Sea as $12.7{\pm}0.1$ for the year 2000. The ratio reveals a remarkable consistency for waters exceeding 300m depth (below the seasonal thermocline). We recommend to use this value in the future studies and hope to minimize confusion for understanding ecosystem response and biogeochemical cycles in relation to future climate change until new N/P value is established from future studies.

Thermal Analysis of 3D package using TSV Interposer (TSV 인터포저 기술을 이용한 3D 패키지의 방열 해석)

  • Suh, Il-Woong;Lee, Mi-Kyoung;Kim, Ju-Hyun;Choa, Sung-Hoon
    • Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.43-51
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    • 2014
  • In 3-dimensional (3D) integrated package, thermal management is one of the critical issues due to the high heat flux generated by stacked multi-functional chips in miniature packages. In this study, we used numerical simulation method to analyze the thermal behaviors, and investigated the thermal issues of 3D package using TSV (through-silicon-via) technology for mobile application. The 3D integrated package consists of up to 8 TSV memory chips and one logic chip with a interposer which has regularly embedded TSVs. Thermal performances and characteristics of glass and silicon interposers were compared. Thermal characteristics of logic and memory chips are also investigated. The effects of numbers of the stacked chip, size of the interposer and TSV via on the thermal behavior of 3D package were investigated. Numerical analysis of the junction temperature, thermal resistance, and heat flux for 3D TSV package was performed under normal operating and high performance operation conditions, respectively. Based on the simulation results, we proposed an effective integration scheme of the memory and logic chips to minimize the temperature rise of the package. The results will be useful of design optimization and provide a thermal design guideline for reliable and high performance 3D TSV package.

Polarization Precession Effects for Shear Elastic Waves in Rotated Solids

  • Sarapuloff, Sergii A.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2013.04a
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    • pp.842-848
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    • 2013
  • Developments of Solid-State Gyroscopy during last decades are impressive and were based on thin-walled shell resonators like HRG or CRG made from fused quartz or leuko-sapphire. However, a number of design choices for inertial-grade gyroscopes, which can be used for high-g applications and for mass- or middle-scale production, is still very limited. So, considerations of fundamental physical effects in solids that can be used for development of a miniature, completely solid-state, and lower-cost sensor look urgent. There is a variety of different types of bulk acoustic (elastic) waves (BAW) in anisotropic solids. Shear waves with different variants of their polarization have to be studied especially carefully, because shear sounds in glasses and crystals are sensitive to a turn of the solid as a whole, and, so, they can be used for development of gyroscopic sensors. For an isotropic medium (for a glass or a fine polycrystalline body), classic Lame's theorem (so-called, a general solution of Elasticity Theory or Green-Lame's representation) has been modified for enough general case: an elastic medium rotated about an arbitrary set of axes. Travelling, standing, and mixed shear waves propagating in an infinite isotopic medium (or between a pair of parallel reflecting surfaces) have been considered too. An analogy with classic Foucault's pendulum has been underlined for the effect of a turn of a polarizational plane (i.e., an integration effect for an input angular rate) due to a medium's turn about the axis of the wave propagation. These cases demonstrate a whole-angle regime of gyroscopic operation. Single-crystals are anisotropic media, and, therefore, to reflect influence of the crystal's rotation, classic Christoffel-Green's tensors have been modified. Cases of acoustic axes corresponding to equal velocities for a pair of the pure-transverse (shear) waves have of an evident applied interest. For such a special direction in a crystal, different polarizations of waves are possible, and the gyroscopic effect of "polarizational precession" can be observed like for a glass. Naturally, formation of a wave pattern in a massive elastic body is much more complex due to reflections from its boundaries. Some of these complexities can be eliminated. However, a non-homogeneity has a fundamental nature for any amorphous medium due to its thermodynamically-unstable micro-structure, having fluctuations of the rapidly-frozen liquid. For single-crystalline structures, blockness (walls of dislocations) plays a similar role. Physical nature and kinematic particularities of several typical "drifts" in polarizational BAW gyros (P-BAW) have been considered briefly too. They include irregular precessions ("polarizational beats") due to: non-homogeneity of mass density and elastic moduli, dissymmetry of intrinsic losses, and an angular mismatch between propagation and acoustic axes.

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Development of a Mobile GIS Using a Shareware DBMS (Shareware DBMS를 이용한 모바일 GIS의 개발)

  • Yun, Jae-Kwan;Lee, Keun-Ho;Han, Ki-Joon
    • Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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    • v.2 no.2 s.4
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    • pp.25-37
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    • 2000
  • As computer systems of high capacity and high performance recently emerged, various researches about GISs(Geographic Information Systems) have been in progress and many GIS applications have also been developed. From the domestic situation where many people are using mobile devices, because of the recent advances in the mobile technology, we can infer that the time will come when every individual will carry a mobile device with a GPS(Global Positioning System) module resulting from the development of a miniature GPS Module. Therefore, a mobile GIS that can allows users to deal with dynamic GIS data management and perform their tasks while moving will be required. This paper discusses the design and implementation of a mobile GIS using the shareware DBMS, called postgresSQL. The Mobile GIS in which a mobile concept is utilized at the GIS data server makes it possible to insert, delete, update GIS data, to zoom in and zoom out displayed maps, and to locate the user's position on the client device. Therefore, It is possible to manage dynamic GIS data in order to deal with GIS data on the maps while moving, connect various GIS data servers through the middleware, and connected with ITS (Intelligent Transport System) which is one of applications of the Mobile GIS developed in this paper.

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MINERVA: SMALL PLANETS FROM SMALL TELESCOPES

  • WITTENMYER, ROBERT A.;JOHNSON, JOHN ASHER;WRIGHT, JASON;MCCRADY, NATE;SWIFT, JONATHAN;BOTTOM, MICHAEL;PLAVCHAN, PETER;RIDDLE, REED;MUIRHEAD, PHILIP S.;HERZIG, ERICH;MYLES, JUSTIN;BLAKE, CULLEN H.;EASTMAN, JASON;BEATTY, THOMAS G.;LIN, BRIAN;ZHAO, MING;GARDNER, PAUL;FALCO, EMILIO;CRISWELL, STEPHEN;NAVA, CHANTANELLE;ROBINSON, CONNOR;HEDRICK, RICHARD;IVARSEN, KEVIN;HJELSTROM, ANNIE;VERA, JON DE;SZENTGYORGYI, ANDREW
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.665-669
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    • 2015
  • The Kepler mission has shown that small planets are extremely common. It is likely that nearly every star in the sky hosts at least one rocky planet. We just need to look hard enough-but this requires vast amounts of telescope time. MINERVA (MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array) is a dedicated exoplanet observatory with the primary goal of discovering rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting in the habitable zone of bright, nearby stars. The MINERVA team is a collaboration among UNSW Australia, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Penn State University, University of Montana, and the California Institute of Technology. The four-telescope MINERVA array will be sited at the F.L. Whipple Observatory on Mt Hopkins in Arizona, USA. Full science operations will begin in mid-2015 with all four telescopes and a stabilised spectrograph capable of high-precision Doppler velocity measurements. We will observe ~100 of the nearest, brightest, Sun-like stars every night for at least five years. Detailed simulations of the target list and survey strategy lead us to expect $15{\pm}4$ new low-mass planets.