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ON THE EXTREMAL TYPE I BINARY SELF-DUAL CODES WITH NEAR-MINIMAL SHADOW

  • HAN, SUNGHYU
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.37 no.1_2
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    • pp.85-95
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we define near-minimal shadow and study the existence problem of extremal Type I binary self-dual codes with near-minimal shadow. We prove that there is no such codes of length n = 24m + 2($m{\geq}0$), n = 24m + 4($m{\geq}9$), n = 24m + 6($m{\geq}21$), and n = 24m + 10($m{\geq}87$).

Midline enhancer activity of the short gastrulation shadow enhancer is characterized by three unusual features for cis-regulatory DNA

  • Shin, Dong-Hyeon;Hong, Joung-Woo
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.48 no.10
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    • pp.589-594
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    • 2015
  • The shadow enhancer of the short gastrulation (sog) gene directs its sequential expression in the neurogenic ectoderm and the ventral midline of the developing Drosophila embryo. Here, we characterize three unusual features of the shadow enhancer midline activity. First, the minimal regions for the two different enhancer activities exhibit high overlap within the shadow enhancer, meaning that one developmental enhancer possesses dual enhancer activities. Second, the midline enhancer activity relies on five Single-minded (Sim)-binding sites, two of which have not been found in any Sim target enhancers. Finally, two linked Dorsal (Dl)- and Zelda (Zld)-binding sites, critical for the neurogenic ectoderm enhancer activity, are also required for the midline enhancer activity. These results suggest that early activation by Dl and Zld may facilitate late activation via the noncanonical sites occupied by Sim. We discuss a model for Zld as a pioneer factor and speculate its role in midline enhancer activity.

An Effective Moving Cast Shadow Removal in Gray Level Video for Intelligent Visual Surveillance (지능 영상 감시를 위한 흑백 영상 데이터에서의 효과적인 이동 투영 음영 제거)

  • Nguyen, Thanh Binh;Chung, Sun-Tae;Cho, Seongwon
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.420-432
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    • 2014
  • In detection of moving objects from video sequences, an essential process for intelligent visual surveillance, the cast shadows accompanying moving objects are different from background so that they may be easily extracted as foreground object blobs, which causes errors in localization, segmentation, tracking and classification of objects. Most of the previous research results about moving cast shadow detection and removal usually utilize color information about objects and scenes. In this paper, we proposes a novel cast shadow removal method of moving objects in gray level video data for visual surveillance application. The proposed method utilizes observations about edge patterns in the shadow region in the current frame and the corresponding region in the background scene, and applies Laplacian edge detector to the blob regions in the current frame and the corresponding regions in the background scene. Then, the product of the outcomes of application determines moving object blob pixels from the blob pixels in the foreground mask. The minimal rectangle regions containing all blob pixles classified as moving object pixels are extracted. The proposed method is simple but turns out practically very effective for Adative Gaussian Mixture Model-based object detection of intelligent visual surveillance applications, which is verified through experiments.

A Study on Roots and Formative World of Minimalism Furniture Design -Focused on furniture design works of Minimal artists- (미니멀리즘 가구디자인의 근원과 조형세계에 관한 연구 -미니멀 아티스트의 가구디자인 사례를 중심으로-)

  • Choi, Byung-Hoon;Kim, Jin-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.89-100
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    • 2006
  • Minimalism describes various movements in art and design, which flourished mainly in the USA in the 1960s. Its popularity, however, was cut short by post-modernism. In the mid-1990s, minimalism was given a second breath of life and became culturally popular, especially in areas such as design and art the minimalist movement launched some trends that supplanted post-modernism and whose influences still cast a heavy shadow on society today. From this point of view, in analyzing the form and characteristics of the artists and their work from the 1960s, which were the first generation of the minimalist furniture designers, it is necessary to understand and analyze contemporary artists and their art. In this study, four American minimal artists in the furniture design field, Donald Judd, Richard Tuttle, Scott Burton, and Richard Artschwager were studied along with their works. The results show the three distinct characteristics of minimalist furniture design featuring strict and simple geometric shapes: the form, which was influenced by early modernism variety and origin, which are formative of the materials and the way they are used as influenced by surrealism and a new concept of art such as aesthetics for the little things, which echoes influences of Dadaism, and especially of earlier artists such as Marcel Duchamp.

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Predicting Road Surface Temperature using Solar Radiation Data from SOLWEIG(SOlar and LongWave Environmental Irradiance Geometry-model): Focused on Naebu Expressway in Seoul (태양복사모델(SOLWEIG)의 복사플럭스 자료를 활용한 노면온도 예측: 서울시 내부순환로 대상)

  • AHN, Suk-Hee;KWON, Hyuk-Gi;YANG, Ho-Jin;LEE, Geun-Hee;YI, Chae-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.156-172
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to predict road surface temperature using high-resolution solar radiation data. The road surface temperature prediction model (RSTPM) was applied to predict road surface temperature; this model was developed based on the heat-balance method. In addition, using SOLWEIG (SOlar and LongWave Environmental Irradiance Geometry-model), the shadow patterns caused by the terrain effects were analyzed, and high-resolution solar radiation data with 10 m spatial resolution were calculated. To increase the accuracy of the shadow patterns and solar radiation, the day that was modeled had minimal effects from fog, clouds, and precipitation. As a result, shadow areas lasted for a long time at the entrance and exit of a tunnel, and in a high-altitude area. Furthermore, solar radiation clearly decreased in areas affected by shadows, which was reflected in the predicted road surface temperatures. It was confirmed that the road surface temperature should be high at topographically open points and relatively low at higher altitude points. The results of this study could be used to forecast the freezing of sections of road surfaces in winter, and to inform decision making by road managers and drivers.

Development of Cloud and Shadow Detection Algorithm for Periodic Composite of Sentinel-2A/B Satellite Images (Sentinel-2A/B 위성영상의 주기합성을 위한 구름 및 구름 그림자 탐지 기법 개발)

  • Kim, Sun-Hwa;Eun, Jeong
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.37 no.5_1
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    • pp.989-998
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    • 2021
  • In the utilization of optical satellite imagery, which is greatly affected by clouds, periodic composite technique is a useful method to minimize the influence of clouds. Recently, a technique for selecting the optimal pixel that is least affected by the cloud and shadow during a certain period by directly inputting cloud and cloud shadow information during period compositing has been proposed. Accurate extraction of clouds and cloud shadowsis essential in order to derive optimal composite results. Also, in the case of an surface targets where spectral information is important, such as crops, the loss of spectral information should be minimized during cloud-free compositing. In thisstudy, clouds using two spectral indicators (Haze Optimized Tranformation and MeanVis) were used to derive a detection technique with low loss ofspectral information while maintaining high detection accuracy of clouds and cloud shadowsfor cabbage fieldsin the highlands of Gangwon-do. These detection results were compared and analyzed with cloud and cloud shadow information provided by Sentinel-2A/B. As a result of analyzing data from 2019 to 2021, cloud information from Sentinel-2A/B satellites showed detection accuracy with an F1 value of 0.91, but bright artifacts were falsely detected as clouds. On the other hand, the cloud detection result obtained by applying the threshold (=0.05) to the HOT showed relatively low detection accuracy (F1=0.72), but the loss ofspectral information was minimized due to the small number of false positives. In the case of cloud shadows, only minimal shadows were detected in the Sentinel-2A/B additional layer, but when a threshold (= 0.015) was applied to MeanVis, cloud shadowsthat could be distinguished from the topographically generated shadows could be detected. By inputting spectral indicators-based cloud and shadow information,stable monthly cloud-free composited vegetation index results were obtained, and in the future, high-accuracy cloud information of Sentinel-2A/B will be input to periodic cloud-free composite for comparison.

Seismic Tomography using Graph Theoretical Ray Tracing

  • Keehm, Young-Seuk;Baag, Chang-Eob;Lee, Jung-Mo
    • International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Korean Journal of Geophysical Research
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.23-34
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    • 1997
  • Seismic tomography using the graph theoretical method of ray tracing is performed in two synthetic data sets with laterally varying velocity structures. The straight-ray tomography shows so poor results in imaging the laterally varying velocity structure that the ray-traced tomographic techniques should be used. Conventional ray tracing methods have serious drawbacks, i.e. problems of convergence and local minima, when they are applied to seismic tomography. The graph theretical method finds good approximated raypaths in rapidly varying media even in shadow zones, where shooting methods meet with convergence problems. The graph theoretical method ensures the globally minimal traveltime raypath while bending methods often cause local minima problems. Especially, the graph theoretical method is efficient in case that many sources and receivers exist, since it can find the traveltimes and corresponding raypaths to all receivers from a specific source at one time. Moreover, the algorithm of graph theoretical method is easily applicable to the ray tracing in anisotropic media, and even to the three dimensional case. Among the row-active inversion techniques, the conjugate gradient (CG) method is used because of fast convergence and high efficiency. The iterative sequence of the ray tracing by the graph theoretical method and the inversion by the CG method is an efficient and robust algorithm for seismic tomography in laterally varying velocity structures.

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A Study on the Chest Radiography for Reducing Exposure Dose (흉부X선촬영(胸部X線撮影)에 있어서 피폭선량(被曝線量)의 저감(低減)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Lee, Man-Koo;Yoon, Han-Sik;Lee, Jong-Seok;Lee, Sun-Sook;Hayashi, Taro;Ishida, Yuji;Maeda, Mika;Sakurai, Tatsuya
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 1996
  • We have been used super sensitive screen/film system which is thought to be the limit of sensitivity, however, we think this method is not satisfactory. As a general radiographic rule, reduction of exposure is inconsistent with improvement of image quality, but it is necessary to challenge this rule to get better method. We tried air gap method for minimal diffuse lung shadow which is difficult to find out by our routine method. As a result, air gap method with super sensitive screen/film system(SRO 1000/TMH) showed lower exposure dose, 50% of our routine system(SRO 750/SRH with grid), and better image quality for pulmonary pattern in the lower lung field.

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Evaluation of Water Retentive Pavement as Mitigation Strategy for Urban Heat Island Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Cortes, Aiza;Shimadera, Hikari;Matsuo, Tomohito;Kondo, Akira
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.179-189
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    • 2016
  • Here we evaluated the effect of using water retentive pavement or WRP made from fly ash as material for main street in a real city block. We coupled computational fluid dynamics and pavement transport (CFD-PT) model to examine energy balance in the building canopies and ground surface. Two cases of 24 h unsteady analysis were simulated: case 1 where asphalt was used as the pavement material of all ground surfaces and case 2 where WRP was used as main street material. We aim to (1) predict diurnal variation in air temperature, wind speed, ground surface temperature and water content; and (2) compare ground surface energy fluxes. Using the coupled CFD-PT model it was proven that WRP as pavement material for main street can cause a decrease in ground surface temperature. The most significant decrease occurred at 1200 JST when solar radiation was most intense, surface temperature decreased by $13.8^{\circ}C$. This surface temperature decrease also led to cooling of air temperature at 1.5 m above street surface. During this time, air temperature in case 2 decreased by $0.28^{\circ}C$. As the radiation weakens from 1600 JST to 2000 JST, evaporative cooling had also been minimal. Shadow effect, higher albedo and lower thermal conductivity of WRP also contributed to surface temperature decrease. The cooling of ground surface eventually led to air temperature decrease. The degree of air temperature decrease was proportional to the surface temperature decrease. In terms of energy balance, WRP caused a maximum increase in latent heat flux by up to $255W/m^2$ and a decrease in sensible heat flux by up to $465W/m^2$.