• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.161-205
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• 2013

We study seismically induced, anti-plane strain wave motion in a non-homogeneous geological region containing tunnels. Two different scenarios are considered: (a) The first models two tunnels in a finite geological region embedded within a laterally inhomogeneous, layered geological profile containing a seismic source. For this case, labelled as the first boundary-value problem (BVP 1), an efficient hybrid technique comprising the finite difference method (FDM) and the boundary element method (BEM) is developed and applied. Since the later method is based on the frequency-dependent fundamental solution of elastodynamics, the hybrid technique is defined in the frequency domain. Then, an inverse fast Fourier transformation (FFT) is used to recover time histories; (b) The second models a finite region with two tunnels, is embedded in a homogeneous half-plane, and is subjected to incident, time-harmonic SH-waves. This case, labelled as the second boundary-value problem (BVP 2), considers complex soil properties such as anisotropy, continuous inhomogeneity and poroelasticity. The computational approach is now the BEM alone, since solution of the surrounding half plane by the FDM is unnecessary. In sum, the hybrid FDM-BEM technique is able to quantify dependence of the signals that develop at the free surface to the following key parameters: seismic source properties and heterogeneous structure of the wave path (the FDM component) and near-surface geological deposits containing discontinuities in the form of tunnels (the BEM component). Finally, the hybrid technique is used for evaluating the seismic wave field that develops within a key geological cross-section of the Metro construction project in Thessaloniki, Greece, which includes the important Roman-era historical monument of Rotunda dating from the 3rd century A.D.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4857-4860
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• 2014

Background: Colorectal cancer is common in Iran. However our knowledge about survival of rectal cancer in our province is low. The aim of this study is to evaluate this question. Materials and Methods: Patients with documented pathology of adenocarcinoma of the rectum and rectosigmoid junction referred to our center from September 2004 to September 2012 were enrolled in this study. Metastatic and recurrent patients were excluded. A questionnaire including clinicopathologic parameters, quality and sequence of treatment modalities was filled in for each patient. Patients treated with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy were divided into standard and non-standard treatment groups, according to the sequence of treatment. Results: One hundred and nineteen patients were evaluated. Mean age was 60.8 year. The median overall survival was 62 months and five year survival was 55%. TNM staging system was not possible due to (Nx) in 21 (17.6%) patients. The others were in stage I, 20 patients (16.8%), II, 35 (29%.5) and III, 43(36.1%). According to our definition only 25 patients (21%) had been treated with standard treatment and 79% had not received it. A five year survival in patients with standard treatment was 85% and in the non-standard group it was 52%.Age, sex, stage and grade of tumor did not show any significant relation to survival. Conclusions: Our study showed a five year survival of rectal cancer in our patients was about 10% lower than the rate which is reported for developed countries. Preoperative concurrent chemoradiation significantly improved local control and even overall survival.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.401-416
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• 2024

Long-span structures, such as bridges, can experience different seismic excitations at the supports due to spatially variability of ground motion. Regarding current bridge designing codes, it is just EC 2008 that suggested some regulations to consider it and in the other codes almost ignored while based on some previous studies it is found that the effect of mentioned issue could not be neglected. The current study aimed to perform a comprehensive study about the effect of spatially varying ground motions on the dynamic response of a reinforced concrete bridge under asynchronous input motions considering soil-structure interactions. The correlated ground motions were generated by an introduced method that contains all spatially varying components, and imposed on the supports of the finite element model under different load scenarios. Then the obtained results from uniform and non-uniform excitations were compared to each other. In addition, the effect of soil-structure interactions involved and the corresponding results compared to the previous results. Also, to better understand the seismic response of the bridge, the responses caused by pseudo-static components decompose from the total response. Finally, an incremental dynamic analysis was performed to survey the non-linear behavior of the bridge under assumed load scenarios. The outcomes revealed that the local site condition plays an important role and strongly amplifies the responses. Furthermore, it was found that a combination of wave-passage and strong incoherency severely affected the responses of the structure. Moreover, it has been found that the pseudo-static component's contribution increase with increasing incoherent parameters. In addition, regarding the soil condition was considered for the studied bridge, it was found that a combination of spatially varying ground motions and soil-structure interactions effects could make a very destructive scenarios like, pounding and unseating.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.629-635
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• 2019

여러 분야에서 사용되는 이미지 분류를 위한 딥러닝(Deep Learning) 모델은 오류 역전파 방법을 통해 미분을 구현하고 미분 값을 통해 예측 상의 오류를 학습한다. 엄청난 계산량을 향상된 계산 능력으로 해결하여, 복잡하게 설계된 모델에서도 파라미터의 전역 (혹은 국소) 최적점을 찾을 수 있다는 것이 장점이다. 하지만 정교하게 계산된 데이터를 만들어내면 이 딥러닝 모델을 '속여' 모델의 예측 정확도와 같은 성능을 저하시킬 수 있다. 이렇게 생성된 적대적 사례는 딥러닝을 저해할 수 있을 뿐 아니라, 사람의 눈으로는 쉽게 발견할 수 없도록 정교하게 계산되어 있다. 본 연구에서는 임의의 잡음 신호를 추가하는 방법을 통해 적대적으로 생성된 이미지 데이터셋을 탐지하는 방안을 제안한다. 임의의 잡음 신호를 추가하였을 때 일반적인 데이터셋은 예측 정확도가 거의 변하지 않는 반면, 적대적 데이터셋의 예측 정확도는 크게 변한다는 특성을 이용한다. 실험은 공격 기법(FGSM, Saliency Map)과 잡음 신호의 세기 수준(픽셀 최댓값 255 기준 0-19) 두 가지 변수를 독립 변수로 설정하고 임의의 잡음 신호를 추가하였을 때의 예측 정확도 차이를 종속 변수로 설정하여 시뮬레이션을 진행하였다. 각 변수별로 일반적 데이터셋과 적대적 데이터셋을 구분하는 탐지 역치를 도출하였으며, 이 탐지 역치를 통해 적대적 데이터셋을 탐지할 수 있었다.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.325-340
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• 2024

There are several novel uses for dispersing many nanoparticles into a conventional fluid, including dynamic sealing, damping, heat dissipation, microfluidics, and more. Therefore, melting heat and mass transfer characteristics of a 3-D MHD Hybrid Nanofluid flow over a rotating disc with presenting dufour and soret effects are assessed numerically in this study. In this instance, we investigated both ferric sulfate and molybdenum disulfide as nanoparticles suspended within base fluid water. The governing partial differential equations are transformed into linked higher-order non-linear ordinary differential equations by the local similarity transformation. The collection of these deduced equations is then resolved using a Chebyshev spectral collocation-based algorithm built into the Mathematica software. To demonstrate how different instances of hybrid/ nanofluid are impacted by changes in temperature, velocity, and the distribution of nanoparticle concentration, examples of graphical and numerical data are given. For many values of the material parameters, the computational findings are shown. Simulations conducted for different physical parameters in the model show that adding hybrid nanoparticle to the fluid mixture increases heat transfer in comparison to simple nanofluids. It has been identified that hybrid nanoparticles, as opposed to single-type nanoparticles, need to be taken into consideration to create an effective thermal system. Furthermore, porosity lowers the velocities of simple and hybrid nanofluids in both cases. Additionally, results show that the drag force from skin friction causes the nanoparticle fluid to travel more slowly than the hybrid nanoparticle fluid. The findings also demonstrate that suction factors like magnetic and porosity parameters, as well as nanoparticles, raise the skin friction coefficient. Furthermore, It indicates that the outcomes from different flow scenarios correlate and are in strong agreement with the findings from the published literature. Bar chart depictions are altered by changes in flow rates. Moreover, the results confirm doctors' views to prescribe hybrid nanoparticle and particle nanoparticle contents for achalasia patients and also those who suffer from esophageal stricture and tumors. The results of this study can also be applied to the energy generated by the melting disc surface, which has a variety of industrial uses. These include, but are not limited to, the preparation of semiconductor materials, the solidification of magma, the melting of permafrost, and the refreezing of frozen land.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.182-187
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• 2010

In the various fields of Civil Engineering, shear modulus is very important input parameters to design many constructions and to analyze ground behaviors. In general, a shear wave velocity profile is decided by various experiments before constructing a structure and, analysis and design are carried out by using decided shear wave velocity profile of the site. However, if civil structures are started to construct, the shear wave velocity will be increased more than before constructions because of confining pressure increase by the load of structure. The evaluation of the change in shear wave velocity profile is used very importantly when maintaining, managing, reinforcing and regenerating existing structures. In this study, a non-destructively geotechnical investigation method by using the HWAW method is applied to an evaluation of change in properties of the site according to construction. Generally, the space for experiments is narrow when underground of existing or on-going structures is evaluate, so a prompt non-destructive experiment is required. This prompt non-destructive experiment would be performed by various in-situ seismic methods. However, most of in-situ seismic methods need more space for experiments, so it is difficult to be applied. The HWAW method using the Harmonic wavelet transforms, which is based on time-frequency analysis, determines shear wave velocity profile. It consists of a source as well as short receiver spacing that is 1~3m, and is able to determine a shear wave velocity profile from surface to deep depth by one test on a space. As the HWAW method uses only the signal portion of the maximum local signal/noise ratio to determine a profile, it provides reliability shear modulus profile such as under construction or noisy situation by minimizing effects of noise from diverse vibration on a construction site or urban area. To estimate the applicability of the proposed method, field tests were performed in the change of geotechnical properties according to constructing a minimized modeling bent. Through this study, the change of geotechnical properties of the site was effectively evaluated according to construction of a structure.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2007

시/주파수 분석은 생체 신호 처리에서 널리 사용되어왔다. 전기 생리학적 신호로부터 중요한 특징들을 추출함으로써 이 방법들은 특정 질병의 임상 병리학적 기전 해석이 가능하다. 하지만 이 방법은 신호가 안정하다는 가정 아래 적용되었으며 불안정한 시스템에서의 적용은 제한이 되어 있다. 본 연구에서는 비선형적이고 비정상적인 심실세동 심전도 파형의 분석을 위해 Hilbert-Huang 변환을 사용한 새로운 신호처리 방법을 제안하였다. Hilbert-Huang 변환은 경험모드분리법(EMD)과 힐버트 변환으로 크게 두 가지로 구성된다. Hilbert-Huang 변환은 EMD를 사용하여 각각의 특성을 지니고 있는 독립적인 내부모드함수들로 나누어지며, 힐버트 변환에 의해 순간 주파수와 크기를 구할 수 있게 된다. 이런 특성으로 신호의 국부적인 작용에 대하여 정확하게 설명할 수 있게 된다. 본 연구에서는 Hilbert-Huang 변환을 기반으로 심실세동 심전도 파형으로부터 두 종류의 파라미터(EMD-IF, EMD-FFT)를 추출하고 서포트 벡터 머신(Support Vector Machine)을 이용하여 소생성공 및 실패 여부 예측에 관하여 연구하였다. 평균적으로 민감도와 특이도는 각각 87.57%와 76.92%로 나타났다. Hilbert-Huang 변환은 더욱 정확하게 심실세동에서의 소생성공 예측을 가능하게 하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.435-448
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• 2018

This paper reports the development of a theoretically rigorous method for permanent way engineers to assess the condition of railway ballast under a concrete sleeper with the potential to be extended to a smart system for long-term health monitoring of railway ballast. Owing to the uncertainties induced by the problems of modeling error and measurement noise, the Bayesian approach was followed in the development. After the selection of the most plausible model class for describing the damage status of the rail-sleeper-ballast system, Bayesian model updating is adopted to calculate the posterior PDF of the ballast stiffness at various regions under the sleeper. An obvious drop in ballast stiffness at a region under the sleeper is an evidence of ballast damage. In model updating, the model that can minimize the discrepancy between the measured and model-predicted modal parameters can be considered as the most probable model for calculating the posterior PDF under the Bayesian framework. To address the problems of non-uniqueness and local minima in the model updating process, a two-stage hybrid optimization method was developed. The modified evolutionary algorithm was developed in the first stage to identify the important regions in the parameter space and resulting in a set of initial trials for deterministic optimization to locate all most probable models in the second stage. The proposed methodology was numerically and experimentally verified. Using the identified model, a series of comprehensive numerical case studies was carried out to investigate the effects of data quantity and quality on the results of ballast damage detection. Difficulties to be overcome before the proposed method can be extended to a long-term ballast monitoring system are discussed in the conclusion.

• 대한지하수환경학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.22-29
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• 1995

유동 세균 입자는 지체계수를 감소시키므로써 지하수에서 소수성 오염물의 이동을 촉진시킨다. 그 크기와 표면의 적당한 물리화학적 조건으로 인하여 세균은 효율적인 오염물의 운반자가 될 수 있다. 이러한 운반자가 있을 때, 그 계는 액상, 입상, 그리고 고상의 3 상으로 해석되어야한다. 오염물은 각 상에 모두, 혹은 그 중의 일부에 존재할 수 도 있다. 본 연구에서는 세균이 있는 경우, 생화학적으로 분해 가능한 유기성 오염물의 다공매질에서의 거동을 물질수지에 기초하여 수학적 모델로 묘사한다. 세균의 액상과 고상사이의 물질 전이 및 오염물의 액상과 입상사이의 물질 전이는 동역학적 관계식으로 나타냈다. 모델 결과를 일반화하기 위하여 무차원화를 수행했고, 그 해를 구하여 세균에 의한 오염물의 가속이송 효과를 알 수 있었다. 모델 결과는 문헌상의 실험결과와 비교되었다. 모델 결과로부터 오염물은 그 계의 Damkohler I 수가 10 이상일 경우 국지 평형 가정을 할 수 있었으며, 세균의 성장율과 주입 농도 등이 오염물의 청소에 아주 중요한 요소임을 알 수 있었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.763-769
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• 2020

Objective: The experiment was conducted to study the effect of rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) fruit peel powder (RP) on feed consumption, digestibility of nutrients, ruminal fermentation dynamics and microbial population in Thai breed cattle. Methods: Four, 2-year old (250±15 kg) beef bull crossbreds (75% Brahman×25% local breed) were allotted to experimental treatments using a 4×4 Latin square design. Four dietary supplementation treatments were imposed; non-supplementation (control, T1); supplementation of RP fed at 2% of dry matter intake (DMI) (low, T2); supplementation of RP fed at 4% of DMI (medium, T3) and supplementation of RP fed at 6% of DMI (high, T4). All cattle were given a concentrate supplement at 1% of body weight while Napier grass was provided as a free choice. Results: The findings revealed that RP supplementation did not negatively affect (p>0.05) DMI of Napier grass, while RP intake and total DMI were the greatest in the RP supplementation at 4% and 6% DMI. Nevertheless, the nutrients (dry matter, organic matter, crude protein, neutral detergent fiber, and acid detergent fiber) digestibilities were not changed in the RP supplementation groups. Rumen fermentation parameters especially those of total volatile fatty acids, acetate and butyrate were not significantly changed. However, the propionate concentration was remarkably increased (p<0.05) in the RP supplementation. Notably, the ratio of acetate to propionate, the number of protozoa, as well as the methane estimation were significantly reduced in the RP supplemented groups (4% and 6% of DMI), while the counts of bacteria was not altered. Conclusion: Supplementation of RP (4% of DMI) improved rumen propionate production, reduced protozoal population and methane estimation (p<0.05) without a negative effect on feed consumption and nutrients total tract digestibilities in beef cattle. Using dietary rambutan fruit peel powder has potential promise as a rumen regulator.