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Foodstuffs sovereignty and agflation (기획특집: 식량주권과 애그플래이션)

  • Kim, Dong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.44 no.5
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    • pp.21-25
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    • 2011
  • Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. An increase in the price of food that occurs as a result of increased demand from human consumption and use as an alternative energy resource. Furthermore, agflation, a combination of the words "agriculture" and "inflation", will also affect non-vegetative foods as the price increases for grain will make livestock feed more expensive as well. Food sovereignty implies new social relations free of oppression and inequality between men and women, peoples, racial groups, social classes and generations.

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The comparison of tidal power generation methods at Sukmodo (강화도 석모도 지역에서의 효율적인 조력발전방식 비교)

  • Lee, Tae-Hoon;Sim, Ju-Yeol;Cho, Yong-Sik
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.435-438
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    • 2008
  • The huge economical damage and environmental pollution have been occurred for decades because of using of fossil fuel. So the development of alternative energy is urgent. In the west sea of Korea, a proper area for tidal power plant, development and investigation for economical efficient of tidal power plant are preceeding. The water turbine generator with the capacity of 25.4MW was used to compare single-basin flood tide generation with ebb tide generation while considering the water depth and tide in the vicinity of Sukmodo.

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Minimum Hellinger Distance Bsed Goodness-of-fit Tests in Normal Models: Empirical Approach

  • Dong Bin Jeong
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.967-976
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    • 1999
  • In this paper we study the Hellinger distance based goodness-of-fit tests that are analogs of likelihood ratio tests. The minimum Hellinger distance estimator (MHDE) in normal models provides an excellent robust alternative to the usual maximum likelihood estimator. Our simulation results show that the Hellinger deviance test (Simpson 1989) based goodness-of-fit test is robust when data contain outliers. The proposed hellinger deviance test(Simpson 1989) is a more direcct method for obtaining robust inferences than an automated outlier screen method used before the likelihood ratio test data analysis.

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Simultaneous Optimization of Multiple Responses Alternatives to the Taguchi Parameter Design

  • Yong Man Kwon
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.103-117
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    • 1996
  • In the Taguchi Parameter design, the product-array approach using orthogonal arrays is mainly used. However, it often requires an excessive number of experiments. An alternative approach, which is called the combined- array approach, was suggested by welch et. al. (1990) and studied by Vining and Myers(1990), Box and Jones (1992) and others. In these studies, only single response variable was considered. We propose how to simultaneously optimize multiple responses when there are correlations among responses, and when we use the combined-array approach to assign control and noise factors.

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IMPACT ANALYSIS OF A WATER STORAGE TANK

  • Jhung, Myung-Jo;Jo, Jong-Chull;Jeong, Sang-Jin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.7
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    • pp.681-688
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    • 2006
  • This study investigates the dynamic response characteristics of a structure impacted by a high speed projectile. The impact of a 300 kg projectile on a water storage tank is simulated by the general purpose computer codes ANSYS and LS-DYNA. Several methods to simulate the impact are considered and their results are compared. Based upon this, an alternative impact analysis method that is equivalent to an explicit dynamic analysis is proposed. The effect of fluid on the responses of the tank is also addressed.

Laser Cleaning : Introduction and Applications

  • Lee, Jong-Myoung;Ken Watkins
    • Laser Solutions
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.2-11
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    • 2000
  • Laser cleaning has begun to attract a considerable amount of interest recently as a new cleaning technique among scientists and engineers. The unique characteristics of laser cleaning are currently finding successful applications in industry, in medicine as well as in the world of art conservation. This paper takes an overview of the laser cleaning technique itself including basic principles and characteristics, and provides an account of current trends especially with regard to practical applications. Experience with its successful applications in various fields shows that laser cleaning may be about to emerge as a real alternative to conventional cleaning methods.

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Performance Analysis of Feature Detection Methods for Topology-Based Feature Description (토폴로지 기반 특징 기술을 위한 특징 검출 방법의 성능 분석)

  • Park, Han-Hoon;Moon, Kwang-Seok
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.44-49
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    • 2015
  • When the scene has less texture or when camera pose largely changes, the existing texture-based feature tracking methods are not reliable. Topology-based feature description methods, which use the geometric relationship between features such as LLAH, is a good alternative. However, they require feature detection methods with high performance. As a basic study on developing an effective feature detection method for topology-based feature description, this paper aims at examining their applicability to topology-based feature description by analyzing the repeatability of several feature detection methods that are included in the OpenCV library. Experimental results show that FAST outperforms the others.

Recent progress in aromatic radiofluorination

  • Kwon, Young-Do;Chun, Joong-Hyun
    • Journal of Radiopharmaceuticals and Molecular Probes
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.145-151
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    • 2019
  • Fluorine-18 is considered to be the radionuclide of choice for positron emission tomography (PET). Thus, the development of small molecule-based radiopharmaceuticals for use in diagnostic imaging relies heavily on efficient radiofluorination techniques. Until the early 2000s, diaryliodonium salts and aryliodonium ylides were widely employed as labeling precursors to yield aromatic PET radiotracers with cyclotron-produced [18F]fluoride ion. Rapid recent progress in the development of efficient borylation methods has led to a paradigm shift in 18F-labeling methods. In addition, deoxyfluorination has attracted a great deal of interest as an alternative approach to aryl ring activation with 18F-. In this review, methods for radiolabel development are discussed with a specific focus on the progress made in the last 5 years. Other interesting 18F-based protocols are also briefly introduced. New methods for exploiting 18F- are expected to increase the number of 18F-labeling methods, to allow applications in a range of chemical environments.

Comparison of Three Optimization Methods Using Korean Population Data

  • Oh, Deok-Kyo
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.47-71
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this research is the examination of validity of data as well as simulation model, i.e. to simulate the real data in the SD model with the least error using the adjustments for the faithful reflection of real data to the simulation. In general, SD programs (e.g. VENSIM) utilize the Euler or Runge-Kutta method as an algorithm. It is possible to reflect the trend of real data via these two estimation methods however can cause the validity problem in case of the simulation requiring the accuracy as they have endogenous errors. In this article, the future population estimated by the Korea National Statistical Office (KNSO) to 2050 is simulated by the aging chain model, dividing the population into three cohorts, 0-14, 15-64, 65 and over cohorts by age and offering the adjustments to them. Adjustments are calculated by optimization with three different methods, optimization in EXCEL, manual optimization with iterative calculation, and optimization in VENSIM DSS, the results are compared, and at last the optimal adjustment set with the least error are found among them. The simulation results with the pre-determined optimal adjustment set are validated by methods proposed by Barlas (1996) and other alternative methods. It is concluded that the result of simulation model in this research has no significant difference from the real data and reflects the real trend faithfully.

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Effect of Alternative Row Pinching on Growth and Yield in Soybean (열간 교호 적심이 콩의 생육 및 수량에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim Ik Je;Son Seok Yong;Nam Sang Young;Ryu In Mo;Kim Tae Jung;Lee Cheol Hee;Kim Tae Su
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.457-462
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    • 2004
  • Lodging is one of the most serious problems in soybean cultivation. Therefore, improved cultural methods to reduce lodging as well as to increase photosynthetic ability should be mostly desirable to increase soybean production. The test variety was 'Hwangkeumkong' which was pinched at V7 stage. The greatest difference in canopy height between rows was shown when every other row was pinched, which also recorded the most effective reduction in lodging. The 9th leaf of soybean plants in non-pinching rows of alternative non-pinching and pinching plot showed the highest photosynthetic ability due to the greatest difference in canopy height. Although leaf area index was higher in pinched rows in average after 17 August, alternative pinching of every other row recorded the highest LAI on 5 September. Alternative pinching of every other row resulted $2\~14\%$ higher yield than non-pinching or complete pinching due to the increases of number of grains in the upper part of main stem and average grain weight of non-pinching rows and in alternative pinching.