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Adaptive Cell-Based Index For Moving Objects In Indoor

  • Shin, Soong-Sun;Kim, Gyoung-Bae;Bae, Hae-Young
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.6 no.7
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    • pp.1815-1830
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    • 2012
  • Existing R-tree that is based on a variety of outdoor-based techniques to manage moving objects have been investigated. Due to the different characteristics of the indoor and outdoor, it is difficult to management of moving object using existed methods in indoor setting. We propose a new index structure called ACII(adaptive Cell-based index for Indoor moving objects) for Indoor moving objects. ACII is Cell-based access structure adopting an overlapping technique. The ACII refines cells adaptively to handle indoor regional data, which may change its locations over time. The ACII consumed at most 30% of the space required by R-tree based methods, and achieved higher query performance compared with r-tree based methods.

The Effects of Chungganhaeju-tang(Qingganjiejiu-tang) on Ethanol-mediated Cytokine Expression (청간해주탕이 에탄올 매개성 cytokine 발현에 미치는 영향)

  • 김병삼;김영철;이장훈;우홍정
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.190-201
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    • 2003
  • Object : This study was designed to investigate the effects of Chungganhaeju-tang (Qingganjiejiu-tang) on cytotoxicity, growth inhibition, apoptosis and expression of cytokine in damaged HepG2 cells. Method : Toxicity on HepG2 cell induced by ethanol and acetaldehyde was measured for viability, cell growth, DNA replication and generation of apoptosis and cytokine. The recovery of the cell activity by Chungganhaeju-tang was estimated for the measured parameters using PCR with different cycle numbers, DNA gel-electrophoresis, and densitometric analysis, Results : Chungganhaeju-tang improves the recovery of HepG2 cells damaged by ethanol or acetaldehyde. The suppressed DNA synthesis of the cell damaged by ethanol or acetaldehyde is improved by Chungganhaeju-tang. A liver-protection effect was shown by the reduction of apoptosis and $TNF-{\alpha},{\;}IL-1{\beta}$ expressions that are induced by ethanol or acetaldehyde. Conclusion : The result indicates that Chungganhaeju-tang reduces toxicity induced by ethanol or acetaldehyde and recovers damaged liver function.

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Development of Membrane Humidifier for Fuel Cell Bus (200kW) (연료전지 버스용 (200kW급) 막가습기 개발)

  • Lee, Moo-Seok;Kang, Chung-Seok;Yoon, Young-Seo;Kim, Kyoung-Ju;Yun, Joon-Khee
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.471-473
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    • 2006
  • An object of the present study is to provide a hollow fiber membrane humidifier capable of improving the humidification efficiency while lowering the pressure loss, and is suitably usable for PEMFC(Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell). The performance of PEMFC is decisively dependent on the humidity of the electrolyte membrane(fluorinated membrane) and a humidifier plays an important role in moisturizing electrolyte membrane. Especially this humidifier is adaptable for lower price to promote the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles and is passive type to be power free and to be volumetrically optimized. In this research, we propose the substitutes for the expensive fluorinated materials and the optimum dry-jet wet spinning conditions of hollow fiber membrane to get the fuel cell humidifier. In addition to that we established the standard method of evaluating the moisturizing performance of the humidifier of various materials.

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GLP-Application to Cell Culture-Based Toxicity Tests

  • Koh, Woo-Suk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.95-101
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    • 2006
  • Compare to the toxicity tests using experimental animals, the GLP application and compliance in toxicity studies using cell culture systems may be less straightforward elucidated in the two documents published by the OECD Working Croup on GLP 'The Application of the GLP Principles to Short Term Studies (1999)' and 'The Application of the Principles of GLP to in vitro Studies (2004)' The object of this presentation is to show how to interpret the GLP principles and to apply with actual performances in a well known toxicity test using cell culture, chromosome aberration study. The presentation will cover test substance, test system (cell line), study environment management, documentation, quality assurance, and study protocol and report.

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A Concept of Buoyant Hybrid Power Generation System by using Solar Cell Modules and Power Generator in the Sea (태양전지 모듈 및 발전기를 사용한 해상 태양광-풍력 복합발전시스템 개념)

  • Cha, Kyung-Ho;Cha, Min-Jae;Lee, Hee-Sei
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.91-93
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    • 2008
  • A Buoyant Hybrid Power Generation System (BHPGS) described in this paper, is a conceptual approach to a hybrid solar-wind power generation in the near sea. The primary purpose of the BHPGS is given to improve utilization of solar cell modules. Main components of the BHPGS include a solar cell module, buoyant object, power generator, and support assembly including weight. Components such a generator controller, DC/AC converter, etc., are not configured in the current BHPGS because they can easily be purchased as a commercial-off-the-shelf product. In addition, some of the BHPGS applications are discussed.

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Performance Evaluation of Inertial Balance for Measuring Mass in Microgravity (마이크로중력환경에서 사용 가능한 관성저울의 성능평가)

  • Jang, Hyun-Jin;Lee, Joo-Hee;Choi, Jae-Hyuk;Park, Seul-Hyun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.38 no.12
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    • pp.1395-1401
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    • 2014
  • In an effort to develop and implement an inertial balance with high performance, the response characteristics of a load cell, which are some of the critical parameters for optimal system design, were evaluated using a sample object of approximately 100 g under microgravity conditions. To this end, a 15-m drop-tower was used to produce microgravity conditions, and the response characteristics of the load cell were investigated in terms of the variations in the magnitude of the deceleration of the sample object, noting that the mass of a living animal should be determined in microgravity. An analysis of the ratio of the inertial forces clearly demonstrated that the average velocity of a load cell plate should be higher than 0.5 m/s to meet the design requirements.

Effects of Downstream Cylinder by Changing Upstream Object's Diameter (상류에 있는 물체의 직경변화에 따라 후류 물체가 받는 영향)

  • Kim, Sang Il
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.38 no.10
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    • pp.859-864
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    • 2014
  • This experimental study investigates the effects of a downstream cylinder in the wake change on upstream object's diameter. A V-shaped object is placed in the upstream of the test section and a circular cylinder containing a load-cell is placed in the downstream. The velocity distribution of the wake generated from the upstream object with a change in its diameter is investigated. Further, the fluctuation in the lift coefficient and Karman-vortex emission frequency with a change in the position of the downstream cylinder is examined. The study results reveal the following. i) The flow velocity in the wake is smaller than that in the main stream. ii) The lock-in phenomenon occurs when the diameter of the upstream object is larger than that of the downstream cylinder. iii) To generate maximum fluctuating lift force of the downstream cylinder in the wake, the position of the downstream cylinder must be moved with changing diameter of the upstream object together.

Morphological Feature Extraction of Microorganisms Using Image Processing

  • Kim Hak-Kyeong;Jeong Nam-Su;Kim Sang-Bong;Lee Myung-Suk
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2001
  • This paper describes a procedure extracting feature vector of a target cell more precisely in the case of identifying specified cell. The classification of object type is based on feature vector such as area, complexity, centroid, rotation angle, effective diameter, perimeter, width and height of the object So, the feature vector plays very important role in classifying objects. Because the feature vectors is affected by noises and holes, it is necessary to remove noises contaminated in original image to get feature vector extraction exactly. In this paper, we propose the following method to do to get feature vector extraction exactly. First, by Otsu's optimal threshold selection method and morphological filters such as cleaning, filling and opening filters, we separate objects from background an get rid of isolated particles. After the labeling step by 4-adjacent neighborhood, the labeled image is filtered by the area filter. From this area-filtered image, feature vector such as area, complexity, centroid, rotation angle, effective diameter, the perimeter based on chain code and the width and height based on rotation matrix are extracted. To prove the effectiveness, the proposed method is applied for yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxn. It is also shown that the experimental results from the proposed method is more efficient in measuring feature vectors than from only Otsu's optimal threshold detection method.

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Ray Tracing Acceleration Schemes Based on Efficient Data Storage (효율적인 데이터 저장을 기초로 한 광선 추적의 가속화 방안)

  • 최현규;경종민
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.26 no.8
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    • pp.1270-1281
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    • 1989
  • This paper presents two new storage schemes of 3-D objects to accelerate the finding of the first intersecting object and the shadow computation steps in ray tracing. The 3-D objects which are potentially intersected with the first reflection (refraction)ray are enrolled within a so called reflection (refraction) frustum' for a polygon object. Only those objects registered in the corres ponding frustum are immediately checked for intersection with the secondary rays emanating from the same polygon. The other is called a shadow pyramid' which contains the candidate objects possibly blocking the path from the relevant light source to any point on the relevant polgon. The shadow testing of a point is performed only against the objects contained in the associated shadow pyramid. Despite the cost needed for registration of objects within frusta or shadow pyramids, the total rendering time of ray tracing using the proposed approaches was reduced by approximately 50% (10% in color rendering time and 70% in shadoe testing time) from the conventional cell 50% (10% in color rendering time and 70% in shadow testing time) from the conventional cell traversal scheme under the 3-D uniform subdivision environment due to the fast finding of candidate objects for intersection and the reduced number of intersection calculations.

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