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Enhanced Antioxidant Activity of Mugwort Herb and Vitamin C in Combination on Shelf-life of Chicken Nuggets

  • Hwang, Ko-Eun;Kim, Hyun-Wook;Song, Dong-Heon;Kim, Yong-Jae;Ham, Youn-Kyung;Choi, Yun-Sang;Lee, Mi-Ai;Kim, Cheon-Jei
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.582-590
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    • 2014
  • The effect of mugwort extract (ME) and vitamin C (VC), added individually or in combination, on color, lipid oxidation, and sensory characteristics of chicken nuggets stored for 12 d was investigated. Eight treatments of chicken nuggets contained the following: Control (no antioxidant added), VC (0.05% VC), ME 0.05 (0.05% ME), ME 0.1 (0.1% ME), ME 0.2 (0.2% ME), VC+ME 0.05 (0.05% VC + 0.05% ME) and VC+ME 0.1 (0.05% VC + 0.1% ME), VC+ME 0.2 (0.05% VC + 0.2% ME). Results showed that the mixture of 0.05% VC and 0.2% ME was most effective for delaying lipid oxidation (thiobarbituric acid reactive substances, conjugated dienies, and peroxide formation) when compared to the control or ME alone added. The color values of all treatments were significantly affected by adding ME. Additionally, the total color difference (${\Delta}E$), chroma ($C^*$), and hue angle ($H^{\circ}$) values of all treatments, except for VC, were lower than those of the control as the amount of ME increased. The sensory characteristics (flavor, odor, and overall acceptability) did not differ significantly in any of the chicken nugget samples, whereas storage time had a significant effect. The results suggest that the possibility of utilizing chicken nuggets with a mixture of mugwort extract and vitamin C for the increase of shelf-life and quality.

ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION of INJECTION TIMING for AN ADVANCED COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE KIT

  • Kumar, Akshay;Kumar, Vasu;Gupta, Dhruv;Kumar, Naveen
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.54-63
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    • 2015
  • Increasing air pollution levels and the global oil crisis has become a major hindrance in the growth of our automobile sector. Traditional Internal Combustion engines running on non-renewable fuels are proving to be the major culprit for the harmful effects on environment. With few modifications and also with assistance of few additional components current small SI engines can be modified into a pneumatic engine (commonly known as Compressed Air Engines) without much technical complications where the working fluid is compressed air. The working principle is very basic as adiabatic expansion of the compressed air takes place inside the cylinder pushing the piston downwards creating enough MEP to run the crank shaft at decent RPM. With the assistance of new research and development on pneumatic engines can explore the potential of pneumatic engines as a viable option over IC engines. The paper deals with analysis on RPM variation with corresponding compressed air injection at different crank angles from TDC keeping constant injection time period. Similarly RPM variation can also be observed at different injection pressures with similar injection angle variation. A setup employing a combination of magnetic switch (reed switch), magnets and solenoid valve is used in order to injection timing control. A conclusive data is obtained after detailed analysis of RPM variation that can be employed in newly modified pneumatic engines in order to enhance the running performance. With a number of benefits offered by pneumatic engine over IC engines such as no emissions, better efficiency, low running cost, light weight accompanied by optimized injection conditions can cause a significant development in pneumatic engines without any major alteration.

Implementation of Raindrop Rendering Using Unity3D Engine (Unity3D를 이용한 빗방울 렌더링 구현)

  • Lee, MyounJae;Kim, Kyoung-Nam
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.519-524
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    • 2014
  • This research is the study of raindrop rendering. In case of rendering for raindrop in existing games, it is used on sprites images or roughly raindrops images using texture rendering. These methods are similar to the shape and size of all rendered raindrop. That's why players are limitations to provide a sense of reality. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes a method for generating raindrop considering surface tension and contac angle, the amount of water, implements the raindrop using Unity3D engine. To demonstrate the usefulness of this paper, this paper shows the generated raindrop in accordance with the change in the area and pulling force in surface tension formula. This paper can help to provide the actuality in game in case of rendering the raindrop.

An Estimating Algorithm of Vehicle Collision Speed Through Images of Blackbox (블랙박스 영상 분석을 통한 차량 충돌 속도 연산 알고리즘에 대한 융복합 연구)

  • Ko, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.173-178
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    • 2018
  • The vehicle collision speed in mid and high range can be checked by EDM(Event Driven memory) data recorded when the air bag works. But it's difficult to estimate the low speed of vehicle collision. And estimating the speed is important because the injury level can be changed by the impact speed. The study proposed an estimating algorithm by analysing the images recorded in car blackbox instrument. Low speed rear collision accidents simulated with wire winding motor for various vehicle types. The study estimated the impact speed with the ratio of the distance change between two vehicles and the length change of the number plate of front vehicle. The closer the vehicles are, the larger the plate length is. You can estimate the impact speed with the ratio. The impact speed is calculated with the initial distance for a specific length of number plate in the algorithm. The results can be applied to the linear rear collision because the angle of impact was not considered in this study.

Signal-Subspace-Based Simple Adaptive Array and Performance Analysis (신호 부공간에 기초한 간단한 적응 어레이 및 성능분석)

  • Choi, Yang-Ho
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.47 no.6
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    • pp.162-170
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    • 2010
  • Adaptive arrays reject interferences while preserving the desired signal, exploiting a priori information on its arrival angle. Subspace-based adaptive arrays, which adjust their weight vectors in the signal subspace, have the advantages of fast convergence and robustness to steering vector errors, as compared with the ones in the full dimensional space. However, the complexity of theses subspace-based methods is high because the eigendecomposition of the covariance matrix is required. In this paper, we present a simple subspace-based method based on the PASTd (projection approximation subspace tracking with deflation). The orignal PASTd algorithm is modified such that eigenvectora are orthogonal to each other. The proposed method allows us to significantly reduce the computational complexity, substantially having the same performance as the beamformer with the direct eigendecomposition. In addition to the simple beamforming method, we present theoretical analyses on the SINR (signal-to-interference plus noise ratio) of subspace beamformers to see their behaviors.

CNN-based Image Rotation Correction Algorithm to Improve Image Recognition Rate (이미지 인식률 개선을 위한 CNN 기반 이미지 회전 보정 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Donggu;Sun, Young-Ghyu;Kim, Soo-Hyun;Sim, Issac;Lee, Kye-San;Song, Myoung-Nam;Kim, Jin-Young
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.225-229
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    • 2020
  • Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) have been showed outstanding performance in the field of image recognition, image processing and computer vision, etc. In this paper, we propose a CNN-based image rotation correction algorithm as a solution to image rotation problem, which is one of the factors that reduce the recognition rate in image recognition system using CNN. In this paper, we trained our deep learning model with Leeds Sports Pose dataset to extract the information of the rotated angle, which is randomly set in specific range. The trained model is evaluated with mean absolute error (MAE) value over 100 test data images, and it is obtained 4.5951.

Evaluation of Stress Characteristics and Rupture Risk of the Aortic Wall According to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Geometry and Age (복부대동맥류 형상 및 연령에 따른 동맥 벽 응력 특성 및 파열 위험성 평가)

  • Lee, Chung Won;You, Ji-Hun;Huh, Up;Lee, Chi-Seung;Ryu, Dong-Man
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the wall stress and rupture risk for abdominal aortic aneurysms were calculated based on the age and geometry of the examined abdominal aortic aneurysms. The geometry of the abdominal aorta was simulated using computed tomography data from patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms. With regard to material properties, the Gasser-Ogden-Holzapfel model was applied to the analysis to simulate the anisotropic hyperelastic characteristics of the artery. In addition, each material parameter was estimated to consider the properties for age and for normal and aneurysm tissue. Moreover, the correlation between the diameter and angle of the aortic aneurysms was analyzed based on data from patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms, and series simulations were conducted. As a result, the rupture risk for the abdominal aortic aneurysms was evaluated based on the age and geometry of the aneurysm.

Gain Parameter Determination for the Feeding Speed and Skew Controller of Media Transport System using Optimization Technique (최적화 기법을 적용한 매체 이송 시스템의 이송속도 및 비틀어짐 제어기의 이득값 결정)

  • Cha, Ho-Young;Bum, Sun-Ho;Kim, Min-Soo;Lee, Soon-Geul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.607-613
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we made a simple paper feeding system which is one of MTS (media transport system) and controllers. The plant has a flexible paper and two driving rollers and two driven rollers. The control system has two conventional PID controllers. Skew angle and feeding speed of MTS deteriorate the quality of feeding system. In order to control a feeding speed and skew of feeding paper, we control rotational velocity of two driving rollers. Therefore, this controller has two inputs and two outputs as MIMO (multi-input and multi-output) system. The control inputs were the feeding speed and the skew displacement of the paper. The control outputs were the rotational velocity to each driving roller. To find appropriate PID gains of two controllers, we proposed an optimization technique. We assume the system variables and performance of a whole system as follows. PID gains of two controllers for skew and feeding speed are system variables. System performance is both skew and feeding speed. We simulates to making mathematical correlation using global Kriging interpolation. To find appropriate value of system variables, optimization method is simulation in sequence as following method. First, the optimization solver simulates with DOE (design of experiment) tables to find correlation equation of both system variable and performances. Then, the solver guesses the appropriate values and simulates if the system variables are appropriate or not. If the result of validation doesn't satisfy the convergence and iteration tolerance, the solver makes a new Kriging models and iterates this sequence until satisfy the tolerances.

Power and Trim Estimation for Helicopter Sizing and Performance Analysis

  • Laxman, Vaitla;Lim, Jae-Hoon;Shin, Sang-Joon;Ko, Kwang-Ho;Jung, Sung-Nam
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.156-162
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    • 2011
  • The preliminary design stage of helicopters consists of various operations and in each operation design several detailed analysis tasks are needed. The analysis tasks include performance and the required power estimation. In helicopter design, those are usually carried out by adopting the momentum theory. In this paper, an explicit form of computational analysis based on the blade element theory and uniform/non-uniform inflow model is developed. The other motivation of the present development is to obtain trim and required power estimation for various helicopter configurations. Sectional and hub loads, power, trim, and flapping equations are derived by using a symbolic tool. Iterative computations are carried out till convergence is achieved in the blade response, inflow, and trim. The predictions regarding the trim and power estimation turn out to be correlated well with the experimental results. The effect of inflow is further investigated. It is found that the present prediction for the lateral cyclic pitch angle is improved with the non-uniform inflow model as compared to that by the uniform inflow model. The presently improved trim and power estimation will be useful for future helicopter sizing and performance analysis.

Evaluation of mechanical properties on friction stir lap jointed Al6061/HT590 alloys (겹치기 마찰교반접합 된 Al6061/HT590 합금의 기계적 특성 평가)

  • Kim, Eun-Hye;Lee, Kwang-Jin;Song, Kuk-Hyun
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2015
  • This study was carried out to evaluate mechanical properties of the jointed Al6061/HT590 alloys by friction stir welding (FSW). FSW was conducted under the conditions with tool rotating speed of 500 RPM and traveling speed of 300 mm/min., where Ar gas was introduced to prevent the materials from corrosion during the welding process. Electron back-scattering diffraction (EBSD) was used to characterize microstructures such as grain size, misorientation angle and crystal orientation. Evolution of intermetallic compounds in Al6061 during the process were examined in terms of morphology, size and aspect ratio at three distinct zones Al base material, heat affected zone and stir zone, where transmission electron microscope (TEM) was used. It was revealed that FSW gave rise to refinement of grains as well as growth of intermetallic compounds in Al6061. The morphological changes of intermetallic compounds exerted an influence on mechanical properties, resulting in occurrence of fracture in the part of the base material instead of the jointed parts (heat affected zone and stir zone). This study systematically evaluated the microstructural evolutions during the FSW for joining Al6061 with HT590 and their effect on mechanical properties.