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Wind loads on industrial solar panel arrays and supporting roof structure

  • Wood, Graeme S.;Denoon, Roy O.;Kwok, Kenny C.S.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.4 no.6
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    • pp.481-494
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    • 2001
  • Wind tunnel pressure tests were conducted on a 1:100 scale model of a large industrial building with solar panels mounted parallel to the flat roof. The model form was chosen to have the same aspect ratio as the Texas Tech University test building. Pressures were simultaneously measured on the roof, and on the topside and underside of the solar panel, the latter two combining to produce a nett panel pressure. For the configurations tested, varying both the lateral spacing between the panels and the height of the panels above the roof surface had little influence on the measured pressures, except at the leading edge. The orientation of the panels with respect to the wind flow and the proximity of the panels to the leading edge had a greater effect on the measured pressure distributions. The pressure coefficients are compared against the results for the roof with no panels attached. The model results with no panels attached agreed well with full-scale results from the Texas Tech test building.

Efficient Processing of Spatial Preference Queries in Spatial Network Databases

  • Cho, Hyung-Ju;Attique, Muhammad
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.210-224
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    • 2019
  • Given a positive integer k as input, a spatial preference query finds the k best data objects based on the scores (e.g., qualities) of feature objects in their spatial neighborhoods. Several solutions have been proposed for spatial preference queries in Euclidean space. A few algorithms study spatial preference queries in undirected spatial networks where each edge is undirected and the distance between two points is the length of the shortest path connecting them. However, spatial preference queries have not been thoroughly investigated in directed spatial networks where each edge has a particular orientation that makes the distance between two points noncommutative. Therefore, in this study, we present a new method called ALPS+ for processing spatial preference queries in directed spatial networks. We conduct extensive experiments with different setups to demonstrate the superiority of ALPS+ over conventional solutions.

Influence of sputtering parameter on the properties of silver-doped zinc oxide sputtered films

  • S. H. Jeong;Lee, S. B.;J.H. Boo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.58-58
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    • 2003
  • Silver doped ZnO (SZO) films were prepared by rf magnetron sputtering on glass substrates with extraordinary designed ZnO target. With the doping source for target, use AgNO$_3$ powder on a various rate (0, 2, and 4 wt.%). We investigated dependence of coating parameter such as dopant content in target and substrate temperature in the SZO films. The SZO films have a preferred orientation in the (002) direction. As amounts of the Ag dopant in the target were increased, the crystallinity and the transmittance and optical band gap were decreased. And the substrate temperature were increased, the crystallinity and the transmittance were increased. But the crystallinity and the transmittance of SZO films were retrograde at 200$^{\circ}C$. Upside facts were related with composition. In addition, the Oxygen K-edge features of the SZO films were investigated by using near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy. Changes of optical band gap of the SZO films were explained compared with XRD, XPS and NEXAFS spectra.

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Alignment System for Display Panel using Edge Feature (에지 특징을 이용한 디스플레이 패널 설비의 얼라인 시스템)

  • Lee, HoHun;Lee, DaeJong;Chun, MyungGeun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.260-265
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes a alignment system using edge feature. An alignment system obtains the position and orientation of printed circuit board(PCB) or liquid crystal display(LCD) panel through the fiducial marks. Thus, it is the indicator of the system performance how accurate we detect the positions of the fiducial marks in the target image. Edges have the geometrical characteristics such as positions, lengths, and shapes. These features are suitable for finding the marks and have the advantages of lighting variations, model occlusion, as well as variations in scale and angle. The performance of the proposed system is validated through the alignment experiment using an display panel alignment system included X, Y axis, and rotatable stage.

A study on ultrasonic range finding module for the blind guidance (맹인 안내용 mobile robot 의 초음파 거리 측정 모듈에 관한 연구)

  • 이응혁;윤영배;홍승홍
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1986.10a
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    • pp.383-386
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    • 1986
  • In this paper, ultrasonic range finding module for the self-contained robot, INHAE-1, is presented. This system is processed, using Z-80 microprocessor, a much of information on the surrounding condition in real time and is realted a sensor for many side data acqusition with a stepping motor. Also this system can obtain the more correct edge of the obstacle using the standard deviation of the least-square method. In this experiment, it gives more correct information to mobile robot of the blind guidance and improves the orientation of the robot path.

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Edge Orientation Histogram Hand Shape Recognition for Window Player (윈도우 플레이어 제어를 위한 에지 방향성 히스토그램 손 형상 인식)

  • 김종민;이칠우
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.628-630
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    • 2003
  • 본 연구는 손의 형상을 복잡한 배경환경에서 손 영역을 안정적으로 검출, 인식하여 윈도우 플레이어의 기능을 제어하는 시스템을 제안하였다. 손은 형상이 매우 복잡하기 때문에 2차원 형상의 불변량에 해당하는 에지의 방향성 히스토그램을 이용하여 인식을 행한다. 이 방법은 복잡한 배경에서 피부색을 지닌 손 영역이 정확히 추출되며 손 형상을 인식하는데 있어서 수행속도가 빠르고 조명변화에 덜 민감하기 때문에 실시간 손 형상 인식에 적합하다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법을 윈도우 플레이어 제어에 적용한 결과 안정적으로 제어 할 수 있었다.

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Raman Spectroscopic Study of Benzonitrile on Silver Surface

  • Boo, Doo-Wan;Kim, Kwan;Kim, Myung-Soo
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.251-254
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    • 1987
  • The surface-enhanced Raman scattering(SERS) of benzonitrile in a silver sol was investigated. It was concluded that the molecule adsorbed onto the silver surface via the nitrogen lone pair electrons. Using the surface selection rule, the orientation of the benzene ring with respect to the surface plane could not be determined conclusively. However, it seemed likely that benzonitrile is adsorbed edge-on to the surface. It was demonstrated that the SERS technique provides a useful method for detailed characterization of the chemisorbed layer.

Two-step Boundary Extraction Algorithm with Model (모델 정보를 이용한 2단계 윤곽선 추출 기법)

  • Choe, Hae-Cheol;Lee, Jin-Seong;Jo, Ju-Hyeon;Sin, Ho-Cheol;Kim, Seung-Dae
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.49-60
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    • 2002
  • We propose an algorithm for extracting the boundary of a desired object with shape information obtained from sample images. Considering global shape obtained from sample images and edge orientation as well as edge magnitude, the Proposed method composed of two steps finds the boundary of an object. The first step is the approximate segmentation that extracts a rough boundary with a probability map and an edge map. And the second step is the detailed segmentation for finding more accurate boundary based on the SEEL (seed-point extraction and edge linking) algorithm. The experiment results using IR images show robustness to low-quality image and better performance than conventional segmentation methods.

A STUDY ON THE OCCLUSAL PLANE AND THE VERTICAL DIMENSION IN KOREAN ADULTS WITH NATURAL DENTITION (한국 성인 유치악자의 교합평면 및 수직고경에 관한 연구)

  • Park Jeong-Hyeong;Jeong Chang-Mo;Jeon Young-Chan;Lim Jang-Seop
    • The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.41-51
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    • 2005
  • Statement of problem. Anatomic landmarks have been used in the orientation of occlusal plane and the determination of vertical dimension for edentulous patients. Such as labial vestibules of anterior region and hamular notches, retromolar pads of posterior region are very useful anatomic landmarks for fabrication of occlusion rim because they are to be identified on master casts. Therefore, if average distances between landmarks of maxillae and mandible in dentate subjects are measured and applied, not only occlusal plane but also vertical dimension can be established initially. Purpose. The purpose of this study is to measure vertical distances between anatomic landmarks and to present a guide to the orientation of occlusal plane and the determination of vertical dimension of edentulous patients. Material and method. Upper and lower border-molded casts were made in 93 Korean dentulous subjects, mean age 25 years. Incisal edges of central incisors, bottoms of labial vestibules, hamular notches and the half level of retromolar pads were marked on casts. Measurements of vertical distances from incisal edge of central incisor to the bottom of labial vestibule, between upper and lower bottoms of labial vestibules, from hamular notch to retromolar pad and from hamular notch to the occlusal plane established by the incisal edge of maxillary central incisor and mesiopalatal cusps of both maxillary first molars were made on each cast. Results and conclusion. 1. The mean distance from the incisal edge of central incisor to the bottom of labial vestibule was 20.8mm(SD 1.7) on upper casts and 17.3mm(SD 1.4) on lower casts. 2. The mean distance between both bottoms of labial vestibules of upper and lower casts was 35.0mm(SD 2.7). 3 The mean distance from hamular notch to the half level of retromolar pad was 5.0mm(SD 1.3). 4. The mean distance from hamular notch to occlusal plane was 7.9mm(SD 1.5). 5. Distances from incisal edge of central incisor to labial vestibule on lower casts(P<0.01) and from hamular notch to retromolar pad(P<0.0001) were greater in male than in female.

An Efficient Indoor-Outdoor Scene Classification Method (효율적인 실내의 영상 분류 기법)

  • Kim, Won-Jun;Kim, Chang-Ick
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.46 no.5
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    • pp.48-55
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    • 2009
  • Prior research works in indoor-outdoor classification have been conducted based on a simple combination of low-level features. However, since there are many challenging problems due to the extreme variability of the scene contents, most methods proposed recently tend to combine the low-level features with high-level information such as the presence of trees and sky. To extract these regions from videos, we need to conduct additional tasks, which may yield the increasing number of feature dimensions or computational burden. Therefore, an efficient indoor-outdoor scene classification method is proposed in this paper. First, the video is divided into the five same-sized blocks. Then we define and use the edge and color orientation histogram (ECOH) descriptors to represent each sub-block efficiently. Finally, all ECOH values are simply concatenated to generated the feature vector. To justify the efficiency and robustness of the proposed method, a diverse database of over 1200 videos is evaluated. Moreover, we improve the classification performance by using different weight values determined through the learning process.