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The Application of Quantum Yield of Nitrate Uptake to Estimate New Production in Well-Mixed Waters of the Yellow Sea: A Preliminary Result

  • Park, Myung-Gil;Shim, Jae-Hyung;Yang, Sung-Ryull
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 2002
  • New production (NP) values in well-mixed waters of the Yellow Sea were estimated using two different methods and were compared with each other; one is from the quantum yield model of nitrate uptake and chlorophyll ${\alpha}$-specific light absorption coefficient, and the other is from a traditional $^{15}N$-labelled stable isotope uptake technique. The quantum yields of nitrate uptake were highly variable, ranging from 0.0001 to 0.04 mol $NO_3Ein^{-1}$, and the small values in this study might have resulted from either the partitioning into nitrate uptake of little portions of light energy absorbed by phytoplankton or that phytoplankton may predominantly utilize other N sources (E. G. ammonium and/or urea) than nitrate. The estimates (0.54-8.47 nM $h^{-1}$) of NP from the quantum yield model correlated well ($r^2$=0.67, p<0.1) with those (0.01-4.93 nM $h^{-1}$) obtained using the $^{15}NO_3$ uptake technique. To improve the ability of estimating NP values using this model in the Yellow Sea, more data need to be accumulated in the future over a variety of time and space scales.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOME CIRCULATING HORMONES, METABOLITES AND MILK YIELD IN LACTATING CROSSBRED COWS AND BUFFALOES

  • Jindal, S.K.;Ludri, R.S.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.239-248
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    • 1994
  • To study the relationship between certain hormones and metabolites and between hormones and milk yield during different stage of lactation, six lactating Karan Swiss cows and six Murrah buffaloes were maintained. Growth hormone, insulin, $T_3$, $T_4$, glucose, BHBA, NEFA and milk yield were studied. Highly negative relationship of growth hormone with insulin and triiodothyronine in cows and marginally negative in buffaloes suggest that insulin and triiodothyronine aid in the process of partitioning of nutrients towards milk production through reducing the demands of nutrients by peripheral tissue. The significant and negative correlation of growth hormone with dry matter intake in both the species suggest that the availability of nutrients from the digestive tract play a role in the regulation of growth hormone secretion. Positive relationship of growth hormone with non esterified fatty acids in both the species suggest that high growth hormone levels may result in fat mobilization and thereby increase the availability of energy precursors for milk synthesis. Insulin was negatively correlated with milk yield and lactose content and positively with milk fat and protein but the degree of relationship varied. In both the species the relationship between triiodothyronine and milk yield was negative and between thyroxine and milk yield was positive. However, it was significant only in cows and not in buffaloes. Thyroxine was positively correlated with beta-hydroxybutyrate and non-esterified fatty acids with milk yield in both the species.

16-state and 320state multidimensional PSK trellis coding scheme using M-ary orthogonal modulation with a frequency-recuse technique (주파수 재 사용 기술을 이용한 M-ary 직교 16-State 및 32-State 다차원 PSK 트렐리스코딩)

  • 김해근;김진태
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.2003-2012
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    • 1996
  • The 16- and 32-state Trellis-coded M-ary 4-dimensional (4-D) orthogonal modulation scheme with a frequency-reuse technique have been investigated. Here, 5 coded bits form a rate 4/5 convolutional encoder provide 32 possible symbols. Then the signals are mapped by a M-ary 4-D orthogonal modulator, where each signal has equal energy and is PSK modulated. In the M-ary 4-D modulator, we have employed the vectors which is derived by the optimization technique of signal waveforms in a 4-D sphere. This technique is usedin maximizing the minimum Euclidean distance between a set of signal poits on a multidimensional sphere. By combinig trellis coding with M-ary 4-D modulation and proper set-partitioning, we have obtained a considerable impeovement in the free minimum distance of the system over an AWGN channel. The 16-state scheme obtains coding gains up to 5.5 dB over the uncoded two-independent QPSK scheme and 2.5 dB over the two-independent 2-D TCM scheme. And, the 32-state scheme obtains coding gains up to 6.4 dB over the uncoded two-independent QPSK schemeand 3.4 dB over the two-independent 2-D TCM scheme.

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Improving Data Accuracy Using Proactive Correlated Fuzzy System in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Barakkath Nisha, U;Uma Maheswari, N;Venkatesh, R;Yasir Abdullah, R
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.9
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    • pp.3515-3538
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    • 2015
  • Data accuracy can be increased by detecting and removing the incorrect data generated in wireless sensor networks. By increasing the data accuracy, network lifetime can be increased parallel. Network lifetime or operational time is the time during which WSN is able to fulfill its tasks by using microcontroller with on-chip memory radio transceivers, albeit distributed sensor nodes send summary of their data to their cluster heads, which reduce energy consumption gradually. In this paper a powerful algorithm using proactive fuzzy system is proposed and it is a mixture of fuzzy logic with comparative correlation techniques that ensure high data accuracy by detecting incorrect data in distributed wireless sensor networks. This proposed system is implemented in two phases there, the first phase creates input space partitioning by using robust fuzzy c means clustering and the second phase detects incorrect data and removes it completely. Experimental result makes transparent of combined correlated fuzzy system (CCFS) which detects faulty readings with greater accuracy (99.21%) than the existing one (98.33%) along with low false alarm rate.

Development of A New Concept Rotary Engine (I) - Concept and theoretical performance analysis - (신개념 로터리 엔진의 개발 (I) - 개념과 이론적 성능 분석 -)

  • 오문근;이규승;박원엽
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2003
  • Present combustion engines have reached almost at the limit of development due to the fundamental structural problems. This study was carried out to propose a new concept internal combustion engine which has great potential advantages to the conventional engines. Proposed new concept engine is a kind of rotary engine. A rotor is rotating concentrically in a cylinder which is divided into two partitioning valves. and it makes four compartments in the cylinder. The volumes of each of four compartments are changing continuously with the rotor movement, and performs the functions of intake, compression. expansion and exhaust simultaneously. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. 1. Expected theoretical thermal efficiency is 44.9 percent at the condition of 1000rpm and compression ratio of 8.0. which is almost the same as that of the conventional engines. i.e., piston and Wankel rotary engine. 2. The new concept engine has 2. working strokes in every revolution. Therefore. the new concept engine can reduce the specific weight and volume than four-stroke piston engine. 3. The torque variation is very small. therefore minimal noise and vibration are expectable. 4. The new concept engine can reduce mechanical energy loss than piston engine because neither crank mechanism nor eccentrical motion exists.

A Measurement Allocation for Reliable Data Gathering in Spatially Corrected Sensor Networks (공간상관 센서필드에서 측정 스케쥴링)

  • Byun, Sang-Seon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2017.10a
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    • pp.399-402
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    • 2017
  • We consider an sensor partitioning problem for energy-efficient measurement scheduling in a spatially correlated sensor field where sensors are located randomly. We divide the whole sensors into subsets of k sensors in the way of letting each subset give similar amount of mutual information. Then it allows more prolonged life time of the sensor field than measuring the sensors that gives most information only. To this end, we compute the Shapley value of each sensor and compose the subsets so that each subset can have total Shapley value similar with the other subsets.

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Water and energy partitioning of catchments under various climatic conditions (다양한 기후조건에 따른 유역에서의 물과 에너지 분배)

  • Sanghyun Yoo;Kyungrock Paik
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2023.05a
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    • pp.103-103
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    • 2023
  • 질량 및 에너지 보존 법칙은 수문현상을 포함한 자연 현상의 기본 법칙이다. 유역에서 물의 질량 보존은 강수량 P가 유출량 Q, 증발산량 E, 그리고 육역저수량변화 ΔS로 분할되는 것(P=Q+E+ΔS)을 의미하며 열 에너지 보존은 순복사에너지 Rn이 잠열 λE, 현열 H, 그리고 지열 G로 분할되는 것(Rn=λE+H+G)을 의미한다. 유역에서 물과 에너지의 분배 과정은 E로 연결되어 있으며 이 두 과정을 포괄적으로 이해하는 것은 기후 및 지표환경의 변화를 예측하고 대비하는데 중요하다. 이 연구에서는 미국 전역의 400여개 유역에 대한 정보를 제공하는 Model Parameter Estimation Project(MOPEX) 데이터를 이용하여 유역의 기후 조건에 따라 물과 에너지의 분배가 어떻게 달라지는지 Budyko 평면에서 분석했다. 장기간에 대해 ΔS와 G는 무시할 수 있다는 가정하에 건조한 유역일수록 P, Q, 그리고 E 모두 작게 나타나는데 P와 Q의 감소폭이 훨씬 크기 때문에 E의 P에 대한 비는 크게 나타났다. 또한 건조한 유역일수록 E는 작고 Rn이 크기 때문에 H가 크게 나타났으며 H가 큰 유역일 수록 유역의 최대 기온과 최저 기온의 차이가 크게 나타났다. 이러한 변화는 동일한 유역내에서 물과 에너지 분배의 시간적 변화로도 나타나고 있다.

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o-DGT as a Biomimic Surrogate to Assess Phytoaccumulation of Phenanthrene in Contaminated Soils (o-DGT를 생체모사 대표물질로 이용한 오염토양에서 phenanthrene의 식물축적 평가)

  • Choi, Jiyeon;Shin, Won Sik
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.16-25
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    • 2019
  • Anthropogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are formed by the incomplete combustion of fuels and industrial waste. PAHs can be widely exposed to the environment (water, soil and groundwater). PAHs are potentially toxic, mutagenic and/or carcinogenic. Fundamental studies such as biota uptake (e.g., earthworm and plant) of PAHs are highly needed. It is necessary to develop alternative ways to evaluate bioavailability of PAHs instead of using living organisms because it is time-consuming, difficult to apply in the field, and also exaction method is tedious and time-consuming. In this study, sorption behaviors of phenanthrene were evaluated to predict the fate of PAHs in soils. Moreover, bioaccumulation of PAHs in an artificially contaminated soil was evaluated using pea plant (Pisum sativum) as a bioindicator. A novel passive sampler, organic-diffusive gradient in thin-film (o-DGT) for PAHs was newly synthesized, tested as a biomimic surrogate and compared with plant accumulation. Sorption partitioning coefficient (KP) and sorption capacity (KF) were in the order of natural soil > loess corresponding to the increase in organic carbon content (foc). Biota-to-soil accumulation factor (BSAF) and DGT-to-soil accumulation factor (DSAF) were evaluated. o-DGT uptake was linearly correlated with pea plant uptake of phenanthrene in contaminated soil (R2=0.863). The Tenax TA based o-DGT as a biomimic surrogate can be used for the prediction of pea plant uptake of phenanthrene in contaminated soil.

CUCE: clustering protocol using node connectivity and node energy (노드 연결도와 에너지 정보를 이용한 개선된 센서네트워크 클러스터링 프로토콜)

  • Choi, Hae-Won
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.41-50
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    • 2012
  • Network life time is very important issue for wireless sensor network(WSN). It is very important to design sensor networks for sensors to utilize their energies in effective ways. A-PEGASIS that basically bases on PEGASIS and enhances in two aspects-an elegant chain generation algorithm and periodical update of chains. However, it has problems in the chain generation mechanism and some possibility of network partitioning or sensing hole problem in the network, in LEACH related protocols. This dissertation proposes a new clustering protocol to solve the co-shared problems in the previous protocols. The basic idea of our scheme is using the table for node connectivity. The results show that the network life time would be extended in about 1.8 times longer than LEACH and 1.5 times longer than PEGASIS-A.

Association Analysis between SNP Marker in Neuopeptide Y (NPY) Gene and Carcass and Meat Quality Traits in Korean Cattle

  • Chung, Eui-Ryong;Shin, Sung-Chul;Heo, Jae-Pil
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.537-542
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    • 2011
  • Biological or physiological genes that regulate metabolism and energy partitioning have the potential to influence economically important traits such as carcass and meat quality traits in beef cattle. The neuropeptide Y (NPY) functions as a central appetite stimulator and plays a major role in feed intake and energy-balance control. Therefore, the NPY gene is an excellent biological and physiological candidate gene for body weight, feeding, fatness or growth related traits in beef cattle. The objective of this study was to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the NPY gene and to evaluate the association of NPY SNP markers with carcass and meat quality traits in Korean cattle. The genomic region (711 bp) including intron 2 of NPY gene was amplified and sequenced, and five SNPs, g.4389 Del(C), g.4371Del(C), g.4271T>C, g.1899A>G and g.1517A>C, were identified. The PCR-RFLP method was then developed to genotype the individuals examined. The g.4271T>C SNP was significantly associated with M. Longissimus dori area (LDA) value (p<0.027). Animals with the TT ($78.144{\pm}0.950\;cm^2$) genotype had higher LDA than those with the CC ($72.266{\pm}2.039\;cm^2$), and animals with TC genotype showed intermediate value. This SNP genotype also showed a highly significant additive genetic effect for the LDA (p<0.01). No significant associations, however, was detected between any of the SNP genotype and other carcass traits measured in this study. In conclusion, SNP genotype of the NPY gene may be used as DNA markers to select animals that have a higher meat yield.