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Extraction of Hemicellulosic Sugar and Acetic Acid from Different Wood Species with Pressurized Dilute Acid Pretreatment

  • Um, Byung-Hwan;Park, Seong-Jik
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.172-182
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    • 2014
  • Extraction is a necessary element in the bioconversion of lignocellulosics to fuels and chemicals. Although various forms of chemical pretreatment of cellulosic materials have been proposed, their effectiveness varies depending on the treatment conditions and substrate. In this study, mixed hardwood (MH) and loblolly pine (LP) were pretreated with dilute acid in a 100 mL accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) at the predetermined optimal conditions: temperature: $170^{\circ}C$, acid concentration: 0.5% (w/v), and reaction time: 2~64 min. This method was highly effective for extracting the hemicellulose fraction. Total xmg (defined as the sum of xylose, mannose, and galactose) can be extracted from milled MH and LP through pressurized dilute acid treatment in maximum yields of 12.6 g/L and 15.3 g/L, respectively, representing 60.5% and 70.4% of the maximum possible yields, respectively. The crystallinity index increased upon pretreatment, reflecting the removal of the amorphous portion of biomass. The crystalline structure of the cellulose in the biomass, however, was not changed by the ASE extraction process.

Vulnerability Assessment of a Large Sized Power System Using Neural Network Considering Various Feature Extraction Methods

  • Haidar, Ahmed M. A;Mohamed, Azah;Hussian, Aini
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.167-176
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    • 2008
  • Vulnerability assessment of power systems is important so as to determine their ability to continue to provide service in case of any unforeseen catastrophic contingency such as power system component failures, communication system failures, human operator error, and natural calamity. An approach towards the development of on-line power system vulnerability assessment is by means of using an artificial neural network(ANN), which is being used successfully in many areas of power systems because of its ability to handle the fusion of multiple sources of data and information. An important consideration when applying ANN in power system vulnerability assessment is the proper selection and dimension reduction of training features. This paper aims to investigate the effect of using various feature extraction methods on the performance of ANN as well as to evaluate and compare the efficiency of the proposed feature extraction method named as neural network weight extraction. For assessing vulnerability of power systems, a vulnerability index based on power system loss is used and considered as the ANN output. To illustrate the effectiveness of ANN considering various feature extraction methods for vulnerability assessment on a large sized power system, it is verified on the IEEE 300-bus test system.

The Effects of Onion(Allium cepa L.) peel Extract on UVB-induced on Skin Damage (양파외피추출물이 UVB에 손상된 피부에 미치는 영향)

  • Na, Yun-Young;Song, Seon-Young
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.391-396
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we investigated the effects of onion(Allium cepa L.) peel extraction aplication on UVB-induced damage of mouse skin. The male C57BL/6 weeks mice were divided into three groups; the control group(Con), the UVB irradiated group(UVB) and the group treated with onion peel extract after UVB irradiation(UVB+Onion peel). Onion peel extraction were topically treated after UVB irradiation(800 $mJ/cm^2$) to dorsal skin. We were measured TEWL, melanin value, erythema index and histological of mouse skin. In the TEWL, melanin value and erythema index observation, UVB+onion peel group were decreased then in the UVB group and 120 and 168 hr groups were similar to the control group. In the histological observation, UVB+onion peel group were indicated hyperkeratosis then in the UVB. These results showed that onion peel extract as a topical application may have preventive effect against UVB-induced skin damage. Therefore onion peel extract might be good material for UVB-damage skin care.

Wavelet-based feature extraction for automatic defect classification in strands by ultrasonic structural monitoring

  • Rizzo, Piervincenzo;Lanza di Scalea, Francesco
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.253-274
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    • 2006
  • The structural monitoring of multi-wire strands is of importance to prestressed concrete structures and cable-stayed or suspension bridges. This paper addresses the monitoring of strands by ultrasonic guided waves with emphasis on the signal processing and automatic defect classification. The detection of notch-like defects in the strands is based on the reflections of guided waves that are excited and detected by magnetostrictive ultrasonic transducers. The Discrete Wavelet Transform was used to extract damage-sensitive features from the detected signals and to construct a multi-dimensional Damage Index vector. The Damage Index vector was then fed to an Artificial Neural Network to provide the automatic classification of (a) the size of the notch and (b) the location of the notch from the receiving sensor. Following an optimization study of the network, it was determined that five damage-sensitive features provided the best defect classification performance with an overall success rate of 90.8%. It was thus demonstrated that the wavelet-based multidimensional analysis can provide excellent classification performance for notch-type defects in strands.

Evaluation on Extraction Conditions and HPLC Analysis Method for Ginsenosides in Panax ginseng (인삼의 추출조건 및 진세노사이드의 HPLC 분석법 평가)

  • Lee, Kyeong Hee;Lee, Dae Young;Lee, Seung Eun;Nam, Ki Yeul;Hwang, Gwang Bo;Kim, Hyung Don;Lee, Jae Won;Choi, Je Hun;Ahn, Young Sup;Kim, Seung Yu;Kim, Geum Soog
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2016
  • Background : A new extraction method-heated ultrasonic extraction was qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed for the extraction of major ginsenosides from ginseng extract; this new high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was compared with the official extraction method of Korean industrial standards and standard for health functional food. Methods and Results : Ginsenoside compounds were analyzed for 35 minutes by the new HPLC analysis method using a Halo$^{(R)}$ RP-Amide column. The new HPLC analysis method was validated by the measurement of intra-day and inter-day precision, accuracy, limit of detection (LOD), and limit of quantification (LOQ) of each ginsenoside. The correlation coefficients (r2) for the calibration curves of the ginsenoside compounds were over 0.9997 in terms of linearity. The heated ultrasonic extraction method using ultrasonication for 30 minutes at $50^{\circ}C$ yielded higher amount of ginsenosides than the extraction method of the Korean industrial standards owing to the enhancement of extraction efficiency. Conclusions : Compared to the other extraction methods, the heated ultrasonic extraction method yielded a higher amount of ginsenoside Rb1 than Rg1 index compounds for the quality evaluation of ginseng roots.

A Study on Algorithm of Phonemes Extraction in Korean Character Pattern Recognition (한글 인식에서 자소 추출에 관한 연구)

  • 정영화;김은진;김정선
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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    • 1985.10a
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    • pp.109-112
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    • 1985
  • This paper proposes a algorithm of phonemes extraction in korean character pattern recognition. The phonemes are classified into the patterns which are separable and connected with each other. The former is extracted by means of pattern matching in consideration of topological structure of ponemes and direction of stroke sequentially. The latter is extracted by means of index and window algorithm which are performed by a 3$\times$3 sequential local operation in the thinned character pattern.

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A Novel Reversible Data Hiding Scheme for VQ-Compressed Images Using Index Set Construction Strategy

  • Qin, Chuan;Chang, Chin-Chen;Chen, Yen-Chang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.7 no.8
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    • pp.2027-2041
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we propose a novel reversible data hiding scheme in the index tables of the vector quantization (VQ) compressed images based on index set construction strategy. On the sender side, three index sets are constructed, in which the first set and the second set include the indices with greater and less occurrence numbers in the given VQ index table, respectively. The index values in the index table belonging to the second set are added with prefixes from the third set to eliminate the collision with the two derived mapping sets of the first set, and this operation of adding prefixes has data hiding capability additionally. The main data embedding procedure can be achieved easily by mapping the index values in the first set to the corresponding values in the two derived mapping sets. The same three index sets reconstructed on the receiver side ensure the correctness of secret data extraction and the lossless recovery of index table. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Fingertip Extraction and Hand Motion Recognition Method for Augmented Reality Applications (증강현실 응용을 위한 손 끝점 추출과 손 동작 인식 기법)

  • Lee, Jeong-Jin;Kim, Jong-Ho;Kim, Tae-Young
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.316-323
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we propose fingertip extraction and hand motion recognition method for augmented reality applications. First, an input image is transformed into HSV color space from RGB color space. A hand area is segmented using double thresholding of H, S value, region growing, and connected component analysis. Next, the end points of the index finger and thumb are extracted using morphology operation and subtraction for a virtual keyboard and mouse interface. Finally, the angle between the end points of the index finger and thumb with respect to the center of mass point of the palm is calculated to detect the touch between the index finger and thumb for implementing the click of a mouse button. Experimental results on various input images showed that our method segments the hand, fingertips, and recognizes the movements of the hand fast and accurately. Proposed methods can be used the input interface for augmented reality applications.

Fault Detection and Classification of Faulty Induction Motors using Z-index and Frequency Analysis (Z-index와 주파수 분석을 이용한 유도전동기 고장진단과 분류)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.3 s.71
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 2005
  • In this literature, fault detection and classification of faulty induction motors are carried out through Z-index and frequency analysis. Above frequency analysis refer Fourier transformation and Wavelet transformation. Z-index is defined as the similar form of energy function, also the faulty and healthy conditions are classified through Z-index. For the detection and classification feature extraction for the fault detection of an induction motor is carried out using the information from stator current. Fourier and Wavelet transforms are applied to detect the characteristics under the healthy and various faulty conditions. We can obtain feature vectors from two transformations, and the results illustrate that the feature vectors are complementary each other.