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Performance of Crossbred (Landrace × Local Indian) Finisher Barrows Fed Maize or Wheat Bran Based Diets: Short Note

  • Bhar, R.;Pathak, N.N.;Paul, S.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.13 no.10
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    • pp.1429-1432
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    • 2000
  • Three groups of 7, 8 and 8 barrows (22 weeks age; 35 kg body weight), reared on grower diets were fed ad libitum on three isonitrogenous finisher diets containing 50, 71 and 92% wheat bran by replacing maize grain till the attainment of about 74 kg slaughter weight. Growth pattern, average daily gain, feed intake, feed/gain ratio and carcass traits were similar in all the groups. The digestibility of DM, OM, CF, NFE total carbohydrate and energy (DE) decreased (p<0.01) with the increased level of wheat bran in the diet. However, CP digestibility was comparable among all the diet and the digestibility of EE was significantly (p<0.01) higher in grainless diet ($FD_3$). It appears that maize grain may be completely replaced with wheat bran in the diet of crossbred pigs without any adverse effect on their performance with respect to feed intake, body weight gain and carcass characteristics.

Vehicle Lateral Stability Management Using Gain-Scheduled Robust Control

  • You, Seung-Han;Jo, Joon-Sang;Yoo, Seung-Jin;Hahn, Jin-Oh;Lee, Kyo-Il
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.1898-1913
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    • 2006
  • This paper deals with the design of a yaw rate controller based on gain-scheduled H$\infty$ optimal control, which is intended to maintain the lateral stability of a vehicle. Uncertain factors such as vehicle mass and cornering stiffness in the vehicle yaw rate dynamics naturally call for the robustness of the feedback controller and thus H$\infty$ optimization technique is applied to synthesize a controller with guaranteed robust stability and performance against the model uncertainty. In the implementation stage, the feed-forward yaw moment by driver's steer input is estimated by the disturbance observer in order to determine the accurate compensatory moment. Finally, HILS results indicate that the proposed yaw rate controller can satisfactorily improve the lateral stability of an automobile.

The Effect of Project Complexity, Team Members' Structure, and Process Index on Efficiency of System Integration Projects

  • Hong, Han-Kuk;Park, Chul-Jae;Leem, Byung-Hak
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.323-326
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    • 2008
  • Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a theoretically sound framework for performance analysis that offers many advantages over traditional methods such as performance ratios and regression analysis. Largely the result of multidisciplinary research during the last three decades in economics, engineering and management, DEA is best described as an effective new way of visualizing and analyzing performance data. Besides, overseas information technology companies have aggressively tried to enter the domestic market. In the age of globalization and high competition, it is imperative that the system integration (SI) companies need to introduce the performance evaluation models of SI projects, including Capability Maturity Model and Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, to gain a competitive advantage. Therefore, it makes our research regarding evaluation of SI projects very opportune. The purpose of the study is not only to evaluate efficiency of each project by DEA but also to gain insight into various factors such as project complexity, team members' man-months structure, and process index(project management index) that link to the projects performance.

Simple and Efficient Management Scheme for EDFA in WDM Systems

  • Ali, Mumtaz;Khaliq, M. Shoaib;Sattar, A.;Shin, Seo-Yong
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.149-152
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    • 2007
  • We present a simple and efficient management scheme for gain control of EDFA by using standardized network management protocol(Simple Network Management Protocol) and operating the optical amplifier in a link-control scheme. We have demonstrated the proposed scheme by using SNMP Simulator and optical simulation software package.

Effects of Modified Montmorillonite Nanocomposite on Growing/Finishing Pigs during Aflatoxicosis

  • Shi, Y.H.;Xu, Z.R.;Feng, J.L.;Xia, M.S.;Hu, C.H.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.18 no.9
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    • pp.1305-1309
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    • 2005
  • Experiments were conducted to determine the efficacy of modified montmorillonite nanocomposite (MMN) to reduce the toxic effects of aflatoxin (AF) in growing/finishing pigs. 96 weaned pigs were assigned to four dietary treatment groups (0 g of MMN and 0 mg of AF/kg feed, 3 g of MMN/kg feed, 0.1 mg of AF/kg feed, and 3 g of MMN plus 0.1 mg of AF/kg feed). Body weight gain (BW gain), feed/gain ratio, serum biochemical values and enzyme activities were evaluated. Compared with the control, AF alone markedly reduced BW gain and resulted in a significantly higher feed/gain ratio. There were no differences in BW gain and feed/gain ratio between 0.3% MMN or 0.3% MMN plus AF and the control. These results suggested that the deleterious effects of AF were ameliorated by MMN addition. AF intake markedly increased relative organ weights of liver, kidney, spleen and pancreas, and resulted in significant alterations of serum parameters. However, these parameters for pigs fed diets containing MMN and AF returned to normal values, indicating that MMN had the ability to recover the AF-decreased performance, organ damage and to correct aberrations in serum parameters. These findings in our study suggested that MMN can effectively modulate the toxicity of AF in growing/finishing pigs and may offer a novel approach to the preventive management of aflatoxicosis in animals.

The Importance of and a Comparison of Standards Development Organizations in the Ubiquitous Society

  • Seo, Dong-Back;Bekkers, Rudi
    • 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2008
  • The growth of the number of places where technology standardization takes place, and the complex relationships among them, pose challenges for participating actors such as companies and governments. Additionally, it takes considerable resources and capabilities to participate in all Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). Some SDOs have been more effective and efficient in standardizing technologies than others. For this reason, actors need to evaluate and analyze different SDOs to select the appropriate SDO(s) for them and to strategically position themselves in standardizing technologies, so that they can gain more competitive positions in the ubiquitous market. However, it is surprising that there have been relatively few studies analyzing different SDOs. Thus, this study aims to gain insight into the differences and similarities between the methods used at four important international SDOs - IEEE, IETF, OMA, and ETSI - and how these methods are judged by participants. These insights can help governments and companies to develop policies and strategies for SDOs in this changing environment.

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A Study on the Design of Adaptive EWMA Control Chart using Kalman Gain Recursive Average (칼만 게인 궤환 평균을 이용한 적응 EWMA 관리도 설계)

  • Yoon, Sangwon;Yoon, Seokhwan;Shin, Yongback
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.73-86
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    • 1996
  • Adaptive EWMA(Exponentially Weighted Moving Average)-x control chart using the Kalman gain recursive average is designed. The designed control chart is effective to on-line process monitoring as continuous flow processes. Performance evaluation between the designed control chart and traditional one is implemented. For this, ARL(Average Run Length) is adopted as a criterion. Results show that the designed adaptive EWMA-x control chart has shorter ARL than EWMA-x control chart when process mean is shifted. This model can be extended to process prevention control. The methodology proposed in this research is turned out to show the high performance than that of the given methodologies.

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A Study on Developing Productivity Improvement Program Through Employee Involvement (종업원이 참여하는 생산성향상 프로그램 개발)

  • 이재권;장영기
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.18 no.35
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 1995
  • The objective of this study is In develope on productivity improvement program, which named PPM(Participative Productivity Management). This program consists of 3 stages which are Goal setting and sharing. Productivity measurement and evaluation, and Gain sharing. Each concepts of NGT(Nominal Group Technique), Objectives matrix method and Gain sharing was applied to form this frame. This program rewards members of an organization for their contributions to improve business results. It also fits perfectly with today's participative management philosophies. Furthermore, the company and its employees could be partners a win-win situation, and one more barrier to a high-involvement culture should be eliminated.

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Multimedia traffic management in ATM networks (ATM망에서의 멀티미디어 트래픽 제어)

  • 안병준;이형호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 1999.10c
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    • pp.369-374
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    • 1999
  • The problem of bandwidth allocation and routing in VP based ATM networks was studied. A priori reservation of resources for VP's reduces the statistical multiplexing gain, resulting in increased Call Blocking Probability (CBP). The focus of this study is on how to reduce CBP by the efficient bandwidth allocation and routing algorithms. Equivalent capacity concept was used to calculate the required bandwidth by the call. and the effect of traffic dispersion was explored to achieve more statistical gain. A cost-effective traffic dispersion routing algorithm, CED, was designed. The algorithm finds the optimal number of dispersion paths for a call, where the gain balances the dispersion cost. Simulation study showed that CED could significantly reduce the CBP.

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Effect of Chlorella vulgaris intake on cadmium detoxification in rats fed cadmium

  • Kim, You-Jin;Kwon, Sang-Hee;Kim, Mi-Kyung
    • Nutrition Research and Practice
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 2009
  • The aim of this study was to investigate if dietary Chlorella vulgaris(chlorella) intake would be effective on cadmium(Cd) detoxification in rats fed dietary Cd. Fourteen-week old male Sprague-Dawley(SD) rats weighing $415.0{\pm}1.6\;g$ were randomly divided into two groups and fed slightly modified American Institute of Nutrition-93 Growing(AIN-93G) diet without(n=10) or with(n=40) dietary Cd(200 ppm) for 8 weeks. To confirm alteration by dietary Cd intake, twenty rats fed AIN-93G diet without(n=10) and with(n=10) dietary Cd were sacrificed and compared. Other thirty rats were randomly blocked into three groups and fed slightly modified AIN-93G diets replacing 0 (n=10), 5 (n=10) or 10% (n=10) chlorella of total kg diet for 4 weeks. Daily food intake, body weight change, body weight gain/calorie intake, organ weight (liver, spleen, and kidney), perirenal fat pad and epididymal fat pad weights were measured. To examine Cd detoxification, urinary Cd excretion and metallothonein (MT) concentrations in kidney and intestine were measured. Food intake, calorie intake, body weight change, body weight gain/calorie intake, organ weight and fat pad weights were decreased by dietary Cd intake. Urinary Cd excretion and MT concentrations in kidney and small intestine were increased by dietary Cd. After given Cd containing diet, food intake, calorie intake, body weight change, body weight gain/calorie intake, organ weights and fat pad weights were not influenced by dietary chlorella intake. Renal MT synthesis tended to be higher in a dose-dependent manner, but not significantly. And chlorella intake did not significantly facilitate renal and intestinal MT synthesis and urinary Cd excretion. These findings suggest that, after stopping cadmium supply, chlorella supplementation, regardless of its percentage, might not improve cadmium detoxification from the body in growing rats.