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Suitable Use of Capillary Number for Analysis of NAPL Removal from Porous Media

  • Jeong, Seung-Woo,
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2004.09a
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    • pp.25-28
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    • 2004
  • The capillary number is used to represent the mobilization potential of organic phase trapped within porous media. The capillary number has been defined by three different forms, according to types of flow velocity and viscosity used in the definition of capillary number. This study evaluated the suitability of the capillary number definitions for representing TCE mobilization by constructing capillary number-TCE saturation relationships. The results implied that the capillary number should be correctly employed, according to interest of scale and fluid flow behavior. This study suggests that the pore-scale capillary number may be used only for investigating the organic-phase mobilization at the pore scale because it is defined by the pore-velocity and the dynamic viscosity. The Newtonian-fluid capillary number using Darcy velocity and the dynamic viscosity may be suitable to quantify flood systems representing Newtonian fluid behavior. For viscous-force modified flood systems such as surfactant-foam floods, the apparent capillary number definition employing macroscopic properties (permeability and potential gradient) may be used to appropriately represent the desaturation of organic-phases from porous media.

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Meshfree consolidation analysis of saturated porous media with stabilized conforming nodal integration formulation

  • Wang, Dongdong;Xie, Pinkang;Lu, Hongsheng
    • Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.107-125
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    • 2013
  • A strain smoothing meshfree formulation with stabilized conforming nodal integration is presented for modeling the consolidation process in saturated porous media. In the present method, nodal strain smoothing is consistently introduced into the meshfree approximation of strain and pore pressure gradient variables associated with the saturated porous media. Meanwhile, in order to achieve a consistent numerical implementation, a smoothing approximation of the meshfree shape function within a nodal representative domain is also proposed in the stiffness construction. The resulting discrete system of equations is all expressed in smoothed nodal measures that are very efficient for numerical evaluation. Subsequently the space-time fully discrete equations are further established by the generalized trapezoidal rule for time integration. The effectiveness of the proposed meshfree consolidation analysis method is systematically illustrated by several benchmark problems.

Application of Thermotolerant Yeast at High Temperature in Jar-fermentor Scale.

  • Sohn, Ho-Yong;Kim, Young-Ho;Rhee, In-Koo
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.316-321
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    • 1994
  • We investigated the possibility of industrial application and economit process of high temperature fermentation by thermotolerant alcohol producing yeasts as previously reported. From the 20% glucose media, the RA-74-2 produced 11.8% (v/v) ethanol at $32^{\circ}C$ (0.5% inoculum) and 10.6% (v/v) ethanol at $40^{\circ}C$ (3% inoculum), respectively. Also, 11.3% (v/v) ethanol was produced for 96 hours in the temperature-gradient fermentation. These results suggest that the RA-74-2 could isuccessfully be applied to save the cooling water and energy in industrial scale without re-investment or modification of established fermentation systems. When potato starch was used as the substrate for the RA-74-2, high temperature fermentation above $40^{\circ}C$ was more appropriate for industrial utilization because organic nitrogen was not necessary to economical fermentation. As the naked barley media just prior to industrial inoculation, taken from the Poongkuk alcohol industry Co., were used, 9.6% (v/v) ethanol was produced at $40^{\circ}C$ for 48 hours in jar-fermentor scale (actually, 9.5-9.8% (v/v) ethanol was produced at 30~$32^{\circ}C$ for 100 hours in industrial scale). The ethanol productivity was increased by the high glucoamylase activity as well as the high metabolic ratio at $40^{\circ}C$ Therefore, if the thermotolerant yeast RA-74-2 would be used in industrial scale, we could obtain a high productivity and saving of the cooling water and energy. Meanwhile, the RA-912 produced 6%(v/v) ethanol in 10% glucose media at $45^{\circ}C$ and showed the less ethanol-tolerance compared with industrial strains. As the produced alcohol was recovered by the vacuum evaporator at $45^{\circ}C$ in 15% glucose media, the final fermentation ratio was enhanced (76% of theoretical yields). This suggest that a hyperproductive process could be achieved by a continuous input of the substrate and continuous recovery of the product under vacuum in high cell-density culture.

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Rapid Purification of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase by Affinity Chromatography (Affinity Chromatography를 이용한 Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase의 신속한 정제방법 개발)

  • 이한수;임정빈
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.221-228
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    • 1983
  • An improved procedure for the rapid purification of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from extracts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was developed by using affinity chromatography. Among six affinty media tested, $NADP^+ -agarose$ and Affi-gel Blue were more effective than others (i.e., Affi-gel Red, AMP-agarose, ATP-agarose, and $NAD^+ -agarose$). Conditions to desorb the enzyme bound to the affinity media were examined to increase the purity as well as yield. The best result was obtained when the column was developed with a linear gradient of KCl (0-1.0M). In case of Affi-gel Blue, introduction of $NAD^+$ (15mM) washing step prior to the salt gradient was most effective to remove $NAD^+ -binding$ proteins. For a large scale preparation of G-6-P dehydrogenase higher recovery was obtained by Affi-gel Blue than $NADP^+ -agarose$, however, the purity of the enzyme was decreased by 10 times if the former was used as the affinity medium. The capacity of Affi-gel Blue for G-6-P dehydrogenase was found to be 5 times higher than that of $NADP^+ -agarose$. Furthermore Affi-gel Blue could be reused repeatedly and its preparation is relatively easier and less expensive than $NADP^+ -agarose$.

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Automatic Pedestrian Removal Algorithm Using Multiple Frames (다중 프레임에서의 보행자 검출 및 삭제 알고리즘)

  • Kim, ChangSeong;Lee, DongSuk;Park, Dong Sun
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.26-33
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we propose an efficient automatic pedestrian removal system from a frame in a video sequence. It firstly finds pedestrians from the frame using a Histogram of Oriented Gradient(HOG) / Linear-Support Vector Machine(L-SVM) classifier, searches for proper background patches, and then the patches are used to replace the deleted pedestrians. Background patches are retrieved from the reference video sequence and a modified feather blender algorithm is applied to make boundaries of replaced blocks look naturally. The proposed system, is designed to automatically detect object and generate natural-looking patches, while most existing systems provide search operation in manual. In the experiment, the average PSNR of the replaced blocks is 19.246

Improvement of Antibiotic-Producing Streptomyces (항생물질 생산 방선균의 역가 개량에 관하여)

  • 민경희
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.176-185
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    • 1976
  • An improved procedure for the rapid purification of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from extracts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was developed by using affinity chromatography. Among six affinty media tested, NADP$^{+}$-agarose and Affi-gel Blue were more effective than others (i.e., Affi-gel Red, AMP-agarose, ATP-agarose, and NAD$^{+}$-agarose). Conditions to desorb the enzyme bound to the affinity media were examined to increase the purity as well as yield. The best result was obtained when the column was developed with a linear gradient of KCl (0-1.0M). In case of Affi-gel Blue, introduction of NAD$^{+}$ (15mM) washing step prior to the salt gradient was most effective to remove NAD$^{+}$-binding proteins. For a large scale preparation of G-6-P dehydrogenase higher recovery was obtained by Affi-gel Blue than NADP$^{+}$-agarose, however, the purity of the enzyme was decreased by 10 times if the former was used as the affinity medium. The capacity of Affi-gel Blue for G-6-P dehydrogenase was found to be 5 times higher than that of NADP$^{+}$-agarose. Furthermore Affi-gel Blue could be reused repeatedly and its preparation is relatively easier and less expensive than NADP$^{+}$-agarose.X> +/-agarose.

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Adaptive Marquardt Algorithm based on Mobile environment (모바일 환경에 적합한 적응형 마쿼트 알고리즘 제시)

  • Lee, Jongsu;Hwang, Eunhan;Song, Sangseob
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.9-13
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    • 2014
  • The Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm is the most widely used fitting algorithm. It outperforms simple gradient descent and other conjugate gradient methods in a wide variety of problems. Based on the work of paper[1], we propose a modified Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm for better performance of mobile system. The LM parameter at the $k_{th}$ iteration is chosen ${\mu}=A{\bullet}{\parallel}f(x){\parallel}{\bullet}I$ where f is the residual function, and J is the Jacobi of f. In this paper, we show this method is more efficient than traditional method under the situation that the system iteration is limited.

Drift Handling in Object Tracking by Sparse Representations (희소성 표현 기반 객체 추적에서의 표류 처리)

  • Yeo, JungYeon;Lee, Guee Sang
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.88-94
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we proposed a new object tracking algorithm based on sparse representation to handle the drifting problem. In APG-L1(accelerated proximal gradient) tracking, the sparse representation is applied to model the appearance of object using linear combination of target templates and trivial templates with proper coefficients. Also, the particle filter based on affine transformation matrix is applied to find the location of object and APG method is used to minimize the l1-norm of sparse representation. In this paper, we make use of the trivial template coefficients actively to block the drifting problem. We experiment the various videos with diverse challenges and the result shows better performance than others.

Super High-Resolution Image Style Transfer (초-고해상도 영상 스타일 전이)

  • Kim, Yong-Goo
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.104-123
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    • 2022
  • Style transfer based on neural network provides very high quality results by reflecting the high level structural characteristics of images, and thereby has recently attracted great attention. This paper deals with the problem of resolution limitation due to GPU memory in performing such neural style transfer. We can expect that the gradient operation for style transfer based on partial image, with the aid of the fixed size of receptive field, can produce the same result as the gradient operation using the entire image. Based on this idea, each component of the style transfer loss function is analyzed in this paper to obtain the necessary conditions for partitioning and padding, and to identify, among the information required for gradient calculation, the one that depends on the entire input. By structuring such information for using it as auxiliary constant input for partition-based gradient calculation, this paper develops a recursive algorithm for super high-resolution image style transfer. Since the proposed method performs style transfer by partitioning input image into the size that a GPU can handle, it can perform style transfer without the limit of the input image resolution accompanied by the GPU memory size. With the aid of such super high-resolution support, the proposed method can provide a unique style characteristics of detailed area which can only be appreciated in super high-resolution style transfer.

Image Super Resolution Using Neural Architecture Search (심층 신경망 검색 기법을 통한 이미지 고해상도화)

  • Ahn, Joon Young;Cho, Nam Ik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2019.11a
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    • pp.102-105
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    • 2019
  • 본 논문에서는 심층 신경망 검색 방법을 사용하여 이미지 고해상도화를 위한 심층 신경망을 설계하는 방법을 구현하였다. 일반적으로 이미지 고해상도화, 잡음 제거 및 번짐 제거를 위한 심층신경망 구조는 사람이 설계하였다. 최근에는 이미지 분류 등 다른 영상처리 기법에서 사용하는 심층 신경망 구조를 검색하기 위한 방법이 연구되었다. 본 논문에서는 강화학습을 사용하여 이미지 고해상도화를 위한 심층 신경망 구조를 검색하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 policy gradient 방법의 일종인 REINFORCE 알고리즘을 사용하여 심층 신경망 구조를 출력하여 주는 제어용 RNN(recurrent neural network)을 학습하고, 최종적으로 이미지 고해상도화를 잘 실현할 수 있는 심층 신경망 구조를 검색하여 설계하였다. 제안된 심층 신경망 구조를 사용하여 이미지 고해상도화를 구현하였고, 약 36.54dB 의 피크 신호 대비 잡음 비율(PSNR)을 가지는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

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