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Analytical and numerical algorithm for exploring dynamic response of non-classically damped hybrid structures

  • Raheem, Shehata E. Abdel
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • 제3권2호
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    • pp.171-193
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    • 2014
  • The dynamic characterization is important in making accurate predictions of the seismic response of the hybrid structures dominated by different damping mechanisms. Different damping characteristics arise from the construction of hybrid structure with different materials: steel for the upper part; reinforced concrete for the lower main part and interaction with supporting soil. The process of modeling damping matrices and experimental verification is challenging because damping cannot be determined via static tests as can mass and stiffness. The assumption of classical damping is not appropriate if the system to be analyzed consists of two or more parts with significantly different levels of damping. The dynamic response of structures is critically determined by the damping mechanisms, and its value is very important for the design and analysis of vibrating structures. A numerical algorithm capable of evaluating the equivalent modal damping ratio from structural components is desirable for improving seismic design. Two approaches are considered to explore the dynamic response of hybrid tower of cable-stayed bridges: The first approach makes use of a simplified model of 2 coupled lumped masses to investigate the effects of subsystems different damping, mass ratio, frequency ratio on dynamic characteristics and equivalent modal damping; the second approach employs a detailed numerical step-by step integration procedure.

Sound Absorption Property of Carbonized Medium Density Fiberboards at Different Carbonizing Temperatures

  • Won, Kyung-Rok;Hong, Nam-Euy;Kang, Sang-Uk;Park, Sang-Bum;Byeon, Hee-Seop
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • 제43권2호
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    • pp.206-213
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    • 2015
  • This study was carried out to use carbonized medium density fiberboard (MDF) for the replacement of sound absorbing material. Carbonization treatment was performed to improve sound absorption property for MDF at carbonizing temperatures of $500^{\circ}C$, $700^{\circ}C$, $900^{\circ}C$ and $1100^{\circ}C$. As the carbonization temperature increased, the results of the observation by scanning electron microscope (SEM) demonstrated that the fibers exhibited a more compressed morphology within the surface section of the MDF than those within the middle section of MDF. As the carbonizing temperature increased, the cavity increased. The sound absorption coefficient increased between the temperatures of $500^{\circ}C$ and $900^{\circ}C$, but decreased at a temperature of $1100^{\circ}C$. The sound absorption properties of the carbonized MDF and the non-carbonized MDF were compared. The maximum sound absorption coefficient of the carbonized MDF was 12.38%. This was almost double of the value of the non-carbonized MDF.

Effects of Foreign Investor Ownership on a Firm's Innovation Process: A Focus on Business-Group Affiliation in Korea

  • Il-Hang Shin;Han-Sol Lee
    • Journal of Korea Trade
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    • 제26권7호
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    • pp.19-42
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    • 2022
  • Purpose - This study investigates the effects of foreign investor ownership on firm innovation and the different stages of the firm innovation process for business group affiliation (affiliated firms) and nonaffiliated firms. Design/methodology - Research and development (R&D) intensity is used as a proxy for firm innovation. We use a sample of 7,655 firm-year observations of Korean listed firms from 2001 to 2015. To identify the distinct features of business group affiliation and how foreign investor ownership affects firm innovation, we divide the sample into affiliated and non-affiliated firms. Moreover, we classify total R&D expenditures as research and development expenditures. Findings - This study finds a positive relationship between foreign investor ownership and innovation in non-affiliated firms. However, the foreign investor ownership's role in facilitating firm innovation does not influence business group affiliation. Moreover, the results show that foreign investor ownership encourages firms to increase research expenditures, which is the amount spent in the early stages of a firm's R&D process. Originality/value - Existing studies have overlooked the distinct features of business group affiliation and the different characteristics of research and development expenditures. Thus, this study considers the distinct features of business group affiliation and investigates how foreign investor ownership affects different stages of R&D activities.

가상 놀이 공간 인터페이스를 위한 HMM 기반 상반신 제스처 인식 (HMM-based Upper-body Gesture Recognition for Virtual Playing Ground Interface)

  • 박재완;오치민;이칠우
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제10권8호
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2010
  • 본 논문은 HMM기반의 상반신 제스처 인식에 대하여 연구하였다. 공간상의 제스처를 인식하기 위해서는 일단 제스처를 구성하고 있는 포즈에 대한 구분이 우선되어야 한다. 인터페이스에 사용되는 포즈를 구분하기 위해서 정면과 옆면에 설치한 적외선 카메라 두 대를 실험에 사용하였다. 그리고 각각의 적외선 카메라에서 하나의 포즈에 대한 정면 포즈와 옆면 포즈로 나눠서 획득한다. 획득한 적외선 포즈 영상은 SVM의 비선형 RBF 커널 함수를 이용하여 구분하였다. RBF 커널을 사용하면 비선형적 분류 포즈들간의 오분류 현상을 구분할 수 있다. 이렇게 구분된 포즈들의 연속은 HMM의 상태천이행렬을 이용하여 제스처로 인식된다. 인식된 제스처는 OS Value에 매핑하여 기존의 Application에 적용할 수 있다.

Prediction of Chemotherapeutic Response in Unresectable Non-small-cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Patients by 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-5-(3-carboxymethoxyphenyl)-2-(4-sulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium (MTS) Assay

  • Chen, Juan;Cheng, Guo-Hua;Chen, Li-Pai;Pang, Ting-Yuan;Wang, Xiao-Le
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • 제14권5호
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    • pp.3057-3062
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    • 2013
  • Background: Selecting chemotherapy regimens guided by chemosensitivity tests can provide individualized therapies for cancer patients. The 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-5-(3-carboxymethoxyphenyl)-2-(4-sulfophenyl)-2Htetrazolium, inner salt (MTS) assay is one in vitro assay which has become widely used to evaluate the sensitivity to anticancer agents. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical applicability and accuracy of MTS assay for predicting chemotherapeutic response in unresectable NSCLC patients. Methods: Cancer cells were isolated from malignant pleural effusions of patients by density gradient centrifugation, and their sensitivity to eight chemotherapeutic agents was examined by MTS assay and compared with clinical response. Results: A total of 37 patients participated in this study, and MTS assay produced results successfully in 34 patients (91.9%). The sensitivity rates ranged from 8.8% to 88.2%. Twenty-four of 34 patients who received chemotherapy were evaluated for in vitro-in vivo response analysis. The correlation between in vitro chemosensitivity result and in vivo response was highly significant (P=0.003), and the total predictive accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for MTS assay were 87.5%, 94.1%, 71.4%, 88.9%, and 83.3%, respectively. The in vitro sensitivity for CDDP also showed a significant correlation with in vivo response (P=0.018, r=0.522). Conclusion: MTS assay is a preferable in vitro chemosensitivity assay that could be use to predict the response to chemotherapy and select the appropriate chemotherapy regimens for unresectable NSCLC patients, which could greatly improve therapeutic efficacy and reduce unnecessary adverse effects.

Potential Utility of FDG PET-CT as a Non-invasive Tool for Monitoring Local Immune Responses

  • Lee, Seungho;Choi, Seohee;Kim, Sang Yong;Yun, Mi Jin;Kim, Hyoung-Il
    • Journal of Gastric Cancer
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    • 제17권4호
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    • pp.384-393
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: The tumor microenvironment is known to be associated with the metabolic activity of cancer cells and local immune reactions. We hypothesized that glucose metabolism measured by 2-deoxy-2-($^{18}F$)fluoro-D-glucose ($^{18}F-FDG$) positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT) ($^{18}F-FDG$ PET-CT) would be associated with local immune responses evaluated according to the presence of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 56 patients who underwent $^{18}F-FDG$ PET-CT prior to gastrectomy. In resected tumor specimens, TIL subsets, including cluster of differentiation (CD) 3, CD4, CD8, Forkhead box P3 (Foxp3), and granzyme B, were subjected to immunohistochemical analysis. The prognostic nutritional index (PNI) was calculated as: ($10{\times}serum$ albumin value)+($0.005{\times}peripheral$ lymphocyte counts). Additionally, the maximum standard uptake value ($SUV_{max}$) was calculated to evaluate the metabolic activity of cancer cells. Results: The $SUV_{max}$ was positively correlated with larger tumor size (R=0.293; P=0.029) and negatively correlated with PNI (R=-0.407; P=0.002). A higher $SUV_{max}$ showed a marginal association with higher CD3 (+) T lymphocyte counts (R=0.227; P=0.092) and a significant association with higher Foxp3 (+) T lymphocyte counts (R=0.431; P=0.009). No other clinicopathological characteristics were associated with $SUV_{max}$ or TILs. Survival analysis, however, indicated that neither $SUV_{max}$ nor Foxp3 held prognostic significance. Conclusions: FDG uptake on PET-CT could be associated with TILs, especially regulatory T cells, in gastric cancer. This finding may suggest that PET-CT could be of use as a non-invasive tool for monitoring the tumor microenvironment in patients with gastric cancer.

A Study on Space Utilization according to Changes in Non-face-to-Face Consumer Use : Focused on bank offices

  • Hwang, Sungi;Ryu, Gihwan;Yun, Daiyeol;Kim, Heeyoung
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • 제8권4호
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    • pp.271-278
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    • 2020
  • Modern financial services go beyond the stage of internet banking, and new concepts of financial transactions such as Internet of Things, mobile banking, electronic payments, and fintech have emerged. As a result, banks are less influential in financial transactions, and changes are being demanded. In the present era, the basic business of banks has decreased, and it is transforming into a space where both consumer finance work and reside. The bank office stands for the brand image of the bank, and it is represented by trust with customers in the basic business of financial transactions, and the rise in real estate value is a natural social phenomenon due to the nature of the location and location of real estate owned by the bank. The business method and space of the bank office that meets the new paradigm of the modern society is an inefficient space only for the convenience and rest of consumers, but it must be used as a variety of spaces suitable for the region to increase the functional value of the bank office. Through this study, as a convenience space for consumers, various service facilities should be introduced to understand the characteristics of the region as a convenience space for consumers, and various service facilities should be introduced to meet the needs of consumers, and the bank office should be improved as a complex service space for local residents.

영화의 공동감상과 사회적 가치 창출 - 일본의 커뮤니티 시네마를 중심으로 (The collective appreciation of film and the creation of social value - Community cinema in Japan)

  • 장지은
    • 트랜스-
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    • 제14권
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    • pp.123-155
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    • 2023
  • 본 논문은, 일본의 커뮤니티 시네마의 역사적 발전과정에 대한 문헌고찰을 바탕으로 영화공동감상을 기반으로 한 사회적 가치창출과정의 특징을 분석한다. 일본에서는 영상매체의 디지털화, 매체공간의 개인화가 증가한 21세기 현대사회에서도 비상업극장 및 비극장상영에서 공동감상의 문화가 유지되고 있다. 그리고 이러한 감상환경을, '커뮤니티 시네마'라는 이름으로 통합하여 지원하는 일본 커뮤니티 시네마 센터도 설립·운영되고 있다. 연구의 결과, 커뮤니티 시네마의 특징은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 비극장상영 단체나 감상단체가 시민과 협력하여 영화관을 설립·운영한다. 둘째, 공동 감상을 운영하는 단체나 기관의 대규모 연계를 통해 영화문화를 이해하고 영화문화운동에 참여할 관객을 육성하는 이론적 · 실천적 · 참여적 학습기회를 만든다. 셋째, 공동감상을 기반으로 하여 관객이 주도하는 영화문화 환경을 정비하여 공동성을 실감하는 사회적 장을 만들고 나아가 영화와 사회문제해결을 융합하는 영화의 사회적 활용을 도모한다.

Boundary estimation in electrical impedance tomography with multi-layer neural networks.

  • Kim, J.H.;Jeon, H.J.;Choi, B.Y.;Kim, M.C.;Kim, S.;Kim, K.Y.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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    • pp.553-558
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    • 2003
  • The boundary estimation problem is used to estimate the shape of organic depend on the phase of the cardiac cycle or interested in the detection of the location and size of anomalies with resistivity values different from the background tissues such as nuclear reactor. And we can use the method to solve the optimal solution such as modified Newton raphson, kalman filter, extended kalman filter, etc. But, this method consumes much time and is sensitive to the initial value and noise in the estimation of the unknown shape. In the paper, we propose that multi-layer neural networks estimate the boundary of the unknown object using Fourier coefficient. This method can be used at the real time estimation and have strong characteristics at the noise and initial value. It uses voltage change; difference the homogeneous voltage to the non-homogeneous voltage, and change of Fourier coefficient change to train multi-layer neural network. After train, we can have real time estimation using this method.

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Visualizations of Relational Capital for Shared Vision

  • Russell, Martha G.;Still, Kaisa;Huhtamaki, Jukka;Rubens, Neil
    • World Technopolis Review
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.47-60
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    • 2016
  • In today's digital non-linear global business environment, innovation initiatives are influenced by inter-organizational, political, economic, environmental, technological systems, as well as by decisions made individually by key actors in these systems. Network-based structures emerge from social linkages and collaborations among various actors, creating innovation ecosystems, complex adaptive systems in which entities co-create value. A shared vision of value co-creation allows people operating individually to arrive together at the same future. Yet, relationships are difficult to see, continually changing and challenging to manage. The Innovation Ecosystem Transformation Framework construct includes three core components to make innovation relationships visible and articulate networks of relational capital for the wellbeing, sustainability and business success of innovation ecosystems: data-driven visualizations, storytelling and shared vision. Access to data facilitates building evidence-based visualizations using relational data. This has dramatically altered the way leaders can use data-driven analysis to develop insights and provide ongoing feedback needed to orchestrate relational capital and build shared vision for high quality decisions about innovation. Enabled by a shared vision, relational capital can guide decisions that catalyze, support and sustain an ecosystemic milieu conducive to innovation for business growth.