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An Analysis of Genetic Variation and Divergence on Silk Fibre Characteristics of Multivoltine Silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) Genotypes

  • Kumaresan P.;Koundinya P. R.;Hiremath S. A.;Sinha R. K.
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.23-32
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    • 2007
  • The nature of genetic variation and diversity among the 65 multivoltine silkworm genotypes was evaluated for 16 post cocoon characters. The components of genetic variation revealed higher PCV (60.487%) and GCV (44.56%) for evenness (variation 1) followed by cohesion (PCV=55.38%, GCV=40.36%) and non-broken filament length (PCV=32.05%, GCV=31.28%). The higher heritability ($h^2$ in broad sense) was observed for boil-off loss (95.6%) followed by non-broken filament length (95.22%). The both genotypic and phenotypic correlation indicated significant positive correlation of filament length with non-broken filament length, silk recovery, raw silk, neatness, and low neatness; and negative correlation with denier, renditta and silk waste. The principal component analysis (PCA) revealed 75.381 % of total variance from the five principal components extracted. On the basis of Mahalonobis' $D^2$ values (Ward's minimum variance), the sixty-five multivoltine silkworm genotypes were classified in to 9 clusters with substantial inter and intra cluster distances. Number of genotypes included in different clusters varied from 3 to 17. The results indicated that the optimum distance obtained in cluster VII (15.059) along with higher cluster mean values especially for filament length, non broken filament length, renditta, silk recovery, silk waste, and raw silk emphasized the utilization of these genotypes in the conventional silkworm breeding programme for improvement of multivoltine silk fibre quality. The possibility of exploiting genetic variation in post cocoon traits for efficient breeding programme is discussed.

PERSONAL SPACE-BASED MODELING OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLE FOR NEW HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

  • Amaoka, Toshitaka;Laga, Hamid;Saito, Suguru;Nakajima, Masayuki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.01a
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    • pp.746-750
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    • 2009
  • In this paper we focus on the Personal Space (PS) as a nonverbal communication concept to build a new Human Computer Interaction. The analysis of people positions with respect to their PS gives an idea on the nature of their relationship. We propose to analyze and model the PS using Computer Vision (CV), and visualize it using Computer Graphics. For this purpose, we define the PS based on four parameters: distance between people, their face orientations, age, and gender. We automatically estimate the first two parameters from image sequences using CV technology, while the two other parameters are set manually. Finally, we calculate the two-dimensional relationship of multiple persons and visualize it as 3D contours in real-time. Our method can sense and visualize invisible and unconscious PS distributions and convey the spatial relationship of users by an intuitive visual representation. The results of this paper can be used to Human Computer Interaction in public spaces.

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EEC-FM: Energy Efficient Clustering based on Firefly and Midpoint Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Network

  • Daniel, Ravuri;Rao, Kuda Nageswara
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.3683-3703
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    • 2018
  • Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of set of sensor nodes. These sensor nodes are deployed in unattended area which are able to sense, process and transmit data to the base station (BS). One of the primary issues of WSN is energy efficiency. In many existing clustering approaches, initial centroids of cluster heads (CHs) are chosen randomly and they form unbalanced clusters, results more energy consumption. In this paper, an energy efficient clustering protocol to prevent unbalanced clusters based on firefly and midpoint algorithms called EEC-FM has been proposed, where midpoint algorithm is used for initial centroid of CHs selection and firefly is used for cluster formation. Using residual energy and Euclidean distance as the parameters for appropriate cluster formation of the proposed approach produces balanced clusters to eventually balance the load of CHs and improve the network lifetime. Simulation result shows that the proposed method outperforms LEACH-B, BPK-means, Park's approach, Mk-means, and EECPK-means with respect to balancing of clusters, energy efficiency and network lifetime parameters. Simulation result also demonstrate that the proposed approach, EEC-FM protocol is 45% better than LEACH-B, 17.8% better than BPK-means protocol, 12.5% better than Park's approach, 9.1% better than Mk-means, and 5.8% better than EECPK-means protocol with respect to the parameter half energy consumption (HEC).

NONTHERMAL BROADENING OF UV LINES OBSERVED AT THE LIMB OF THE QUIET SUN

  • LEE HVUNSOOK;YUN HONG SIK;CHAE JONGCHUL
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.57-73
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    • 2000
  • We have done a spectroscopic study of the solar transition region using high resolution UV & EUV data obtained by SUMER(Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation) on board SOHO(Solar and Heliospheric Observatory). Optically thin and conspicuous emission lines observed at the solar limb are carefully selected to acquire average values of physical parameters for the quiet region as a function of radial distance. Our main results found from the present study can be summarized as follows. 1) Nonthermal velocities estimated from various UV lines do not decrease with height at least within one total line intensity scale height above the limb. 2) Nonthermal velocity distribution with temperature is very similar to that of the disk center, in the sense that its peak is located around $2{\times}10^5 K$, but the value is systematically larger than that of the disk. 3) It is found that nonthermal velocity is inversely proportional. to quadratic root of electron density up to about 10 arc seconds above the limb, i.e. ${\xi}\~N_e^{-1/4}$, implying that the observed nonthermal broadening can be attributed to Alfven waves passing through the medium. 41 Electron density estimated from the O V 629/760 line ratio is found to range from about $1{\times}10^{10}cm^{-3}$ to $2{\times} 10^{12}cm^{-3}$ in the transition region.

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A Study on the Discourse for the Improvement of Living Conditions and Housing through Modern Women's Magazines (일제강점기 여성지에 나타난 생활개선 담론의 경향 고찰 - 주생활 및 부엌개량의 내용을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Young-Bum
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.51-61
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    • 2011
  • This study aimed to grasp trends of the discourse for improving living conditions carried out since 1920's, when the sense for mending the irrationality of conventional living emerged in various magazines. Among the movement, women intellectuals played an important roles to discuss reforming daily life and unhealthy, inconvenient houseworks. This study found the ideological background and direction of this discourse, and estimated its important role for housing improvement, analyzing the contents of articles published in representative womens' magazines of the modern times. In the discourse, they thought that it was most important to make houseworks brief and efficient, and concentrated on building rational environment for houseworks. As reforming kitchen system, heating system (Ondol) should be separated from cooking system to improve hygienic and economical condition of houseworks. Reformed kitchen would be equipped with new installations for effectiveness, lightened by sunlight through windows, and finished floor with cement and drainage for sanitation. Also, they suggested new ways of living, planning modern houses with reformed kitchen system, thinking about moving path and distance of housewives. This discourse would be a foundation to the change of kitchen system up to now.

Development of Audio Melody Extraction and Matching Engine for MIREX 2011 tasks

  • Song, Chai-Jong;Jang, Dalwon;Lee, Seok-Pil;Park, Hochong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2012.07a
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    • pp.164-166
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we proposed a method for extracting predominant melody of polyphonic music based on harmonic structure. Harmonic structure is an important feature parameter of monophonic signal that has spectral peaks at the integer multiples of its fundamental frequency. We extract all fundamental frequency candidates contained in the polyphonic signal by verifying the required condition of harmonic structure. Then, we combine those harmonic peaks corresponding to each extracted fundamental frequency and assign a rank to each after calculating its harmonic average energy. We run pitch tracking based on the rank of extracted fundamental frequency and continuity of fundamental frequency, and determine the predominant melody. For the query by singing/humming (QbSH) task, we proposed Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) based matching engine. Our system reduces false alarm by combining the distances of multiple DTW processes. To improve the performance, we introduced the asymmetric sense, pitch level compensation, and distance intransitiveness to DTW algorithm.

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The role of CCDL in the EFL classroom (와세다대학교-강원대학교 원격수업을 위한 의사소통 중심의 영어수업 모형개발)

  • Park, Kyung-Ja
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.83-129
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    • 2003
  • This study explains a cooperative project between Kangwon National University (KNU) and Waseda University(WU), so called CCDLP (Cross-Cultural Distance Learning Project). The purpose of this project is to enhance the English proficiency of students at both universities by making their learning environments enjoyable and fruitful. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the role of CCDL in the EFL classroom by discussing (1) how to create the situations where students at both universities get to know and understand each other through modern technologies, (2) how to encourage the students to work closely together VC (Video Conferencing), TeleMeet, chat systems, and e-mail, and (3) how to provide a new style of learning and teaching L2. The results from a questionnaire and a grammaticality judgment test show that students have a sense of satisfaction and achievement in the English proficiency at the end of the project. The result of this project will be of great importance for future works in the use of communication systems in L2 learning and teaching.

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A Homonym Disambiguation System Based on Statistical Model Using Sense Category and Distance Weights (의미범주 및 거리 가중치를 고려한 통계기반 동형이의어 분별 시스템)

  • Kim, Jun-Su;Kim, Chang-Hwan;Lee, Wang-Woo;Lee, Soo-Dong;Ock, Cheol-Young
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2001.10d
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    • pp.487-493
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    • 2001
  • 본 논문에서는 Bayes 정리를 적용한 통계기반 동형이의어 분별 시스템에 대한 외부실험 결과를 분석하여, 정확률 향상을 위한 의미범주 가중치 및 인접 어절에 대한 거리 가중치 모델을 제시한다. 의미 분별된 사전 뜻풀이말 코퍼스(120만 어절)에서 구축된 의미정보를 이용한 통계기반 동형이의어 분별 시스템을 사전 뜻풀이말 문장에 출현하는 동형이의어 의미 분별에 적용한 결과 상위 고빈도 200개의 동형이의어에 대해 평균 98.32% 정확률을 보였다. 내부 실험에 사용된 200개의 동형이의어 중 49개(체언 31개, 용언 18개)를 선별하여 이들 동형이의어를 포함하고 있는 50,703개의 문장을 세종계획 품사 부착 코퍼스(350만 어절)에서 추출하여 외부 실험을 하였다. 분별하고자 하는 동형이의어의 앞/뒤 5어절에 대해 의미범주 및 거리 가중치를 부여한 실험 결과 기존 통계기반 분별 모델 보다 2.93% 정확률이 향상되었다.

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Structural Analyses and Properties of $Ti_{1-x}Al_xN$ Films Deposited by PACVD Using a $TiCl_4/AlCl_3/N_2/Ar/H_2$ Gas Mixture ($TiCl_4/AlCl_3/N_2/Ar/H_2$ 반응계를 사용하는 플라즈마화학증착법에 의한 $Ti_{1-x}Al_xN$ 박막의 구조분석 및 물성)

  • 김광호;이성호
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.809-816
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    • 1995
  • Ti1-xAlxN films were successfully deposited on high speed steel and silicon wafer by plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition using a TiCl4/AlCl3/N2/Ar/H2 gas mixture. Plasma process enabled N2 gas to nitride AlCl3, which is not possible in sense of thermodynamics. XPS analyses revealed that the deposited layer contained Al-N bond as well as Ti-N bond. Ti1-xAlxN films were polycrystalline and had single phase, B1-NaCl structure of TiN. Interplanar distance, d200, of (200) crystal plane of Ti1-xAlxN was, however, decreased with Al content, x. Al incorporation into TiN caused the grain size to be finer and changed strong (200) preferred orientation of TiN to random oriented microstructure. Those microstructural changes with Al addition resulted in the increase of micro-hardness of Ti1-xAlxN film up to 2800Kg/$\textrm{mm}^2$ compared with 1400Kg/$\textrm{mm}^2$ of TiN.

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Development of Hydroclimate Drought Index (HCDI) and Evaluation of Drought Prediction in South Korea (수문기상가뭄지수 (HCDI) 개발 및 가뭄 예측 효율성 평가)

  • Ryu, JaeHyun;Kim, JungJin;Lee, KyungDo
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.61 no.1
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 2019
  • The main objective of this research is to develop a hydroclimate drought index (HCDI) using the gridded climate data inputs in a Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) modeling platform. Typical drought indices, including, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), and Self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index (SC-PDSI) in South Korea are also used and compared. Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) method is applied to create the gridded climate data from 56 ground weather stations using topographic information between weather stations and the respective grid cell ($12km{\times}12km$). R statistical software packages are used to visualize HCDI in Google Earth. Skill score (SS) are computed to evaluate the drought predictability based on water information derived from the observed reservoir storage and the ground weather stations. The study indicates that the proposed HCDI with the gridded climate data input is promising in the sense that it can help us to predict potential drought extents and to mitigate its impacts in a changing climate. The longer term drought prediction (e.g., 9 and 12 month) capability, in particular, shows higher SS so that it can be used for climate-driven future droughts.