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PRELIMINARY STUDY ON NIR SPECTRA OF RETROGRADED STARCH

  • Terazawa, Yoko;Maekawa, Takaaki;Kawano, Sumio
    • 한국근적외분광분석학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국근적외분광분석학회 2001년도 NIR-2001
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    • pp.1515-1515
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    • 2001
  • Retrogradation of starch is one of important quality indexes for food based on starch such as rice. Therefore, in this research, possibility of near infrared spectroscopy to determine the degree of the retrogradation was examined. The degree of the retrogradation was indicated as the degree of geratinization analyzed by BAP(-amylase-pullulanase) method. 20 samples which have a wide range of the degree of the retrogradation were prepared and the NIR spectra of the samples were measured in reflectance mode with the NIR Systems 6500. In the correlation plots calculated from the 2nd derivative values of the MSC treated spectra and the degree of the geratinization, the major negative peaks of 1544 nm and 2258 nm, and the major positive peaks of 1460 nm, 1602 nm, 1766 nm and 2136 nm could be observed, indicating that NIR absorption at the positive peak wavelengths became strong while the absorption at the negative peak wavelengths became weak as the degree of the retrogradation increased. Because there is negative correlation between the degree of the retrogradation and the degree of the geratinization. As a result of MLR using the 2nd derivative values of the MSC treated spectra and the degree of the geratinization, good calibration equation which include 2258 nm as the first wavelength and 1764 nm as the second one could be obtained, indicating that NIR spectroscopy has a possibility to detect the retrogradation of starch. In order to find the assignment of the bands observed in the correlation plots, further study may be needed.

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0.01 mm 급 우량계 개발에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Development of Raingauge with 0.01 mm Resolution)

  • 이부용
    • 한국환경과학회지
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    • 제13권7호
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    • pp.637-643
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    • 2004
  • A new method of automatic recording raingauge is developed to measure rainfall with 0.01mm resolution. This use two different signals to measure rainfall more accurately compare than other raingauges. One is weight of the tipping bucket with rainfall amount and the other is pulse from tipping bucket reverse. New method applied 1 mm tipping bucket mechanism and install loadcell under tipping bucket mechanism for measuring rainfall weight. Loadcell measure weight of rainfall until 1 mm with 0.01 mm resolution and more than 1 mm than bucket reverse and pulse signal generate, after that loadcell measure weight again. The validation of new instrument was examined in the room 65 mm/hour rainfall rate total 53 mm range. There is below than 1 % error of absolute rainfall amount and 0.01 mm resolution. The field test of instrument was carried out by comparing its measured values with values recorded by weight type and standard type on June 1 2003 at Terrestrial Environmental Research Center at Tsukuba University in Tsukuba of Japan, when it has recorded total amount of 40.58 mm rainfall by standard raingauge and new raingauge recorded 41.032 mm. Same rainfall intensity pattern observed in field observation with weight type raingauge. Rainfall intensity between weight type and Lee-A type raingauge reached 0.9947 correlation in 3 minute average.

Nrf2 Knockout Mice that Lack Control of Drug Metabolizing and Antioxidant Enzyme Genes - Animals Highly Sensitive to Xenobiotic Toxicity

  • Enomoto, Akiko;Itoh, Ken;Harada, Takanori;Yamamoto, Masayuki
    • Toxicological Research
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    • 제17권
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    • pp.299-304
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    • 2001
  • Xenobiotics and their reactive intermediates bind to cellular macromolecules and/or generate oxidative stress. which provoke deleterious effects on the cell function. Induction of xenobiotic-biotrans-forming enzymes and antioxidant molecules is an important defense mechanism against such insults. A group of genes involved in the defense mechanism. e.g. genes encoding glutathione S-transferases. NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase, UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UDP-GT) and ${\gamma}$-glutamylcysteine synthetase (GGCS). have a common regulatory sequence, Antioxidant or Electrophile Responsive Element (ARE/EpRE). Recently. Nrf2. discovered as a homologue of erythroid transcription factor p45 NF-E2, was shown to bind ARE/EpRE and induce the expression of these defense genes. Mice that lack Nrf2 show low basal levels of expression and/or impaired induction of these genes. which makes the animals highly sensitive to xenobiotic toxicity. Indeed. we show here that nrf2-deficient mice had a higher mortality than did the wild-type mice when exposed to acetaminophen (APAP). Detailed analyses of APAP hepatotoxicity in the nrf2 knockout mice indicate that a large amount of reactive APAP metabolites was generated in the livers due to the impaired basal expression of two detoxifying enzyme genes, UDP-GT (Ugt1a6) and GGCS. while the cytochrome P450 content was unchanged. Thus. the studies using the nrf2 knockout mice clearly demonstrate significance of the expression of Nrf2-regulated enzymes in protection against xenobiotic toxicity.

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현대 축구공의 거죽 디자인 변화와 공력특성과의 관계 (How Panel Design to Fly on the Modern Soccer Ball)

  • 홍성찬;박상욱;변경호
    • 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국콘텐츠학회 2015년도 춘계 종합학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.189-190
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    • 2015
  • 지금까지의 축구공의 형태는 오각형과 육각형의 거죽(panel)으로 구성되었고 거죽의 수는 32장으로 되어 있었다. 그러나 최근에는 14장 거죽으로 구성된 팀가이스트(2006년 월드컵 공인구)와 8장 거죽으로 구성된 자블라니(2010년 월드컵 공인구)가 등장하여 이전과는 다른 형태의 디자인을 볼 수 있게 되었다. 또한, 최근에는 32장 거죽으로 구성되었지만 그 형태가 종전의 디자인(오각형과 육각형의 조합)과는 다른 새로운 디자인으로 구성된 축구공(카푸사; 2013년 컨페더레이션스컵 공인구)이 등장하였으며, 지난 2014년 월드컵에서는 6장 거죽으로 구성된 브라주카가 공인구로 사용되었다. 이렇듯 최근 현대 축구공은 가죽 디자인을 중심으로 그 형태가 다양하게 변화하고 있다. 그러나 가죽 디자인의 변화에 따른 유체역학적 효과를 설명한 연구는 그리 많지 않다. 이에 본 연구에서는 위에 열거된 현대 월드컵 축구공과 함께 2015년 K리그 공인구를 비롯하여 국내 리그에서 사용되는 축구공(험멜, 낫소, 스타)을 대상으로 거죽 디자인의 형태와 그 공력특성을 풍동실험을 통해 비교하여 검토하였다. 그 결과, 서로 다른 거죽 디자인에 따라 축구공이 비행 중 공기로부터 받는 공기력이 변화하게 되며, 이로 인해 비행거리와 비행궤도가 변하는 것을 알 수 있었다.

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Delay analysis for a discretionary-priority packet-switching system

  • Hong, Sung-Jo;Takagi, Hideaki
    • 한국경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한산업공학회/한국경영과학회 1995년도 춘계공동학술대회논문집; 전남대학교; 28-29 Apr. 1995
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    • pp.729-738
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    • 1995
  • We consider a priority-based packet-switching system with three phases of the packet transmission time. Each packet belongs to one of several priority classes, and the packets of each class arrive at a switch in a Poison process. The switch transmits queued packets on a priority basis with three phases of preemption mechanism. Namely, the transmission time of each packet consists of a preemptive-repeat part for the header, a preemptive-resume part for the information field, and a nonpreemptive part for the trailer. By an exact analysis of the associated queueing model, we obtain the Laplace-Stieltjes transform of the distribution function for the delay, i.e., the time from arrival to transmission completion, of a packet for each class. We derive a set of equations that calculates the mean response time for each class recursively. Based on this result, we plot the numerical values of the mean response times for several parameter settings. The probability generating function and the mean for the number of packets of each class present in the system at an arbitrary time are also given.

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Feature Selection via Embedded Learning Based on Tangent Space Alignment for Microarray Data

  • Ye, Xiucai;Sakurai, Tetsuya
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • 제11권4호
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2017
  • Feature selection has been widely established as an efficient technique for microarray data analysis. Feature selection aims to search for the most important feature/gene subset of a given dataset according to its relevance to the current target. Unsupervised feature selection is considered to be challenging due to the lack of label information. In this paper, we propose a novel method for unsupervised feature selection, which incorporates embedded learning and $l_{2,1}-norm$ sparse regression into a framework to select genes in microarray data analysis. Local tangent space alignment is applied during embedded learning to preserve the local data structure. The $l_{2,1}-norm$ sparse regression acts as a constraint to aid in learning the gene weights correlatively, by which the proposed method optimizes for selecting the informative genes which better capture the interesting natural classes of samples. We provide an effective algorithm to solve the optimization problem in our method. Finally, to validate the efficacy of the proposed method, we evaluate the proposed method on real microarray gene expression datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method obtains quite promising performance.

Bi-material Bolus for Minimizing the Non-uniformity of Proton Dose Distribution

  • Takada, Yoshihisa;Kohno, Syunsuke
    • 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국의학물리학회 2002년도 Proceedings
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    • pp.214-215
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    • 2002
  • Generally uniform dose distribution is assumed to be formed in a target region when a conventional dose formation method using a broad proton beam, a fixed modulation technique, a bolus and an aperture is employed. However, actual situations differ. We usually find non-uniformity in the target region. This is due to the insertion of a range-compensating bolus before the patient. Since the range-compensating bolus has an irregular shape, the scattering in the bolus depends on the lateral position. Dose distribution is overlapping results of dose distribution of pencil-proton beams traversing different lateral positions of the bolus. The lateral extent of dose distribution of each pencil beam traversing the different position differs each other at the same depth in the target object. This is a cause of the non-uniformity of the dose distribution. Therefore the same lateral extent of dose distribution should be attained for different pencil beams at the same depth to obtain a uniform dose distribution. For that purpose, we propose here a bi-material bolus. The bi-material bolus consists of a low-Z material determining mainly the range loss and a high-Z material defining mainly the scattering in the bolus. After passing through the bi-material bolus, protons traversing different lateral positions will have different residual range yet with the same lateral spread at a certain depth. Using the optimized bi-material bolus, we can obtain a more uniform dose distribution in the target region as expected.

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The Generative Mechanism of Cloud Streets

  • Kang Sung-Dae;Kimura Fujio
    • Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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    • 제1권2호
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    • pp.119-124
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    • 1997
  • Cloud streets were successfully simulated by numerical model (RAMS) including an isolated mountain near the coast, large sensible heat flux from the sea surface, uniform stratification and wind velocity with low Froude number (0.25) in the inflow boundary. The well developed cloud streets between a pair of convective rolls are simulated at a level of 1 km over the sea. The following five results were obtained: 1) For the formation of the pair of convective rolls, both strong static instability and a topographically induced mechanical disturbance are strongly required at the same time. 2) Strong sensible heat flux from the sea surface is the main energy source of the pair of convective rolls, and the buoyancy caused by condensation in the cloud is negligibly small. 3) The pair of convective rolls is a complex of two sub-rolls. One is the outer roll, which has a large radius, but weak circulation, and the other is the inner roll, which has a small radius, but strong circulation. The outer roll gathers a large amount of moisture by convergence in the lower marine boundary, and the inner roll transfers the convergent moisture to the upper boundary layer by strong upward motion between them. 4) The pair of inner rolls form the line-shaped cloud streets, and keep them narrow along the center-line of the domain. 5) Both by non-hydrostatic and by hydrostatic assumptions, cloud streets can be simulated. In our case, non-hydrostatic processes enhanced somewhat the formation of cloud streets. The horizontal size of the topography does not seem to be restricted to within the small scale where non-hydrostatic effects are important.

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The Proposal of Truck driver's Support System using Purpose Oriented System

  • Oshima, Naoki;Harada, Akira
    • 한국디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국디자인학회 2001년도 Bulletin of The 5th Asian Design Conference International Symposium on Design Science
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    • pp.27.1-27
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of rhis research is proposing rhe sysrem which does information supporr as for a truck driver, and verifying the validity. First, it investigated by visiting the Transporr Company and interview for the present situation and the opinion on computerization from the operation administrator and truck drivers. Consequently, the problem of computerization could be found out to the present system. Next, the present system was considered. As for present machine system, human's "Choosing a function", srarts processing. Then this system is called "Function-Oriented-System". And three problems were extracted from this sysrem. As a solution of those problems, the Purpose-Oriented-System was proposed. In order to attain user's purpose, Agent that situation is perceived and works a function autonomously assumed that this system was inherent. 3D-Sceanrio-Expression was proposed as the description method of rhe task process. It consists of "Machine and Functional-Item axis", "Time axis", and "Situation-Item axis". And, the task execution process of Function-Oriented-System and Purpose-Oriented-System was compared using 3D-Sceanrio-Expression supposing the scene of truck business. As a resulr, rhe following two things could be found out. (1) The concepr of Purpose-Oriented-System that Agent is inherent is effective as siruarion correspondence machine. (2) A solid scenario can express the interaction rhar cannor be seen, in the relarion of rhe conventional Human and Machine.

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Scanning Stereoscopic PIV for 3D Vorticity Measurement

  • SAKAKIBARA Jun;HORI Toshio
    • 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국가시화정보학회 2004년도 Proceedings of 2004 Korea-Japan Joint Seminar on Particle Image Velocimetry
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2004
  • A scanning stereo-PIV system was developed to measure the three-dimensional distribution of three-component velocity in a turbulent round jet. A laser light beam produced by a high repetition rate YLF pulse laser was expanded vertically by a cylindrical lens to form a laser light sheet. The light sheet is scanned in a direction normal to the sheet by a flat mirror mounted on an optical scanner, which is controlled by a programmable scanner controller. Two high-speed mega-pixel resolution C-MOS cameras captured the particle images illuminated by the light sheet, and stereoscopic PIV method was adopted to acquire the 3D-3C-velocity distribution of turbulent round jet in an octagonal tank filled with water. The jet Reynolds number was set at Re=1000 and the streamwise location of the measurement was fixed at approximately x = 40D. Time evolution of three-dimensional vortical structure, which is identified by vorticity, is visualized. It revealed that the existence of a group of hairpin-like vortex structures was quite evident around the rim of the shear layer of the jet. Turbulence statistics shows good agreement with the previous data, and divergence of a filtered (unfiltered) velocity vector field was $7\%\;(22\%)$ of root-me an-squared vorticity value.

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