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Prediction of the Turbulent Mixing in Bare Rod Bundles

  • Kim, Sin;Chung, Bum-Jin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.104-115
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    • 1999
  • The turbulent mixing rate is a very important variable in the thermal-hydraulic design of nuclear reactors. In this study, the turbulent mixing rate the fluid flows through rod bundles is estimated with the scale analysis on the flow pulsation phenomenon. Based upon the assumption that the turbulent mixing is composed of molecular motion, isotropic turbulent motion (turbulent motion without the flow pulsation), and How pulsation, the scale relation for the mixing is derived as a function of P/D, Re, and Pr. The derived scale relation is compared with published experimental results and shows good agreements. Since the scale relation is applicable to various Prandtl number fluid flows, it is expected to be useful for the thermal-hydraulic analysis of liquid metal coolant reactors as well as of moderate Prandtl number coolant reactors.

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Parameters Involved in Autophosphorylation in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: a Systems Biology Approach

  • Kumar, Himansu;Tichkule, Swapnil;Raj, Utkarsh;Gupta, Saurabh;Srivastava, Swati;Varadwaj, Pritish Kumar
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.13
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    • pp.5273-5278
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    • 2015
  • Background: Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a stem cell disorder characterized by the fusion of two oncogenes namely BCR and ABL with their aberrant expression. Autophosphorylation of BCR-ABL oncogenes results in proliferation of CML. The study deals with estimation of rate constant involved in each step of the cellular autophosphorylation process, which are consequently playing important roles in the proliferation of cancerous cells. Materials and Methods: A mathematical model was proposed for autophosphorylation of BCR-ABL oncogenes utilizing ordinary differential equations to enumerate the rate of change of each responsible system component. The major difficulty to model this process is the lack of experimental data, which are needed to estimate unknown model parameters. Initial concentration data of each substrate and product for BCR-ABL systems were collected from the reported literature. All parameters were optimized through time interval simulation using the fminsearch algorithm. Results: The rate of change versus time was estimated to indicate the role of each state variable that are crucial for the systems. The time wise change in concentration of substrate shows the convergence of each parameter in autophosphorylation process. Conclusions: The role of each constituent parameter and their relative time dependent variations in autophosphorylation process could be inferred.

An Empirical Study on the Fitness between Manufacturing Technology Strategy and product Structure - Based on Korean Electric and Electronic Industry - (제품구조와 생산기술간의 적합성에 관한 실증적 연구 - 우리나라 전기 . 전자산업을 중심으로 -)

  • 이경환;임재화
    • Proceedings of the Technology Innovation Conference
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    • 1992.12a
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    • pp.119-155
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    • 1992
  • Traditionally, the target of manufaturing technology strategy was derived in a efficiency, cost and productivity. So most activities of the manufacturing brought focus into the engineering technology, equipments and research and improvement of new products to maximize the efficiency. As a resell of this legacy, most of the activities of manufacturing has been executed on the method of quality improvement, development of new equipment to incense the efficiency and the research of materials for new products. Those trends, however overlook the operation management activities which is very important as a assets in competitive strategy. But the market enviornment of morden manufacturing companies faced to the uncertainty and complexity. So they need capability of competition which requires new concept of manufacturing technology strategy to grasp the competitive advantages. In this point of view, this paper deal with the empirical study in korean manufacturing technology strategy of the electic and electronic industry. For the empirical study, check list was made to survey the 98 manufacturing companies. The analysis procedures are as below. First, identify the manufacturing technology group an product structure group by each variable. Second manufacturing technology variables are segmented into product technology and vertical integration, suborder and infrastructure, to analyse the decision making pattern which derive the strategy groups. Third, by the fitness analysis between product structure group and manufacturing technology group, the economic results of a growth rate of sale and a profit rate of sale are tested. In this approach, fitness analysis between product structure group and manufacturing technology group show, as a whole, the no significant values in economic results of the company. But investigating the statistical values shows the trend that econmic result of the complany is somewhat higher when the degree of fitness of manufacturing technology strategy by product structure has high value. Concluding the remarks, the competitive advantages of company lies not in the efficiency of manufacturing systems but in the way of the structure and decision making pattern of the manufacturing system. And the cons i stoney between strategy target and manufacturing technology strategy, and the consistency of manufacturing technology strategy and product structure are the term of competitive advantages.

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Study on Flow Analysis of Three-Dimensional Screw Propeller With Respect to Rotational Speed Variable

  • Moon, Byung-Young;Sun, Min-Young;Lee, Ki-Yeol
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.500-507
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    • 2014
  • This study aimed at conducting a flow analysis of the pressure distribution, discharge flow rate, and consequent thrust force according to the rotational speed of a three-dimensional screw propeller, and then investigating the effect of the rotational speed on the characteristics of the screw propeller by varying the relevant speed (3200, 2400, 1600, 800 rpm). In particular, the computational domain was considered by the analysis in the blades and outlet chamber, using boundary conditions. The difference between the minimum and maximum pressures was 5.5 MPa under the given conditions. The discharge flow rate at this pressure difference was on the level of 1956.67 kg/s, as a thrust force of 47083.7 T(N) was obtained. This study showed that the discharge flow rate linearly increased with the rotational speed, proportional to the RPM, while the thrust force was gradually and steadily increased with the relevant speed. In addition, it was proved that the occurrence of cavitation under the given conditions was closely related to the decrease in the durability of the screw propeller because the thrust force depends on the speed.

A Study on Deep Etching technology for MEMS process (MEMS 가공을 위한 실리콘 Deep Etching 기술 연구)

  • 김진현;이종권;류근걸;이윤배;이미영;김우혁
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.128-131
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    • 2004
  • In this study Bosch etching process repeating etch and deposition by STS-ICP ASEHR was evaluated. Fundamentally etch depth changes were affected by thickness of deposited PR, $SiO_2$ and depth, and pattern size on the substrate. However etch rates were observed to be changed by variable parameters such as platen power, coil power, and process pressure. Etch rate showed $1.2\mu{m}/min$ and sidewall profile showed $90\pm0.2^\circ$ with platen power 12W, coil power 500W, and etch/passivation cycle 6/7sec. It was confirmed that this result was very typical to Bosch process utilizing ICP.

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Factors affecting the Pregnancy Rate of Intra-Uterine Inseminations in Unexplained Infertile Couples in Korea: Focusing on Treatment Type for Inducing Ovulation (자궁내 인공수정 시술을 받은 원인불명 난임진단 여성의 임신성공 영향 요인: 배란유도 유형을 중심으로)

  • Jang, In Sun;Hwang, Na Mi;Park, Seungmi
    • Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.211-217
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify factors influencing the pregnancy rate among unexplained infertile couples who received treatments of assisted reproductive technology (ART) and intra-uterine inseminations (IUI). Methods: The medical records of 24,201 cases of unexplained infertility among a total of 31,684 intrauterine insemination treatment cases, (which benefited by 'National Medical-aid Program for ART in 2011') were used for this analysis. Results: Woman's age (OR=0.94), frequency of IUI (OR=0.86), and treatment type (OR=1.54) were significant factors on pregnancy rates in the logistic regression analysis. Conclusion: Factors, such as the age of the infertile woman, frequency of IUI, and treatment type used to induce ovulation were shown to positively influence pregnancy rate. However, the age of the spouse was not a significant variable. Infertile couples having unprotected sexual intercourse with unexplained infertility had priority. The results demonstrated that about 70% of infertile Korean couples had unexplained infertility. This was a higher rate of unexplained infertility than that of the clinical standard. Therefore, we should assess for causes through future studies. In addition, affective or emotional factors influencing unexplained infertility need to be researched further.

Joint video coding for multiple video program transmission based on rate-distortion estimation (다중 비디오 프로그램 전송을 위한 비트율-왜곡 추정 기반의 결합 비디오 부호화)

  • 홍성훈;김성대
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.1325-1341
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    • 1998
  • A conventional CBR channel is now capable of delivering several digitally compressed video programs due to recent advances in video compression, such as MPEG-2, and digital transmission technology. This paper presents a joint video coding scheme that is to maintain a constant sum of bit rates for all the programs but to allow the variable bit rate for individual program in the transimission environment mentioned above. Thus advantages of VBR video compression can be obtained. This paper contributes in two aspects. First, a rate-distortion estimation method for MPEG-2 video is proposed, which enavle us predict the amount of bits and the distortion generated from an encoded picture at a given quantization step size and vice versa. The most attractive features of the proposed rate-distortion estimation method are its accuracy and a computational complexity low enough to be applied to real-time video coding applications. Second, this paper presents an efficient and accurate joint rate control scheme using the rate-distortion estimation results and verifies its performance with experiments. The experimental results show that our coding scheme gives a significant gain even though a small number of video programs are coded jointly. For example, a stable picture quality is maintained among the video programs as well as within a program, and additional extra programs can be transmitted over the same channel bandwidth if the proposed joint video coding scheme is used.

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Development of Precision Agricultural Machine Education Program (정밀 농업기계 교육프로그램의 발전)

  • Hong, S.J.;Kim, D.E.;Kang, D.H.;Kim, J.J.;Kang, J.G.;Chung, S.O.;Mo, C.Y.;Ryu, D.K.
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2020
  • In Korea, the agricultural machinery market has been generally on the rise, and particularly the demand for the diverse agricultural machine is increasing due to the radical changes in agriculture, such as a high supply of the advanced and automated agricultural machine and an increase in aged or female farmer population. Therefore, this study analyzes the technical trends in the precision agricultural machine domestically and globally to guide the direction of development of the ICT-based machine. The investigation of the precision agricultural machine in this study focuses on the production technology through analyzing the trends in sensor-related technology, the decision-making research, variable treatment technology, and academic publication. The result shows that information processing technology including the sensor and the decision-making requires various measurement factors and the established technologies are continually being developed.

Characteristics of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity in Steel Making Slag and Sludge according to Mixing Rate of Bentonite (벤토나이트 혼합율에 따른 제강 슬래그 및 슬러지의 투수 특성 변화)

  • Woo, Won-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.52-61
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    • 2000
  • Permeability is important factor in the geotechnical problems, such as seepage discharge and dissipation of excess pore water pressure. The Kozeny-Carman equation works well for graded soils but serious discrepancies are found in clays. Major factor for these discrepancies is the tortuous flow path and unequal pore size. To estimate the permeability of fine grained soils, a permeability equation in which swelling potential is coupled with Kozeny-Carman equation is proposed in this study. To verify proposed equation, a series of variable head permeability test was carried out for steel making slag and sludge mixed with bentonite. The coefficients of permeability which is measured in the laboratory is compared with the values by the proposed equation. From the comparison, it is shown that the proposed equation can predict the coefficient of permeability of clays with satisfaction. As steel making slag and sludge is industry waste, it is reused as material of road foundation and cement but the rate of use is low. It mixed sodium-bentonite with high swelling property and permeability decrease effect. Then, Admixture investigates reuse possibility as liner of waste fill.

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Development of Constant Delivery Micro Pump in a Variable Pressure Environment for Intrathecal Drug Administration System (레져버에 압력이 가해지는 환경에서의 미소 정량 토출 펌프의 개발)

  • Lee, Tae Gyeong;Lee, Cheol Su;Jung, Yu Seok;Park, Gyeong Geun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.387-394
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    • 2017
  • This paper develops a pump system for patient with chronic pain or cancer. The pump module is consists of two micro-valve and membrane. The micro-valve is operated by a solenoid. With two solenoid valves which are connected via a drug transport line, the inlet and outlet are completely blocked. A silicon rubber membrane located between the two valves makes the flow-rate constant without any backflow. This pump module can control the flow-rate of drugs by controlling the time that the valves are opened and closed. The reservoir consists of a drug chamber and a gas chamber. As the gas chamber encloses the drug chamber, propellant gas which is injected into the gas chamber pressurizes the drug chamber regardless of volume of the drug chamber. To design the pump module, analysis a constant efficiency test, and accuracy test for the pump module were conducted.