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A simple practical method for determination of moisture transfer coefficient of mature concrete using a combined experimental-numerical approach

  • Chari, Mehdi Nemati;Shekarchi, Mohammad;Ghods, Pouria;Moradian, Masoud
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.367-388
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, a simple practical method is introduced in which a simple weight measurement of concrete and finite element numerical analysis are used to determine the moisture transfer coefficient of concrete with a satisfactory accuracy. Six concrete mixtures with different water-to-cementitious material (w/cm) ratios and two pozzolanic materials including silica fume and zeolite were examined to validate the proposed method. The comparison between the distribution of the moisture content obtained from the model and the one from the experimental data during both the wetting and drying process properly validated the performance of the method.With the proposed method, it was also shown that the concrete moisture transfer coefficient considerably depends on the pore water saturation degree. The use of pozzolanic materials and also lowering w/cm ratio increased the moisture transfer coefficient during the initial sorption, and then, it significantly decreased with an increase in the water saturation degree.

DIRECT COMPUTATION OF MARGINAL OPERATING CONDITIONS FOR VOLTAGE COLLAPSE

  • Lee, Kyung-Jae;Jung, Tay-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1989.07a
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    • pp.195-201
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    • 1989
  • Voltage collapse is a serious concern to the electirc utility industry. It is common to associate steady-state stability with the ability of the transmission system to transport real power and to associate voltage collapse with the inability to provide reactive power at the necessary locations within the system. An algorithm to directly calculate the critical point of system voltage collapse was presented by the authors. The method (based on the ordinary power flow equations and explicit requirement of singularity of the Jacobian matrix) is basically one degree of freedom with proper load distribution factors. This paper suggests a modified algorithm to increase the degree of freedom, introducing the nonlinear programming technique. The objective function is a distance measure between the present operating point and the closest voltage collapse point. Knowledge of the distance and the most vulnarable bus from the voltage collapse point of view may be used as a useful index for the secure system operation.

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The Thermal Climate and Phenology in Korea (한국의 온도기후와 생물의 계절변화)

  • 임양재
    • Journal of Plant Biology
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.101-117
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    • 1983
  • The phenological phenomena in terms of year day index (YDI) in South Korea were studied. The YDI was proposed here, because the remainer index such as Nuttonson's index is unadequate for the interpretation on the phenological phenomena of early spring season in sourthern coastal area. The YDI was calculated by summing daily mean temperature of the year days (YD) above physical zero degree in centigrade, based on the data of the Monthly Weather Reports from 1967 to 1980 by the Central Meteorological Office. The pattern of YDI increase with the increase of YD was similar to that of the remainder index such as the Nuttonson's index. The some YDI distribution maps were made by Yim and Kira (1975), dividing into 30'$\times$40' meshes, in latitude and longtude, on the topographical map(1 : 500,000) of the Korea Peninsula. According to the year day of different localities flowering dates of Prunus yedoensis and other phenological phenomena in various species delayed about 3.5 day as the increase of 1 degree of latitude, which coincides with the Hopkins bioclimatic law. It was found that the YDI is useful to interprete the phenology of plant and animal species and to select the optimum range of cultivars in South Korea.

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Modified Monopole Antenna for Microwave Thermal Therapy (마이크로파 에너지를 이용한 열 치료용 링-모노폴 안테나)

  • 문명호;곽상태
    • Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.86-90
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    • 2001
  • Modified coaxial-slot antenna for minimally invasive microwave thermal therapy for liver tumor is studied in this paper. Minimally invasive microwave antenna in medicine are applied for hyperthermia for medical treatment for cancer, cardiac catheter ablation for ventricular arrhythmias treatments, microwave treatment of Benign prostatic hypertrophy, and so on. Microwave hyperthermal ablation for liver tumors is expected for enthusiasts as an alternative to curative surgical resection. Tumors have to heated up to 60 degree C to coagulate .cancer cells but less than 100 degree C to avoid evaporation. Temperature dependence of properties of the tissues should be considered for wide range of treatment. Electrical properties of liver tissue were measured for different temperatures. SAR distribution around the antenna into the liver are simulated using Remcom's XFDTD.

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A Study on the degree of Residents' Dissatisfaction and Recognition to the Apartment Management Fee (아파트 관리비에 대한 거주자의 인지도 및 불만족에 관한 연구)

  • 김진영;강순주
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1998
  • This study is intended to analyze residents' dissatisfaction and recogonition to the apartment management fee. The subjects of the study were 244 female residents who live in Seoul and who were surveyed by questionnaire from 15th of Nov. to 20th of Dec., 1997. Satistical method used were: frequency, percentage, mean, Cronbach's α, Factor Analysis, one-way ANOVA, DMR test, t-test Pearson Correlation and Regression by SPSS program. The main results of this study are as follows: 1) The resident didn't mostly know how to account the apartment management fee. 2) The degree of recogonition to distribution of the special maintenance contracts was the lowest level. 3) It was the most dissatisfactory factor not to show items of the special maintenance contracts. 4) The correlation coefficient of residents' dissatisfaction and recognition to the apartment management fee was negative.

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Consumers' Overconfidence Biases in Relation to Social Exclusion

  • HAN, Woong-Hee
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.7
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    • pp.303-308
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    • 2020
  • Unlike previous studies of overconfidence bias that have been looking for causes of overconfidence bias in human cognitive error or in the desire to view oneself positively, this study presents the cognitive narrowing resulting from the social exclusion experience as the condition of overconfidence bias and investigates the mechanism of cognitive narrowing to overcome the negative emotions from social exclusion, and how overconfidence bias occur due to cognitive narrowing. Current study was performed with 94 undergraduate students. Participants were randomly assigned to social exclusion experience group or non-experience group. We analyzed how the degree of bias of overconfidence differs according to the social exclusion experience. The degree of overconfidence bias of the social exclusion experience group was higher than that of the non-experience group, and the difference was statistically significant. This study extends the concepts of escaping theory and cognitive narrowing to human cognitive bias and confirmed that social exclusion experience increased cognitive narrowing and overconfidence bias. Implications of this research and future research directions were discussed.

A Novel Recognition Algorithm Based on Holder Coefficient Theory and Interval Gray Relation Classifier

  • Li, Jingchao
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.11
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    • pp.4573-4584
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    • 2015
  • The traditional feature extraction algorithms for recognition of communication signals can hardly realize the balance between computational complexity and signals' interclass gathered degrees. They can hardly achieve high recognition rate at low SNR conditions. To solve this problem, a novel feature extraction algorithm based on Holder coefficient was proposed, which has the advantages of low computational complexity and good interclass gathered degree even at low SNR conditions. In this research, the selection methods of parameters and distribution properties of the extracted features regarding Holder coefficient theory were firstly explored, and then interval gray relation algorithm with improved adaptive weight was adopted to verify the effectiveness of the extracted features. Compared with traditional algorithms, the proposed algorithm can more accurately recognize signals at low SNR conditions. Simulation results show that Holder coefficient based features are stable and have good interclass gathered degree, and interval gray relation classifier with adaptive weight can achieve the recognition rate up to 87% even at the SNR of -5dB.

Enzyme Hydrolysis of Insoluble sericin (불용성 세리신의 효소 가수분해)

  • 김정호;배도규
    • Journal of Sericultural and Entomological Science
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.104-108
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    • 2000
  • To hydrolyze insolule sericin the enzyme hydrolysis was used, and then obtained the results as given belows. When insoluble sericin was hydrolyzed by enzyme treatment, the solubility was best at pH 7, 60$\^{C}$ and was slightly increased both above 2 hours treatment and above 10% of enzyme concentration. As the results of electrophoresis, the distribution of molecular weight of sericin powder obtained by enzyme hydrolysis was very weak and showed in the wide range having no distinguishable band. Average degree of polymerzations (A.D.P.) of sericin hydrolyzed by enzyme were about 4.1∼6.3, average molecular weight were about 470∼730. The whiteness of the sericin powder obtained by enzyme hydrolysis was high and increased slightly with higher treatment concentration of enzyme. As the results of amino acid analysis, the amino acid analysis, the amino acid composition of the sericin powder from the enzyme treatment were similar to which located at near 230$\^{C}$ and 320$\^{C}$. The peak of near 230$\^{C}$ could not been found in the sericin powder obtained by enzyme hydrolysis.

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Impact of snowball sampling ratios on network characteristics estimation: A case study of Cyworld (스노우볼 샘플링 비율에 따른 네트워크의 특성 변화: 싸이월드의 사례 연구)

  • Kwak, Hae-Woon;Han, Seung-Yeop;Ahn, Yong-Yeol;Moon, Sue;Jeong, Ha-Woong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.10d
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    • pp.135-139
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    • 2006
  • Today's social networking services have tens of millions of users, and are growing fast. Their sheer size poses a significant challenge in capturing and analyzing their topological characteristics. Snowball sampling is a popular method to crawl and sample network topologies, but requires a high sampling ratio for accurate estimation of certain metrics. In this work, we evaluate how close topological characteristics of snowball sampled networks are to the complete network. Instead of using a synthetically generated topology, we use the complete topology of Cyworld ilchon network. The goal of this work is to determine sampling ratios for accurate estimation of key topological characteristics, such as the degree distribution, the degree correlation, the assortativity, and the clustering coefficient.

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The effect of forced convection on boiling heat transfer from a horizontal tube (수평 원관의 비등 열전달에서 강제대류의 영향)

  • 이승홍;이억수;정은행
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.558-568
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    • 1998
  • This paper presents the results of experiments involving external forced convection on boiling heat transfer from electrically heated horizontal tube to water in cross flow. In these experiments, all of the following primary variables were varied: heat flux, cross flow velocity, pressure and degree of subcooling. Local surface temperatures were measured at nine peripheral positions. Surface temperature distributions are classified into four groups as a function of heat flux. The characteristics of the boiling curve at different velocity, degree of subcooling and pressure are examined.

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