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Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for Hydrangea luteovenosa (Hydrangeaceae), an endangered species in Korea (한국 제주도에 자생하는 멸종위기종 성널수국(수국과)의 microsatellite 분자마커 개발)

  • Ito, Takuya;Kaneko, Shingo;Yokogawa, Masashi;Song, Gwan-Pil;Choi, Hyeok-Jae;Isagi, Yuji
    • Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.30-33
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    • 2013
  • Hydrangea luteovenosa is a critically endangered plant species of Jeju Island in Korea, though it is widely distributed in western Japan. We isolated and characterized five microsatellite loci in this species. The number of alleles ranged from 3 to 27, observed heterozygosity from 0.27 to 0.86, and expected heterozygosity from 0.34 to 0.91. The markers described here will be useful for investigating the genetic diversity, genetic structure, and gene flow of H. luteovenosa, and the genetic findings would contribute to the establishment of effective conservation measures for this species in Korea.

Development of Smart Phone Application for Information Collection of Traffic Congestion Section Caused by Heavy Rain (집중호우에 따른 차량 혼잡구간 정보수집을 위한 스마트 폰 애플리케이션 개발)

  • Chun, Young-Hak;Kwon, Won-Seok;Kim, Chang-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.139-149
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    • 2012
  • Flooding caused by torrential rains and landslide causes the deaths of people and property damage as well as traffic congestion and isolation. Driver enters the dangerous area when driver doesn't recognize disaster information on the road and the damage is spread over time. In this paper, we will develop a smart phone application to collect dangerous disaster area information and a system based on C/S to manage the data received from the smart phone application. This system can analyze dangerous disaster areas using the data received from the smart phone application and the spatial database analyzed dangerous disaster areas is displayed in the smart phone application using a map server. We think that the suggested system provides more efficient information to user.

Depiction of concrete structures with seismic separation under faraway fault earthquakes

  • Luo, Liang;Nguyen, Hoang;Alabduljabbar, Hisham;Alaskar, Abdulaziz;Alrshoudi, Fahed;Alyousef, Rayed;Nguyen, Viet-Duc;Dang, Hoang-Minh
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2020
  • One of the most suitable methods in structural design is seismic separator. Lead-Rubber Bearing (LRB) is one of the most well-known separation systems which can be used in different types of structures. This system mitigates the earthquake acceleration prior to transferring to the structure efficiently. However, the performance of this system in concrete structures with different heights have not been evaluated thoroughly yet. This paper aims to evaluate the performance of LRB separation system in concrete structures with different heights. For this purpose, three, 16, and 23 story concrete structures are equipped by LRB and exposed to a far-field earthquake. Next, a time history analysis is conducted on each of the structures. Finally, the performance of the concrete structures is compared with each other in the term of their response to the earthquakes and the formation of plastic hinges. The results of the paper show that the rate of change in acceleration response and the ratio of drift along the height of 8 and 23 stories concrete structures are more than those of the 16-stories, and the use of LRB reduces the formation of plastic joints.

Narrative Inquiry on Experience of Mentally Ill Patients in Psychiatric Day Hospital Care (정신과 환자의 낮병원 이용 경험에 대한 내러티브 탐구)

  • Eom, Kwang-Jin;Maeng, Hae-Young;Kim, Jung-Yoo
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.265-275
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    • 2020
  • This narrative inquiry examines the experience of mentally ill patients who used the psychiatric day hospital care service. The researchers in this inquiry conducted in-depth interviews three times with four patients who used day hospital care and data was also collected from additional conversations when patients were on outpatient visit after being discharged from the day hospital. The inquiry uses the narrative research method to describe the experience of using day hospital services as follows; a springboard to reconnect to the world, a place to be empowered and set the mind at ease, and a guide to direction in life. This inquiry is meaningful in that it deals with the in-depth stories of the mentally ill patients who experienced the day hospital care. Based on the results of the inquiry, the following policy suggestions are made; institutional support for reducing social isolation of psychiatric patients, activation of various support systems and further program development.

Development of the Damping Coefficients for Weak and Moderate Earthquake Ground Motions

  • Kim, Myeong-Han
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2008
  • Most of seismic design code provisions provide the design response spectra for defining design earthquake ground motions. The design spectra in the code provisions generally come under the 5% of critical damping value, which corresponds to the responses of common structure under the design earthquake. Energy dissipation devices and seismic isolation systems became more popular and the design response spectra at higher damping levels are required. Damping coefficients can be effectively used in conversion of 5%-damped design spectra into other damping levels. These coefficients in the current seismic design code provisions are based on the strong ground motion records. Since the weak and moderate earthquake data have different characteristics from those of strong earthquake data, the application of these coefficients should be investigated in the weak and moderate earthquakes zones. In this study, damping coefficients based on the weak and moderate ground motions were developed and compared to those of current seismic design code provisions.

Design of a MIMO Antenna Using a RF MEMS Element (RF MEMS 소자를 이용한 MIMO 안테나 설계)

  • Lee, Won-Woo;Rhee, Byung-Ho
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.24 no.12
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    • pp.1113-1119
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    • 2013
  • In this letter, a new approach is proposed for the design of a multi antenna for MIMO wireless devices. The proposed antenna covers various LTE(Long Term Evolution) service bands: band 17(704~746 MHz), band 13(746~787 MHz), band 5(824~894 MHz), and band 8(880~960 MHz). The proposed main antenna consists of a conventional monopole antenna with an inverted L-shaped slit for wideband operation. The proposed the LTE sub antenna is based on a switch loaded loop antenna structure, with a resonance frequency that can be controlled by capacitance of a logic circuit. The tuning technique for the LTE Rx antenna uses a RF MEMS(Micro-Electro mechanical system) to match the impedances to realize the bands of interest. Because the two proposed antennas are polarized orthogonally to each other, the ECC(Envelope Correlation Coefficient) characteristic between two antennas was measured to be very low (below 0.06) with an isolation characteristic below -20 dB between the two antennas in the operating overall LTE bands. The proposed antenna is particularly attractive for mobile devices that integrate LTE multiple systems.

Genetic diversity and structure of natural populations of Picea jezoensis in South Korea

  • Lee, Seok Woo;Yang, Byeong Hoon;Hur, Seong Doo;Lee, Jung Joo;Song, Jeong Ho;Moriguchi, Yoshinari
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.97 no.2
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    • pp.187-195
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    • 2008
  • Picea jezoensis (Sieb. et Zucc.) Carriere is one of the major and widespread components of the cold-temperate and boreal forests in Russian Far East, northeast China, Korea, and Japan. However, it is restricted to a highly fragmented range in South Korea with small populations. Mean expected heterozygosity $(H_e)$ based on 22 loci in 11 isozyme systems was 0.077 for four sampled populations that covered the whole distribution range of P. jezoensis in South Korea. This value is within the range reported for conifers, but it is very low compared to that of other spruce species as well as that of P. jezoensis populations in Russian Far East. Most populations had a slight excess of heterozygotes and the Wright's $F_{IS}$ (-0.019) was comparable to that previously reported for other spruce species. In all of the four populations, the Wilcoxon sign-rank test indicated no greater heterozygosity than that expected for populations at mutation-drift equilibrium, suggesting that the populations have not been bottlenecked recently. Despite a fragmented range and isolated populations, population differentiation was not high $(F_{ST}=0.047)$ and the number of migrants per generation was 5.09. Nei's genetic distances were also small $({\bar{D}}=0.005)$ but strongly related to geographic distances between populations, suggesting an Isolation by Distance. The northernmost isolate, Mt. Gyebang population was genetically distinct from the other three populations. Implications for the conservation of genetic variation of P. jezoensis in South Korea were discussed.

Alignment of Microbeads Using Spinning Helical Minichannel Cartridge (회전하는 나선형 미니채널 카트리지를 이용한 미세입자 정렬)

  • Kim, Subin;Prasad, Bibin;Kim, Jung Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.38-45
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    • 2016
  • Separation of particles based on different sizes, detection of pathogenic bacteria and isolation of leukocytes from whole blood are typical applications of spiral or helical microchannels. The present study focuses on developing a CD4+ T-cell counting device for monitoring HIV/AIDS patients with the aid of a helical minichannel used for a sample cartridge. For the experiment, $10{\mu}m$ sized microbeads were used for visualization with a fluorescence imaging system. Alignment of microbeads was investigated in a stationary and spinning sample cartridge filled with glycerol-water mixtures of different densities. The helical minichannel was spun using a DC motor controlled by an Arduino board with a Bluetooth shield. It was found that when the sample cartridge was made stationary, no bead alignment was achieved for a medium with density (0% and 20% glycerol) lower than that of the beads, but when it was spun at 2000-3000 rpm for 1-4 min, an alignment was obtained at the top of the channel facilitating optical detection and enumeration of those microbeads. Since an alignment of microbeads was achieved for a medium with density as that of blood plasma, the same approach can be applied for aligning and counting CD4+ T-lymphocytes in whole blood samples collected from patients.

Directional Winger-Ville Distribution and Its Application to Rotating- Machinery (방향성 Winger-Ville 분포와 회전체에의 응용)

  • Kim, Dong-Wan
    • Journal of KSNVE
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.341-347
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    • 1996
  • Vibration analysis is one of the most powerful tools available for the detection and isolation of incipient faults in mechanical systems. The methods of vibration analysis in use today and under continuous study are broad band vibration monitoring, time domain analysis, and frequency domain analysis. In recent years, great interest has been generated concerning the use of time- frequency repesentation and its application for a machinery diagnostics and condition monitoring system. The objective of the study described in this paper was to develop a new diagnostic tool for the rotating machinery. This paper introduces a new time frequency representation. Directional Winger-Ville Distribution, which analyese the time-frequency structure of the rotating machinery vibration.

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A 4-Wavelength Optical Transceiver with Improved Characteristics using WDMs and OADMS (WDM 및 OADM으로 구성된 개선된 특성의 1310nm, 1550nm 대역 4파장 광중계기)

  • 이인재;이동길;최삼길;이유종
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.406-409
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, a 4-wavelength optical transceiver system is designed and implemented by using TFF (thin film filter) type OADMs (optical add-drop multiplexers). In this new system, the wavelengths of 1510 nm and 1530 nm are used for uploa and download signals, respectively, as well as the wavelengths of 1550 nm and 1310 nm which have been utilized in a 2-wavelength optical transceiver systems. The 4-wavelength optical module show pass characteristics of -1.6 dBm, -1.7 dBm, -5.6 dBm, -5.8dBm for 1510nm, 1530 nm, 1550 nm, 1570 nm, respectively, with 1.2 dBm of input laser power. The isolation for characteristics of the optical module for all the wavelengths are less than -40dB, which is very acceptable for filed requirements.

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