• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.863-869
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• 2006

The behavior of submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR) filtration systems utilizing rapid air backpulsing as a cleaning technique to remove reversible foulants was investigated using a genetic algorithm (GA). A customized genetic algorithm with suitable genetic operators was used to generate optimal time profiles. From experiments utilizing short and long periods of forward and reverse filtration, various experimental process parameters were determined. The GA indicated that the optimal values for the net flux fell between 263-270 LMH when the forward filtration time ($t_f$) was 30-37 s and the backward filtration time ($t_b$) was 0.19-0.27 s. The experimental data confirmed the optimal backpulse duration and frequency that maximized the net flux, which represented a four-fold improvement in 24-h backpulsing experiments compared with the absence of backpulsing. Consequently, the identification of a region of feasible parameters and nonlinear flux optimization were both successfully performed by the genetic algorithm, meaning the genetic algorithm-based optimization proved to be useful for solving SMBR flux optimization problems.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.353-363
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• 2017

Recently, sink mobility has been shown to be highly beneficial in improving network lifetime in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Numerous studies have exploited mobile sinks (MSs) to collect sensed data in order to improve energy efficiency and reduce WSN operational costs. However, there have been few studies on the effectiveness of MS operation on WSN closed operating cycles. Therefore, it is important to investigate how data is collected and how to plan the trajectory of the MS in order to gather data in time, reduce energy consumption, and improve WSN network lifetime. In this study, we combine two methods, the cluster-head election algorithm and the MS trajectory optimization algorithm, to propose the optimal MS movement strategy. This study aims to provide a closed operating cycle for WSNs, by which the energy consumption and running time of a WSN is minimized during the cluster election and data gathering periods. Furthermore, our flexible MS movement scenarios achieve both a long network lifetime and an optimal MS schedule. The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm achieves better performance than other well-known algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.4889-4902
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• 2018

It is a challenging issue to improve the energy efficiency of neighbor discovery in WSNs. This paper proposes an optimal discovery model (ODM) for the first time. Based on the model, we investigate the influence of the relative size of two unequal active slots on the energy efficiency. ODM provides the energy optimal value of the length of the larger active slot at a given duty cycle. Other than existing methods, the worst-case latency bound of ODM is only one period. This is a subversive conclusion, because almost all other related methods are based on a wake-up schedule that contains several periods. We theoretically deduce that ODM can reduce worst-case discovery latency by 43.89% compared to Searchlight-Trim when their duty cycles are the same. The simulations verify the advantage of ODM.

• 농촌계획
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2004

This study aims to develop a potential evaluation method for urban spatial expansion using remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS). A multi-criteria evaluation method with several criteria and their weighting values was introduced to evaluate the score and quantification of the potential surface around the existing cities. The six criteria with one geographic factor, slope, and five accessibility factors, time distance from center of the city, national road, interchange of expressway, a big city, and station, were defined for the potential. RS techniques were applied for classification of the actual urban expansion maps between two periods, and GIS functions were used for score of accessibility criteria with a distance decay function from geographic, road and several point maps, which was developed in this study. The new methodology was applied to a test area, Suwon, between 1986 and 1996. In order to optimize the six weighting values, this study made new findings to search the optimal combination of the weighting values from new methodology, weighted scenario method for intensity order (WSM), combined with intensity order and AHP method, including a trial and error method for sensitivity analysis to make the intensity order. The optimal combination of the weighting values by the new method generated the optimal potential surface, considering spatial trend of urban expansion in the test area.

• 한국패류학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2001

To determine optimal conditions for measurement of the clearance rate in feeding experiment of an intertidal bivalve Glauconome chinensis, effects of starvation, extent of mixing at subsampling, and initial prey concentration were assessed. Experiments were conducted separately for each condition with different treatments. Two-way ANOVAs showed that there were significant differences in clearance rates among different starvation periods (p<0.001), extents of mixing (p = 0.005), and prey concentrations (p < 0.001). Starvation for 1 or 2 days gave rise to 2 to 3-fold increase in the clearance rate. After starvation for 5 days, the clearance rate decreased seriously, implying loss of physiological status. It is suggested that animals should be fed during acclimation. The differences of the clearance rates between gentle and vigorous mixings were significant, but the differences were smaller than that among different incubation times. It was found that vigorous mixing is not necessary. The effect of initial prey concentration was great. However, optimal prey concentration could not be determined at any fixed value. Experiments with multiple concentrations of algal prey are recommended. Optimal incubation time for measurement of the clearance rate of G. chinensis was determined to be 2-4 hours.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.982-993
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• 2000

This paper describes an optimal control scheduling of an encapsulated ice storage system with a chiller of nominal chiller 34RT(103,200kcal/hr) and an ice storage tank of 170RT-hrs(514,080 kcal). The optimization technique used in the study is dynamic programing. The objective function is summed cost during a day including charge and discharge periods. Control strategies being used commercially are chiller priority and storage priority control. In chiller priority control, the chiller is allowed to run at full capacity during the day, subject to limitations of the building load, and the ice is only melted when and if the load exceeds the chillers full capacity. In contrast to chiller priority control, the aim in storage priority control is to melt as much as ice as possible during the day time period. The system simulation calculates the operation costs for the three control strategies in the condition of the same cooling load and the same ice storage system. The simulation period is a day, assuming that initially the tank is stored fully and the cooling load is perfectly predicted for the scheduling. Also Final state of the tank is to be charged fully.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권9호
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• pp.854-862
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• 2012

The optimal design of batch-storage network by using periodic square wave model provides analytical lot sizing equations for a complex supply chain network characterized as multi-supplier, multi-product, multi-stage, non-serial, multi-customer, cyclic system including recycling and/or remanufacturing. The network structure includes multiple currency flows as well as material flows. The processes are represented by multiple feedstock/product materials with fixed composition which are very suitable for production processes. In this study, transportation processes that carry multiple materials with unknown composition are added and the time frame is changed from single period into multiple periods in order to represent nonperiodic parameter variations. The objective function of the optimization involves minimizing the opportunity costs of annualized capital investments and currency/material inventories minus the benefit to stockholders in the numeraire currency. The expressions for the Kuhn-Tucker conditions of the optimization problem are reduced to a multiperiod subproblem for average flow rates and analytical lot-sizing equations. The multiperiod lot sizing equations are different from single period ones. The effects of corporate income taxes, interest rates and exchange rates are incorporated.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.897-906
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• 2006

본 연구는 셀레늄강화 한우고기 생산을 위하여 셀레늄강화 버섯폐배지(Se-SMC)가 함유된 셀레늄사료(사료내 셀레늄함량: 0.9ppm)를 활용하여 급여사양기간(2개월, 3개월, 4개월)을 달리 하였을 때, 비육후기 거세한우의 조직 내 셀레늄 함량과 혈중 글루타치온 과산화효소(GSH-Px) 활성에 미치는 영향을 조사하여 최대 포화축적기간을 제시하고자 실시하였다. 본 연구에 사용된 비육후기 거세한우는 30두로 각 급여기간(2개월: 평균 체중 677kg, 3개월: 평균 체중 610kg 및 4개월: 평균 체중 524kg)에 대한 대조구 및 Se-SMC 급여구로 나누어 처리구당 5두씩 배치하여 총 6처리구로 구분하여 실시하였다. 대조구와 Se-SMC 급여구에 사용된 실험사료는 0.1과 0.9ppm의 셀레늄을 각각 함유하였다. 각 급여기간이 종료되면 도축하여 후지와 간을 채취하였으며 이를 셀레늄 함량분석에 이용하였다. 그리고 혈중 셀레늄 농도 및 글루타치온 과산화효소활성을 분석하기 위하여 도축 시에 채혈을 실시하였다. 건물섭취량은 Se-SMC 급여 및 급여기간에 의하여 유의한 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 또한 일당증체량은 대조구 및 Se-SMC 급여구간 그리고 급여기간 간에 유의한 차이가 나타나지 않았을 뿐만 아니라 총증체량 또한 각 급여기간내 대조구와 Se-SMC 급여구 간에 유의한 차이가 나타나지 않았다. Se-SMC 급여는 혈중 셀레늄농도를 유의하게 증가시켰으나(P<0.001), 급여기간에 따른 혈중셀레늄 농도에는 유의한 영향을 미치지 않았다. 아울러 혈중 GSH-Px 활성은 혈중 셀레늄농도에서 나타난 양상과 유사한 경향을 나타내었고, 급여기간에 의한 효과는 나타나지 않았다. 후지내 셀레늄 함량은 급여기간(P<0.05)이 증가함에 따라, 그리고 Se-SMC 급여(P<0.001)에 의하여 유의하게 증가하였다. 하지만, Se-SMC의 3개월 급여군과 4개월 급여군 간에는 유의한 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 간내 셀레늄 함량은 Se-SMC의 급여기간이 증가함에 따라 다소 증가하는 경향을 나타내었으나 유의한 효과는 나타나지 않았다. 하지만, 동일한 급여기간 내 Se-SMC는 대조구에 비하여 유의하게 높았다(P<0.01).이상의 결과로부터 근육내 셀레늄 축적을 위한 적정 Se-SMC 급여기간은 후지와 간내 셀레늄 함량을 고려할 때 약 2 내지 3개월의 급여가 충분할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.368-373
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• 1983

본 시험은 1978년부터 1979년까지 2개년간 수원과 광주에서 소맥 “조광”을 공시하여 파종기를 달리하였을 때 등숙기간중 립중의 경시적인 증가양상과 품질의 변이에 관하여 등숙기간별로 추적조사한 바 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 출수기는 지역간에는 수원에서 파종기차이에서는 적기파종에서 빨랐으나 년차간에는 차이가 없었으며 출수까지의 일수는 지역 및 파종기에 따라 변이가 비교적 커서 수원에서 225-207일, 광주는 192-176일이 소요되었다. 2. 등숙전기의 립중은 광주에서 보다 수원에서 무거웠으나 최종 립중은 반대로 광주에서 높았다. 3. 등숙일수는 년차변이가 커서 수원에서 적기파종한 경우는 43-49일, 광주는 44-51일이었으며 만기파종은 동일지역내에서 적기파종에 비해 1-4일이 단축되었다. 4. 제분율은 지역간에는 광주에서, 파종기간에는 적기파종에서 다소 높았으며 등숙일수에 따라서는 등숙이 진전됨에 의해 증가하여 만기파종에서는 출수후 45일에 최대가 되었으나 적기파종에서는 45일이후까지 경미한 증가경향을 보였다. 5. 단백질함량과 심전가는 제분율과는 반대로 고온하에서 등숙이 이루어진 북부지방에서, 파종기에 따라서는 만기파종에서 높았으며 등숙기간별로는 일양적인 경향이 없었다.

• 수산경영론집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.37-57
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• 1987

This article discussed the characteristics of several Pareto-optimal incentive contracts between owner and labor, more specifically, four situations: reporting output jointly observable by labor ana owner; reporting both output and effort; incorporating other endogenous elements (like capital) that affect the production process and Pareto-optimal fee schedules; and ascertaining the effects of private pre-decision information private- decision information, and per-contact informational asymmetries. Also presented were several extensions of the basic contractual model, and the different components of agency costs associated with labor-owner contractual relations. In a single-period model, the agency problem exists because the uncertainty prevents the owner from using the cash flow to determine unambiguously the labor's action. Holmstrom(1979) suggests that "when the same situation repeats itself over time, the effects of uncertainty tend to be reduced and dystunctional behavior is more accurately revealed, thus alleviating the problem of moral hazard. " Under these conditions, if the labor selects the first-best level of effect in each period, the cash flow will be independent and identically distributed over time. As the number of periods increases, the variance of the labows average output, if he selects the first-best level of effort in each period, gets smaller. Note that for this diversification effect to occur, it is necessary that the owner evaluate the labor's effort over the entire history of his employment, rather than evaluate each period's performance separately. Radner(1980) and Rubinstein and Yaari(1980) consider the extreme case in which there are an infinite number of observations. They show that the owner can eventually detect and systematic shirking on the part of the labor by comparing the labor's average output with what would be expected if the labor had been selecting the first-best level of effort in each period. In a dynamic model with incentive problems we have demonstrated that the labor's second-period compensation will depend on his first-period performance. This allows the owner to diversify away some of the uncertainty surrounding the labor's actions. In addition, this allows the owner to smooth the labor's income over time by spreading the risk of the first-period outcome over both periods. At least some unexplored avenves in this area invite future accounting research: situations where owner has different incompatible objectives and negotiates a contract with labor; circumstances in which owner deals with multiple objectives and negotiates contracts with several labors simultaneously; the value of costly accounting information systems and communication in establishing, Pareto-optimal incentive contracts, and the value and effects of inside information, Thorough theoretical or empirical research on each of these topics not only would increase our knowledge about the role and significance of accounting information but could also provide explanations of the inherent differences among various organizations and in their economic behavior. behavior.