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Development of biological agent seeded on fine sand for control of brown patch and Pythium blight disease on golf course grasses.

  • Hur, Jae-Seoun;Lim, Kwang-Mi;Oh, Soon-Ok;Yum, Kyu-Jin;Koh, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.88.1-88
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    • 2003
  • Antogonistic bacteria against Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium spp., causing serious damage to golf course grasses, were isolated from the top soil of several golf courses in Korea. The isolate of Limk0102 was selected as the biological agent by characterization of antifungal activity, large scale preparation, fungicides tolerance and ecological fitness to the targe environment. The isolate was identified as Bacillus subtilis by biochemical and physiological characterization, and 165 rDNA sequence analysis. The bacterial agent was formulated as a granule type by seeding it on fine sand. The formulated agent showed high recovery rate (more than 10$\^$8/ cells/g sand) even after 6 month-storage at room temperature with similar antifungal activity with that of original cells. In vitro, the biological agent successfully exhibited antagonistic performance on bentgrass inoculated with R. solani or Pythium spp. isolated from the diseased grasses on golf courses. Field evaluation on disease control activity and ecological fitness of the agent is now under going on several golf courses.

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EVALUATION OF A PENETRATION-REINFORCING AGENT TO PREVENT THE AGING OF CONCRETE

  • Cho, Myung-Sug;Noh, Jea-Myoung;Song, Young-Chul
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.41 no.8
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    • pp.1127-1134
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    • 2009
  • Concrete has three major properties after a penetration-reinforcing agent is applied on its surface. First, the durability is improved by the sol-gel process of synthesized material from the polycondensation of TEOS (tetra-ethoxyorthosilicate) and acrylate monomer. Second, the capability to absorb impact energy is reinforced through the formation of a soft and flexible layer of organic monomers by Tea (Tetra Ethyl Amin). Third, the capability to prevent deterioration is enhanced by adding isobutyl-orthosilicate and alcohol. The performance and application of an agent developed through the synthesis of organic and inorganic material in an effort to prevent concrete from deterioration and improve the durability of concrete structures were verified in diverse experiments. The results of these experiments showed that the application of the proposed penetration-reinforcing agent has the effect of increasing the compressive strength by filling up the internal pores of concrete with physically and chemically stable compounds after penetrating the concrete. It also improves the durability against the deterioration factors such as salt water damage, carbonation, freezing and thawing, and compound deterioration. Therefore, it is confirmed that the penetration-reinforcing agent is a useful substance for the management and repair of concrete structures.

Mechanical Performance Evaluation of Cement Paste with Foaming Agent using FEM Analysis Based on Picture Image (화상 이미지 기반 FEM 해석을 이용한 기포제 혼입 시멘트 페이스트의 역학 성능 평가)

  • Kim, Bo-Seok;Shin, Jun-Ho;Lee, Han-Seung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2016
  • Concrete is a representative heterogeneous material and mechanical properties of concrete are influenced by various factors. Due to the fact that pores in concrete affect determining compressive strength of concrete, studies which deal with distribution and magnitudes of pores are very important. That way, studies using picture imaging have been emerged. Studies on mechanical performance evaluation of structural lightweight foamed concrete and FEM analysis based on picture image are inadequate because lightweight foamed concrete has been researched for only non-structural. Therefore, in this study, cement paste with foaming agent to evaluate mechanical performance is made, FEM analysis with picture image is conducted and young's modulus of experiment and analysis are compared. In this study, dosage of foaming agent is determined 7 level to check pore distribution and water-binder ratio is determined 20% to progress research about structural light weight foamed concrete. Weight of unit volume is minimum at 0.8% of foaming agent dosage. However, weight of unit volume is increased over 0.8% of foaming agent dosage because of interconnection with independent pores. For FEM analysis, cement paste is photographed to use image analyzer(HF-MA C01). Consequently, the fact that Young's Modulus of experiment and FEM analysis are same is drawn by using OOF(Object Oriented Finite elements).

Evaluation on Performance of New Viscosity Modifying Admixture for Concrete Agent (콘크리트 혼화제로 활용하기 위한 신규 증점제의 성능 평가)

  • Lim, Seo-Hyung;Kahng, Goon-Gjung;Kim, Jae-Hun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.177-184
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of a new viscosity modifying admixture for concrete agent. For this purpose, selected test variables were the ratio of water to cement, the ratio of cement to fine aggregate, contents of superplasticizer, contents of viscosity modifying admixture. As a result of this study, it has been found that addition of viscosity modifying admixture to mortar modfies its fluidity and reduces its segregation by increasing the mortar viscosity. And it has been found that a new viscosity modifying admixture do not significantly affect the setting time, air content of mortar.

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A Multi-Agent Message Transfer Architecture based on the Messaging Middleware ZeroMQ (메시지 지향 미들웨어 ZeroMQ 기반의 다중 에이전트 메시지 전송 구조)

  • Chang, Hai Jin
    • KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.290-298
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    • 2015
  • This paper suggests a multi-agent message transport architecture based on the message-oriented middleware ZeroMQ. Compared with the other middlewares such as CORBA, Ice, and Thrift, ZeroMQ receives a good score in the evaluation of performance, QoS (Quality of Service), patterns, user friendliness, and resources. The suggested message transfer architecture borrowed many basic concepts like agent platform, AMS (Agent Management System), and MTS (Message Transfer System) from FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) standard multi-agent specifications, and the architecture inherited the strength of the architecture from the multi-agent framework SMAF (Smart Multi-Agent Framework). The architecture suggested in this paper is a novel peer-to-peer architecture which is not known to the ZeroMQ community. In the suggested architecture, every MTS agent uses only one ZeroMQ router socket to support peer-to-peer communication among MTS agents. The suggested architecture can support closely collaborating software areas such as intelligent robots as well as the traditional application areas of multi-agent architecture. The suggested architecture has interoperability and scalability with the ZeroMQ devices and patterns.

Development of a English Vocabulary Context-Learning Agent based on Smartphone (스마트폰 기반 영어 어휘 상황학습 에이전트 개발)

  • Kim, JinIl
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.344-351
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    • 2016
  • Recently, mobile application for english vocabulary learning is being developed actively. However, most mobile English vocabulary learning applications did not effectively connected with the technical advantages of mobile learning. Also,the study of mobile english vocabulary learning app are still insufficient. Therefore, this paper development a english vocabulary context-learning Agent that can practice context learning more reasonably using a location-based service, a character recognition technology and augmented reality technology based on smart phones. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed agent, we have measured the precision and usability. As results of experiments, the precision of learning vocabulary is 89% and 'Match between system and the real world', 'User control and freedom', 'Recognition rather than recall', 'Aesthetic and minimalist design' appeared to be respectively 3.91, 3.80, 3.85, 4.01 in evaluation of usability. It were obtained significant results.

Recent Progress in MRI Contrast Agent with Ceramic LDH Nanohybrids (세라믹 LDH 나노하이브리드를 이용한 MRI 조영제의 최신 연구동향)

  • Ha, Seongjin;Jin, Wenji;Park, Dae-Hwan
    • Ceramist
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.269-280
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    • 2019
  • Ceramic layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanohybrids have attracted considerable interest in biomedical science due to their unique structural feature and characteristics in biological condition. Many studies on LDH nanoparticles have been reported in diagnosis applications including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents in order to not only provide better imaging performance through multimodal imaging strategy, but realize therapeutic function which treat cancers in one platform. This review highlights the recent progress in MRI T1 contrast agent, dual modal imaging system, and MRI-guided drug delivery systems ranging from synthetic method and characterization to evaluation in vitro and in vivo based on the ceramic LDH nanohybrids. Future research directions are also suggested for next-generation bio-imaging contrast agent.

An Experimental Study on the Performance Evaluation of Lightweight Foamed Concrete According to Size and Replacing Ratio of Artificial Lightweight Aggregate (인공경량골재 크기 및 혼입량에 따른 경량기포콘크리트의 물리적 성능 평가에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Jeong, Seong-Min;Yun, Chang-Yeon;Lee, Han-Seung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.162-163
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    • 2017
  • This study investigated the properties of lightweight foamed concrete by using synthetic foaming agent and artificial lightweight aggregate. The effects of artificial lightweight sizes on the compressive strength, density and pore structure of the concrete were investigated. The samples were assessed by MIP analysis and simultaneous SEM was used to study their pore distribution. This study showed the improvement of important properties of lightweight foamed concrete. Lower pore distribution and correspondingly higher compressive strength values were reached. This is for the purpose of providing basic data for the use of lightweight foamed concrete through improvement on the problem such as unstability, falling in fluidity and the strength of existed foaming agent.

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Study for Application of Software Agent in Competitive Business Environment (경쟁적 비즈니스 환경에서의 소프트웨어 에이전트 활용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Joong-Han
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.165-175
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    • 2006
  • Electronic commerce has many advantages compared to the traditional way of doing business such as up to date information and rich service for less cost. There is a growing number of electronic commerce applications on the Internet. Using software agent technology, the market framework offers timesaving automation of auctions and flexibility through negotiations among the agents. In this research, we attempt to evaluate the performance of a negotiation decision function that considers the potential competitors in competitive market environment as well as that of a negotiation decision function that does not. For this evaluation, this study adopts the electronic marketplace as an application domain in which many sellers and buyers compete for limited resources in the marketplace.