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Statistical Estimation of Motion Trajectories of Falling Petals Based on Particle Filtering (Particle Filtering에 근거한 낙하하는 꽃잎의 운동궤적의 통계적 추정)

  • Lee, Jae Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.40 no.7
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    • pp.629-635
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents a method for predicting and tracking the irregular motion of bio-systems, - such as petals of flowers, butterflies or seeds of dandelion - based on the particle filtering theory. In bio-inspired system design, the ability to predict the dynamic motion of particles through adequate, experimentally verified models is important. The modeling of petal particle systems falling in air was carried out using the Bayesian probability rule. The experimental results show that the suggested method has good predictive power in the case of random disturbances induced by the turbulence of air.

THE MOLECULAR BREEDING OF ORNAMENTAL FLOWERING PLANTS; FLOWER COLOR MODIFICATION OF Torenia hybrida

  • Ken-icho Suzuki;Yoshikazu Tanaka;Hui-min Xue;Yuko Fukui;Masao Fukuchimi-Zutani;Shinzo Tsuda;Yukihisa Katsumoto;Kazuyuki Ohhira;Keio Yunekura-Sakakobara;Takaaki Kusumi
    • Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1998.07a
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    • pp.79-82
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    • 1998
  • White and blue/white varieties of Torenia hybrida cv. Summerwave (SWB) were successfully obtained from the blue variety of by cosuppressing gene expression of two of the enzymes involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis; chalcone synthase (CHS) and dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR). Such molecular brceding is the only precise and efficient way to widen the flower color variation of SWB due to its male and female sterility. Flower color and the degree of suppression varies depending on the transgenic lines. The dorsal and ventral petal lobes and corolla tube consistently lose anthocyanins prior to lateral petal lobes. A pink variety was also obtained by cosuppressing the flavonoid 3`5`-hydroxylase (F3`5`H) gene. Yellow torenia was obtained from T-33, an in-house cultivar that contained both carotenoids and anthocyanins, by blockage of anthocyanin biosynthesis with cosuppressing CHS or DFR genes.

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New Cymbidium Variety "Yellow Evening", with Brownish Yellow Flower Color on Red Spot Lip and Medium Plant

  • Kim, Mi-Seon;Cho, Hae-Ryong;Rhee, Hye-Kyung;Lim, Jin-Hee;Lee, Young-Ran;Shin, Hak-Ki
    • Korean Journal of Breeding Science
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.358-362
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    • 2009
  • A New Cymbidium variety "Yellow Evening" was developed from a cross between "Oji" and "Valley Flower Cherry Life" followed by seedling and line selections at the National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science (NIHHS), Rural Development Administration (RDA) in 2004. After investigation of the characteristics and selection for 9 years (1996-2004), it has been selected specifically pot orchid flower. "Yellow Evening" has medium plant height and semi-erect peduncle. It has medium flowering habit and brownish yellow flowers (RHS, Y11B: petal and sepal) with grayed purple GP183A) spot on lip, when fully opened. Each peduncle has 15.3 flowers with diameter of about 7.4 cm. It has adequate peduncle height, with some curved and spreading petal and sepals. Under optical culture conditions, it started to bloom early-winter (November).

A systematic study of Glechoma L. (Lamiaceae) based on micromorphological characters and nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences (미세구조학적 형질 및 핵 리보솜 DNA의 ITS 염기서열에 의한 긴병꽃풀속(꿀풀과)의 계통분류학적 연구)

  • Jang, Tae-Soo;Lee, Joongku;Hong, Suk-Pyo
    • Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.22-32
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    • 2014
  • The petal and sepal micromorphology of five species of Glechoma (Lamiaceae) was investigated to evaluate their taxonomic significance, and a molecular phylogeny using the sequences of internal transcribed spacers (ITS) regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA was carried out to resolve their phylogenetic relationships. Stomatal complexes were mostly found in the inner and outer part of the sepal from all investigated taxa, and the size length of the guard cell was variable among the taxa. Five types of trichomes (uni-cellular non-glandular trichome, multi-cellular non-glandular trichome, short-stalked capitate glandular trichome, long-stalked capitate glandular trichome, and peltate glandular trichome) were variable among the taxa as well as their distribution and density. In molecular phylogenetic studies, the genus Glechoma was composed of three geographically distinct major monophyletic groups (Europe-U.S.A., China-Korea, Japan). G. longituba in Korea and China formed well-supported monophyletic group. G. hederacea in Europe and U.S.A. formed a monophyletic and well-supported clade with G. sardoa, which are endemic species in Italy, with G. hirsuta falling as a sister to this clade. However, G. grandis did not form any phylogenetic relationships with the remaining taxa. The ITS analyses provided taxonomic boundaries of taxa in Glechoma although the petal and sepal micromorphological characters provided weak evidences of the systematic value. As further studies, incorporating more DNA regions to the matrix including other additional morphological analysis will be significant to provide clearer taxonomic structure in Glechoma.

Studies on Morphological Variation Among Provenances of a Rare Rhododendron micranthum in Korea (희귀 식물 꼬리진달래의 형태적 변이)

  • Kim, Nam Young;Kim, Heung Sik;Kim, Sol Young;Park, Wan Geun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.95 no.1
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    • pp.55-59
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    • 2006
  • The objectives of this study, an analysis of the morphological characteristics among six provenances of a rare Rhododendron micranthum could be used for the conservation of gene resources and could provide information on superior trees selection. The following results were obtained. Approximately Mt.worak region showed larger values at petal character. On the other hand, Bonghwa region showed smaller values at petal character. Yeonha-ri region showed larger values at leaf character. On the other hand, Bonghwa region showed smaller values at leaf character. The results of principal component analysis (PCA) for morphological characteristics showed that the first for principal components(PC's) explained 41.6% of the total variation. From th third PC explained 81.5% of the total variation. The first PC was correlated with those characteristics that were mainly related to the Petal length (PL), Leaf length (LL) width (LW), Stigma length (SL). The second PC was correlated with the Petiole length (PTW), Anther length (AL). The third PC was correlated with the Flower pedicel length (FPL), Filament length (FL). Therefore, these characteristics was important to analysis of the variation for morphological characteristics among provenances of Rhododendron micranthum. Cluster analysis using single linkage method based on morphological characteristics showed that six provenances of Rhododendron micranthum could be clustered into three groups. Group I is Jicdong-ri, Group II is Mt.worak and Yeonha-ri, and Group III is Taeback, Bonghwa, and Samcheok. These results corresponded well with that of principal component analysis.

Effects of Medium Compositions and Plant Growth Regulators on in vitro Organogenesis in Cultured Explants of Platycodon grandiflorum Species

  • Kwon, Soo Jeong;Roy, Swapan Kumar;Kim, Hye-Rim;Moon, Young-Ja;Yoon, Ki-Hong;Woo, Sun Hee;Boo, Hee Ock;Koo, Jin-Woog;Kim, Hag Hyun
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.62 no.3
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    • pp.259-274
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    • 2017
  • Platycodon grandiflorum (Bell flower) is an important plant that has traditionally been used as herbal medicine for the treatment of cough, phlegm, sore throats, lung abscesses, chest pains, dysuria, and dysentery. The present study was initiated to investigate the feasibility of inducing shoot and root organogenesis in cultured explants of P. grandiflorum in a range of culture media and through use of various plant growth regulators (PGRs). The plantlets (Stem containing one node) were isolated and cultured on different concentrations of Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with PGRs. We found that proliferation and elongation of shoots and roots could be achieved on 1/4 MS for P. grandiflorum with wild and green petals and on 1/8 MS for P. grandiflorum with double petals. The highest levels of development and elongation of adventitious shoots and roots were observed when petal explants were cultured on 1/4 MS (pH 3.8) supplemented with 5% sucrose. Increasing the agar concentration reduced shoot growth and rooting potential; nevertheless, the highest number of shoots and roots was observed on 0.6% agar. In the case of growth regulators, 1/4 MS supplemented with $1mg\;L^{-1}$ 6-benzylaminopurine (BA) was found to be best for shooting, although higher concentrations of BA tended to reduce shoot and root elongation. The highest number of shoots was achieved on $0.5mg{\cdot}L^{-1}$ thidiazuron (TDZ) from double petal explants grown on 1/8 MS. However, root and shoot elongation were found to decrease when TDZ concentrations were increased. Low concentrations of kinetin, naphthalene acetic acid, indole acetic acid, and 3-indole butyric acid induced shoot and root proliferation and elongation. Taken together, our study showed that low concentrations of PGRs induced the greatest root formation and elongation, showing that the optimal concentration of PGRs for shoot proliferation was species-dependent.

Influence of twisting angle between fixed contact and movable contact on arc driving force in 3petal spiral type vacuum interrupter (3petal spiral type vacuum interrupter에서 가동접점전극과 고정접점전극간의 마주보는 각도의 변화가 아크구동력에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Byoung-Chul;Yun, Jae-Hun;Lee, Seung-Soo;Kang, Seong-Hwa;Lim, Kee-Joe
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.480-480
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    • 2008
  • Vacuum circuit breaker(VCB) is now emerging as an alternative of gas circuit breaker(GCB) which uses SF6 gas as insulating material whose dielectric strength is outstanding. But we have to reduce SF6 gas because SF6 gas is one of greenhouse gas and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas are now trend of the world. Therefore, we can say VCB is the optimal alternative of GCB because vacuum is environmentally friendly. The vacuum interrupter is the core part of VCB to interrupt arcing current. There are mainly two methods to extinguish arc. One is radial magnetic field (RMF) method and the other is axial magnetic field (AMF) method. We deals with RMF method in this paper. Compared with AMP, RMF arc quenching method has different principle to extinguish arc. In case of RMF method, pinch effect is much larger than AMF method. Because of pinch effect RMF type contact electrodes have the single large spot which is severly damaged and melted while AMF type contact electrodes have small and multiple spots which are slightly damaged and melted. To prevent contact electrode being damaged and melted from high temperature-arc, RMF method uses Lorentz force to move arc. In this paper we calculated and compared the arc driving force of two cases and we analyzed the force acting on each part of arc by means of commercial finite element method software Maxwell 3D. They have 3petals and we considered two cases. One is the case when fixed(upper) and movable(lower) contacts are in mirror arrangement (Case 1). The other is the case when one of two contacts (movable contact) is revolved at maximum angle as possible as it can be (Case 2). And at each case above, we analyzed arc driving force at two positions, position 1 is the closest to the center of contact and position 2 is near the edge of petal on fixed contact. As a result we could find that Case 2 generated stronger arc driving force than Case 1 at position 1. But at position 2 Case 1 generated stronger arc driving force than Case 2. This simulation method can contribute to optimizing spiral-type electrode designs in a view of arc driving force.

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Satisfaction investigation and use of public purchase system of the Disability Firm (장애인기업의 공공구매제도 이용과 만족도 조사)

  • Song, Soo-Jeong;Won, Jun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.341-348
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    • 2010
  • The research which sees for a support the government offices will be able to promote a disability firm manufactured product purchase in order with the petal of the disability firm, investigated the public purchase system use and a satisfaction of the disability firm. The plan which is concrete put the goal presents about disability firm manufactured product purchase promotion of the government offices.

A study on the Activation Plan Using public purchase system of the Disability Firm manufactured product (장애인기업 생산제품의 공공구매제도를 통한 활성화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Soo-Jeong;Won, Joon-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.145-151
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    • 2010
  • The research which sees the disability firm led and public procurement market penetration the base will be able to grow prepared and with the petal of the disability firm for a support disability firm manufactured product public purchase activation plan of the government offices groped. disability firm manufactured products purchase promotion plan and policy of the government offices presents the fact that with the aim.