• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.471-478
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• 2021

Water damage is one of the five disasters that affect the safety of coal mine production. The erosion of rocks by water is a very important link in the process of water inrush induced by fault activation. Through the observation and experiment of fault filling samples, according to the existing rock classification standards, fault sediments are divided into breccia, dynamic metamorphic schist and mudstone. Similar materials are developed with the characteristics of particle size distribution, cementation strength and water rationality, and then relevant tests and analyses are carried out. The experimental results show that the water-rock interaction mainly reduces the compressive strength, mechanical strength, cohesion and friction Angle of similar materials, and cracks or deformations are easy to occur under uniaxial load, which may be an important process of water inrush induced by fault activation. Mechanical experiment of similar material specimen can not only save time and cost of large scale experiment, but also master the direction and method of the experiment. The research provides a new idea for the failure process of rock structure in fault activation water inrush.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.381-404
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• 2022

Forest fires inflict great losses of human lives and serious damages to ecological systems. Hence, numerous fire detection methods have been proposed, one of which is fire detection based on sensors. However, these methods reveal several limitations when applied in large spaces like forests such as high cost, high level of false alarm, limited battery capacity, and other problems. In this research, we propose a novel forest fire detection method based on image processing and correlation coefficient. Firstly, two fire detection conditions are applied in RGB color space to distinguish between fire pixels and the background. Secondly, the image is converted from RGB to YCbCr color space with two fire detection conditions being applied in this color space. Finally, the correlation coefficient is used to distinguish between fires and objects with fire-like colors. Our proposed algorithm is tested and evaluated on eleven fire and non-fire videos collected from the internet and achieves up to 95.87% and 97.89% of F-score and accuracy respectively in performance evaluation.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.316-323
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• 2018

In this paper, we newly introduce the three-level byte-inversion transmission method for preventing LED flicker in visible light communication (VLC). The VLC transmitter sequentially sends the original signal and the inverted signal in byte units using a three-level LED modulator. The average optical power of the LED is kept constant during data transmission, thus flicker-free. In the VLC receiver, the original data is easily recovered using a simple comparator. This structure is very simple because additional clock or carrier is not required for flicker prevention. The developed flicker prevention scheme could be very useful for constructing the flicker-free indoor VLC system in low cost.

• The Journal of Pediatrics of Korean Medicine
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.173-183
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• 2005

Background and objective : Postoperative nausea and vomiting(PONV) are frequent complications of general anesthesia in children. High cost and associated side effects of antiemetic drugs, have increased interest in nonpharmacological methods for treatment of PONV. The aim of this study was to report the effect of acupuncture for prevention of PONV in children. Material and Method : Randomized clinical trials retrieved by a search of articles indexed on the Medline and NDSL database. Key words to search were 'PONV', 'POV', 'acupuncture', 'children', 'pediatric'. Results : Eleven articles were selected and six of them showed significant effectiveness of acupuncture in preventing PONV in children. Acupuncture methods were needle acupuncture acupressure, electro-acupuncture, laser acupuncture, acupuncture point injection. The main acupuncture point was P6(Neiguan). Conclusion : The effectiveness of acupuncture for prevention of PONV in children has been shown in some, but not all trials. Further studies are needed.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.16 no.15
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• pp.6477-6480
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• 2015

Purpose: Given the importance of sun protection in the prevention of skin cancer, this study was designed to determine predictors of sun-protective practices among a sample of Iranian female college students based on protection motivation theory (PMT) variables. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 201 female college students in Iran University of Medical Sciences were selected. Demographic and PMT variables were assessed with a 67-item questionnaire. Multiple linear regression was used to identify demographic and PMT variables that were associated with sun-protective practices and intention. Results: one percent of participants always wore a hat with a brim, 3.5% gloves and 15.9% sunglasses while outdoors. Only 10.9% regularly had their skin checked by a doctor. Perceived rewards, response efficacy, fear, self-efficacy and marital status were the five variables which could predict 39% variance of participants intention to perform sun-protective practices. Also, intention and response cost explained 31% of the variance of sun-protective practices. Conclusions: These predictive variables may be used to develop theory-based education interventions to prevent skin cancer among college students.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.4057-4062
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• 2012

Objective: To study the level of awareness and knowledge about cancers and associated risk factors among households in selected states of India. Methods: In the study 3070 households were interviewed from six states viz, West Bengal, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Mizoram. Results: Knowledge of cancers other than those related to tobacco was very low (prostate 8%, colon 11% ) among the communities, with a poor awareness of warning signs and symptoms. The knowledge varied from state to state. It is found that the major source of information related to cancers was television (38%) followed by friends and relatives (36%). Only about 15 % of respondents had knowledge about cancer awareness camps organized in their districts but they did not have knowledge about the organizers of the camp. Findings suggested a strong need for strengthening of DCCP. Conclusion: It is important to create awareness among community through educational programs on cancer prevention, preventable cancer risk factors, benefits of early diagnosis, and availability of screening facilities. Integration of District Cancer Control activities with NRHM could be the most cost-effective strategy to prevent cancers and rural population.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.183-190
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• 2001

A sub-structure is uplift if the floating greater than dead load of a structure. When such occasion arise, a structure sustain damage. In general, the measures for floating prevention of structure are a permanent anchor method and a drainage method. The primary construction cost of a permanent anchor method is heavy. And a drainage method is needed maintenance management long term. At this point, the measures for floating prevention of a notion being requires the other days. Therefore, at this study a simple construction and a economic vertical drainage system was developed. The findings be used in the in-situ and gave careful consideration to an application. The result of examination, this system considering a characteristic of coefficient of permeability for the ground controls occurrence of floating despite the water level rise of the ground, which a period of construction get shorter compared with other methods, which understood that measures satisfactory in the financial aspect. Especially, A structure occurring effects of flatting under the course of construction made use of it. As the result of the effect of it was confirmed by construction.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.15D no.6
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• pp.873-878
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• 2008

The wild animal warning post and the echo-bridge on the road are widely used as a popular roadkill prevention system. The warning post shows a one way warning message to drivers and is not effective to prevent animals from being killed. In the case of echo-bridge, the construction cost is very high such that we could not build sufficient number of the echo bridges on the road. Therefore, we have proposed a new roadkill prevention system which is designed and implemented to warn both of drivers and animals. This system is composed with sensor, speaker, web server, and navigation system and the software is designed to use web services on the web under the. Net environment.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.85-89
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• 2017

One of the most challenging issues in the oil and gas industry is corrosion assessment and management in subsea structures or equipment. At present, almost all steel pipelines are sensitive to corrosion in harsh working environments, particularly in salty water and sulphur ingress media. Nowadays, the most commonly practiced solution for a damaged steel pipe is to entirely remove the pipe, to remove only a localized damaged section and then replace it with a new one, or to cover it with a steel patch through welding, respectively. Numerous literatures have shown that fiber-reinforced polymer-based composites can be effectively used for steel pipe repairs. Considerable research has also been carried out on the repair of corroded and gouged pipes incorporated with hybrid natural fiber-reinforced composite wraps. Currently, further research in the field should focus on enhanced use of the lesser and highly explored hybrid-biocomposite material for the development in corrosion prevention. A hybrid-biocomposite material from renewable resource based derivatives is cost-effective, abundantly available, biodegradable, and an environmentally benign alternative for corrosion prevention. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive review and to bridge the gap by developing a new hybrid-biocomposite with superhydrophobic surfaces.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.134-139
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• 2018

Extremely fine particles seriously affect people and are becoming a social problem. Conventional methods using the type of beta ray absorption are difficult to have real-time measurements and miniaturization for the acquisition of fine dust. In this paper, a light scattering method was used. The sensors were configured internally with semiconductor laser diodes for miniaturization, low cost and lightweight. The use of the FFT method makes it easier to separate fine dust according to size compared to conventional light scattering sensors. Bluetooth communication also allows the connection, monitoring and control of devices using smart phones.