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A Study on Interaction between Soil and Nail using SW Model (Strain Wedge Model을 이용한 지반-네일의 상호작용에 대한 연구)

  • 김홍택;강인규;김진홍;전찬우
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 1999.03a
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    • pp.153-158
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    • 1999
  • In the design and analysis of soil nailed slope, interaction between soil and nail is one of important problems. In the present analysis approaches for the interactions have developed a elastic analysis approach or a plastic analysis approach. However these approaches are not able to estimate the general interaction between soil and nail. In this study the general interaction between soil and nail using the strain wedge model is proposed. Also results of comparison between the proposed method and full scale test results by Gassler(1976) and large scale experimental results at Oxford University are shown in good agreements.

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PDFindexer: Distributed PDF Indexing system using MapReduce

  • Murtazaev, JAziz;Kihm, Jang-Su;Oh, Sangyoon
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.13-17
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    • 2012
  • Indexing allows converting raw document collection into easily searchable representation. Web searching by Google or Yahoo provides subsecond response time which is made possible by efficient indexing of web-pages over the entire Web. Indexing process gets challenging when the scale gets bigger. Parallel techniques, such as MapReduce framework can assist in efficient large-scale indexing process. In this paper we propose PDFindexer, system for indexing scientific papers in PDF using MapReduce programming model. Unlike Web search engines, our target domain is scientific papers, which has pre-defined structure, such as title, abstract, sections, references. Our proposed system enables parsing scientific papers in PDF recreating their structure and performing efficient distributed indexing with MapReduce framework in a cluster of nodes. We provide the overview of the system, their components and interactions among them. We discuss some issues related with the design of the system and usage of MapReduce in parsing and indexing of large document collection.

Elastic Network Model for Nano and Bio System Analysis (나노 및 바이오 시스템 해석을 위한 탄성네트워크모델)

  • Kim, Moon-Ki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.668-669
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we introduce various coarse-grained elastic network modeling (ENM) techniques as a novel computational method for simulating atomic scale dynamics in macromolecules including DNA, RNA, protein, and polymer. In ENM, a system is modeled as a spring network among representative atoms in which each linear elastic spring is well designed to replace both bonded and nonbonded interactions among atoms in the sense of quantum mechanics. Based on this simplified system, a harmonic Hookean potential is defined and used for not only calculating intrinsic vibration modes of a given system, but also predicting its anharmonic conformational change, both of which are strongly related with its functional features. Various nano and bio applications of ENM such as fracture mechanics of nanocomposite and protein dynamics show that ENM is one of promising tools for simulating atomic scale dynamics in a more effective and efficient way comparing to the traditional molecular dynamics simulation.

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Decentralized Nonlinear Voltage Control of Multimachine Power Systems with Non linear Interconnections (비선형 상호작용을 갖는 전력계통의 비선형 분산 전압제어)

  • Lee, Jae-Won;Yoon, Tae-Woong;Kim, Kwang-Youn
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.11b
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    • pp.47-50
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    • 2003
  • For large-scale systems which are composed of interconnections of many lower-dimensional subsystems, decentralized control is preferable since it can alleviate the computational burden, avoid communication between different subsystems, and make the control more feasible and simpler. A power system is such a large-scale system where generators are interconnected through transmission lines. Decentralized control is therefore considered for power systems. In this paper, a robust decentralized excitation control scheme for interactions is proposed to enhance the transient stability of multimachine power systems. First we employ a DFL(Direct Feedback Linearization) compensator to rancel most of the nonlinearities; however, the resulting model still contains nonlinear interconnections. Therefore, we design a robust controller in order to deal with Interconnection terms. In this procedure, an upper bound of interconnection terms is estimated by an estimator. The resulting adaptive scheme guarantees the uniform ultimate boundedness of the closed-loop dynamic systems in the presence of the uncertainties.

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A Fuzzy Impulse Noise Filter Based on Boundary Discriminative Noise Detection

  • Verma, Om Prakash;Singh, Shweta
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.89-102
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    • 2013
  • The paper presents a fuzzy based impulse noise filter for both gray scale and color images. The proposed approach is based on the technique of boundary discriminative noise detection. The algorithm is a multi-step process comprising detection, filtering and color correction stages. The detection procedure classifies the pixels as corrupted and uncorrupted by computing decision boundaries, which are fuzzified to improve the outputs obtained. In the case of color images, a correction term is added by examining the interactions between the color components for further improvement. Quantitative and qualitative analysis, performed on standard gray scale and color image, shows improved performance of the proposed technique over existing state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and color difference metrics. The analysis proves the applicability of the proposed algorithm to random valued impulse noise.

Proteomic Studies in Plants

  • Park, Ohk-Mae K.
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.133-138
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    • 2004
  • Proteomics is a leading technology for the high-throughput analysis of proteins on a genome-wide scale. With the completion of genome sequencing projects and the development of analytical methods for protein characterization, proteomics has become a major field of functional genomics. The initial objective of proteomics was the large-scale identification of all protein species in a cell or tissue. The applications are currently being extended to analyze various functional aspects of proteins such as post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions, activities and structures. Whereas the proteomics research is quite advanced in animals and yeast as well as Escherichia coli, plant proteomics is only at the initial phase. Major studies of plant proteomics have been reported on subcellular proteomes and protein complexes (e.g. proteins in the plasma membranes, chloroplasts, mitochondria and nuclei). Here several plant proteomics studies will be presented, followed by a recent work using multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT).

Buckling analysis of double walled carbon nanotubes embedded in Kerr elastic medium under axial compression using the nonlocal Donnell shell theory

  • Timesli, Abdelaziz
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.69-82
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, a new explicit analytical formula is derived for the critical buckling load of Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes (DWCNTs) embedded in Winkler elastic medium without taking into account the effects of the nonlocal parameter, which indicates the effects of the surrounding elastic matrix combined with the intertube Van der Waals (VdW) forces. Furthermore, we present a model which predicts that the critical axial buckling load embedded in Winkler, Pasternak or Kerr elastic medium under axial compression using the nonlocal Donnell shell theory, this model takes into account the effects of internal small length scale and the VdW interactions between the inner and outer nanotubes. The present model predicts that the critical axial buckling load of embedded DWCNTs is greater than that without medium under identical conditions and parameters. We can conclude that the embedded DWCNTs are less susceptible to axial buckling than those without medium.

Numerical Study on the Premixed Flame Instability and Nonlinear Behavior (예혼합화염의 불안정성 및 비선형적 거동에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • Kang, Sang-Hun;Baek, Seung-Wook;Im, Hong G.
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.281-286
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    • 2005
  • To understand fundamental characteristics of combustion in a small scale device, the effects of the momentum and heat loss on the stability of laminar premixed flames in a narrow channel are investigated by two-dimensional high-fidelity numerical simulation. A general finding is that momentum loss promotes the Saffman-Taylor (S-T) instability which is additive to the Darrieus-Landau (D-L) instabilities, while the heat loss effects result in an enhancement of the diffusive-thermal (D-T) instability. These effects are also valid in nonlinear behavior of the premixed flame. The simulations of multiple cell interactions are also conducted with heat and momentum loss effects.

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3-D Dynamic groundwater-river interaction modeling incorporating climate variability and future water demand

  • Hong, Yoon-Seok Timothy;Thomas, Joseph
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.67-74
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    • 2008
  • The regional-scale transient groundwater-river interaction model is developed to gain a better understanding of the regional-scale relationships and interactions between groundwater and river system and quantify the residual river flow after groundwater abstraction from the aquifers with climate variability in the Waimea Plains, New Zealand. The effect of groundwater abstraction and climate variability on river flows is evaluated by calculating river flows at the downstream area for three different drought years (a 1 in 10 drought year, 1 in 20 drought year, and 1 in 24 drought year) and an average year with metered water abstraction data. The effect of future water demand (50 year projection) on river flows is also evaluated. A significant increase in the occurrence of zero flow, or very low flow of 100 L/sec at the downstream area is predicted due to large groundwater abstraction increase with climate variability. Modeling results shows the necessity of establishing dynamic cutback scenarios of water usage to users over the period of drought conditions considering different climate variability from current allocation limit to reduce the occurrence of low flow conditions at the downstream area.

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The Comparison of job satisfaction and turnover intention of administrative employees by the scale of medical institutes (의료기관 행정직 근로자의 직무만족과 이직의도)

  • Kim, Hye-Sook
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.62-82
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    • 2013
  • Unlike administrative affairs of a general organization, hospital administration employees distinctively have a lot of interactions with patients and their care givers in addition to interaction with different occupations such as doctors and nurses. Although they are in a normal organization hierarchy as general employees, they have to be equipped with professional knowledge as medical terminology, disease and drugs and to understand new technologies and capabilities. This study analyzes the level of job satisfaction and the turnover intention of administrative employees who are engaged in medical institutes. It compares job satisfaction and the difference of turnover intention by the characteristics of job-related and scale of medical institutes. In addition, it verifies the relative in fluence of variables related to demographic and job-related characteristics as factors for explaining the job satisfaction of the administrative employees.

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