• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.305-308
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• 2006

A genetic study was conducted to elucidate the effect of alpha-Lactalbumin (${\alpha}$-LA) gene polymorphism on milk production traits involving total milk yield and daily milk yield during first lactation in two breeds of water buffaloes namely, Murrah and Bhadawari. Single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) was carried out to explore genetic polymorphism present at this locus. For this study, exon 1 region of ${\alpha}$-LA was analyzed. Finally, polymorphism data was associated with milk production traits by employing least square analysis. In Murrah buffalo, five genotypes such as AB, BB, BC, CC and CD and four alleles A, B, C and D were detected whereas in Bhadawari buffalo two genotypes namely, AB and BC and three alleles namely, A, B and C were found. Genotypes showed significant effects ($p{\leq}0.05$) on total milk yield and daily milk yield in Bhadawari buffalo but had non-significant effects on these traits in Murrah buffalo.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.63-69
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• 1991

Gravity study was carried out to investigate the structure and total mass of the Bupyeong silver deposits closely related to formation of the Bupyeong caldera. Survey region covers $3.3{\times}6.6km^2$ over silver deposits and is comprised of 334 gravity measurement stations. An apparent regional gravity trend parallel to the west coast line is mainly attributed to isostasy. A least square isostasy model was used for the regional correction. A Fortan subroutine was coded to calculate 3-dimensional subsurface model. The calculated gravity values from the 3-dimensional model of the caldera with silver deposits agree with observed anomalies relatively well. Gravity anomaly due to Bupyeong silver deposits reaches to +3.5 mgal from the background value and anomaly due to the caldera reaches to -4 mgal. But the maximum negative anomaly of the caldera would be much greater at its center. The total mass of silver deposits calculated from the subsurface model is $4.19{\times}10^9$ tons. Although the economic part of silver deposits depends on the grade of orebody, we expect that there are still large amount of silver reserves in Bupyeong area.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.223-234
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• 2021

This study aims to examine whether operating cash flows influence banks' financial stability in Pakistan. The study employed annual panel data collected from annual reports of 20 commercial banks listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange for the year 2011 to 2019. Free cash flow yield was taken as the dependent variable while cash flow ratio was selected as the independent variable, and net interest margin, income diversification, asset quality, financial leverage, the cost to income ratio, advance net of provisions to total assets ratio, capital ratio, financial performance, breakup value per share and bank size were taken as control variables. The study performed ordinary least square technique, random and fixed effects models, Hausman test, Lagrange multiplier test, descriptive and correlation analysis. Results showed that operating cash flows and net interest margin significantly and positively influenced banks' financial stability while the cost to income ratio and advances net of provisions to total assets ratio significantly and negatively associated with banks' financial stability. To improve financial stability, banks should become more cost-effective and enhance their liquidity levels by lowering lending activities. In the future, it would be useful to compare commercial and investment banks, also Islamic and conventional banks in the same research setting.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.404-411
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• 2019

In this study, we designed a data-driven model to predict chlorophyll-a using M5P model tree and extreme learning machine (ELM). The Juksan weir in the Youngsan River has high chlorophyll-a, which is the primary indicator of algal bloom every year. Short-term algal bloom prediction is important for environmental management and ecological assessment. Two models were developed and evaluated for short-term algal bloom prediction. M5P is a classification and regression-analysis-based method, and ELM is a feed-forward neural network with fast learning using the least square estimate for regression. The dataset used in this study includes water temperature, rainfall, solar radiation, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, N/P ratio, and chlorophyll-a, which were collected on a daily basis from January 2013 to December 2016. The M5P model showed that the prediction model after one day had the highest performance power and dropped off rapidly starting with predictions after three days. Comparing the performance power of the ELM model with the M5P model, it was found that the performance power of the 1-7 d chlorophyll-a prediction model was higher. Moreover, in a period of rapidly increasing algal blooms, the ELM model showed higher accuracy than the M5P model.

• 4차산업연구
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2023

Purpose - The main purpose of the paper is to examine the variables affecting carbon emissions in different nations around the world. Research design, data, and methodology - To measure its impact on carbon emissions, secondary data has data of the top 50 Countries have been taken. The stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) model have been used to quantify the factors that affect carbon emissions. A modified version using Industry 4.0 and region in fundamental STIRPAT model has been applied with the ordinary least square approach. The outcome has been measured using both the basic and extended STIRPAT models. Result - Technology found a positive determinant as well as statistically significant at the alpha level of 0.001models indicating that technological innovation helps reduce carbon emissions. In total, 4 models have been derived to test the best fit and find the highest explaining capacity of variance. Model 3 is found best fit in explanatory power with the highest adjusted R2 (97.95%). Conclusion - It can be concluded that the selected explanatory variables population and Industry 4.0 are found important indicators and causal factors for carbon emission and found constant with all four models for total CO2 and Co2 per capita.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2002

This research was conducted to develop a method to remove the effect of surface temperature of Shingo pears for sugar content measurement. Sugar content was measured by a near-infrared spectrum analysis technique. Reflected spectrum and sugar content of a pear were used for developing regression models. For the model development, reflected spectrums having wavelengths in the range of 654 to 1,052nm were used. To remove the effect of surface temperature, special sample preparation techniques and partial least square (PLS) regression models were proposed and tested. 71 Shingo pears stored in a cold storage, which had 2$^{\circ}C$ inside temperature, were taken out and left in a room temperature for a while. Temperature and reflected spectrum of each pear was measured. To increase the temperature distribution of samples, temperature and reflected spectrum of each pear was measured four times with one hour twenty minutes interval. During the experiment, temperature of pears increased up to 17 $^{\circ}C$. The total number of measured spectrum was 284. Three groups of spectrum data were formed according to temperature distribution. First group had surface temperature of 14$^{\circ}C$ and total number of 51. Second group consisted of the first and the fourth experiment data which contained the minimum and the maximum temperatures. Third group consisted of 155 data with normal temperature-distribution. The rest data set were used for model evaluation. Results shelved that PLS model I, which was developed by using the first data group, was inadequate for measuring sugar content of pears which had different surface temperatures from 14$^{\circ}C$. After temperature compensation, sugar content predictions became close to the measured values. Since using many data which had wide range of surface temperatures, PLS model II and III were able to predict sugar content of pears without additional temperature compensation. PLS model IV, which included the surface temperatures as an independent variable. showed slightly improved performance(R$^2$=0.73). Performance of the model could be enhanced by using samples with more wide range of temperatures and sugar contents.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2016

VLBI 시스템의 정밀측위 정확도 유지를 위하여 안테나 구조물에서 발생하는 형상 변형을 분석할 수 있는 모니터링 연구가 반드시 수행되어야 한다. 특히, VLBI 안테나 주 반사경의 형상 변화로 인하여 퀘이사로부터 전자기파 수신에 대한 안테나 이득이 감소할 것으로 예상됨에 따라, 주 반사경을 대상으로 하는 형상 변형 모니터링에 대한 중요성이 증대되고 있다. 이에 따라, 본 연구에서는 향후 상시적이고 자동화된 구조 변형 모니터링 시스템으로 활용될 수 있는 근접사진측량 방법과 연계한 효율적인 알고리즘 구축을 통해 VLBI 구조물 중 가장 변형 가능성이 높은 주 반사경을 모니터링하기 위한 기반연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위해, VLBI 안테나 주 반사경의 전 방향에 분포된 특징점을 대상으로 토털최소제곱법을 활용하여 총 10개의 fitting line을 추정하고, 비교차 선들 간의 근접점 계산 알고리즘을 활용하여 추정된 fitting line들의 교차점을 계산하였다. 본 연구결과는 향후 시계열 분석을 통해 3축으로 표현된 교차점의 수치변동량을 계산함으로써 변형률뿐만 아니라 변형방향까지 예측할 수 있는 직관적인 근거자료로 활용 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 지질공학
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2007

터널이 굴착되면 응력이 재분배되는 과정동안 변위가 발생한다. 터널의 변위는 굴착 전 선행변위, 굴착 후 미측정 변위, 계측변위로 구분할 수 있다. 일반적으로 굴착 전 선행변위와 굴착 후 미측정 변위의 현장 측정은 어렵기 때문에 터널 굴착에 따른 전변위의 크기와 변화 양상을 산정하기 위한 연구가 많이 수행되어왔다. 본 연구에서는 퇴적암을 기반으로 하는 터널의 지반등급별 전변위를 산정하고 이들의 특성을 파악하기 위하여 역해석 기법을 사용하였다. 계측변위와 3차원 수치해석에 의해 계산된 변위의 오차를 최소한으로 줄여 지반등급별 물성치를 추정하였으며, 굴착에 따른 전변위 분포 양상을 산정하였다. 최종적으로 logistic 모형을 따르는 지반등급별 굴착에 따른 변위의 비선형 회귀식을 산정하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.500-506
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 arPLS(asymmetrically reweighted penalized least squares) 방법에서 분광신호의 길이와 차수를 이용한 최적의 평활화 매개변수를 위한 결정함수를 제안한다. 분광신호의 기준선 보정은 분석 시스템의 성능을 좌우하는 매우 중요한 과정으로 많은 경우에 육안 검사로 매개변수를 선택하여 추정한다. 이 과정은 매우 주관적이고 특히 대량의 데이터인 경우 지루한 작업을 동반하므로 좋은 분석 결과를 보장하기 어렵다. 이러한 이유로 기준선 보정에서 최적의 매개변수를 결정하기 위한 객관적인 방법이 필요하다. 제안한 결정함수는 기준선 보정에 사용 가능한 매개변수 범위의 중앙값이 신호의 길이가 길어질수록 증가하고, 신호의 차수가 작아질수록 감소하는 관계를 정리하여 모델링하였다. 모의실험 데이터는 신호의 길이 7가지에 대해 조합한 분석신호 4가지와 선형 기준선과 2차, 3차, 4차 곡선 기준선을 각각 더하여 모두 112개를 생성하였다. 모의실험 데이터와 실제 라만 분광신호를 이용한 실험에서 제안한 결정함수의 평활화 매개변수가 기준선 보정에 효과적으로 적용될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.148-159
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• 2018

Purpose: Unmanned air vehicle (UAV) remote sensing was applied to test various vegetation indices and make prediction models of protein content of rice for monitoring grain quality and proper management practice. Methods: Image acquisition was carried out by using NIR (Green, Red, NIR), RGB and RE (Blue, Green, Red-edge) camera mounted on UAV. Sampling was done synchronously at the geo-referenced points and GPS locations were recorded. Paddy samples were air-dried to 15% moisture content, and then dehulled and milled to 92% milling yield and measured the protein content by near-infrared spectroscopy. Results: Artificial neural network showed the better performance with $R^2$ (coefficient of determination) of 0.740, NSE (Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient) of 0.733 and RMSE (root mean square error) of 0.187% considering all 54 samples than the models developed by PR (polynomial regression), SLR (simple linear regression), and PLSR (partial least square regression). PLSR calibration models showed almost similar result with PR as 0.663 ($R^2$) and 0.169% (RMSE) for cloud-free samples and 0.491 ($R^2$) and 0.217% (RMSE) for cloud-shadowed samples. However, the validation models performed poorly. This study revealed that there is a highly significant correlation between NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) and protein content in rice. For the cloud-free samples, the SLR models showed $R^2=0.553$ and RMSE = 0.210%, and for cloud-shadowed samples showed 0.479 as $R^2$ and 0.225% as RMSE respectively. Conclusion: There is a significant correlation between spectral bands and grain protein content. Artificial neural networks have the strong advantages to fit the nonlinear problem when a sigmoid activation function is used in the hidden layer. Quantitatively, the neural network model obtained a higher precision result with a mean absolute relative error (MARE) of 2.18% and root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.187%.