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Sandy Sediment Transport Mechanism on Tidal Sand Bodies, West Coast of Korea (해양(조수환경) 사립퇴적물의 이동기작에 관한 연구 - 한국 서해 만경강.동진강 하구 해역 -)

  • Yong Ahn Park;Hyo Jin Kang;Y.I. Song
    • The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.33-45
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    • 1991
  • Sand bars associated with strong tidal currents are well developed in the subtidal zone near the Kokunsan islands. Tidal currents measured at sand bar in the area show an asymmetry in magnitude between flood and ebb currents. At the southern flank of the sand bar the currents are flood-dominant whereas the currents are ebb-dominant at the northern flank. The asymmetry is more distinctive as the currents become stronger during spring tide. Moreover, the flood-dominance along the southern flank is stronger than the ebb-dominance along the northern flank. Thus the flood current is more affective to the sand bar. The sandy bottom sediment is mostly transported as bedload by the tidal currents. The magnitude asymmetry of the tidal currents results in a net sediment movement in one direction. The direction is onshore in the south and offshore in the north, which may result in a net counterlookwise rotation of the sands around the sand bar. However, the sand bar may migrate towards onshore due to the more affective flood current in the south. The irregular V-shaped outline of the sand bar in the south also seem to reflect the strong effect of flood current.

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The Characteristics of Tidal Residual Current in Youngil Bay (영일만의 조석잔차류 거동 특성)

  • Kim Jong-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.14-23
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    • 2001
  • The characteristics of tidal circulation with Hyungsan River discharges in Youngil Bay by the numerical experiments is elucidated. For the simulation of tidal residual currents related to inflow by the river discharges in Youngil Bay located in the southeastern part of Korean Peninsula, the two-dimensional numerical experiment is peformed. The tidal elevation boundary conditions of the 4 main tidal harmonic constituents (M₂, S₂, K₁ and O₁) on the open boundary and river discharges at the river boundary are considered. The computed results obtained from numerical experiment showed good agreements with the field observation ones. The residual currents generally flow toward the inner bay through the western (Dalman-Gap) and central areas of the bay, and then the currents go toward the outer bay along the eastern shore (Changgi-Gap) of the bay with anti-clockwise circulation. Especially, in the numerical experiment without Hyungsan River discharges, these flow patterns are disappeared. Based on the results, it showed that the Hyungsan River discharges play the dominant role in the patterns of tidal residual currents. This flow pattern of tidal residual currents are important mechanism of water quality, material transport in Youngil Bay.

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Study on Surface Vortices in Pump Sump

  • Long, Ngo Ich;Shin, Byeong Rog;Doh, Deog-Hee
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.60-66
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    • 2012
  • One of commonly physical phenomena encountered in pump sump systems in which its significant influence to the hydraulic performance of pump system plays an important role in the field of fluid engineering, is the appearance of free surface and submerged vortices. In this paper, a study of the vortices behavior and their formative mechanism of asymmetry is considered in this paper by using numerical approach. The Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and k-omega Shear Stress Transport turbulence model used to describe the properties of turbulent flows, in company with VOF multiphase model, are implemented by Fluent code with multi-block structured grid system. In the numerical simulation, the calculated elevation of air-water interface and vortex core contours are used to classify visually surface vortices as well as submerged vortices. It is shown that the free surface vortex is identified by the concavity of liquid region from the free surface and swirling flow at that own plane. To investigate the distinctive behavior of these vortices corresponding to each given flow rate at the same water level, some numerical testing of them are considered here in such a manner that the flow pattern of surface vortex are obtained similarly to the obtained results from experiment. Furthermore, the influence due to the change of grid refinement and the variation of depth of the concavity are also considered in this paper. From that, these influential factors will be implemented to design a good pump sump with higher performance in the future.

Effects of Electrostatic Discharge Stress on Current-Voltage and Reverse Recovery Time of Fast Power Diode

  • Bouangeune, Daoheung;Choi, Sang-Sik;Cho, Deok-Ho;Shim, Kyu-Hwan;Chang, Sung-Yong;Leem, See-Jong;Choi, Chel-Jong
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.495-502
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    • 2014
  • Fast recovery diodes (FRDs) were developed using the $p^{{+}{+}}/n^-/n^{{+}{+}}$ epitaxial layers grown by low temperature epitaxy technology. We investigated the effect of electrostatic discharge (ESD) stresses on their electrical and switching properties using current-voltage (I-V) and reverse recovery time analyses. The FRDs presented a high breakdown voltage, >450 V, and a low reverse leakage current, < $10^{-9}$ A. From the temperature dependence of thermal activation energy, the reverse leakage current was dominated by thermal generation-recombination and diffusion, respectively, at low and high temperature regions. By virtue of the abrupt junction and the Pt drive-in for the controlling of carrier lifetime, the soft reverse recovery behavior could be obtained along with a well-controlled reverse recovery time of 21.12 ns. The FRDs exhibited excellent ESD robustness with negligible degradations in the I-V and the reverse recovery characteristics up to ${\pm}5.5$ kV of HBM and ${\pm}3.5$ kV of IEC61000-4-2 shocks. Likewise, transmission line pulse (TLP) analysis reveals that the FRDs can handle the maximum peak pulse current, $I_{pp,max}$, up to 30 A in the forward mode and down to - 24 A in the reverse mode. The robust ESD property can improve the long term reliability of various power applications such as automobile and switching mode power supply.

Efficient Multicasting Mechanism for Mobile Computing Environment (물류트랙킹 장비에 활용되는 WCDMA/GSM 이중 대역 안테나 설계 및 성능 검증)

  • Lee, Eun-Kyu;Choi, Sung-Pill;Moon, Young-Sik;Jeon, Mi-Jin;Jo, Jae-Hui;Kim, Jae-Joong;Choi, Hyung-Rim
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.896-897
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    • 2013
  • In recent years, logistics tracking Device using GSM & WCDMA to improve logistics efficiency are being extensively researched. The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance development antenna usable cargo container security transport. Antenna developed by study were optimized to match logistics environment apply to GSM & WCDMA dual frequency for monitering system. The measure of antenna have confirmation VSWR is 3:1 measured in return loss -10dB. Reliability of this antenna has been verified about GSM & WCDMA through test-operation between the south korea and Russia.

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Synthesis and Characteristics of Type-II ZnO/ZnSe Core/Shell Heterostructures for High Efficient Photocatalytic Activity (Type-II ZnO/ZnSe 코어/쉘 이종 구조 합성 및 광촉매활성 평가)

  • Lee, Woo-Hyoung;Choi, Kwang-Il;Kang, Dong-Cheon;Beak, Su-Woong;Lee, Suk-Ho;Lim, Cheol-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.178-183
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    • 2014
  • Recently, various type of nanomaterials such as nanorod, nanowire, nanotube and their core/shell nanostructures have attracted much attention in photocatalyst due to their unique properties. Among them, Type-II core/shell heterostructures have extensively studied because it has exhibited improved electrical and optical properties against their single-component nanostructure. Such structures are expected to offer high absorption efficiency and fast charge transport due to their stepwised energetic combination and large internal surface area. Thus, it has been considered as potential candidates for high efficient photocatalytic activity. In this work, we introduce a novel chemical conversion process to synthesize Type-II ZnO/ZnSe core/shell heterostructures. A plausible conversion mechanism to ZnO/ZnSe core/shell heterostructres was proposed based on SEM, XRD, TEM and XPS analysis. The ZnO/ZnSe heterostructures exhibited excellent photocatalytic activity toward the decomposition of RhB dye compared to the ZnO nanorod arrays due to enhanced light absorption and the type-II cascade band structure.

Serum Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Proteins Profiles During the Normal Oulatory Menstrual Cycle (정상배란성 월경주기에서 혈청 인슐린유사 성장인자 결합단백질의 양상)

  • Jeong, Jae-Hoon;Kim, Jung-Gu
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 1999
  • The insulin-like growth factor (IGF)s are believed to one of several growth factors that play an adjunctive role in ovarian follicular development. These factors circulate bound to a family of IGF-binding protein (IGFBP)s. It is known that circulating IGFBPs are involved in the transport of IGFs to tissues and modulate IGFs actions at local tissue. The purposes of this study were to evaluate changes in serum IGFBPs profiles during normal ovulatory menstrual cylce and to compare serum IGFBPs profiles in periovulatory phase of between normal ovulatory menstrual cylce and controlled hyperstimulated cycle. Fasting blood samples were obtained from 15 normal healthy women throughout normal ovulatory menstural cyle and on the day of aspiration of oocyte from 10 patients undergoing ovarian hyperstimuation for in vito fertilization-embryo transfer. Serum IGFBP-1 - IGFBP-4 were measured by western ligand blot and immunoprecipitation. Serum $17{\beta}$-estradiol was determined by radioimmunoassay. Type and molecular weight of serum IGFBP did not changed during normal ovulatory menstural cycle. No significant variation in the relative proportion and level of each IGFBP was found throughout normal ovulatory menstural cyle. Also, the relative proportion and level of each IGFBP did not correlated with serum $17{\beta}$-estradiol level. There was no significant difference in the relative proportion and level of each serum IGFBP between on the day of ovulation in normal ovulatory menstrual cylce and on the day of aspiration of oocyte in controlled hyperstimulated cycle. Our data indicate that IGFBPs have regulatory functions in ovary through an paracrine and autocrine rather than endocrine mechanism during normal ovulatory menstural cycle.

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An experimental study of particle deposition from high temperature gas-particle flows (고온의 기체 입자 유동으로부터 입자부착 현상에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 김상수;김용진
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.501-508
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    • 1987
  • Experimental studies of particle (TiO$\_$2/) deposition from the laminar hot gas particle flow (about 1565K) onto the cold wall surface (about 1215K-1530K) were carried out by the 'real time' laser light reflectivity method (LLRM) and the photographs of scanning electron microscope(SEM). The LLRM was used for the measurement of thermophoretic deposition rates of small particles (d$\_$p/<3.mu.m), and the photographs of SEM were used for determining what factors control the collection of particles having diameters ranging from 0.2 to 30 microns. Two phenomena are primarily responsible for transport of the particles across the laminar boundary layers and deposition: (1) particle thermophoresis (i.e. particles migration down a temperature gradient), and (2) particle inertial impaction, the former effect being especially larger factor of the particle deposition in its size over the range of 0.2 to 1 microns. And also, this study indicates that thermophoresis can be important for particles as large as 15 microns. Beyond d$\_$p/=16.mu.m, this effect diminishes and the inertial impaction is taken into account as a dominant mechanism of particle deposition. The results of present experiments found to be in close agreement with existing theories.

The Effects of Supplements on the Plasmid Delivery and Expression in the Transfection Using Cationic Liposomes (양이온 리포좀을 이용한 유전자 전달 및 발현서 첨가제의 효과)

  • ;;;C. Schmid
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.418-423
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    • 1998
  • Cellular transfections with cationic liposomes are widely empolyed for gene and oligonucleotide transfer in vitro because of their safety and ease of use. However, they still suffer from the low transfection efficiency comparing with viral vectors. Substantial effort shave been focused on increasing transfection efficiency by supplementing the liposome/DNA complexes(lipoplex) with various components. In this work, we tired three kinds of supplements, Poly-L-lysine(PLL), transferrin and a mixture of anionic lipids(PS/PE/PC), to study their effects on gene transfer yield and gene expression efficiency. PLL, a polycationic polymer, enhanced gene transfer yield by 3 times but the gene expression efficiency was increased only by 1.5 times. this result implies that PLL can enhance the transfection efficiency mainly by increasing the rate of outermembrane transport of lipoplex into the cells. On the other hand, transferrin which can facilitate the gene transfer via ligand-receptor interaction gave not only increased gene transfer yield but also enhanced gen expression efficiency by 2.8 times. Transferrin seems to contribute to the escape of plasmid from endosomes through ligand-receptor recycle mechanism. When the cells were treated with a mixture of anionic lipids for 3 hours before the transfection, gene transfer yield was slightly decreased but the gene expression efficiency was enhanced by 1.9 times. This is presumably due to the accelerated liposome-plasmid dissociation by the anionic lipids, and the increased delivery of plasmid to the nucleus. According to these results, it is clear that the supplementation to ameliorate transfection efficiency with cationic liposomes should be contrived in the direction of increasing delivery of plasmid.

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Numerical Simulation of Beach Profile Changes (해빈 종단면 변형의 수치모의)

  • Cheon, Se-Hyeon;Ahn, Kyung-Mo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2008
  • Several numerical models for predicting beach profile changes have been developed by many researchers. Many of the earlier models are known to simulate the erosional profiles with the formation of offshore bar. However, most of the models don't have proper mechanism to incorporate the recovery process of the eroded profiles after a storm and can not simulate the beach accretion with acceptable accuracy. In order to overcome these shortcomings, we propose a new numerical model which has new features to simulate the accretional phase of beach recovery process after storm including such as redistribution of suspended sand particles near the breaking point. The simulation results of the proposed model were compared with LWT (Large Wave Tank) experiments performed at CRIEPI (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan) and CE (the Us Army Corps of Engineers) and it was shown to have performed better compared to SBEACH (Storm-induced BEAch CHange).