2,071 research outputs found

    KACC: An identification and characterization for microbial resources in Korea

    Get PDF
    Korean Agricultural Culture Collection (KACC) is an authorized organizer and the official depository for microbial resources in Korea. The KACC has developed a web-based database system to provide integrated information about microbial resources. It includes not only simple text information onindividual microbe but also morphological images and DNA sequence data for the strain. The KACC now provides the characterization information which maintains 7,433 cultures of microorganisms including 2,687 strains of bacteria, 3535 fungi, 476 actinomycetes, 64 yeasts, and 671 others (mushrooms, gene clones, etc)

    Two-dimensional imaging of edge-localized modes in KSTAR plasmas unperturbed and perturbed by n=1 external magnetic fields

    Get PDF
    The temporal evolution of edge-localized modes (ELMs) has been studied using a 2-D electron cyclotron emission imaging system in the KSTAR tokamak. The ELMs are observed to evolve in three distinctive stages: the initial linear growth of multiple filamentary structures having a net poloidal rotation, the interim state of regularly spaced saturated filaments, and the final crash through a short transient phase characterized by abrupt changes in the relative amplitudes and distance among filaments. The crash phase, typically consisted of multiple bursts of a single filament, involves a complex dynamics, poloidal elongation of the bursting filament, development of a fingerlike bulge, and fast localized burst through the finger. Substantial alterations of the ELM dynamics, such as mode number, poloidal rotation, and crash time scale, have been observed under external magnetic perturbations with the toroidal mode number n = 1. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3694842]X1125sciescopu

    Classification of non-Riemannian doubled-yet-gauged spacetime

    Get PDF
    Assuming O(D,D)\mathbf{O}(D,D) covariant fields as the `fundamental' variables, Double Field Theory can accommodate novel geometries where a Riemannian metric cannot be defined, even locally. Here we present a complete classification of such non-Riemannian spacetimes in terms of two non-negative integers, (n,nˉ)(n,\bar{n}), 0n+nˉD0\leq n+\bar{n}\leq D. Upon these backgrounds, strings become chiral and anti-chiral over nn and nˉ\bar{n} directions respectively, while particles and strings are frozen over the n+nˉn+\bar{n} directions. In particular, we identify (0,0)(0,0) as Riemannian manifolds, (1,0)(1,0) as non-relativistic spacetime, (1,1)(1,1) as Gomis-Ooguri non-relativistic string, (D1,0)(D{-1},0) as ultra-relativistic Carroll geometry, and (D,0)(D,0) as Siegel's chiral string. Combined with a covariant Kaluza-Klein ansatz which we further spell, (0,1)(0,1) leads to Newton-Cartan gravity. Alternative to the conventional string compactifications on small manifolds, non-Riemannian spacetime such as D=10D=10, (3,3)(3,3) may open a new scheme of the dimensional reduction from ten to four.Comment: 1+41 pages; v2) Refs added; v3) Published version; v4) Sign error in (2.51) correcte

    Electroluminescence and the measurement of temperature during Stage III of flash sintering experiments

    Get PDF
    The optical glow of ceramics that becomes established during the constant state of flash, known as Stage III in flash sintering experiments, is investigated. The specimen temperature in this state is obtained from in situ experiments at the Pohang Light Source II. The measurements of the specimen temperature agree very well with the predictions from the black body radiation model. The optical emission spectrum from the specimen is measured from the visible into the deep infrared, and compared with black body radiation that would have been expected from Joule heating. It is concluded that the specimens radiate by electroluminescence, which is ascribed to electron hole recombination of excitons. The phenomenon is likely the same as discovered by Nernst at the turn of the twentieth century. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.114636Ysciescopu

    AFP mandrel development for composite aircraft fuselage skin

    Full text link

    Thermoelectric materials by using two-dimensional materials with negative correlation between electrical and thermal conductivity

    Get PDF
    In general, in thermoelectric materials the electrical conductivity sigma and thermal conductivity kappa are related and thus cannot be controlled independently. Previously, to maximize the thermoelectric figure of merit in state-of-the-art materials, differences in relative scaling between sigma and kappa as dimensions are reduced to approach the nanoscale were utilized. Here we present an approach to thermoelectric materials using tin disulfide, SnS2, nanosheets that demonstrated a negative correlation between sigma and kappa. In other words, as the thickness of SnS2 decreased, sigma increased whereas kappa decreased. This approach leads to a thermoelectric figure of merit increase to 0.13 at 300 K, a factor similar to 1,000 times greater than previously reported bulk single-crystal SnS2. The Seebeck coefficient obtained for our two-dimensional SnS2 nanosheets was 34.7mVK(-1) for 16-nm-thick samples at 300 K.114330Ysciescopu

    Thermophilic anaerobic digestion of model organic wastes: Evaluation of biomethane production and multiple kinetic models analysis

    Full text link
    © 2019 Elsevier Ltd The main aim of this work was to test various organic wastes, i.e. from a livestock farm, a cattle slaughterhouse and agricultural waste streams, for its ability to produce methane under thermophilic anaerobic digestion (AD) conditions. The stability of the digestion, potential biomethane production and biomethane production rate for each waste were assessed. The highest methane yield (110.83 mL CH4/g VSadded day) was found in the AD of crushed animal carcasses on day 4. The experimental results were analyzed using four kinetic models and it was observed that the Cone model described the biomethane yield as well as the methane production rate of each substrate. The results from this study showed the good potential of model organic wastes to produce biomethane
    corecore