• Magazine of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.5 no.1 s.16
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• pp.34-43
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• 2005

지진해일(진파(津波))은 지진에 의해 해저가 융기나 침강을 일으키면 그 형태대로 해면이 변화, 사방으로 전파되며 형성된 장파로 국제 공용어로 쓰나미(Tsunami)라 불리고 있다. 근래에 들어오면서 지각판(Plate)의 활발한 운동은 전 세계적으로 지진 및 지진해일의 발생빈도를 가중시키고 있으며 이는 최근 20년 사이 10회 이상의 거대지진해일 발생이라는 결과를 낳았다. 이러한 지진해일들은 인명, 재산 등의 막대한 피해를 동반하는 경우가 대부분으로 1998년 파푸아뉴기니에서 발생한 지진해일은 수천 명의 사상자를 발생시키기도 하였다. 뿐만 아니라 지난 2004년 12월 인도네시아의 수마트라 북서부 해안에서 발생한 규모 9.0의 지진으로 유발된 지진해일은 남아시아 일대의 해안지대를 강타하여 잠정집계 29만 명 이상의 사망자가 발생하는 등 막대한 피해를 발생시켰으며 현재까지도 국제사회의 지원과 피해국가의 재건노력이 진행되고 있다. 이에 본 고는 금번 남아시아에 발생한 지진해일로 피해가 발생한 태국, 말레이시아 및 스라랑카 지역의 현장조사(‘04. 12. 30${\sim}$’05. 1. 6)에 기초하여 향후 우리나라 지진해일 발생시 피해를 최소화할 수 있는 방안에 대해 살펴보았다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.1965-1972
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• 1994

A standard on talker echo for ISDN telophone, mainly consisting of those on sending and receiving loudness ratings and terminal coupling loss(TCL), is necessary. Accordingly, if sending and receiving loudness ratings are pre-determined, we need a standard on TCL providing echo-free telephone communications to telephone users, and the standard can be classified into that weighted TCL($TCL_w$) and that on stability loss. In this paper, in order to make a national standard on TCL, based on users' perceived quality on a talker echo, we conducted user opinion tests on talker echo. From the results of correlation between echo and user opinion on quality and measurement on TCL of telephones, we proposed the standard as follows; we must preserve TCL_w of at least 40dB and stability loss of at least 10dB when overall loudness rating for ISDN telephone, sum of sending and receiving loudness ratings, is normalized to 10dB.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2004

Color image quantization is a process of selecting a set of colors to display an image with some representative colors without noticeable perceived difference. It is very important in many applications to display a true color image in a low cost color monitor or printer. The basic problem is how to display 256 colors or less colors, called color palette, In this paper, we propose improved binary tree vector quantization based on spatial sensitivity which is one of the human visual properties. We combine the weights based on the responsibility of human visual system according to changes of three Primary colors in blocks of images with the process of splitting nodes using eigenvector in binary tree vector quantization. The test results show that the proposed method generates the quantized images with fine color and performs better than the conventional method in terms of clustering the similar regions. Also the proposed method can get the better result in subjective quality test and WSNR.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.47-71
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• 1995

A psychological disturbance caused by letters in double image was termed as'letter sickness'.The effects of stimulus exposure time and letter familiarity on the letter sickness were measured to test a hypothesis that disturbances in eye movement and recognition stages is the cause of letter sickness.Letter sickness incteased significantly as stimulus exposure time lengthened from 50ms,100ms,to 3000ms.It was also significantly higher with familiar Hangul letters as compared with less familiar foreign letters and meaningless words as compared with meaningful words,respectively.These experimental findings imply that letter sickness is caused by the failure of adjusting eye movements to dismiss the double images.that the more familiar the letters.the more strongly the letter-identification process is commotted,resulting in the increased effect of disturbance from double image.and that the disturbance effect of double image is amplified when it is hard to extract the meaning from familiar letters.An experiment where subjects were made to learn Braille-like symbols consisting of 6 dots to test the hypothesis that the stronger the tendency to process the meaning of a symbol,the stronger becomes letter sickness due to double image,also showed that letter sickness significantly increased as a function of learning.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.491-512
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• 2009

The study on waiting time has been conducted from the psychological perspective since Maister (1985). In using medical institutions, especially general hospitals, it is not avoidable to wait for a long time. As a result, the waiting time gives clients psychological stress, which causes medical consumers to be more dissatisfied and decreases their rate of revisit. Accordingly, it is very urgent to study on the waiting time for hospitals' marketing and better image-making. This study is intended to find out how hospitals image and clients revisit is influenced by waiting environment and consumers' attitude, variables of waiting time perceived in medical services. Based on this study, those medical institutions are required to improve their medical service and waiting environment. Accordingly, they should convert waiting time into more efficient and comfortable recess and provide better environment for physical service and effective human services. As those medical institutions have relatively worse image than other businesses, they should actively study on ways of better image-making in the future.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.96-103
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• 2003

This paper describes a method for sinusoidal modeling of audio signals using perceptually weighted matching pursuit. Matching pursuits extracts iteratively the greatest energy signals from the input signals until the residual between the original and the reconstructed signal is zero. In this paper, perceptual matching pursuits using psychoacoustic model to matching pursuit extracts greatest perceived energy iteratively. To evaluate the performance of the perceptual matching pursuits it is compared with the sinusoidal matching pursuits which is not included perceptual weighting. For various audio signals the result of simulation shows that the perceptual matching pursuit is superior to the sinusoidal matching pursuits, especially for a high change rate in time domain it can synthesized original signal.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.125-137
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• 2015

Information technology enables home-based working which is a new way to satisfy the firm and its employees. Firms are under pressure of cost reduction, and employees want to maintain balance of life between work and family. Considering the organization's capability can be the core competency, firm's efforts to acquire workers' commitment have been important issue in human resource management. However, researches to increase the workers' loyalty and commitment within home-base working have not been widely studied. This study tries to identify the relationships among firms' rewards supporting strategies and workers' perceived commitment with the working system as a context. Results confirm that the organization's extrinsic and intrinsic rewards affect the worker's continuous commitment, and the mediating role of normative commitment between workers' perceived affective commitment and continuous commitment has been found. Also, we empirically identify the moderating role of working systems(i.e., home-based, vs. office-based) within organization's rewards supporting strategies and workers' commitment perceptions.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.317-346
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• 1989

A congnitive shape decomposition method that agrees with human intuition is proposed for the conceptual recognition from sillouettes of objects. Descriptions specifying the structure of shape in terms of meaningful parts and relations have cognitive power and anthropomorphism. In general, man-made objects have a lot of collinear lines and regularity. For the cognitive decomposition of man-made objects, many heuristic rules based on the cognitive experimentation are applied on the context of collinerarity and regularity. The cognitive shape decomposition for the natural shape is carried out by analyzing the possible configuraitions of vertices and line segments for one concave vertex. A cost function for the configuation is designed by weighted sum of five criteria such as, the length of split line segment, the number of split line segments at concave vertex, the proximity of concave vertex, and the correspondence of vertices. These criteria are vased on the property of human perception such as proximtiy, symmetry, and simplicity. The most promising vertex os selected among three set of visible vertices by evaluating the cost function. A number of experiments conducted on the different types of shapes shows that the results correspond with human intuition.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.121-130
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• 2004

In the application requiring the interoperability of different networks such as VoIP and wireless communication system, two speech codecs must work together with the structure of cascaded connection, tandem. Tandem has several problems such as long delay, high complexity and quality degradation due to twice complete encoding/decoding process. Transcoding is one of the best solutions to solve these problems. Transcoding algorithm is varied with the structure of source and target coder. In this paper, transcoding algorithm including the LSP conversion, the pitch estimation and new perceptual weighting filter for reducing complexity and improving qualify is proposed. These algorithms are applied to the pair of AMR md G.723.1. By employing the proposed algorithms in the transcoder, the complexity is reduced by about 20%-58% and quality is improved compared to tandem.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.14 no.1_spc
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• pp.33-46
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to analyze the negative circumstances of Korean education and to provide some suggestions in terms of cultural psychology. Researcher considered the negative situation as Han(恨) to Korean people and analyzed it with the cultural psychological theories. In Korean culture, Han(恨) could be overcome by Shinmyeong which is known as a Korean unique positive emotional experience. According to results of a recent research, Han has been thought that it was the negative feeling from loss of self-worth, and Shinmyeong might be the feeling related with retrieval of self-worth. On the base of discussion about Shinmyeong, several psychological solutions to negative circumstances of Korean education were proposed.