• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.59-83
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• 2020

This paper examines the actions and the factors driving those actions to reduce energy consumption and enhance energy efficiency taken by United States cities. While not much empirical evidence is available on why governments pursue practical sustainability actions, we attempt to shed more light on this important topic by empirically identifying factors that contribute to concrete actions toward sustainability policies. We adopt political market theory as a basic theoretical framework with policy-making applied to city energy consumption. Using the 2010 ICMA (local government sustainability policies and program) data, this study expands the focus of analyses to evaluate the effect of the form of government on energy consumption and energy efficiency by using multiple regression analysis. The findings show that at the city level, the mayor-council form of government are negatively associated with governments' efforts to reduce energy consumption. However, cities with at-large elections and municipal ownership are more likely to adopt sustainability actions. We also find that a large-scale economy has significant effects on the effort to reduce city energy consumption and improve energy efficiency. This shows that environmental policies are directly connected to locally relevant affairs, including housing, energy use, green transportation, and water. Thus, local level administrators could take an executive role to protect the environment, encourage the development of alternative energy, and reduce the use of fossil fuel and coal energy. These efforts can lead to important environmental ramifications and relevant actions by municipal governments.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.732-737
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• 2009

Due to various project delivery methods and the complexity of construction projects in the construction industry, developing the framework of construction management for critical, highly complex projects in the construction industry has become problematic. Currently, a set of construction manuals play a pivotal role in planning and managing construction projects as subcontractors try to complete their scope of work according to the instructions of a general contractor. It is challenging for general contractors to write a construction management procedure manual to cover various types of project delivery methods and construction projects. In construction, the construction procedure manuals describe specific actions to be taken through the project. In reality a few contactors own such manuals and their construction schedules include more construction operation activities. Thus, it is hard to estimate the workload and productivity of construction managers because the manual and the schedule do not present the amount of management efforts required to complete a project. This paper proposes a framework to present construction management tasks according to project delivery methods which can be applied to various construction projects. Actions for management tasks were mapped and were integrated with construction activities throughout the project life cycle. The framework can then be used to give specific instructions to project participants, collect management actions, and replicate management actions throughout the project life cycle. The framework can also be can used to visualize complete construction project to analyze and manage construction management activities in each phase of a project in order to enhance productivity and efficiency. The studies of existing construction manuals were carried out to identify construction managers' responsibilities. An artificial intelligence program, CLIPS (C-Language Integrated Production System) was used to search for appropriate actions for impending tasks from a set of predefined actions to be performed for a given situation. The framework would significantly help construction managers to understand interrelations among management tasks or actions within a project. Furthermore, the framework can be embedded into Building Information Modeling (BIM) or Facility Management Systems (FMS) so that designers and constructors would execute constructability review before construction begins.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.164-170
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 인공 면역 시스템과 분산 유전자 알고리즘에 기반하여 동작하는 자율분산로봇 시스템을 제안한다. 시스템에서 로봇들의 행동은 전역행동과 지역행동으로 분류된다. 전역행동은 환경에서 작업을 탐색하는데 이를 빠르게 수행하기 위하여 집합과 분산의 두 가지 행동으로 이루어져 있다. 이때 인공 면역 시스템은 로봇이 어떤 행동을 선택하여 행동할 것인가를 결정한다. 지역행동은 탐색된 작업을 수행하는 부분으로서 어떤 로봇들이 협조행동을 할지를 학습하고, 학습한 결과에 따라 작업을 수행하는 행동을 한다. 이를 위해 분산 유전자 알고리즘을 이용하여 각 로봇들은 주어진 작업에 대하여 학습을 한다. 제안된 시스템에서 학습 알고리즘은 주어지는 작업의 변화로봇들은 주어진 작업을 수행하기 위해 학습을 하고, 주어진 작업이 변할 경우 스스로 대처한다는 면에서 기존의 자율 분산 시스템보다 적응성에서 향상된 시스템이다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.270-272
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed a new method detecting actions of some components driven by the coil excitation. Nuclear power reactors are typically controlled by the movement of several neutron-absorbing control rods into or out of the reactor core. For moving control rods, we use an electromagnetic-jack-typed mechanism, which is called Control Rod Drive Mechanism. This mechanism moves control rods by the step composed of sequential actions of components. In case any mechanical problems happen in the mechanism, the orders for the control rod movement from the higher system cannot be performed properly. This abnormal state must be monitored and the sequential actions of the components can be the monitoring target. The actions of components generate some deviations in the profiles of the currents flowing into the coils in the mechanism. We focused on this phenomena and devised a new method of detecting the actions of the components in Control Rod Drive Mechanism by using the wavelet transform for observing the current profile.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.699-704
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 인공 면역 시스템과 분류자 시스템에 기반하여 동작하는 자율분산로봇 시스템을 제안한다. 시스템에서 로봇들의 행동은 전역행동과 지역행동으로 분류된다. 전역행동은 환경에서 작업을 탐색하는데 이를 빠르게 수행하기 위하여 집합과 분산의 두 가지 행동으로 이루어져 있다 이때 인공 면역 시스템은 로봇이 어떤 행동을 선택하여 행동할 것인가를 결정한다. 지역행동은 탐색된 작업을 수행하는 부분으로서 어떤 로봇들이 협조행동을 할지를 학습하고, 학습한 결과에 따라 작업을 수행하는 행동을 한다. 이를 위해 분류자 시스템을 이용하여 각 로봇들은 주어진 작업에 대하여 학습을 한다. 제안된 시스템에서 학습 알고리즘은 주어지는 작업의 변화로봇들은 주어진 작업을 수행하기 위해 학습을 하고, 주어진 작업이 변할 경우 스스로 대처한다는 면에서 기존의 자율 분산 시스템보다 적응성에서 향상된 시스템이다.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.77-83
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• 1993

Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) has been known to have peripheral actions as well as central actions. Recently physiological roles of 5-HT as a central neurotransmitter have been studied in detail and this is a subject of the present study. Plausible central actions mediated by 5-HT receptor seem to be a control of appetite, bring about psychiatric disorders such as anxiety or dementia, and migraine headache. In this study, thirty-five medicinal plants were tested for their antagonistic activities to 5-HT mediated actions. Through the preliminary screening, methanol extracts of three medicinal plants (Saussureae Radix, Sanguisorbae Radix and Xanthii Fructus) were shown to possess relatively specific antagonistic activities to 5-HT mediated ileal contraction over acetylcholine. To luther investigate the central antagonistic activities of the selected plant in vivo, m-chlorophenylpiperazine (mCPP) which is known to be a 5-H $T_{1c}$ receptor agonist was injected to mouse to induce an anxious and/or hypolocomotion states, and also social interaction test, which was based on the method described by File (S.E. File, 1980), was performed to see whether ethylacetate fraction of Sanguisorbae Radix methanol extract possessed a specific anxiolytic activity.y.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.662-672
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• 2014

Human action recognition is used in areas such as surveillance, entertainment, and healthcare. This paper proposes a system to recognize both single and continuous human actions from monocular video sequences, based on 3D human modeling and cyclic hidden Markov models (CHMMs). First, for each frame in a monocular video sequence, the 3D coordinates of joints belonging to a human object, through actions of multiple cycles, are extracted using 3D human modeling techniques. The 3D coordinates are then converted into a set of geometrical relational features (GRFs) for dimensionality reduction and discrimination increase. For further dimensionality reduction, k-means clustering is applied to the GRFs to generate clustered feature vectors. These vectors are used to train CHMMs separately for different types of actions, based on the Baum-Welch re-estimation algorithm. For recognition of continuous actions that are concatenated from several distinct types of actions, a designed graphical model is used to systematically concatenate different separately trained CHMMs. The experimental results show the effective performance of our proposed system in both single and continuous action recognition problems.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2008

Lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) is an endogenous phospholipid. LPC has various stimulating or modulating activities on immune cells, including lymphocytes, monocytes/macrophages and neutrophils. Studies generally revealed pro-inflammatory activities of LPC, but accumulating evidence indicates that LPC has also anti-inflammatory actions. Here we summarize immunomodulatory actions of LPC.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈C:초등수학교육
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2003

The purpose of this research is to explore teachers' role actions in teaching mathematical problem solving and to analyze the influences of the teachers'role actions on their students' activities and beliefs about problem solving. The results obtained in this study suggested that the teachers' role actions brought qualitative differences to students' activities, and students' beliefs about mathematical problem solving were consistent with the perspective held by their teachers. Therefore, teachers should help students build up desirable beliefs about problem solving. They should understand teaching mathematical problem solving and play proper roles in various situations of teaching mathematical problem solving.

• 충청수학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.799-814
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• 2009

A class invariant is the value of a modular function that generates a ring class field of an imaginary quadratic number field such as the singular moduli of level 1. In this paper, using Shimura Reciprocity Law, we compute the Galois actions of some class invariants from the generalized Weber functions $\mathfrak{g}_0,\mathfrak{g}_1,\mathfrak{g}_2$ and $\mathfrak{g}_3$ over quadratic number fields with discriminant $D{\equiv}1$ (mod 12).