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Improvement, analytical verification and application of RC frame beam-column joint models

  • Fan, Guoxi;Wang, Debin;Jia, Jing
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.273-283
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    • 2018
  • Previous experimental researches indicate that reinforced concrete beam-column joints play an important role in the mechanical properties of moment resisting frame structures, so as to require proper design. In order to get better understanding of the beam-column joint performance, a rational model needs to be developed. Based on the former considerations, two typical models for calculating the shear carrying capacity of the beam-column joint including the inelastic reinforced concrete joint model and the softened strut-and-tie model are selected to be introduced and analyzed. After examining the applicability of two typical models mentioned earlier to interior beam-column joints, several adjustments are made to get better predicting of the test results. For the softened strut-and-tie model, four adjustments including modifications of the depth of the diagonal strut, the inclination angle of diagonal compression strut, the smeared stress of mild steel bars embedded in concrete, as well as the softening coefficient are made. While two adjustments for the inelastic reinforced concrete joint model including modifications of the confinement effect due to the column axial load and the correction coefficient for high concrete are made. It has been proved by test data that predicted results by the improved softened strut-and-tie model or the modified inelastic reinforced concrete joint model are consistent with the test data and conservative. Based on the test results, it is also not difficult to find that the improved beam-column joint model can be used to predict the joint carrying capacity and cracks development with sufficient accuracy.

Mediating Effects of Psychological Weakness between the Soldiers Internet Addiction and Their Military Adjustment (군 병사들의 입대 전 인터넷 중독과 군 생활 적응의 관계에서 심리적 취약성의 매개효과)

  • Han, In-Young;Koo, Seung-Shin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.314-322
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of the study is to examine the mediating effects of psychological weakness between the soldiers internet addiction and their adjustments in the military. 486 soldiers in Kangwon-province and Kyonggi-province participated in the survey thru convenient sampling. For the study, the correlation analysis and the multiple regression were conducted. The results are as follows: First, correlations among the soldiers internet addiction, psychological weakness, solitude, lack of control, lack of efficacy, and military adjustments were found significant. Secondly, psychological weakness was verified as mediating effects in the relationship between the soldiers internet addiction and military adjustments. The study indicates mental health services for soldiers with internet addiction.

A Ppoisson Regression Aanlysis of Physician Visits (외래이용빈도 분석의 모형과 기법)

  • 이영조;한달선;배상수
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.159-176
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    • 1993
  • The utilization of outpatient care services involves two steps of sequential decisions. The first step decision is about whether to initiate the utilization and the second one is about how many more visits to make after the initiation. Presumably, the initiation decision is largely made by the patient and his or her family, while the number of additional visits is decided under a strong influence of the physician. Implication is that the analysis of the outpatient care utilization requires to specify each of the two decisions underlying the utilization as a distinct stochastic process. This paper is concerned with the number of physician visits, which is, by definition, a discrete variable that can take only non-negative integer values. Since the initial visit is considered in the analysis of whether or not having made any physician visit, the focus on the number of visits made in addition to the initial one must be enough. The number of additional visits, being a kind of count data, could be assumed to exhibit a Poisson distribution. However, it is likely that the distribution is over dispersed since the number of physician visits tends to cluster around a few values but still vary widely. A recently reported study of outpatient care utilization employed an analysis based upon the assumption of a negative binomial distribution which is a type of overdispersed Poisson distribution. But there is an indication that the use of Poisson distribution making adjustments for over-dispersion results in less loss of efficiency in parameter estimation compared to the use of a certain type of distribution like a negative binomial distribution. An analysis of the data for outpatient care utilization was performed focusing on an assessment of appropriateness of available techniques. The data used in the analysis were collected by a community survey in Hwachon Gun, Kangwon Do in 1990. It was observed that a Poisson regression with adjustments for over-dispersion is superior to either an ordinary regression or a Poisson regression without adjustments oor over-dispersion. In conclusion, it seems the most approprite to assume that the number of physician visits made in addition to the initial visist exhibits an overdispersed Poisson distribution when outpatient care utilization is studied based upon a model which embodies the two-part character of the decision process uderlying the utilization.

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An Empirical Analysis on A Refiner's Asymmetric Gasoline Price Adjustment (정유사 휘발유 공급가격의 비대칭적 가격조정에 대한 실증분석)

  • Kim, Youngduk
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.613-641
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    • 2013
  • This paper uses the error correction model to analyse dynamic gasoline price adjustments of the four refiners. Unlike the existing studies, this model allows a refiner's asymmetric adjustment to changes in the other refiners' prices as well as in its own price and costs. With the estimation results, we can obtain the following findings. First, there are the asymmetric price adjustments to changes in exchange rate and international gasoline price, but showing opposing directions. Second, for most of the refiners, the prices respond immediately to the lagged deviation from the long run equilibrium price, but asymmetrically respond for a few refiners. Third, there are some refiners that adjust their price to the other refiners' price deviation from the long run equilibrium. For some refiners, there are competitive price adjustments to the others' price deviations. These findings imply that a refiner faces inelastic demand, intends to maintain implicitly a relative level of its own price to others, and tends to respond competitively to the others' price deviation from the equilibrium.

The Effect of Policy Rate Adjustments in US on the Korean Bond (미국 연방정책금리 조정효과가 국내 국고채시장에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Jae-Hwan;Kim, Chun-Kyu
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.344-354
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    • 2013
  • The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of FRB's policy rate adjustments on the 10 years Korea Treasury Bond (KTB) market. Our results are summarized as follows. First, it is found that the FRB's policy rate adjustments are statistically significant positive impact on the 10 years KTB yield. Based on projection, the 10bp increases in FRB's policy rate generates 7bp higher in 10 years KTB yield. Second, the result from after the Lehman bankruptcy in '08 is found to be statistically significant, while that of before financial crisis is not. Third, the variable, in which consistent with yield difference between the 10 years UTB(US Treasury Bond) and the 10 years KTB, is found that is statistically significant positive impact in 1% significance level. And also given that Brunner(2000) exhibited that the Federal Fund Rate innovations are found to impact on other economic variables through the impulse response, the 10 years KTB yield is found to respond to innovation in the Federal Fund Rate up to about 12 months.

Flood and flood adjustments to the Han River (漢江의 洪水와 그에 對한 適應類型에 關한 硏究)

  • ;Lee, Moon-Chong
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.7
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    • pp.24-39
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    • 1972
  • 이 글에서는 다음의 내용을 다루었다. 1. 이론적기초, (1) 자연재해에 대한 지각, (2) 홍수에 대한 적응 2. 가설 3. 연구방법 및 절차 4. 한강홍수의 양상, (1) 개황, (2) 대상홍수의 수문학적 특성 5. 적응형태 분석, (1) 개황, (2) 적응형태 분석(지역별, 연령별, 학력별, 생활 정도별)

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Effective Reduction of Horizontal Error in Laser Scanning Information by Strip-Wise Least Squares Adjustments

  • Lee, Byoung-Kil;Yu, Ki-Yun;Pyeon, Moo-Wook
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.109-120
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    • 2003
  • Though the airborne laser scanning (ALS) technique is becoming more popular in many applications, horizontal accuracy of points scanned by the ALS is not yet satisfactory when compared with the accuracy achieved for vertical positions. One of the major reasons is the drift that occurs in the inertial measurement unit (IMU) during the scanning. This paper presents an algorithm that adjusts for the error that is introduced mainly by the drift of the IMU that renders systematic differences between strips on the same area. For this, we set up an observation equation for strip-wise adjustments and completed it with tie point and control point coordinates derived from the scanned strips and information from aerial photos. To effectively capture the tie points, we developed a set of procedures that constructs a digital surface model (DSM) with breaklines and then performed feature-based matching on strips resulting in a set of reliable tie points. Solving the observation equations by the least squares method produced a set of affine transformation equations with 6 parameters that we used to transform the strips for adjusting the horizontal error. Experimental results after evaluation of the accuracy showed a root mean squared error (RMSE) of the adjusted strip points of 0.27 m, which is significant considering the RMSE before adjustment was 0.77 m.

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A Study of Price Adjustments of Online Sellers (온라인 판매자들의 가격조정에 관한 연구)

  • Jeon, Ji Eun;Lee, Choong Kwon
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.143-158
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    • 2014
  • Making decisions on prices must be an important task for sellers to stay competitive in on-line markets. Because the emergence of price-comparison web sites led buyers to be more sensitive to the prices, adjusting prices became very important to on-line sellers. This study collected and analyzed the data of prices on computing peripheral devices posted at a popular web site that enabled buyers to compare the prices on the same products. By analyzing the timings of price adjustments among different sellers using Monte Carlo simulation, we explored the possibility of price coordinations among those sellers. The results indicated that online sellers adjusted their prices on a daily basis rather than a weekly basis and the tacit coordination on the price changes was identified.

Automatic Parameter Tuning for Simulated Annealing based on Threading Technique and its Application to Traveling Salesman Problem

  • Fangyan Dong;Iyoda, Eduardo-Masato;Kewei Chen;Hajime Nobuhara;Kaoru Hirota
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2003.09a
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    • pp.439-442
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    • 2003
  • In order to solve the difficulties of parameter settings in SA algorithm, an improved practical SA algorithm is proposed by employing the threading techniques, appropriate software structures, and dynamic adjustments of temperature parameters. Threads provide a mechanism to realize a parallel processing under a disperse environment by controlling the flux of internal information of an application. Thread services divide a process by multiple processes leading to parallel processing of information to access common data. Therefore, efficient search is achieved by multiple search processes, different initial conditions, and automatic temperature adjustments. The proposed are methods are evaluated, for three types of Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) (random-tour, fractal-tour, and TSPLIB test data)are used for the performance evaluation. The experimental results show that the computational time is 5% decreased comparing to conventional SA algorithm, furthermore there is no need for manual parameter settings. These results also demonstrate that the proposed method is applicable to real-world vehicle routing problems.

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