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Study on the Determinant Factors of New Town Residents' Living Intention - Focused on the Residents of Bundang New Town (신도시 거주민의 계속거주의사 결정 요인 분석 - 분당신도시 거주민을 대상으로)

  • Kim, Yong-Jin;Kim, Seong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.405-411
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    • 2016
  • Given the importance of ensuring continued residency and maintenance of the 1st Planned New Town, which is the first of more than 20 such projects, this study aims to identify the factors determining the residents' living intention. The results show that age, gender, length of stay, and occupancy type are significant factors influencing their living intention. Among the environmental factors, the educational environment and shopping environment are crucial. This means that in order to achieve the "Ageing in Place" concept, it is necessary to improve the educational environment, provide a variety of commercial facilities and expand the living facilities. While it has no direct influence on the pros and cons of building remodeling, the results showed that when the living intention is used as a parameter, the transportation, educational, and shopping environment have an indirect influence on the pros and cons of building remodeling.

THE JHR, A NEW MATERIAL TESTING REACTOR IN EUROPE

  • Iracane Daniel
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.5
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    • pp.437-442
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    • 2006
  • European Material Test Reactors (MTRs) have provided essential support for nuclear power programs over the last 40 years. MTRs are now ageing in Europe and they cannot ensure the securing of experimental capability for the next decades. In this context, a new Material Testing Reactor, named Jules Horowitz Reactor -JHR-, operated as an international user-facility, is under development in Europe. The European MTRs context and the JHR objectives and status will be presented. Emphasis will be put on experiments in the field of nuclear fuels and materials irradiation which are developed in the framework of European and international collaboration.

Integrated driver with optical compensation for improved uniformity of emissive displays

  • Maeyaert, Stefaan;Bakeroot, Benoit;Doutreloigne, Jan;Monte, Ann;Bauwens, Pieter;Calster, Andre Van
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.692-695
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    • 2008
  • Large area emissive displays have problems with nonuniform pixel characteristics and their individual ageing. A pixel integrated driver with pixel based optical feedback is presented to solve these problems. Photodetectors, optical feedback circuit and data handling capabilities are integrated in a high voltage CMOS technology.

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On Some New Stochastic Orders of Interest in Reliability Theory

  • Kayid, M.;El-Bassiouny, A.H.;Al-Wasel, I.A.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.95-109
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this paper is to study new notions of stochastic comparisons and ageing classes based on the total time on test transform order. We give relationships to other stochastic orders and aging classes given previously. Several preservation properties under the reliability operations of random minima and series system are given.

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Responses of Eukaryotic Cells to Oxidative Stress

  • Dawes, Ian W.
    • Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.211-217
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    • 2000
  • Oxidative stress is implicated in a number of diseases, in ageing of organisms, and in damage to plants that have been exposed to freezing and thawing or water stress. From the perspective of yeast as a model eukaryotic system, this article reviews the systems that are involved in the cellular responses to exposure to reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated during aerobic growth of the organism. The discussion includes the defense systems involved, the ability of cells to adapt to ROS treatment, cell-division cycle delay and the systems regulating gene expression that are activated by oxidative stress.

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Testing NBUCA Class of Life Distribution Using U-Test

  • Al-Nachawati, H.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.125-135
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, testing exponentiality against new better than used in convex average and denote by (NBUCA), or its dual (NWUCA) is investigated through the U-test. The percentiles of these tests are tabulated for samples sizes n = 5(1)40. The power estimates of the test are simulated for some commonly used distributions in reliability. Pitman's asymptotic efficiency of the test is calculated and compared. Data of 40 patients suffering from blood cancer disease (Leukemia) is considered as a practical application of the proposed test in the medical sciences.

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A Study on Senior Citizen Free Transport Policy Improvement of Urban Railway Transportation (도시철도의 노인무임수송정책 개선에 관한 고찰)

  • Jung, Hun Young;Kim, Joo Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.256-265
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    • 2014
  • A sudden increase of old people's free urban railway transportation resulted from the acceleration of aging trend causes the chronic deficit. As continuous deficit caused by the free urban railway transportation of old people is expected, a fairness problem about the fare system of using public transportation is issued because only the urban railway provides free-rides to them, which is contrast to bus-riders paying full payments. Therefore, the study intends to draw an alternate to solve the problem of the free urban transportation uses by calculating an appropriate fare ratio between the two transportation modes, which is expected to alleviate the fairness issue between the urban railway and the bus.

Evaluation of Seed Vigor and Morphology by Varietal Difference of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) (수수의 종자형태 및 발아세 평가)

  • Jeon, Seung-Ho;Yoon, Dong-Kyung;Oh, Seung-Ka;Lee, Eun-Jung;Lee, Hyoun-Jun;Lee, Byung-Jin;Jung, Ki-Youl;Cho, Young-Son
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.59 no.4
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    • pp.457-462
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    • 2014
  • This study was conducted to evaluate basic seed characteristics such as morphological characteristics and various seed vigor using 4 sorghum varieties, Nampungchal, Donganme, Hwanggeumchal and Whinchal. No difference was shown in morphological characteristics of the varieties except that the width. Whinchal has bulb-shaped seed, while the other varieties have oval-shaped seeds. The seed coat color of Whinchal is obviously different from those of the other varieties; especially, Nampungchal and Hwanggeumchal are not glossy. Germination rate were Hwanggeumchal > Nampungchal > Donganme > Whinchal in the order of higher rate in standard germination tests and cold germination test. In the ageing test, Donganme showed the lowest 15% decrease in comparison with the standard cultivar. Electric conductivity (EC) has negative correlation with standard germination tests, cold germination test and accelerated ageing test. In the percentage of emergence (PE), Hwanggeumchal was the highest 85.7% which was more than 40% to the lowest Whinchal. Mean emergence time (MET) showed significant difference between the varieties; Whinchal showed the slowest 6.0 days.

Patterns of the Change and the Predictors of the Social Exclusion of the Older People: Analysis of English Longitudinal Study of Ageing(ELSA) (노인의 사회적 배제 수준의 변화유형과 예측요인: 영국고령화패널(ELSA)분석)

  • Park, Hyunju;Chung, Soondool
    • 한국노년학
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.1063-1086
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to understand the current state of the older people's social exclusion by identifying patterns of the change in social exclusion level through a longitudinal analysis with an aim of exploring the predictors of changes. To this end, this study has adopted the panel data, the English longitudinal Study of Ageing(ELSA). The data of 7631 respondents who aged over 50 were used for the final analysis. The social exclusion of the older people was analyzed into five different sub-dimensions: social relationship; cultural activities; access to health services; financial security; and sense of loneliness. The person-centered approach that focuses on the various patterns of the trajectories of change has used semi-parametric group based model in order to estimate different trajectories among individuals. The data was analyzed using Spss 18.0 and SAS 9.2 proc traj. In results, First, semi-parametric group-based model analysis has shown that the older people are not 'homogeneous' group with similar exclusion level in every individual with same trajectories of change, but can be divided into various categories with diverse intercept and slope. Second, different trajectories in change of exclusion level help to confirm that the older people's social exclusion level increases gradually over time or remains unchanged. Third, this analysis has provided the useful guidelines to identify the high-risk groups of social exclusion. Forth, the variables that make difference in more than three dimensions include gender, age, self-perceived health, physical activity, weekly income, marital status, family relation, and beneficiary status. Implications and further suggestion were discussed.

Prediction of Fretting Fatigue Life for Lap Joint Structures of Aircraft (항공기 겹침이음 조립구조의 프레팅 피로수명 예측)

  • Kwon, Jung-Ho;Joo, Seon-Yeong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.37 no.7
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    • pp.642-652
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    • 2009
  • Most of lap jointed aircraft structures encounter the fretting damages, which provoke fretting cracks prematurely and lead to significant reduction of fatigue life. In the case of ageing aircrafts especially, this fretting fatigue problem is a fatal threat for the safety and airworthiness. Recently, as the service life extension program(SLEP) of ageing aircrafts has become a hot issue, the prediction of fretting fatigue life is also indispensable. On these backgrounds, a series of experimental tests of fretting fatigue on bolted lap joint specimens, were performed. And the fretting crack initiation and propagation life of each specimen were evaluated using existing and newly proposed prediction models with the fretting parameters obtained from the FEA results for elasto-plastic contact stress analyses. The validations of prediction models were also discussed, comparing the prediction results with experimental test ones.