• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.282-291
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• 2004

Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate the functional status variables related to the care time of health professionals for patients in long-term care facilities. Methods : The functional stati of 1001 patients in 8 long-term care hospitals were examined by the Resident Assessment Instrument for Long-term Care Facility Version 2.0. The care time of health professionals for patients was calculated using data from a self-reported task survey by nurses, auxiliary nurses, private aides, doctors, physiotherapists and social workers. Results : The average care time per diem was 240.6 minutes. The care time by doctors, nurses and private aides were 11.0, 71.0 and 139.5 minutes, respectively. The lower the function of activities of daily living (ADL) and the greater the symptoms of extensive services, special care and clinical complexity, the more care time was served. On the contrary, the greater the symptoms of nursing rehabilitation, depression, cognitive disorder, behavior problem and psychiatry/mood disorder, the less care time was served. Age and gender were not significantly related to the care time. Conclusions : Developing a case mix classification system for elderly long term care patients may be helpful for both of patients and health care providers. The ADL, extensive services, special care and clinical complexity of variables should be considered in the development of a case mix system for the long term care of patients in Korea.

• Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.45-65
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• 2002

A constitutive model on oorthotropic thermo-elasto-viscoplasticity for fiber-reinforced composite materials Is illustrated, and their thermomechanical responses are predicted with the fully-coupled finite element formulation. The unmixing-mixing scheme can be adopted with the multipartite matrix method as the constitutive model. Basic assumptions based upon the composite micromechanics are postulated, and the strain components of thermal expansion due to temperature change are included In the formulation. Also. more than two sets of mechanical variables, which represent the deformation states of multipartite matrix can be introduced arbitrarily. In particular, the unmixing-mixing scheme can be used with any well-known isotropic viscoplastic theory of the matrix material. The scheme unnecessitates the complex processes for developing an orthotropic viscoplastic theory. The governing equations based on fully-coupled thermomechanics are derived with constitutive arrangement by the unmixing-mixing concept. By considering some auxiliary conditions, the Initial-boundary value problem Is completely set up. As a tool of numerical analyses, the finite element method Is used with isoparametric Interpolation fer the displacement and the temperature fields. The equation of mutton and the energy conservation equation are spatially discretized, and then the time marching techniques such as the Newmark method and the Crank-Nicolson technique are applied. To solve the ultimate nonlinear simultaneous equations, a successive iteration algorithm is constructed with subincrementing technique. As a numerical study, a series of analyses are performed with the main focus on the thermomechanical coupling effect in composite materials. The progress of viscoplastic deformation, the stress-strain relation, and the temperature History are careful1y examined when composite laminates are subjected to repeated cyclic loading.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.3353-3358
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• 2007

The present paper is devoted to investigate dynamic effect and steady-state performance of methane autothermal reformer theoretically and numerically. In order to simplify the complicated phenomena in the system, axisymmetric heterogeneous reactor model is developed. As autothermal reaction takes places on catalyst surface between bulk gas and catalyst, volume averaging method is incorporated using porous medium approach. To understand the start-up process which occurs in the reactor is highly important. Therefore, in this paper we get various goverining equations to find out transient and steady solutions and time scale for start-up introducing dimensionless variables. Start-up is a significant issue in reforming reaction for automobile system and fueling of SOFC-based auxiliary power units. This paper deals with characteristics of heat and mass transfer and predicted light-off time in the reformer as oxygen to carbon ratio ($O_2$/C) and amount of feeding gas.

• 폴리머
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.95-102
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• 2008

The $\alpha$,$omega$-diacrylate poly(dimethylsiloxane) (DA-PDMS) containing vinyl ester of versatic acid/vinyl acetate (Veova-10/VAc) was prepared by emulsion copolymerization of (DA-PDMS), Veova-10 (with VAc), and auxiliary agents at $85^{\circ}C$ in the presence of ammonium peroxodisulfate (APS) as an initiator. Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and nonylphenol ethylene oxide-40 units (NP-40) were used as anionic and nonionic emulsifiers, respectively. The resulting copolymers were characterized by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Thermal properties of the copolymers were studied by using thermogravimetric analysis(TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The morphology of copolymers was also investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and then the effects of variables such as temperature, agitation speed, surfactant kinds, molecular weights, initiator, and DA-PDMS concentrations on the properties of the silicone-containing Veova-10/VAc emulsions were examined. The calculation of monomer conversion versus time histories indicates that by increasing the DA-PDMS concentration the polymerization rate and the number of polymer particles decrease, respectively.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1992년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.911-914
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• 1992

We have investigated the micro-discharge in plasma display panel using 2 dimensional 2 fluid MHD equations. Plasma display utilizes the physical phenomena of the normal glow or abnormal glow and is considered to be able to provide the largest display area among various flat panel. 2 fluid, 2 dimensional Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic equations are applied to Computational field of 100${\times}$800${\mu}m^2$. Time varing glows and after-glows were investigated for 11 $\mu$sec. We obtained the distribution of the microscopic variables such as the density, temperature, velocity of Ne+Ar0.1% gas plasma. During the first 6$\mu$ sec, glow discharge dued to DC pulse was investigated. Time varing phenomena of after-glow was also investigated during the last 5 $\mu$set. From results, it was found that the driving efficiency of a DC Plasma Display Panel could be improved when the diffusion of ions and electrons are controlled by the pulses applied to the auxiliary anode.

• Architectural research
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2005

No specific guidelines are available for computing the bearing strength of connection between steel coupling beam and reinforced concrete shear wall in a hybrid wall system. There were carried out analytical and experimental studies on connection between steel coupling beam and concrete shear wall in a hybrid wall system. The bearing stress at failure in the concrete below the embedded steel coupling beam section is related to the concrete compressive strength and the ratio of the width of the embedded steel coupling beam section to the thickness of the shear walls. Experiments were carried out to determine the factors influencing the bearing strength of the connection between steel coupling beam and reinforced concrete shear wall. The test variables included the reinforcement details that confer a ductile behavior in connection between steel coupling beam and shear wall, i.e., the auxiliary stud bolts attached to the steel beam flanges and the transverse ties at the top and the bottom steel beam flanges. In addition, additional test were conducted to verify the strength equations of the connection between steel coupling beam and reinforced concrete shear wall. The proposed equations in this study were in good agreement with both our test results and other test data from the literature.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.305-313
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• 2002

유전자 알고리즘은 적자 생존과 자연친화의 유전이론을 기초로 하여 이루어진 탐색기법이다. 유전자 알고리즘은 미분 정보 등과 같은 부가적인 정보없이 수렴함으로 전역적 최적값을 탐색하는 강인한 탐색기법으로 알려져 있다. 유전자 알고리즘은 연속형의 설계변수를 가지는 문제에서 세대가 계속 진행되어도 목적함수의 개선이 없이 조기에 수렴하는 경우가 있다. 또한 전역적 최적값 근처에서 수렴하지 못하고 목적함수값이 진동하여 수렴속도가 떨어지는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 위와 같은 유전자 알고리즘의 단점을 보완하고자 재시동 조건과 엘리트 보존방법을 제안하였다. 수정된 유전자 알고리즘의 유용성을 검증하기 위해 3부재 트러스와 평면응력 외팔보에 적용하여 수렴 속도의 향상을 확인하였다.

• 한국조사연구학회지:조사연구
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.49-70
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• 2004

표본조사에서 사용 가능한 보조변수가 있는 경우에 추정의 효율을 높이기 위하여 보조변수를 활용하는 방법이 다각적으로 개발되어 왔다. 이 논문은 보조변수를 효과적으로 이용하는 방법 중의 하나인 일반회귀추정량에 대한 개괄적인 고찰이다. 일반회귀추정량의 출현부터 분산추정법의 제안까지 이론전개 과정을 살펴보았으며, 보정추정량 및 QR추정량과의 관련성을 통하여 일반회귀추정량의 성질을 알아보았다. 특히 분산추정에서 통상적인 설계기반 분산추정량이 가지는 조건부 성질의 약점을 보완하기 위하여 가중잔차기법을 사용하는 과정을 살펴보았다. 층화표집이나 집략표집과 같은 복합설계에서 활용할 수 있는 일반회귀추정량의 형태를 소개하였고, 마지막으로 일반회귀추정량의 장단점, 그리고 향후 이론적인 발전방향 및 실용적인 발전방향을 언급하였다.

• 유공압시스템학회논문집
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2007

Flow rate is one of the important variables for precise motion control and detection of the faults and fluid loss in many hydraulic components and systems. But in many cases, it is not easy to measure it directly. The orifice area of a servo valve by which the fluid flows is one of key factors to monitor the flow rate. In this paper, we have constructed an estimation algorithm for the effective orifice area by using the model of a servo valve cylinder control system and Kalman filter algorithm. Without geometry information about the servo valve, it is shown that the effective orifice area can be estimated by using only displacement and pressure data corrupted with noise. And the effect of the biased sensor data and system parameter errors on the estimation results are discussed. The paper reveals that sensor calibration is important in accurate estimation and plausible parameter data such as oil bulk modulus and actuator volume are acceptable for the estimation without any error. The estimation algorithm can be used as an useful tool for detecting leakage, monitoring malfunction and/or degradation of the system performance.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.709-720
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• 2017

In healthcare and medical research, many important variables have a measurement error such as body mass index and laboratory data. It is also not easy to collect samples of large size because of high cost and long time required to collect the target patient satisfied with inclusion and exclusion criteria. Beside, the demand for solving a complex scientific problem has highly increased so that a semiparametric regression approach could be of substantial value solving this problem. To address the issues of measurement error, small domain and a scientific complexity, we conduct a multivariable Bayesian smoothing under structural measurement error covariate in this article. Specifically we enhance our previous model by incorporating other useful auxiliary covariates free of measurement error. For the regression spline, we use a radial basis functions with fixed knots for the measurement error covariate. We organize a fully Bayesian approach to fit the model and estimate parameters using Markov chain Monte Carlo. Simulation results represent that the method performs well. We illustrate the results using a national survey data for application.