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A novel proficient and sufficient intensity measure for probabilistic analysis of skewed highway bridges

  • Bayat, M.;Daneshjoo, F.;Nistico, N.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.55 no.6
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    • pp.1177-1202
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, a new intensity measure of earthquakes for probabilistic seismic analysis is presented for skewed highway bridges. Three different cases of skewed bridges with different skew angles ($0^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$ and $45^{\circ}$) are considered. Well-known intensity measures (e.g., PGA, $S_a$) are evaluated and critically discussed based on sensitivity analysis: efficiency, practically, proficiency and sufficiency of intensity measures are considered in detail. The analyses demonstrated that the intensity measures have to take into account structural acceleration on a wide range of periods so that a new seismic intensity measure is proposed showing that it has less dispersion compared to others. Since the proposed intensity represents the average value of the $S_a$ (between a lower and upper structural period) it has been called Averaged Spectral Acceleration (ASA). Based on performed incremental dynamic analysis (IDA), the seismic analytical fragility curves of typical skewed highway bridges have been evaluated for different states of damage controlling the low dispersion of the ASA index as well as its proficiency and sufficiency.

Extraction of Smoking in Elevator Using Average Intensity Measure (평균 명암 측정을 통한 엘리베이터 내의 흡연 추출)

  • Shin, Seong-Yoon;Kim, Hee-Ae;Jang, Dai-Hyun;Lee, Hyun-Chang;Rhee, Yang-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2013.07a
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    • pp.111-113
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    • 2013
  • 엘리베이터 내부에서는 흡연이나 음주 등 사회적으로 폐가되는 행동은 금지되어 있다. 승강기 내에서 흡연을 하는 것은 상도덕에 어긋나는 일이며 자라는 우리 아이들과 여성들에게 매우 치명적일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 승강기 내에서 흡연을 하는 사람을 추출하여 포렌식 증거 자료로 제출하기 위해서이다. 방법은 흰색 막대를 입에 물거나, 연기를 내품는 사람을 추출하는 것이다. 방법은 장면 전환 검출에서 평균 명암 측정 방법으로 추출한다.

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A Study on the Development of Raingauge with 0.01 mm Resolution (0.01 mm 급 우량계 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Bu Yong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.13 no.7
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    • pp.637-643
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    • 2004
  • A new method of automatic recording raingauge is developed to measure rainfall with 0.01mm resolution. This use two different signals to measure rainfall more accurately compare than other raingauges. One is weight of the tipping bucket with rainfall amount and the other is pulse from tipping bucket reverse. New method applied 1 mm tipping bucket mechanism and install loadcell under tipping bucket mechanism for measuring rainfall weight. Loadcell measure weight of rainfall until 1 mm with 0.01 mm resolution and more than 1 mm than bucket reverse and pulse signal generate, after that loadcell measure weight again. The validation of new instrument was examined in the room 65 mm/hour rainfall rate total 53 mm range. There is below than 1 % error of absolute rainfall amount and 0.01 mm resolution. The field test of instrument was carried out by comparing its measured values with values recorded by weight type and standard type on June 1 2003 at Terrestrial Environmental Research Center at Tsukuba University in Tsukuba of Japan, when it has recorded total amount of 40.58 mm rainfall by standard raingauge and new raingauge recorded 41.032 mm. Same rainfall intensity pattern observed in field observation with weight type raingauge. Rainfall intensity between weight type and Lee-A type raingauge reached 0.9947 correlation in 3 minute average.

Fragility assessment for electric cabinet in nuclear power plant using response surface methodology

  • Tran, Thanh-Tuan;Cao, Anh-Tuan;Nguyen, Thi-Hong-Xuyen;Kim, Dookie
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.3
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    • pp.894-903
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    • 2019
  • An approach for collapse risk assessment is proposed to evaluate the vulnerability of electric cabinet in nuclear power plants. The lognormal approaches, namely maximum likelihood estimation and linear regression, are introduced to establish the fragility curves. These two fragility analyses are applied for the numerical models of cabinets considering various boundary conditions, which are expressed by representing restrained and anchored models at the base. The models have been built and verified using the system identification (SI) technique. The fundamental frequency of the electric cabinet is sensitive because of many attached devices. To bypass this complex problem, the average spectral acceleration $S_{\bar{a}}$ in the range of period that cover the first mode period is chosen as an intensity measure on the fragility function. The nonlinear time history analyses for cabinet are conducted using a suite of 40 ground motions. The obtained curves with different approaches are compared, and the variability of risk assessment is evaluated for restrained and anchored models. The fragility curves obtained for anchored model are found to be closer each other, compared to the fragility curves for restrained model. It is also found that the support boundary conditions played a significant role in acceleration response of cabinet.

Multiresolution Edge Detection in Speckle Imagery (스펙클 영상에서의 다해상도 에지 검출)

  • 남권문;박덕준;박래홍
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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    • v.29B no.10
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    • pp.78-89
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    • 1992
  • In this paper, a multiresolution edge detction algorithm for speckle images is proposed. Due to the signal dependency of speckle images, the number of edge points detected depends on the local average intensity. Thus the edge detection method independent of the average intensity is required to detect properly real significant changes in an original signal. In the proposed method, candidate area is first selected based on the statistical propeties of speckle images,i.e., based on the busyness measure such as the CoV(coefficient of variation) and the difference between the real and theoretical CDF(cumulative density function). Then the real edges are extracted in a multiresolution environment. Computer simulation with test images shows that the proposed method reduces significantly false edges in relatively homogeneous areas while detects fine details properly.

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Non-Contact Heart Rate Monitoring from Face Video Utilizing Color Intensity

  • Sahin, Sarker Md;Deng, Qikang;Castelo, Jose;Lee, DoHoon
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2021
  • Heart Rate is a crucial physiological parameter that provides basic information about the state of the human body in the cardiovascular system, as well as in medical diagnostics and fitness assessments. At present day, it has been demonstrated that facial video-based photoplethysmographic signal captured using a low-cost RGB camera is possible to retrieve remote heart rate. Traditional heart rate measurement is mostly obtained by direct contact with the human body, therefore, it can result inconvenient for long-term measurement due to the discomfort that it causes to the subject. In this paper, we propose a non-contact-based remote heart rate measuring approach of the subject which depends on the color intensity variation of the subject's facial skin. The proposed method is applied in two regions of the subject's face, forehead and cheeks. For this, three different algorithms are used to measure the heart rate. i.e., Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The average accuracy for the three algorithms utilizing the proposed method was 89.25% in both regions. It is also noteworthy that the FastICA algorithm showed a higher average accuracy of more than 92% in both regions. The proposed method obtained 1.94% higher average accuracy than the traditional method based on average color value.

Quality Indicator Based Recommendation System of the National Assembly Members for Political Sponsors (품질지표기반 정치 후원금 지원을 위한 국회의원 추천시스템 연구)

  • Jung, Hyun Woo;Yoon, Hyung Jun;Lee, See Eun;Park, Sol Hee;Sohn, So Young
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.17-29
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: During 2015-2019, the average amount of political donation to the national assembly members in Korea was 1,000 won per person. Despite its benefits such as receiving tax credits, the donation system has not been actively practiced. This paper aims to promote political donations by suggesting a recommendation system of national assembly members by analysing the bills they proposed. Methods: In this paper, we propose a recommendation system based on two aspects: how similar the newly proposed or ammended bills are to the sponsors' interest (similarity index) and how much effort national assembly members put into those bills (intensity index). More than 25,000 bills were used to measure the recommendation quality index consisted with both the similarity and the intensity indices. Word2vec was used to calculate the similarity index of the bills proposed by the national assembly member to the sponsor's interest. The intensity index is calculated by diving the number of newly proposed or entirely revised bills with the number of senators who took part in those bills. Subsequently, we multiply the similarity index by the intensity index to obtain the recommendation quality index that can assist sponsors to identify potential assembly members for their donation. Results: We apply the proposed recommendation system to personas for illustration. The recommendation system showed an average f1 score about 0.69. The analysis results provide insights in recommendation for donation. Conclusion: n this study, the recommendation system was proposed to promote a political donation for national assembly members by creating the recommendation quality index based on the similarity and the intensity indices. We expect that the system presented in this paper will lower user barriers to political information, thereby boosting political sponsorship and increasing political participation.

Measure of Environmental Performance through Integrated Pollution Intensities (통합오염원단위 지수를 이용한 환경성과 측정)

  • Kang, Sang-Mok;Chung, Young-Keun;Cho, Joo-Hyun
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.135-166
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    • 2005
  • This paper measures integrated pollution intensities and changes in pollution intensity, and figure out environmental performance. We introduce a new definition of pollution intensity and its method measuring integrated pollution intensities. We distinguish 24 manufacturing industries into light industry and heavy industry, and divide heavy industry into pollution industry and the other residual heavy industry to measure the integrated pollution intensities and their changes. While the pollution industry within heavy industry, based on the integrated pollution intensity, was the most pollution-intensive, the other residual heavy industry within the heavy industry was the most successive in reducing pollutants. The annualized average index of the integrated pollution intensities grew as much as 9.1 percent, of which the annualized change in the index of pollution emission increased 13.3 percent, but the improvement of 3.9 percent in the change of output quantity offset the increase in the index of pollution emission. The changes in the integrated pollution intensity for the light and heavy industries were 1.125 and 1.042, respectively. The reason the heavy industry showed the lower change in the index of pollution intensity, while the change in the pollution industry was very high, was because the average change in the other heavy industry decreased around 9 percent.

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Detection of Smoking in Elevator through AIV (AIV를 통한 승강기 내 흡연 추출)

  • Choi, Jae-Gab;Shin, Seong-Yoon;Rhee, Yang-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.409-410
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    • 2016
  • 본 논문에서는 승강기 내에서 흡연을 하는 사람을 추출하도록 한다. 흰색 막대를 입에 물거나, 연기를 내품는 사람을 추출하는 것이다. 추출 방법은 장면 전환 검출에서 Average Intensity Measure를 이용하여 추출하도록 한다. 이렇게 추출하여 경찰청이나 법원에 포렌식 증거 자료로 제출하기 위해서이다.

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Study on the Influencing Factors of TFP of Low-carbon Tourism Distribution

  • Cheng, Xiaoyu;Jiang, Keshen
    • The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2017
  • Purpose - Performance appraisal has a significant influence on the development of low-carbon tourism distribution. Research design, data, and methodology - Data of this study are collected from 27 provinces (cities) of China. SBM-Malmquist model is used to measure the TFP and its dynamic changes of low-carbon tourism distribution; TOBIT model is used to discuss the factors of TFP of low-carbon tourism distribution. Results - The results show that, there are obvious differences among regional TFP of low-carbon tourism distribution, the average change tends to grow positively in general, and the western region grows fastest on average due to the improvement of technical efficiency and technical progress, while there are technical efficiency improvement but technical regresses in eastern and central regions. The economic scale, economic strength, structure of energy consumption, location quotient and government regulation have a significant positive effect on the TFP of low-carbon tourism; energy intensity, industrial structure and opening degree have a negative effect; investments in fixed assets, intensity of R&D fund and urbanization rate have no significant influence on the TFP of low-carbon tourism. Conclusions - Improving the productivity of low-carbon tourism and reducing regional differences are effective ways to develop low-carbon tourism and enhance tourism competitiveness.