• 천문학논총
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.461-462
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• 2015

Quasars are among the farthest and brightest objects known in the universe. Because quasars are mostly observed in the redshift range between 1 and 3, they can be used to study large scale structure in the universe, and its evolution over the past billion years. An important issue is the evolution of the quasar luminosity function, which has been investigated for relative small samples of the 2QZ catalog. Here we extend the study to 3 quasar samples, the most recent data of the Milliquas, Master and 2QZ quasar catalogs to determine the luminosity function of quasars and its evolution, using the Standard cosmological ${\Lambda}CDM$ model with ${\Omega}_{\Lambda}=0.73$, ${\Omega}_M=0.27$, and $H_0=70kms^{-1}Mpc^{-1}$. For the purpose of this analysis we initially used 0.25-mag bins and approximately 0.180-redshift bins, then calculated the comoving distance and comoving volume for each bin of redshift and calculated the number of objects in each bin per unit volume, in order to find the number density per absolute magnitude bin. Our analysis on the basis of these new and much more complete datasets is largely in agreement with earlier studies of the luminosity evolution of quasars.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.363-368
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• 2021

This study attempts to examine whether ownership of government-controlled corporations and audit committee effectiveness are related. The population of this study is 431 listed manufactured firms in the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period 2012-2019 that published their financial and annual reports for the period 2012-2019. This population criterion is based on considerations that manufacturing companies listed on Tadawul have publicly accessible data and they have greater obligations to implement corporate governance code. Using the complementary hypothesis, this study predicts that there is a positive relationship between the ownership of government-controlled companies and audit committee effectiveness. The Pooled OLS regression shows that government-controlled companies' ownership is positively associated with audit committee effectiveness. Our study also indicates that ownership of government-controlled companies as a governance monitoring mechanism becomes more effective as it is combined with audit committee effectiveness which is another governance monitoring mechanism. The results of this study provide insightful evidence to policymakers at the company and country levels on the relationship of government-corporate ownership and audit committee effectiveness.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2021

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of board of directors' activity on the audit committee's effectiveness score among manufactured listed companies on Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period 2015-2017. The final sample of this study consists of 195 firm-year observations that represent manufactured companies listed on Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the years 2015-2017. The data of this study in terms of board of directors' meetings, audit committee size and meetings, firm leverage, firm performance, and firm age were hand-collected from the annual reports of the considered companies. The Pooled OLS regression's result indicate that audit committee's effectiveness score is influenced by the board of directors' activity. This result gives support to the agency theory prediction. This result is also consistent with the complementary function of corporate governance mechanisms in which board of directors' activity complements the function of audit committee's effectiveness score. The result of this study should be useful for manufacturing companies, Saudi Stock Exchange, auditors, and regulators which relates to the association between board of directors' activity and audit committee's effectiveness score. This study provides a new empirical evidence on the impact of board activity on the audit committee's effectiveness score in an interesting context which is Saudi Arabia.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2012

최근 공간정보표현을 위해 벡터데이터 기반 디지털 맵의 활용도의 증가와 측량기술의 발전에 기인하여 높은 수준의 해상도를 갖는 고용량의 GIS(geographic information service) 서비스가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문은 방대한 범위에서 높은 해상도를 갖는 1cm(센티미터) 단위의 정밀 벡터맵의 효율적인 압축을 위해 공간 영역 상에서의 에너지 집중 기법(spatial energy compaction, SEC)을 이용한 벡터맵 압축 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 벡터맵에서 공간정보를 표현하기 위해 주로 사용되는 폴리곤(polygon) 및 폴리라인(polyline) 오브젝트에 대해 압축을 수행한다. 제안 기법에서는 전체 벡터맵을 국부영역으로 나눈 후, 각 국부영역 내의 오브젝트 인접성 및 방향성을 이용하여 세 가지 종류의 빈으로 분류하여 에너지 집중을 수행하며, 미리 정의된 가변길이부호화를 이용해 부호화하여 압축한다. 실험결과 동일한 벡터맵에 대해 1m 정밀도의 벡터간소화 기법이 약 13%의 압축율을 갖는 데 반해, 제안 기법은 1cm 단위의 정밀도에서 원본 데이터의 80%이상 압축이 수행됨을 확인하였다. 또한 이것은 기존에 제안한 SEC 기반 압축 기법보다 높은 압축율을 가지면서 낮은 계산 복잡도를 유지하며, 기존의 벡터 근사화 기법보다 높은 정밀도에서 높은 압축률로 압축할 수 있음을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제37권11호
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• pp.795-803
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• 2014

To withstand ever-changing environmental stresses, plants are equipped with phytohormone-mediated stress resistance mechanisms. Salt stress triggers abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, which enhances stress tolerance at the expense of growth. ABA is thought to inhibit the action of growth-promoting hormones, including brassinosteroids (BRs). However, the regulatory mechanisms that coordinate ABA and BR activity remain to be discovered. We noticed that ABA-treated seedlings exhibited small, round leaves and short roots, a phenotype that is characteristic of the BR signaling mutant, brassinosteroid insensitive1-9 (bri1-9). To identify genes that are antagonistically regulated by ABA and BRs, we examined published Arabidopsis microarray data sets. Of the list of genes identified, those upregulated by ABA but downregulated by BRs were enriched with a BRRE motif in their promoter sequences. After validating the microarray data using quantitative RT-PCR, we focused on RD26, which is induced by salt stress. Histochemical analysis of transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing RD26pro:GUS revealed that the induction of GUS expression after NaCl treatment was suppressed by co-treatment with BRs, but enhanced by co-treatment with propiconazole, a BR biosynthetic inhibitor. Similarly, treatment with bikinin, an inhibitor of BIN2 kinase, not only inhibited RD26 expression, but also reduced the survival rate of the plant following exposure to salt stress. Our results suggest that ABA and BRs act antagonistically on their target genes at or after the BIN2 step in BR signaling pathways, and suggest a mechanism by which plants fine-tune their growth, particularly when stress responses and growth compete for resources.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.111-119
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• 2023

본 논문에서 제안하는 스토리지 박스의 내부 상황에 대한 실시간 식별 시스템은 오버헤드 빈의 내부 보관 상태, 무게 정보 및 무게 중심 계산 값을 시각화하는 시스템이다. 제안된 시스템은 로드 셀과 스위치 어레이를 사용하여 각 측정값을 동기화하고 시각적 센서를 통해 의미 있고 필요한 정보를 제공한다. 이 시스템은 C 언어 기반 임베디드 시스템으로 구축되며 1) 내부 가용공간 파악, 2) 무게중심 계산, 3) 실시간 시각 정보 제공이 주요 기능이다. 이러한 기능을 통해 스마트 오버헤드 빈을 개발하고, 향후 화물 적재 자동화 시스템 개발에 기여할 수 있는 실시간 화물 적재 모니터링 기술을 개발하였다.

• 한국품질경영학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국품질경영학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.513-522
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• 2006

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.229-244
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• 1998

This study was performed to determine proper fan and heater management schemes for natural air drying of rough rice in round steel bin with stirring device under Korean weather conditions. A computer simulation model was developed to predict moisture content changes, energy requirements, and drymatter losses during drying of rough rice by natural air. Drying test was conducted to validate the simulation model using round steel bin of holding capacity of 300ton at Rice Processing Complex in Jincheon. The bin was filled with rough rice every day and mixing by stirring device. Moisture contents, ambient air temperatures, relative humidities, static pressures in plenum chamber in the bin, airflow rates, and electrical and fuel energy were measured. Relative errors of moisture content changes predicted by the simulation model were below 5ft, and relative errors of final moisture content, final grain weight, required energy ranged from 0.9% to 6%. These not levels indicated that the simulation model can satisfactorily predict the performance factors of natural air drying system such as drying rates and energr consumptions comparing error level of 10% to 15% in other drying simulation models generally used in dryer desists. Twelve different fan and heater management schemes were evaluated using the computer simulation model based on three hourly weather data from Suweon for the period of 1952-1994. The best management schemes were selected comparing the drymatter losses, required drying times, required energy consumptions. Operating fan without heating only when ambient relative humidity was below 85% or 90% appeared to be the most effective method of In operation in favorable drying weather. Under adverse drying climates or to reduce required drying time, operating fan continuously, and heating air with $1.5^{\circ}C$ temperature rise only when ambient relative humidity was over 85% appeared to be the most suitable method.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.282-291
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• 1999

뉴스 비디오 데이터베이스 시스템을 구축하기 위해서는 장면변환 검출 기법이 매우 중요하다. 일반적인 분할기법으로 컬러히스토그램, $\chi$2 히스토그램, 그리고 Bin_to_Bin difference(B2B) 기법이 주로 이용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 NTSC 표준에 따른 가중치를 적용하여 보다 효율적인 장면변환 검출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 컬러 히스토그램에서 RGB의 값들을 각각 따로 계산함으로써 히스토그램 구성 및 비교에 필요한 계산시간을 단축하며, $\chi$2 히스토그램에서의 차이 값을 강조하여 임계치 선택을 용이하게 하는 장점을 제공한다. 이 알고리즘의 일반적인 성능 평가를 위하여 본 논문에서는 KBS, MBC, SBS, CNN 및 NHK의 뉴스 비디오들을 실험 도메인으로 하여 이용한다. 실험 결과에서, 제안한 방법은 기존 방법들보다 장면변환 검출에 더 효율적임을 알 수 있고, 임계값들을 자동적으로 할 수 있는 기반을 제시한다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.658-673
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• 2021

Data deduplication technology improves data storage efficiency while storing and managing large amounts of data. It reduces storage requirements by determining whether replicated data is being added to storage and omitting these uploads. Data deduplication technologies require data confidentiality and integrity when applied to cloud storage environments, and they require a variety of security measures, such as encryption. However, because the source data cannot be transformed, common encryption techniques generally cannot be applied at the same time as data deduplication. Various studies have been conducted to solve this problem. This white paper describes the basic environment for data deduplication technology. It also analyzes and compares multiple proposed technologies to address security threats.