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Facial profile parameters and their relative influence on bilabial prominence and the perceptions of facial profile attractiveness: A novel approach

  • Denize, Erin Stewart;McDonald, Fraser;Sherriff, Martyn;Naini, Farhad B.
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.184-194
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    • 2014
  • Objective: To evaluate the relative importance of bilabial prominence in relation to other facial profile parameters in a normal population. Methods: Profile stimulus images of 38 individuals (28 female and 10 male; ages 19-25 years) were shown to an unrelated group of first-year students (n = 42; ages 18-24 years). The images were individually viewed on a 17-inch monitor. The observers received standardized instructions before viewing. A six-question questionnaire was completed using a Likert-type scale. The responses were analyzed by ordered logistic regression to identify associations between profile characteristics and observer preferences. The Bayesian Information Criterion was used to select variables that explained observer preferences most accurately. Results: Nasal, bilabial, and chin prominences; the nasofrontal angle; and lip curls had the greatest effect on overall profile attractiveness perceptions. The lip-chin-throat angle and upper lip curl had the greatest effect on forehead prominence perceptions. The bilabial prominence, nasolabial angle (particularly the lower component), and mentolabial angle had the greatest effect on nasal prominence perceptions. The bilabial prominence, nasolabial angle, chin prominence, and submental length had the greatest effect on lip prominence perceptions. The bilabial prominence, nasolabial angle, mentolabial angle, and submental length had the greatest effect on chin prominence perceptions. Conclusions: More prominent lips, within normal limits, may be considered more attractive in the profile view. Profile parameters have a greater influence on their neighboring aesthetic units but indirectly influence related profile parameters, endorsing the importance of achieving an aesthetic balance between relative prominences of all aesthetic units of the facial profile.

SoFA: A Distributed File System for Search-Oriented Systems (SoFA: 검색 지향 시스템을 위한 분산 파일 시스템)

  • Choi, Eun-Mi;Tran, Doan Thanh;Upadhyaya, Bipin;Azimov, Fahriddin;Luu, Hoang Long;Truong, Phuong;Kim, Sang-Bum;Kim, Pil-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.229-239
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    • 2008
  • A Distributed File System (DFS) provides a mechanism in which a file can be stored across several physical computer nodes ensuring replication transparency and failure transparency. Applications that process large volumes of data (such as, search engines, grid computing applications, data mining applications, etc.) require a backend infrastructure for storing data. And the distributed file system is the central component for such storing data infrastructure. There have been many projects focused on network computing that have designed and implemented distributed file systems with a variety of architectures and functionalities. In this paper, we describe a complete distributed file system which can be used in large-scale search-oriented systems.

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A Study on Detoxication of Coal Briquette by Additives (첨가제에 의한 연탄제독에 관한 연구)

  • Chang Tuwon;Young Sun Uh;Youn Soo Sohn
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.118-125
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    • 1986
  • A small scale combustion unit was built to evaluate the CO suppression effects by various chemical additives added to coal briquettes. Among the additives tested comprising various transition metal compounds with catalytic activities, natural minerals and oxidizing agents, the copper component has shown the best CO suppression effect, and in particular, copper oxide dispersed on porous supports such as ${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ was most effective. For instance, 0.5% of copper added to coal briquettes in this way bas exhibited 1.4 % CO in the combustion gas at the ignition and beginning stage of combustion and 0.3 % CO at the final stage. The effects of calcium compounds on the fixation of sulfur in coal were also evaluated to reduce the contents of sulfur compounds in the combustion gases.

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Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation of Single Bubble Growth under High-Pressure Pool Boiling Conditions

  • Murallidharan, Janani;Giustini, Giovanni;Sato, Yohei;Niceno, Bojan;Badalassi, Vittorio;Walker, Simon P.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.859-869
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    • 2016
  • Component-scale modeling of boiling is predominantly based on the Eulerian-Eulerian two-fluid approach. Within this framework, wall boiling is accounted for via the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) model and, within this model, the bubble is characterized using three main parameters: departure diameter (D), nucleation site density (N), and departure frequency (f). Typically, the magnitudes of these three parameters are obtained from empirical correlations. However, in recent years, efforts have been directed toward mechanistic modeling of the boiling process. Of the three parameters mentioned above, the departure diameter (D) is least affected by the intrinsic uncertainties of the nucleate boiling process. This feature, along with its prominence within the RPI boiling model, has made it the primary candidate for mechanistic modeling ventures. Mechanistic modeling of D is mostly carried out through solving of force balance equations on the bubble. Forces incorporated in these equations are formulated as functions of the radius of the bubble and have been developed for, and applied to, low-pressure conditions only. Conversely, for high-pressure conditions, no mechanistic information is available regarding the growth rates of bubbles and the forces acting on them. In this study, we use direct numerical simulation coupled with an interface tracking method to simulate bubble growth under high (up to 45 bar) pressure, to obtain the kind of mechanistic information required for an RPI-type approach. In this study, we compare the resulting bubble growth rate curves with predictions made with existing experimental data.

ANALYSIS OF TMI-2 BENCHMARK PROBLEM USING MAAP4.03 CODE

  • Yoo, Jae-Sik;Suh, Kune-Yull
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.41 no.7
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    • pp.945-952
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    • 2009
  • The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) accident provides unique full scale data, thus providing opportunities to check the capability of codes to model overall plant behavior and to perform a spectrum of sensitivity and uncertainty calculations. As part of the TMI-2 analysis benchmark exercise sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD NEA), several member countries are continuing to improve their system analysis codes using the TMI-2 data. The Republic of Korea joined this benchmark exercise in November 2005. Seoul National University has analyzed the TMI-2 accident as well as the currently proposed alternative scenario along with a sensitivity study using the Modular Accident Analysis Program Version 4.03 (MAAP4.03) code in collaboration with the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company. Two input files are required to simulate the TMI-2 accident with MAAP4: the parameter file and an input deck. The user inputs various parameters, such as volumes or masses, for each component. The parameter file contains the information on TMI-2 relevant to the plant geometry, system performance, controls, and initial conditions used to perform these benchmark calculations. The input deck defines the operator actions and boundary conditions during the course of the accident. The TMI-2 accident analysis provided good estimates of the accident output data compared with the OECD TMI-2 standard reference. The alternative scenario has proposed the initial event as a loss of main feed water and a small break on the hot leg. Analysis is in progress along with a sensitivity study concerning the break size and elevation.

A Study on Shear Strength Test for FRP Girder of Filled Concrete (콘크리트 충진 FRP 거더의 전단재하 실험에 관한 연구)

  • Kwak, Kae-Hwan;Jang, Hwa-Sup;Kim, Woo-Jong;Kim, Hoi-Ok
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.365-373
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    • 2008
  • Fiber Reinforced Polymer, FRP has a light weight, a high tensile strength based on design, non-electronic, non-magnetic, and rust-resistant feature, etc and many researches are being conducted recently on FRP in the construction area. Among them, GFRP (Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer) is excellent in price competitiveness and is widely being used. However, since GFRP has a relative low modulus of elasticity and causes excessive deflection, the section must be large to be used as a structural component and an investigative review must be carried out in design to set the limit for deflection by the use load. Therefore, in order to solve the mentioned technical problems, this study suggested a section of a module form such that application of a large-scale section is possible. Also, to secure the low rigidity of FRP, this study developed a new FRP+ concrete composite girder form that confined the concrete. To identify the structural movement of the developed FRP+ concrete composite girder, shear strength test was carried out.

BADA/Web : Integration of The Web and An OODBMS (바다/웹 : 웹과 객체지향 데이터베이스 관리시스템의 통합)

  • Kim, Wan-Seok;Lee, Jang-Sun;Song, Young-Kee;Park, Jin-Sub;Kim, Myung-Joon;O, Kil-Nok
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.7 no.11
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    • pp.3534-3543
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    • 2000
  • We believe in terins of information service systems that one of the best ways to develop a large scale database service system is to integrate the service capability of the Web and the dta management facility of database management systems in a complementary fashion. In such integation a database gateway in the core component, the web-database gateway accesses database management systems to serve the requests represented by using the Web technology. We designd BADA/Web be independent from the Web and DBMS and much as possible, which minrrizes the performance overhead caused by connecting database management systems and makes BADA/Web portable. BADA/Web incorporates TCL into a ibrary of it and handles concurrent requests efficiently. In this paper we describe our desingn and implementation experience in integrating the Web and BADA-III We evaluate the performance of BADA/Web by measuring and companing the latency and average response time for a simple query and also explore the effects of BADA/Web with some synthetie queries .

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Attitudes of Police Science Students toward Police Image: Q-Methodological Approach (경찰행정학과 학생들의 경찰 이미지에 대한 주관적 태도 유형: Q 방법론의 적용)

  • Jung, Se-Jong;Kim, Bong-Chul;Kim, Yu-Mi
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.639-650
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to identify attitudes of police science students toward police image by Q-Methodology. Q-Methodology provides a method of identifying the subjectivity of each item. A survey was carried out among 40 police science students to classify the 40 selected Q-statements into a normal distribution using a 11 point scale. The collected data was analyzed by QUANL program and principal component analysis was used to identify the types of police image. As a result of this study, the police image was classified into 3 types. Type 1 can be categorized by 'fantastic image', Type 2 can be classified by 'stressful image', and Type 3 can be categorized by 'charismatic image'. These results will be used to develop a programs for improving police science students' education and will be a basis for reforming police image.

Architecture of SIP-based Effective Hybrid-type Multimedia Conference (SIP 기반의 효율적인 혼성형 멀티미디어 컨퍼런스 구조)

  • Lee, Ki-Soo;Jang, Choon-Seo;Jo, Hyun-Gyu
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2007
  • SIP-based tightly coupled conference, which has a centrally located conference server for controlling and management, can be classified several models according to location of focus and mixer. These are centralized server model, endpoint server model, media server component model and distributed mixing model. However each model has its strength and weakness. In this paper, we propose and implement a SIP-based effective hybrid-type conference model which decreases amount of SIP signaling messages, lowers load of server media mixer, and can be easily expandable to large scale conference. In this model, when the number of participants exceeds a pre-defined limit, the conference server selects some participants which posses specific functions and let them share functions of notifications of conference state event package and media mixing. When each participant subscribes conference state event package to the server, it can indicates its possession of such functions by a specific header message. The server stores the indication to the conference information database, and later uses it to select participants for load sharing. The performance of our proposed model is evaluated by experiments.

The influence of Past Experiences and Personal Characteristics on Hunters' Satisfaction (수렵인(狩獵人)의 경험(經驗) 수준(水準)과 개인적(個人的) 특성(特性)이 수렵만족(狩獵滿足)에 미치는 영향(影響))

  • Shin, Won Sop
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.88 no.3
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    • pp.327-334
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    • 1999
  • A multiple-satisfaction approach was used to determine hunting satisfaction. A sample of 1000 hunters was surveyed via mail questionnaire. Principal component analysis revealed six dimensions of hunting satisfaction : harvest, equipment, nature, skill, escapism, and social contact. Among these factors, items related nature were evaluated as the most important to their hunting satisfaction. Correlations between specialization variables (past experience, days participated in hunting, and perceived level of hunting skill) and each factor derived were examined. This study also investigated any differences in hunting satisfaction due to personal variables such as age, education, and place of residence. The results of this study indicated that no differences, except age and hunting skill, were found between the two variables.

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