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Concord: A Proactive Lightweight Middleware to Enable Seamless Connectivity in a Pervasive Environment

  • Hsu Sam;Mutha Mahesh;Pandya A.S.;Lho Young-Uhg
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2005
  • One of the major components of any pervasive system is its proactive behavior. Various models have been developed to provide system wide changes which would enable proactive behavior. A major drawback of these approaches is that they do not address the need to make use of existing applications without modifying the applications. To overcome this drawback, a middleware architecture called 'Concord' is proposed. Concord is based on a simple model which consists of Lookup Server and Database. The rewards for this simple model are many. First, Concord uses the existing computing infrastructure. Second, Concord standardizes the interfaces for all services and platforms. Third, new services can be added dynamically without any need for reconfiguration. Finally, Concord consists of Database that can maintain and publish the active set of available resources. Thus Concord provides a solid system for integration of various entities to provide seamless connectivity and enable proactive behavior.

Suicidal Ideation and Associated Factors of the Elderly in Urban Areas (도시 재가 노인의 자살의도와 관련 요인 연구)

  • Choi, Seo-Hee;Choi, Yeon-Hee;Kim, Hee-Sook
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.5-12
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    • 2008
  • Objectives: The study was to examine major factors that affect suicidal ideation of elderly in urban areas. Methods: The subjects were 302 elders who voluntarily participated in the study. The instruments for this study were scale for suicidal ideation(19 items), family concord (20 items), CED-depression(20 items) and family inventor of life events and changes(FILE, 22 items). Frequency, percentage, t-test, ANOVA, Duncan test, Pearson' correlation coefficient, stepwise multiple regression with SPSS program were used to analyze the data. Results: The average score of suicidal ideation was 14.88. Suicidal ideation was positively related to depression and stress, but negatively related to family concord, depression, family concord, stress and health status accounted for 86.1% of the variance in suicidal ideation. These results suggest that family concord, depression and stress can be potential risk factors for suicide of elderly. Conclusions: These findings may give useful information for developing suicidal prevention program on old age.

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Using Corpora for Studying English Grammar

  • Kwon, Heok-Seung
    • Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.61-81
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    • 2004
  • This paper will look at some grammatical phenomena which will illustrate some of the questions that can be addressed with a corpus-based approach. We will use this approach to investigate the following subjects in English grammar: number ambiguity, subject-verb concord, concord with measure expressions, and (reflexive) pronoun choice in coordinated noun phrases. We will emphasize the distinctive features of the corpus-based approach, particularly its strengths in investigating language use, as opposed to traditional descriptions or prescriptions of structure in English grammar. This paper will show that a corpus-based approach has made it possible to conduct new kinds of investigations into grammar in use and to expand the scope of earlier investigations. Native speakers rarely have accurate information about frequency of use. A large representative corpus (i.e., The British National Corpus) is one of the most reliable sources of frequency information. It is important to base an analysis of language on real data rather than intuition. Any description of grammar is more complete and accurate if it is based on a body of real data.

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Nut Characteristics of Walnut Hybrids (Juglans spp.) (호도나무 교잡종의 과실특성)

  • Lee, Uk;Lee, Moon-Ho;Hwang, Suk-In;Byun, Kwang-Ok
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to applicate fundamental data for breeding new cultivar through selection of superior individuals and to investigate its nut characteristics in walnut hybrids. Selection of superior individuals with good nut qualities including high nut weight (NWT, >13g) and percentage of weight relative to total weight of nut (PWR, >50%) was carried out and then 4 promising individuals ($Sansung 4{\times}Concord-8,\;Concord{\times}Sansungl,\;Concord{\times}Sansung4\;and\;McKinster{\times}Punghan1$) were selected by quantitative characters. Especially width of pad of suture was main factor in selection of nut with high PWR (percentage of weight relative to total weight of nut) In addition, kernel length showed high correlation with kernel and nut weight. Thickness of septem (TOP) also had an effect on ease of kernel removal (EKR). In qualitative characters, there is a great difference among the individuals and cross combinations as well as showed simultaneously various characteristics in the same individual.

BCDR algorithm for network estimation based on pseudo-likelihood with parallelization using GPU (유사가능도 기반의 네트워크 추정 모형에 대한 GPU 병렬화 BCDR 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Byungsoo;Yu, Donghyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.381-394
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    • 2016
  • Graphical model represents conditional dependencies between variables as a graph with nodes and edges. It is widely used in various fields including physics, economics, and biology to describe complex association. Conditional dependencies can be estimated from a inverse covariance matrix, where zero off-diagonal elements denote conditional independence of corresponding variables. This paper proposes a efficient BCDR (block coordinate descent with random permutation) algorithm using graphics processing units and random permutation for the CONCORD (convex correlation selection method) based on the BCD (block coordinate descent) algorithm, which estimates a inverse covariance matrix based on pseudo-likelihood. We conduct numerical studies for two network structures to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm for the CONCORD in terms of computation times.

A Study on the Configuration of Detail Design Language of the Idiosyncrasy of Community Facilities with the Qualitative Method - in Cases of Concord, Lexington and Arlington, Massachusetts - (정성적 접근방법에 따른 도시 커뮤니티 시설 특성의 상세설계 언어 형상에 관한 연구 - 콩코드(Concord), 렉싱톤(Lexington), 알링톤(Arlington) 타운을 사례로 -)

  • Kwon, Sang-Zoon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2007
  • 본 연구는 커뮤니티 시설 상세 설계의 대상물에 대한 질적 특성을 파악하기 위하여 그 대상물의 이미지를 상징화하는 단계적 발전 과정을 거쳐 그 시설의 상세 설계적 언어를 형상화하는 방법을 제시하였다. 사례로 역사적, 문화적, 전이적 특성을 지닌 세 커뮤니티를 조사하여 디자인 언어와 상징화되는 이미지를 구명해 보면서 디자인 언어의 구성과 설계요소와의 관계 커뮤니티의 목표 등과 연관시켜 커뮤니티의 본질성을 추구하는 수단을 평가 분석하는 방법을 강구하고 커뮤니티 시설의 상세 설계 언어의 형상을 검토하는 방법을 통섭적으로 제시하였다. 설계 언어의 형상 분석의 수단을 구체화 하는 데는 시각적 형태, 설계 주제의 상황, 설계요소의 관계성, 설계요소의 위치와 구성 등과 연관된 문제이다. 본 연구는 상세설계 언어의 형상을 개발하는 시도로 네 가지 기본 전제를 세우고 그를 설명해 보았다. 본 연구는 커뮤니티 시설 특성의 상징화를 위한 설계언어연구 대상의 사례로 미국의 전통성이 강한 메사츄세츠주에서 역사적, 문화적, 전이적 특성을 각기 다르게 지니고 있는 콩코드(Concord), 렉싱톤(Lexington), 알링톤(Arlington) 등의 세 커뮤니티를 택하였다. 사례 커뮤니티 시설 특성의 상세 설계 언어의 형상을 도출하는 과정을 설명하고 시각적 노트와 디자인 의미와 그 상징성을 바탕으로 상징과 시각적 언어를 찾으면서 상세 요소의 디자인 언어를 비교하였다. 그를 바탕으로 디자인 언어와 의미 및 그에 대한 평가를 위하여 편익을 기초로 사회, 건강, 환경, 경제 등 네 가지로 세부 분류된 커뮤니티 시설을 검토하였다. 커뮤니티 시설 특성을 파악하는 기법 발굴 과정에서 시작된 시각적 형상으로부터 상징과 그 의미 등을 구명하면서 그를 정성화하기 위한 기준으로서 설계 언어, 상징적 언어, 커뮤니티, 자연적 심미성 등의 네 가지로 대표되는 평가 요소에 의하여 분석 평가 검토에 이르기까지 일련의 과정이 그 상세설계언어의 형상에 관하여 통섭적 접근이 이루어 졌다.

On the Inherent (non-) Negativity of Negative Sensitive Items

  • Hwang, Ju-Hyeon
    • Language and Information
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2010
  • On the Inherent (non-) Negativity of Negative Sensitive Items. This paper explores the idea that Korean Negative Sensitive Items, which are better viewed as Negative Concord Items (NCIs) (Kim 2001, 2006, Watanabe 2004), should not be construed as inherently negative in spite of the fact that NCIs are able to appear as an elided form without the presence of a negative licenser. Among several diagnostics, which are designed to draw syntactic and semantic distinctions between traditional Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) and NCIs employed in previous studies, the ability of an NCI to appear as a fragment answer raises the question of whether the negativity of NCIs is inherent or not. Contrary to Kim (2001, 2006) and Watanabe (2004), who are in favor of the inherent negativity of NCIs, I claim that non-negative Korean NCIs still need contentful negation to be licensed, and therefore their ability to appear as a fragment answer should be considered as a matter of ellipsis, in support of Giannakidou (2000, 2006). The main argument will be strengthened by the fact that Korean NCIs do not express negative meaning themselves, and that double negation readings are not allowed no matter how many NCIs occur simultaneously.

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Subjectivity of Leadership Behavior for Nurse Manager in Hospital

  • Kim, Moon-Sil;Han, Su-Jeong;Kim, Jung-A
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.1072-1086
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    • 1999
  • This study has been attempted using the Q methodology to clarify leader type of nurse managers that head nurses and general nurses recognize, and to clarify its relative relation. Sixty-three statements were extracted through interviews with general and professional people interested in the subject of nurse leaders to extract the Q population. A total of 314 Q population was formed added with 251 questions extracted from related documents. Final 32 Q samples were selected by reorganization of 314 Q population after reexamining statements through inquiry of 1 professor of the nurse department, 2 students in course of nurse science masters degree and 2 students in course of doctoral degree. The P sample selection standard of this study were 25 nurses and 30 head nurses. Examination subjects themselves filled out 32 statements classified in a measure of 9 points from agreeable items to disagreeable items. Principal component factors were analyzed using the QUANL pc program after grading the contents of the P sample. Nurses recognizing subjective structure for leader behaviors of nurse manager were analyzed to be 3 factors: vision presentation type, self-capability consideration type, relationship consideration type, and head nurses recognizing subjective structure were analyzed to be 2 types: task pursuit leader type, and concord pursuit type. Nursing manager's leader behavior, expected by staff nurse are more complex and higher level which may combined with task pursuit leader type in concord pursuit leader of head nurse. Also according to Horsey and Blanchard theory(1977), the effectiveness of leadership becomes to be larger as the accordance rate between the behaviors of nurse leaders and followers reaction increase Two suggestions have been made based on the conclusion. 1. Studies on creating strategies in relation to development, management, selection of nurse leaders should be made based on this study. 2. There is a need for relative study of production and degree of similarity of leadership types based on this study.

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