• Title/Summary/Keyword: Convergence engineering

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Analysis of spatial interpretation and cultural valorization of groundwater resource using open data (공공데이터를 활용한 지하수자원의 공간적 해석과 문화적 가치부여에 대한 제안)

  • Han-Na, CHOI;Yong-Cheol, KIM;Jeong-Hyun, YU;Ye-Yeong, LEE;So-Jung, IN;Jong-Gyu, HAN
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.81-93
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    • 2022
  • There are many natural hot springs and mineral springs as well as the cultural heritage of the three kingdoms period in the Geum River basin including Chungcheong region. No specific regeneration and publicity plans for deteriorated facilities in this area has been presented. This study aims to suggest promising hot spots and complex water culture belt in the Chungcheong region and Geum River basin through the spatial interpretation of resources. The northern part of the Geum River basin is expected to become a therapeutic spring belt with many hot springs and CO2-rich springs. In the central and southern parts of the Geum River basin, it is considered that it will be possible to promote convergence publicity by using groundwater resources and cultural assets.

A Cooperative Security Gateway cooperating with 5G+ network for next generation mBcN (차세대 mBcN을 위한 5G+ 연동보안게이트웨이)

  • Nam, Gu-Min;Kim, Hyoungshick;Lee, Hyun-Jin;Cho, Hark-Su
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.129-140
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    • 2021
  • The next generation mBcN should be built to cooperate with the wireless network to support hyper-speed and hyper-connectivity. In this paper, we propose a network architecture for the cooperation mBcN and 5G commercial network and architecture of the cooperative security gateway required for the cooperation. The proposed cooperative security gateway is between gNB and UPF to support LBO, SFC, and security. Our analysis shows that the proposed architecture has several advantages. First of all, user equipment connected with the mBcN can be easily connected through the 5G commercial radio network to the mBcN. Second, the military application traffic can be transmitted to mBcN without going through the 5G core network, reducing the end-to-end transmission delay without causing the traffic load on the 5G core network. In addition, the security level of the military application can effectively be maintained because the user equipment can be connected to the cooperative security gateway, and the traffic generated by the user equipment is transmitted to the mBcN without going through the 5G core network. Finally, we demonstrate that LBO, SFC, and security modules are essential functions of the proposed gateway in the 5G test-bed environment.

MMP-1 and PIP Expressions from Ethanol Extract of Hydnocarpus anthelmintica Pierre in Human Fibroblast Cells (사람유래 섬유아세포에서 대풍자 에탄올 추출물의 MMP-1과 PIP의 발현에 대한 연구)

  • Choi, Eun-Young;Jang, Young-Ah;Ki, Se-Gie
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.32 no.12
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    • pp.938-946
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to evaluate the effects of antioxidant activities, protein and mRNA expressions of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) -1 and procollagen type I C-peptide (PIP) in 70% ethanol extract from Hydnocarpus anthelmintica Pierre (HE). DPPH and ABTS+ radicals scavenging assays were measured for antioxidant activities and HE had 73.5% and 74.4% of scavenging activities at 1,000 ㎍/ml concentration, respectively. And we investigated the inhibition of collagenase by HE, and the result was a 78.8% inhibition effect on concentrations of 1,000 ㎍/ml. In addition, an MTT assay was performed to confirm the toxicity of the CCD-986sk fibroblasts to the HE, and as a result, the cell viability rate was about 91.7% at a concentration of 50 ㎍/ml or less, and subsequent cell experiments were performed at a concentration of 50 ㎍/ml or less. We treated the cells with UVB (20 mJ/cm2) for stimulation, treated HE at various concentrations, and performed ELISA tests and RT-PCR experiments. And HE increased the PIP and mRNA in a dose-dependent manner and showed an expression rate of about 64.2% and 83.4%, respectively, at a concentration of 50 ㎍/ml compared with Cont (50.3% and 45.8%, respectively). And HE suppressed the MMP-1 protein and mRNA in a dose-dependent manner and showed a low expression rate of about 48.7% and 35.9%, respectively, at a concentration of 50 ㎍/ml. These results can be applied to developing anti-wrinkle materials for functional food and cosmetics with HE.

A Study on Shrinkage Crack of Steel Composite Concrete Box Structure (Transfer Girder) (강합성 콘크리트 박스구조물(트랜스퍼 거더)의 건조수축 균열에 대한 연구)

  • Choi, Jung-Youl;Kim, Dae-Ill
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.685-691
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    • 2022
  • This study was based on the steel composite concrete box structure (Transfer girder) which was installed to support the skyscrapers directly above the subway line. In this study, it was analytically proved that the cause of cracks on the steel composite concrete box structure were the shrinkage cracks by comparing the results of crack investigation and numerical analysis. As the results, it was found that the internal temperature difference between concrete and steel members occurred according to the shape of the steel frame embedded in concrete, the location of vertical stiffener, and the closed section area. The narrower spacing of vertical stiffener was occurred the internal temperature concentration of the structure and the temperature difference increased. And the location of higher thermal strain and temperature were similar to the location of actual cracks by the visual inspection. Therefore, the internal temperature concentration parts were formed according to the presence and spacing of the vertical stiffeners and the inspection passage in the central part of the structure. The shrinkage cracks were occurred by the restrained of temperature expansion and contraction of the concrete. As the results of this study, it was important to separate and manage the non-structural cracks caused by shrinkage and the structural cracks in the maintenance of serviced steel-composite concrete structures.

Sensitivity analysis on the length of credit period for an inventory model with stock dependent consumption rate (재고 종속형 수요를 고려한 재고모형의 신용 거래 기간에 따른 민감도 분석)

  • Shinn, Seong-Whan
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.655-660
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    • 2022
  • This paper analyzes the problem of the economic order quantity (lot size) of a retailer in a two-stage supply chain consisting of a supplier, a retailer(distributor), and a customer. In this two-stage supply chain, the supplier permits the retailer to defer payment for a certain fixed period of time for the purchase cost to be paid by the retailer as a price differentiation strategy with his competitor. In addition, in the case of customer goods such as food and grain, it is common to see that end-customer demand is generally depend on the level of inventory displayed by the retailer. From this perspective, this paper analyzes the inventory problem of retailers under the assumption that the supplier may allow a certain period to suspend payments for the purchase of goods and the end customer demand is a function of the retailer's inventory level increasing with size. In this regard, we need to analyze how much the length of the grace period for product purchase costs affect the retailer's lot-sizing policy. Therefore, we formulate the retailer's annual net profit and analyze the effect of the length of credit period on the retailer's inventory policy numerically.

A Multi-speaker Speech Synthesis System Using X-vector (x-vector를 이용한 다화자 음성합성 시스템)

  • Jo, Min Su;Kwon, Chul Hong
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.675-681
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    • 2021
  • With the recent growth of the AI speaker market, the demand for speech synthesis technology that enables natural conversation with users is increasing. Therefore, there is a need for a multi-speaker speech synthesis system that can generate voices of various tones. In order to synthesize natural speech, it is required to train with a large-capacity. high-quality speech DB. However, it is very difficult in terms of recording time and cost to collect a high-quality, large-capacity speech database uttered by many speakers. Therefore, it is necessary to train the speech synthesis system using the speech DB of a very large number of speakers with a small amount of training data for each speaker, and a technique for naturally expressing the tone and rhyme of multiple speakers is required. In this paper, we propose a technology for constructing a speaker encoder by applying the deep learning-based x-vector technique used in speaker recognition technology, and synthesizing a new speaker's tone with a small amount of data through the speaker encoder. In the multi-speaker speech synthesis system, the module for synthesizing mel-spectrogram from input text is composed of Tacotron2, and the vocoder generating synthesized speech consists of WaveNet with mixture of logistic distributions applied. The x-vector extracted from the trained speaker embedding neural networks is added to Tacotron2 as an input to express the desired speaker's tone.

Physico-chemical and biological characteristic analysis of stratified anaerobic granules in a full-scale UASB reactor (실규모 UASB반응조 내부 계층화된 혐기성 그래뉼의 물리화학적 & 생물학적 특성 조사)

  • Jo, Hongmok;Kim, Minsang;Shin, Seung Gu;Cho, Si-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.33-40
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    • 2021
  • In this study, the physico-chemical and biological characteristics of anaerobic granular sludge at different heights of a full-scale UASB reactor (UASBr) were investigated. Granular sludge was taken from 1 m, 2 m, and 3 m above the ground level in the UASBr. The morphological analysis showed that the upper part had bigger granules and the lower part had rounder granules. The ANOVA test confirmed that the mean size and the roundness of the granules had statistically significant difference along the height at 95% confidence level, and there was a significant negative linear relationship between the size and roundness (r=-0.40, p<0.05). A SMA test using acetic, propionic and butyric acids showed that granules from 2 m height had the highest specific methanogenic activity. The EPS contents were also unequal to each height, with 2 m showing the highest content. These findings could be helpful to understand the different characteristics of stratified anaerobic granules in full-scale UASBr and maintain the reactor performance.

Birth of artificial nature and the humanities of coexistence (인공자연의 탄생과 공존의 인문학 -90년대 사이버문학론을 중심으로)

  • Lee, yongwook
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.449-460
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    • 2021
  • The development process of cyber literature theory in the 1990s clearly shows the duality of the pursuit of symbolic power and desire through the formation and conflict of literary fields, collective intelligence. All desires are bound to be power-oriented, and cyber literature is meaningful in that network-space critics developed while advocating the humanities of coexistence. The failure of cyber literature theory is due to the conflicting desire of critical power between real and virtual spaces. Cyber literature theory in the 1990s was the first literary response to the birth of artificial nature, although the contradiction of desires revealed in symbolic power and the limitations of barking are clear. Literature discourse has always explored the relationship between the social conditions of the time (including technological progress) and art texts. Producing a new critical discourse encompassing the whole within the literary field of artificial nature is an important task in literature in the era of technology compilation, and humanities and technology must coexist. Through this paper, we examined the impact of the birth of artificial nature on humanities. This study is an important achievement of humanities engineering that understands, interprets, and leads technology.

Evaluation of Intestinal Immunity Activity by Steam-Heat Treatment and Fermentation of Lactic Acid Bacteria of Fruit and Vegetable Complex Extracts containing Red Ginseng (홍삼함유 과채류 복합 추출물의 증숙열처리 및 유산균 발효에 의한 장관면역 활성)

  • Kim, Hyun Kyoung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.935-941
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the activity of ginsenoside metabolites and the intestinal immunity antioxidant activity were remarkably improved by lactic acid bacteria fermentation by adding a small amount of ginsenoside to the complex extracts of fruits and vegetables. It was confirmed that the increase in intestinal immunity antioxidant activity due to synergistic effect was observed in the fruit-vegetable extract containing ginsenoside compared to the ginsenoside-only extract or the fruit-vegetable extract. Then, by adding ginsenosides by content, the concentration of ginsenosides that can obtain a synergistic effect according to the fermentation of lactic acid bacteria was determined. As a result, it was confirmed that a synergistic effect was exhibited when lactic acid bacteria were fermented and extracted by mixing ginsenosides in a mass ratio of 3 to 10% with respect to the mass of the fruit-vegetable mixture. As a result, when treated at a concentration of 200 ㎍/ml, the fruit-vegetable complex extract containing ginsenoside metabolites inhibited the generation of NO by about 60% compared to the complex extract containing no ginsenoside, The expression of IL-1β was suppressed by 63%, the expression of IL-6 by 69%, and the expression of TNF-α by 76%, confirming that the intestinal immune antioxidant properties were significantly improved.

Cause Analysis for Sleeper Damage of Sleeper Floating Track in Urban Transit (도시철도 침목플로팅궤도의 침목손상 원인 분석)

  • Choi, Jung-Youl;Shin, Hwang-Sung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.667-674
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    • 2022
  • In this study, the correlation between the damage type and operating conditions of the sleepers was analyzed based on the design data and visual inspection results for the concrete sleepers of the sleeper floating track (STEDEF) that have been in operation for more than 20 years. It appeared in the form of cracks, breakages, and breaks in the concrete at the center and tie bar contact and buried areas. As a result of the numerical analysis, it was analyzed that the change in the left and right spring stiffness of the sleeper resilience pad increases the maximum stress, tensile stress, compressive stress, and displacement of the concrete sleeper, and stress concentration in the concrete at the tie bar contact area. It was proved analytically that the sleeper resilience pad can affect the damage of the concrete sleeper. Therefore, damage of concrete sleepers in the sleeper floating track in urban transit could be caused by changes in spring stiffness of sleeper resilience pads. It was reviewed that preventive maintenance such as improvement and timely replacement of sleeper resilience pads was necessary.