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Decision Method on Target Safety Level in Suspension Bridges by Minimization of Life Cycle Cost (생애주기비용의 최소화에 의한 현수교의 목표안전수준 결정방법)

  • Bang, Myung-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.62-68
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    • 2009
  • Life Cycle Cost(LCC) is adopted to decide the target of safety level in designing suspension bridges. The LCC are evaluated considering two types of uncertainty; aleatory and epistemic. The nine alternative designs of suspension bridge are simulated to decide the safety level which can minimize the LCC. The LCC is calculated through the probability of failure and safety index including the uncertainty. This method results in the useful tool deciding the optimum safety level with minimal LCC as the main design factor.

What L2 Learners' Processing Strategy Reveals about the Modal System in Japanese: A Cue-based Analytical Perspective

  • Tamaji, Mizuho;Horie, Kaoru
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.471-480
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    • 2007
  • Japanese does not exhibit deontic-epistemic polysemy which is recognized among typologically different languages. Hence, in Japanese linguistics, it has been debated which of the two types of modality is more prototypical. This study brings Chinese learner's acquisition data of Japanese modality to bear on the question of which of the two types of modality is more prototypical, using the Competition Model (Bates and MacWhinney 1981). The Competition Model notion of 'cues' as processing strategy adopted by learners reveals the continuity/discontinuity between these two modality domains.

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Modality and Modal Sense Representation in E-HowNet

  • Chung, You-Shan;Huang, Shu-Ling;Chen, Keh-Jiann
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.136-145
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    • 2007
  • This paper explains how we define and represent modality in E-HowNet. Following Lyons (1977, reviewed in Hsieh 2003, among others), we hold that modals express a speaker's opinion or attitude toward a proposition and hence have a pragmatic dimension and recognize five kinds of modal categories, i.e. epistemic, deontic, ability, volition and expectation modality. We then present a representational formalism that contains the three most basic components of modal meaning: modal category, positive or negative and strength. Such a formula can define not only modal words but also words that contain modal meanings and cope with co-compositions of modals and the negation construction.

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Semantics for Specific Indefinites

  • Yeom, Jae-Il
    • Language and Information
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    • v.1
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    • pp.227-276
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    • 1997
  • There has been no nuanimous analysis of specific indefinites. It is still disputed even whether specificity is a matter of semantics of pragmatics. In this paper, I introduce some properties of specific indefinites, and explain them based on the meaning of specificity. Specificity intuitively means that the speaker or someone else in the context has some individual in mind, which is generally accepted among liguistics. The main issue is how to represent the meaning of 'have-in-mind'. I review some philosophical discusstions of cognitive contact and show that when the use of an expression involves 'have-in-mind', the expression is rigid designator in the belief of the agent who has an individual in mind. in the use of a specific indefinite, this applies only to the information state of the agent of 'have-in-mind'. To represent this asymmetry, I propose a new theory of dynamic semantics, in which a common ground consists of multiple information states, as many as the number of the participants in a conversation. Moreover, each information state is structured as a set of epistemic alternatives, which is a set of possible information states of a participant in the context. Based on this semantics, the properties of specific indefinites are explained.

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A Study on the Presentation of Grammar in the Korean Textbook for Korean Language Learners Based on the Discourse and Context (외국인 학습자용 한국어 문법 교재의 문법 제시 방안 연구 - 담화·맥락 정보를 중심으로 -)

  • Jung, Mijin
    • Journal of Korean language education
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.307-329
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the presentation of Korean grammar on the Korean grammar textbooks for foreigners. Through the results, this study suggests some examples of grammar based on the discourse and context. Since the communicative approach received much attention, some Korean language forms have been researched in the discourse and context. In that sense, we need to survey the grammars presented in the grammar textbooks. The expressions of Korean epistemic modality and discourse function, ('-지요, -잖아(요), -군요', '-기는 하다') in the grammar textbooks have been analyzed. These expressions need to be described with much contextual and situational information and presented in the discourse. However it is a little insufficient to supply a proper amount of information for Korean language learners. To overcome the deficiency, this study presents some situational and contextual information of certain language forms.

Reliability based seismic fragility analysis of bridge

  • Kia, M.;Bayat, M.;Emadi, A.;Kutanaei, S. Soleimani;Ahmadi, H.R
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, a reliability-based approach has been implemented to develop seismic analytical fragility curves of highway bridges. A typical bridge class of the Central and South-eastern United States (CSUS) region was selected. Detailed finite element modelling is presented and Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) is used to capture the behavior of the bridge from linear to nonlinear behavior. Bayesian linear regression method is used to define the demand model. A reliability approach is implemented to generate the analytical fragility curves and the proposed approach is compared with the conventional fragility analysis procedure.

An improvement on fuzzy seismic fragility analysis using gene expression programming

  • Ebrahimi, Elaheh;Abdollahzadeh, Gholamreza;Jahani, Ehsan
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.83 no.5
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    • pp.577-591
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    • 2022
  • This paper develops a comparatively time-efficient methodology for performing seismic fragility analysis of the reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in the presence of uncertainty sources. It aims to appraise the effectiveness of any variation in the material's mechanical properties as epistemic uncertainty, and the record-to-record variation as aleatory uncertainty in structural response. In this respect, the fuzzy set theory, a well-known 𝛼-cut approach, and the Genetic Algorithm (GA) assess the median of collapse fragility curves as a fuzzy response. GA is requisite for searching the maxima and minima of the objective function (median fragility herein) in each membership degree, 𝛼. As this is a complicated and time-consuming process, the authors propose utilizing the Gene Expression Programming-based (GEP-based) equation for reducing the computational analysis time of the case study building significantly. The results indicate that the proposed structural analysis algorithm on the derived GEP model is able to compute the fuzzy median fragility about 33.3% faster, with errors less than 1%.

A Delta- and Attention-based Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Architecture model for Rainfall-runoff Modeling

  • Ahn, Kuk-Hyun;Yoon, Sunghyun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2022.05a
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    • pp.35-35
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    • 2022
  • 최근에 딥 러닝(Deep learning) 기반의 많은 방법들이 수문학적 모형 및 예측에서 의미있는 결과를 보여주고 있지만 더 많은 연구가 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 수자원의 가장 대표적인 모델링 구조인 강우유출의 관계의 규명에 대한 모형을 Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) 기반의 변형 된 방법으로 제시하고자 한다. 구체적으로 본 연구에서는 반응변수인 유출량에 대한 직접적인 고려가 아니라 그의 1차 도함수 (First derivative)로 정의되는 Delta기반으로 모형을 구축하였다. 또한, Attention 메카니즘 기반의 모형을 사용함으로써 강우유출의 관계의 규명에 있어 정확성을 향상시키고자 하였다. 마지막으로 확률 기반의 예측를 생성하고 이에 대한 불확실성의 고려를 위하여 Denisty 기반의 모형을 포함시켰고 이를 통하여 Epistemic uncertainty와 Aleatory uncertainty에 대한 상대적 정량화를 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 제시되는 모형의 효용성 및 적용성을 평가하기 위하여 미국 전역에 위치하는 총 507개의 유역의 일별 데이터를 기반으로 모형을 평가하였다. 결과적으로 본 연구에서 제시한 모형이 기존의 대표적인 딥 러닝 기반의 모형인 LSTM 모형과 비교하였을 때 높은 정확성뿐만 아니라 불확실성의 표현과 정량화에 대한 유용한 것으로 확인되었다.

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A Study on Airline Goods Marketing Factors Affecting Brand Loyalty (브랜드 충성도에 영향을 미치는 항공사 굿즈 마케팅 영향요인 연구)

  • Changsup Yang;Sanghak Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.56-71
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    • 2023
  • This paper describes the significant effects of customer's PAD emotional response according to consumption value of airline goods on brand charisma, brand attitude, and brand loyalty. The result shows that among the consumption values, epistemic value, emotional value, and self-expressive value have a positive effect on PAD emotional response. In addition it was found that the PAD emotional response had positive influence on brand charisma but had no effect on brand attitude. Brand charisma was found to have significant positive influence on brand attitude and both brand charisma and brand attitude had positive effect on brand loyalty. Through the results of this study, airline goods products are an effective means to increase brand loyalty. Further more, this study provides academic and business implications for effective airline goods marketing.

On the 'realization' meaning of possibility expressions - '-ul swu iss-' and its counterparts in Japanese and Chinese - (가능 표현의 실현 용법에 대하여 - '-을 수 있-' 및 일본어·중국어의 대응 표현을 중심으로 -)

  • Kang, Yeongri;Xu, Cuie;Park, Jinho
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.50
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    • pp.313-346
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    • 2018
  • It is noted that generally speaking, the expressing of actualization or non-actualization of events is not the main role of possibility for the utilization of expressions. In spite of this fact, it is possible to see many examples in which possibility expressions represent actual events, and impossibility expressions represent a type of non-actualization in relation to events. This effect can be described as a semantic extension, by which the participant-internal possibility is extended to actualization due to participant-internal factors, and the participant-external possibility is extended to the actualization due to participant-external factors. When the related possibility expressions are used in this extended sense, they express the dynamic evaluative meaning of 'desirability' of the realized event, while it is determined that when the impossibility expressions are used in this extended sense, they are seen to express the evaluative meaning of 'regretfulness' about the non-actualization of the event. In Modern Japanese, it is noted that there are a few expressions of ability and possibility. They can be largely divided into four types of expressions, according to their origins or uses of expression, which are 'ability verbs', affixes '-れる/られる(-reru/rareru)', '-できる(-dekiru)', and '-得る(-eru)'. They can all express participant-internal possibility and participant-external non-deontic possibility. While 'ability verbs', affixes '-れる/られる' and '-できる' can express participant-external deontic possibility, '-得る' cannot. However, '-得る' is the only possible element to designate the event of a epistemic possibility. Also, the four types of expressions have the usage of conveying 'actualization/non-actualization,' as is the case of the Korean language. However in Japanese, in fact adjectives cannot be associated with 'ability verbs' or 'ability affixes.' Thus the expressions of 'regrets' should in that case depend on the use contexts, unlike the expression 'adj+-지 못하다' as noted in Korean. The ability and possibility in Modern Chinese are mainly expressed by means of the four auxiliary verbs '能($n{\acute{e}}ng$)', '会(huì)', '可以(kěyǐ)' and '可能 ($k{\check{e}}n{\acute{e}}ng$)'. '能' and '会' along with '可以' can all convey participant-internal possibility. In this way '能' and '可以' can express participant-external possibility. Only '会' and '可能' can express epistemic possibility. As for 'actualization,' among the four auxiliary verbs, only '能' can represent actualization. Also, among the negatives of the four auxiliary verbs, only '沒能' can represent non-actualization.