• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.228-236
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• 2011

Emotion recognition plays an important role in the research area of human-computer interaction, and it allows a more natural and more human-like communication between humans and computer. Most of previous work on emotion recognition focused on extracting emotions from face, speech or EEG information separately. Therefore, a novel approach is presented in this paper, including face, speech and EEG, to recognize the human emotion. The individual matching scores obtained from face, speech, and EEG are combined using a weighted-summation operation, and the fused-score is utilized to classify the human emotion. In the experiment results, the proposed approach gives an improvement of more than 18.64% when compared to the most successful unimodal approach, and also provides better performance compared to approaches integrating two modalities each other. From these results, we confirmed that the proposed approach achieved a significant performance improvement and the proposed method was very effective.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.37-53
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• 2006

SPI (Software Process Improvement) activities have been considered one of the crucial approaches to achieve high quality, productivity and timely delivery of software products and services. The basic premise of SPI model is that higher maturity levels lead to better performance. In this research, the relationships between SPI results and performance were empirically investigated with Korean software companies. CMM key process areas were categorized into two dimensions, 'Process Implementation' and 'Quantitative Management'. The relationship between process implementation and performance was significant, but the relationship between quantitative management and performance was insignificant. The control variable, size of OU(Organizational Unit), did not have significant impact on the relation ships between SPI activities and OU performance.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.166-171
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• 2005

With development of the database, there are too many data on process variables and the manufacturing process for the traditional statistical process control methods to identify the process variables related with assignable causes. Data mining is useful in this situation and provides variety of approaches for improving the process. In this paper, we applied control charts to monitor the process and if assignable causes are detected, then we applied the SVM technique and the sequence pattern analysis to find out the process variables suspected. These techniques made possible to predict the behavior of process variables. We illustrated our proposed methods with real manufacturing process data.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.57-73
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• 2002

Recent interests in total quality management (TQM) and business excellence (BE) had been fuelled with a range of national and regional awards. These awards are being increasingly used by organisations as part of the business improvement process and strategic benchmarking. This paper reviews the concepts and approaches of performance measurement (PM) and discusses the integration of PM with the TQM and BE philosophies. A TQM-BE-PM framework with a set of self-assessment checklists was developed. In order to complement the literature base with empirical evidence, an industry survey was conducted and a trial implementation of the framework was carried out in a leading manufacturing firm in Hong Kong. The self-assessment performance data of the fm was evaluated and then benchmarked with the industry averages obtained from the survey. This paper presents the empirical findings and discusses the applicability of the framework in measuring and benchmarking organisational performance toward continual improvement.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.207-222
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• 2021

Coffee is the most frequently consumed functional beverage world wide. The average daily coffee consumption is increasing. This crop, which plays an important role in the global economy is under great threat from climate change. To with stand the current climate change, farmers have to learn crop cultivation techniques, strategies to protect crops from diseases, and understand which type of seed varieties to use to avoid crop loss. The present review briefly discusses the coffee cultivation techniques, impact of climate changes on coffee production, processing techniques of coffee, and the importance of coffee in our society, including its chemical composition and prevention against, major diseases. Furthermore, the importance and role of advanced nanotechnology along with molecular approaches for coffee crop improvement and facing challenges are explained.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.293-300
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• 2017

Various approaches have been tried in an effort to improve the power performance of a flapping tidal stream turbine after it was introduced as an alternative to conventional rotary turbines. Among the different approaches, researches on mimicking the morphology and behavior of animals have been conducted. In this study, we utilized a flapper to mimic the multi-joint pectoral fin of a Manta-ray and investigated its effect on power generation. Experiments were conducted by a dual flapping apparatus with rigid and flexible flappers in a towing tank facility. First, in order to determine the conditions that can produce high power generation, the performances of the dual rigid flappers were compared when input arm angles and frequencies are changed, and the two conditions $40^{\circ}$, 0.2 Hz and $40^{\circ}$, 0.3 Hz for the input arm angle, frequency were selected. When the mimicked flexible flapper was used instead of the front rigid flapper and the rear one, the power was improved by an average of 22% and 38% in the experimental conditions, respectively. Moreover, it was recognized from the apparent camber observed during the experiment that the flexible flapper had been successfully applied. If the feasibility of the Manta-Ray mimicked flapper is improved through subsequent researches, the flapping tidal turbine can be a viable alternative to rotary turbines in the near future.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.255-286
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• 2008

에너지 요인분석의 한계와 확장을 위하여 요인분석과 계량모형의 결합을 시도하였다. 에너지 원단위 효과의 변화 결정 요인을 계량적 방법으로 추정하고, 에너지 원단위 효과와 계량모형의 에너지 효율 변화를 비교하였다. 에너지 원단위 효과를 이용한 확장모형에서 에너지 가격이 오르면 에너지 원단위 효과가 개선되는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 그리고 계량모형에서 에너지 효율 변수의 대변수인 시간추세의 준탄력성을 살펴보면, 단기에서는 -0.02로 장기에서는 -0.04로 서서히 완만한 에너지 효율 개선을 보이고 있다. 마지막으로 요인분해 결과와 계량모형의 결과를 비교하면, 전체 제조업과 8개 제조업 업종 중 4개 업종의 경우 에너지 효율의 개선 방향이 일치하는 결과를 보이고 있다. 요인분해의 결과와 계량모형의 결과 비교에서 나타나듯이, 두 방법이 서로 교류할 수 없는 방법이 아니라는 점을 확인하였다. 향후 학문적 정책적 노력에 따라 최소한 서로 보완할 수 있는 여지가 충분히 있음을 보였다. 따라서 이러한 연구가 지속될 수 있는 학문적 정책적 노력이 필요하다고 할 수 있다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.1279-1294
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• 2016

전자상거래, 전자정부 등 사이버 공간에서 활동 증가에 따라 안전하고, 신뢰성있는 정보화 기술 활용을 위한 정보보호의 중요성이 날로 높아지고 있다. 이에 미국, 영국을 비롯한 주요 선진국은 자국의 정보보호 강화를 위해 지속적으로 예산을 확대해 나가고 있다. 우리나라도 정보보호를 차세대 먹거리 산업 및 신성장동력 산업으로 육성하겠다는 계획을 발표하는 등 정보보호에 대한 관심이 지속적으로 높아지고 있다. 그러나 높아지는 관심과 필요성에 비해 우리나라의 정보보호 예산은 소폭 확대되었고, 정보보호 예산 부족이 우리나라의 정보보호 산업 성장 저해 요소로 지속적으로 지적되고 있다. 또한 정보보호 예산 편성 방안도 전체적인 정보보호 내용을 포괄하지 못하고, 정보화 사업 내에서 일부 보안 SW, HW, 서비스에 국한되어 요구가 가능하도록 되어 있어 명확한 예산 파악 및 실질적인 예산 확대에 어려움을 야기한다. 국가 전체적인 정보보호 역량 강화를 위해서는 정보보호 예산 및 투자의 확대가 필수적이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 우리나라의 정보보호 예산 현황 및 편성 방안에 대해서 검토하고, 미국의 정보보호 예산 현황 및 편성 방안을 분석하여 효과적인 정보보호 예산 확대 및 개선 방안을 제안하였다.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.212-219
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• 2019

This paper reviews recent approaches to develop composite polymer-containing coatings by plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) using various low-molecular fractions of superdispersed polytetrafluoroethylene (SPTFE). The features of the unique approaches to form the composite polymer-containing coating on the surface of MA8 magnesium alloy were summarized. Improvement in the corrosion and tribological behavior of the polymer-containing coating can be attributed to the morphology and insulating properties of the surface layers and solid lubrication effect of the SPTFE particles. Such multifunctional coatings have high corrosion resistance ($R_p=3.0{\times}10^7{\Omega}cm^2$) and low friction coefficient (0.13) under dry wear conditions. The effect of dispersity and ${\xi}$-potential of the nanoscale materials ($ZrO_2$ and $SiO_2$) used as electrolyte components for the plasma electrolytic oxidation on the composition and properties of the coatings was investigated. Improvement in the protective properties of the coatings with the incorporated nanoparticles was explained by the greater thickness of the protective layer, relatively low porosity, and the presence of narrow non-through pores. The impedance modulus measured at low frequency for the zirconia-containing layer (${\mid}Z{\mid}_{f=0.01Hz}=1.8{\times}10^6{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^2$) was more than one order of magnitude higher than that of the PEO-coating formed in the nanoparticles-free electrolyte (${\mid}Z{\mid}_{f=0.01Hz}=5.4{\times}10^4{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^2$).

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제59권2호
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• pp.109-127
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• 2014

Maize is one of the most important food and feed crops in the world including Southeast Asia. In spite of numberous efforts with conventional breeding, the maize productions remain low and the loss of yields by drought and downy mildew are still severe in Asia. Genetic improvement of maize has been performed with molecular marker and genetic engineering. Because maize is one of the most widely studied crop for its own genome and has tremendous diversity and variant, maize is considered as a forefront crop in development and estimation of molecular markers for agricultural useful trait in genetics and breeding. Using QTL (Quantitative Trait Loci) and MAS (Marker Assisted Breeding), molecular breeders are able to accelerate the development of drought tolerance or downy mildew resistance maize genotype. The present paper overviews QTL/MAS approaches towards improvement of maize production against drought and downy mildew. We also discuss here the trends and importance of molecular marker and mapping population in maize breeding.