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On Combining MOS and Histogram in a Subjective Evaluation Method

  • Sehyug Kwon
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.176-183
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    • 1995
  • Mean opinion score (MOS) method has been used in many areas to quantify opinions of respondents not only in survey research but in evaluating the parameters of population that are not measurable of are technically hard to be measured. Histogram is an important graphical technique because of the role it plays in describing categorical data as well as quantitative. In MOS method, subjective opinions of respondents are quantified by opinion scores and the arithmetic means of opinion scores have been used to describe the interesting population. Since opinion scores are polytomous, the values of arithmetic means have little meanings. In this paper, cumulative percentage curves as a function of the means of opinion scores are derived by combining means of opinion scores and histograms. It is proposed for better interpretation to opinion scores in MOS method, one of subjective evaluation methods.

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Developing Mathematics Creativity with Spreadsheets

  • Deane Arganbright
    • Research in Mathematical Education
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    • v.9 no.3 s.23
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    • pp.187-201
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    • 2005
  • The spreadsheet Microsoft Excel is the most widely used mathematical tool in today's workplace. Moreover, it is also an outstanding means for developing a surprisingly wide range of creative and innovative educational uses within such areas as mathematical modeling, visualization, and instruction. The spreadsheet's format provides us with a tool that closely parallels the way in which we naturally carry out problem solving, while the spreadsheet creation process itself illuminates the underlying mathematical concepts. In addition, the spreadsheet's visual layout allows us to introduce a broad variety of challenging and interesting topics, and to design creative demonstrations through eye-catching animated graphics. The material presented comes from actual classroom mathematics teaching experience in both industrially advanced and developing nations. A series of highly visual interactive illustrations from mathematics, the natural and social sciences, computing, engineering, and the arts provide a number of usable examples. The material discussed is applicable at diverse levels, ranging from schools and universities through adult education and in-service teacher development programs.

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Application of Vegetation Indices for Forest Degradation Using Landsat TM Data

  • Kim, Choen;Joung, Khang-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 1998.09a
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    • pp.192-197
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    • 1998
  • This paper demonstrates that it is feasible to evaluate forest degradation and to detect deforestation in the 8156$km^2$ study area affected by expand farming using vegetation indices derived from Landsat TM data. The NDVI-growing stock relation was applied on th Landsat TM data and a 3 second grid DEM, whose coverages could improve the assessment of forest degradation and also estimate the rate of change of forest cover area depending on elevation intervals. The strength of the relationship between the ratio of the greenness and brightness indices and forest degradation conditions would have been more interesting in the deforested areas which were converted to crop farming land.

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Non-contact Ultrasonic Technique for the Thin Defect Evaluation by the Lamb-EMAT (비접촉 Lamb-EMAT를 이용한 두께감육 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Tae-Hyeong;Park, Ik-Geun;Lee, Cheol-Gu;Kim, Yong-Gwon;Kim, Hyeon-Muk;Jo, Yong-Sang
    • Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.194-196
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    • 2005
  • Ultrasonic guided waves are gaining increasing attention for the inspection of platelike and rodlike structures. At the same time, inspection methods that do not require contact with the test piece are being developed for advanced applications. This paper capitalizes on recent advances in the areas of guided wave ultrasonics and noncontact ultrasonics to demonstrate a superior method for the nondestructive detection of thinning defects simulating hidden corrosion in thin aluminum plates. The proposed approach uses EMAT(electro-magnetic acoustic transducer) for the noncontact generation and detection of guided plate waves. Interesting features in the dispersive behavior of selected guided modes are used for the detection of plate thinning. It is shown that mode cutoff measurements provide a qualitative detection of thinning defects. Measurement of the mode group velocity can be also used to quantify of thinning depth.

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Synthesis of Functional Microspheres and Biomedical Applications (기능성 Microspheres의 합성 및 생의학적 응용)

  • Kim, J.H.;Kim, W.S.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1993 no.05
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    • pp.7-14
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    • 1993
  • Nowadays, microspheres are expected to be applied to biomedical areas and many studies are being performed. For biomedical applications, many kinds of microspheres were synthesized by emulsion polymerization, emulsifier-free emu]sion polymerization, and emulsifier-free emulsion polymerization with ionic surface-active comonomers. Further synthesis techniques about microencapsulation and magnetic microspheres are introduced. Among the practical applications of microspheres, some interesting subjects are introduced. These include solid-phase immunoassays, labeling and identification of lymphocyte populations, extracorporeal and hemoperfusion systems, drug delivery systems, and immunomagnetic cell separation. In addition, basic theories, problems and research trends are also introduced.

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Analysis of Approaches of Integrating e-Marketplace with ERP in B2B EC (B2B EC에서의 전자시장과 ERP의 통합 접근방식 분석)

  • Lim, Gyoo-Gun
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2003
  • Among EC areas. the B2B EC market is being spotlighted as an important interesting research area considering its size and the potential impact on companeies and the whole society. In comparison with private consumers in B2C EC. business buyers in B2B EC have to precisely keep track of the purchase records. and integrate them with the buyer's e-procurement system, which might have been implemented as a part of integrated ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. There are three approaches for such integration between ERP and e-marketplace in B2B EC; Two previous approaches are Inside-Out approach and Outside-In approach. And a newly, one is b-cart approach. In this paper, we try to survey these three approaches and make a comparison analysis. From this research. we identify that the b-cart approach is the most efficient framework in integrating ERP with e-marketplace in B2B EC.

Abnormal Human Activity Recognition System Based on CNN For Elderly Home Care (노인 홈 케어를위한 CNN 기반의 비정상 인간 활동 인식 시스템)

  • Valavi, Arezoo;Lee, Hyo Jong
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.542-544
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    • 2019
  • Changes in a person's health affect one's lifestyle and work activities. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), abnormal activity is growing faster in people aged 60 or more than any other age group in almost every country. This trend steadily continues and expected to increase further in the near future. Abnormal activity put these people at high risk of expected incidents since most of these people live alone. Human abnormal activity analysis is a challenging, useful and interesting problem among the researchers and its particularly crucial task in life and health care areas. In this paper, we discuss the problem of abnormal activities of old people lives alone at home. We propose Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based model to detect the abnormal behaviors of elderlies by utilizing six simulated action data from daily life actions.

Simulations of the Lunar Exosphere: Initial Conditions of atomic species near the Surface of the Moon

  • Kim, Sang Joon;Lee, Dong Wook;Park, Jae Kyun
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.57.4-58
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    • 2018
  • It is interesting to find the best exospheric model that can account for the observed characteristics of the lunar coma and tail simultaneously. Recently, the initial abundances of atomic species near surface are found to be different depending on certain local areas. We will present the influence of different initial conditions of localized sources on the characteristics of the lunar exosphere, and also present time-dependent simulations showing the distributions of atomic species around the lunar coma and the final stage of the lunar tail. Based on our updated 3-D lunar model, we will present resulted physical parameters of the lunar sodium coma and tail.

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Location-Based Saliency Maps from a Fully Connected Layer using Multi-Shapes

  • Kim, Hoseung;Han, Seong-Soo;Jeong, Chang-Sung
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.166-179
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    • 2021
  • Recently, with the development of technology, computer vision research based on the human visual system has been actively conducted. Saliency maps have been used to highlight areas that are visually interesting within the image, but they can suffer from low performance due to external factors, such as an indistinct background or light source. In this study, existing color, brightness, and contrast feature maps are subjected to multiple shape and orientation filters and then connected to a fully connected layer to determine pixel intensities within the image based on location-based weights. The proposed method demonstrates better performance in separating the background from the area of interest in terms of color and brightness in the presence of external elements and noise. Location-based weight normalization is also effective in removing pixels with high intensity that are outside of the image or in non-interest regions. Our proposed method also demonstrates that multi-filter normalization can be processed faster using parallel processing.

Classification and Prediction Of A Health Status Of HIV/AIDS Patients: Artificial Neural Network Model

  • Lee, Chang W.;N.K. Kwak
    • Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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    • 2001.01a
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    • pp.473-477
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    • 2001
  • Artificial neural network (ANN) is known to identify relationships even when some of the input data are very complex, ill-defined and ill-structured. One of the advantages in ANN is that it can discriminate the linearly inseparable data. This study presents an application of ANN to classify and predict the symptomatic status of HIV/AIDS patients. Even though ANN techniques have been applied to a variety of areas, this study has a substantial contribution to the HIV/AIDS care and prevention planning area. ANN model in classifying both the HIV and AIDS status of HIV/AIDS patients is developed and analyzed. The diagnostic accuracy of the ANN in classifying both the HIV status and AIDS status of HIV/AIDS status is evaluated. Several different ANN topologies are applied to AIDS Cost and Services Utilization Survey (ACSUS) datasets in order to demonstrate the model\`s capability. If ANN design models are different, it would be interesting to see what influence would have on classification of HIV/AIDS-related persons.

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