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Application of practical education program of sensor instrumentation engineering using NI-ELVIS (NI-ELVIS를 활용한 센서계측공학의 실습교육 사례)

  • Lee, Byeung-Leul;Lee, Yong-Hee
    • The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.76-83
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    • 2011
  • In this paper we suggest an effective teaching plan for measurement engineering by utilizing the NI-ELVIS(National Instrument Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite). ELVIS is a development platform for LabVIEW-based design and prototyping environment. It consists of LabVIEW-based virtual instruments, a multifunctional data acquisition device, and a custom-designed benchtop workstation and prototyping board. Therefore it can replace the expensive instruments for the effective education in the area of electrical engineering. This platform can be applicable for the sensor instrumentation engineering study, though it is a multidisciplinary learning including electrical engineering, sensor technology, signal processing and data analysis. We hope this approach can be used for the other educational area related the electrical experimental education.

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A Systematic Review of Evidence for Education and Training Interventions in Microsurgery

  • Ghanem, Ali M.;Hachach-Haram, Nadine;Leung, Clement Chi Ming;Myers, Simon Richard
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.312-319
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    • 2013
  • Over the past decade, driven by advances in educational theory and pressures for efficiency in the clinical environment, there has been a shift in surgical education and training towards enhanced simulation training. Microsurgery is a technical skill with a steep competency learning curve on which the clinical outcome greatly depends. This paper investigates the evidence for educational and training interventions of traditional microsurgical skills courses in order to establish the best evidence practice in education and training and curriculum design. A systematic review of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PubMed databases was performed to identify randomized control trials looking at educational and training interventions that objectively improved microsurgical skill acquisition, and these were critically appraised using the BestBETs group methodology. The databases search yielded 1,148, 1,460, and 2,277 citations respectively. These were then further limited to randomized controlled trials from which abstract reviews reduced the number to 5 relevant randomised controlled clinical trials. The best evidence supported a laboratory based low fidelity model microsurgical skills curriculum. There was strong evidence that technical skills acquired on low fidelity models transfers to improved performance on higher fidelity human cadaver models and that self directed practice leads to improved technical performance. Although there is significant paucity in the literature to support current microsurgical education and training practices, simulated training on low fidelity models in microsurgery is an effective intervention that leads to acquisition of transferable skills and improved technical performance. Further research to identify educational interventions associated with accelerated skill acquisition is required.

Program Theory Evaluation of a Lifestyle Intervention Program for the Prevention and Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome (대사증후군 상태 개선을 위한 생활습관 중재프로그램의 프로그램 이론 평가)

  • Yoo, Seung-Hyun;Kim, Hye-Kyeong
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.165-175
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    • 2010
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the program theory of a lifestyle intervention program for the prevention and treatment of metabolic syndrome. Methods: The program evaluated is a tailored intervention for multiple health behavior associated with metabolic syndrome which is informed by theoretical constructs from the Intervention Mapping and Transtheoretical model. The program components include one-to-one health counseling, a self-management handbook, and a health diary. To evaluate program impact theory we examined the logic of program goals and objectives, intervention methods and strategies, and the theoretical constructs of program materials through document review and matrix building. Results: This evaluation has found that the intervention program applied social cognitive theory constructs to design intervention methods and strategies in addition to the Transtheoretical model: self-monitoring for goal setting and monitoring skill, outcome expectation for the benefits of health behavior change, and interaction with environment for observational learning through modeling. While the intervention addresses multiple determinants and behaviors, it is limited to an individual level and lacks social and environmental approaches. Following the Transtheoretical framework, the contents of the intervention materials were developed utilizing consciousness raising as a main strategy for earlier stages of change, and counterconditioning and stimulus control for later stages of change. Conclusion: Program theory evaluation can be a process of enhancing program validity. It would also be necessary for providing basis for efficient program implementation. When comparisons of program theory between similar programs are possible, program theory and validity will be strengthened when comparisons of program theories between similar programs are possible.

Tunnel Ventilation Controller Design Employing RLS-Based Natural Actor-Critic Algorithm (RLS 기반의 Natural Actor-Critic 알고리즘을 이용한 터널 환기제어기 설계)

  • Chu B.;Kim D.;Hong D.;Park J.;Chung J.T.;Kim T.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.53-54
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    • 2006
  • The main purpose of tunnel ventilation system is to maintain CO pollutant and VI (visibility index) under an adequate level to provide drivers with safe driving condition. Moreover, it is necessary to minimize power consumption used to operate ventilation system. To achieve the objectives, the control algorithm used in this research is reinforcement teaming (RL) method. RL is a goal-directed teaming of a mapping from situations to actions. The goal of RL is to maximize a reward which is an evaluative feedback from the environment. Constructing the reward of the tunnel ventilation system, two objectives listed above are included. RL algorithm based on actor-critic architecture and natural gradient method is adopted to the system. Also, the recursive least-squares (RLS) is employed to the learning process to improve the efficiency of the use of data. The simulation results performed with real data collected from existing tunnel are provided in this paper. It is confirmed that with the suggested controller, the pollutant level inside the tunnel was well maintained under allowable limit and the performance of energy consumption was improved compared to conventional control scheme.

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Data anomaly detection and Data fusion based on Incremental Principal Component Analysis in Fog Computing

  • Yu, Xue-Yong;Guo, Xin-Hui
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.3989-4006
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    • 2020
  • The intelligent agriculture monitoring is based on the perception and analysis of environmental data, which enables the monitoring of the production environment and the control of environmental regulation equipment. As the scale of the application continues to expand, a large amount of data will be generated from the perception layer and uploaded to the cloud service, which will bring challenges of insufficient bandwidth and processing capacity. A fog-based offline and real-time hybrid data analysis architecture was proposed in this paper, which combines offline and real-time analysis to enable real-time data processing on resource-constrained IoT devices. Furthermore, we propose a data process-ing algorithm based on the incremental principal component analysis, which can achieve data dimensionality reduction and update of principal components. We also introduce the concept of Squared Prediction Error (SPE) value and realize the abnormal detection of data through the combination of SPE value and data fusion algorithm. To ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of the algorithm, we design a regular-SPE hybrid model update strategy, which enables the principal component to be updated on demand when data anomalies are found. In addition, this strategy can significantly reduce resource consumption growth due to the data analysis architectures. Practical datasets-based simulations have confirmed that the proposed algorithm can perform data fusion and exception processing in real-time on resource-constrained devices; Our model update strategy can reduce the overall system resource consumption while ensuring the accuracy of the algorithm.

Light-Weight Mobile VR Platform using HMD with 6 Axis (6 축센서를 갖는 HMD 경량 모바일 VR Platform)

  • Kang, Yunhee;Kang, JungJu
    • Journal of Platform Technology
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2018
  • Recently VR environment is used in many areas including mobile learning, smart factory. However HMD(head-mounted display) is required to a dedicated and expensive system with high-end specification. When designing a VR system, it is needed to handle performance, mobility and usability. Many VR applications need to handle diverse sensors and user inputs continuously in a streaming manner. In this paper we design a VR mobile platform and implement a low-cost mobile VR HMD running on the platform. The VR HMD supports 3D contents delivery in a mobile manner. It is used to detect the motion detection based on angle value of a VR player from accelerator and gyro sensor. The MPU-6050, 6-axis sensor, is used to get a sensory value and the sensory value is taken as an input to a VR rendering server on a Unity game engine that is generated 3D images.

Design and Implementation of WBI System for Test and Diagnoses based on WWW (WWW기반에서 테스트 및 진단을 위한 WBI 시스템의 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Du-Gyu;Lee, Jae-Mu
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.28 no.12
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    • pp.938-946
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    • 2001
  • A web support open environment in which flexibility that allows it to be applied in the education field has gradually evolved but the WBI(Web Based Instruction) which compose it have many limitations and problems, as far as learning efficiency is concerned. In particular, existing web-based estimation systems just give information on whether learner's replies are 'correct' or 'incorrect' and offer the learners evaluations of results in terms of scores. Therefore it is difficult for the learners to get more detailed information about their shortcomings and errors. What is needed for the learners is that web based instruction systems diagnose learner's comprehension status, providing c causes: Why did the learners make the errors\ulcorner In this paper, we propose the development of a web-based instruction system that learners can access with their browsers at any time and no matter where they are. Our system has a facility that analyses learner's weak points and diagnoses error cause, giving advice to learners and more detailed error information than existing systems. By accumulating user behaviors, relevant individualized information on the learners can be given.

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A Study on Design of Young Children's Free Choice Activities Monitoring System Using NFG (NFC를 이용한 유아의 자유선택활동 모니터닝 시스템 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyung-min;Park, Hyun-sook;Kim, Jung-min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.567-569
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    • 2017
  • This is an example of ABSTRACT format Free-choice activity is child-directed time that young children decide to planning and acting for themselves.It is important time for young children to communicate freely with peers and activities through self-selecting, self-motivated and self-directed activity.Teachers want to maintain connectivity with young children and to work on specific learning goals and supporting friendships and modeling social skills and to make young children feel comfortable to explore in the classroom.However it is hard to gathering information about all children's activities fully by 1 teacher within limited class time and teaching environment.This study was conducted to monitoring system of free-choice activity and time selected by young children that make teachers to analysis the young children's activities effectively using NFC tags.

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Calculation of Detector Positions for a Source Localizing Radiation Portal Monitor System Using a Modified Iterative Genetic Algorithm

  • Jeon, Byoungil;Kim, Jongyul;Lim, Kiseo;Choi, Younghyun;Moon, Myungkook
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.212-221
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    • 2017
  • Background: This study aims to calculate detector positions as a design of a radioactive source localizing radiation portal monitor (RPM) system using an improved genetic algorithm. Materials and Methods: To calculate of detector positions for a source localizing RPM system optimization problem is defined. To solve the problem, a modified iterative genetic algorithm (MIGA) is developed. In general, a genetic algorithm (GA) finds a globally optimal solution with a high probability, but it is not perfect at all times. To increase the probability to find globally optimal solution rather, a MIGA is designed by supplementing the iteration, competition, and verification with GA. For an optimization problem that is defined to find detector positions that maximizes differences of detector signals, a localization method is derived by modifying the inverse radiation transport model, and realistic parameter information is suggested. Results and Discussion: To compare the MIGA and GA, both algorithms are implemented in a MATLAB environment. The performance of the GA and MIGA and that of the procedures supplemented in the MIGA are analyzed by computer simulations. The results show that the iteration, competition, and verification procedures help to search for globally optimal solutions. Further, the MIGA is more robust against falling into local minima and finds a more reliably optimal result than the GA. Conclusion: The positions of the detectors on an RPM for radioactive source localization are optimized using the MIGA. To increase the contrast of the measurements from each detector, a relationship between the source and the detectors is derived by modifying the inverse transport model. Realistic parameters are utilized for accurate simulations. Furthermore, the MIGA is developed to achieve a reliable solution. By utilizing results of this study, an RPM for radioactive source localization has been designed and will be fabricated soon.

A Study on the Space Usage by the New Hanok Plan Composition - Focused on the New Hanok in Jeollanam-do Province - (신한옥의 평면구성에 따른 공간활용상태에 관한 연구 - 전라남도 신한옥을 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Jin-A;Kim, Soo-Am
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2012
  • Developing the modern design of Hanok and providing support for the commercialization model development in recent years propelled by the New Hanok Support Strategies of the central government in conjunction with the New Hanok revitalization related projects reflecting local goverments. New Hanok revitalization, the rekindling and revaluing of human behaviors and interests in local goverments following the social and cultural changes of the past decades, has emeraged as an increasingly traditional area of concerning in New Hanok planning. In this paper we attempt to this discussion by describing recent projects in New Hanok revitalization in Jeollanam-do Province. Therefore, this study aims to examine the classification of compound knowledges based multidimensional relationship by using Self-Organizing Maps (SOM). SOM is an unsupervised learning neural network model for the analysis of high-dimensional input data. By using SOM, we were able to create a cluster map reflecting the characteristics of the New Hanok. In this case the pattern of the preference data was easily understood by visual analysis. Liking for compound knowledge deduced from this data was classified into 8 categories according to the compound knowledge properties of New Hanok. As a result, a systematic approach for analysis the characteristics of individual family and living environment of New Hanoks and 10 space usage patterns the changes in some aspects of New Hanok.