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THE VALIDITY OF HEALTH ASSESSMENTS: RESOLVING SOME RECENT DIFFERENCES

  • Hyland Michael E.
    • 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1994.02b
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    • pp.137-141
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    • 1994
  • The purpose of this paper is to examine what is meant by a ralid measure of health. Guyatt, Kirshner and Jaeschke propose that health tests should be designed so as to have one of several kinds of validity: 'longitudinal construct validity' for those which are used for longitudinal research designs, and 'cross-sectional construct validity' for those which are used for cross-sectional designs. Williams and Naylor argue that this approach to test classification and validation confuses what a test purports to measure with the purpose for which it is used, and that some tests have multiple uses. A review of the meanings of validity in the psychologica test literature shows that both sets of authors use the term validity in an idiosyncratic way. Although the use of a test (evaluated by content validity) should not be conflated with whether the test actually measures a specified construct (evaluated by construct validity);' if health is actually made up of several constructs (as suggested in Hyland's interactional model) then there may be an association between types of construct and types of purpose. Evidence is reviewed that people make several, independent judgements about their health: cognitive perceptions of health problems are likely to be more sensitive to change in a longitudinal research design. whereas emotional evaluations of health provide less bias in cross-sectional designs. Thus. a classification of health measures in terms of the purpose of the test may parallel a classification in terms of what tests purport to measure.

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An SVM-based Face Verification System Using Multiple Feature Combination and Similarity Space (다중 특징 결합과 유사도 공간을 이용한 SVM 기반 얼굴 검증 시스템)

  • 김도형;윤호섭;이재연
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.808-816
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    • 2004
  • This paper proposes the method of implementation of practical online face verification system based on multiple feature combination and a similarity space. The main issue in face verification is to deal with the variability in appearance. It seems difficult to solve this issue by using a single feature. Therefore, combination of mutually complementary features is necessary to cope with various changes in appearance. From this point of view, we describe the feature extraction approaches based on multiple principal component analysis and edge distribution. These features are projected on a new intra-person/extra-person similarity space that consists of several simple similarity measures, and are finally evaluated by a support vector machine. From the experiments on a realistic and large database, an equal error rate of 0.029 is achieved, which is a sufficiently practical level for many real- world applications.

Reliability Analysis of Mechanical Component with Multiple Failure Modes (다수의 고장모드를 가지는 기계부품의 신뢰성 분석)

  • Chang, Mu Seong;Choi, Byung Oh;Kang, Bo Sik;Park, Jong Won;Lee, Choong Sung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.37 no.9
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    • pp.1169-1174
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    • 2013
  • Most products are indeed governed by multiple failure modes. However, there are few cases in which reliability analysis applies to only one failure mode at a time. Furthermore, reliability data do not include information about failure modes, or the reliability analysis is performed using a representative failure mode. The Weibull shape parameter for failure modes is more important than one for products in the reliability qualification test. This paper presents reliability analysis methods for a mechanical component with multiple failure modes. These methods include the competing failure modes (CFM) method and the mixed Weibull method. Pneumatic cylinder test data with three failure modes are presented to estimate the shape parameter for each separate failure mode. In addition, reliability measures (B10 life, characteristic life) of the pneumatic cylinder considering three failure modes were compared with those assuming a single failure mode.

Power based scheduling for Collaborative MIMO system (Collaborative MIMO 시스템을 위한 전력기반 스케줄링 방식)

  • Kim, Young-Joon;Lee, Jung-Seung;Baik, Doo-Kwon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.12A
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    • pp.1209-1216
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    • 2008
  • In order to maximize spectrum efficiency and data rate MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output) is adopted to wireless system. OFDM-based WiMAX and LTE accommodate MIMO as mandatory technology. STC(Space Time Coding) and SM(Spatial Multiplexing) are used in downlink while in uplink C-MIMO(Collaborative MIMO) is used to improve data throughput. In this paper conventional pairing schemes, RPS(Random Pairing Scheduling) and DPS(Determinant Pairing Scheduling) are analyzed. From the analysis the performance of DPS algorithm is better than that of RPS because DPS measures orthogonal factor between paired users. However, there are potential problems such as hardware complexity and performance. To overcome the issues Power-Based Scheduling(PBS) algorithm is proposed for C-MIMO. PBS can provide higher performance compared to RPS and dramatically reduce hardware complexity compared to DPS

Exploratory study on the based on big data for fire prevention of multiple shops (다중이용업소의 화재예방을 위한 빅데이터 기반의 탐색적 연구)

  • Jeon, Byungkwan;Lee, Sung-Won
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2018
  • In this research, in order to prevent the fire of multiple users who are concerned about many human life damage, based on the statistical data of the National Fire Protection Agency's National Fire Information Center and the Fire Defense Administration Fire Defense Administration, Attempts were made on the exploratory approach to measures that can reduce the topic of. In this research, using the preventive firefighting administrative statistics of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, we analyzed by focusing on the effectiveness of multiple users' firefighting safety education. Through analysis results we could infer that fire safety education does not have effectiveness in actual fire prevention. Through previous research, we found out that the cause is insufficient for the management of fire safety education, thereby deriving an improvement plan to develop a systematic fire safety education system.

A Blockchain-enabled Multi-domain DDoS Collaborative Defense Mechanism

  • Huifen Feng;Ying Liu;Xincheng Yan;Na Zhou;Zhihong Jiang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.916-937
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    • 2023
  • Most of the existing Distributed Denial-of-Service mitigation schemes in Software-Defined Networking are only implemented in the network domain managed by a single controller. In fact, the zombies for attackers to launch large-scale DDoS attacks are actually not in the same network domain. Therefore, abnormal traffic of DDoS attack will affect multiple paths and network domains. A single defense method is difficult to deal with large-scale DDoS attacks. The cooperative defense of multiple domains becomes an important means to effectively solve cross-domain DDoS attacks. We propose an efficient multi-domain DDoS cooperative defense mechanism by integrating blockchain and SDN architecture. It includes attack traceability, inter-domain information sharing and attack mitigation. In order to reduce the length of the marking path and shorten the traceability time, we propose an AS-level packet traceability method called ASPM. We propose an information sharing method across multiple domains based on blockchain and smart contract. It effectively solves the impact of DDoS illegal traffic on multiple domains. According to the traceability results, we designed a DDoS attack mitigation method by replacing the ACL list with the IP address black/gray list. The experimental results show that our ASPM traceability method requires less data packets, high traceability precision and low overhead. And blockchain-based inter-domain sharing scheme has low cost, high scalability and high security. Attack mitigation measures can prevent illegal data flow in a timely and efficient manner.

Quality Factor: A new Bibliometric Measure for Assessing the Quality of Faculty Research Performance (Quality Factor: 교수연구업적평가를 위한 새로운 계량 지표)

  • Choi, Eun-Ju;Yang, Kiduk;Lee, Hye-Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.287-304
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    • 2016
  • This paper introduces a new bibliometric measure called Quality Factor, which assesses multiple facets of faculty research performance. The computation of Quality factor is based on a combination of publication count, citation count, h-index, and Impact Factor. In order to analyze the relationship between Quality Factor and other bibliometric measures (publication count, citation count, h-index, g-index, Impact Factor), the study collected publication data of 189 Korean Library and Information Science professors from 2001 to 2014 to produce the rankings of the faculty by each bibliometric measure and computed Spearman's rank correlations between the rankings. The overall results showed Quality Factor to be correlated to citation-driven measures (citation count, h-index, g-index), but the scatterplot as well as rank-interval analysis showed Quality Factor to be distinctive and more discriminating than other measures.

An Integrated Methodology of Knowledge-based Rules with Fuzzy Logic for Material Handling Equipment Selection (전문가 지식 및 퍼지 이론을 연계한 물류설비 선정 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Cho Chi-Woon
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.57-73
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    • 2006
  • This paper describes a methodology for automating the material handling equipment (MHE) evaluation and selection processes by combining knowledge-based rules and fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach. The methodology is proposed to solve the MHE selection problems under fuzzy environment. At the primary stage, the most appropriate MHE type among the alternatives for each material flow link is searched. Knowledge-based rules are employed to retrieve the alternatives for each material flow link. To consider and compare the alternatives, multiple design factors are considered. These factors include both quantitative and qualitative measures. The qualitative measures are converted to numerical measures using fuzzy logic. The concept of fuzzy logic is applied to evaluation matrices used for the selection of the most suitable MHE through a fuzzy linguistic approach. Thus, this paper demonstrates the potential applicability of fuzzy theory in the MHE applications and provides a systemic guidance in the decision-making process.

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An Evaluation of Cross-National Information and Communication Technology Practices Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Index (국가 정보통신기술의 활용성과 평가: 자료포락분석과 맘퀴스트지수 분석을 중심으로)

  • Yang, Chang Hoon
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.41-72
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    • 2013
  • In this study, a comparison has been made among the countries regarding recent ICT practices being performed based on the measures of relative efficiency and productivity growth that use multiple inputs and outputs. Efficiency measures a country's ICT performance relative to a benchmark at a given point of time and productivity measures a country's performance over a period of time. An output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Index has been used for comparison among 28 countries over the period 2008-2011 by incorporating 9 variables. The empirical findings disclose gross inefficiencies in national ICT practices, which show that there is room for enhancing output gains through increased efficiency in their operations. In addition, 13 countries have performed better than others in total factor productivity mainly because of their improvement in the underlying technological progress in ICT. For those technically inefficient countries, however, technical inefficiency may hamper the growth of total factor productivity of ICT practices.

A Study on the Analysis and Protection of Lightning Accident in Petrochemical Plant Wastewater Storage Tank (석유화학공장 폐수 저장 탱크의 낙뢰사고 분석과 보호방안에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Bang-Un;Oh, Gil-Jung;Woo, In-Sung
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.107-113
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    • 2019
  • Recently, due to global warming, the trend shows an increase in number of lightning strikes which increase risk regarding industry infrastructures. Especially in case where the lightning strikes infrastructures including refinery, petorchemical plant facilities or storage tanks, it can cause power failures, electrical machine malfunction and damage which can lead to fire explosion and multiple calamities. Therefore, detailed case studies must be conducted through a systematic research regarding lightning strike accidents in order to understand its mechanism and devise preventive measures. This paper aims to study cases of explosion regarding waste water storage tanks in refineries and petrochemical plants in order to analyze its root cause and provide preventive measures for avoiding lightning related incidents.