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Structural Analysis of Stone Pagoda in Miruksa Temple Site using Discrete Element Method (개별요소법을 이용한 미륵사지 석탑의 구조해석)

  • Kim Ho-Soo;Jung Sung-Jin;Hong Seok-Il
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.427-434
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    • 2006
  • The stone pagoda on the Miruksa temple site has a high value as architectural history, because this stone pagoda is one of the oldest and grandest stone pagodas which remain in Korea today. However, this stone pagoda has remained only six stones of the northeastern part, becased this stone pagoda was collapsed at past. Therefore, it is important to know the original structure and form of this stone pagoda. Hypotheses about collapse cause of this stone pagoda are presented as four cases: collapse by earthquake, collapse by fragility of ground, collapse by durability reduction, and collapse by lightning, On the basis of these four collapse hypotheses in this study, we investigate collapse phenomenon through the structural analysis using discrete element method and evaluate collapse causes of this stone pagoda.

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Diversity and origin of bottle gourd, Lagenaria

  • Yuasa, Hiroshi
    • Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2002.11b
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    • pp.13-14
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    • 2002
  • Bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, is one of the oldest cultivated plants. To bigin with, its fruit was used as a complete liquid bottle or container. It was a very widespread cultivated plant in prehistoric times, for example (there) is a report from Peru as early as between 13,000 B.C and 11,000 B.C. The dug-out finds in Japan proved to be about 95,000 years old according to the $^{14}$ C analysis. The bottle grourd was the most important plant before the invention of pottery in many areas of Asia, New Guinea, Polynesia, America, and Africa. I would like to suggest that there should be “The Bottle Gourd Age” prior to the Pottery Age.(중략)

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What the GTX and Grand Paris projects can learn from each other

  • Vivant, Emmanuel
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.64-69
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    • 2011
  • Paris has one of the world's oldest metropolitan railway systems and was also a pioneer when it introduced the RER in the 70s. With planning objectives comparable to the GTX, the RER aimed at serving outer suburbs while fully crossing the city center at higher speeds than the Metro. Maybe more relevant is the comparison between the planned Grand Paris Express and GTX projects, in terms of their planning ambitions and their development framework. This article will introduce the main planning ideas behind the Metro and the RER in Paris, and try to draw relevant comparisons with the GTX plan. It will also present the plans and financing framework for the Grand Paris Express and compare it with the BTO scheme contemplated for GTX, and draw some recommendations for successful implementation.

A Study on the methodology for Web-based Maintenance System Development of Light Rail Transit (웹기반의 경량전철 유지보수 정보화시스템 개발방법론에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Ho-Yong;Han, Seok-Yoon;Cho, Hong-Shik;Cho, Bong-Kwan
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.722-729
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    • 2007
  • The methodology for maintenance system development should overall be considered with all of task characteristic, schedule, and the technical condition of investment sources. This research applies Waterfall model to methodology for the development and construction of maintenance system through customizing the CD (Custom Development) procedure of "HSDM (Hyundai System Development Methodology)" based on information engineering. The waterfall model called as classic life cycle paradigm is defined for the sequent development procedure, which make progress a next step after that a previous step is admitted with thorough review. This model which is popular and the oldest paradigm is used for system development by four steps; demands analysis, design, construction, and maintenance. This methodology advances higher abstract step from higher lower step using top-down approach from concept definition to construction, which notices the end of a step whenever a step is over. Therefore, each step is exactly divided, and consequently the output is clearly yielded.

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Surgical Treatment of Mitral Valvular Disease (승모판막질환의 수술)

  • 이인성
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 1979
  • During the 4 years period to be reported, 34 operations were performed on the mitral valve in the department of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Korea University hospital, from Aug. 1975 to April 1979. At the first 1-year period, the closed technique was used in 12 patients. After that, open-heart surgery was used routinely; 8 patients had open mitral commissurotomy and 14 patients had valve replacement. There were 18 men and 16 women with sex ratio of 1.1: 1. The age of the patients varied widely from 18 years of the youngest to 46 years of the oldest-average aged of 32.5 years. All had symptoms and the mean duration of symptoms was 6 years and 1 month. Preoperative atrial fibrillation was 47% and embolizations were in 3 of 34 patients. The operative mortality was none for the closed and 14% for the open technique combined rate of 9 per cent which were valve thrombosis, brain embolism and left pulmonary vein rupture in deauriculization. But surviving patients undergoing open heart surgery enjoyed symptomatic benefits comparable to these of the patients of closed.

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The Effect of Decline in Functional Ability on Relocation among the American Elderly aged 70 or older (노년기 생활기능 감소와 주거이동에 관한 연구 -미국의 70세 이상 노인들을 대상으로-)

  • 전경숙
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.117-128
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of functional ability on relocation among the elderly. Longitudinal data from the Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (1993, 1995) were analyzed for 6,225 respondents aged 70 or older. Among functional ability measures, difficulties in advanced activities of daily living (i. e., making telephone calls, taking medications, and managing money), lower body activities (i. e., walking several blocks, climbing one flight of stairs, pulling or pushing large objects, and carrying over 10 pounds), and household activities of daily living (i. e., preparing hot meals and shopping for groceries) were the predictors of increased residential move. Difficulties in basic activities of daily living (i. e., bathing, dressing, getting in and out, and using the toilet) were strongly related to increased entrance into an institutional care facility. Efforts to enhance the independent living of the elderly in the community setting should target the compensation of these functional difficulties.

The Preferences of The Elderly for Their Care Types and Contributing Factors (노인의 부양유형 선호와 영향요인)

  • 김혜연;김성희
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.85-98
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the preferences for care type among the elderly and to analyze contributing variables. The sample in this study are 485 elder people who are age 55 and over. The independent variables are divided into five factors according to their characteristics, and the dependent variables fall into two categories of private and public care types. The descriptive statistics and Logistic Regression method are employed for the analysis. The results can be summarized as follows. The elderly prefer individual care paid for by their own support to the other types like the care by children or institution. However, the elderly stiff like and expect family care by their children. The variables that haute affected the preferences of the care types among the elderly are whether they are employed or not, household's the amount of debt, whether they currently live with the oldest child, their level of self esteem and their degree of satisfaction in life. The results show that the elderly don't have various wants or alternatives to their care and regard public care as negative support for the financially incapable or the elderly who have no relatives.

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Prediction of the wire temperature in a high carbon steel drawing process (고탄소강의 다단 인발 공정에서의 선재의 온도 예측)

  • Kim, Young-Sik;Kim, Yong-Chul;Kim, Byung-Min
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.821-825
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    • 2000
  • Drawing is one of the oldest metal forming operations and has major industrial significance. This process allows excellent surface finishes and closely controlled dimensions to be obtained in long products that have constant cross sections. In drawing of the high carbon steel wire, exit speeds of several hundreds meters per minute are very common. Drawing is usually conducted at room temperature using a number of passes or reductions through consequently located dies. In multi-stage drawing process like this, temperature rise in each pass affects the mechanical properties of final product such as bend, twist and tensile strength. In this paper, therefore, to estimate the wire temperature in multi-stage wire drawing process, wire temperature prediction method was mathematically proposed. Using this method, temperature rise at deformation zone as well as temperature drop between die exit and the next die inlet were calculated.

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Evaluation of the Department of Neurosurgery of the Seoul National University Hospital

  • Kantelhardt, Sven R.
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.53 no.5
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    • pp.261-268
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    • 2013
  • The Department of Neurosurgery (DNS) of the Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH), belongs to the largest and oldest such institutions in Korea. Because of its growing reputation it is hardly surprising that the DNS draws visitor and scholars for clinical education and academic exchange from far beyond Korea. I myself visited the SNUH in February and March 2013. During this time I composed this evaluation in which I compare the DNS to my home Department at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz/Germany, as well as the situation of Neurosurgery in Korea and Germany in general. In the first part this evaluation summarizes data concerning equipment, staff and organizational structure, as well as educational and scientific issues of the DNS. In the second part some issues of interest are discussed in special regard to the corresponding practices in Germany.

A Study on the Classification of Chinese Buddhist Books (중국불교전적분류의 일연구)

  • 김종천
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.11
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    • pp.45-68
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    • 1984
  • The purposes of this study are to understand: 1) the changing process of ancient Chinese Buddhist books catalog with comparison of catalog. 2) the characteristics of current chinese Buddhist books Catalog with analysis of their classification structure. The results of the study can be summarized as follows: 1) The origin of Chinese Buddhist books catalog is the Chongrijungkyongmokrok that was compiled by Doan, however this catalog can not be discovered. 2) The oldest Buddhist books catalog which is available is the Chulsamjangkigib by seungu 3) The Sujungkyongmokrok by Bubkyong, et al. is known as the most reasonable and systematic Buddhist books catalog. 4) The Kaewonsukkyorok which is compiled by Jiseung in Tang dynasty, is evaluated as the most perfect and useful catalog. This catalog had a great effect on the later catalogs. 5) The important current Buddhist books catalogs are the Bingajungsa catalog, the Wangmunsan catalog, the Yukukkyun Catalog, et al., each of them has an own characteristics.

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