• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.165-181
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• 2023

The effectiveness of fluid viscous dampers (FVDs) on dynamic response mitigation of coupled two adjacent structures was investigated, considering soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects under earthquake excitation. A numerical procedure was employed to evaluate system response. The finite elements were used for the numerical treatment of the adjacent buildings and soil region. Viscous boundary conditions were used as special non-reflecting boundaries on the edges of finite soil region. According to the results, the FVDs were found to be very effective for dynamic response mitigation of the adjacent buildings, even if considering the soil medium. The results showed that the most affecting parameter on the system response was found to be soil type. It was also concluded that when adjacent structures coupled by FVDs, the maximum values of the roof displacements, the base shear forces, and the base bending moments could decrease up to around 50%. Changing in lateral stiffness of the one building has minor effects on the effectiveness of viscous dampers.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.395-403
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• 2002

반응표면방법론에서의 세번째 단계에서는 일차모형이 가정되고, 반응표면의 곡선효과는 중앙점과 2수준 부분실시법에서의 실험을 통해서 검토된다. 참모형이 2차 모형인 경우를 가정하자. 최적실험계획을 선택하기 위해서 Box와 Draper(1959)는 관심영역에서 예측치 y(x)의 평균제곱오차를 적분한 값인 가중평균제곱오차(AMSE)를 최소화 시키는 최적실험계획 기준을 제안하였다. AMSE는 예측치의 가중분산과 가중제곱편의 량의 합으로 분할될 수 있다. AMSE는 실험계획 적률과 참모형의 회귀계수들의 값에 종속되어서 가중평균제곱오차를 최 소화하는 실험 계획을 찾기는 불가능하다. 실용적인 대안으로 Box와 Draper(1959)는 가중제곱편의 량을 최소화하는 실험계획을 제안했고, 이 실험계획의 상자점들이 중앙점을 향해서 축소됨을 보였다. 이 논문에서는 표준화된 회귀계수들의 값에 대해서 실험계획의 최소효율을 최대화하는 강건한 실험계획을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.529-540
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• 2020

The objective of this research paper is to study the simultaneous relationship between fiscal decentralization, corruption, and income inequality among Vietnamese provinces. We use a balanced panel data set of 63 provinces/cities in Vietnam in the period from 2011 to 2018. The study used 3SLS-GMM (Three Stage Least Squares - Generalized Method of Moments estimator) and GMM-HAC (Generalized Method of Moments - Heteroskedastic and Autocorrelation Consistent estimator). Empirical evidence shows a strong simultaneous relationship: increased corruption will increase regional income disparities, income inequality, and increase fiscal decentralization. In addition, the results also suggest that an increase in per-capita income will reduce the level of corruption, or better control corruption of each province. The degree of increase in income inequality, which reduces fiscal decentralization, is the same for trade liberalization. All demonstrate that there is a simultaneous relationship between fiscal decentralization, corruption, and income inequality. In a region of high public governance quality, fiscal decentralization positively effects its economic growth. This issue will indirectly increase income inequality between provinces within a country. Our findings imply that a country's fiscal decentralization strategy should be linked to improving corruption control and local governance effectiveness, indirectly improving income inequality between localities or regions.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.999-1008
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• 2002

The spray structures and distribution characteristics of liquid and vapor phases in non-evaporating and evaporating Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) fuel sprays were investigated using Laser Induced Exciplex Fluorescence (LIEF) technique. Dopants were 2% fluorobenzene and 9% DEMA (diethyl-methyl-amine) in 89% solution of hexane by volume. In order to study internal structure of the spray, droplet size and velocity under non-evaporating condition were measured by Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA). Liquid and vapor phases were visualized at different moments after the start of injection. Experimental results showed that the spray could be divided into two regions by the fluorescence intensity of liquid phase: cone and mixing regions. Moreover, vortex flow of vapor phase was found in the mixing region. About 5㎛ diameter droplets were mostly distributed in the vortex flow region. Higher concentration of vapor phase due to vaporization of these droplets was distributed in this region. Particularly, higher concentration of vapor phase and lower one were balanced within the measurement area at 2ms after the start of injection.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.385-393
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• 2021

This study investigates the effect of infrastructure, economic sectors and its status, foreign direct investment and private investment, as well as the role of political stability in enhancing the tourism demand in the ASEAN region. The research collected the secondary data from the World Bank database and the UNWTO website of 10 ASEAN countries over 17 years from 2000 to 2016. Applying the generalized method of moments, this research found that, "private investment", "economic sectors", "exchange rate and infrastructure measured by "using of the internet" can increase the tourism demand of a country in the ASEAN region. This research provided evidence indicating that the "foreign direct investment" and "inflation" are two detrimental factors for tourist attraction. The major finding confirmed the positive role of "political stability" in increasing tourist arrivals. First, attracting tourists to a country always poses many challenges to its government. It has been observed in the past decades that though there were many documents, which confirmed that industry can help in promoting tourism, very few studies investigated the role of both agriculture and manufacturing sectors in tourism promotion. Secondly, there are only a few studies which verifies the stability of the political system to the tourism demand in the ASEAN region and that this variable (political stability) has the strongest impact.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2020

대형 교통사고는 많은 인명피해를 동반한다. 교통사고를 효율적으로 대처하기 위해선 하루 동안 발생할 수 있는 최대 교통사고 수와 사망자 수, 중상자 수가 정량적으로 제시되어야 한다. 본 연구는 교통사고분석시스템에서 제공하는 2005년부터 2018년까지 전국에서 발생한 일 최대 교통사고 수, 사망자 수, 중상자 수 자료를 사용하여 15년, 30년, 50년에 한 번 발생할 수 있는 최대값을 제시하고자 한다. 지역별 교통사고의 특성을 살펴보기 위해 수도권, 충청권, 경북권, 호남권, 경남권으로 구분하여 일반화극단치분포(GEV분포)에 적합시켰다. GEV분포의 모수는 L-적률추정법으로 추정하였고, Anderson Darling 검정과 Cramer-von Mises 검정으로 분포의 적합성을 확인하였다. 분석결과 50년에 한 번 발생할 수 있는 일 최대 교통사고 수는 수도권 401건, 경남권 168건, 경북권 455건, 충청권 136건, 호남권 205건이다. 인구수와 자동차 등록수가 많은 수도권에 비해 경북권은 면적이 넓고 산지지형이 많으며 산업공단으로 인한 물류이동이 많아 교통사고 수가 상대적으로 높게 나타났다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제29권11호
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• pp.803-808
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• 2002

본 논문은 복부 컴퓨터단층촬영(CT) 영상에서의 자동화된 신장 및 신장암 추출에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 필름으로 보관된 복부 CT 영상을 디지털화하여 영상분석을 수행하였으며, 명암값에 의한 임계값(Gray-Level Thresholding) 처리 기법을 사용하여 신장만을 분리하였다. 신장암의 샘플영상에 대한 텍스쳐(Texture)분석 결과를 토대로, 대표적인 통계적 모멘트 값인 평균 및 표준 편차값을 동질성 시험 기준으로 삼아 신장암의 SEED를 선택하였다. 선택된 SEED의 중앙 픽셀을 시작점으로 하여, 명암값을 동질성 시험기준으로 사용한 영역확장(Region Growing) 방법을 적용하여 신장암을 추출하였다. GE사의 Hispeed Advantage CT 스캐너를 사용하여 촬영된 9개의 예, 총 113매 영상을 Lumisys LS-40 필름 디지타이저로 디지털화 하여 적용한 결과, 85%의 신장암 추출 민감도를 가진다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.531-538
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• 2002

Flow characteristics of a round jet with swirl number of 0.17 have been investigated using a hot -wire anemometry in the initial region within 10D(exit diameter). Swirl effects were observed by comparing centerline flow characteristics, similarities and turbulent budgets of a swirl jet and a free jet, respectively. To obtain similarity of the radial profiles mean velocity and higher moments were measured at the vertical pl anes, located at 2.5, 5.0, 7.5D, 10D, respectively. The centerline velocity characteristics were also measured. It is turned out that similarities of mean and Reynolds stress are established. The jet boundary has wider width than that of a free jet and the shear stress also becomes stronger. In addition the centerline decay becomes faster than that of the free jet, indicating that the swirl induces more entrainment in the initial region of the swirl Jet by transferring the axial mean kinetic energy into the swirl energy and, therefore, has wider boundary, compared with that of free jet.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.157-160
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• 1998

The analysis of a coaxial cable with periodic slots as a leaky-wave antenna is considered. The mode matching method and method of moments with Galerkin testing procedure is then used to obtain the determinantal equation for the unknown leaky-wave propagating constant. Both technigues allow the fields to be obtained in any region, and the radiation characteristics of the structure. By resorting to a suitable numerical techniques, it is possible to calculate the leaky-wave propagating constants and the radiation patterns. Numerical results demonstrate the validity of the technique.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.531-535
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• 1999

Automatic human face detection in a complex background is one of the difficult problems. In this paper, we propose an effective and robust automatic face detection approach that can locate the face region in natural scene images when the system is used as a pre-processor of a face recognition system . We use two natural and powerful visual cues, the skin color and the eyes. In the first step of the proposed system, the method based on the human skin color space by selecting flesh tone regions using normalized r-g space in color images. In the next step, we extract eye features by calculating moments and using geometrical face model. Experimental results demonstrate that the approach can efficiently detect human faces and satisfactory deal with the problems caused by bad lighting condition, skew face orientation.