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Analysis of Risk Factors of Musculoskeletal Disorder for Child-care Teachers' Job

  • Kim, Jin
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.409-418
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    • 2011
  • Objective: This study was performed to evaluate the child-care teachers' job in relation to physical work. Background: Child-care teacher is directly related to the quality of child care. And their physical activity is higher than general education teachers because the proportion of day care is high. But analyzes of child-care teachers' job burdens and the work environment associated with physical activity is not well established. Method: To conduct this study, the child-care teachers' job was classified into 18 physical works. After classification, posture was evaluated by ergonomic posture evaluation schemes of OWAS, RULA, REBA and evaluated for each physical part. Next, musculoskeletal subjective symptoms were analyzed. Results: The results showed the following: The highest assessment on the posture evaluation was "helping children to ride a school bus", "feeding: meal/snack", "brushing children's teeth" and "arrangement of nap-stuff". The rank of high-risk assessment on the neck/trunk/leg part was arranged by: "feeding: meal/snack", "helping children to ride a school bus", "making nap", "arrangement nap-stuff" and "brushing children's teeth". The rank of high-risk assessment on the upper limbs part was arranged by: "helping children to ride a school bus", "the bust - group activity", "meal/snack time - preparing, feeding, arrangement", "nap time - preparing, arrangement", "brushing children's teeth", and "using the toilet". According to the results of each musculoskeletal subjective symptom, teachers ordered the pain area as follows: waist, shoulder, leg/feet, and neck, and they showed more pain on trunk than the upper limbs. Conclusion: To sum up the results from ergonomic posture evaluation and a subjective symptom, the following are high working pressures: "feeding: meal/snack", "the bust - group activity", "making nap", "brushing children's teeth" with deep bending and waist twisting, "helping children to ride a school bus", "brushing children's teeth" with lifting shoulder; "meal/snack time - preparing, arrangement", "nap time - preparing, arrangement", and "using the toilet" with moving or an up-down position in their job. Application: The results of this study might be information for improvement of the child-care teachers' job environment.

A study of workload consolidation considering NUMA affinity (NUMA affinity를 고려한 Workload Consolidation 연구)

  • Seo, Dongyou;Kim, Shin-gye;Choi, Chanho;Eom, Hyeonsang;Yeom, Heon Y.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.204-206
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    • 2012
  • SMP(Symmetric Multi-Processing)는 Shared memory bus 를 사용함으로써 scalability 가 제한적이었다. 이런 SMP의 scalability 제한을 극복하기 위해 제안 된 것이 NUMA(Non Uniform Memory Access)이다. NUMA는 memory bus 를 CPU 별 local 하게 가지고 있어 자신이 가지는 memory 영역에 대해서는 다른 영역을 접근하는 것 보다 더 빠른 latency 를 가지는 구조이다. Local 한 memory 영역의 존재는 scalability를 높여 주었지만 서버 가상화 환경에서 VM을 동적으로 scheduling 을 하였을 때 VM의 page 가 실행되는 core 의 local 한 메모리 영역에 존재하지 않게 되면 remote access로 인해 local access보다 성능이 떨어진다. 이 논문에서는 서버 가상화 환경에서 최신 architecture인 AMD bulldozer에서 NUMA affinity가 위반되었을 때 발생하는 성능 저하와 어떤 상황에서 이런 NUMA affinity가 위반되어도 성능저하가 없는지 연구하였다.

DC Microgrid Operational Method for Enhanced Service Reliability Using DC Bus Signaling

  • Hwang, Pyeong-Ik;Jang, Gilsoo;Pyo, Gi-Chan;Han, Byung-Moon;Moon, Seung-Il;Ahn, Seon-Ju
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.452-464
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    • 2015
  • This paper proposes a DC microgrid operational strategy and control method for improved service reliability. The objective is to supply power to as many non-critical loads as possible, while providing an uninterrupted power supply to critical loads. The DC bus signaling method, in which DC voltage is an information carrier, is employed to implement the operational strategy in a decentralized manner. During grid-connected operation, a grid-tied converter balances the power of the microgrid by controlling the DC voltage. All loads are connected to the microgrid, and operate normally. During islanded operation, distributed generators (DGs), a backup generator, or an energy storage system balances the power. However, some non-critical loads may be disconnected from the microgrid to ensure the uninterrupted power supply to critical loads. For enhanced service reliability, disconnected loads can be automatically reconnected if certain conditions are satisfied. Control rules are proposed for all devices, and detailed microgrid operational modes and transition conditions are then discussed. Additionally, methods to determine control parameter settings are proposed. PSCAD/EMTDC simulation results demonstrate the performance and effectiveness of the proposed operational strategy and control method.

An Analysis on the Effect of Environmental Improvement on Replacing CNG Bus in Seoul with Electric Bus (서울의 CNG버스를 전기버스로 대체했을 때 환경 개선 효과 분석)

  • Choi, Byeong-Joo;Na, Hae-Joong;Choi, Uk-Don;Kim, Jong-Hae
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.821-827
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    • 2020
  • In particular, vehicles with internal combustion engines of public transportation such as diesel and CNG buses are in urgent need of measures to reduce emissions as they have a long daily total mileage, long driving hours and a large number of vehicles. In this paper, the fuel consumption rate (km/kWh) was actually measured through road test of electric buses. Based on the measured values, CO2 emissions from internal combustion engines and electric buses were calculated per bus. In addition to environmental improvement effects such as the expected reduction of carbon dioxide compared to CNG buses when replacing city buses with electric buses, additional effects were analyzed when the replacement of CNG buses is expanded to electric buses.

Study on Optimization of Generation System in Series HEV Bus (직렬형 하이브리드 전기버스에서의 발전 시스템 최적화에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Dae-Bong;Min, Kyoung-Doug;Jo, Yong-Rae;Lim, Yong-Soo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.35 no.8
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    • pp.773-779
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    • 2011
  • In order to improve fuel economy and emissions, many studies of HEV have been conducted. However, most of these studies concentrate on parallel or power-split HEVs. Series-type HEVs have some advantages over parallel and power-split HEVs. One is that the engine is operated at high efficiency since the engine and the driveshaft are decoupled. Nevertheless, the optimization of the powertrain system of series HEV has not been specifically addressed. We conduct an optimization of the generation system of a series HEV based on the series HEV bus. The main objectives are to simulate the system and to compare the fuel economies of conventional and optimized generation systems.

Establishment of design model considering surrounding environment and users in public design - Focused on the bus station (공공디자인에 있어서 이용자와 주변 환경을 고려한 디자인 모델구축 - 버스정류장을 중심으로)

  • Hyoung, Sung-Eun
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.451-460
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    • 2009
  • This study had been carried out based on the users' behavioral pattern in order to survey characteristics of bus station, a public facility. As a detailed analysis, quantification theory type 3 was performed based on 50 number of samples installed at each local governments as targets in order to evaluate bus station attributes and to survey its characteristics. As a result of this experiment, it was revealed that installation pattern of bus station would differ depending on characteristics of four axis of migrating population density, functionality and simplicity, metropolitan city of densely populated companies, local city with strong locality, the front of school with dense migrating population, secluded rural village, specific place like museum, rural area with dense migrating population. Therefore, in this study, detailed items were suggested comprehensively so that the design considering local environment and users' characteristics, in addition to modeling features of bus stations suitable for local characteristics, could be progressed. If any design and model complying with local environmental features based on above contents should be applied, bus station would be assessed by the users more positively in the future.

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Voltage Stability Enhancement by Optimal Placement of UPFC

  • Kowsalya, M.;Ray, K.K.;Shipurkar, Udai;Saranathan
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.310-314
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents the improvement of the voltage profiles of power system networks by the inclusion of Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC). The mathematical model of the UPFC is incorporated in the load flow algorithm and the L-index is calculated for the different values of the control parameter r $and{\gamma}$. The positioning of the UPFC device is changed to minimize the sum of the squares of the L-indices at all load buses. The test cases considered for the improvement of voltage profile with the WSCC 9-bus and IEEE 30 bus system. With the best position of UPFC along with the control parameters the improvement in voltage profile of the power system networks are obtained. The results obtained are quite encouraging compared with other techniques used to identify the best location of UPFC.

Predict a bus arrival time from traffic volume of surrounding roads (주변 도로의 교통량 Pattern을 학습 및 적용한 버스도착시간 예측)

  • Ryu, Jong-Bin;Lee, Chan-Gun;Kang, Hyun-Chul;Park, Ho-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.672-675
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    • 2009
  • BMS(Bus Management System)의 핵심인 버스도착예정시간을 산출하는 데 있어서 기존 대부분의 도시에서는 시계열 모형의 이동평균법, 칼만필터링 등으로 버스도착예정시간을 예측하고 있으나 이는 급격한 통행량의 변화 또는 급작스러운 사고, 신호체계 등에 적응 할 수 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 주변 도로의 통행량에 따른 버스의 정류장 도착시간을 예측하는 방법을 제안 한다. 주변 도로의 통행량과 실제 버스의 통행시간을 실측하여 기록, 학습하고 모델링하여 미래의 버스의 운행시간을 예측하는 방법이다. 또, 이동평균법에 의한 버스도착시간 예측결과와 본 논문에서 제안하는 결과와 비교, 분석하였다.

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Optimal Location of PSS and FACTS using Sensitivity Index (PSS와 FACTS의 감도기법을 이용한 위치 선정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yang-Il;Ki, Kyung-Hyun;Jeung, Sung-Won;Gim, Jea-Hyeon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.221-223
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, a sensitivity index is proposed for identifying the location of FACTS in the power system with PSS. The index can be calculated by using the bus impedance matrix of the power system. This index that is related with sensitivity matrix is included in the network and not in operating condition for power system. This index is applied to IEEE 9 bus test system.

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Symptoms and Behavior Change before and After the Asian Dust Events Among Indoor and Outdoor Workers (실내.외 근무자의 황사 전.후 증상 및 예방행동에 대한 연구)

  • Kim Jeong-Youn;Kim Byung-Mi;Kim Ok-Jin;Ha Eun-Hee;Seo Ju-Hui;Lee Bo-Eun;Park Hye-Sook
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.509-517
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    • 2006
  • We investigated the change of symptoms and preventive behaviors before and after the Asian Dust events among indoor workers (teachers) and outdoor workers (taxi drivers and bus drivers). On February 2004, we recruited 195 taxi drivers, 135 bus drivers and 93 school teachers. Symptoms and behaviors related the Asian Dust events during 1 week were questioned by self administrated questionnaires. We surveyed pre-event and post-event. The symptom were not changed in bus drivers during the events. In taxi drivers and teachers,'Bad or smoky smell on the air' and 'eye congestion' symptoms were increased during the events. The preventive behaviors were decreased or not changed in taxi drivers and bus drivers. In teachers,'close the window','diminishing the outdoor activities', 'diminishing the going out', 'wearing the sunglasses', 'washing the eyes after going out'. This results suggest that the outdoor worker's guideline during the Asian dust eventsneeds to be developed.