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Smart Building Block Toys using Internet of Things Technology

  • Jang, Sung Hee;Nam, Ki Won;Jung, Yong Gyu
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.34-37
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    • 2016
  • Internet was once used to link ideas, then people and now it is starting to connect all things. IoT constitutes a good paradigm to enable people to design and modify things, and then share their designs and modifications. Through the internet, things nowadays are able to exchange raw data and information, thus enabling the development of a new class of interconnected smart objects. Smart building block toy systema are a newly proposed concept that combines internet technology into educational blocks. It is composed of the IoT environment that has attracted attention recently. In this paper, we design a system using starUML, one of the program development tools in the system design process. Educational content can be shared to learners via the proposed service of the IoT, while also being interesting for young child learners.

Variations in surface roughness of seven orthodontic archwires: an SEM-profilometry study

  • Amini, Fariborz;Rakhshan, Vahid;Pousti, Maryam;Rahimi, Hajir;Shariati, Mahsa;Aghamohamadi, Bahareh
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.129-137
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    • 2012
  • Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the surface roughness (SR) of 2 types of orthodontic archwires made by 4 different manufacturers. Methods: This in vitro experimental study was conducted on 35 specimens of 7 different orthodontic archwires, namely, 1 nickel-titanium (NiTi) archwire each from the manufacturers American Orthodontics, OrthoTechnology, All-Star Orthodontics, and Smart Technology, and 1 stainless steel (SS) archwire each from the manufacturers American Orthodontics, OrthoTechnology, and All-Star Orthodontics. Aft er analyzing the composition of each wire by energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, the SR of each wire was determined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and surface profilometry. Data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests (${\alpha}$ < 0.05). Results: The average SR of NiTi wires manufactured by Smart Technology, American Orthodontics, OrthoTechnology, and All-Star Orthodontics were $1,289{\pm}915A^{\circ}$, $1,378{\pm}372A^{\circ}$, $2,444{\pm}369A^{\circ}$, and $5,242{\pm}2,832A^{\circ}$, respectively. The average SR of SS wires manufactured by All-Star Orthodontics, OrthoTechnology, and American Orthodontics were $710{\pm}210A^{\circ}$, $1,831{\pm}1,156A^{\circ}$, and $4,018{\pm}2,214A^{\circ}$, respectively. Similar to the results of profilometry, the SEM images showed more defects and cracks on the SS wire made by American Orthodontics and the NiTi wire made by All-Star Orthodontics than others. Conclusions: The NiTi wire manufactured by All-Star Orthodontics and the SS wire made by American Orthodontics were the roughest wires.

Analysis of Quality Improvement of a Floating Image Using a Hybrid Retroreflective Mirror Array Sheet (혼성-병풍형 구조의 재귀반사 거울 배열판을 이용한 부양영상 개선 분석)

  • Yu, Dong Il;Baek, Young Jae;Yong, Hyeon Joong;O, Beom Hoan
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.142-145
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    • 2019
  • Normally, a corner cube retroreflector (CCRR) sheet is used as a retroreflective mirror array (RRMA) in a volumetric display. Each CCRR unit reflects light in the retroreflective direction, which is parallel to the incident light, and it makes a blurred image, as it shifts the position of light within its dimensions. Adopting a "curved planar wall" and "parabolic focusing" (x-axis), a hybrid-t(transverse direction)-RRMA is proposed, to improve the image quality and brightness. The improvement of image contrast is achieved by tuning a "linear v-shaped groove" structure to a "parabolic v-shaped groove". Also, the system has been simplified and the brightness enhanced 4 times by removing the half mirror.

Development of the Helicopter Noise Prediction Code and its Applications (헬리콥터 소음 예측 코드 개발 및 적용사례)

  • Wie, Seong-Yong;Kim, Do-Hyung;Kang, Hee Jung;Chung, Ki-Hoon;Hwang, Changjeon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.904-910
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    • 2014
  • The Helicopter noise analysis code was developed using Farassat's Formular 1A based on Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings equation and Lowson's Formula which contains single loading noise source concept. HART-II(Higher harmonic control Aeroacoustic Rotor Test), STAR(Smart-Twisting Active Rotor) and Active-tab Rotor were computed and analyzed by using developed noise code. The results of these rotor noise prediction are explained and its applicability would be mentioned in this paper.

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User Identification and Entrance/Exit Detection System for Smart Home (지능형 홈을 위한 사용자 식별 및 출입 감지 시스템)

  • Lee, Seon-Woo
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.248-253
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a sensing system for smart home which can detect an location transition events such as entrance/exit of a member and identify the user in a group at the same time. The proposed system is compose of two sub-systems; a wireless sensor network system and a database server system. The wireless sensing system is designed as a star network where each of sensing modules with ultrasonic sensors and a Bluetooth RF module connect to a central receiver called Bluetooth access point. We propose a method to discriminate a user by measuring the height of the user. The differences in the height of users is a key feature for discrimination. At the same time, the each sensing module can recognize whether the user goes into or out a room by using two ultrasonic sensors. The server subsystem is a sort of data logging system which read the detected event from the access point and then write it into a database system. The database system could provide the location transition information to wide range of context-aware applications for smart home easily and conveniently. We evaluate the developed method with experiments for three subjects in a family with the installation of the developed system into a real house.

Space Reengineering and Amended UML Approach to Requirement Analysis for Ubiquitous Smart Space Development (유비쿼터스 지능 공간 요구분석을 위한 공간재설계법 및 수정된 UML 접근법)

  • Kwon, Oh-Byung;Lee, Nam-Yeon;Sim, Jae-Mun
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.99-125
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    • 2007
  • Recently, as the development of Ubiquitous Smart Space (USS) such as U-City is proliferating, preparing a development methodology dedicated to USS characteristics has become one of the crucial issues to increase the productivity of the USS projects. However, since the legacy development methodologies such as traditional UML do not consider the critical components of ubiquitous computing space such as context-awareness, service oriented architecture and multi-agent communication, they are not optimized for USS analysis and design. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a USS-sophisticated development methodology. To do so, a hybrid approach, BPR-USS for space reengineering and UML-USS by amending UML with corresponding toolkit based on StarUML has been implemented. To show the feasibility of the approach described in this paper, an illustrative example with an actual USS development project for a multiplex space in Seoul is shown.

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The Antecedent Factors for Distribution of Improving Hotel Performance During Covid-19: Evidence from Five-Star Hotels in Bali-Indonesia

  • WITARSANA, I Gusti Agung Gede;YASA, Ni Nyoman Kerti;SUKAATMADJA, I Putu Gde;SURYA, Ida Bagus Ketut
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: Since the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost all the hospitality industry has experienced a decrease in the distribution of room occupancy. Therefore, this study aims to examine how to improve the performance of 5-star hotels in Bali by involving market orientation, revenue management orientation, competitive advantage, dynamic capability, and pricing capability. Research design, data and methodology: This study involved 127 managers in 62 five-star hotels in Bali. Analysis of this study using structural equation modelling (SEM) with SmartPLS software. Results: This study reveals that the performance of five-star hotels in Bali is influenced by factors such as market orientation, revenue management orientation, competitive advantage, dynamic capability, and pricing capability. In addition, revenue management orientation, competitive advantage, and dynamic capability have been shown to mediate the effect of market orientation on the performance of five-star hotels in Bali. Finally, pricing capability has been proven to have not been able to increase the revenue and performance of five-star hotels in Bali. Conclusions: Hotel performance is largely determined by several important factors which include market orientation, revenue management orientation, competitive advantage, dynamic capability, and pricing capability. This study provides important implications for hospitality practitioners to improve the distribution of hotel performance.

Utilizing Mobile Social Game as a Gamification Advertising Platform (게임화(Gamification)된 광고 플랫폼으로서 모바일 소셜네트워크게임(SNG)의 활용 -모바일 소셜 네트워크 게임(SNG) <레스토랑스타> 사례연구를 중심으로-)

  • Shin, Jiho
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.86-96
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    • 2013
  • This study is about utilizing social game as a gamification advertising platform. Since iPhone released to the world, the smart phone industry has rapidly increased. And the development of the smart phone industry has rapidly increased its rate of users in which it has led to leaping growths of new kind of service such as SNS(Social Network Service), and SNG(Social Network Game). The purpose of this study is predicting the development of advertising industry in smart phone paradigm shift. This study focused on social network game as a gamification advertising platform, and studied on case of which is social network game used as a gamification advertising platform. Finally, this study has developed suggestions for new way of advertising by utilizing Mobile social network game as a gamification advertising platform.

Factors affecting on Filming of the Adolescent's Sexual Behavior by using Smart Phone (스마트폰을 통한 청소년 성행동 촬영에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Kim, Seok Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 2016
  • Objectives: The objective and aim of this research is to cultivate a problem-solving ability by analysing the factors that negatively impact on filming sexual behaviour by adolescent. Methods: This research mainly refer to the secondary reference which is conducted a survey of all over the country by National Youth Policy Institute. 3,963 students on the register who participated in survey between 12th of June in 2014 and 15th of July in 2014 was nominated as final recipient for research. Results: Firstly, it has been shown that students who have watched sexual video have more experienced at filming sexual behaviour. In the area of stimulation(p<0.01) and emulation/sharing(p<0.001) except to violation of human rights, adolescent who has experienced at filming sexual behaviour significantly gains more high score than adolescent who does not have experienced statistically. Secondly, as a result of analysis the factors which negatively impact on filming sexual behaviour by adolescent with Binary logistic regression analysis, the adolescent who have shared sexual video was impacted on having an experience at filming sexual behaviour. and the adolescent who had sexual conversation was impacted on having an experience at filming sexual behaviour. Conclusion: A local autonomous entity and school should enforce systematic health education and practical management of mass media rather than unconditional restriction of adolescent's use of smart phone. To carry out this, the state and a local autonomous entity should urge plan for support for settling the instructive environment about using smart phone.

Sustainability Indices (=Green Star) for Microbial Fuel Cell (미생물 연료전지 영속발전 지표개발)

  • Song, Ha-Geun;KOO, Ja-Kong
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.47-52
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    • 2015
  • A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a device that can be obtained electricity from a variety of organic through the catalytic reaction of the microorganism. The MFC can be applied to various fields, and research is required to promote the performance of the microbial fuel cell for commercialization. The lower performance of an MFC is due to oxygen reduction at the cathode and the longer time of microbial degradation at anode. The MFC amount of power is sufficient but, in consideration of many factors, as a renewable energy, now commonly power density as compared to Nafion117 it is an ion exchange membrane used is PP (Poly Propylene) from 80 to about 11 fold higher, while reducing the cost to process wastewater is changed to a microporous non-woven fabric of a low cost, it may be energy-friendly environment to generate electricity. All waste, in that it can act as a bait for microorganisms, sustainability of the microbial fuel cell is limitless. The latest research on the optimization and performance of the operating parameters are surveyed and through the SSaM-GG(Smart, Shared, and Mutual- Green Growth) or GG-SSaM(Green Growth - Smart, Shared, and Mutual) as the concept of sustainable development in MFC, the middle indices are developed in this study.