• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.59-83
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• 2020

This paper examines the actions and the factors driving those actions to reduce energy consumption and enhance energy efficiency taken by United States cities. While not much empirical evidence is available on why governments pursue practical sustainability actions, we attempt to shed more light on this important topic by empirically identifying factors that contribute to concrete actions toward sustainability policies. We adopt political market theory as a basic theoretical framework with policy-making applied to city energy consumption. Using the 2010 ICMA (local government sustainability policies and program) data, this study expands the focus of analyses to evaluate the effect of the form of government on energy consumption and energy efficiency by using multiple regression analysis. The findings show that at the city level, the mayor-council form of government are negatively associated with governments' efforts to reduce energy consumption. However, cities with at-large elections and municipal ownership are more likely to adopt sustainability actions. We also find that a large-scale economy has significant effects on the effort to reduce city energy consumption and improve energy efficiency. This shows that environmental policies are directly connected to locally relevant affairs, including housing, energy use, green transportation, and water. Thus, local level administrators could take an executive role to protect the environment, encourage the development of alternative energy, and reduce the use of fossil fuel and coal energy. These efforts can lead to important environmental ramifications and relevant actions by municipal governments.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2020

This study examines media used for information in the East Asian countries of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, using data from the World Values Survey. The sharing of Confucian culture may lead to a uniform media structure across these nations. Another possibility is technological determinism, which would also lead to similarity across nations. However, it is possible that countries are at different stages of technology development and will eventually become more similar. An opposing notion is that differences in other values among nations predict digital media use. To examine the evidence considering these possibilities, we factor analyze each population's use of nine traditional and digital media to see how similar the structures are. What results is a three-dimensional solution for four out of five countries, except Singapore, which has a more simple two-dimensional structure. Analysts regard Singapore as the most digitally connected society, which raises the question as to whether it is higher on a technological development trajectory, to which other countries may transition. Perhaps a more simple media use structure is an adaptation to increasing information load. As well, as mobile devices have become a primary means of accessing the range of traditional and social media, it may have an expanded role in reducing media channel entropy. In terms of frequency of media use, Singapore is highest, while China is the lowest. Singapore stands out in high mobile use, and China for low Internet use. There appear to be developmental differences across the nations. Regressions on Internet use for 18 values indices find different values predictors in the East Asian countries, ruling out Confucianism as producing similar media patterns.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.284-294
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• 2018

모바일 스마트 장치 배터리의 남은 시간 예측에 통계적 기법이 많이 사용되고 있다. 그러나 특정 통계 기법만을 사용한 기존 연구들의 결과만으로는, 통계적 기법이 배터리의 남은 시간 예측에 적합한지가 판단하기 어렵다. 이에 본 논문에서는 스마트 장치 배터리의 남은 시간 예측에 적용 가능한 다양한 통계 기법들의 성능을 평가하였다. 평가에 사용된 통계 예측 기법은 단순 및 이동 평균, 선형 회귀, 다변수 적응 회귀, 자기 회귀, 다항식 회귀, 이중 및 삼중 지수평활 기법이다. 분석 결과는, 향후 통계적 기법을 배터리 남은 사용 시간 예측에 적용하려는 IT 엔지니어에게 중요한 자료로 활용될 수 있다.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.5-18
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• 2014

This exploratory study investigates the use of a computational knowledge engine (WolframAlpha) and social networking sites (Gmail, Yahoo and Facebook) by 200 students at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, their "friends" and their "friends of friends" during the 2009 through 2013 school years, and how this appears to have added value in knowledge generation. The primary aim is to identify what enhances productiveness in knowledge generation in Philippine Tertiary Education. The phenomenological approach is used, therefore there are no specific research questions or hypotheses proposed in this paper. Considering that knowledge generation is a complex phenomenon, a stochastic modelling approach is also used for the investigation that was developed specifically to study un-deterministic complex systems. A list of salient features for knowledge generation is presented as a result. In addition to these features, various problem types are identified from literature. These are then integrated to provide a proposed framework of inclusive (friendly) and innovative social networks, for knowledge generation in Philippine tertiary education. Such a framework is necessarily multidisciplinary and useful for problem-solving in a globalized and pluralist reality. The implementation of this framework is illustrated in the three parts of the study: Part 1: Online lessons, discussions, and examinations in General Psychology, Introduction to Sociology, and Life and Works of Jose Rizal, for the author's students in De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde; Part 2: Facebook Report analytics of students and teachers, their friends and their friends of friends via WolframAlpha; and Part 3: Social Network Analysis of the people and groups influencing the courses' scope-and-sequence in the new General Education Curriculum for Tertiary Schools and Institutions in the Philippines.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.509-517
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• 2001

전역탐색알고리즘(full-search algorithm, FSA)은 탐색영역의 범위가 커짐에 따라 방대한 양의 계산을 필요로 하기 때문에 이에 따른 알고리듬의 처리시간이 커지고, 하드웨어로 구현했을 때 회로가 복잡해진다는 문제점을 안고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위한 방안으로 비트플레인 정합에 의한 움직임 추정기의 VLSI 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 움직임 추정기에서는 비트 플레인 정합기준을 이용하여 기존의 전역 탐색 알고리즘을 하나의 이진영상으로 적용함으로써 움직임 추정에 소요되는 연산의 양을 크게 줄이면 서도 전역탐색 알고리듬과 유사한 움직임 추정 성능을 갖도록 하였으며, 제안된 VLSI 구조에서는 두 개의 프로세싱 코어를 채택하여 데이터 흐름을 시스톨릭 (systolic) 어레이의 형태로 제어하여, 시스템 내부의 SRAM을 제거하여 동작 속도 상의 이득뿐만 아니라, 메모리 공정을 필요로 하지 않는 저가의 공정을 사용 가능하게 함으로써 제작상의 비용을 절감할 수 있는 해결책을 제시하였다. 구현된 하드웨어는 VHDL을 이용하여 설계하고, 기능 검증을 수행한 후 0.6-μm three-metal CMOS 공정을 이용하여 8.15 X 10.84㎟의 크기로 집적하였다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2018

This study investigated the structural behavior and field applicability of sandwich type GFRP arches with polymer mortar in core. As a result, in case of crack loading and failure loading, total strains at crown were the highest; the fracture strain at crown was 0.01690, which is 4.2 times greater than the fracture strain (0.004) of cement concrete. The 3 % deflection load was 17.42 kN, the flexural strength was $163.98{\times}10^{-3}GPa$, and the flexural elastic modulus was 11.884 GPa. From load-deflection relationship up to 3.5 % deflection, 3D analysis results and experimental values were observed to be almost identical. It was considered reasonable to set a deflection rate limit to be 3 % for structural safety purpose. The standard external flexural strength of semicircular arch used in this study was approximately 2.64 times higher than that of hume pipe (2 type standard) and tripled composite pipe. The external pressure strength at fracture was approximately 1.57 times higher than that of hume pipe. It was confirmed that the implementing semicircular arch had mechanically more advantage than the circular pipe. Optimum member thickness was 8~53 mm according to arch radius of 450~1,800 mm and cover depth of 2~10 m. It was found that the larger strength could be obtained even if the thickness of member was smaller than that of concrete structure. In field application study, figures and equations were derived for obtaining applicable cover depth and optimum member thickness according to loading conditions. These would be useful data for design and manufacture of sandwich type semicircular arch.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제23권10호
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• pp.14-20
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• 2009

전력 계통 내에서 발생하는 과도한 고장전류의 억제를 위한 가장 이상적인 방안은 초전도 한류기이다. 초전도 한류기의 전력계통 적용을 위해 본 논문에서는 전력계통 내에서 발생하는 1선, 2선, 3선 지락사고를 모의하여 매트릭스형 초전도 한류기의 동작 특성 및 소비전력을 분석하였다. 모든 지락사고에 대해 매트릭스형 초전도 한류기는 사고 초기에는 85[%] 이상, 1주기 이후에는 95[%] 이상 고장전류를 제한시킬 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 초전도 소자간의 임계특성의 차이를 줄여줌으로써 소비전력이 균등해진다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.2675-2679
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• 2012

Introduction: Annually a considerable number of people die because of breast cancer, a common disease among women also in Iran. Identifying risk factors and susceptible people can lead to prevention or at least early diagnosis. Among susceptibility risks, 5-10% of patients have a family history predisposing factor which can influence the risk of incidence among the family. Having a registry program can be a more practical way to screen high risk families for preventive planning. Method: Based on inclusion criteria, a questionnaire was prepared and after a pilot study on a small number of patients, actual data were collected on 400 patients and processed in SPSS 16.0. Results: Totally, 28.2%of the patients were younger than 40 years old and 36.8% had the included criteria for familial breast cancer (FBC). 102 patient's samples could be compared for receptor presentation. Similar to other studies, the number of triple negative breast cancers increased as the age decreased. Conclusion: The high percentage of patients with FBC among 400 cases in this study demonstrates that in order to design an infrastructural diagnostic protocol and screening of patients with FBC, a precise survey related to frequency and founder mutations of FBC is needed nationwide.

• 경영과학
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.127-141
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• 2012

Business firms and consumers exist within a society, and their activities influence a society, because they are not separated from a society. Thus, consumers as well as business firms have been asked to conduct socially responsible actions (i.e., environmentally friendly production and socially friendly activities). Previous researchers have investigated on the relationship between corporate social responsibilities and business performances. For example, researchers have analyzed the effects of corporate social responsibility on consumer's corporate evaluations. The corporate social responsibility is commonly classified into the three dimensions (economic, social, and environmental responsibility). In this paper, we demonstrated that the consumer social responsibility can also be classified into the three dimensions. Previous researchers have shown that the three dimensions of corporate social responsibility influence consumer's corporate evaluation. However, they have not considered the interaction effect of the corporate social responsibility and the consumer social responsibility on consumers' corporate evaluation. Different from the past studies, this study investigated on the interaction effect of consumer social responsibility (economic, social, environmental responsibility) and corporate social responsibility (economic, social, environmental responsibility) on consumer's corporate evaluation. For the study, we collected survey data of 200 consumers and analyzed the interaction effect with ANOVAs. The result showed that the three dimensions of social responsibility to both corporate and consumers influence positively the corporate evaluation. They also showed that the interaction effect of consumer responsibility and corporate responsibility on the corporate evaluation was statistically significant. This implies that it is necessary for corporate to conduct corporate social responsibility differently depending on consumer's activity for consumer social responsibility.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:데이타베이스
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.112-124
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• 2008

RDF와 OWL은 시맨틱 웹을 위한 두 가지 핵심 기반 기술이다. 이러한 RDF와 OWL을 이용하는, 또한 이에 관련된 많은 연구들이 최근 소개되었다. 하지만, RDF와 OWL에 대한 정보 보안 관련 연구는 미비한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 RDF 보안 기술과 관련하여, RDF 트리플에 기반을 둔 안전한 접근제어 명세 모델을 간단히 소개한다. 다음으로 RDF 접근 제어 명세 시의 추론에 의한 권한 충돌을 효율적으로 발견하기 위하여 소수 그래프 레이블링을 기법을 활용하는 방법을 자세히 소개한다. 추론에 의한 접근 권한 충돌 문제는 비록 하위 개념에 대한 접근 권한이 허용이지만, 하위 개념은 상위 개념으로 추론될 수 있으므로, 만약 상위 개념에 대한 접근 권한이 불허로 되어 있는 경우 하위 개념 또한 허용되어서는 안 되는 문제이다. 몇 가지 실험에서는 제안하는 소수 그래프 레이블링을 사용하는 방법이 기존의 단순한 권한 충돌 발견 방법보다 현저히 나은 성능을 가짐을 보여 준다.