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Reservation based Dispatching Rule for On-Time Delivery in System LSI Semiconductor FAB (시스템 LSI 반도체 FAB의 납기만족을 위한 예약 기반의 디스패칭 룰)

  • Seo, Jeongchul;Chung, Yongho;Park, Sangchul
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.236-244
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    • 2014
  • Presented in the paper is a reservation based dispatching rule to achieve the on-time delivery in system LSI (large scale integrated circuit) semiconductor fabrication (FAB) with urgent orders. Using the proposed reservation based dispatching rule, urgent lots can be processed without waiting in a queue. It is possible to achieve the on-time delivery of urgent orders by reserving a proper tool for the next step in advance while urgent lots are being processed at the previous step. It can cause, however, tardiness of normal lots, because the proposed rule assign urgent lots first. To solve this problem, the proposed rule tries to find the best tool for the reservation in the tool group, which can minimize idle time, and the reservation rule is applied at all tools except for photolithography tools (bottleneck). $MOZART^{(R)}$ which is developed by VMS solutions are used for simulation experiments. The experimentation results show that the reservation based dispatching rule can achieve the on-time delivery of normal lots as well as urgent lots.

A High Speed Bit-level Viterbi Decoder

  • Kim Min-U;Jo Jun-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.311-315
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    • 2006
  • Viterbi decoder는 크게 BM(Branch metric), ACS(Add-Compare-Select), SM(Survivor Memory) block 으로 구성되어 있다. 이중 ACSU 부분은 고속 데이터 처리를 위한 bottleneck이 되어 왔으며, 이의 해결을 위한 많은 연구가 활발히 진행되어 왔다. look ahead technique은 ACSU를 M-step으로 처리하고 CS(Carry save) number를 사용한 새로운 비교 알고리즘을 제안하여 high throughput을 추구했으며, minimized method는 block processing 방식으로 forward, backward 방향으로 decoding을 수행하여 ACSU 부분의 feedback을 완전히 제거하여 exteremely high throughput 을 추구하고 있다. 이에 대해 look ahead technique 의 기본 PE(Processing Element)를 바탕으로 minimized method 알고 리즘의 core block 을 bit-level 로 구현하였으며 : code converter 를 이용하여 CS number 가운데 redundat number(l)를 제거하여 비교기를 더 간단히 하였다. SYNOPSYS의 Design compiler 와 TSMC 0.18 um library 를 이용하여 합성하였다.

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Security Method for Approval Process of Payment System (지불시스템의 승인단계에서 보안방안)

  • 임인채;위장현
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2002
  • Payment systems in EC need confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation. All transactions between cardholders and merchants must be authorized by a payment gateway in SET protocol. RSA secret key operation which requires heavy computation takes the most part of the time for payment authorization. For the reason, a heavy traffic of payment authorization requests from merchants causes the payment gateway to execute excessive RSA secret key operations, which may cause the bottleneck of the whole system. To resolve this problem, One-Time Password technique is applied to payment authorization step of the SET protocol.

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Developing efficient transition metal-based water splitting catalyst using rechargeable battery materials (배터리 소재를 이용한 전이금속 화합물 기반 물 분해 촉매 개발)

  • Kim, Hyunah;Kang, Kisuk
    • Ceramist
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.416-426
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    • 2018
  • Water splitting is regarded as one of the most environmentally benign routes for hydrogen production. Nevertheless, the low energy efficiency to produce the hydrogen has been a critical bottleneck, which is attributable to the multi-electron and multi-step reactions during water splitting reaction. In this respect, the development of efficient, durable, and inexpensive catalysts that can promote the reaction is indispensable. Extensive searching for new catalysts has been carried out for past decades, identifying several promising catalysts. Recently, researchers have found that conventional battery materials; particularly high-voltage intercalation-based cathode materials, could exhibit remarkable performance in catalyzing the water splitting process. One of the unique capabilities in this class of materials is that the valency state of metals and the atomic arrangement of the structure can be easily tailored, based on simple intercalation chemistry. Moreover, taking advantage of the rich prior knowledge on the intercalation compounds can offer the unexplored path to identify new water splitting catalysts.

The Built of Smart Factory Using Sensors and Virtual Process Design (센서와 가상 공정설계를 활용한 스마트 팩토리 구축)

  • So, Byeong-Eob;Shin, Sung-Sik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.1071-1080
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    • 2017
  • Recently, the terms of the 4th Industrial Revolution and the Smart Factory are often heard through news and media. But most of the companies that are parties are not interested. Because there is no specific guidance on how to build Smart Factory and information about Smart Factory. The built of the Smart Factory should be carried out in accordance with the size of the company considering the purpose of the introduction. In the existing study, they analyzed successful cases of building Smart Factory in Korea As a result, in the case of large-size firms, it is an effective strategy that expanding from a model factory to whole factory for successful Smart Factory building. In addition, in the case of medium and small-size firms, it is an effective strategy that upgrading from low-level step to high-level step for successful Smart Factory building. In this study, selecting medium and small-size firms, and bottleneck section and processes requiring improvement are identified through 3D virtual process design, and then install sensors. Finally, after analyzing the data collected through the sensor, we will improve the process and build Smart Factory with improved productivity.

Development of an RNA Expression Platform Controlled by Viral Internal Ribosome Entry Sites

  • Ko, Hae Li;Park, Hyo-Jung;Kim, Jihye;Kim, Ha;Youn, Hyewon;Nam, Jae-Hwan
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.127-140
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    • 2019
  • Since 1990, many nucleic acid expression platforms consisting of DNA or RNA have been developed. However, although RNA expression platforms have been relatively neglected, several such platforms capped at the 5' end of RNA by an anti-reverse cap analog have now been developed. At the same time, the capping reaction is a bottleneck in the production of such platforms, with high cost and low efficiency. Here, we investigated several viral and eukaryotic internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs) to develop an optimal RNA expression platform, because IRES-dependent translation does not require a capping step. RNA expression platforms constructed with IRESs from the 5' untranslated regions of the encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and the intergenic region of the cricket paralysis virus (CrPV) showed sufficient expression efficiency compared with cap-dependent RNA expression platforms. However, eukaryotic IRESs exhibited a lower viral IRES expression efficiency. Interestingly, the addition of a poly(A) sequence to the 5' end of the coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) IRES (pMA-CVB3) increased the expression level compared with the CVB3 IRES without poly(A) (pCVB3). Therefore, we developed two multiexpression platforms (termed pMA-CVB3-EMCV and pCrPV-EMCV) by combining the IRESs of CVB3, CrPV, and EMCV in a single-RNA backbone. The pMA-CVB3-EMCV-derived RNA platform showed the highest expression level. Moreover, it clearly exhibited expression in mouse muscles in vivo. These RNA expression platforms prepared using viral IRESs will be useful in developing potential RNA-based prophylactic or therapeutic vaccines, because they have better expression efficiency and do not need a capping step.

A Study far Improvement of Disposal and Collection System of Agricultural PE Waste (농업용 폐비닐의 농가처리 및 수거제도 개선방안)

  • Kang, Chang-Yong
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.51-75
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    • 2003
  • The objective of this study is to analyze the problems of disposal and collection, including administrative management of agricultural PE waste and suggest effective management measurements. Information regarding problems of agricultural PE waste management were collected from field survey of farmers, regional governments and officials. On the national level, the low ratio of collection for optimal treatment of agricultural PE waste is a critical problem. , the negative discharging behavior of farmers, an illegal incineration and landfill of farmers and a lack of education and extension etc. An ambiguity of the management principle to agricultural PE waste, the differences in management among the regional governments, a lack of will of the regional governments and officials to realize SARD and lack of education and extension etc. are some of the problems in administrative management of agricultural PE waste collection. The major suggestions of this study are as follows : (1) to strengthen education and extension, (2) to adopt an improved economic incentive system and strong, lawful regulation simultaneously, (3) to use temporang collection and permanent collection site, and (4) to organize "OTC(Optimal Treatment Conference)" composed of farmers, regional cooperative, PE producers etc. for operating an effective management system.

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Integrated Hydrolyzation and Fermentation of Sugar Beet Pulp to Bioethanol

  • Rezic, Tonic;Oros, Damir;Markovic, Iva;Kracher, Daniel;Ludwig, Roland;Santek, Bozidar
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.23 no.9
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    • pp.1244-1252
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    • 2013
  • Sugar beet pulp is an abundant industrial waste material that holds a great potential for bioethanol production owing to its high content of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and pectin. Its structural and chemical robustness limits the yield of fermentable sugars obtained by hydrolyzation and represents the main bottleneck for bioethanol production. Physical (ultrasound and thermal) pretreatment methods were tested and combined with enzymatic hydrolysis by cellulase and pectinase to evaluate the most efficient strategy. The optimized hydrolysis process was combined with a fermentation step using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain for ethanol production in a single-tank bioreactor. Optimal sugar beet pulp conversion was achieved at a concentration of 60 g/l (39% of dry weight) and a bioreactor stirrer speed of 960 rpm. The maximum ethanol yield was 0.1 g ethanol/g of dry weight (0.25 g ethanol/g total sugar content), the efficiency of ethanol production was 49%, and the productivity of the bioprocess was 0.29 $g/l{\cdot}h$, respectively.

An Automated Knowledge Acquisition Tool Based on the Inferential Modeling Technique

  • Chan, Christine W.;Nguyen, Hanh H.
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07b
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    • pp.1165-1168
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    • 2002
  • Knowledge acquisition is the process that extracts the required knowledge from available sources, such as experts, textbooks and databases, for incorporation into a knowledge-based system. Knowledge acquisition is described as the first step in building expert systems and a major bottleneck in the efficient development and application of effective knowledge based expert systems. One cause of the problem is that the process of human reasoning we need to understand for knowledge-based system development is not available for direct observation. Moreover, the expertise of interest is typically not reportable due to the compilation of knowledge which results from extensive practice in a domain of problem solving activity. This is also a problem of modeling knowledge, which has been described as not a problem of accessing and translating what is known, but the familiar scientific and engineering problem of formalizing models for the first time. And this formalization process is especially difficult for knowledge engineers who are often faced with the difficult task of creating a knowledge model of a domain unfamiliar to them. In this paper, we propose an automated knowledge acquisition tool which is based on an implementation of the Inferential Modeling Technique. The Inferential Modeling Technique is derived from the Inferential Model which is a domain-independent categorization of knowledge types and inferences [Chan 1992]. The model can serve as a template of the types of knowledge in a knowledge model of any domain.

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A Study on Nursing Service of Chronic Diseases by the First Step and Third Step Medical Treatment (1차 및 3차 진료기관 이용 만성질환자의 간호서비스에 관한 연구)

  • Cho Chong Sook
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.103-118
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    • 1996
  • It is to be growing up the interest of community health affairs through visiting nursing care. The health medical treatment of Korea has been changed largely on the period. The juvenile population has decreased. This means that is has took the population consensus of advanced national organization to be increased by the old age. The transition of disease has changed from the contagious disease importance to the chronicity disease omportance because the domestic district population has experienced the sudden urbanization circumstance district population has experienced the sudden urbanization circumstance to be growing up $70\%$ of the whole population. When the nursing service has common function to be delivering from all direction to home, this study is getting the great important phase velocity in order to manage the kernel questional adult chronicity disease of health medical institution at the present age. (1) community over system or with people particularity (2) the first of third step medical treatments. The variety of medical treatments organization has quantity of the delivery manpower and specially between consumers and rdlated person. A qualitative difference is showed at the purpose to be seizing. That research related person is use at district health center in Seoul, by foundation on nurse registration book of H collage hospital and public health registration book. According the chronicity disease. age. and sex. nature agree-able standard 54 people took the content analysis on nurse registration book of total 108 people. The results of the study were as follows: 1. General background factors are houses or kind of medical facilities and number of patients in family. The first medical treatment is more patients than third medical treatment organization. The first medical treatment of economic environment os appering to be worse. 2. The chronicity disease frequency have been different speciality according to medical treatment organization. On case of the first medical treatment. Diabetes and High Blood Pressure were good but Cerebrum Vascular Accident(CVA) showed many for bed case. In addition. the number of family is comparative large exception of CVA on according for moving condition and health more than the first medical treatment. However. family condition. whole family percentage is decreasing preferably through the potential resource is increasing by the number of and the construction of family. The ability of real resource is considered to be low. 3. The average percentage of nurse service has appered to be differed two groups by the first step medical treatment(33.72 times) and third step medical treatment(45.70 times). However, the difference (the first step medical treatment and third step medical treatment) is to be limited to issue the medicine at the service. The condition of nurse care was the indirect nursing care. Supportiong area was to be related to volunteer service and administration support. 4. The various nursing care average percentage of the chronicity disease was increased by orders of Diabetes. High Blood Pressure. and CVA in examination result and the medical treatment. The indirect nursing care was also same. At third step medical treatment, orders of chronicity disease were same. The case of other area on service conditions were increased by order of Diabetes. High Blood Pressure, and CVA. However. it is never appearing the difference at bottleneck affairs nursing care. 5. When the visiting nursing care demand particularly. the average percentage of nursing care from the first step medical treatment that the time under a person is many more than the time over two people. However, there was no difference in statistic. Third step medical treatment is $49.81\%$ at the time under a person. The average nursing care service is appeared by more many when the visiting nursing care demand is a few by 12.83 at the time over two people. 6. By visiting nursing care percentage to be frequency that nursing care averaghe percentage and inter-relation are large. The related factor of the first medical treatment is 0.96. However, the related factor of third medical treatment has shown the decreased 0.49 for the condition of relation more than that. Therefore. the nursing care average percentage is related to the visiting times of a nurse. This result is be showing the obvious fact that the first step medical treatment is few more than third step medical treatment.

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