• 한국작물학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.6-13
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• 2000

Water deficit is the primary constraint of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] yield, and a physiological understanding of processes affected by water deficit is a key step in identifying and improving drought tolerance in soybean. The objectives of this research were to evaluate biomass and nitrogen accumulation patterns and water use efficiency (WUE) as possible mechanisms associated with the drought tolerance of Jackson. Biomass accumulation of Jackson was contrasted with the PI416937, which also has demonstrated tolerance to drought. For water-deficit treatment, total biomass accumulation was negligible for PI416937, but biomass accumulation continued at approximately 64 % of the well-watered treatment of Jackson. Transpirational losses for Jackson and PI416937 were approximately the same for the water-deficit treatment, indicating that Jackson had superior WUE. Isotopic discrimination of $^{13}$ C relative to $^{12}$ C also indicated that Jackson had higher WUE. Results indicated that increased WUE for Jackson under water deficit showed it was tolerant to drought rather than had an avoidance mechanism.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2008

This study was designed to examine the effects of temporary immobilization of the ankle and knee joints on standing in healthy young adults with the use of a postural control mechanism. The subjects were twenty-four college students (12 males and 12 females, aged between 20 and 28). A Biodex balance system SD 950-302 and its software were used to measure indirect balance parameters in standing. Each subject underwent postural stability tests in 4-different joint conditions: free joints, ankle immobilization only, knee immobilization only, and ankle and knee immobilization. In addition, the postural stability test was conducted once with the subject's eyes open and once with the eyes closed conditions. For data analysis of the postural stability tests, the overall stability index, antero-posterior stability index, and medio-lateral stability index were recorded. The overall stability index (p=.000) and medial-lateral index (p=.003) were significantly greater different conditions with eyes closed in postural stability. Therefore, the eyes closed condition is expected to be used as an effective postural stability training for treatment planning in patients with unstable postures. In addition, training based on the dynamic multi-segment model can improve postural stability and is available to therapeutic programs, helping people with unstable balance to reduce their risk of falling.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.471-479
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• 2015

Traditional designs of cognitive radio (CR) focus on maximizing system throughput. In this paper, we study the joint overlay and underlay power allocation problem for orthogonal frequency-division multiple access-based CR. Instead of maximizing system throughput, we aim to maximize system energy efficiency (EE), measured by a "bit per Joule" metric, while maintaining the minimal rate requirement of a given CR system, under the total power constraint of a secondary user and interference constraints of primary users. The formulated energy-efficient power allocation (EEPA) problem is nonconvex; to make it solvable, we first transform the original problem into a convex optimization problem via fractional programming, and then the Lagrange dual decomposition method is used to solve the equivalent convex optimization problem. Finally, an optimal EEPA allocation scheme is proposed. Numerical results show that the proposed method can achieve better EE performance.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1231-1236
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• 2004

In the present work, the practical thermal design process of 1 DIN car DVD receiver described. In the course of its efficient design, CAE technique was essentially used. CAE technique has reduced research period, man power and material cost but has increased research convenience, organized results and persuasive power. CAE technique helped to study parameters such as vent, fan and heat sink. Using these elements, it tried to meet optimal thermal solution. But safety standard, printed circuit board and framework mechanism should be considered as the constraint. To overcome these constraints, we tried to communicate and compromise with projectors in charge. After all, the price of those efforts has made the most competitive heat sink for heat dissipation in the 1 DIN car DVD receiver market. Moreover, we are trying to save $3 per product by removing fan. This paper is supposed to show an example of the CAE technique and help thermal designers to make electronic packaging goods.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.261-276
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• 2013

Oil, hysteretic and inertial mass dampers are representatives of passive dampers used for smart enhancement of seismic performance of building structures. Since oil dampers have a nonlinear relief mechanism and hysteretic dampers possess nonlinear restoring-force characteristics, several difficulties arise in the evaluation of buildings including such dampers. The purpose of this paper is to propose a practical method for simultaneous optimal use of such dampers. The optimum design problem is formulated so as to minimize the maximum interstory drift under design earthquakes in terms of a set of damper quantities subject to an equality constraint on the total cost of dampers. The proposed method to solve the optimum design problem is a successive procedure which consists of two steps. The first step is a sensitivity analysis by using nonlinear time-history response analyses, and the second step is a modification of the set of damper quantities based upon the sensitivity analysis. Numerical examples are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and validity of the proposed design method.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 1998

A diffuser, an important equipment to change kinetic energy into pressure energy, has been studied for a long time. Though experimental and theoretical researches have been done, the understanding of energy transfer and detailed mechanism of energy dissipation is unclear. As far as numerical prediction of diffuser flows are concerned, various numerical studies have also been done. On the contrary, many turbulence models have constraint to the applicability of diffuser-like complex flows, because of anisotropy of turbulence near the wall and of local nonequilibrium induced by an adverse pressure gradient. The existing $k-{\epsilon}$ turbulence models have some problems in the case of being applied to complex turbulent flows. The purpose of this paper is to test the applicability of the nonlinear $k-{\epsilon}$ model concerning diffuser-like flows with expansion and streamline curvature. The results show that the nonlinear $k-{\epsilon}$ turbulence model predicted well the coefficient of pressure, velocity profiles and turbulent kinetic energy distributions, however the shear stress prediction was failed.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2000년도 제13회 춘계학술대회 및 임시총회 학술발표 논문집
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• pp.686-691
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• 2000

최근 들어 인터넷의 사용이 급격히 증가함에 따라 인터넷의 백본망에는 패킷 전달의 고속성, 확장성 뿐만 아니라 QOS 보장을 요구하게 되었다. 효과적인 인터넷 백본망을 구현하기 위해 본 논문에서는 Multi-Protocol Label Switching(MPLS)를 고려하고 MPLS 에서 인터넷 Quality Of Service(QOS) 서비스 모델 중 백본망에 적합한 Differentiated Service(DS) 모델을 그대로 제공하기 위해 MPLS 와 DS 의 연동에 대한 문제를 다룬다. 우선 MPLS 에서 QOS 제공을 위한 기능요소를 정성적으로 분석한다. 그리고 두 DS 망 가운데 ATM 기반의 MPLS 망을 두고 있는 경우를 가정하여, 종단대 종단간 DS 제공을 위하여 DS 망과 MPLS 망에서의 시그널링 과정을 제안한다. 즉, DS 의 BB 로부터 SLA 를 위한 신호를 MPLS 의 입구 라우터에서 해석하여 DS Type-Length-Value(TLV)를 만들고 이를 이용하여 Constraint-based Label Distribution Protocol(CR-LDP) 시그널링을 통해 마다 Label-Only-Inferred-PSC LSP(L-LSP)를 설립하여 MPLS 에서 DS QOS 를 그대로 제공한다. 또한 입구 DS BB 로부터의 정보를 MPLS 망을 통해 BB 에게 보낸다.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제11B권3호
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• pp.257-266
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• 2004

본 논문은 윤곽선만을 추출하여 캐리커처를 생성하던 기존의 시스템과 달리 음영을 윤곽선과 합성하여 캐리커처를 생성하는 캐리커처 생성 시스템을 제안한다. 이 방식을 사용할 경우 얼굴의 텍스추어 정보까지 생성시 고려하기 때문에 좀 더 실사형에 근접한 캐리커처를 생성할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 시스템은 벡터를 기만으로 하기 때문에 사이즈에 제한 없이 자유로운 변형이 가능할 뿐만 아니라 2D 캐릭터에 자유로운 표정을 적용하는 데에도 쉽게 적용이 가능하다. 또, 벡터의 특징으로 인해 모바일 상에서도 적은 용량으로 이용 가능하다. 본 논문은 벡터 형태의 캐리커처를 생성하는 방법과 음영을 제작 및 합성하는 방법을 함께 제시한다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제57권5호
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• pp.809-821
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• 2016

Concentric-tube continuum robots have formed an active field of research in robotics because of their manipulative exquisiteness essential to facilitate delicate surgical procedures. A set of concentric tubes with designed initial curvatures comprises a robot whose workspace can be controlled by relative translations and rotations of the tubes. Kinematic models have been widely used to predict the movement of the robot, but they are incapable of describing its time-dependent hysteretic behaviors accurately particularly when snapping occurs. To overcome this limitation, here we present a finite element modeling approach to investigating the dynamics of concentric-tube continuum robots. In our model, each tube is discretized using MITC shell elements and its transient responses are computed implicitly using the Bathe time integration method. Inter-tube contacts, the key actuation mechanism of this robot, are modeled using the constraint function method with contact damping to capture the hysteresis in robot trajectories. Performance of the proposed method is demonstrated by analyzing three specifications of two-tube robots including the one exhibiting snapping phenomena while the method can be applied to multiple-tube robots as well.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.441-468
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• 2020

Capital inflows have a strong presence that influences destination countries' development of institutions, which can in turn help resuscitate a stopped economy and re-attract capital that was lost during crises such as the recent public health crisis. While the previous literature emphasizes the mechanism that foreign investors press or even threaten the local government for change, this paper explores empirically whether institutional improvement can be achieved through the channel that host countries voluntarily reform institutions in anticipation of potential investments predicted by the exogenous geographical and cultural characteristics of the recipient countries. Given that countries with better institutional quality can accumulate larger FDI stocks, we still find that the need for more FDI, in contrast to FPI and debt, gives higher incentives to host countries to strategically improve their institutions before seeking capital overseas. Moreover, the predicted FDI exerts more prominent impacts on institutions on constraining elite than those involved in launching a business, enforcing contracts, and protecting properties. The results imply that a long-run plan for upgrading elite constraint institutions is crucial for a post-pandemic FDI reboot.