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Precision Analysis of NARX-based Vehicle Positioning Algorithm in GNSS Disconnected Area

  • Lee, Yong;Kwon, Jay Hyoun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.289-295
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    • 2021
  • Recently, owing to the development of autonomous vehicles, research on precisely determining the position of a moving object has been actively conducted. Previous research mainly used the fusion of GNSS/IMU (Global Positioning System / Inertial Navigation System) and sensors attached to the vehicle through a Kalman filter. However, in recent years, new technologies have been used to determine the location of a moving object owing to the improvement in computing power and the advent of deep learning. Various techniques using RNN (Recurrent Neural Network), LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory), and NARX (Nonlinear Auto-Regressive eXogenous model) exist for such learning-based positioning methods. The purpose of this study is to compare the precision of existing filter-based sensor fusion technology and the NARX-based method in case of GNSS signal blockages using simulation data. When the filter-based sensor integration technology was used, an average horizontal position error of 112.8 m occurred during 60 seconds of GNSS signal outages. The same experiment was performed 100 times using the NARX. Among them, an improvement in precision was confirmed in approximately 20% of the experimental results. The horizontal position accuracy was 22.65 m, which was confirmed to be better than that of the filter-based fusion technique.

Financial Performance of Converted Commercial Banks from Non-Banking Financial Institutions: Evidence from Bangladesh

  • GAZI, Md. Abu Issa;RAHAMAN, Atikur;WALIULLAH, Shaikh Sabbir Ahmed;ALI, Md. Julfikar;MAMOON, Zahidur Rahman
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.923-931
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    • 2021
  • The aim of the present study is to analyze the financial performance of converted commercial bank from non-banking financial institution through a case study of Bangladesh Commerce Bank Limited as sample organization. It is observed that the bank is able to achieve a stable growth rate in total deposits, total loans and advances, and net income after tax during the period of 2015-2019. Researchers also calculated some ratio analysis and noticed that the financial position of Bangladesh Commerce Bank Limited was not so strong because bank's ROA, ROE, NIM and other ratios were below standard. Researchers used secondary data that were examined by using descriptive statistical tools and panel data regression model. Result shows that Bangladesh Commerce Bank has satisfactory operating efficiency, assets management efficiency, and gives loans to customers. In addition, the present study has tested some hypotheses regarding net income after tax, ROA and ROE with total assets, total loans, total deposits and interest income. These hypotheses have been accepted, which means there is no significant influence of the independent variable on the dependent variable. The study suggests that Bangladesh Commerce Bank Limited had the opportunities to make their financial position stronger by utilizing their good financial position and management efficiencies.

Biomechanical investigation of arm position on deforming muscular forces in proximal humerus fractures

  • Christen E. Chalmers;David J. Wright;Nilay A. Patel;Hunter Hitchens;Michelle McGarry;Thay Q. Lee;John A. Scolaro
    • Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.282-287
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    • 2022
  • Background: Muscular forces drive proximal humeral fracture deformity, yet it is unknown if arm position can help mitigate such forces. Our hypothesis was that glenohumeral abduction and humeral internal rotation decrease the pull of the supraspinatus and subscapularis muscles, minimizing varus fracture deformity. Methods: A medial wedge osteotomy was performed in eight cadaveric shoulders to simulate a two-part fracture. The specimens were tested on a custom shoulder testing system. Humeral head varus was measured following physiologic muscle loading at neutral and 20° humeral internal rotation at both 0° and 20° glenohumeral abduction. Results: There was a significant decrease in varus deformity caused by the subscapularis (p<0.05) at 20° abduction. Significantly increasing humeral internal rotation decreased varus deformity caused by the subscapularis (p<0.05) at both abduction angles and that caused by the supraspinatus (p<0.05) and infraspinatus (p<0.05) at 0° abduction only. Conclusions: Postoperative shoulder abduction and internal rotation can be protective against varus failure following proximal humeral fracture fixation as these positions decrease tension on the supraspinatus and subscapularis muscles. Use of a resting sling that places the shoulder in this position should be considered.

Development of Material Deformation Measurement System using Machine Vision (머신 비전을 활용한 재료 변형 측정 기술 개발)

  • E. B. Mok;W. J. Chung;C. W. Lee
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.20-27
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    • 2023
  • In this study, the deformation of materials was measured using the video and tracking API of OpenCV. Circular markers attached to the material were selected the region of interests (ROIs). The position of the marker was measured from the area center of the circular marker. The position and displacement of the center point was measured along the image frames. For the verification, tensile tests were conducted. In the tensile test, four circular markers were attached along the longitudinal and transverse directions. The strain was calculated using the distance between markers both in the longitudinal and transverse direction. As a result, the stress-strain curve obtained using machine vision is compared to the stress-strain curve obtained from the DIC results. RMSE values of the strain from the machine vision and DIC were less than 0.005. In addition, as a measurement example, a bending angle and springback measurement according to bending deformation, and a moving position measurement of a punch, a blank holder, and a die by time change were performed. Using the proposed method, the deformation and displacement of the materials were measured precisely and easily.

Assessment of pull-out behavior of tunnel-type anchorages under various joint conditions

  • Junyoung Ko;Hyunsung Lim;Seunghwan Seo;Moonkyung Chung
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 2024
  • This study analyzes the pull-out behavior of tunnel-type anchorage under various joint conditions, including joint direction, spacing, and position, using a finite element analysis. The validity of the numerical model was evaluated by comparing the results with a small-scaled model test, and the results of the numerical analysis and the small-scaled model test agree very well. The parametric study evaluated the quantitative effects of each influencing factor, such as joint direction, spacing, and position, on the behavior of tunnel-type anchorage using pull-out resistance-displacement curves. The study found that joint direction had a significant effect on the behavior of tunnel-type anchorage, and the pull-out resistance decreased as the displacement level increased from 0.002L to 0.006L (L: anchorage length). It was confirmed that the reduction in pull-out resistance increased as the number of joints in contact with the anchorage body increased and the spacing between the joints decreased. The pull-out behavior of tunnel-type anchorage was thus shown to be significantly influenced by the position and spacing of the rock joints. In addition, it is found that the number of joints through which the anchorage passes, the wider the area where the plastic point occurs, which leads to a decrease in the resistance of the anchorage.

Development and performance evaluation of Machine Control Kit mountable to general excavators (일반 굴삭기 장착 가능한 머신 컨트롤 키트 개발 및 성능 평가)

  • K.S. Lee;K.S. Kim;J.B. Jeong;E.S. Pak;J.I. Koh;J.J. Park;S.H. Joo
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2024
  • In this study, to prevent accidents in underground facilities during excavation, we developed a Lv.3 automated control system that can be configured as an electronic control system without changing the existing hydraulic system in a general excavator and utilized digital map information of underground facilities. We aimed to develop a strategy to prevent accidents caused by operator error. To implement this, a real-time excavator bucket end position recognition and control system was developed through angle measurement of the boom, arm, and bucket using an electronic joystick, RTK-GPS, and angle sensors. In addition, excavators are large, machine-based equipment, and it is difficult to control overshoot due to inertia with feedback control using position recognition information of the bucket tip. Therefore, feed-forward control is used to calculate the moving speed of the bucket tip in real-time to determine the target position. We developed a technology that can converge and verified the performance of the developed system through actual vehicle installation and field tests.

Crystal Structures of Substrate and Inhibitor Complexes of Ribose 5-Phosphate Isomerase A from Vibrio vulnificus YJ016

  • Kim, Tae Gyun;Kwon, Taek Hun;Min, Kyoungin;Dong, Mi-Sook;Park, Young In;Ban, Changill
    • Molecules and Cells
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.99-103
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    • 2009
  • Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase A (RpiA) plays an important role in interconverting between ribose-5-phosphate (R5P) and ribulose-5-phosphate in the pentose phosphate pathway and the Calvin cycle. We have determined the crystal structures of the open form RpiA from Vibrio vulnificus YJ106 (VvRpiA) in complex with the R5P and the closed form with arabinose-5-phosphate (A5P) in parallel with the apo VvRpiA at $2.0{\AA}$ resolution. VvRpiA is highly similar to Escherichia coli RpiA, and the VvRpiA-R5P complex strongly resembles the E. coli RpiA-A5P complex. Interestingly, unlike the E. coli RpiA-A5P complex, the position of A5P in the VvRpiA-A5P complex reveals a different position than the R5P binding mode. VvRpiA-A5P has a sugar ring inside the binding pocket and a phosphate group outside the binding pocket: By contrast, the sugar ring of A5P interacts with the Asp4, Lys7, Ser30, Asp118, and Lys121 residues; the phosphate group of A5P interacts with two water molecules, W51 and W82.

Positioning testbed implementation for performance evaluation of ship wireless network (선내 무선 네트워크 특성조사를 통한 측위 테스트베드 구축)

  • Lee, Su-Bong;Kang, Dong-Hoon;Lee, Jong-Hyeon;Lee, Jae-Chul;Kim, Young-Hoon;Lee, Soon-Sup
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.353-361
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    • 2017
  • As ship-based tourism increases, safe sailing and management are necessary to prevent maritime accidents. Because external rescue support cannot arrive rapidly in the case of ship-related accidents, the initial response is very important for damage minimization. Further, for secondary damage prevention, it is necessary to accurately determine passenger positions. In this paper, considering the characteristics of a ship, the enhanced-Zigbee(e-Zigbee) position determination technology (PDT) is applied, which improved upon the Zigbee PDT by having advantages such as low power consumption and smaller size. According to user needs, a low-cost and high-precision passenger positioning tag and access point(AP) is provided. A ship testbed that yields improved positioning accuracy based on a performance evaluation is constructed.

A Study on the Image for the Marketing of Nursing Services (간호 서비스의 마케팅을 위한 이미지 연구)

  • Jung, Myun-Sook
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.22-34
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    • 1995
  • Health care marketing can be defined as a process of developing, promoting and administering health care services for the benefits of hospitals as well as consumers. Researchers have reported that one of the significant attributes in the selection of hospital is a client's perceived image of the hospitals. Especially the image of nursing services was one of the important factors of the hospital image. The main purposes of the study were 1) to define the positioning about 5 hospitals' image of nursing services. 2) to define the effects of image attributes to the iamage of hospital nursing services. Eighteen hundred questionnaires were distributed to the parents of middle schools and high schools in Seoul. Among them, 1340 cases were returned but 849 cases were turned out to be useful data and used in final analysis. In data analysis, $SPSS\;/PC^+$ and PC-MDS programs were used for descriptive statistics, multiple regression, and drawing perceptual maps. The image of hospital nursing services was measured developed by the author through literature review and content validation. Reliability coefficients was found to be statistically appropriate level of confidence(Cronbach's Alpha=.8617). The results were as follows : 3) The perceptual map shows that hospital A, B and C,D,E were divided into five groups(See Fig. 1). That is, hospital A, and B are located in a close position and hopital C & E are located at opposite position between X-axis, Hospital D was located in the middle area of the hospital C and:E. In conclusion, this research visiblely depicted perceptual maps using MDS of the consumer's image about hospital nursing services. Since hopital nursing services were differentiated by the image attributes in consumer's perception, the results of the study can help hospital managers plan marketing strategy according to their strong points or weak points. Because the necessity of marketing in recent health care was importantly recognized, this research which is adopting posititioning concept will contribute to the consumers and hospital organizations.

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Design and Fabrication of Dualband PIFA for size reduction (사이즈 감소를 위한 이중대역 PIFA 안테나 설계 및 제작)

  • Lim Dong-Cheol;Park Hyo-Dal
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.31 no.9A
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    • pp.900-905
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, PIFA antenna for $2.40{\sim}2.482GHz\;and\;5.75{\sim}5.85GHz$ is designed, fabricated, and measured. The prototype consist of hair-pin and short-pin. To obtain suitable bandwidth, the form layer is inserted between ground plane and substrate. Important parameters in the design are hair-pin length, width, position, air-gap height, and feed point position. From these parameters optimized, a PIFA antenna is fabricated and measured. The measured results of the antenna are obtained as follows results. The resonant frequency of the fabrication PIFA antenna is 2.37GHz and 5.86GHz bandwidth for approximately 90MHz with 350MHz(VSWR<2.0) and the gain is $1.91{\sim}4.37dBi$. H-plan and E-plan at 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz are shown as $52.83^{\circ},\;85.90^{\circ}\;and\;68.68^{\circ},\;52.143^{\circ}$ respectively.