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Implementation and Evaluation of Proxy Caching Mechanisms with Video Qualify Adjustment

  • Sasabe, Masahiro;Taniguchi, Yoshiaki;Wakamiya, Naoki;Murata, Masayuki;Miyahara, Hideo
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.121-124
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    • 2002
  • The proxy mechanism widely used in WWW systems offers low-delay data delivery by means of "proxy server". By applying the proxy mechanisms to the video streaming system, we expect that high-quality and low-delay video distribution can be accomplished without introducing extra load on the system. In addition, it is effective to adapt the quality of cached video data appropriately in the proxy if user requests are diverse due to heterogeneity in terms of the available bandwidth, end-system performance, and user′s preferences on the perceived video quality. We have proposed proxy caching mechanisms to accomplish the high-quality and highly-interactive video streaming services. In our proposed system, a video stream is divided into blocks for efficient use of the cache buffer. The proxy server is assumed to be able to adjust the quality of a cached or retrieved video block to the request through video filters. In this paper, to verify the practicality of our mechanisms, we implemented them on a real system and conducted experiments. Through evaluations from several performance aspects, it was shown that our proposed mechanisms can provide users with a low-latency and high-quality video streaming service in a heterogeneous environment.

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The Effect of Service Quality Estimation and Perceived Risk on Purchase Intention and Satisfaction of the Fashion Merchandise to Internet Shopping Malls (서비스 품질 평가와 지각된 위험이 인터넷 쇼핑몰에서의 패션상품 구매의도 및 만족에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Eun-Jin;Hong, Byung-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.44 no.5 s.219
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    • pp.79-87
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze whether service quality and perceived risk have an effect on purchase intention and satisfaction of the fashion merchandise in internet shopping malls. To this end, a survey was conducted from June 20 to July 30 in 2005, among married women aged in their 20s and 30s, on their purchase experience of fashion merchandise from internet shopping malls. The survey was conducted over the internet with 306 subjects. The statistical analysis methods were frequency analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis, and multiple regression analysis. First, the service quality factors were determined to be reliability, responsibility, ease of transaction, order convenience, and site characteristics. Perceived risk factors were determined to be merchandise risk, information exposure risk, social psychological risk, and function risk. Second, service quality factors of responsibility, ease of transaction, order convenience, site characteristics and perceived risk factor of social psychological risk had an effect on internet purchase intention of the fashion merchandise. Greater site use convenience, lower price, simpler ordering, and lower social psychological risk were all positively correlated with higher internet purchase intention of fashion merchandise. Third, nice quality factors and social psychological risk had an effect on satisfaction degree in internet shopping.

Efficacy of Carcass Electrical Stimulation in Meat Quality Enhancement: A Review

  • Adeyemi, Kazeem Dauda;Sazili, Awis Qurni
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.447-456
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    • 2014
  • The use of electrical stimulation (ES) as a management tool to improve meat quality and efficiency of meat processing is reviewed. The basis of the efficacy of ES is its ability to fast track postmortem glycolysis, which in turn stimulates myriad histological, physical, biochemical, biophysical and physiological changes in the postmortem muscle. Electrical stimulation hastens the onset and resolution of rigor mortis thereby reducing processing time and labor and plays a vital role in improving meat tenderness and other meat quality traits. However, ES may have negative impacts on some meat quality traits such as color stability and water holding capacity in some animals. Electrical stimulation is not an end in itself. In order to achieve the desired benefits from its application, the technique must be properly used in conjunction with various intricate antemortem, perimortem and postmortem management practices. Despite extensive research on ES, the fundamental mechanisms and the appropriate commercial applications remained obscured. In addition, muscles differ in their response to ES. Thus, elementary knowledge of the various alterations with respect to muscle type is needed in order to optimize the effectiveness of ES in the improvement of meat quality.

A Study on the evaluation of Service Quality in an Academic Library using SERVQUAL and SERVPERF (SERVQUAL과 SERVPERF를 이용한 대학도서관 서비스 품질평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Too-Young;Kim, Hee-Jeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.73-91
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    • 2003
  • Research papers on sevice quality, which began with the manufacturing industry in many Northern Europe at the end of 1970, have been found since the companies became much concerned about the level of services they offered. Libraties can not be an exception to this situation. It is absolutely necessary to find a way to develop a competitive strategy to offer a high level of service to those who use libraries. The purpose of study is to evaluate the quality of library services by applying "SERVQUAL" and "SERVPERF" of evaluating service quality and to determine which of these 2 methods is better in terms of measuring library services. The study also investigated the relationship between the service quality an user satifaction.

An Efficient Cloud Service Quality Performance Management Method Using a Time Series Framework (시계열 프레임워크를 이용한 효율적인 클라우드서비스 품질·성능 관리 방법)

  • Jung, Hyun Chul;Seo, Kwang-Kyu
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.121-125
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    • 2021
  • Cloud service has the characteristic that it must be always available and that it must be able to respond immediately to user requests. This study suggests a method for constructing a proactive and autonomous quality and performance management system to meet these characteristics of cloud services. To this end, we identify quantitative measurement factors for cloud service quality and performance management, define a structure for applying a time series framework to cloud service application quality and performance management for proactive management, and then use big data and artificial intelligence for autonomous management. The flow of data processing and the configuration and flow of big data and artificial intelligence platforms were defined to combine intelligent technologies. In addition, the effectiveness was confirmed by applying it to the cloud service quality and performance management system through a case study. Using the methodology presented in this study, it is possible to improve the service management system that has been managed artificially and retrospectively through various convergence. However, since it requires the collection, processing, and processing of various types of data, it also has limitations in that data standardization must be prioritized in each technology and industry.

Design and Implementation of a Simulator for the Performance Simulation of a Large-Scale Network Using OPNET (OPNET을 이용한 대규모 망 성능 모의실험을 위한 시뮬레이터 설계 및 구현)

  • Park, Jeong-Sook;Jeon, Yong-Hee
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.3B
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    • pp.274-287
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    • 2009
  • In the Internet environment in which best-effort services are provided, we need to guarantee end-to-end performance rather than hop performance to provide services with a variety of QoS(Quality of Service) requirements. The end-to-end performance is affected by many factors along the path of traffic flow. Most existing simulation studies are concentrated on a single node or a few nodes. We need much different approach considering the simulation execution time to simulate a large-scale network. In this paper, we derive requirements and present methodologies for the implementation of the simulator to simulate it. Then, we design and implement our simulator using OPNET. Performance evaluation is carried out using the simulator for large-scale KII (National Information Infrastructure in Korea). We use a self-similar traffic model and present some results on the end-to-end performance metric for the networks.

Effects of the User Perception on Symbolic Adoption and Usage in Mandatory ATCIS-II Use (ATCIS-II의 사용이 의무적인 사용자의 인식이 심적 채택과 사용에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Minsuk;Park, Junsung;Yoo, Joonwoo;Park, Heejun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.517-532
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to propose useful suggestions by analyzing causal effect relationship between perceived usefulness (PU), perceived ease-of-use (PEOU), symbolic adoption (SA) which have four constructs, and ATCIS-II usage in mandatory context. Methods: Based on prior research, a research model was constructed using the variables of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the symbolic adoption theory, and the post-adoptive behavior variables. A structured questionnaire was conducted for those who use ATCIS-II in Republic of Korea Army (ROKA), and a total of 183 usable responses were collected and empirically analyzed using SmartPLS 3.3.9. Results: The results of this study are as follows; PEOU have a significant effect on PU and two constructs of SA (heightened enthusiasm, effort worthiness). PU have a significant effect on every construct of SA (heightened enthusiasm, mental acceptance, effort worthiness, use commitment). In addition, it was found that heightened enthusiasm have a significant effect on both expanded usage and exploratory usage. Also, mental acceptance and use commitment have a significant effect on exploratory usage. Conclusion: The findings of this empirical study have implications for proposing SA can explain mandated user's behavior and giving possible way that improve organization performance which adopt Information System (IS) by motivating end-user to extend IS's feature and explore new ways of using IS at work.

Object Dimension Estimation for Remote Visual Inspection in Borescope Systems

  • Kim, Hyun-Sik;Park, Yong-Suk
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.4160-4173
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    • 2019
  • Borescopes facilitate the inspection of areas inside machines and systems that are not directly accessible for visual inspection. They offer real-time, up-close access to confined and hard-to-access spaces without having to dismantle or destructure the object under inspection. Borescopes are ideal instruments for routine maintenance, quality inspection and monitoring of systems and structures. The main application being fault or defect detection, it is useful to have measuring capability to quantify object dimensions in a target area. High-end borescopes use multi-optic solutions to provide measurement information of viewed objects. Multi-optic solutions can provide accurate measurements at the expense of structural complexity and cost increase. Measuring functionality is often unavailable in low-end, single camera borescopes. In this paper, a single camera measurement solution that enables the size estimation of viewed objects is proposed. The proposed solution computes and overlays a scaled grid of known spacing value over the screen view, enabling the human inspector to estimate the size of the objects in view. The proposed method provides a simple means of measurement that is applicable to low-end borescopes with no built-in measurement capability.

Flour Characteristics and End-Use Quality of Korean Wheats with 1Dx2.2+1Dy12 Subunits in High Molecular Weight Glutenin

  • Park, Chul-Soo;Baik, Byung-Kee;Kang, Moon-Seok;Park, Jong-Chul;Park, Jae-Gun;Yu, Chang-Yeon;Choung, Myoung-Gun;Lim, Jung-Dae
    • Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.243-252
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    • 2006
  • White salted noodles and pan bread were prepared from Korean wheats with 1Dx2.2+1Dy12 subunits in high molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) to evaluate the suitability for end-use products through the comparison with US wheats with various classes and commercial wheat flours. Korean wheat flours with 1Dx2.2+1Dy12 subunits showed higher SDS sedimentation volume than US wheat flours with similar protein content. Compared to wheat flours with similar protein content and SDS sedimentation volume, water absorption percent of Korean wheat flours using a mixograph was higher than that of US wheat flours, but similar to commercial wheat flours. Mixograph mixing time was similar to hard wheat flours and commercial noodle flours. Optimum water absorption percent of noodle dough from Korean wheat flours was higher than that of US wheat flours. Noodle sheets from Korean wheat flours with 1Dx2.2+ 1Dy12 subunits showed lower L values, higher a values and similar b values compared to commercial noodle flours. Hardness of cooked noodles from Korean wheat flours 1Dx2.2+1Dy12 subunits correlated positively with protein content, NIRS hardness, mixograph water absorption and gluten yield of flours. Korean wheat flours with 1Dx2.2+1Dy12 subunits showed lower loaf volume and harder crumb firmness than hard wheat flours and commercial bread wheat flours in spite of similar protein quantity and quality to hard wheat flours.

Review of the Studies on the Qualities in Peanuts (땅콩 품질에 관한 연구현황과 금후의 방향)

  • Lee, Jung-Il;Park, Hee-Woon;Han, Eui-Dong
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.33 no.s01
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    • pp.64-85
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    • 1988
  • Peanut seeds are characterized by high oils and proteins with good quality, and are utilized as an edible oil source and a protein-rich food products. The end products, being peanut butter, salted seed, confections, roasting stock and other by-products are favored in world-wide because of their unique roasted peanut flavor. As with many other foods, interest in the composition and chemistry of peanut is largely a result of thier use as human food. Thus, a more complete knowledge of thier chemical and food quality and flavor properties is desired. Literatures are reviewed mainly focucing on the physicochemical properties and nutritional quality of oil, protein and flavor in peanuts. Chemical properties of protein and oil, and volatile flavor component in peanut seeds are studied extensively in view point of chemical and food nutritional value. But in crop base, the synthesis and genetic studies of the chemicals could not provide valuable informations on the breeding for quality improvement. Some essential amino acids are limiting in peanut seeds and the tocopherols are very important in oil stability and for dietary adequacy ratio in high linoleic acid peanut oil, but it is thought to be quite difficult to improve by breeding technique as their lack information of gene actions. However, the selections of high protein and oil, and some essential amino acids and linoleic acid rich genotypes could be helpful for the quality improving. Research studies are also needed to elucidate the relationships between flavor components and consumer perception of peanut flavor.

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