• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.55-60
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• 2009

We analyzed the factors driving succession and the structure, and dynamics of vegetation on sand and gravel bars in order to clarify the differences in vegetation succession in rivers with different river bed substrates. Woody plant communities (dominated by Salix), perennial herb communities (dominated by Miscanthus), and annual plant communities (dominated by Persicaria) appeared in that order from upstream to downstream on the sandbar. The results of DCA ordination based on vegetation data reflected a successional trend. This result suggests that sandbars grow in a downstream direction. Various vegetation types different in successional stage, such as grassland, young stands of Korean red pine (Pinus densiflora), two-layered stands of young and mature pines, and mature pine stands also occurred on gravel bars, but the vegetation in earlier successional stage was established upstream, which is the opposite to the direction found on sandbars. Those results demonstrate that the dynamics of the bed load itself could be a factor affecting vegetation succession in rivers. In fact, sands suspended by running water were transported downstream over the vegetated area of sand bar and thereby created new areas of sandbar on the downstream end of the sandbar. Meanwhile, gravel, which is heavy and thereby is shifted by strong water currents, accumulated on the upstream end of the vegetated area, and thus created new areas of gravel bar in that direction. These results showed that allogenic processes drive vegetation succession on sand and gravel bars in streams and rivers.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.948-955
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• 2005

A three-dimensional computation was conducted to understand effects of the inlet boundary layer thickness on the internal flow in a low-speed axial compressor operating at the design condition($\phi=85\%$) and near stall condition($\phi=65\%$). At the design condition, the flows in the axial compressor show, independent of the inlet boundary layer thickness, similar characteristics such as the pressure distribution, size of the hub comer-stall, tip leakage flow trajectory, limiting streamlines on the blade suction surface, etc. However, as the load is increased, the hub corner-stall grows to make a large separation region at the junction of the hub and suction surface for the inlet condition with thick boundary layers at the hub and casing. Moreover, the tip leakage flow is more vortical than that observed in case of the thin inlet boundary layer and has the critical point where the trajectory of the tip leakage flow is abruptly turned into the downstream. For the inlet condition with thin boundary layers, the hub corner-stall is diminished so it is indistinguishable from the wake. The tip leakage flow leans to the leading edge more than at the design condition but has no critical point. In addition to these, the severe reverse flow, induced by both boundary layer on the blade surface and the tip leakage flow, can be found to act as the blockage of flows near the casing, resulting in heavy loss.

• 한국식품조리과학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.575-585
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• 2009

This study was conducted to identify the job stress factors of school foodservice employees and to examine the relationship between job stress and turnover intention through path analysis. Data was collected using a survey of 432 school foodservice employees in elementary and secondary schools in Masan, Kyungsangnam-do. All of the participants were female, and 165(52.9%) were over the age of 45' Additionally, 310(99.4%) of the respondents were married, while 287(92.0%) had less than a high school level of education. Furthermore, 271(86.9%) of the respondents were cooks. Overall, 107(34.3%) of the respondents had worked in the food industry for less than $5{\sim}10$ years. In addition, 208 (66.7%) respondents answered that they had 'never' changed jobs. Among job characteristics that causes job stress, job posture was the primary stress factor, followed by heavy work load and job condition. Job stress was found to be significantly correlated with turnover intention. Additionally, job position was the only moderating variable that was found to be correlated with job characteristics and job stress. Finally, the moderating variables influencing the effects of job stress on turnover intention were identified as performance confidence, job career, and job position. The results of this study will be useful for future studies conducted to evaluate the development of job environments and performance to minimize turnover and job inefficiency as a result of job stress.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2012

Next generation cellular applications and smart phone usage generate very heavy wireless data traffic. It becomes ineluctable for mobile network operators to have multiple core network entities such as Serving Gateway and Packet Data Network Gateway in 4G-LTE to share this high traffic generated. A typical configuration consists of multiple serving gateways behind a load-balancer which would determine which serving gateway would service a end-users'request. Such hardware is expensive, has a rigid policy set, and is a single point of failure. Another perspective of today's increasingly high data traffic is that besides it is being widely accepted that the high bandwidth L TE provides is creating bottlenecks for service providers by the increasing user bandwidth demands without creating any corresponding revenue improvements, a hidden problem that is also passively advancing on the newly emerging 4G-LTE that may need more immediate attention is the network signaling traffic, also known as the control-plane traffic that is generated by the applications developed for smartphones and tablets. With this as starting point, in this paper, we propose a solution, by a new approach considering OpenFlow switch connected to a controller, which gains flexibility in policy, costs less, and has the potential to be more robust to failure with future generations of switches. This also solves the problem of scaling the control-plane traffic that is imperative to preserve revenue and ensure customer satisfaction. Thus, with the proposed architecture with OpenFlow, mobile network operators could manipulate the traffic generated by the control-plane signaling separated from the data-plane, besides also reducing the cost in installing multiple core-network entities.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.1049-1068
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• 2011

In this paper a simple and effective call admission control (CAC) scheme is proposed for the emerging interleave-division multiple-access (IDMA) systems, supporting a variety of traffic types and offering different quality of service (QoS) requirements and priority levels. The proposed scheme is signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) evolution based CAC (SE-CAC). The key idea behind the scheme is to take advantage of the SINR evolution technique in the process of making admission decisions, which is developed from the effective chip-by-chip (CBC) multi-user detection (MUD) process in IDMA systems. By virtue of this semi-analytical technique, the MUD efficiency can be estimated accurately. Additionally, the computational complexity can be considerably reduced. These features make the scheme highly suitable for IDMA systems, which can combat intra-cell interference efficiently with simple CBC MUD. Analysis and simulation results show that compared to the traditional CAC scheme considering MUD efficiency as a constant, the proposed SE-CAC scheme can guarantee high power efficiency and throughput for multimedia traffic even in heavy load conditions, illustrating the high efficiency of CBC MUD. Furthermore, based on the SINR evolution, the SE-CAC can make accurate estimation of available resource considering the effect of MUD, leading to low outage probability as well as low blocking and dropping probability.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.431-440
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• 2016

Electric or hydrogen energy source is expected to solve a various issues including energy security and exhaust pollution. However, it is required a lot of time and a variety of development to apply for commercialization. Therefore, it is needed to translation fuels between the future and the present. DME (Dimethyl Ether) can play a reduce exhaust emission from medium- to heavy-duty engines that are mostly used in commercial sector. It have applied to the DME fuel as a various alternative fuel including power generation in many countries. Especially, it is necessary to secure the energy of energy-poor areas that are widely distributed around the world. And Korea also has the energy-poor areas due to geographical characteristics. These areas has been covered by their own energy through some small diesel generators, diesel boiler etc. If DME fuels are supplied in new demand such as rural sector with energy poor area, DME fuel will be available in the wider sector. In this study, it investigated performance and emission characteristics of agricultural generator and air heater using DME fuel. So the existing equipment of generator and air heater was modified to apply DME fuel. And combustion characteristics and properties of exhaust gas according to the contents of the DME fuel were evaluated. DME fuel showed a potential application in agricultural generator and air heater.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권15호
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• pp.5983-5991
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• 2014

Introduction: Upper aero-digestive tract cancer is a multidimensional problem, international trends showing complex rises and falls in incidence and mortality across the globe, with variation across different cultural and socio-economic groups. This paper seeks some explanations and identifies some research and policy needs. Methodological Approach: The literature illustrates the multifactorial nature of carcinogenesis. At the cellular level, it is viewed as a multistep process involving multiple mutations and selection for cells with progressively increasing capacity for proliferation, survival, invasion, and metastasis. Established and emerging risk factors, in addition to changes in incidence and prevalence of cancers of the upper aero-digestive tract, were identified. Risk Factors: Exposure to tobacco and alcohol, as well as diets inadequate in fresh fruits and vegetables, remain the major risk factors, with persistent infection by particular so-called "high risk" genotypes of human papillomavirus increasingly recognised as also playing an important role in a subset of cases, particularly for the oropharynx. Chronic trauma to oral mucosa from poor restorations and prostheses, in addition to poor oral hygiene with a consequent heavy microbial load in the mouth, are also emerging as significant risk factors. Conclusions: Understanding and quantifying the impact of individual risk factors for these cancers is vital for health decision-making, planning and prevention. National policies and programmes should be designed and implemented to control exposure to environmental risks, by legislation if necessary, and to raise awareness so that people are provided with the information and support they need to adopt healthy lifestyles.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권9호
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• pp.935-939
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• 2015

본 논문은 브러시리스 직류전동기의 센서리스 속도제어 방법에 관해 기술하며 센서리스 속도제어를 위해 직접토크제어 및 전류오차보상법을 사용하였다. 직접토크제어는 토크응답 속도가 빠르고 파라미터 변동에 강인하며 벡터제어 드라이브에 비해 하드웨어가 단순하고 적은 비용으로 시스템을 구성할 수 있다. 그리고 센서리스 속도제어를 위해 전류오차보상법을 사용하였는데 이 제어법은 실제 전동기 및 수식모델 전동기의 두 고정자 전류가 똑같아 지도록 제어된 전압을 전동기에 인가하여 전동기의 속도를 추정하는 방법이다. 본 논문에서 사용한 제어법은 제어기 구성이 간단하며 PI 제어기도 필요 없는 강인한 제어를 수행할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 속도제어법의 검증을 위해 컴퓨터 모의실험을 실시하였으며 모의실험 결과 저속, 중속 및 고속영역에서의 양호한 속도특성 및 부하특성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권8호
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• pp.849-854
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• 2013

선박 운항의 경제성, 효율성 및 편리성을 높이면서 친환경 선박에 대한 연구가 지속적으로 이루어지고 있다. 이 중 하나가 전자제어식 디젤 엔진의 개발이다. 자동차용 소형에서는 이미 전자제어식 디젤기관이 주류를 이루고 있으나 선박에서는 안정성 및 신뢰성의 문제로 보급에 어려움을 겪고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 전자제어식과 캠식 엔진이 동시에 탑재되어 있는 한국해양대학교의 실습선 한바다호의 주기관을 이용하여 두 엔진의 성능을 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 전자제어식 디젤엔진의 연료소비율이 저감되었으며 특히 저부하에서의 성능이 보다 우수하였다. 또한 연료소비율에 있어서 해상 시운전에서 훨씬 효과적이었다.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권8호
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• pp.2271-2280
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• 1999

본고에서는 움직임 추정 성능을 개선하고 과도한 연산량과 전송 부담을 경감시키기 위해 HBMA에 기반한 가변 움직임 추정 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 크게 다음과 같이 네 단계로 구성된다. 우선, 연속된 두 프레임 간의 차영상 윤곡 정보에서 정의한 블록 활동도를 평균하여 현재 영상의 평균 블록 활동도를 산출한다. 두 번째로, 이렇게 산출한 평균 블록 활동도를 통해 카메라 패닝의 유무를 검출한 후, 웨이블렛 변환에 의해 구성한 피라미드 계층 구조상에서 카메라 패닝 벡터를 추정하여 보상한다. 다음으로, 카메라 패닝 보상 후에 정의한 블록 활동도를 토대로 각 블록을 움직임 블록, 준 움직임 블록, 비 움직임 블록 중 어느 하나로 분류한 검색 테이블을 작성한다. 마지막으로, 제안된 가변 HBMA는 검색 테이블을 참조하여 블록 크기를 가변시키고 초기 탐색 계층 및 탐색 영역을 적응적으로 선정함으로써 피라미드 계층 구조상에서 효율적인 고속 움직임 추정을 수행할 수 있다. 이상에서 설명한 각 단계에서 요구되는 비용함수는 차영상 윤곽정보를 통해 획득한 블록 활동도를 공통적으로 이용한다.