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A Negative Understanding about Digital Contents in the Multimedia Circumstance (디지털 콘텐츠에 대한 비판적 접근 - 멀티미디어에 의해 형성되는 환경을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Kyung-Il
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.133-137
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    • 2006
  • The advent of multimedia as the new media was caused popularization of personal computer and evolution of technology. The age of multimedia instigated the coming of new paradigm. The computer have been changed reality as a human culture to simulation culture. And it have been developed as a connector between real world and cyber space. As a result, a man who have used a computer has a possibility of danger of immersion or addiction. Therefore we must have the media competence.

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Future Radio Technology (미래 전파기술)

  • Kim, B.C.;Park, S.T.;Kang, K.O.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.66-72
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    • 2017
  • The frequency range of a radio wave is from 3kHz to 300GHz, and radio technologies use this range to improve the quality of human lives. Radio technologies have entered a new phase of communication. The core infrastructure used as the basis for technologies leading the fourth industrial evolution, such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, autonomous cars/drones, augmented reality, robots, and remote medical diagnoses, is the 5G network. The 5G network enables transmitting and receiving large amounts of data at very high speed. In particular, application technologies with artificial intelligence have been studied, including radar, wireless charging, electromagnetic devices and their effects on humans, EMI/EMC, and microwave imaging. In this study, we present a future radio technology that is needed to prepare for the upcoming industrial revolution and digital transformation.

Bitter Taste, Rising New Functions and Significance of Extra-oral Expressions

  • Ki, Su-Young;Kim, Kyung-Nyun
    • International Journal of Oral Biology
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.113-121
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    • 2018
  • Taste is closely related to intake of food. Taste perception is also influenced by type of food ingested, and nutrition and health status. Bitter taste plays an important role in the survival of human and animals to avoid probable toxic and harmful substances. Vertebrate animals recognize bitter taste through type 2 taste receptors (T2Rs). Several T2Rs have been expressed extra-oral such as the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, urogenital tract, brain and immune cells, and parts of their functions are being revealed. This review will discuss physiological roles of T2Rs in relation to innate immunity, secretion and smooth muscle contraction expressed in extra-oral cells and tissues, and we summarize relationships between polymorphisms in T2Rs and general or oral diseases. It is not a coincidence that animals pay much genetic costs for taste and smell during evolution.

Product Variety Modeling Based on Formal Concept Analysis

  • Kim, Tai-Oun
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2010
  • Increasing product variety based on product family and product platform provides a company with a competitive advantage over its competitors. As products become more complex, short-life cycled and customized, the design efforts require more knowledge-intensive, collaborative and coordinating efforts for information sharing. By sharing knowledge, information, component and process across different families of products, the product realization process will be more efficient, cost-effective and quick-responsive. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used for analyzing data and forming semantic structures that are formal abstractions of concepts of human thoughts. A Web Ontology Language (OWL) is designed for applications that need to process the content of information instead of simply presenting information to humans. OWL also captures the evolution of different components of the product family. The purpose of this paper is to develop product variety modeling to increase the usefulness of common platform. In constructing and analyzing product ontology, FCA is adopted for conceptual knowledge processing. For the selected product family, product variety Ontology is constructed and implemented using prot$\'{e}$g$\'{e}$-2000.

A Study on Development of Security Detection System for Infant, the Old and the Weak by using TRIZ (TRIZ를 활용한 유아 및 노약자를 위한 안전감지시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kook-Hwan;Lee, Kyeong-Won
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2008
  • There are no products, systems to manage health and detect security for infant, the old and the weak in Korea. Recently, the concerns of parents are increasing more about all of children(baby, infant, etc) because rate of birth is decreasing gradually. Also, the average span of human life is on an increasing trend according to well-being and evolution of medical treatment. Therefore, this treatise analyzed problems in managing and following-up infant, the old and the weak at present. By using TRIZ to solve problems, we devised new conceptional ideas, detail designs to manage health, detect security, cope with correspondences for them and developed the prototype and tested it. Excellent performances are proved through various field test.

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Multitasking Façade: How to Combine BIPV with Passive Solar Mitigation Strategies in a High-Rise Curtain Wall System

  • Betancur, Juan
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.307-313
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    • 2017
  • This paper outlines the processes and strategies studied and selected by the team during the design stages of the project for the incorporation of BIPV into the tower's façade. The goal was to create a system that helps reduce internal heating and cooling loads while collecting energy through photovoltaic panels located throughout the building. The process used to develop this façade system can be broken down into three stages. 1. Concept: BIPV as design catalyst for a high-rise building. 2. Optimization: Balancing BIPV and Human comfort. 3. Integration: Incorporating BIPV into a custom curtain wall design. The FKI Project clearly illustrates the evolution building enclosures from simple wall systems to high performance integrated architectural and engineering design solutions. This design process and execution of this project represent the design philosophy of our firm.

Study on minimizing Extremely-Low-Frequency magnetic fields around power cables and busbars (송전선과 분전반 모선으로부터 발생하는 극저주파 자기장 저감을 위한 연구)

  • Lou, Ming;Jeung, Gi-Woo;Kim, Dong-Hun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.04b
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    • pp.88-90
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    • 2009
  • Extremely-Low-Frequency(ELF) magnetic fields are generated around power cables and bus bars in power systems. Such the stray fields may cause disturbances to nearby electronic apparatus and affect even human health. In order to seeking out a proper way to reducing the fields, the first thing to do is to accurately predict field distribution around analysis models of interest. Then, optimization techniques should be applied for finding a more improved design than the initial one. To achieve this goal, commercial electromagnetic software, MagNet, is combined with evolution strategy algorithm. For verification of the proposed method, three-phase power line cables and busbar systems have been tested.

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Retrospective dosimetry using fingernail electron paramagnetic resonance response

  • Noori, Abbas;Mostajaboddavati, Mojtaba;Ziaie, Farhood
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.526-530
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    • 2018
  • Human fingernails were used to estimate the radiation dose via electron paramagnetic resonance measurements of radiation-induced radicals. The limiting factors in this research were mechanically induced electron paramagnetic resonance signals due to the mechanical stress during the preparation of the samples. Therefore, different treatment methods of fingernails were used to reduce the mechanically induced signals. The results demonstrate that the mechanically induced and radiation-induced signals have apparently different microwave power saturation behaviors. In addition, the mechanically induced signal shows a fading evolution over time and reaches a constant value. Chemical treatment using the different reagents showed that the minimum mechanically induced signal was obtained using the dithiothreitol reagent. The dose-response curves of the samples treated with dithiothreitol for 30 minutes demonstrated a greater linearity than those of samples treated for 5 minutes. Therefore, to find an unknown absorbed dose in a fingernail sample using a calibration curve, we recommend adopting the mentioned chemical treatment procedure to reduce the uncertainty.

Radiation Biology in Space; DNA Damage and Biological Effects of Space Radiation

  • Ohnishi, Takeo;Takahashi, Akihisa;Ohnishi, Ken
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.37-40
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    • 2002
  • Astronauts are constantly exposed to space radiation at a low-dose rate during long-tenn stays in space. Therefore, it is important to determine correctly the biological effects of space radiation on human health. Space radiations contain various kinds of different energy particles, especially high linear energy transfer (LET) particles. Therefore, we have to study the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of space radiation under microgravity environment which may change RBE from a stress for cells. Furthermore, the research about space radiation might give us useful information about birth and evolution of life on the earth. We also can realize the importance of preventing the ozone layer from depletion by use of exposure equipment to sunlight at International Space Station (ISS).

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