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The study for the analysis and implementation of Alternate Reality Game by media convergence (미디어 융합에 따른 대체현실게임의 분석 및 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Ha
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.752-759
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    • 2008
  • The latest convergence of broadcasting and communication makes the boundary between medias be ambiguous. It pursues the new type of culture that the unspecified many participants seek the satisfaction for the same target in an realtime environment. ARG(Alternative Reality Game) is a new alternate real game created by media convergence and it processes the more realistic interactivity between users through ARS, SMS, BLOG, Cafe and Messages. This paper analyzes the implementation, design, and construction schemes of ARG in the side of the human thinking and media. We also propose the evolution and role of the broadcasting by combining broadcasting for the activation of ARG.

The Study of Total Body Modification (TBM) Technique System (Total Body Modification(TBM) 기법에 관한 고찰)

  • Shin, Byung-Cheul;Woo, Young-Min
    • The Journal of Churna Manual Medicine for Spine and Nerves
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.61-71
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    • 2006
  • Objectives : To introduce Total Body Modification(TBM) technique system developed by Dr. Victor Frank DC, DO, ND through combining chiropractic manipulation with osteopathy, acupuncture meridian system, and naturopathy based on his long-time clinical experiences and insights. Methods : After investigating the art, philosophy and science of TBM thechnique, and applying TBM practice under private clinical situation, we compared It with Chuna Korean manual medicine and oriental medicine system. Results : This system deals with correcting human body's functional physiology to potentiate in a favorable manner. TBM uses a neuromuscular reflex test and body access meridian points to tap into the body's biocomputer and read functional programs. Corrections are usually made by means of special respiratory spinal adjustment, cranial, soft tissue, or specific joint manipulation. Conclusions : We found similarities between TBM and Chuna system in the view of Korean Traditional meridian concept. The special combinations and sequences of various alarm points and associated points have clinical effects on the treatment of chronic spinal subluxation pattern. This suggests TBM has significance In the point of the future evolution of Chuna manual medicine in Korea.

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A Study on Developmental Direction of Interface Design for Gesture Recognition Technology

  • Lee, Dong-Min;Lee, Jeong-Ju
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.499-505
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    • 2012
  • Objective: Research on the transformation of interaction between mobile machines and users through analysis on current gesture interface technology development trend. Background: For smooth interaction between machines and users, interface technology has evolved from "command line" to "mouse", and now "touch" and "gesture recognition" have been researched and being used. In the future, the technology is destined to evolve into "multi-modal", the fusion of the visual and auditory senses and "3D multi-modal", where three dimensional virtual world and brain waves are being used. Method: Within the development of computer interface, which follows the evolution of mobile machines, actively researching gesture interface and related technologies' trend and development will be studied comprehensively. Through investigation based on gesture based information gathering techniques, they will be separated in four categories: sensor, touch, visual, and multi-modal gesture interfaces. Each category will be researched through technology trend and existing actual examples. Through this methods, the transformation of mobile machine and human interaction will be studied. Conclusion: Gesture based interface technology realizes intelligent communication skill on interaction relation ship between existing static machines and users. Thus, this technology is important element technology that will transform the interaction between a man and a machine more dynamic. Application: The result of this study may help to develop gesture interface design currently in use.

Review of Resilience-Based Design

  • Ademovic, Naida;Ibrahimbegovic, Adnan
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.91-110
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    • 2020
  • The reliability of structures is affected by various impacts that generally have a negative effect, from extreme weather conditions, due to climate change to natural or man-made hazards. In recent years, extreme loading has had an enormous impact on the resilience of structures as one of the most important characteristics of the sound design of structures, besides the structural integrity and robustness. Resilience can be defined as the ability of the structure to absorb or avoid damage without suffering complete failure, and it can be chosen as the main objective of design, maintenance and restoration for structures and infrastructure. The latter needs further clarification (which is done in this paper), to achieve the clarity of goals compared to robustness which is defined in Eurocode EN 1991-1-7 as: "the ability of a structure to withstand events like fire, explosions, impact or the consequences of human error, without being damaged to an extent disproportionate to the original cause". Many existing structures are more vulnerable to the natural or man-made hazards due to their material deterioration, and a further decrease of its loadbearing capacity, modifying the structural performance and functionality and, subsequently, the system resilience. Due to currently frequent extreme events, the design philosophy is shifting from Performance-Based Design to Resilience-Based Design and from unit to system (community) resilience. The paper provides an overview of such design evolution with indicative needs for Resilience-Based Design giving few conducted examples.

An Optimization Technique based on Signatures for OWL Query Processing (OWL 질의 처리를 위한 시그너처 기반 최적화 기법)

  • Im Donghyuk;Jeong Hoyoung;Kim Hyoung-Joo
    • Journal of KIISE:Databases
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.585-592
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    • 2005
  • The Semantic Web is being studied as the next step in the evolution of the web. In the environment of the Semantic Web, the information must be understandable computers as well as a just human. So we use ontologies for describing the contents of the web resources. Among such ontologies, OWL is proposed as a recommendation by W3C. OWL data is represented as graph structure and the query is evaluated by traversing each node of the graph. In this paper, we propose the optimization technique based on signature to efficiently process the OWL data. Our approach minimizes traversing each node of the graph in query processing.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN ASSESSMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL IMPACTS ARISING FROM RELEASES TO THE BIOSPHERE AFTER DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE INTO GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES

  • Smith, Graham;Kato, Tomoko
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2010
  • Geological disposal is designed to provide safe containment of radioactive waste for very long times, with the containment provided by a combination of engineered and geological barriers. In the extreme long term, after many thousands of years or longer, residual amounts of long-lived radionulides such as Cl-36, but also radionuclides in the natural decay chains, may be released into the environment normally accessed and used by humans, termed here, the biosphere. It is necessary to ensure that any such releases meet radiation protection objectives through the development of a safety case, which will include assessment of radiation doses to humans. The design of such dose calculations over such long timeframes is not straightforward, because of the range of potentially relevant assumptions which could be made, concerning environmental change and changes in human behavior. These conceptual uncertainties are additional to those that more typically arise, for example, in the assessment of present day situations, but which also have to be addressed. The issue has therefore been subject to international cooperation for many years. This paper summarizes the evolution and results of that collaboration leading up to the present day, taking account of developments in international recommendations on radiation protection objectives and the more recent greater focus on preparation of site specific safety cases.

Leishmania tropica infection, in comparison to Leishmania major, induces lower delayed type hyper-sensitivity in BALB/c mice

  • Mahmoudzadeh-Niknam, Hamid;Kiaei, Simin Sadat;Iravani, Davood
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.45 no.2 s.142
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    • pp.103-109
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    • 2007
  • Leishmania tropica and L. major are etiologic agents of human cutaneous leishmaniasis. Delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) is an immunologic response that has been frequently used as a correlate for protection against or sensitization to leishmania antigen. In BALB/c mice, L. tropica infection results in non-ulcerating disease, whereas L. major infection results in destructive lesions. In order to clarify the immunologic mechanisms of these 2 different outcomes, we compared the ability of these 2 leishmania species in induction of DTH response in this murine model. BALB/c mice were infected with L. major or L. tropica, and disease evolution and DTH responses were determined. The results show that the primary L. major infection can exacerbate the secondary L. major infection and is associated with DTH response. Higher doses of the primary L. major infection result in more disease exacerbation of the secondary L. major infection as well as higher DTH response. L. tropica infection induces lower DTH responses than L. major. We have previously reported that the primary L. tropica infection induces partial protection against the secondary L. major infection in BALB/c mice. Induction of lower DTH response by L. tropica suggests that the protection induced against L. major by prior L. tropica infection may be due to suppression of DTH response.

Haewon-sangsaeng as a Religio-Ethical Metaphor

  • HUANG, Pochi
    • Journal of Daesoon Thought and the Religions of East Asia
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.103-125
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    • 2021
  • This paper deals with figurative meanings of Haewon-sangsaeng. It is an investigation which is both semantic and diachronic. In the first part, important implications of sangsaeng (or xiangsheng in Chinese) in the context of correlative cosmology are extensively explored. Among others, saeng (in Chinese sheng) as a powerful metaphor and its related Chinese compounds are broadly discussed. In the second part, the evolution of ideas of yuan (or won in Korean) in Chinese history is explicated. Above all, in the traditional Chinese cultural milieu, wrongful treatments which make victims feel themselves aggrieved are socio-politically orientated. The Scripture on Great Peace (Taiping Jing) is used as reference point to elucidate the essential points of yuan and its knots. However, the advent of Buddhism in East Asia adds a new dimension to the understanding of yuan (won). Accumulated yuan as karmic bond thus gives a new identity of yuan as predetermined animosity. Widely recognized idioms like "adverse relatives and karmic debtors" and indigenous Chinese Buddhist rituals like Repentance Ritual of the Emperor Liang bear witness to this transformation of the meaning of yuan in East Asia. The fruitful yet correlated meanings of yuan also make the endeavor of untying yuan deeply significant and important to human society. Haewon-sangsaeng, as a religio-ethical ideal, brings out an amicable and harmonious relationship among myriad beings in the cosmos.

GUI-based Detection of Usage-state Changes in Mobile Apps (GUI에 기반한 모바일 앱 사용상태 구분)

  • Kang, Ryangkyung;Seok, Ho-Sik
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.448-453
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    • 2019
  • Under the conflicting objectives of maximum user satisfaction and fast launching, there exist great needs for automated mobile app testing. In automated app testing, detection of usage-state changes is one of the most important issues for minimizing human intervention and testing of various usage scenarios. Because conventional approaches utilizing pre-collected training examples can not handle the rapid evolution of apps, we propose a novel method detecting changes in usage-state through graph-entropy. In the proposed method, widgets in a screen shot are recognized through DNNs and 'onverted graphs. We compared the performance of the proposed method with a SIFT (Scale-Invariant Feature Transform) based method on 20 real-world apps. In most cases, our method achieved superior results, but we found some situations where further improvements are required.

A Study on the Bluetooth Communication Module Platform for LED lighting control (LED 조명관제를 위한 블루투스 통신모듈 플랫폼에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Dong-hyun;Heo, Sung-uk;Lim, Ji-yong;Oh, Am-suk
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2016.10a
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    • pp.846-847
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    • 2016
  • LED lighting is energy in lighting control based on had developed into a human-centered / multi-functional lighting systems from simple one trillion people thereby using environmental change by combining IT technology and software, including a variety of sensor functions and communication functions, depending on the evolution of the IT Convergence Era the reduction, and the strength and the color tone customized illumination of the user-section of light has been desired. For this intelligent lighting system is applied to the sensor and the control center of the user should be possible, and it is necessary for this artist platform of the communication module. In this paper, we propose a communication platform that utilizes Bluetooth BLE module for LED lighting control.

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