• 설비공학논문집
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.381-386
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• 2016

An optimization algorithm is developed based on a simulation case of a single family house model equipped with PV arrays. To increase the nationwide use of PV power generation facilities, a market-competitive electricity price needs to be introduced, which is determined based on the time of use. In this study, quadratic programming optimization was applied to minimize the electricity bill while maintaining the indoor temperature within allowable error bounds. For optimization, it is assumed that the weather and electricity demand are predicted. An EnergyPlus-based house model was approximated by using an equivalent RC circuit model for application as a linear constraint to the optimization. Based on the RC model, model predictive control was applied to the management of the cooling load and electricity for the first week of August. The result shows that more than 25% of electricity consumed for cooling can be saved by allowing excursions of temperature error within an affordable range. In addition, profit can be made by reselling electricity to the main grid energy supplier during peak hours.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to find which spatiotemporal gait parameters gained from stroke patients could be predictive factors for the gait part of Tinetti Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA-G). Two hundred forty-six stroke patients were recruited for this study. They participated in two assessments, the POMA-G and computerized spatiotemporal gait analysis. To analyze the relationship between the POMA-G and spatiotemporal parameters, we used Pearson's correlation coefficients. In addition, multiple linear regression analyses (stepwise method) were used to predict the spatiotemporal gait parameters that correlated most with the POMA-G. The results show that the gait velocity (r=.67, p<.01), cadence (r=.66, p<.01), step length of the affected side (r=.49, p<.01), step length of the non-affected side (r=.53, p<.01), swing percentage of the non-affected side (r=.47, p<.01), and single support percentage of the affected side (r=.53, p<.01) as well as the double support percentage of the non-affected side (r=-.42, p<.01) and the step-length asymmetry (r=-.64, p<.01) correlated with POMA-G. The gait velocity, step-length asymmetry, cadence, and single support percentage of the affected side explained 67%, 2%, 2%, and 1% of the variance in the POMA-G, respectively. In conclusion, gait velocity would be the most predictive factor for the POMA-G.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권12호
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• pp.2189-2196
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• 2016

This paper proposes a new finite control set-model predictive control (FCS-MPC) method for induction motors. In the method, the reference state that satisfies the given torque and rotor flux requirements is derived. Cost indices for the FCS-MPC are defined using the state tracking error, and a linear matrix inequality is formulated to obtain a proper weighting matrix for the state tracking error. The on-line procedure of the proposed FCS-MPC comprises of two steps: select the output voltage vector of the two level inverter minimizing the cost index and compute the optimal modulation factor of the minimizing output voltage vector in order to reduce the state tracking error and torque ripple. The steady state tracking error is removed by using an integrator to adjust the reference state. The simulation and experimental results demonstrated that the proposed FCS-MPC shows good torque, rotor flux control performances at different rotating speeds.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.837-851
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• 2013

In construction industry, strength is a primary criterion in selecting a concrete for a particular application. The concrete used for construction gains strength over a long period of time after pouring the concrete. The characteristic strength of concrete is defined as the compressive strength of a sample that has been aged for 28 days. Neither waiting for 28 days for such a test would serve the rapidity of construction, nor would neglecting it serve the quality control process on concrete in large construction sites. Therefore, rapid and reliable prediction of the strength of concrete would be of great significance. On this backdrop, the method is proposed to establish a predictive relationship between properties and proportions of ingredients of concrete, compaction factor, weight of concrete cubes and strength of concrete whereby the strength of concrete can be predicted at early age. Multiple regression analysis was carried out for predicting the compressive strength of concrete containing Portland Pozolana cement using statistical analysis for the concrete data obtained from the experimental work done in this study. The multiple linear regression models yielded fairly good correlation coefficient for the prediction of compressive strength for 7, 28 and 40 days curing. The results indicate that the proposed regression models are effectively capable of evaluating the compressive strength of the concrete containing Portaland Pozolana Cement. The derived formulas are very simple, straightforward and provide an effective analysis tool accessible to practicing engineers.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2010

Purpose: One of the main reasons why mothers quit breast feeding is that the volume of breast milk is inadequate due to insufficiency in suckling. We believe suckling experience may be a factor affecting nipple confusion. So an alternative feeding method, namely cup, spoon, finger, or nasogastric tube feeding may be needed to prevent nipple confusion. The purpose of this study was to construct a predictive model for demand for alternative feeding education by nurses. Methods: A descriptive design with structured self-report questionnaires was used for this study. Data from 175 nurses working in hospitals in Busan were collected between April 1 and 15, 2009. Data were analyzed by decision tree method, one of the data mining techniques using SAS 9.1 and Enterprise Miner 4.3 program. Results: Of the nurses, 81.1% demanded alternative feeding education and 5 factors showed that most of them expressed intention to pay, desire to know about alternative feeding, age, and learning experience. From these results, the derived model is considered appropriative for explaining and predicting demand for alternative feeding education. Conclusion: This confirms that knowledge and compliance in alternative breast feeding for newborn babies should be correct and any inaccuracies or insufficient information should be supplemented.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제54호
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• pp.27-43
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• 2005

Existing standard speech coders can provide speech communication of high quality while they degrade the performance of speech recognition systems that use the reconstructed speech by the coders. The main cause of the degradation is that the spectral envelope parameters in speech coding are optimized to speech quality rather than to the performance of speech recognition. For example, mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) is generally known to provide better speech recognition performance than linear prediction coefficient (LPC) that is a typical parameter set in speech coding. In this paper, we propose a speech coder using MFCC instead of LPC to improve the performance of a server-based speech recognition system in network environments. However, the main drawback of using MFCC is to develop the efficient MFCC quantization with a low-bit rate. First, we explore the interframe correlation of MFCCs, which results in the predictive quantization of MFCC. Second, a safety-net scheme is proposed to make the MFCC-based speech coder robust to channel error. As a result, we propose a 8.7 kbps MFCC-based CELP coder. It is shown from a PESQ test that the proposed speech coder has a comparable speech quality to 8 kbps G.729 while it is shown that the performance of speech recognition using the proposed speech coder is better than that using G.729.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.627-634
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• 2017

Predicting the compressive strength of concrete is important to assess the load-carrying capacity of a structure. However, the use of blended cements to accrue the technical, economic and environmental benefits has increased the complexity of prediction models. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been used for predicting the compressive strength of ordinary Portland cement concrete, i.e., concrete produced without the addition of supplementary cementing materials. In this study, models to predict the compressive strength of blended cement concrete prepared with a natural pozzolan were developed using regression models and single- and 2-phase learning ANNs. Back-propagation (BP), Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) and Conjugate Gradient Descent (CGD) methods were used for training the ANNs. A 2-phase learning algorithm is proposed for the first time in this study for predictive modeling of the compressive strength of blended cement concrete. The output of these predictive models indicates that the use of a 2-phase learning algorithm will provide better results than the linear regression model or the traditional single-phase ANN models.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2021

Care services are a significant asset in human life. Care in its overall nature focuses on human needs and covers several aspects such as health care, homes, personal care, and education. In fact, care deals with many dimensions: physical, psychological, and social interconnections. Very little information is available on estimating the cost of care services that provided to orphans and abandoned children. Prediction of the cost of the care system delivered by governmental or non-governmental organizations to support orphans and abandoned children is increasingly needed. The purpose of this study is to analyze the care cost for orphanage organizations in Saudi Arabia to forecast the cost as well as explore the most influence factor on the cost. By using business analytic process that applied statistical and machine learning techniques, we proposed a model includes simple linear regression, Naive Bayes classifier, and Random Forest algorithms. The finding of our predictive model shows that Naive Bayes has addressed the highest accuracy equals to 87% in predicting the total care cost. Our model offers predictive approach in the perspective of business analytics.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.12-20
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 깨끗한 환경에서 녹음된 음성데이터와 채널환경에서 수집된 음성데이터의 화자확인 성능을 비교하였다. 채널데이터의 화자확인 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 채널환경에 강인한 특징 파라메타 및 전처리에 대해 연구하였다. 실험을 위한 음성 DB는 어구지시(text-prompted) 시스템을 고려하여 두 자리의 한국어 숫자음으로 구성하였다. 적용한 음성 특징은 LPCC(Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient), MFCC(Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient), PLP(Perceptually Linear Prediction), LSP(Line Spectrum Pair)이며, 채널 잡음을 제거하기 위한 전처리 과정으로는 음성신호에 대한 필터링을 적용하였다. 추출된 특징으로부터 채널의 영향을 제거 또는 보상하기 위해 cepstral weighting, CMS(Cepstral Mean Subtraction), RASTA(RelAtive SpecTrAl)를 적용하였다. 또한 각각의 특징 및 처리 방법에 대한 음성인식 성능을 제시함으로써 화자확인에서의 성능과 음성인식에서의 성능을 비교하였다. 적용한 음성 특징 및 처리 방법들에 대한 성능 평가를 위해 HTK(HMM Tool Kit) 2.0을 이용하였다. 남자, 여자 화자별로 임계값을 다르게 주는 방법으로 깨끗한 음성데이터와 채널 데이터에 대한 EER(Equal Error Rate)을 구하여 비교하였다. 실험결과 전처리 과정에서 대역통과 필터(150～3800Hz)를 적용하여 저대역 및 고대역의 채널 잡음을 제거하고, 이 신호로부터 MFCC를 추출하였을 때 EER 측면에서의 화자확인 성능이 가장 좋게 나타났다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.594-609
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• 2023

TBM 공법은 굴착면 안정성 확보 및 주변환경에 비치는 영향을 최소화하기 때문에 도심지나 하·해저터널 등에서 적용 사례가 증가하는 추세이다. 디스크 커터의 수명을 예측하는 대표적인 모델 중 NTNU모델은 커터수명지수(Cutter Life Index, CLI)를 주요 매개 변수로 활용하지만 복잡한 시험절차와 시험장비의 희귀성으로 측정에 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 다중선형회귀분석과 트리 기반의 머신러닝 기법으로 암석물성을 활용하여 CLI를 예측하였다. 문헌 조사를 통해 암석의 일축압축강도, 압열인장강도, 등 가석영함량과 세르샤 마모지수 등을 포함한 데이터베이스를 구축하였고 파생변수를 계산하여 추가하였다. 다중선형회귀분석은 통계적 유의성과 다중공선성을 고려하여 입력 변수를 선정하였고 머신러닝 예측 모델은 변수 중요도를 기반으로 입력 변수를 선정하였다. 학습용과 검증용 데이터를 8:2로 나누어 모델 간 예측 성능을 비교한 결과 XGBoost가 최적의 모델로 선정되었다. 본 연구에서 도출된 다중선형회귀모델과 XGBoost모델을 선행 연구와 예측 성능을 비교하여 타당성을 확인하였다.