• Toxicological Research
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.159-173
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• 2009

Nuclear factor erythroid derived 2-related factor-2 (Nrf2) is a master transcription regulator of antioxidant and cytoprotective proteins that mediate cellular defense against oxidative and inflammatory stresses. Disruption of cellular stress response by Nrf2 deficiency causes enhanced susceptibility to infection and related inflammatory diseases as a consequence of exacerbated immune-mediated hypersensitivity and autoimmunity. The cellular defense capacity potentiated by Nrf2 activation appears to balance the population of $CD4^+$ and $CD8^+$ of lymph node cells for proper innate immune responses. Nrf2 can negatively regulate the activation of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules such as p38 MAPK, NF-${\kappa}B$, and AP-1. Nrf2 subsequently functions to inhibit the production of pro-inflammatory mediators including cytokines, chemokines, cell adhesion molecules, matrix metalloproteinases, COX-2 and iNOS. Although not clearly elucidated, the antioxidative function of genes targeted by Nrf2 may cooperatively regulate the innate immune response and also repress the expression of pro-inflammatory mediators.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.584-593
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• 2007

BACnet is a standard data communication protocol especially designed for building automation and control networks. BACnet uses the Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MS/TP) protocol as one of its field-level networks. In this study, the performance of the BACnet MS/TP protocol is evaluated using an experimental model. The network performance is investigated and evaluated in terms of token rotation time and round trip time. The experimental results show that the performance of the MS/TP network is heavily influenced by the network traffic load, the assignment of MS/TP node address and the network configuration parameter called $N_{max_info-frames}$. Based on the experimental results, simple practical designing guidelines for BACnet MS/TP network systems are also proposed.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.412-415
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• 1999

In this paper, we describe an implementation of the B-Link bus interface logic for a directory controller and a remote access cash controller in the SCI-based CC-NUMA multimedia server developed by ETRI . The CC-NUMA multimedia server is composed of a number of Pentium III SHV nodes and a SCI interconnection network. To communicate with remote nodes, each node has a CC-Agent which consists of a processor bus interface(PIF). a directory controller(DC), a remote access cash controller(RC), and two SCI 1ink controllers(LCs). The B-Link bus interface logic is developed for a directory controller and a remote access cash controller in order to communicate with a SCI link controller on a B-Link bus. It consists of a sending master controller a receiving slave controller, and asynchronous data buffers. And It performs a self-arbitration, a data packet transmission, a queue allocation, an early terminal ion. and a cut-through data path.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.148-158
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• 2003

In this paper, efficient and accurate contact search algorithm is proposed for the contact problems by the finite element method. A slave node and a maser contact segment is defined using the side of a finite element on the contact surface. The specific goal is to develop techniques of reducing the nonsmoothness of the contact interactions arising from the finite element discretization of the contact surface. Contact detection is accomplished by monitoring the territory of the slave nodes throughout the calculation for possible penetration of a master surface. To establish the validity of the proposed algorithm, some different process and geometries examples were simulated. Efforts are focused on the error rate that is based on the penetrated area through the simulations fur large deformation with contact surface between deformable bodies. A proposed algorithm offers improvements in contact detection from the simulation results.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.31-32
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• 2007

This paper is concerned with design methodology of gateway using IEEE 802.15.4 for DeviceNet. Wireless gateway is composed of DeviceNet master and IEEE 802.15.4 coordinator and node devices. The test results show the availability of implemented gateway.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.404-411
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• 2004

With distribution industrial control system, the use of low cost to achieve a highly reliable and safe system in real time distributed embedded application is proposed. This developed intelligent node is based on two microcontrollers, one for the execution of the application code, also as master controller for ensuring the real time control & the logic operation with CPLD and other for communication task and the easy control execution, i.e., I/O digital input, digital output and interrupting. This paper also presents where the case NCS (Networked control system) with LonTalk protocol is applied for the filtration process control system of a small water treatment plant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.243-249
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• 2003

With distribution industrial control system, the use of tow cost to achieve a highly reliable and safe system in real time distributed embedded application is proposed. This developed intelligent node is based on two microcontrollers, one for the execution of the application code, also as master controller for ensuring the real time control & the logic operation with PLD and other for communication task and the easy control execution, i.e., I/O digital input, digital output and interrupting. This paper also presents where the case NCS(Networked control system) with LonTalk protocol is applied for the filtration process control system of a small water treatment plant.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.15-17
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• 2013

HDFS(Hadoop Distribute File System)는 대용량 파일 처리를 목적으로 설계 되었으며 현재 이상적인 분산 파일 시스템으로 각광 받고 있다. 이러한 HDFS는 기존 분산파일 시스템과 많은 유사성을 가지고 있으나, Fault Tolerance를 제공하고, 데이터 엑세스 패턴을 스트리밍 방식으로 지원하여 대용량 파일을 효율적으로 저장할 수 있다는 차별성을 가지고 있다. 하지만 실제 HDFS 데이터 집합에는 Small file이 차지하는 비중이 상당히 높으며, 이러한 다수의 Small file 은 데이터 처리에 있어 높은 비용을 초래할 뿐 아니라 Master Node 의 파일 처리 및 메모리 성능에 악영향을 미친다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 HDFS에서 Small file 이 미치는 영향을 분석하고 이러한 문제점을 해결 할 수 있는 로컬 인덱스 파일기반의 파일 병합 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1355-1358
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• 2008

긴급 업무를 위한 네트워크 시스템에서는 네트워크 구성요소의 고장을 즉시 극복할 수 있는 메커니즘이 제공되어야 한다. 고장 극복을 위해서 네트워크 경로를 이중화하고 경로를 주기적으로 감시하여 고장 발생 시에 대체 경로를 사용하는 방법이 연구되어 왔다. 이를 위해서 서브넷 상의 경로를 감시하는 마스터 노드가 필요한데 마스터 노드의 고장 시 이를 극복할 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 마스터 노드가 있는 단일 서브넷에서 마스터의 고장 시에 모든 노드가 참여하여 자율적으로 새로운 마스터를 선출하는 알고리즘을 연구하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.833-843
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• 2016

Recently, in the field of rail freight transportation, the number of trains dedicated for shippers has been increasing. These dedicated trains, which run on the basis of a contract with shippers, had been restricted to the transportation of containers, or so called block trains. Nowadays, such commodities have extended to cement, hard coal, etc. Most full freight cars are transported by dedicated trains. But, for empty car distribution, the efficiency still remains questionable because the distribution plan is manually developed by dispatchers. In this study, we investigated distribution models delineated in the KTOCS system which was developed by KORAIL as well as mathematical models considered in the state-of-the-art. The models are based on optimization models, especially the network flow model. Here we suggest a new optimization model with a framework of the column generation approach. The master problem can be formulated into a transportation problem with additional constraints. The master problem is improved by adding a new edge between the supply node and the demand node; this edge can be found using a simple shorted path in the time-space network. Finally, we applied our algorithm to the Korean freight train network and were able to find the total number of empty car kilometers decreased.