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A Study on the Ancient Scale of Measurement Unit Employed in Buildings and Their Sites -Focused on the East and West buildings and their sites of 'Kum-dang' in 'Mi-ruk Sa' temple- (고대(古代) 건물지(建物址)의 조영척도(造營尺度)에 관한 고찰(考察) -미륵사 동.서 금당지를 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Young-Phil;Lee, Sang-Sun;Lee, Bong-Soo;Chang, Dong-Kuk;Park, Kang-Chul
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.95-110
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    • 2007
  • In spite of the increasing significance on a scale of building measurement unit and its system having been used in many areas of architecture, only a few researchers carried out the studies on a specific period. It is even harder to find a research results dealt in view of architecture. This research gives a focus on different types of scales employed in the ancient buildings and their sites, based on the research results of unit scale or scales found in recent excavations. After the review of literature on the scales widely used in the ancient times and of the various types of scales excavated archeologically, a kind of scale unit system that had been widely and extensively employed throughout the period of 'Three Kingdoms' could be revealed. The scale system is possibly able to be applied to estimate the exact scale of buildings and their sites as well in that era. The research results show that the scale and its system employed in the East and West buildings and their sites of 'Kum-dang' in 'Mi-ruk Sa' temple are different from 'Kokuryo' scale that was believed in to be used in the temple. Contrary to the suggestion by excavation report on the type of scale employed in the buildings their sites, a scale of 29 centimeters, similar to that of Tang, was employed. It was also found that one module consists of three 'Chuk's of 88.8 centimeters. Based on this scale system, we could conclude that three modules of the buildings on the front and two and half modules of them on the sides were explained by this scale and its system.

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Evaluation on validity of health literacy measurement scale (의료정보이해능력 측정도구 척도의 타당성 평가)

  • Choi, Kyounh-Ho;Lee, Jeong-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.257-265
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    • 2013
  • As evaluating the health literacy is getting important, various measures for evaluation are being developed. Nevertheless, discussions about developing proper measures in Korean are still inactive. Therefore in this paper, we proposed Korean REALM (rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine) measure that is composed of five point scale and investigated about its validity. As a result, we could find that Korean REALM measure which is composed of five point scale has high reliability, and that it formed one dimension as a result of factor analysis. Positive responses were lower than two point scale and correlation coefficient with NVS (the newest vital sign) appeared statistically significant. Therefore, we could conclude that Korean REALM measure that is composed of five point scale is a valid measurement. Furthermore, there were statistically significant differences between general students and department of nursing students about health literacy.

Behavior Monitoring of Precast Concrete Panels in Lifting (프리캐스트 패널의 양중에 따른 거동 계측 연구)

  • Yang, Sung Chul;Kim, Seong Min;Han, Seung Hwan;Yoon, Sang Chun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2012
  • Through this research safety factors were analyzed for concrete precast panels in road pavement which happens in lifting, moving, and installing. Two half size of full-scale precast concrete panels were made while one full-scale precast concrete panel was made. A series of strain gages for concrete and steel were installed and measured in lifting and transporting. Measurement results indicate that in case of 60 degree of lifting, small scale panel in dynamic motion produces about 3.54 times of strain compared to the static condition. However strain measurement of full-scale concrete panel in lifting and transportation does not yield any big difference compared to the small scale panels in the static condition. From this experimental results safety of the full-scale concrete panel was attained for the lifting system adopted in this research.

Development and Validation of a Measurement Scale for an Institute of Science & Technology Core Competencies (과학기술특성화대학 핵심역량 검사도구의 개발 및 타당화)

  • Kim, Gahyun;Shin, Tae Seob;Chung, Jae Young;Park, Juhyoung;Choi, Ji-Woong;Lee, Chang-Hun;Kang, Hyosang;Kwon, Min Jae
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.76-85
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a measurement scale of core competencies for one Institute of Science & Technology's students in South Korea. Based on the school's core value and mission, items were developed through document analysis, faculty survey, and experts' review. Initial sets of items were administered to students and results were analyzed to finalize the items for the scale, which consists of 4 core competencies (Creativity, Challenge, Collaboration, and Care) and 12 sub-competencies. Through reliability analysis and exploratory factor analysis, 56 items were selected. For a validity test, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. Results suggest that the measurement scale is reliable and valid in measuring core competencies of students in an Institute of Science & Technology.

Developing the Service Quality Scale of Business Center: A New B2B Service Retailing Format (신 서비스유통포맷으로서의 비즈니스센터의 서비스품질 평가척도 개발)

  • Kim, Seung-Sub;Yoo, Dong-Keun;Lee, Phil-Soo
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.101-111
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - This study aims to verify the construct of the service quality suitable to the characteristics of the business center, to develop the scale that can measure the service quality objectively, compare the diverse business centers in Korea, and present desirable methods of business center management and operation. Research design, data, and methodology - In the first stage, literature research and focus group interviews with current users and actual business experts of business centers were conducted. In addition, 69 early stage scale items were derived. In the second stage, a Delphi survey was conducted on the experts of business and academic circles. The measurement items in the early stage were supplemented and revised. The content validity rate (CVR) of 69 measures was computed and then the experts' opinions were used. As a result, the business center service quality scale, made up of 9 organizing factors and 36 measurement items, was constructed. In the third stage, a survey was conducted on the occupants who were currently using the business center. It was to confirm if the developed business center service quality scale could be actually utilized. The data of 435 samples collected were used. To refine the scale items, the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted repeatedly. Results - The business center service quality scale, made up of 8 factors and 33 items, was developed again. The 8 factors are reliability, speed, kindness, specialty, responsibility, appearance, convenience, and public interest. The reliability coefficient (Cronbach's Alpha) of each factor is greater than .7. Thus, it was confirmed that there was reliability in the measurement items. Further, the model suitability was verified using the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and the convergent validity and the discriminant validity were verified. This proved the construct validity. Through this process, the Korea Business Center Service Quality Scale was developed. Based on factor analysis, the developed business center service quality (BCSQ) scale consists of 4 aspects, 8 factors, and 33 items, comprising the "process quality" aspect: reliability (3 items), speediness (4 items), kindness (3 items) factors, the outcome quality aspect: expertise (3 items), responsibility (5 items) factors, the environment quality aspect: appearance (5 items), convenience (3 items) factors, and the public interest aspect: public interest (7 items) factor. However, according to CFA, the BCSQ scale consists of a total of 4 aspects, 8 factors, and 33 items, comprising the "process quality" aspect: reliability (3 items), speediness (3 items), kindness (3 items) factors, the outcome quality aspect: expertise (2 items), responsibility (4 items) factors, the environment quality aspect: appearance (3 items), convenience (2 items) factors, and the public interest aspect: public interest (3 items) factor. Conclusions - The BCSQ scale could serve as a diagnostic tool that will allow business center managers to determine service areas that are weak and in need of attention, and to improve the service quality of the business center.

Experimental Study on Establishing Measurement Management Criteria for Soil Slope Failure by Using Reduction-Scale and Full-Scale Slope Experiments: Based on Matric Suction (소형 및 실규모 급경사지 실험을 통한 계측관리기준 개발을 위한 실험적 연구: 모관흡수력을 기준으로)

  • Hyo-Sung Song;Young-Hak Lee;Seung-Jae Lee;Jae-Jung Kim
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.555-571
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    • 2023
  • Due to South Korea's concentrated summer rainfall, constituting 70% of the annual total, landslides frequently occur during the rainy season, necessitating accurate prediction methods to mitigate associated damage. In this study, a reduced-scale and full-scale slope was configured using weathered granite soil to find the possibility of establishing measurement management criterias through landslide reproduction. The experiment focused on matric suction, analyzing changes in ground properties and failure patterns caused by rainfall infiltration. Subsequently, an unsaturated infinite slope stability analysis was conducted. By calculating the failure time when the safety factor falls below 1 for each experiment, landslide prediction was demonstrated to be possible, approximately 17 minutes prior for the reduction-scale experiment and 6.5 hours for the full-scale experiment. These findings provide useful data for establishing Korean soil slope measurement management criteria that consider the characteristics of weathered granite soil.

The Case Study of Effective Reinforcement Method to Trouble Occurred of Excavation Construction (굴착공사 중 문제발생 유형에 따른 효과적인 보강방법에 대한 사례연구)

  • Ki, Jungsu;Jung, Kyoungsik;Chun, Byungsik
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2012
  • Large-scale collapse happened under excavation construction in the past. But, recently the trend that it is completed safely to minimize damages is growing because of increasing levels of design review and detecting signs of problems before the outbreak of large-scale collapse with proactive planning of measurement. In this paper, through studying case collapses over the past, it put the cause of the collapse in order. And then, after reviewing general information on management and utilization of measurement methods which importantly emerging recently, the type and cause of the problem during the excavation was reviewed. And the causes of problem were analyzed by targeting the site which unusual symptoms happened on measuring results under construction. In this study, the awareness that measurement management and subsurface investigation is highly important will increase for preventing large-scale collapse in advance.

A Study on the Evaluation of Efficiency in the Korean Small and Medium sized Construction Firms (국내 중소건설업체의 효율성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyuk;Yoo, Han-Joo;Song, Gwang-Suk
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.463-474
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    • 2010
  • In this study, we evaluate the efficiency of Construction Industry using Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA). Since the Construction Industry has been traditionally operated through competition, it is important to measure the efficiency. In this paper, we empirically analyze the Efficiency of the 50 Korean Construction Industry. In detail, we used the scale of efficiency in order that efficiency cannot be affected by the total technical efficiency of each company and the scale of DMU by applying CCR or BBC model. Also, we analyzed the changes of measurement DEA model score. we adopted the basic DEA, RTS Region and MPSS(Most Productive Scale Size) method which are combined with efficiency measurement model in order to analyze the operational status. Furthermore, by complementing the shortfalls of the scale efficiency value of the DEA Model, RTS Region Model can be recommended to be appropriate in the evaluation of ideal input/output Quantity. In particular, input variables are total assets, construction capacity, the technical staff and output variables are sales volume, operating income. The result of RTS Region and MPSS shows that 9 DMUs of the efficiency frontier in the Construction Industry are analyzed to be relatively efficient DMUs, and 41 DMUs are analyzed to be inefficient DMUs, and finally inefficient DMUs are separated with Region 1 and Region 6.

Measurement-Based Stochastic Cross-Correlation Models of a Multilink Channel in Cooperative Communication Environments

  • Park, Jae-Joon;Kim, Myung-Don;Kwon, Heon-Kook;Chung, Hyun Kyu;Yin, Xuefeng;Fu, Yaoyao
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.858-868
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, stochastic models for the cross-correlation of multiple channels are established based on measurement data collected using a wideband multiple-input multiple-output relay Band Exploration and Channel Sounder system at 3.7 GHz. We propose models for the cross-correlation characteristics of large-scale parameters (LSPs) between two links, that is, the base station and mobile station (MS) link and the relay station and MS link. The LSPs include shadow fading, Rician K-factor, delay spread, angle spread of arrival, and angle spread of departure. Furthermore, models are established for the cross-correlation of the small-scale fading in the impulse responses of two links. The statistics of these model parameters are investigated as functions of geometrical features of the multilink. They are extracted from a large amount of cross-correlation observations, which are obtained in three measurement sites along more than one hundred measurement routes. These models can be used together with the standard single-link channel models for the generation of correlated components, for example, path clusters, in two separate channels.