• 산경연구논집
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.7-17
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• 2019

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to explore how advertising for multilevel marketing brands affect the salesperson's activity including customer-salesperson interactivity, work attitude, and perceived and actual performance after the campaign. Research Design, data, and methodology - This study collects experimental data, survey data, and actual sales data and applies statistical analyses such as factor analysis, t-tests, and a structural equation model. Results - The results show that advertising campaign can enhance a salesperson's selling activities and provide wide managerial implications to a multilevel marketing firm by filling the gaps for the field of advertising research. Conclusions - Managerial implications include: i) multilevel marketing firms should consider advertising campaigns as a means of changing customer responses because advertising plays a significant role in increasing familiarity with, and knowledge of, attitudes toward the brand, which also helps salespeople interact with customers; ii) multilevel marketing firms should consider brand advertising as a means to support the sales activities of salespeople including sales effectiveness, work attitudes, and perceived performance, and iii) multilevel marketing firms should consider brand advertising as a means to enhance a salesperson's pride and motivation for selling their brand, which will lead to improved sales performances.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1458-1466
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• 2019

Multilevel inverters have appeared as a successful and utilitarian solution in many power applications. The prime objective of an inverter is to keep the fundamental component of the output voltage of a multilevel inverter at a preferred value. Equally important is the need to keep the harmonic components in the output voltage within stated harmonic limits. Therefore, the basis of this research is to develop a harmonic minimization function that optimizes the switching angles of cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter. Due to benefits of the Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm, it is applied to determine the switching angles, which are further used to generate the switching pattern for firing the H-bridges of multilevel inverter. Simulation results are compared with SPWM based firing scheme. The switching frequency for SPWM firing scheme is taken as 200 Hz since the switching losses are increased when switching frequency is high. To validate the ability of Cuckoo Search optimized firing scheme in minimization of harmonics, experimental results obtained from hardware prototype of Five Level Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter equipped with a FPGA controller are presented to verify the simulation results.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권8호
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• pp.2844-2853
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• 2023

A sophisticated Bayesian multilevel model for estimating group bias was developed to improve the utility of the ASTM E900-15 embrittlement trend curve (ETC) to assess the conditions of nuclear power plants (NPPs). For multilevel model development, the Baseline 22 surveillance dataset was basically classified into groups based on the NPP name, product form, and notch orientation. By including the notch direction in the grouping criteria, the developed model could account for TTS differences among NPP groups with different notch orientations, which have not been considered in previous ETCs. The parameters of the multilevel model and biases of the NPP groups were calculated using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. As the number of data points within a group increased, the group bias approached the mean residual, resulting in reduced credible intervals of the mean, and vice versa. Even when the number of surveillance test data points was less than three, the multilevel model could estimate appropriate biases without overfitting. The model also allowed for a quantitative estimate of the changes in the bias and prediction interval that occurred as a result of adding more surveillance test data. The biases estimated through the multilevel model significantly improved the performance of E900-15.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.305-326
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• 2001

We introduce a class of multilevel recursive incomplete LU preconditioning techniques (RILUM) for solving general sparse matrices. This techniques is based on a recursive two by two block incomplete LU factorization on the coefficient martix. The coarse level system is constructed as an (approximate) Schur complement. A dynamic preconditioner is obtained by solving the Schur complement matrix approximately. The novelty of the proposed techniques is to solve the Schur complement matrix by a preconditioned Krylov subspace method. Such a reduction process is repeated to yield a multilevel recursive preconditioner.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2000년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.262-265
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• 2000

This paper presents analysis of control characteristics of high power hybrid multilevel PWM rectifier without bulky and heavy isolation transformers. It will be shown that the DC voltages for multilevel output generation may be directly built up from AC utility source. The multilevel PWM rectifier is analyzed by using the circuit DQ transformation whereby the static and dynamic characteristics and some useful design equations are obtained. Finally to confirm the validity of the analysis MATLAB simulation are carried out.

• 분석과 대안
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.3-24
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• 2021

This paper introduces a multilevel item-response-theory (IRT) model as a unifying model for hypothesis testing using legislative voting data. This paper shows that a probit or logit model is a special type of multilevel IRT model. In particular, it is demonstrated that, when a probit or logit model is applied to multiple votes, it makes unrealistic assumptions and produces incorrect coefficient estimates. The advantages of a multilevel IRT model over a probit or logit model are illustrated with a Monte Carlo experiment and an example from the U.S. House. Finally, this paper provides a practical guide to fitting this model to legislative voting data.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제8D권1호
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• pp.24-31
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 다단계 보안 데이터베이스에서 동시성 정도를 향상시키고, 보안 요구사항을 만족하는 향상된 트랜잭션 스케쥴링 프로토콜을 제안한다. 전통적인 직렬성 표기를 가진 두단계 잠금 기법을 다단계 보안 데이터베이스에 적용했다. 이타적 잠금기법은 기부라는 사상을 사용하여 트랜잭션이 더 잇아 그 객체를 요구하지 않을 때 다른 트랜잭션들이 그 객체를 로크할 수 있도록 미리 객체에 대한 로크를 해제함으로써 트랜잭션들의 대기시간을 줄이기 위해서 제안된 것이다. 확장형 이타적 잠금기법은 처음에 기부되지 않은 객체까지도 처리하는 좀 더 완화된 기법이다. 본 논문에서는 다단계 보안 데이터베이스에서 단기 트랜잭션의 기아현상을 최소화하도록 하였다. 본 프로토콜은 확장형 잠금 기법(XAL/MLS)을 기초로 하였으나, 새로운 방법인 다단계 보안 데이터베이스를 위한 양방향 기부 잠금 규약(2DL/MLS)으로 보안 여구와 동시성 제어를 동시에 만족한다. 제안된 프로토콜의 효율성은 실험의 결과로 확인되었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제31권3D호
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• pp.469-476
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• 2011

본 연구는 다층모형(multilevel model)을 상수원관리지역 주민지원사업 정책평가에 활용하는데 있어 유효성 및 효과를 이해하는데 연구의 목적이 있다. 정책의 대상이 위계적인(hierarchical) 특성을 지니고 있는 경우 다층모형을 이용하여 정책평가를 하는 것이 정책의 효과를 평가하고 검증하는데 있어 적절하다. 또한 이 모형은 기존 평가결과의 재평가 등에 응용될 수 있다. 상수원관리지역의 주민지원사업을 대상으로 주민만족도와 경제적 도움정도를 정책효과변수로 하여 다층모형을 적용 하였다. 그 결과 정책효과변수에 기존 평가결과 및 중요한 사업으로 여겨지던 소득증대사업 등이 직접적인 영향을 미치지 못함을 통계적으로 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 다음과 같은 세 가지의 정책적 함의를 지닌다. 첫째, 정책 및 사업평가에 있어 정책의 효과를 엄밀히 파악하기 위하여 위계적 구조를 고려할 수 있는 다층모형을 이용하여야 한다. 둘째, 기관평가의 순위 도출에 있어 다층모형을 이용하여 지표에 의한 성과지표와 보완적으로 이용해야 한다. 셋째, 위계적 구조의 하나로서 공간적 위계를 고려하여 정책평가를 시행하여야 한다.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제4권10호
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• pp.761-767
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 비디오코딩의 움직임 추정을 위한 빠른 다단계 연속제거 알고리즘(FMSEA: Fast Multilevel Successive Elimination Algorithm)을 제안하였다. FMSEA의 움직임 추정 정확도는 Multilevel Successive Elimination Algorithm(MSEA)과 동일하다. 부분 왜곡 제거 기법을 사용하는 FMSEA는 MSEA의 연산량을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있다 실험을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘의 효율성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.245-254
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• 2011

This paper presents a new group for multilevel converter that operates as symmetric and asymmetric state. The proposed multilevel converter generates DC voltage levels similar to other topologies with less number of semiconductor switches. It results in the reduction of the number of switches, losses, installation area, and converter cost. To verify the voltage injection capabilities of the proposed inverter, the proposed topology is used in dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) to restore load voltage. The operation and performance of the proposed multilevel converters are verified by simulation using SIMULINK/MATLAB and experimental results.