• 분석과 대안
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.5-38
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• 2020

This paper investigates how public opinion has affected the United States Senate's votes on arms control treaties. Applying multilevel modeling with post-stratification to national polls, this paper produces estimates of state-level opinion on both the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 2010 and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty of 1999. Using these estimate, this paper examines the relationship between public opinion and the Senate's votes on the treaties. This paper finds that the influence of public opinion was mostly significant but indirect. These findings indicate that some version of the delegate model of representation is more applicable to foreign policy making in Congress.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.574-585
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• 2015

This paper aims to improve the performance of conventional direct torque control (DTC) drives proposed by Takahashi by extending the idea for 5-level inverter. Hybrid cascaded H-bridge topology is used to achieve inverter voltage vector composed of 5-level of voltage. Although DTC is very popular for its simplicity but it suffers from some disadvantages like- high torque ripple and uncontrollable switching frequency. To compensate these shortcomings conventional DTC strategy is modified for five levels voltage source inverter (VSI). Multilevel hysteresis controller for both flux and torque is used. Optimal voltage vector selection from precise lookup table utilizing 12 sector, 9 torque level and 4 flux level is proposed to improve DTC performance. These voltage references are produced utilizing a hybrid cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter, where inverter each phase can be realized using multiple dc source. Fuel cells, car batteries or ultra-capacitor are normally the choice of required dc source. Simulation results shows that the DTC drive performance is considerably improved in terms of lower torque and flux ripple and less THD. These have been experimentally evaluated and compared with the basic DTC developed by Takahashi.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제42권7호
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• pp.928-935
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• 2012

Purpose: The current study was done to identify individual- and group-level factors associated with health care service utilization among Korean medical aid beneficiaries by applying multilevel modeling. Methods: Secondary data analysis was performed using data on health care service reimbursement and medical aid case management progress from 15,948 beneficiaries, and data from 229 regions were included in the analysis. Results: Results of multilevel analysis showed an estimated intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of 18.1%, indicating that the group level accounted for 18.1% of the total variance in health care service utilization, and that beneficiaries within the region are more likely to share common features with regard to health care service utilization. At the individual level, existence of disability and types of medical aid beneficiaries showed a significant association, while, at the group level, social deprivation index, and the number of beneficiaries and case managers within the region showed a significant association with health care service utilization. Conclusion: The significant influence of group level variables in health care service utilization found in this study indicate a need for group level approaches, such as policy change and/or promotion of community awareness.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.294-307
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• 2014

본 연구는 초기 청소년기의 공격성 수준이 시간에 따라 어떠한 변화를 보이는지, 그리고 그러한 변화에 가족요인, 즉, 부모애착, 부모감독, 가족갈등이 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 검증하고자 하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 한국청소년패널(KYPS) 초등학교 4학년 1~5차년도 자료에 대하여 다층모형을 구성하여 가족요인을 시간의존적 변수로 처리한 후 시간독립적 효과와 시간의존적 효과에 대한 실증적 검증을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, 5년 동안 청소년의 공격성 수준은 증가하다가 그 증가율이 감소하는 이차함수 패턴을 보이는 것으로 확인되었다. 그리고 부모애착, 부모감독, 가족갈등은 공격성에 유의한 시간독립적 효과를 보이는 반면, 시간의존적 효과를 보이는 가족요인은 가족갈등 뿐이었다. 이러한 결과에 근거하여 청소년기 공격성에 대한 예방 및 개입과 관련된 함의가 제시되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.2453-2466
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• 2022

Nuclear power plant operators in the main control room are exposed to stressful conditions in emergency situations as immediate and appropriate mitigations are required. While emergency operating procedures (EOPs) provide operators with the appropriate tasks and diagnostic guidelines, EOPs have static properties that make it difficult to reflect the dynamic changes of the plant. Due to this static nature, operator workloads increase because unrelated information must be screened out and numerous displays must be checked to obtain the plant status. Generally, excessive workloads should be reduced because they can lead to human errors that may adversely affect nuclear power plant safety. This paper presents a framework for an operator support system that can substitute the initial responses of the EOPs, or in other words the immediate actions and diagnostic procedures, in the early stages of an emergency. The system assists operators in emergency operations as follows: performing the monitoring tasks in parallel, identifying current risk and latent risk causality, diagnosing the accident, and displaying all information intuitively with a master logic diagram. The risk causalities are analyzed with a functional modeling methodology called multilevel flow modeling. This system is expected to reduce workloads and the time for performing initial emergency response procedures.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2017

The number of applications of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in power generation grids has increased in the last decade because of their ability to generate efficient and reliable power in a variety of low installation in domestic applications. Various PV converter topologies have therefore emerged, among which the modular multilevel converter (MMC) is very attractive due to its modularity and transformerless features. The modeling and control of the MMC has become an interesting issue due to the extremely large expansion of PV power plants at the residential scale and due to the power quality requirement of this application. This paper proposes a novel control method of MMC which is used to directly integrate the photovoltaic arrays with the power grid. Traditionally, a closed loop control has been used, although circulating current control and capacitors voltage balancing in each individual leg have remained unsolved problem. In this paper, the integration of model predictive control (MPC) and traditional closed loop control is proposed to control the MMC structure in a PV grid tied mode. Simulation results demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed control model.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.857-867
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate individual and organizational level of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors associated with CVD risk in Korean blue-collar workers working in small sized companies. Methods: Self-report questionnaires and blood sampling for lipid and glucose were collected from 492 workers in 31 small sized companies in Korea. Multilevel modeling was conducted to estimate effects of related factors at the individual and organizational level. Results: Multilevel regression analysis showed that workers in the workplace having a cafeteria had 1.81 times higher CVD risk after adjusting for factors at the individual level (p =.022). The explanatory power of variables related to organizational level variances in CVD risk was 17.1%. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that differences in the CVD risk were related to organizational factors. It is necessary to consider not only individual factors but also organizational factors when planning a CVD risk reduction program. The factors caused by having cafeteria in the workplace can be reduced by improvement in the CVD-related risk environment, therefore an organizational-level intervention approach should be available to reduce CVD risk of workers in small sized companies in Korea.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1683-1696
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• 2018

Under the conventional control strategy, the asymmetry of arm impedances may result in the poor operating performance of modular multilevel converters (MMCs). For example, fundamental frequency oscillation and double frequency components may occur in the dc and ac sides, respectively; and submodule (SM) capacitor voltages among the arms may not be balanced. This study presents an enhanced control strategy to deal with these problems. A mathematical model of an MMC with asymmetric arm impedance is first established. The causes for the above phenomena are analyzed on the basis of the model. Subsequently, an enhanced current control with five integrated proportional integral resonant regulators is designed to protect the ac and dc terminal behavior of converters from asymmetric arm impedances. Furthermore, an enhanced capacitor voltage control is designed to balance the capacitor voltage among the arms with high efficiency and to decouple the ac side control, dc side control, and capacitor voltage balance control among the arms. The accuracy of the theoretical analysis and the effectiveness of the proposed enhanced control strategy are verified through simulation and experimental results.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.118-126
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• 2005

While emergency operating procedures (EOPs) occupy an important role in the management of various abnormal situations in nuclear power plants (NPPs), current technology for the validation of EOPs still largely depends on manual review. A validation method for EOPs of NPPs is thus proposed based on dynamic multi-level flow modeling (MFM). The MFM modeling procedure and the EOP validation procedure are developed and provided in the paper. Application of the proposed method to EOPs of an actual NPP shows that the proposed method provides an efficient means of validating EOPs. It is also found that the information on state transitions in MFM models during the management of abnormal situations is also useful for further analysis on EOPs including their optimization.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.817-824
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• 2000

본 논문은 절연변압기를 사용하지 않는 하이브리드 멀티레벨 PWM 정류기(특히 5-레벨)의 회로 DQ 모델링 및 동작특성 해석에 대한 연구이다. 회로 DQ 변환은 동기속도로 회전하는 변환 행렬을 사용함으로써 3상 시변 회로를 정지된 등가회로로 변환한다. 이러한 회로 DQ 변환을 통해 얻은 등가회로를 사용하여 시스템의 동작 특성 및 유용한 설계식들을 보다 쉽게 얻을 수 있다. 즉, 각 DC 커패시터 전압 및 전원이 공급하는 유효전력, 무효전력과 제어변수의 해석적인 식들을 보이고, 나아가 멀티레벨 출력을 얻기 위한 각 DC 전압들을 AC 전원으로부터 직접 build-up 할 수 있음을 제시한다. 또한 5-레벨 출력전압을 보장하기 위한 제어식을 유도한다. 끝으로, 이러한 모델링 및 해석의 타당성을 검증하기 위하여 MATLAB을 사용한 모의 실험을 행하고, 해석적인 예측과 모의실험으로 얻어진 파형의 일치성을 확인하였다.