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Inter-laboratory Comparison for Analyses of Heavy Metals and Organic Solvent Metabolites in Biological Samples (생체시료 중 중금속 및 유기용제 대사물 분석의 실험실간 정도관리 프로그램)

  • Yang, Jeong Sun;Lee, Mi Young;Park, In Jeong;Kang, Seong-Kyu
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.258-267
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    • 2000
  • The result of five year's experience on Inter-laboratory Comparison for Analyses of Heavy Metals and Organic Solvent Metabolites in Biological Samples was described. Since 1995, around a hundred laboratories in the Occupational Health have participated this program twice per year by the Industrial Safety and Health Law. Four metals in blood and five organic solvent metabolites in urine were examined. Reference samples were made by spiking standard materials to human blood or urine pools treated previously to give homogeneity and stability for a specific time periods. Some reference samples for organic solvent metabolites were made from workers' urine who were exposed to the organic solvents. Some items such as Lead in blood and Hippuric acid in urine showed good accordance between participants while the other items such as Mercury and N-methylformamide in urine showed poor proficient rate. The results were published in the internet or newspaper to help the consumer of the laboratory's service to get the information on them and to make competition between them. The inter-laboratory's comparison program have done greate role to improve the ability of analysis and reliability of analytical data produced from each laboratory.

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Quality Characteristics and Antioxidant Properties of Black and Yellow Soybeans (검은 콩 및 노란 콩의 품질 특성 및 콩 부위별 항산화 활성)

  • Lee, Lan-Sook;Choi, Eun-Ji;Kim, Chang-Hee;Kim, Young-Boong;Kum, Jun-Seok;Park, Jong-Dae
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.757-761
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    • 2014
  • The objective of this study was to investigate the content of phenolic compounds and their contribution to antioxidant activity in the seed coats, dehulled and whole black and yellow soybeans. The total phenolic and total anthocyanin contents were analyzed. FRAP, DPPH and ABTS assays were carried out to determine the antioxidant activities. The 100-seed weight and color values were also analyzed. Black seed coats had significantly greater total phenolic and total anthocyanin contents as compared to whole beans, dehulled beans, and yellow seed coats. Moreover, black seed coats exhibited the highest antioxidant activity among the samples, regardless of the utilized method. The antioxidant activities determined in all assays positively correlated with the total phenolic ($0.980{\leq}r{\leq}0.991$) and anthocyanin contents ($0.990{\leq}r{\leq}0.997$) as well as among themselves ($0.992{\leq}r{\leq}0.996$). It is anticipated that the information generated from this study will help support the development of soybean products for improving health.

Comparative Study on the Impact Factors in Job Stress in Occupational Therapists Working in Korean: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (국내 작업치료사의 직무스트레스 요인 비교 연구: 체계적 고찰과 메타분석)

  • Cha, Yu-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.380-389
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    • 2012
  • In this study, Systematic review and meta-analysis using the correlation coefficients was carried out to integrate precedent studies on factors affecting domestic occupational therapists' job stress. It aims at providing basic information resources of preventing and reducing stress of occupational therapists and effective counter-measurement to improve quality of occupational therapy and to establish efficient human resource management policy. Systematic review and meta-analysis were performed on eight thesis proven relevant to selection criteria in order to figure out correlation coefficients value by total, and factors correlation coefficients value. Also homogeneity test and publication bias test was performed too. The total correlation coefficients value of occupational therapists was .30 which was statistically significant. As to job stress factors, the organization related factor showed the highest correlation of coefficiency, followed by factors other than the organization related, physical environment, job related factor and personal factor. This research result can be used as a reference to prevent and reduce job stress of occupational therapists and to develop an effective measurement scheme.

Encryption Scheme for MPEG-4 Media Transmission Exploiting Frame Dropping (대역폭 감소를 적용한 MPEG-4 미디어 전송시의 암호화 기법 연구)

  • Shin, Dong-Kyoo;Shin, Dong-Il;Park, Se-Young
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.15B no.6
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    • pp.575-584
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    • 2008
  • According to the network condition, the communication network overload could be occurred when media transmitting. Many researches are being carried out to lessen the network overload, such as the filtering, load distributing, frame dropping and many other methods. Among these methods, one of effective method is frame dropping that reduces specified video frames for bandwidth diminution. B frames are dropped and then I, P frames are dropped according to dependency among the frames in frame dropping. This paper proposes a scheme for protecting copyrights by encryption, when we apply frame dropping to reduce bandwidth of media following MPEG-4 file format. We designed two kinds of frame dropping: first one stores and then sends the dropped files and the other drops frames in real-time when transmitting. We designed three kinds of encryption methods in which DES algorithm is used to encrypt MPEG-4 data: macro block encryption in I-VOP, macro block and motion vector encryption in P-VOP, and macro block and motion vector encryption in I, P-VOP. Based on these three methods, we implemented a digital right management solution for MPEG-4 data streaming. We compared the results of dropping, encryption, decryption and quality of video sequences to select an optimal method, and there is no noticeable difference between the video sequences recovered after frame dropping and the ones recovered without frame dropping. The best performance in encryption and decryption of frames was obtained when we apply the macro block and motion vector encryption in I, P-VOP.

Analysis of the Construction Process Managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Far East District Using IDEF0 (주한미군공사 수행을 위한 FED(Far East District) 프로세스 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Jae-Hong;Ham, Nam-Hyuk;Kim, Je-Hyuck;Kim, Jae-Jun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.163-173
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    • 2010
  • A significant number of projects have been managed by US Army Corps of Engineers FED. Today, more information must be provided to the parties involved in the projects by phase than ever before. Specifically, USFK`s construction projects have been managed by FED(Far East District). Recently, however, large US private construction companies have been filling the role previously taken by FED. However, there is few construction managers to implement FED project in Korea. Accordingly, this study analyzes FED projects practices with focus on the construction management actors in order to suggest guideline. This study suggests a model FED construction process(Bid, Contract, Construction, As-Built Phase) by analyzing the existing FED project process using a IDEF0 methodology.

Probability-based Cost Analysis for Recycling Secondary Products from Construction Waste (건설폐기물 재활용 2차 제품에 대한 확률모델 기반 비용분석)

  • Kwon, Kihyon;Kim, Do-Gyeum;Lee, Ho-Jae;Seo, Eun-Ah
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.227-234
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    • 2020
  • Under consideration of construction waste recycling, candidate secondary products applicable for the civil and construction areas can be reliably employed based on the recycling cost analysis. For the validation purpose, probability-based cost analyses were performed to estimate recycling cost profit considering uncertainties. When recycling construction wastes, the costs at each stage are fully dependent on target products to be adopted. To achieve commercialization of each product, its quality has to be improved with economic efficiency through accurate evaluation of input costs. Based on the probabilistic recycling cost analysis, the cost benefit for target products was estimated with waste classification cost, transportation cost to recycling treatment facilities and production cost. All necessary information on the cost analysis were collected from literature, disclosure, and existing recycling companies. In addition, a cost difference between recycled and non-recycled events was made. As a result, a probability-based recycling cost estimate for candidate secondary products was herein presented.

Effective Compression of the Surveillance Video with Region of Interest (관심영역 구분을 통한 감시영상시스템의 효율적 압축)

  • Ko, Mi-Ae;Kim, Young-Mo;Koh, Kwang-Sik
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.10B no.1
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2003
  • In surveillance video system, there are many classes of images and some spatial regions are more important than other regions. The conventional compression method in this system have been compressed there full frames without classfying them depend on their important parts. To improve the accuracy of the image coding and deliver effective compression for the surveillance video system, it was necessary to separate the regions according to their importance. In this paper, we propose a new effective surveillance video image compression method. The proposed scheme defines importance based three-level region of interest block in a frame, such as background, motion object block, and the feature object block. A captured video image frame can be separated to these three different levels of block regions. And depends on the priority, each block can be modified and compressed in different resolution, compression ratio and qualify factor. Therefore, in surveillance video system, this algorithm not only reduces the image processing time and space, but also guarantees the Important image data in high quality to acquire the system's goal.

A Study on Tire Surface Defect Detection Method Using Depth Image (깊이 이미지를 이용한 타이어 표면 결함 검출 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyun Suk;Ko, Dong Beom;Lee, Won Gok;Bae, You Suk
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.211-220
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    • 2022
  • Recently, research on smart factories triggered by the 4th industrial revolution is being actively conducted. Accordingly, the manufacturing industry is conducting various studies to improve productivity and quality based on deep learning technology with robust performance. This paper is a study on the method of detecting tire surface defects in the visual inspection stage of the tire manufacturing process, and introduces a tire surface defect detection method using a depth image acquired through a 3D camera. The tire surface depth image dealt with in this study has the problem of low contrast caused by the shallow depth of the tire surface and the difference in the reference depth value due to the data acquisition environment. And due to the nature of the manufacturing industry, algorithms with performance that can be processed in real time along with detection performance is required. Therefore, in this paper, we studied a method to normalize the depth image through relatively simple methods so that the tire surface defect detection algorithm does not consist of a complex algorithm pipeline. and conducted a comparative experiment between the general normalization method and the normalization method suggested in this paper using YOLO V3, which could satisfy both detection performance and speed. As a result of the experiment, it is confirmed that the normalization method proposed in this paper improved performance by about 7% based on mAP 0.5, and the method proposed in this paper is effective.

Towards Carbon-Neutralization: Deep Learning-Based Server Management Method for Efficient Energy Operation in Data Centers (탄소중립을 향하여: 데이터 센터에서의 효율적인 에너지 운영을 위한 딥러닝 기반 서버 관리 방안)

  • Sang-Gyun Ma;Jaehyun Park;Yeong-Seok Seo
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.149-158
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    • 2023
  • As data utilization is becoming more important recently, the importance of data centers is also increasing. However, the data center is a problem in terms of environment and economy because it is a massive power-consuming facility that runs 24 hours a day. Recently, studies using deep learning techniques to reduce power used in data centers or servers or predict traffic have been conducted from various perspectives. However, the amount of traffic data processed by the server is anomalous, which makes it difficult to manage the server. In addition, many studies on dynamic server management techniques are still required. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a dynamic server management technique based on Long-Term Short Memory (LSTM), which is robust to time series data prediction. The proposed model allows servers to be managed more reliably and efficiently in the field environment than before, and reduces power used by servers more effectively. For verification of the proposed model, we collect transmission and reception traffic data from six of Wikipedia's data centers, and then analyze and experiment with statistical-based analysis on the relationship of each traffic data. Experimental results show that the proposed model is helpful for reliably and efficiently running servers.

The Signal Distortion Due to the Electromagnetic Induction Inside a Cable (전선의 전자기유도 현상에 의한 신호 왜곡)

  • Jeong Ji-Min;Choi Seong-Jun;Kim Jung-Ho;Song Young-Soo
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.251-255
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    • 2004
  • Electric cables such as multi-interphone cables and ribbon cab]os are commonly used for data aquisition in the DC resistivity survey. In general, electromagnetic induction may occur in the electric cables when electric current flows through them. In case of using multi-interphone cables in the DC resistivity survey, electromagnetic induction could take place due to the entangled wires of the multi-interphone cables, when the current flows through them. Then, the electromagnetic induction may cause measured DC resistivity data to be distorted. In this study, a monitoring system with PXI (PCI Extention for Instrumentation) was constructed to examine signal distortion on the DC resistivity data, attributed to the electromagnetic induction. Common electric cables used in the DC resistivity survey were tested to observe the waveforms of the electric voltages. The waveforms measured were compared to examine signal distortion due to the electromagnetic induction. The results may provide information on the resistivity data obtained using different electric cables in the DC resistivity survey. The distortion of waveforms attributed to the electromagnetic induction wat not observed when using ribbon cables for DC resistivity data aquisition, while the distortion were observed when using multi-interphone. Therefore, the ribbon cables provide better quality of data than other cables in the DC resistivity data aquisition.