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The Effects of Restrictions in Economic Activity on the Spread of COVID-19 in the Philippines: Insights from Apple and Google Mobility Indicators

  • CAMBA, Abraham C. Jr.;CAMBA, Aileen L.
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.12
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to investigate the effects of restrictions in economic activity on the spread of COVID-19 in the Philippines. This research employs daily time-series data of confirmed new COVID-19 cases, Apple mobility trends (i.e., use of public transport to destinations, volume of people driving, and amount of walking to destinations) and Google community mobility (i.e., visits to transit stations, visits to workplaces, and staying-at-home) indicators covering the period February 17 to September 11, 2020. The analysis starts by establishing the correlation pattern of new confirmed COVID-19 daily infections to each independent variable. The results show negative linear correlation of the number of new COVID-19 daily infections with less visit to transit station, increase stay-at-home, less use of public transport, and less amount of walking to destinations. Interestingly, the number of new COVID-19 daily infections indicates some form of positive linear correlation with visits to workplaces and volume of people driving. Moreover, employing robust least square regression via the method of MM-estimation, major findings reveal that across mobility measures, staying-at-home has the highest impact on reducing the spread of COVID-19, followed by visiting transit stations less, less use of public transport, less amount of walking, and less workplace visits.

Institutional Improvement of Construction-Related Laws for Practical Application of 3D Printing (3D 프린팅 실무 적용을 위한 건설 관련법 제도적 개선 방향)

  • Lee, Sung-Min;Park, Sang-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.85-94
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    • 2019
  • Then 3D printing is used practically at construction sites, there is a serious lack of studies on the conflict with construction-related laws and expected operational problems. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to present obstacles and directions for improvement in construction-related laws (Building Act, Construction Technology Promotion Act, Housing Act, Construction Machinery Management Act, etc.) for practical operation of 3D printing. The important results are as follows. Amending existing construction-related laws for 3D printing is irrational and inefficient in terms of structure and material. This study proposed a method of satisfying performance required by laws or standards based on the performance design method presented in existing laws and systems through structure and material performance certification procedure. In addition, inclusion of 3D printing equipment in the Construction Machinery Management Act results in various restrictions such as equipment inspection and certification of machine parts. As such restrictions can block vitalization of 3D printing, a long-term and step-wise approach was suggested.

Effects of Theraband Exercise Programs on Strength, Balance and Proprioception in Elderly (세라밴드를 이용한 운동프로그램이 노인의 근력, 균형, 고유수용성감각에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Dongjin
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to recognize the importance of balance in order to minimize daily living restrictions and to prevent falls due to aging, and develop an eight-week theraband exercise program to benefit the elderly. Method: A total of 20 elderly participants were divided into two groups. Group A used warm-up and finishing exercises for eight weeks including stretching and rhythm exercises conducted in a theraband exercise. Group B performed no exercises. Both A and B groups at weeks 1, weeks 4, weeks 8 were measured for deltoid and quadriceps femoris strength, balance and proprioception. Result: There was a significant difference in deltoid and quadriceps femoris muscle strength, balance and proprioception between Group A and Group B(p<0.05). Conclusion: The results of this study show that theraband exercises are thought to be able to contribute to the promotion of deltoid and quadriceps femoris muscle strength, balance and proprioception. It also contributes to minimize activity of daily living restrictions and prevent fall down in elderly. However in this study, generalization has been limited because of exercise duration, limited number of experiments and intensity modulated of theraband.

Drone Based Sensor Network Scenario for the Efficient Pedestrian's EEG Signal Transmission (효율적인 보행자의 EEG 신호 전송을 위한 드론기반 센서네트워크 시나리오)

  • Jo, Jun-Mo
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.923-928
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    • 2016
  • The various technologies related to the monitoring human health in real-time for the emergency situations are developing these days. Mostly the human pulse is used for measuring as the vital signs so far, but the EEG became a major research trend now. However, there are some problems measuring and sending EEG signals of all the people walking down the street to the dedicated server. Especially, there are some restrictions for collecting and sending EEG signals in 2-dimensional space in real-time. Therefore, I suggests an efficient network model using 3-dimensional space of drones to avoid the restrictions. The models are designed, simulated, and evaluated with the Opnet simulator.

The Effects of Design Parameter Uncertainty of the Shock Absorber on the Performance of Suspension System (충격 흡수기의 설계 파라미터 불확실성이 현가 장치 성능에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Choon-Tae
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.949-958
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    • 2020
  • The functions of shock absorbers are to dampen body, suspend motions, dissipate impact energy, and control tire force variation. During the operation, hydraulic oil is passed between the chambers via a flow restrictions. Therefore the damping force characteristics of shock absorber is determined by the characteristics of orifices and flow restrictions. The uncertainty in design variable affects the performance of suspension system strongly. But, the researches about the influence of uncertainty in design variable such as a fluid restriction's property of shock absorber, on the suspension system performance was hardly ever proposed. In this paper, we used statistical method of Latin Hypercube sampling, and the effects of design variables uncertainty on the performance of suspension system was presented.

The Maximal Covering Location Problem with Cost Restrictions (비용 제약 하에서 서비스 수준을 최대화화는 설비입지선정에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Sung Hak;Lee, Young Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.93-106
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    • 2004
  • This paper studied a maximal covering location problem with cost restrictions, to maximize level of service within predetermined cost. It is assumed that all demand have to be met. If the demand node is located within a given range, then its demand is assumed to be covered, but if it is not, then its demand is assumed to be uncovered. An uncovered demand is received a service but at an unsatisfactory level. The objective function is to maximize the sum of covered demand, Two heuristics based on the Lagrangean relaxation of allocation and decoupling are presented and tested. Upper bounds are found through a subgradient optimization and lower bounds are by a cutting algorithm suggested in this paper. The cutting algorithm enables the Lagrangean relaxation to be proceeded continually by allowing infeasible solution temporarily when the feasible solution is not easy to find through iterations. The performances are evaluated through computational experiments. It is shown that both heuristics are able to find the optimal solution in a relatively short computational time for the most instances, and that decoupling relaxation outperformed allocation relaxation.

Analysis of Multiple Links Services for Development of Bluetooth Based Application (블루투스 기반 어플리케이션 개발을 위한 다중 링크 서비스 분석)

  • Song, Young-Ho;Lee, Tae-Yang;Yeo, Jong-Yun;Moon, Chan-Woo;Jeong, Gu-Min
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.173-178
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we analyze the performance of multilink Bluetooth service and design the multilink application between various Bluetooth devices. There are many restrictions for the Bluetooth based multilink services. Especially, these restrictions occur due to SCO and ACL which construct logical links. In forming ake a scatternet, only one SCO link can be utilized. Also, the number of ACL link depends on the number of RFCOMM channels. High quality audio data streaming cannot be supported by using SCO link. In that case, ACL link should be used for the audio streaming and the data rate of other data links decreases. We implemented the multilink services to verify the considerations for the multilink service.

Experimental Investigation of Flow Oscillations in a Semi-closed Two-phase Natural Circulation Loop (준밀폐형 2상자연순환 회로 내에서의 유동 진동에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Jong Moon;Lee, Sang Yong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.1763-1773
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    • 1998
  • In the present experimental study, the flow behavior in a semi-closed two-phase natural circulation loop was examined. Water was used as the working fluid. Heat flux, heater-inlet subcooling, and flow restrictions at the heater-inlet and at the expansion-tank-line were taken as the controlling parameters Six circulation modes were identified by changing heat flux and inlet subcooling conditions ; single-phase continuous circulation, periodic circulation (A), two-phase continuous circulation, and periodic circulations (B), (C), and (D). Among these, the single-phase and two-phase continuous-circulation modes exhibit no significant oscillations and are considered to be stable. Periodic circulation (A) is characterized by the large amplitude two-phase f10w oscillations with the temporal single-phase circulation between them, while periodic circulation (B) featured by the flow oscillations with continuous boiling inside the heater section. Periodic circulation (C) appears to be the manometric oscillation with continuous boiling. Periodic circulation (D) has the longer period than periodic circulation (B) and a substantial amount of liquid flow back and forth through the expansion-tank-line periodically ; this mode is considered the pressure drop oscillation. Parametric study shows that the increases of the inlet- and expansion-tank-line- restrictions and the decrease of inlet subcooling broaden the range of the stable two-phase(continuous circulation) mode.

Optimum Allocation of Ships Emphasizing the Cargo Delivery Time (화물의 인도시기를 최우선으로 하는 배선문제)

  • 이중우;양시권;이철영
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 1981
  • As far as transportation problems are concerned, the minimization of transportation cost is the most prevailing object. But in some cases, the cargo delivery time is the utter problem rather than the cost. For instance, we may imagine the case that the delivery of the construction materials is delayed behind the schedule and this makes the construction cost increased because of idle time of other materials and man power, in addition to the indemnity. Therefore the allocation of ships, in marine transportation which is now the main route of overseas trade, to the needed area on the required time is to be appropriately performed. However, there are several restrictions for cargo delivery to meet the demand, such as ship's size, number to be employed and cargo handling capacity of the ports, etc. And there are some other factors to be considered, that is, the degree of necessities of commodities, on their kinds, amount, and the time of arrival, etc. This paper deals with the problem of optimum allocation of ships emphasizing the cargo delivery time adopting Linear Programming technique with those cargo delivery restrictions and factors transformed by introducing the multi-speed conception, the conversion of multi-commodity to a single commodity, allowable delivery time, weight penalty number and nominating priority. This paper presents a case of optimum allocation of ships in the light of cargo delivery time for a construction company which has two different construction places and analyzes the result. This study will give a planner a good tool for optimum planning of maring transportation and be used for decision of schemes.

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Farmers' Views on the Green Belt in Seoul (개발제한구역에 대한 서울지역 농업인의 의식 분석)

  • Hwang, Han-Cheol;Choi, Soo-Myung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.9 no.1 s.18
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to examine farmers' intentions, attitudes, and the type of filming they are involved in, including to provide supporting data for planning the agricultural strategy and Green Belt policy in Seoul. All the collected data was analyzed using the contingency tables and the Chi-square test using the SAS computer statistical package. The leaseholders did not want to change the current Green Belt policy for the study area, while the landowning farmers hoped for either its revision or dissolution. Both groups pointed out that the Green Belt policy resulted in the delay of development and complained about the difficulty of changing the land use type. The older generation supported the dissolution of the Green Belt, policy, as compared with the younger generation who wanted to maintain or modify the policy. The leaseholders worried that the possible changes in the Green Belt policy might affect the current agricultural land contract system, whereas the landowning farmers were very interested in easing restrictions on changing land use. The compensation plan, which is indemnified land owners for their loss of restrictions on land use, might be useful to sustain urban farming in the Green Belt.