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An Efficient ATM Traffic Generator for the Real-Time Production of a Large Class of Complex Traffic Profiles

  • Loukatos Dimitrios;Sarakis Lambros;Kontovasilis Kimon;Mitrou Nikolas
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.54-64
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents an advanced architecture for a traffic generator capable of producing ATM traffic streams according to fully general semi-Markovian stochastic models. The architecture employs a basic traffic generator platform and enhances it by adding facilities for 'driving' the cell generation process through high-level specifications. Several kinds of optimization are employed for enhancing the software's speed to match the hardware's potential and for ensuring that traffic streams corresponding to models with a wide range of parameters can be generated efficiently and reliably. The proposed traffic generation procedure is highly modular. Thus, although this paper deals with ATM traffic, the main elements of the architecture can be used equally well for generating traffic loads on other networking technologies, IP-based networks being a notable example.

The classification of ballpoint pen inks in Questioned Documents by using VSC and SERRS

  • Kim, Nam Yee;Park, Sung Woo;Doble, Philip;Roux, Claude
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.315-321
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    • 2004
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the evidential value of blue and black ballpoint pens on paper by nondestructive techniques. In this work, 21 blue and 22 black ballpoint pens which were purchased on different brands were analyzed by Raman Spectroscopy and Video Spectral Comparator (VSC). Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Spectroscopy (SERRS) with excitation at 685 nm and VSC with several spot light filters were used for the discrimination of ballpoint pen inks. In the SERR spectra, the ballpoint pen inks on paper could be shown sharp spectral bands and distinguished by their band shapes and relative intensities. In the blue and black ballpoint pen inks, the discriminating powers (DP) by SERRS were 0.85 and 0.67 and the DP by VSC were 0.88 and 0.90, respectively. The DP by combined sequence of techniques was all 0.97 in both black and blue ballpoint pen inks.

Etymological Study of Species in Scientific Names of Landscape Plants. (조경식물의 학명에서 종명의 어원 연구)

  • 최상범
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.8-16
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    • 1993
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze the linguistic origin of the species manes of landscape plants in order to help students understand the physical characteristics of the plants through the botanical names. This study includes the plants that are possible to use as landscape material as well as both the native and foreign plants that are already used. Name of Species of Scientific name in Landscape plant be derived from region or nations of habitat, botanist, plant explors, and their sponser, and plant form and number of leaves or flowers, character or ingredient of plants and shape of stem, tree crown form. In this paper, about 300 species(contains varieties, formas) are interpreted into etymological meanings.

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A Document-Driven Method for Certifying Scientific Computing Software for Use in Nuclear Safety Analysis

  • Smith, W. Spencer;Koothoor, Nirmitha
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.404-418
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents a documentation and development method to facilitate the certification of scientific computing software used in the safety analysis of nuclear facilities. To study the problems faced during quality assurance and certification activities, a case study was performed on legacy software used for thermal analysis of a fuelpin in a nuclear reactor. Although no errors were uncovered in the code, 27 issues of incompleteness and inconsistency were found with the documentation. This work proposes that software documentation follow a rational process, which includes a software requirements specification following a template that is reusable, maintainable, and understandable. To develop the design and implementation, this paper suggests literate programming as an alternative to traditional structured programming. Literate programming allows for documenting of numerical algorithms and code together in what is termed the literate programmer's manual. This manual is developed with explicit traceability to the software requirements specification. The traceability between the theory, numerical algorithms, and implementation facilitates achieving completeness and consistency, as well as simplifies the process of verification and the associated certification.

Topological analysis of interdisciplinary scientific journals: Which journals will be the next Nature or Science?

  • Zhu, Yongjun;Yan, Erjia;Song, Il-Yeol
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2015.04a
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    • pp.660-663
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    • 2015
  • Identifying prestigious interdisciplinary journals is very significant for researchers. By publishing research works in prestigious journals, researchers can better propagate their works and get spotlights. Even though the quality of a papers is not represented by the journal that published the paper, it is a general concern of researchers that how to identify a set of good journals to submit their papers. Nature and Science are the two journals that have been considering as the two top interdisciplinary journals worldwide. In this paper, we propose a method for identifying journals that have the potential to become the next Nature and Science through topological analysis of interdisciplinary scientific journals.

Bubble breakup dynamics and flow behaviors of a surface-functionalized nanocellulose based nanofluid stabilized foam in constricted microfluidic devices

  • Wei, Bing;Wang, Yuanyuan;Wen, Yangbing;Xu, Xingguang;Wood, Colin;Sun, Lin
    • Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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    • v.68
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    • pp.24-32
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    • 2018
  • Nanocellulose was surface-functionalized toward the applications in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) as a green alternative. The focus of this paper is on the effect of this material based nanofluid (NF) on foam lamella stabilization through studying its bubble breakup dynamics and flow behaviors in constricted mircofluidic devices. The NF stabilized foam produced an improved flow resistance across the capillary largely due to the capillary trapped bubbles at the contraction. The "snap-off" caused the NF stabilized foam to produce finer textured bubbles, which can migrate readily forward to the deep porous media, as revealed by the pressure profiles.

A Study on the Teaching/Learning Strategies and Materials for the Enhancement of Scientific Inquiry Skills of High School Students : Part II, Instructional Materials (고등학교의 과학적 탐구력 신장을 위한 과학 학습지도 방법과 자료의 개발에 관한 연구 II)

  • Cho, Hee-Hyung;Lee, Moon-Won;Cho, Young-Sin;Jee, Chan-Soo;Kang, Soon-Hee;Park, Jong-Yoon;Hur, Myung;Kim, Chan-Jong
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.133-148
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    • 1995
  • This study has been performed in order to achieve three objectives. They are as follows: To analyze, based on the research literatures, the nature of scientific inquiry ability and the characteristics of its constitutive elements. To identify inquiry skills and techniques essential to such areas as physics, chemistry, biology. and earth science. To develop instructional models and materials for enhancing inquiry ability on the part of high school students. It was found in the study that the scientific inquiry was interpreted in terms of different meanings according to the viewpoint of the person who are interested in the nature of science. The scientific inquiry has been viewed as the process of knowledge formation, scientific method, inquiry process or process skills depending on the epistemological, methodological, educational perspectives, respectively. It was also identified that certain kind of skills or techniques would be used for inquiry in only one specific area of the science. This study drew a conclusion based on the findings that the skills and techniques will effectively be learned when those are taught with specific knowledge in each area of the science. Reported in this paper are the materials developed, for fostering scienctific inquiry skills on the part of the high school students. The materials were developed, using two themes of a theoretical-abstract chemistry topic and a conceptual-concrete biology topic. Those materals were designed for an experiment and an observation, respectively.

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Children서s Understanding on Scientific Units in Elementary School Science Textbooks (초등학교 과학 교과서에서 사용되는 단위에 대한 아동들의 이해도)

  • 김성규;서승조;조태호;백남권;박강은;공정선
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.201-212
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    • 2002
  • This paper aims to find out how did elementary students understand scientific units in science textbooks. The subjects were 191 students of the 6th grade from 7 elementary schools in 3 different areas, consisting of 70 from 4 village schools of, 64 from 2 town schools of Gyeongnam province, and 57 from one city school in Ulsan Metro City. A test was developed based on the analysis of scientific units in the science textbooks and teacher's manuals constructed according to the 6th and 7th National Science Curriculum. The understanding of elementary students' on the scientific units(Temperature, Length, Weight, Volume, Speed, Plane Angle) were surveyed. The result are as follows: Regarding the temperature unit, the students generally well understand why to measure and how to read temperature, but had some problem in recording it, in confusion with the plane angle sign. As for the length unit, they obtained high scores in understanding the purpose of measuring length as well as recording and reading it. Which indicates that they are well aware of and use the unit appropriately. With respect to the weight unit, they got high scores in reading and recording weight, which means most students have no problem using the unit. However, it was found that they do not understand why to use the plate balance scale. The volume unit was one in which the students got relatively lower scores. They do not perceive the object of using a scale cylinder and confuse it with a device of length measurement. The unit of speed is the most difficult one for children's of science to understand, presumably, because it is an derived unit from two basic units. It is also assumed that the students got the highest score in the plane angle unit because they studied the unit immediately before the test. From the children's understanding of science units above the teacher's understanding and teaching methods presumed to play a major role for children to understand and use the science units properly.

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Analysis and Implications of Australian National Data Service(ANDS) (오스트레일리아의 과학데이터 서비스체제(ANDS) 분석과 시사점)

  • Park, Dong-Jin
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2011
  • Our country does not currently have a concrete policy for the management and preservation of the scientific dataset on the national level. The scientists and the research groups that are implementing a research project are not capable of searching or sharing the information about the dataset. In this situation where there is a major increase in the number of researches that use digitalized dataset, being able to share and reuse the scientific data amongst researchers is recognized to be very important. Therefore our country needs a new formulated policy that manages scientific data on the national level. This paper helps to find the implications of the strategic planning in our country by analyzing previous advanced case studies done by foreign countries. We selected Australia as our subject because its intensive government-driven research environment, research infrastructure and information service are very similar to Korea. To be specific, we analyzed ANDS (Australian National Data Service) and drew out the implications that could be applied to our country also. And finally we propose the basic principles that needs to be mirrored when formulating a policy on our country's scientific data.

GLOVE: Distributed Shared Memory Based Parallel Visualization Tool for Massive Scientific Dataset (GLOVE: 대용량 과학 데이터를 위한 분산공유메모리 기반 병렬 가시화 도구)

  • Lee, Joong-Youn;Kim, Min Ah;Lee, Sehoon;Hur, Young Ju
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.273-282
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    • 2016
  • Visualization tool can be divided by three components - data I/O, visual transformation and interactive rendering. In this paper, we present requirements of three major components on visualization tools for massive scientific dataset and propose strategies to develop the tool which satisfies those requirements. In particular, we present how to utilize open source softwares to efficiently realize our goal. Furthermore, we also study the way to combine several open source softwares which are separately made to produce a single visualization software and optimize it for realtime visualization of massiv espatio-temporal scientific dataset. Finally, we propose a distributed shared memory based scientific visualization tool which is called "GLOVE". We present a performance comparison among GLOVE and well known open source visualization tools such as ParaView and VisIt.