• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.282-285
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• 2005

This paper discusses the interactive system for smart home environments. In order to realize this, the main emphasis of the paper lies on the description of the multiple signal processing on the basis of the technologies such as fingerprint recognition, video signal processing, speech recognition and synthesis. For essential modules of the interactive system, we adopted the motion detector based on the changes of brightness in pixels as well as the fingerprint identification for adapting home environments to the inhabitants. In addition, the real-time speech recognizer based on the HM-Net(Hidden Markov Network) and the speech synthesis were incorporated into the overall system for interaction between user and system. In experimental evaluation, the results showed that the proposed system was easy to use because the system was able to give special services for specific users in smart home environments, even though the performance of the speech recognizer was not better than the simulation results owing to the noisy environments.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.13-36
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• 2014

Recently, with the increasing popularity of smartphones, mobile applications have been being used in various sectors. In these environments, some mobile applications are being made for special purposes. The mobile campus application is one exemplary type of such special-purpose mobile applications, which have unique characteristics that allow only designated users, belonging to a specific group, to access and use relevant knowledge. The aim of this study is to identify and investigate critical success factors of mobile campus applications based on the DeLone & McLean's information systems (IS) success model and to find unique characteristics of mobile campus applications, compared to general-purpose mobile applications. In order to empirically test our research model, 199 samples were collected from students who actually had experience of using the mobile campus application of A university at least once. The findings of the structural equation modeling using SmartPLS 2.0 confirmed the DeLone & McLean's IS success model, with the exception for relationships between service quality and user satisfaction/intention to use. Moreover, the moderating role of sense of belonging to school on the relationships between quality-related factors (i.e., information, system, and service qualities) and success-related factors (i.e., user satisfaction and intention to use) was examined.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.801-810
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• 2002

The current paper describes the indoor/outdoor air quality in school environments through analyses of the heavy metal concentrations using Inductive Coupled Plasma(ICP). School environments in a heavy traffic area, two industrial areas, quasi-industrial area, and residential area were evaluated. The results were as follows: (1) The locations with the highest indoor and outdoor concentrations of heavy metals were the industrial areas followed by the heavy traffic area, residential area, and quasi-industrial area in a descending order of magnitude. Plus, the indoor heavy metal concentrations were higher then the outdoor ones. (2) The main heavy metal components were Zn, Al and Ca. Higher concentration levels were found indoors than outdoors. The heavy metal concentrations were also higher in the classrooms than in the corridor or outdoors. (3) The total heavy metal concentrations in the studied areas were highly dependent on the weather elements. including the relative humidity, mixing ratio, and wet-bulb depression. Accordingly, special ventilation systems are recommended to reduce air pollution in school environments.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.138-150
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• 2001

Recently, industrial environments have been drastically changed. Customers require cheaper, better, stronger products more than ever. Thus companies have to satisfy the requirements of customers to be survived in this kind of industrial environments. To cope with these requirements from customers, engineers in industries must accept new paradigm and use some special tools for developing new product. This study has applied a Concurrent Engineering which would be good for shortening of product development period in developing of Full Logic Deck mechanism using in car audio. In this paper, a real case of systematic approach and successful story of Concurrent Engineering application in developing Full Logic Deck mechanism is illustrated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.208-212
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• 2003

2.4GHz wireless LAN has come into wide use at present according as the use of wireless LAN limited to special fields like network of enterprises or universities has been made gradual popularization and the need for it is gathering strength. Therefore, in this paper, transmission devices and structures of it is investigated and optimum transmission level of signals is researched through experiment about characteristics and rate of transmission of Packet signals in various User environments.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.5-26
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• 1997

The accelerating rate of changing and the increasing complexity of information environments make information centers new framework in information organization, access, processing, and use. This article presents theory and methodology of strategic planning for special information centers with an overview of literature and conceptual framework, analytical method and role model.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.358-363
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• 2007

This paper presents a floating point unit(FPU) with 3 stages for a 3D graphics shader engine. It targeted to accelerate 3D graphics in portable device environments. In order to design a balanced architecture for a shader engine, we analyzed shader assembly instructions and estimated the performance of FPU with the method we propose. The proposed unit handles 4-dimensional data through separated two paths that are lead to general operation module and special function module. The proposed FPU is compiled as a form of the cascade FPU with 3 stages to efficiently handle a matrix operation with relatively low hardware overhead. Except some complex instructions that are executed using macro instructions, all instructions complete an operation in a single instruction cycle at 100MHz frequency. A special function module performs all operations in a single clock cycle using the Newton Raphson method with the look-up table.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1145-1152
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• 2010

Currently economical communication technologies are needed for high speed data exchange at sea. Wireless environments at sea require some special communication security solutions as well. In this paper, an augmented WiMAX MMR protocol is proposed as a solution of the broadband data communications and security at sea environments fundamentally with no base station.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.35-46
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to clarify the actual condition of the daily living activities of the elderly with dementia in medical facilities. The thorough investigation and observation works were made to them from the view points of daily living behaviors and behavioral places of the recuperating elderly. This article discusses about the basic characteristics of the elderly and the actual condition of the daily living activities of the elderly with dementia in 2 geriatric hospitals and 1 special hospital for the aged with dementia. The results of this study are summarized as follows; There is no wide difference between geriatric hospital and special hospital for the aged with dementia on the characteristic of living behaviors of the elderly with dementia. The usage of behavioral places in hospitals are influenced by the physical environments and the basic characteristics of the elderly with dementia.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.18 no.3 s.39
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• pp.85-97
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• 1990

To understand the parks and leisure recreation environments of United States, some major areas are studied with the brief history of R & P area. development Those are 1) National Park System and National Park Service 2) ORRRC and BOR 3) Education of the Recreation & Park professions. Some findings of this study can be summarized as follows : 1. In United States, R & P area has been developed on the firm base of 'Publicity'. Central Park as a public park, National Park Service and Bureau of Outdoor Recreation as Federal organization have led this concept. 2. Major recreational resources - natural, cultural and historical etc-have converged into National Park System. On that, conservation and recreation use of those resources are possible in balance. 3. Establishment of the R & P area in the early stage made a great contribution to educate professionals. And this situation has been so helpful for balanced development of the area.