• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.334-342
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• 2012

It is connected with various gauges existing in Euro-Asian continents. Such differences impedes the operation seriously as on the contact of railway tracks of different gauge the cargo must be either transshipped or the running assemblies of rail vehicles must be exchanged. Those operations are costly, time-consuming and require extended infrastructure together with very expensive storage and transshipment facilities at border-crossing point. Moreover, those operations extend transportation time considerably. Therefore, effectiveness of railway transportation systems significantly depends on track gauge change 1435/1520mm, which connects with complicated handling-shifting operations. The paper concerns assessment of effectiveness in strategical rail systems with gauge changing. The paper presents short description of transport system with gauge changing and initial assessment of shifting technologies. Method of system assessment comparison based on Life Cycle Cost model is described here as well.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.51-57
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• 1985

In the design of civil engineering structures, the designers are invariably faced to the uncertainties and the randomness of the design parameters such as material properties and loads. Even when the structures are built, the actual geometries of the structures are also subject to their random variations from their nominal design values. Thus, the reliability of a structure in terms of these uncertainties and variations becomes a matter of great concern to the structural designers. This study employs the First Order Second Moment Method to evluate numerically the reliability of a simple tension member and discusses the influence on the final failure probability of that structure due to: 1) use of equivalent normal distribution in place of non-normal distribution, 2) linearization of non linear limit state equation. A discussion is also made on the necessity of fundamental studies on the distrubution characteristics of the strength of locally produced construction materials and those of the loads frequently encountered in the structural design.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.43-48
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• 2009

We constructed a simple wavelength readout system for a tunable fiber laser which was used for a fiber Bragg grating sensor array system. A quadrature sampling method was used to demodulate wavelength variations of the tunable laser which consisted of a SOA(semi-conductor optical amplifier) and a fiber-optic Fabry-Perot filter. Internal triggers, which have a 90 degree phase period, have been generated by using a double-pass Mach-Zehnder interferometer. From Lissajous plots with quadrature sampled data, a mean phase error of ${\sim}2.51$ mrad was obtained. From the wavelength readout experiments, an accurate and fast linear wavelength demodulation has been confirmed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.435-441
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• 2014

This paper suggests techniques to enhance coding time which is a problem in traditional fractal compression and to improve fidelity of reconstructed images by determining fractal coefficient through adaptive selection of block approximation formula. First, to reduce coding time, we construct a linear list of domain blocks of which characteristics is given by their luminance and variance and then we control block searching time according to the first permissible threshold value. Next, when employing three-level block partition, if a range block of minimum partition level cannot find a domain block which has a satisfying approximation error, There applied to 24-bpp color image compression and image techniques. The result did not occur a loss in the image quality of the image when using the encoding method, such as almost to the color in the RGB image compression rate and image quality, such as gray-level images and showed good.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.783-790
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a turbine mass flow rate model for a variable geometry turbocharger (VGT) using an artificial neural network (ANN). The model predicts the turbine mass flow rate using the VGT vane position, engine rotational speed, exhaust manifold pressure, exhaust manifold temperature, and turbine outlet pressure. The ANN is used for the estimation of the effective flow area. In order to validate the results estimated by the proposed model, we have compared estimation results with engine experimental results. The results, in addition, represent improved estimation accuracy when compared with the performance using the turbine map.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.620-627
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• 2017

An open sharing market is a market providing a sharing business. It provides open sharing services handling various products, unlike existing sharing services providing specific products. Sharing under an open sharing market can include all products that are difficult for customers to deal with, and provides fluidity of trade through negotiating sharing periods and costs among sharers. There are many variant elements when you provide sharing services for various products. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an extensible architecture that can reflect the variant elements in open sharing markets. We expect the proposed architecture can continuously improve the extensibility of sharing services for various products, because we design sharing services as components to efficiently manage and provide various sharing services, and provide dynamic binding of variant elements.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.263-270
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• 2016

This paper suggests techniques to enhance coding time which is a problem in traditional fractal compression and to improve fidelity of reconstructed images by determining fractal coefficient through adaptive selection of block approximation formula. First, to reduce coding time, we construct a linear list of domain blocks of which characteristics is given by their luminance and variance and then we control block searching time according to the first permissible threshold value. Next, when employing three-level block partition, if a range block of minimum partition level cannot find a domain block which has a satisfying approximation error, There applied to 24-bpp color image compression and image techniques. The result did not occur a loss in the image quality of the image when using the encoding method, such as almost to the color in the YIQ image compression rate and image quality, such as RGB images and showed good.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1167-1172
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• 2017

Desktop computers, which were the main means of Internet use and information activity, were pushed out by smart devices that emphasized mobility and simplicity. The recent information production and consumption activities are performed through smart devices, but there is no input device for smart devices that can fully replace traditional input devices such as full-size PC compatible keyboards. Because of the small size of the virtual keyboard that uses the touch screen of the smart device, typographical error occurs at a high rate. In this paper, we propose a variable virtual keyboard that minimizes the typographical errors of the conventional virtual keyboards. The proposed method minimizes the user 's input error by adjusting the size of each key of the virtual keyboard based on accumulated dataset of position and pressure of the user' s input error even though there is no difference in the key position arrangement of the conventional virtual keyboards.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.640-647
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• 2004

This paper presents a method that, by using a tree splay, dynamically modifies the fixed table of a VLC used in the standards and thus improves the performance of a video encoder. The previous standards, which drew up tables by using a limited number of images, were not able to accommodate the characteristics of new image input. The new method proposed in this paper employs the probabilistic characteristics of an image input, thus making encoding more effective. Furthermore, the present study also proposes a method to regulate the weight in order that the accumulated probabilities can make a dominant symbol emerge, while keeping the probability adequate and thus maximally accommodating the characteristics of the image input. The results from applying the proposed method to a variety of image sequences showed that, while various types of images yielded slightly different results, it improved the performance up to a maximum of 0.23㏈, compared to MPEG-4 standard.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.309-314
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• 1996

We found that SOG which had been used in plarnarization of VLSI circuit fabrication at present could be used as a resist material for AFM lithography. In this experiment on the basis of previous studies, we improved the process flexibility by controlling the coating film thickness, etching time, etching selectively and proper applied voltage on the pattern size to apply for practical VLSI lithography process. We obtained pattern with the current of 5 nA at 60 V. The line width was 800 $\AA$. With the developed flexibility of SOG as a resist material, AFM lithography will be a expedient technique in the next generation DRAM fabrication.