• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.789-796
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• 2009

The randomness in the strength of a RC member is caused mainly by the variability of the mechanical properties of concrete and steel, the dimensions of concrete cross sections, and the placement of reinforcing bars and so on . Among those variations, the randomness and uncertainty of mechanical properties of concrete, such as compressive strength, tensile strength, and elastic modulus give the most significant influences and show relatively large statistical variations. In Korea, there has been little effort for the construction of its own statistical models for mechanical properties of concrete and steel, thus the foreign data have been utilized till now. In this paper, variability of compressive strength, tensile strength and elastic modulus of normal-weight structural concrete with various specified design compressive strength levels are examined based on the data obtained from a number of published and unpublished sources in this country and additional laboratory tests done by the authors. The inherent probabilistic models for compressive and tensile strength of normal-weight concrete are proposed as Gaussian distribution. Also, the relationships between compressive and splitting tensile strength and between compressive strength and elastic modulus in current KCI Code are verified and new ones are suggested based on local data.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.172-183
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• 2010

Virtual memory systems (VM) reduce disk I/Os caused by page faults using page prefetching, which reads pages together with a desired page at a page fault in a single disk I/O. Operating systems including 4.4BSD attempt to prefetch as many pages as possible at a page fault regardless of page access patterns of applications. However, such an approach increases a disk access time taken to service a page fault when a high portion of the prefetched pages is not referenced. More seriously, the approach can cause the memory pollution, a problem that prefetched pages not to be accessed evict another pages that will be referenced soon. To solve these problems, we propose an adaptive page prefetching control scheme (APC), which periodically monitors access patterns of prefetched pages in a process unit. Such a pattern is represented as the ratio of referenced pages among prefetched ones before they are evicted from memory. Then APC uses the ratio to adjust the number of pages that 4.4BSD VM intends to prefetch at a page fault. Thus APC allows 4.4BSD VM to prefetch a proper number of pages to have a better effect on reducing disk I/Os, though page access patterns of an application vary in runtime. The experiment of our technique implemented in FreeBSD 6.2 shows that APC improves the execution times of SOR, SMM, and FFT benchmarks over 4.4BSD VM by up to 57%.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.193-201
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• 1992

A new equivalent curved beam theory is developed for the analysis of the corner part of ship structures, in which effects of distributed loads and asymmetricity with two or three connected parts are considered. Equivalent loads are obtained from equilibrium conditions between the distributed loads and the member forces and moments at the ends of curved beam. And an equivalent curved beam for the asymmetric structure is obtained by superposing the equivalent symmetric parts which have equivalent stiffness. From the sample calculation, it is found that the results of the new equivalent curved beam theory are well agreed with those of finite element method using membrane elements with little computing time and sufficient accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.381-381
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• 2019

동남아시아의 급격한 도시인구 증가는 도시화로 파생되는 제반문제를 유발하고 있으며 특히 집중호우와 홍수배제 시설의 부족 및 유관시설의 정보관리체계 부재는 홍수 피해규모를 가중시키고 있다. 인도네시아의 경우 물 재해 관리기관 간의 정보공유체계 부재로, 홍수로 인한 문제해결에 대하여 효과적인 대응이 어려운 실정이다. 주요 물 관리 기관인 유역관리청(BBWS)의 경우 조기홍수경보시스템을 보유하고 있으나 단순 수문현황 모니터링에 국한되어 운영되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 홍수피해를 최소화 할 수 있는 동남아시아 맞춤형 물 재해 관리 클라우드 플랫폼을 개발하여 비구조적 홍수 문제해결의 매개체로 활용하고자 한다. 기본적인 유역 수문현황 모니터링과 함께 댐, 보, 배수문 및 펌프장 등 홍수방어시설물의 운영현황 정보, 홍수상황분석, 홍수위험지도 등 종합적인 물 재해 정보를 제공하고 사전에 홍수위험 지역을 분석하여 유관기관과 공유할 수 있는 물 재해 관리 의사결정지원시스템을 개발하고자 한다. 기본적인 정보관리 체계화를 위하여 인도네시아의 다양한 물 재해 관련기관에서 보유하고 있는 자료들의 통합 클라우드 DB관리 시스템을 구축하였다. 연구대상지역은 인도네시아 수도인 자카르타의 Pesanggrahan유역과 인근 Batam섬 Baloi유역을 선정하였으며 대상 유역의 수문, 기상자료 및 GIS 정보수집은 공동연구기관인 인도네시아 공공사업부 수자원청(MPWH)과 주요 물 관리기관인 유역관리청(BBWS)의 협조를 통하여 진행하였다. 수집된 자료들은 관계형 데이터베이스 관리시스템인 MySQL을 사용하여 통합 물 재해 정보 데이터베이스를 구축하였으며 완성된 데이터베이스의 정보제공 및 공유시스템은 웹기반 인터페이스를 통해 관리되도록 설계하였다. 홍수유출 해석을 위한 분석 엔진은 K-water의 홍수분석 시스템인 FAS를 이용하였다. FAS의 홍수분석모형인 COSFIM과 수리모형인 Fldwav를 연계하는 데이터 분석 플랫폼을 완성하였으며 인도네시아 현지 조건에 부합하는 홍수분석 시스템으로 Customizing과정을 수행하였다. 또한 FAS의 PC기반 시뮬레이션 형식을 DB 연계형 웹서비스 방식으로 연동되도록 개량하였으며 추후 SaaS형 물 재해 분석시스템으로 전환할 수 있는 개발환경을 확보하였다. 개발된 물 재해 분석 플랫폼(WRMP)을 활용하여 인도네시아 공동연구기관과의 협의를 통해 물 재해 관리 시나리오를 수립하고 그 대안을 제시하였으며, 적용 시나리오별 홍수피해 저감 효과를 분석하였다. 또한 향후 방재시설물까지 연계하여 운영효과를 분석할 수 있도록 구조화하였다. 개발된 물 재해 관리 시스템은 개선된 정보처리 및 분석시스템을 활용하여 종합적인 물 재해정보를 제공하고, 사전에 홍수위험 지역을 분석하여 유관기관과 공유할 수 있는 물 재해 관리 의사결정 지원시스템으로써 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.246-255
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• 2023

Public conflicts in the port sector can cause additional social costs and delay the supply of port infrastructure, which can negatively affect local industries and national competitiveness. Although the importance of conflict management in the port sector is gradually increasing, there is still no systematic conflict management countermeasure. Therefore, in this study, the limitations of the current conflict management system in the port sector were considered, and a Delphi survey was conducted targeting experts and stakeholders in the port sector and conflict management. In addition, criteria for diagnosing conflicts in the port sector, causes of conflicts, proactive management measures, and ex post solutions were derived. The results of the Delphi survey analysis showed that the biggest causes of conflict were the absence of stakeholder opinion collection, consultation, and communication tools. Preliminary conflict management measures including a public deliberation process to collect local opinions and discuss development directions before deciding on specific issues, and ex post conflict resolution measures including investigation of causes of conflicts and objective personnel management in the process of preparing alternatives (e.g., securing reliability) were determined as the most important factors. In addition, based on the results obtained in this study, conflict management techniques for each phase of the port development project were presented. These findings are expected to be used as a useful reference material to reflect the port sector, which has not been included in the "Public Institution Conflict Management Manual (2016)" of the Office for Government Policy Coordination.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.1A
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• pp.61-73
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• 2009

In this paper, hybrid health monitoring techniques using acceleration-impedance features are newly proposed to detect two damage-type in steel plate-girder bridges, which are girder's stiffness-loss and support perturbation. The hybrid techniques mainly consists of three sequential phases: 1) to alarm the occurrence of damage in global manner, 2) to classify the alarmed damage into subsystems of the structure, and 3) to estimate the classified damage in detail using methods suitable for the subsystems. In the first phase, the global occurrence of damage is alarmed by monitoring changes in acceleration features. In the second phase, the alarmed damage is classified into subsystems by recognizing patterns of impedance features. In the final phase, the location and the extent of damage are estimated by using modal strain energy-based damage index method and root mean square deviation (RMSD) method. The feasibility of the proposed hybrid technique is evaluated on a laboratory-scaled steel plate-girder bridge model for which hybrid acceleration-impedance signatures were measured for several damage scenarios. Also, the effect of temperature on the accuracy of the impedance-based damage monitoring results are experimentally examined from combined scenarios of support damage cases and temperature changes.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.29-41
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• 2007

Structural design, like other complex decision problems, involves many trade-offs among competing criteria. Although mathematical programming models are becoming increasingly realistic, they often have design limitations, that is, there are often relevant issues that cannot be easily captured. From the understanding of these limitations, a decision-support system is developed that can generate some useful alternatives as well as a single optimum value in the optimization of steel frame structures. The alternatives produced using this system are "good" with respect to modeled objectives, and yet are "different," and are often better, with respect to interesting objectives not present in the model. In this study, we created a decision-support system for designing the most cost-effective moment-resisting steel frame structures for resisting lateral loads without compromising overall stability. The proposed approach considers the cost of steel products and the cost of connections within the design process. This system makes use of an optimization formulation, which was modified to generate alternatives of optimum value, which is the result of the trade-off between the number of moment connections and total cost. This trade-off was achieved by reducing the number of moment connections and rearranging them, using the combination of analysis based on the LRFD code and optimization scheme based on genetic algorithms. To evaluate the usefulness of this system, the alternatives were examined with respect to various design aspects.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.59-68
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• 2013

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify current health care management and barriers in health care management according to ecological systems, and to develop an ecological model for enhancing health care in child care centers. Methods: Focus group interviews were conducted with directors and teachers of child care centers, and with parents of children enrolled in child care. Data were analyzed by the latent content analysis method. Results: Twelve categories of health care management were identified. Barriers to child health care included knowledge deficit and lack of competence in health care by teachers, lack of useful health care manuals, non-existence of professional child health care personnel in child care centers, lack of mutual information sharing and disagreement on child health conditions between child care personnel and parents, lack of specific health related child care inspection criteria and time flexible child care centers with a lack of policy on collaboration with health care facilities. The ecological model developed included specific strategies to improve health care management in child care. Conclusion: The proposed ecological model to improve child health care management should be useful to plan future health care program considering both the immediate and indirect social environment surrounding children in child care.

• Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.470-476
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• 2018

Facial motor evoked potential (FMEP) by multi-pulse transcranial electrical stimulation (mpTES) can complement free-running electromyography (EMG) and direct facial nerve stimulation to predict the functional integrity of the facial nerve during cerebello-pontine angle (CPA) tumor surgery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the standardized test methods and the usefulness of FMEP as a predictor of facial nerve function and to minimize the incidence of facial paralysis as an aftereffect of surgery. TES was delivered through electrode Mz (cathode) - M3/M4 (anode), and extracranially direct distal facial muscle excitation was excluded by the absence of single pulse response (SPR) and by longer onset latency (more than 10 ms). FMEP from the orbicularis oris (o.oris) and the mentalis muscle simultaneously can improve the accuracy and success rate compared with FMEP from the o.oris alone. Using the methods described, we can effectively predict facial nerve outcomes immediately after surgery with a reduction of more than 50% of FMEP amplitude as a warning criterion. In conclusion, along with free-running EMG and direct facial nerve stimulation, FMEP is a useful method to reduce the incidence of facial paralysis as a sequela during CPA tumor surgery.

• Journal of Mushroom
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.218-226
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• 2022

Flammulina velutipes, known as winter mushroom in the family of Physalacriaceae, is the main edible and export mushroom with the third highest production after oyster and king oyster mushroom in Korea. However, as normal consumers regard F. velutipes as a simple subsidiary material, there is a limitation to increasing mushroom demand. In order to overcome the consumption limit and increase the differentiation of new varieties, it is necessary to breed varieties with enhanced functionality in consideration of consumer preferences. Therefore, the study was performed to analyze nutrient components and several useful functional substances with 26 genetic resources of F. velutipes. Analyses of inorganic compound(Ca, K, Mg) and 15 amino acids revealed that Strain 4148 had the highest content among the 26 strains. Beta-glucan, which increases immune activity and polyphenol, which exert antioxidant effects were higher in non-white strains than in white strains with a small number of exceptions. Among the five fatty acids, linoleic acid(an omega-6 fatty acid) and α-linolenic acid(an omega-3 fatty acid), were detected in six mushroom strains. α-linolenic acid, which was not found in five major mushrooms including oyster mushrooms, was identified in F. velutipes. The results of HPLC analysis showed that 'Auram' (Strain 4232) and 'Baekseung'(Strain 4230) had the highest content of the stabilizing neurotransmitter GABA(15.38 ㎍/ml and 20.56 ㎍/ml, respectively) among non-white and white strains, respectively. Our findings provide useful information for breeding F. velutipes to obtain strains with enhanced functionality.