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Voice and Video Call Continuity for Enterprise Users (기업형 사용자들을 위한 음성/영상 서비스 이동성 제공 방안)

  • Jung, Chang-Yong;Kim, Hyeon-Soo;Moon, Jeong-Hyeon;Kim, Hee-Dong
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.08a
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    • pp.99-103
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    • 2009
  • Recently, as wired and wireless communication services have rapidly developed and multimodal mobile devices which have various characteristics have widely spread, the need for new convergence services increases. The growing population of VoIP technologies and the high communication expense yield that the market of IP based telephony such as WiFi phone and IP phone is substituted for one of the conventional PSTN telephony. With the help of this trend, the wireline network operators desire to find a market in mobile networks. Therefore, they focus on Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) service as one of the key factors to accomplish this goal. FMC services are able to provide the mobility of voice services between circuit switched and packet switched networks. IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based Voice Call Continuity (VCC) is one of the schemes to embody FMC services. As Application Server (AS) which has this VCC function provides seamless handover of services between heterogeneous networks, FMC subscribers can communicate seamlessly with others m WiFi domain and COMA domain using WiFi-COMA dual phone. Most of enterprises have already introduced IP network infrastructure and IP-PBX (Private Branch eXchange) for telephony. However, the problems of high communication cost and work inefficiency due to frequent outside jobs or business trips have remained. In order to solve these problems, demands for enterprise FMC services increase. In this paper, we introduce a new IP-PBX based VCC model that can provide seamless handover of voice services between WiFi and COMA networks for enterprise users and we investigate some interworking and security issues between Soft Switch (SSW) and IMS, or between IMSs. In addition, we introduce a new service that can provide the continuity of voice sessions as well as video sessions using Multimedia Session Continuity (MMSC) technology which has evolved from VCC. This service is expected to be one of the next-generation personalized services based on user's context.

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Simplified Moment-Curvature Relationship Model of Reinforced Concrete Columns Considering Confinement Effect (구속효과를 고려한 철근 콘크리트 기둥의 모멘트-곡률 관계 단순모델)

  • Kwak, Min-Kyoung;Yang, Keun-Hyeok
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.279-288
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    • 2016
  • The present study simplified the moment-curvature relationship to straightforwardly determine the flexural behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) columns. For the idealized column section, moments and neutral axis depths at different stages(first flexural crack, yielding of tensile reinforcing bar, maximum strength, and 80% of the maximum strength at the descending branch) were derived on the basis of the equilibrium condition of forces and compatibility condition. Concrete strains at the extreme compression fiber beyond the maximum strength were determined using the stress-strain relationship of confined concrete, proposed by Kim et al. The lateral load-displacement curves converted from the simplified moment-curvature relationship of columns are well consistent with test results obtained from column specimens under various parameters. The moments and the corresponding neutral axis depth at different stages were formulated as a function of longitudinal reinforcement and transverse reinforcement indices and/or applied axial load index. Overall, curvature ductility of columns was significantly affected by the axial load level as well as concrete compressive strength and the amount of longitudinal and transverse reinforcing bars.

Neuroprotective Effects of Plant Extracts from Baekdu Mountain on Glutamate-induced Cytotoxicity in HT22 cells (글루타메이트로 유발한 HT22세포 독성에 대한 백두산 식물 추출물의 보호 효과)

  • Li, Bin;Jeong, Gil-Saeng;An, Ren-Bo;Lee, Dong-Sung;Byun, Erisa;Yoon, Kwon-Ha;Kim, Youn-Chul
    • Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.213-217
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    • 2008
  • Oxidative stress is considered to play an important role in a variety of neurodegenerative disorders of central nervous system. The immortalized mouse hippocampal cell line, HT22, phenotypically resembles neuronal precursor cells but lacks functional ionotropic glutamate receptors, thus excluding excitotoxicity as a cause for glutamate triggered cell death. Therefore, HT22 cells are a useful model for studying oxidative glutamate toxicity. In this study, we examined whether the methanol extracts of some native plants at Mt. Baekdu could protect HT22-immortalized hippocampal cells against glutamate-induced oxidative stress. Seventy-eight plants sources were collected at Mt. Baekdu, and extracted with methanol. These extracts had been screened the protective effects against glutamate-induced oxidative damage in HT22 cells at the 100 and 300 ${\mu}g/ml$. Of these, thirteen methanolic extracts, Acer mono (leaf), Artemisia stolonifera (aerial part), Carduus crispus (aerial part), Carex mongolica (whole plant), Clematis hexapetala (whole plant), Galeopsis bifida (aerial part), Galium verum (whole plant), Ganoderma lucidum (whole plant), Ixeris chinensis (whole plant), Malva verticillata (aerial part), Polygonum senticosum (whole plant), Rebes mandshricum (branch), and Taraxacum mongolicum (aerial part), showed significant protective effects against glutamate-induced oxidative damage in HT22 cells.

Body Mass Index Effects on Risk of Ovarian Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

  • Poorolajal, Jalal;Jenabi, Ensiyeh;Masoumi, Seyyedeh Zahra
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.15 no.18
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    • pp.7665-7671
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    • 2014
  • Objectives: The association between body mass index (BMI) and ovarian cancer risk is unclear and requires further investigation. The present meta-analysis was conducted to assess the effect of overweight and obesity on ovarian cancer risk in the premenopausal and postmenopausal periods. Data sources: Major electronic databases were searched until February 2014 including Medline and Scopus. Reference lists and relevant conference databases were searched and the authors were contacted for additional unpublished references. Review Methods: All cohort and case-control studies addressing the effect of BMI on ovarian cancer were included, irrespective of publication date and language. The effect measure of choice was risk ratio (RR) for cohort studies and odds ratio (OR) for case-control studies. The results were reported using a random effects model with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results: Of 3,776 retrieved studies, 19 were ultimately analyzed including 10 cohort studies involving 29,237,219 person-years and 9 case-control studies involving 96,965 people. The results of both cohort and case-control studies showed being overweight and obesity increased the risk of ovarian cancer compared to women with normal weight during both premenopausal and postmenopausal periods: RR=1.08 (95%CI: 0.97, 1.19) and OR=1.26 (95%CI: 0.97, 1.63) for overweight and RR=1.27 (95%CI: 1.16, 1.38) and OR=1.26 (95%CI: 1.06, 1.50) for obesity. Conclusions: There is sufficient evidence that an increase in BMI can increase the risk of ovarian cancer regardless of the menopausal status, mimicking a dose-response relationship although the association is not very strong.

Electrical Resistivity Methods in Korea (한국의 전기비저항탐사)

  • Kim, Hee-Joon
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.39 no.4 s.179
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    • pp.473-483
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    • 2006
  • Although application of electrical methods in Korea began with observation of self potentials before World War II, the methods were developed slowly by the beginning of 1980's when a major burst of development activity took place. DC resistivity methods are applied in Korea more to geotechnical problems rather than to environmental ones unlike other developed countries. As with every other branch of technology, the evolving speed of the silicon chip and of streaming data to hard disk has revolutionized data collection and noise reduction processing. The last two decades saw major advances in data collection, processing, and interpretation of electrical data. Development of smooth-model two-dimensional (2D) resistivity inversion is one of the most visible changes to geophysical interpretation of the last 40 years and is now routinely applied to apparent resistivity data. The ability to represent resistivities in section rather than pseudosection view has revolutionized interpretation. Although calculation of sensitivities for general electromagnetic problems require numerous forward modelings, DC resistivity methods can enjoy computational efficiencies if sources and receivers occupy the same position, and previously intractable 3D inversion is now becoming available.

The Effect of Process Parameters on Sealing Quality for Ir-192 Radiation Source Capsule using Resistance Spot Welding (Ir-192 방사선원의 밀봉 용접부 품질에 미치는 저항용접 공정변수의 영향)

  • Han, In-Su;Son, Kwang-Jae;Lee, Young-Ho;Lee, You-Hwang;Lee, Jun-Sig;Jang, Kyung-Duk;Park, Ul-Jae;Park, Chun-Deuk
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2009
  • Ir-192 radiation sealed sources are widely employed to the therapeutic applications as well as the non-destructive testing. Production of Ir-192 sources requires a delicate but robust welding technique because it is employed in a high radioactive working environment. A GTA(Gas Tungsten Arc) welding technique is currently well established for this purpose. However, this welding method requires a frequent replacement of the electrode, which results in the delay of the production to take a preparatory action such as to isolate the radiation sources from the working place before getting access to the welding machine. Hence, a resistance welding technique is considered as an alternative method of the GTA welding technique. The advantages of resistance welding are high welding speed and high-rate production. Also it has very long life of electrode comparing to GTA welding. In this study, the resistance welding system and proper welding conditions were established for sealing Ir-192 source capsule. As a results of various experiments, it showed that electrode displacement can be employed as a indicator to predict welding quality. We proposed two mathematical models(linear and curvilinear) to estimate electrode displacement with process parameters such as applied force, welding current and welding time by using regression analysis method. Predicting results of both linear and curvilinear model were relatively good agreement with experiment.

Development and Trials of an Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 'ISiMI' (소형무인잠수정(AUV) 이심이의 개발 및 시험)

  • Jun, Bong-Huan;Park, Jin-Yeong;Lee, Pan-Mook;Lee, Fill-Youb;Lee, Jong-Moo;Oh, Jun-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.347-350
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    • 2006
  • Maritime and Ocean Engineering Research Institute (MOERI), a branch of KORDI, has designed and manufactured a model of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named ISiMI(Integrated Submergible for Intelligent Mission Implementation). ISiMI is an AUV platform to satisfy the various needs of experimental test required for development of challenging technologies newly investigated in the field of underwater robot; control and navigational algorithms and software architectures. The main design goal of ISiMI AUV is downsizing which will reduce substantially the operating cost compared to other vehicles previously developed in KORDI such as VORAM or DUSAUV. As a result of design and manufacturing process, ISiMI is implemented to be 1.2m in length, 0.17m in diameter and weigh 20 kg in air. A series of tank test is conducted to verify the basic functions of ISiMI in the Ocean Engineering Basin of MOERI, which includes manual control with R/F link, auto depth, auto heading control and a final approach control for underwater docking. This paper describes the implementation of ISiMI system and the experimental results to verify the function of ISiMi as a test-bed AUV platform.

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Verification on the Effectiveness of Emotional Leadership of Branch Managers on Organizational Performance in Contracted Foodservice Company - Through the Construction of a Structural Equation Model - (구조 방정식 모형 구축을 통한 단체급식업체 점장의 감성리더십이 조직성과에 미치는 효과성 검증)

  • Jung, Hyun-Young;Kim, Hyun-Ah;Yang, Il-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.109-120
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    • 2007
  • The purposes of this study were to provide evidence concerning the effects of Emotional Leadership and examine the impacts of Emotional Leadership on employee-related variables which were 'job satisfaction', 'organizational commitment', 'organizational performance', 'turnover intention'. A survey was conducted from August 23 to November 3, 2005 to collect data from kitchen staff(N=611). Statistical analyses were completed using SPSS Win(12.0) for descriptive analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis, t-test, correlation analysis, cluster analysis and AMOS(5.0) for structural equation modeling. Kitchen staffs gave high point to their leader in the Emotional Leadership competence 'Optimism: seeing the upside in events' and 'Adaptability: flexibility in handing change' and gave lower point in the Emotional Leadership competence 'Inspirational leadership: guiding and motivating with compelling vision'. Employees' job satisfaction on 'coworker' were relatively high. However, the extents of satisfaction on 'payroll', 'promotion', 'work environment' were relatively low. The organizational commitment score was higher at 'loyalty' factor than 'commitment' factor. the test of hypothesis using structural equation modeling found that Emotional Leadership produced positive effects on job attitude and job performance. In conclusion, this study has identified that the Emotional Leadership effects on their organizational performance and attitudes toward their job.

Hesa-A Improves Clinical Outcome of Oral Carcinoma by Affecting p53 Gene Expression in vivo

  • Abbasi, Mehran Mesgari;Helli, Sanaz;Monfaredan, Amir;Jahanban-Esfahlan, Rana
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.4169-4172
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    • 2015
  • Background: Oral carcinoma (OC) remains as one of the most difficult malignancies to cure. Hesa-A is an Iranian herbal-marine compound that has shown promising anti-tumor properties on various human cancer cells, although the mechanisms of action remain to be addressed. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of two doses of Hesa-A on mRNA expression of p53 as a main prognosticator of OC. Materials and Methods: 60 rats were randomly divided into 5 groups of 12 animals each. Rats in carcinoma groups received 0, 250 and 500 mg/kg body weight of Hesa-A three times a day. The two other groups considered as treated and untreated healthy groups. At the end of experiment, animals were sacrificed and tongue tissues subjected to H and E staining and real time PCR. Results: Our results indicated that compared to healthy group, p53 over expressed ~ 40% in untreated carcinoma group. After treatment with 250mg/kg and 500mg/kg body weights of Hesa-A, p53 level dropped by 53.4% and 13.6 %, respectively, compared to untreated carcinoma group (p<0.05, p<0.0001). Moreover, there was a significant relation between p53 mRNA content and observed pathological changes in studied groups (p<0.05). Conclusions: These data provide insights into the mechanism(s) by which Hesa-A improves clinical outcome of oral carcinoma by modulation of p53 expression.

Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Economic Traits in Korean Native Chickens

  • Sang, Byung Don;Kong, Hong Sik;Kim, Hak Kyu;Choi, Chul Hwan;Kim, Si Dong;Cho, Yong Min;Sang, Byung Chan;Lee, Jun Heon;Jeon, Gwang Joo;Lee, Hak Kyo
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.319-323
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    • 2006
  • Heritabilities and genetic correlations of economic traits were estimated with a multiple-trait animal model on 5 different strains of Korea Native Chickens (KNC): Red Brown (RB), Yellow Brown (YB), Gray Brown (GB), Black (B) and White (W). The data used for this study were collected from the Daejeon branch of the National Livestock Research Institute and included 11,233 performance records and 12,729 individual animals. DFREML and SAS BASE/STAT packages were used to estimate genetic parameters and descriptive statistics. The estimated heritabilities for strain RB, YB, GB, B and W, respectively, for age at 1st egg were 0.24, 0.27, 0.12, 0.32 and 0.18; for body weight at first egg were 0.39, 0.43, 0.38, 0.52 and 0.57; for body weight at age of 270 days were 0.43, 0.51, 0.30, 0.52 and 0.67; for egg weight at first egg were 0.08, 0.13, 0.07, 0.06 and 0.07; for egg weight at age of 270 days were 0.37, 0.43, 0.22, 0.34 and 0.41; and for number of eggs laid by age of 270 days were 0.24, 0.25, 0.37, 0.36 and 0.30. The genetic and phenotypic correlations were also estimated.