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Trend in utilization of Global Navigation Satellite System for diseases and E-health (질병 및 E-health에 대한 위성항법시스템 활용 동향)

  • Tae-Yun Kim;Jung-Min Joo;Jeong-Hyun Hwang;Suk-Seung Hwang
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.545-554
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    • 2023
  • In modern industry, the Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS) is utilized in various fields, where PNT information (P: Positioning, N: Navigation, T: Timing) is always provided and the accurate location estimation based on PNT information is required. In particular, in order to prevent the infection and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic situation that began in 2019, the precise GNSS technology and various supporting techniques have been used, and, with active quarantine and efforts for the infection spread restrain around the world, we are facing the transition to an endemic situation. In fields of disease and E-health, the location information of users is absolutely necessary to track and monitor infectionous diseases and provide remote medical services, and GNSS plays a leading role in providing the accurate location information. This paper presents investigation results on the up-to-date research trends in which GNSS technologies are employed in the field of disease and E-health, and analyzes the results.

Blue-Light Hazards of 405 nm Sterilization LED Lamps (405 nm 살균용 UV LED 등기구의 청색광 위해에 관한 연구)

  • Hyeon-seok Heo;Chung-hyeok Kim;Ki-ho Nam;Jin-sa Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.266-274
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    • 2023
  • Recently, sterilization technology has received increasing interest due to the COVID-19 pandemic and required safety precautions. Particularly, sterilization devices using near ultraviolet (UV) with a 405 nm wavelength are also drawing attention. It has a UV-C wavelength and other sterilization effects. Its blue-colored light on the boundary between UV and visible light is used as a light-emitting diode (LED) lamp for 405 nm sterilization, owing to its longer wavelengths than UV rays. However, the 405 nm wavelength contains blue light that can damage the eyes and skin during prolonged exposures and affect the emotional and biological parts of the body. Currently, 405 nm sterilization LED light registers are circulating in the market. However, they have not undergone safety tests for blue-light hazards. Thus, with the active distribution of sterilization LED lights, solid safety standards and management systems are essential to protect users from blue-light hazards. Accordingly, in this study, we conducted spectral radiance and spectral radiative luminance tests on 405 nm sterilization LED registers available in the market by the measurement criteria of IEC 62471. Safety standards must be established to secure users' safety against blue light hazards at a time when 405nm sterilization LED lights are actively distributed due to COVID-19.

Design and Application of App-Inventor-Software Class using Artificial Intelligence (인공지능을 활용한 앱인벤터 소프트웨어 교육 수업 설계 및 적용)

  • Park, Mi Hee;Hu, Kyeong
    • 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2021.08a
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2021
  • This study requires SW education that can adapt to the advent of the fourth industrial revolution and the new normal environment of COVID-19 pandemic. Small and powerful smartphones, which have become a necessity in digital society, are designed and applied to create apps with useful apps or artificial intelligence modules that have been trained with data using the App Inventor program as a good teaching tool. After conducting the class in a blended method that combines face-to-face and non-face methods, the survey questioned the technical and cognitive maturity of artificial intelligence and the pros and cons of blended software classes. We also found changes in career orientation, which is intended to explore SW-related talent occupations that require a lot of demand in terms of national development before and after artificial intelligence classes. Significant results were reached in three of the sub-elements. Even in non-face-to-face situations, it is expected that an app vendor software education program using artificial intelligence will be provided to the actual site.

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Demand Forecast For Empty Containers Using MLP (MLP를 이용한 공컨테이너 수요예측)

  • DongYun Kim;SunHo Bang;Jiyoung Jang;KwangSup Shin
    • The Journal of Bigdata
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.85-98
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    • 2021
  • The pandemic of COVID-19 further promoted the imbalance in the volume of imports and exports among countries using containers, which worsened the shortage of empty containers. Since it is important to secure as many empty containers as the appropriate demand for stable and efficient port operation, measures to predict demand for empty containers using various techniques have been studied so far. However, it was based on long-term forecasts on a monthly or annual basis rather than demand forecasts that could be used directly by ports and shipping companies. In this study, a daily and weekly prediction method using an actual artificial neural network is presented. In details, the demand forecasting model has been developed using multi-layer perceptron and multiple linear regression model. In order to overcome the limitation from the lack of data, it was manipulated considering the business process between the loaded container and empty container, which the fully-loaded container is converted to the empty container. From the result of numerical experiment, it has been developed the practically applicable forecasting model, even though it could not show the perfect accuracy.

Development of a Resort's Cross-selling Prediction Model and Its Interpretation using SHAP (리조트 교차판매 예측모형 개발 및 SHAP을 이용한 해석)

  • Boram Kang;Hyunchul Ahn
    • The Journal of Bigdata
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.195-204
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    • 2022
  • The tourism industry is facing a crisis due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and it is vital to improving profitability to overcome it. In situations such as COVID-19, it would be more efficient to sell additional products other than guest rooms to customers who have visited to increase the unit price rather than adopting an aggressive sales strategy to increase room occupancy to increase profits. Previous tourism studies have used machine learning techniques for demand forecasting, but there have been few studies on cross-selling forecasting. Also, in a broader sense, a resort is the same accommodation industry as a hotel. However, there is no study specialized in the resort industry, which is operated based on a membership system and has facilities suitable for lodging and cooking. Therefore, in this study, we propose a cross-selling prediction model using various machine learning techniques with an actual resort company's accommodation data. In addition, by applying the explainable artificial intelligence XAI(eXplainable AI) technique, we intend to interpret what factors affect cross-selling and confirm how they affect cross-selling through empirical analysis.

The Impact of the U.S.-China Trade Dispute on the Global Supply Chain (미·중 무역분쟁이 글로벌 공급망에 미친 영향)

  • KIM DONGHO;GUO KESI
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.285-294
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    • 2023
  • The trade dispute between China and the U.S. began before Corona and is easing at this time by bringing new changes to the pendemic, and the development of the Chinese manufacturing industry has increased interdependence between the U.S. and China. However, the overall global trade should be less than before pendemic, and Korea's response strategy should be made serious at this time.However, new changes are taking place again these days. With the recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Shanghai, China, new changes are expected to occur in China's industrial chain. As the Chinese government strictly creates quarantine figures for COVID-19, many factories and companies among industries are forced to close for a while. As economic globalization and division of labor continue to deepen, multinationals choose suppliers and industrial chains within the world to form a global supply chain structure to pursue cost minimization and profit maximization. China is an indispensable part. Whether it is China, the U.S. or Korea, it can be a risk and an opportunity now.

A Study on Academic Self-efficacy, Sleep Quality and Quality of Life of Nursing Students in the COVID-19 Situation (코로나19 상황에서 간호대학생의 학업적 자기효능감, 수면의 질, 삶의 질에 관한 연구)

  • Keyoung-Im Lee;Seung-Mi Kim
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.259-268
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    • 2023
  • Purpose : This descriptive research study aimed to investigate the relationship among academic self-efficacy, sleep quality, and quality of life(QoL) and to identify the factors that affect quality of life(QoL) in nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method : A total of 214 nursing students from three South Korean colleges were included in the study. Collected data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. Independent t-test and one-way analysis of variance were used to analyze the differences in academic self-efficacy, sleep quality, and quality of life(QoL) according to general characteristics. In addition, post-hoc Scheffè test and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used to examine the relationship among the three parameters. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was conducted to identify influential factors on the nursing students' quality of life(QoL). Results : The average academic self-efficacy, sleep quality, and quality of life(QoL) scores were 3.15±0.27, 32.28±7.54, and 81.12±13.11, respectively. Quality of life(QoL) positively correlated with academic self-efficacy but negatively correlated with sleep quality. Academic self-efficacy negatively correlated with sleep quality. Sleep quality, satisfaction with major, sex, average income, and academic self-efficacy influenced quality of life(QoL), whose explanatory power was 34.9 %. Conclusion : Sleep quality was the most influential factor of quality of life(QoL). However, further studies to validate our findings and studies focusing on developing intervention programs to improve nursing students' sleep quality and quality of life(QoL) are warranted.

A study on Data Service for Travel Programs based on the Broadcasting Environment of Domestic Satellite Broadcaster (국내 위성방송사의 방송 환경을 기반한 여행 프로그램 데이터서비스에 관한 연구)

  • Kwangil KO
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2023
  • Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the broadcasting industry has been greatly affected, to the extent that the footprint of travel programs has disappeared. Although travel programs have been back on the air since 2022, there remains a task of recovering the stagnant desire for travel. Based on a study that travel programs have a positive impact on viewers' travel intentions, this study examined a data service that provides preferred additional information on travel programs, considering the broadcasting environment of satellite broadcasters that transmit multiple travel programs through various channels. Specifically, preferred additional information was investigated for travel programs of various genres and formats, and a feature model based on FODA was designed to be used when the satellite broadcaster decides the data service configuration. In addition, the necessary information for operating the data service was defined based on the feature model, and a method of transmitting it using the DVB-S SI, a domestic satellite broadcasting standard, was devised. The feasibility of this study was also confirmed using a DVB-MHP based data service prototype.

Reshaping the FDI Network in the Global Economic Environment (글로벌 경제 환경과 해외직접투자 네트워크의 공간적 재편)

  • Kisoon Hyun
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.256-273
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    • 2023
  • This study analyzed the structural changes in the global foreign direct investment (FDI) network using stock data from the International Monetary Fund's Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS) for 2009~2021. The results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the FDI links between countries and the activities of reciprocal relationships. The United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom consistently play central roles in the global FDI network. The degree centrality of China has changed significantly over time in confronting the volatile situation of the world economy. Cross-tabulation analysis revealed a significant association between FDI clusters and geographic regions. Within each cluster, the linkage structure of FDI partners of closely connected individual countries has exhibited differential characteristics as the global economic environment changes.

A OTT content data analysis technique on a PC environment (PC 환경에서의 OTT 콘텐츠 데이터 분석 방법)

  • Chanwoo Lee;Junyoung Heo
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.62-67
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    • 2024
  • Due to technological advancements in viewing devices and the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of OTT-only content is being produced and distributed as people shift from traditional movie theater viewing and broadcasters' fixed TV viewing to free-form OTT viewing using wired and wireless internet. As a result, the ability to leverage data from OTT audiences has become critical to the competitiveness of the industry. However, third parties other than OTT content providers are facing difficulties in acquiring OTT viewer data. In this paper, as a way to overcome the shortcomings of existing viewer data acquisition, we propose a method to extract audio and video data by developing an OTT viewing data acquisition agent using Web APIs by adopting a web browser environment that does not affect the performance of OS and viewing devices, so that third-party companies that need viewing data can utilize it.