• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.371-391
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• 2014

A long-drawn out debate in the field of technology is whether it is value-neutral or value-laden. While some have argued that this debate has been resolved given the increasingly accepted view that technology is socially constructed, this is still not reflected in mainstream research which still assumes that technology is neutral. What is clear is that both views tend to be linked to studies that primarily focus on explicit forms of technology such as technological designs and their usage. These studies, though significant, may be limited in terms of an underemphasis on the process by which these technologies emerge, a process that requires decision-making activities made by different stakeholders and thus involves value judgments. In order to understand the extent of value-neutrality or value-ladenness of technologies, therefore, it is important to examine not only the final outcomes but also the process involved in technological development (including the artifacts created and used). In this study, we explored how values may be embedded in a specific IT application, and in cases of conflict of values, how they are prioritized. We did this in the context of applications development through an examination of the stages ranging from requirements analysis to coding to testing and deployment.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.68-73
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• 2013

In recent years, the developments in 3D technologies have initiated the commercialization of 3D services on mobile devices. For this purpose, stereoscopic 3D technology is used, which enables 3D TV on mobile devices including smartphone with glasses-free 3D viewing. As a result, the issues related with stereo imaging have been spotlighted greatly. Especially, three MPEG coding standards are provided for mobile 3D services, namely H.264/AVC with and without SEI message and H.264/MVC. In this respect, this paper presents an overview of developments in stereoscopic technologies for mobile devices to gain some perspective on the changes and progress. in this paper, we verified the availability of android based stereoscipic 3D technology related with mobile 3D TV and Smartphone with special emphasis on 3D video format and 3D features by various technollogy characteristics analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.709-713
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• 2004

This Paper Presents an Internet-based Java self-learning educational system which consists of a management system named Java Web Player (JWP) and creative multimedia contents fer Java language. The JWP Is a Java application program free from security problems by the Java Web Start technologies that supports an Integrated learning environment including three Important learning Procedures: Java concept learning Process, Programming practice process and assessment process. This JWP enables the learners to achieve efficient and Interesting self-learning since the learning process is designed to enhance the multimedia capabilities on the basis of various educational technologies. On-line voice presentation and its related texts together with moving images are synchronized for efficiently conveying creative contents to learners. Furthermore, a simple and useful compiler is included in the JWP fur providing user-friendly language practice environment enabling such as coding, editing, executing and debugging Java source files on the Web. The assessment process with various items helps the learners not only to increase their academic capability but also to appreciate their current degree of understanding. Finally, simple multiple choices are given suddenly to the learners while they are studying through the JWP and the test results are displayed on the message box. The proposed system can be used for an efficient tool for learning system on the Web.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.2531-2546
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• 2021

For several years, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies have been improving. However, some hurdles remain that slow down the distribution of VR and AR devices, such as head-mounted display (HMD), and related consumer content. One issue is VR motion sickness, which has been experienced by users using 360 degree VR content via HMD. This paper discusses the related international standardization work that classifies the factors causing VR sickness, and proposes the process for VR sickness level evaluation. Among the factors causing VR sickness, many research institutes regard minimizing MTP (Motion-to-Photon) latency as the key enabler to mitigate VR sickness. Thus, this paper introduces research trends of MTP latency measurement and MTP latency mitigation. This paper categorizes the research on MTP latency measurement into 2 categories of hardware-based approach and software code-level approach. The 2 approaches have different pros and cons depending on use-case, purpose, and architecture of each multimedia system. The pros and cons are addressed in this paper. Additionally, the research on mitigating MTP latency with diverse strategies such as proactive computing, caching, and edge server technology is explained, and compared to conventional technologies, shows improved performance.

• Journal of Genetic Medicine
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.39-45
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• 2023

As advanced sequencing technologies continue to uncover an increasing number of variants in genes associated with human genetic diseases, there is a growing demand for systematic approaches to assess the impact of these variants on human development, health, and disease. While in silico analyses have provided valuable insights, it is essential to complement these findings with model organism studies to determine the functional consequences of genetic variants in vivo. Drosophila melanogaster is an excellent genetic model for such functional studies due to its efficient genetic technologies, high gene conservation with humans, accessibility to mutant fly resources, short life cycles, and cost-effectiveness. The traditional GAL4-UAS system, allowing precise control of gene expression through binary regulation, is frequently employed to assess the effects of monoallelic variants. Recombinase medicated cassette exchange or CRISPR-Cas9-mediated GAL4 insertion within coding introns or substitution of gene body with Kozak-Gal4 result in the loss-of-function of the target gene. This GAL4 insertion strategy also enables the expression of reference complementary DNA (cDNA) or cDNA carrying genetic variants under the control of endogenous regulatory cis elements. Furthermore, the CRISPR-Cas9-directed tissue-specific knockout and cDNA rescue system provides the flexibility to investigate candidate variants in a tissue-specific and/or developmental-timing dependent manner. In this review, we will delve into the diverse genetic techniques available in Drosophila and their applications in diagnosing and studying numerous undiagnosed diseases over the past decade.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.902-910
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• 2016

Recently, the volume of mobile data traffic increases exponentially due to the emergence of various mobile services. In order to resolve the problem of mobile traffic increase, various new technologies have been devised. Especially, two-way relay communication in which two nodes can transfer data simultaneously through relay node, has gained lots of interests due to its capability to improve spectral efficiency. In this paper, we analyze the SM-PNC which combines Physical-layer Network Coding (PNC) and Spatial Modulation (SM) under two-way relay communication environment. Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) is considered and both separate decoding and direct decoding have been taken into account in performance analysis. Through performance evaluation, we have found that the bit error rate of the proposed scheme is improved compared to that of the conventional PNC scheme, especially when SNR is high and the number of antennas is large.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.719-728
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• 2007

The cysteine and glycine rich protein 3 (CSRP3), apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide‐like 2(APOBEC2) and caveolin (CAV) gene family(CAV1, CAV2, CAV3) have been reported to play important roles for carcass and meat quality traits in pig, mouse, human and cattle. As an initial step, we investigated SNPs in these 5 genes among eight different cattle breeds. Eighteen primer pairs were designed from bovine sequence data of NCBI database to amplify the partial gene fragments. Sequencing results revealed 9 SNPs in the coding regions of three caveolin genes, 1 SNP in CSRP3 and 3 SNPs in APOBEC2 gene. All the identified SNPs were confirmed by PCR-RFLP. Also, 9 more intronic SNPs were detected in these genes. However, all identified mutations in the coding region do not change amino acid sequence. Allelic distributions were significantly different for 5 SNPs in CAV2, CAV3, CSRP3 and APOBEC2 genes among the eight different breeds. These results gave some clues about the polymorphisms of these genes among the cattle breeds and will be useful for further searches for identifying association between these SNPs and meat quality traits in cattle.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.10 no.3 s.37
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• pp.15-27
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• 1995

멀티미디어에서 비디오의 품질이 향상되고, 디지털 텔레비젼 (ADTV)이나 고선명 텔레비젼(HDTV) 등의 개발에 의해 화면 크기가 증가하면서 이에 어울리는 실감있는 오디오의 전송 및 재생이 요구된다. 따라서 멀티채널 오디오의 도입과 더불어 효율적이고, 경제적인 방법으로 낮은 비트율로 고품질의 멀티채널 오디오를 제공하기 위한 부호화 기술이 필요하게 된다. 최근에 인간의 청각 특성을 고려한 심리음향 모델을 이용한 멀티채널 오디오의 압축 부호화 기술이 MPEG-2 오디오의 국제 표준으로 제정되었다. MPEG-2 오디오 표준은 MPEG-1 오디오 표준을 기초로 하여 현장감을 필요로 하는 오디오를 위해 기본 스테레오 채널외에 중앙채널, 서라운드 채널, 그리고 저주파 효과채널을 부가한 방식으로 다채널, 음성다중 등의 부가서비스를 제공하기에 적합하다. 본고에서는 MPEG-2 오디오 표준의 계층 II를 중심으로 한 표준의 특징, 알고리즘, 데이터 구조, 그리고 응용분야 등에 대해 기술한다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.1211-1214
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• 1998

Real-time implementation of Conjugate-Structure Algebraic CELP(CS-ACELP) is presented. ITU-T Study Group(SG) 15 has standardized the CS-ACELP speech coding algorithm as G.729. A real-time implementation of the CS-ACELP is achieved using 16 bit fixed point DSP16210 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) of Lucent Technologies. The speech coder has been implemented in the bit-exact manner using the fixed point CS-ACELP C source which is the part of the G.729 standard. To provide a multi-channel vocoder solution to digital communication system, we try to minimize the complexity(e.g., MIPS, ROM, RAM) of CS-ACELP. Our speech coder shows 15.5 MIPS in performance which enables 4 channel CS-ACELP to be processed with one DSP16210.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.19 no.3 s.87
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• pp.84-95
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• 2004

홈 네트워크, 기업의 무선 네트워크 그리고 핫스폿 등과 같은 다양한 환경이 가능하면서 무선 LAN 기술 및 무선 LAN 제품에 대한 요구는 더욱더 증가하고 있으며, 기존 제품과의 호환성을 바탕으로 고속으로 무선 데이터 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 차세대 무선 LAN 기술에 대한 관심이 집중되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재 표준화가 진행중인 IEEE 802.11n의 차세대 무선 LAN 기술에 있어 주요하게 언급되고 있는 MAC 프로토콜 및 전송방식들에 대하여 소개한다. IEEE 802.11n은 IEEE 802.11e에서 논의중인 EDCA 및 HCCA를 기반으로 QoS를 보장하고 고속의 무선 LAN 서비스를 지원하기 위해 보다 개선된 MAC 프로토콜의 요구사항을 정의하여 물리계층의 관점에서 MIMO, spatial division multiplexing, space-time block coding 등과 같은 다중 안테나 방안을 고려하고 있다. 또한 주파수의 효율을 증가시키는 방식, 대역폭을 증가하는 방식 그리고 적응 변조를 적용하는 방식 등을 차세대 무선 LAN 전송 방식으로 논의하고 있다.