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A Study on the Technological and Environmental Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Beacon Based Indoor Positioning System (기술적, 환경적 요소에 따른 비콘 기반 실내 측위 정확도 변화연구)

  • Byeon, Tae-Woo;Jang, Seong-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2016
  • Indoor location system has been used Wi-Fi to get a location. After the development of BLE(Bluetooth Low Energy), the interest in the method of a indoor positioning had been move on. It has more advantages than using Wi-Fi. Easy installation, low power consumption, low signal interference and changeable setting(Advertising interval, tx power, etc.). These things can improve efficiency or accuracy in a indoor positioning system. For this reason, recent indoor positioning system uses BLE rather than Wi-Fi. Accordingly, error factors of BLE beacon based indoor positioning should be studying for high accuracy of indoor positioning. In this research, set up few experiment scenarios and keep a close watch on how technological, environmental factor is affecting positioning accuracy. When a application uses largest signal strength to get the indoor location, the mean error of experimental results was decreased compare to using received signal strength in real-time. The result was same when the application applied average and standard deviation to get the indoor location. Changing advertising interval had an effect on the mean error of indoor positioning. Short advertising interval makes the lower mean error than large advertising interval.

Coupled Finite Element Analysis of Partially Saturated Soil Slope Stability (유한요소 연계해석을 이용한 불포화 토사사면 안전성 평가)

  • Kim, Jae-Hong;Lim, Jae-Seong;Park, Seong-Wan
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.35-45
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    • 2014
  • Limit equilibrium methods of slope stability analysis have been widely adopted mainly due to their simplicity and applicability. However, the conventional methods may not give reliable and convincing results for various geological conditions such as nonhomogeneous and anisotropic soils. Also, they do not take into account soil slope history nor the initial state of stress, for example excavation or fill placement. In contrast to the limit equilibrium analysis, the analysis of deformation and stress distribution by finite element method can deal with the complex loading sequence and the growth of inelastic zone with time. This paper proposes a technique to determine the critical slip surface as well as to calculate the factor of safety for shallow failure on partially saturated soil slope. Based on the effective stress field in finite element analysis, all stresses are estimated at each Gaussian point of elements. The search strategy for a noncircular critical slip surface along weak points is appropriate for rainfall-induced shallow slope failure. The change of unit weight by seepage force has an effect on the horizontal and vertical displacements on the soil slope. The Drucker-Prager failure criterion was adopted for stress-strain relation to calculate coupling hydraulic and mechanical behavior of the partially saturated soil slope.

A Study on Performance Creation through Open Innovation with Corporate Environments (기업의 환경과 개방형 혁신을 통한 성과 창출에 대한 연구)

  • Seo, Yong-Mo;Hyun, Byung-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.81-91
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    • 2019
  • This study empirically examines the relationship between the characteristics of a company and its performance through open innovation. It was intended to accept open innovation as a strategic means to overcome various situations in which companies faced and to understand it as a process of generating corporate performance. In various situations, companies must overcome environmental and internal factors. As an environmental factor, the dynamics of the market and the dynamics of technology allow for the adoption of open innovation, which in turn becomes a strategic tool for generating results. In addition, the internal environment of the company should strengthen the organization's capacity considering the characteristics of the company. In order to reinforce entrepreneurial orientation, openness of organizational culture, delegation and R & D capabilities, which are internal characteristics of the company, open innovation has a positive effect on the performance of the company. In overcoming the environment given to the company, open innovation was found to be an important medium for generating various results for the company. For this study, we conducted a structured questionnaire survey on 176 Korean companies. This study suggests that open innovation is strategically accepted and understood as a management strategic philosophy in order to overcome the environment in which a company is faced and generate results.

Effect of Some Variation Factors on Dissipation of Tebuconazole in Grape (포도 중 Tebuconazole의 잔류성에 미치는 몇 가지 변동요인의 영향)

  • Han, Seong-Soo;Lo, Seog-Cho;Ma, Sang-Yong
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.142-147
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    • 2004
  • Dissipation pattern of tebuconazole was evaluated by establishing application methods of the fungicide, paper-bagging of grape during growth and washing of grape after harvest. Application times increased from three to five resulted in high levels of residues in grape. Tebuconazole in grapes was present in different residual patterns with periods after final treatment ranging from 7 to 25 days. Significant differences in the residual patterns were also found when tebuconazole was treated during three different application periods, possibly due to meteorological condition and/or grape growth during each period. At the range from 2.5 g to 7.5 g of grape granules, residues were higher in small-sized grape than in big-sized grape and were mostly distributed on the peel of the grapes. Paper-bagging was a critical factor for reducing the fungicide residue on the peel. flesh of bagged and no-bagged grape had very low level of residues, 0.01 mg/kg and 0.05 mg/kg, respectively. Residues on grape was effectively eliminated with the washing methods suggested, a consecutive sinking-washing system Using of detergent solution during washing showed maximum residue reduction from grape. The washing methods showed effective action on the removal of lower content providing complete elimination, or almost, of the residues.

Evaluation of Spalling Property and Water Vapor Pressure of Concrete with Heating Rate (가열 속도에 따른 콘크리트의 폭렬 특성 및 내부 수증기압력 평가)

  • Choe, Gyeong-Cheol;Lee, Tae-Gyu;Nam, Jeong-Soo;Park, Byung-Keun;Kim, Gyu-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.605-612
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    • 2012
  • Spalling of concrete occurs due to vapor pressure ignited explosion, temperature difference across a section, and combination of these factors. Factors affecting spalling can be classified into internal and external factors such as material property and environmental condition, respectively, have to be considered to precisely understand spalling behavior. An external environmental factor such as differences in heating rate cause internal humidity cohesion and different vapor pressure behavior. Therefore, spalling property, vapor pressure and thermal strain property were measured from concrete with compressive strengths of 30 MPa, 50 MPa, 70 MPa, 90 MPa, and 110 MPa, applied with ISO-834 standard heating curve of $1^{\circ}C/min$ heating rate. The experimental results showed that spalling occurred when rapid heating condition was applied. Also, when concrete strength was higher, the more cross section loss from spalling occurred. Also, spalling property is influenced by first pressure cancellation effect of thermal expansion caused by vapor pressure and heating rates.

Reparability and Surgical Indications of Rotator Cuff Tears (회전근 개 파열의 봉합 가능성 및 수술 적응증)

  • Ko, Sang-Hun;Park, Han-Chang;Lee, Seon-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Arthroscopy Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.92-97
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: The reparability of rotator cuff tears is very important to establish the indication of the surgical treatment of rotator cuff tears. We reviewed the factors that effect to reparability of rotator cuff tears, and considered about the surgical indication of rotator cuff tears. Materials and Methods: The reparability was considered by the surgical reparability and the postoperative healing potentials of rotator cuff. The natural history of rotator cuff tear gives us the information to make decision about the surgical treatment or the conservative treatment. Results: There are 3 general categories of factors that help predict the healing potential of a rotator cuff tear. These include surgical technique, biology, and environmental issues. Surgeon can control the surgical technique by himself. The control of biology comes from careful operative indications by age, acute trauma history, chronicity, and tear size. And the control of environmental factor can give better outcomes by cessation of smoking and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Conclusion: A better understanding of the natural history and the reparability of rotator cuff tear will help us to estabilish the indication of surgical treatement of rotoator cuff tears, and lead to satisfactory clinical outcomes.

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Effect of Bordeaux Mixture on Control of Rice Leaf Blast (벼 유기재배에서 석회보르도액을 이용한 벼 잎도열병 방제 효과)

  • Kang, Beom-Ryong;Kim, Seon-Gon;Kim, Do-Ik;Lee, Yong-Hwan;Choi, Kyong-Ju;Choi, Yong-Soo
    • Research in Plant Disease
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.182-186
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    • 2008
  • Recently organic farming practice of rice has been emerged in Korea, but one of the major limiting factor is the no effective environmental-friendly agro-materials to control major plant diseases. Bordeaux mixture has been used effectively as a preventive agro-chemical. The aim of this study was to investigate efficacy of Bordeanux mixture on control of rice blast caused by Magnaporthe grisea which is one of the disruptive rice diseases in world-wide. In greenhouse experiment, pre-treatment of 6-6 type of Bordeaux mixture before inoculation of spore suspension of M. grasea showed 71 % of control value. In field experiment, preventive applications of 4-8 and 6-6 types of Bordeaux mixture showed over 71 % of the control value. Chemical injury on rice leaves were not found in the application concentrations of all types of Bordeaux mixture, but observed in applications of Bordeaux mixtures between 30 and 100 diluted concentrations. This results indicate Bordeaux mixture can be used as an effective environmental-friendly agro-chemical to control rice blast disease in the field.

Influence of Melatonin on Reproductive Function in Male Golden Hamsters (수컷 골든 햄스터의 생식기능에 미치는 멜라토닌의 영향)

  • Choi, Don-Chan
    • Development and Reproduction
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2001
  • Golden hamsters show the reproductive activity that is determined by the photoperiod (length of light per day). Photoperiod is an environmental factor that is predictable through an entire year. The hamsters are sexually active in summer during which day length exceeds night time. The critical length is at least 12.5 hours of light in a day where reproductive function is maintained. The information of photoperiod is mediated by the pineal gland because removal of pineal gland blocks the influence of photoperiod on reproductive activity. The hamsters without pineal gland maintain sexual activity and promote it in a situation that suppresses gonadal activity. The pineal gland secretes melatonin that reflects the photoperiod. The appropriate administrations of melatonin into both pineal intact and pinealectomized hamsters lead to a gonadal reression. The results suggest that melatonin constitutes a part of control mechanism whereby environmental information is transduced to neuroendocrine signal respensible for the functional integrity of the reproductive system. Despite of the intense studies, the action site of melatonin is on the whole unknown. It is mainly due to the lack of acute efffct of melatonin on the secretion of reproductive hormones. However, sexually regressed animals display the low levelsof gonadotropins and the augmentation of the hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) content, implying that the antigonadotropic effects either by photoperiod and/or by the treatment of melatonin are mediated by the GnRH neuronal system. The action mechanism by which melatonin exerts its effect on GnRH neuron needs to be investigated. Recent cloning of melatonin receptor will contribute to examine various and putative potencies of melatonin via its anatomical identification and the action mechanism of melatonin on target tissues at the molecular level.

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Analytical Solution for Transient Groundwater Flow in Vertical Cutoff Walls : Application of Slug Test and Evaluation of Hydraulic Conductivity (연직차수벽의 비정상 지하수 흐름에 대한 이론해 : 순간변위시험(slug test) 적용과 투수계수 산정)

  • Lim, Jee-Hee;Lee, Dong-Seop;Nguyen, The Bao;Choi, Hang-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.28 no.11
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    • pp.17-31
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    • 2012
  • No analytical solution exists for evaluating in-situ hydraulic conductivity of vertical cutoff walls by analyzing slug test results with consideration of transient flow. There is an analytical solution proposed to interpret a slug test performed in a partially penetrated well within an aquifer. However, this analytical solution cannot be directly applied to the cutoff wall because the solution has been developed exclusively for an infinite aquifer instead of a narrow cutoff wall. To consider the cutoff wall boundary conditions (i.e, constant head boundary and no flux boundary condition), the analytical solution has been modified in this study to take into account the narrow boundaries by introducing the imaginary well theory. Type curves are constructed from the currently derived analytical solution and compared with those of a partially penetrated well within an aquifer. The constant head boundary condition provides faster hydraulic head recovery curve than the aquifer case. On the other hand, no flux boundary condition leads to slower hydraulic head recovery. The bigger the shape factor and deviation of the well and the smaller the width of the vertical cutoff wall are, the more effect of boundary condition was observed. The type curves obtained from the analytical solution for a cutoff wall are similar to those made by the numerical method in the literature.

Study on job satisfaction and organizational commitment between regular and irregular workers of Distribution Companies (유통업체 정규직 / 비정규직의 직무만족과 조직몰입에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hee-Phil;Kim, Hong
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.89-123
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    • 2008
  • This study has the purpose to research on the actual conditions of discriminative treatment between regular and irregular work and find what kind of environment factors can effect on the job-satisfaction, organizational commitments. Especially, this study has addressed to improvement of conditions for irregular work and researched the difference factors between regular and irregular workers's job-satisfaction, organizational commitment, and employment - environmental. For the data collection, a total of 400 questionnaires were distributed for survey, 195 responses were available for statistical analysis. This questionnaires were sent to the distribution companies that has a variety type of employment as regular and irregular worker in Seoul province by e-mail and direct way. And SPSS 12.0(ver.) was used to analyze the data. The main results were as the following; First, the human relationship and the normative commitment were statistically different between regular and irregular work in the part of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Second, income were important to improve the satisfaction of job environment and personnel policy and the normative commitment. Corporation welfare were important for the satisfaction of human relationship, job environment and personnel policy, normative commitment affective commitment and continuous commitment. Stability of employment were important to improve the satisfaction of human relationship and job environment, normative commitment and affective commitment.

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