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The Effects of Seismic Failure Correlations on the Probabilistic Seismic Safety Assessments of Nuclear Power Plants (지진 손상 상관성이 플랜트의 확률론적 지진 안전성 평가에 미치는 영향)

  • Eem, Seunghyun;Kwag, Shinyoung;Choi, In-Kil;Jeon, Bub-Gyu;Park, Dong-Uk
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2021
  • Nuclear power plant's safety against seismic events is evaluated as risk values by probabilistic seismic safety assessment. The risk values vary by the seismic failure correlation between the structures, systems, and components (SSCs). However, most probabilistic seismic safety assessments idealized the seismic failure correlation between the SSCs as entirely dependent or independent. Such a consideration results in an inaccurate assessment result not reflecting real physical phenomenon. A nuclear power plant's seismic risk should be calculated with the appropriate seismic failure correlation coefficient between the SSCs for a reasonable outcome. An accident scenario that has an enormous impact on a nuclear power plant's seismic risk was selected. Moreover, the probabilistic seismic response analyses of a nuclear power plant were performed to derive appropriate seismic failure correlations between SSCs. Based on the analysis results, the seismic failure correlation coefficient between SSCs was derived, and the seismic fragility curve and core damage frequency of the loss of essential power event were calculated. Results were compared with the seismic fragility and core damage frequency of assuming the seismic failure correlations between SSCs were independent and entirely dependent.

The Effects of Corrective Hip Joint Exercises and Foot Orthotics on RCSP, Ankle's Range of Motion, and Core Muscle Strength for Middle School Students with Pes Planus (편평족 중학생의 고관절 교정 운동 프로그램과 발교정구 착용 유무가 안정시 종골 기립 각도, 발목의 가동범위, 코어 근력에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Nam-Hee;Yi, Kyung-Ock
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.401-412
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    • 2015
  • Objective : The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of hip joint exercises and orthotics on RCSP, ankle's range of motion, and core muscle strength of middle school students with pes planus. Method : Out of the original pool of 200 students, 60 students with pes planus (RCSP < -2) were selected for the study. The selected 60 students were then divided into four groups. The first group was a combined orthotics and exercise group (12 students), the second was the orthotics-only group (9 students), the third was the exercise-only group (8 students), and the last was the control group (10 students). Exercise groups worked out twice a week for 60 minutes per session over 8 weeks. The independent variables were corrective hip joint exercises and orthotics. The dependant variables consisted of kinematic and kinetic variables. The kinematic variables were RCSP, and ankle's range of motion (dorsiflexion and plantarflexion). The kinetic variables were muscles forces that consist in core muscle strength, which are hip joint adduction, abduction, and flexion muscles forces. Statistical analysis was performed via SPSS 18.0 with multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and a paired t-test was used. Results : The left foot was more responsive to the treatments, both exercise and orthotics, than the right foot. RCSP improved significantly in the left foot for the first and third groups. Only the first group significantly improved hip joint adduction, abduction, and flexion muscles' strengths. As for the ankle's range of motion of the left foot, plantarflexion showed improvement when treated with exercise, orthotics, or both. Conclusion : This study found that exercise is more effective in correcting RCSP and foot orthotics is more effective in reinforcing core muscle strength. Future studies should expand on these results to examine the relationship between the ankle, hip, and pelvis.

A Study on Emotional Characteristics with the CoreSeven-Emotions Inventory (CSEI), Based on Seven Emotions (七情) in Cancer Patients (암 환자의 핵심칠정척도를 활용한 정서적 특성 연구)

  • You, So-Jung;Son, Sung-Eun;Kang, Hyung-Won;Lyu, Yeoung-Su
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.119-130
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    • 2016
  • Objectives The Purpose of this study was to conduct a characteristic study on cancer patients using the Core Seven Emotions Inventory (CSEI) followed by a correlation analysis with STAI, STAXI and BDI.Methods This study was conducted by analyzing the medical records of 21 patients who had visited ○○ University Oriental hospital and completed the Core Seven Emotions Inventory (CSEI), BAI, and BDI. A total of 21 patients diagnosed with Cancer were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science, IBM, United States of America, Version 22.0). Frequency Analysis, independent t-test, one-sample t-test, and correlation analysis were conducted.Results 1. The Seven Emotion Characteristics of the Cancer patients showed a fairly stable emotional Distribution. The Gong (恐) and Kyeong (驚) emotions were relatively higher than U (憂), Bi (悲), Sa (思), Hui (喜), No (怒). 2. According to Gender, Female patients exhibited higher Sa (思) and Kyeong (驚) emotions while male patients exhibited higher Bi (悲) Emotion. 3. No (怒), U (憂), Bi (悲), Sa (思), Gong (恐), and Kyeong (驚) emotions showed a high correlation with the BDI and BAI scores of cancer patients.

A Study on an Analysis of Core Information Literacy Competencies for Information Literacy Instruction of Undergraduate Students in Design Discipline (디자인분야 대학생의 정보문해 교육을 위한 핵심 정보문해능력 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sun-Hi
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.23 no.1 s.59
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    • pp.5-39
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    • 2006
  • Design discipline requires more specialized and sophisticated information literacy competencies necessary to effectively find and apply the information that students need for their teaming and the future independent designer than are outlined in general information literacy competencies. Therefore, The goals of this study is to identify specific information literacy competencies within the Design Discipline. This research analyzed design-specific core information literacy competencies through the literature analysis on the design goals & curriculum of four domestic universities and the NASAD standards & guidelines and verified those by Delphi Survey. The result showed that design discipline requires commonly 26 specific core competencies in seven broad categories and the these competencies are related to the time for information literacy Instruction. Also, The result analyzed that such majors in design as product design, visual design, need additionally more specialized and detailed competencies with specific focus and that design discipline requires commonly the information literacy competencies about general studies & fundamental ability.

A Code-level Parallelization Methodology to Enhance Interactivity of Smartphone Entertainment Applications (스마트폰 엔터테인먼트 애플리케이션의 상호작용성 개선을 위한 코드 수준 병렬화 방법론)

  • Kim, Byung-Cheol
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.381-390
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    • 2015
  • One of the fundamental requirements of entertainment applications is interactivity with users. The mobile device such as the smartphone, however, does not guarantee it due to the limit of the application processor's computing power, memory size and available electric power of the battery. This paper proposes a methodology to boost responsiveness of interactive applications by taking advantage of the parallel architecture of mobile devices which, for instance, have dual-core, quad-core or octa-core. To harness the multi-core architecture, it exploits the POSIX thread, a platform-independent thread library to be able to be used in various mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, etc. As a useful application example of the methodology, a heavy matrix calculation function was transformed to a parallelized version which showed around 2.5 ~ 3 times faster than the original version in a real-world usage environment.

Design of DCT/IDCT Core Processor using Module Generator Technique (모듈생성 기법을 이용한 DCT/IDCT 코어 프로세서의 설계)

  • 황준하;한택돈
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.1433-1443
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    • 1993
  • DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) / IDCT(Inverse DCT) is widely used in various image compression and decompression systems as well as in DSP(Digital Signal Processing) applications. Since DCT/ IDCT is one of the most complicated part of the compression system, the performance of the system can be greatly enchanced by improving the speed of DCT/IDCT operation. In this thesis, we designed a DCT/IDCT core processor using module generator technique. By utilizing the partial sum and DA(Distributed Arithmetic) techniques, the DCT/ IDCT core processor is designed within small area. It is also designed to perform the IDCT(Inverse DCT) operation with little additional circuitry. The pipeline structure of the core processor enables the high performance, and the high accuracy of the DCT/IDCT operation is obtained by having fewer rounding stages. The proposed design is independent of design rules, and the number of the input bits and the accuracy of the internal calculation coa be easily adjusted due to the module generator technique. The accuracy of the processor satisfies the specifications in CCITT recommendation H, 261.

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A Characteristic Study of Panic Disorder Patients Based on The Core Emotional Assessmental Questionnaire (CEAQ) (한의학 칠정(七情)에 기반을 둔 핵심감정평가척도를 이용한 공황장애 환자의 특성 연구)

  • You, So-Jung;Park, Jong-Min;Kang, Hyung-Won;Lyu, Yeoung-Su
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.235-250
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: The purpose was to conduct a characteristic study on panic disorder patients through The Core Emotional Assessmental Questionnaire (CEAQ), followed by a correlation analysis with STAI, STAXI and BDI. Methods: We analyzed medical records of 62 patients who had visited ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$ University hospital, oriental neuropsychiatric department and completed the The Core Emotional Assessmental Questionnaire (CEAQ), STAI, STAXI, and BDI. Finally, 20 patients who were diagnosed as Panic Disorder according to DSM-V (2013) were included in the study. Patient data was analyzed by Chi-Square test, frequency analysis, independent t-test, one-sample t-test, and correlation analysis using the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social S 21.0 Version). Results: 1. Panic disorder patients experienced less Hui, and more Sa (思), Gong (恐), Kyeong (驚), and Bi (悲). 2. Female Panic disorder patients experienced more Hui (喜), as compared to male patients; whereas, male patients experienced more No (怒). 3. U (憂), Bi (悲), Sa (思), Gong (恐), and Kyeong (驚) emotions of Panic disorder patients were correlated to STAI-S, STAI-T, and BDI.

A Study on Development of Non-Powered Horse Riding Device for Enhancement of Core Muscle (코어근육군 강화를 위한 무동력 승마운동기구개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Young-Tae;Kwon, Moon-Seok
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.353-361
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    • 2015
  • Objective : The aim of this study was to develop the non-powered horse riding device and was to evaluate the elaborate its applicability throughout static structural and transient structural analysis of the outdoor core strength exercise equipment. Method : Fifteen college students (mass: $69.55{\pm}13.38kg$, height: $1.69{\pm}5.61m$, age: $21.42{\pm}1.83yrs$) rode the powered horse riding device and 14 college students (mass: $71.12{\pm}9.74kg$, height: $1.73{\pm}3.31m$, age: $22.50{\pm}1.47yrs$) rode the non-powered horse riding device for the comparison. All motion capture data was collected at 100 Hz using six infrared cameras and the muscular activities were collected using a Delsys Trigno wireless system. The peak forward/backward lean angle, range of motion anter/posterior and vertical COM(Center of mass) movement of trunk and pelvis segment, and muscle activities of six muscles were compared between the two devices by using independent t-test (p<.05). Results : Several kinematic variables (peak forward-backward lean angle and vertical COM movement of trunk and pelvis segment, range of motion of trunk) significantly different between non-powered and powered horse riding device. The muscle activities of Rectus abdominis and External oblique of abdomen on the non-powered horse riding device were significantly greater than those of the powered device. Conclusion : It was concluded that non-power horse riding device could give the effect of core strength exercise as well as the body motion which can simulate the powered horse riding device.

Multi-Secondary Transformer: A Modeling Technique for Simulation - II

  • Patel, A.;Singh, N.P.;Gupta, L.N.;Raval, B.;Oza, K.;Thakar, A.;Parmar, D.;Dhola, H.;Dave, R.;Gupta, V.;Gajjar, S.;Patel, P.J.;Baruah, U.K.
    • Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.78-82
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    • 2014
  • Power Transformers with more than one secondary winding are not uncommon in industrial applications. But new classes of applications where very large number of independent secondaries are used are becoming popular in controlled converters for medium and high voltage applications. Cascade H-bridge medium voltage drives and Pulse Step Modulation (PSM) based high voltage power supplies are such applications. Regulated high voltage power supplies (Fig. 1) with 35-100 kV, 5-10 MW output range with very fast dynamics (${\mu}S$ order) uses such transformers. Such power supplies are widely used in fusion research. Here series connection of isolated voltage sources with conventional switching semiconductor devices is achieved by large number of separate transformers or by single unit of multi-secondary transformer. Naturally, a transformer having numbers of secondary windings (~40) on single core is the preferred solution due to space and cost considerations. For design and simulation analysis of such a power supply, the model of a multi-secondary transformer poses special problem to any circuit analysis software as many simulation softwares provide transformer models with limited number (3-6) of secondary windings. Multi-Secondary transformer models with 3 different schemes are available. A comparison of test results from a practical Multi-secondary transformer with a simulation model using magnetic component is found to describe the behavior closer to observed test results. Earlier models assumed magnetising inductance in a linear loss less core model although in actual it is saturable core made-up of CRGO steel laminations. This article discusses a more detailed representation of flux coupled magnetic model with saturable core properties to simulate actual transformers very close to its observed parameters in test and actual usage.

A Philological Research on the Way of Medical Study of ShangHanLun (『상한론(傷寒論)』의 의학연구방식에 대한 문헌학적 고찰)

  • Lee, Soong-In
    • Herbal Formula Science
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2014
  • Objectives : ShangHanLun is a clinical guideline, and its core is in the part of Six-meridian Diseases. In recent philological sutdies, independent textual analysis of Shanghanlun is essential to define the scope of research. Methods : By the textual study, I defined the Shanghanlun clinic model. And I researched about medical range of Shanghanlun, and relations between Shanghanlun and JinGuiYaoLue, and between Shanghanlun and Huangdineijing. Results : In six topic sentences, the word '-之爲' means 'a process'. In provisions following topic sentences, the word '者' means 'a person'. So Shanghanlun is describing processing factors of Six-meridian Diseases and related human changes with clinical therapy. In the philological studies, meaning of '傷寒' was possibly just the 3rd provision of the greater yang disease part. Practically Shanghanlun's study range is over the concept of Cold damage today. Additionally Jinguiyaolue deals diseases, but Shanghanlun deals human. Gangpyeong-Shanghanlun's phrases can be separated into five part, and oldest part is independent of Huangdineijing. Conclusions : So we need to set a new and independent clinic model of Shanghanlun to verify it. The Shanghanlun's clinic model has a 3 steps. 1st step is to find 6 type defined symptoms, which act as processing factors of Six-meridian Diseases. 2nd step is to confirm a human changes after a Disease appeared. 3rd step is to treat a patient as a provision suggests. Philologically Shanghanlun's clinic range is not limited by the word '傷寒'. And many concepts in Shanghanlun should be independent of Huangdineijing.