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The Individual Discrimination Location Tracking Technology for Multimodal Interaction at the Exhibition (전시 공간에서 다중 인터랙션을 위한 개인식별 위치 측위 기술 연구)

  • Jung, Hyun-Chul;Kim, Nam-Jin;Choi, Lee-Kwon
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2012
  • After the internet era, we are moving to the ubiquitous society. Nowadays the people are interested in the multimodal interaction technology, which enables audience to naturally interact with the computing environment at the exhibitions such as gallery, museum, and park. Also, there are other attempts to provide additional service based on the location information of the audience, or to improve and deploy interaction between subjects and audience by analyzing the using pattern of the people. In order to provide multimodal interaction service to the audience at the exhibition, it is important to distinguish the individuals and trace their location and route. For the location tracking on the outside, GPS is widely used nowadays. GPS is able to get the real time location of the subjects moving fast, so this is one of the important technologies in the field requiring location tracking service. However, as GPS uses the location tracking method using satellites, the service cannot be used on the inside, because it cannot catch the satellite signal. For this reason, the studies about inside location tracking are going on using very short range communication service such as ZigBee, UWB, RFID, as well as using mobile communication network and wireless lan service. However these technologies have shortcomings in that the audience needs to use additional sensor device and it becomes difficult and expensive as the density of the target area gets higher. In addition, the usual exhibition environment has many obstacles for the network, which makes the performance of the system to fall. Above all these things, the biggest problem is that the interaction method using the devices based on the old technologies cannot provide natural service to the users. Plus the system uses sensor recognition method, so multiple users should equip the devices. Therefore, there is the limitation in the number of the users that can use the system simultaneously. In order to make up for these shortcomings, in this study we suggest a technology that gets the exact location information of the users through the location mapping technology using Wi-Fi and 3d camera of the smartphones. We applied the signal amplitude of access point using wireless lan, to develop inside location tracking system with lower price. AP is cheaper than other devices used in other tracking techniques, and by installing the software to the user's mobile device it can be directly used as the tracking system device. We used the Microsoft Kinect sensor for the 3D Camera. Kinect is equippedwith the function discriminating the depth and human information inside the shooting area. Therefore it is appropriate to extract user's body, vector, and acceleration information with low price. We confirm the location of the audience using the cell ID obtained from the Wi-Fi signal. By using smartphones as the basic device for the location service, we solve the problems of additional tagging device and provide environment that multiple users can get the interaction service simultaneously. 3d cameras located at each cell areas get the exact location and status information of the users. The 3d cameras are connected to the Camera Client, calculate the mapping information aligned to each cells, get the exact information of the users, and get the status and pattern information of the audience. The location mapping technique of Camera Client decreases the error rate that occurs on the inside location service, increases accuracy of individual discrimination in the area through the individual discrimination based on body information, and establishes the foundation of the multimodal interaction technology at the exhibition. Calculated data and information enables the users to get the appropriate interaction service through the main server.

Assessing 3D seismic damage performance of a CFR dam considering various reservoir heights

  • Karalar, Memduh;Cavusli, Murat
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.221-234
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    • 2019
  • Today, many important concrete face rockfill dams (CFRDs) have been built on the world, and some of these important structures are located on the strong seismic regions. In this reason, examination and monitoring of these water construction's seismic behaviour is very important for the safety and future of these dams. In this study, the nonlinear seismic behaviour of Ilısu CFR dam which was built in Turkey in 2017, is investigated for various reservoir water heights taking into account 1995 Kobe near-fault and far-fault ground motions. Three dimensional (3D) finite difference model of the dam is created using the FLAC3D software that is based on the finite difference method. The most suitable mesh range for the 3D model is chosen to achieve the realistic numerical results. Mohr-Coulomb nonlinear material model is used for the rockfill materials and foundation in the seismic analyses. Moreover, Drucker-Prager nonlinear material model is considered for the concrete slab to represent the nonlinearity of the concrete. The dam body, foundation and concrete slab constantly interact during the lifetime of the CFRDs. Therefore, the special interface elements are defined between the dam body-concrete slab and dam body-foundation due to represent the interaction condition in the 3D model. Free field boundary condition that was used rarely for the nonlinear seismic analyses, is considered for the lateral boundaries of the model. In addition, quiet artificial boundary condition that is special boundary condition for the rigid foundation in the earthquake analyses, is used for the bottom of the foundation. The hysteric damping coefficients are separately calculated for all of the materials. These special damping values is defined to the FLAC3D software using the special fish functions to capture the effects of the variation of the modulus and damping ratio with the dynamic shear-strain magnitude. Total 4 different reservoir water heights are taken into account in the seismic analyses. These water heights are empty reservoir, 50 m, 100 m and 130 m (full reservoir), respectively. In the nonlinear seismic analyses, near-fault and far-fault ground motions of 1995 Kobe earthquake are used. According to the numerical analyses, horizontal displacements, vertical displacements and principal stresses for 4 various reservoir water heights are evaluated in detail. Moreover, these results are compared for the near-fault and far-faults earthquakes. The nonlinear seismic analysis results indicate that as the reservoir height increases, the nonlinear seismic behaviour of the dam clearly changes. Each water height has different seismic effects on the earthquake behaviour of Ilısu CFR dam. In addition, it is obviously seen that near-fault earthquakes and far field earthquakes create different nonlinear seismic damages on the nonlinear earthquake behaviour of the dam.

Acupuncture Expands the Boundary of Mind-Body Medicine (침술이 심신의학의 지평을 확장하다)

  • Kim, Jae-Hyo
    • Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.139-147
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    • 2016
  • Purpose : The acupuncture existed more than 2000 years and has flourished not only in Asia but also in medical field of modern world. In addition, empirical evidences from biomedicine have been expended in many ways in order to objectify the field of acupuncture. Thus, the effect and mechanism of the acupuncture has been revealed in human and other animals. In this article, I attempt to explain what doctors and patients subjectively experience through acupuncture treatment and its clinical significance based on mind-body medicine. Methods : The experience and clinical significance of the acupuncture was examined in the view of mind-body medicine, also reviewed research trends related to meditation understanding the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture. Results and Conclusions : Traditional Korean medical doctor perceive generally "jogi " and "chishin " meaning the regulation of the balance of the various functions in the human body and patient's consciousness and psychology state as mightily important concept concerning the therapeutic effect of acupuncture. Despite scientific approach to objective understanding of the acupuncture was performed in the meantime, practitioners put emphasis on experience based on sensate and interaction between doctor-patient. As it reflects the recent understanding of the psychological effects associated with the clinical efficacy of acupuncture, it has been presented one by one through neuroscience and cognitive science. Therefore it is important that interpreting the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture into Mind-body medicine can form a new awareness and attitudes toward traditional medicine.

Effective Valence Shell Hamiltonian Calculations on Spin-Orbit Coupling of SiH, SiH+, and SiH2+

  • Chang, Ye-Won;Sun, Ho-Sung
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.723-727
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    • 2003
  • Recently the ab initio effective valence shell Hamiltonian method $H^v$ has been extended to treat spin-orbit coupling in atoms or molecules. The quasidegenerate many-body perturbation theory based $H^v$ method has an advantage of determining the spin-orbit coupling energies of all valence states for both the neutral species and its ions with a similar accuracy from a single computation of the effective spin-orbit coupling operator. The new spin-orbit $H^v$ method is applied to calculating the fine structure splittings of the valence states of SiH, $SiH^+$, and $SiH^{2+}$ not only to assess the accuracy of the method but also to investigate the spin-orbit interaction of highly excited states of SiH species. The computed spin-orbit splittings for ground states are in good agreement with experiment and the few available ab initio computations. The ordering of fine structure levels of the bound and quasi-bound spin-orbit coupled valence states of SiH and its ions, for which neither experiment nor theory is available, is predicted.

Design and Implementation of a User Activity Auto-recognition System based on Multimodal Sensor in Ubiquitous Computing Environment (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅환경에서의 Multimodal Sensor 기반의 Health care를 위한 사용자 행동 자동인식 시스템 - Multi-Sensor를 이용한 ADL(activities of daily living) 지수 자동 측정 시스템)

  • Byun, Sung-Ho;Jung, Yu-Suk;Kim, Tae-Su;Kim, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Seung-Hwan;Cho, We-Duke
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.02a
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    • pp.21-26
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    • 2009
  • A sensor system capable of automatically recognize activities would allow many potential Ubiquitous applications. This paper presents a new system for recognizing the activities of daily living(ADL) like walking, running, standing, sitting, lying etc. The system based on the state-dependent motion analysis using Tri-Accelerometer and Zigbee tag. Two accelerometers are used for the classification of body and hand activities. Classification of the environment and instrumental activities is performed based on the hand interaction with an object ID using.

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Surface wettability and contact angle analysis by dissipative particle dynamics

  • Lin, Tzung-Han;Shih, Wen-Pin;Chen, Chuin-Shan
    • Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.399-405
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    • 2012
  • A dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulation was presented to analyze surface wettability and contact angles of a droplet on a solid platform. The many-body DPD, capable of modeling vapor-liquid coexistence, was used to resolve the vapor-liquid interface of a droplet. We found a constant density inside a droplet with a transition along the droplet boundary where the density decreased rapidly. The contact angle of a droplet was extracted from the isosurfaces of the density generated by the marching cube and a spline interpolation of 2D cutting planes of the isosurfaces. A wide range of contact angles from $55^{\circ}$ to $165^{\circ}$ predicted by the normalized parameter ($|A_{SL}|/B_{SL}$) were reported. Droplet with the parameters $|A_{SL}|>5.84B{_{SL}}^{0.297}$ was found to be hydrophilic. If $|A_{SL}|$ was much smaller than $5.84B{_{SL}}^{0.297}$, the droplet was found to be superhydrophobic.

Dysregulation of NRF2 in Cancer: from Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities

  • Jung, Byung-Jin;Yoo, Hwan-Sic;Shin, Sooyoung;Park, Young-Joon;Jeon, Sang-Min
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.57-68
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    • 2018
  • Nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (NRF2) plays an important role in redox metabolism and antioxidant defense. Under normal conditions, NRF2 proteins are maintained at very low levels because of their ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation via binding to the kelch-like ECH associated protein 1 (KEAP1)-E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. However, oxidative and/or electrophilic stresses disrupt the KEAP1-NRF2 interaction, which leads to the accumulation and transactivation of NRF2. During recent decades, a growing body of evidence suggests that NRF2 is frequently activated in many types of cancer by multiple mechanisms, including the genetic mutations in the KEAP1-NRF2 pathway. This suggested that NRF2 inhibition is a promising strategy for cancer therapy. Recently, several NRF2 inhibitors have been reported with anti-tumor efficacy. Here, we review the mechanisms whereby NRF2 is dysregulated in cancer and its contribution to the tumor development and radiochemoresistance. In addition, among the NRF2 inhibitors reported so far, we summarize and discuss repurposed NRF2 inhibitors with their potential mechanisms and provide new insights to develop selective NRF2 inhibitors.

Simultaneous Measurement of Wind Pressures and Displacements on Tall Building (풍압과 변위의 동시계측을 통한 고층건물의 공력 특성 평가)

  • Kim, Yong Chul;Lo, Yuan-Lung;Yoon, Sung-Won
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.77-84
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    • 2017
  • Vortex-induced vibration and instability vibration of tall buildings are very important fluid-structure interaction phenomenon, and many fundamental questions concerning the influence of body movement on the unsteady aerodynamic force remain unanswered. For tall buildings, there are two experimental methods to investigate the characteristics of unsteady aerodynamic forces, one is forced vibration method and the other is free vibration method. In the present paper, a free vibration method was used to investigate the unsteady aerodynamic force on tall building whose aspect ratio is 9 under boundary layer simulating city area. Wind pressures on surfaces and tip displacements were measured simultaneously, and the characteristics of tip displacements and generalized forces were discussed. It was found that variation of across-wind displacements showed different trend between the case when wind speed increases and wind speed decreases, and the fluctuating generalize forces in across-wind direction of vibrating model are larger than that of static model near the resonant wind speed and approach to the static value. And for higher wind speed range, there were two peaks in across-wind power spectra of generalize forces of vibrating model, which means that two frequency components are predominant in unsteady aerodynamic forces.

Backbone hydrogen bonding interaction of the inactive isoform of type III antifreeze proteins studied by 1H/15N-HSQC spectra

  • Seo-Ree, Choi;Sung Kuk, Kim;Jaewon, Choi;Joon-Hwa, Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.46-50
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    • 2022
  • Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) bind to the ice crystals and then are able to inhibit the freezing of body fluid at subzero temperatures. Type III AFPs are categorized into three subgroups, QAE1, QAE2, and SP isoforms, based on differences in their isoelectric points. We prepared the QAE2 (AFP11) and SP (AFP6) isoforms of the notched-fin eelpout AFP and their mutant constructs and determined their temperature gradients of amide proton chemical shifts (𝚫δ/𝚫T) using NMR. The nfeAFP11 (QAE2) has the distinct 𝚫δ/𝚫T pattern of the first 310 helix compared to the QAE1 isoforms. The nfeAFP6 (SP) has the deviated 𝚫δ/𝚫T values of many residues, indicating its backbone conformational distortion. The study suggests the distortion in the H-bonding interactions and backbone conformation that is important for TH activities.

Module-type Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Collecting Various Kinetic Energies

  • Sungho, Ji;Youngchul, Chang;Jinhyoung, Park
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.376-382
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    • 2022
  • A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) can obtain electrical output due to the reciprocal motion between two objects (i.e., rubbing), in which repetitive contact is made. High reliability, stable output, and high reproducibility are important aspects of the electrical output obtained through a TENG as a sensor or generator, thus enabling its meaningful use. Therefore, many researchers fabricated TENGs into individual parts in the form of one module type to obtain high reproducibility and reliability. Since a TENG manufactured as a module type operates as a single device, it is possible to collect kinetic energy and convert it into electrical energy through the interaction between internally configured elements without the need for a separate structure. In addition, it is relatively easy to apply the size to the body, machine tools, and natural environment by simply adjusting the size suitable for use and surrounding environmental conditions. In this paper, the application cases of module-type TENGs are divided into four areas, and the research progress of module-type TENGs in each area is extensively reviewed.