• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.7207-7213
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• 2013

Background: Despite the efficacy of regular mammograms, the incidence and mortality rate of breast cancer have been increasing in China. Insufficient studies on the factors affecting mammography adherence in Chinese married women have been conducted. The purpose of the present study was to explore the factors associated with adherence to guidelines for regular mammography among Chinese married women. Materials and Methods: The participants were recruited conveniently and included Chinese and Korean Chinese women who were married, living at Yanbian City in China. Demographic information, status regarding eight risk factors of breast cancer, health responsibility, and perceived benefits/barriers of mammography were obtained. Descriptive analyses, t-test, and multivariate analysis were performed. Hierarchical logistic regression was conducted to explore the factors associated with regular mammography adherence in Chinese and Korean Chinese subgroups. Results: About 24% of the sample population was adherent in going for regular mammography. The adherent group was significantly more educated, had more children, and had a lower proportion experiencing early menarche and a greater menopausal proportion than the non-adherent group. The final model using logistic regression analysis showed that being Chinese [OR=2.199 (1.224-3.951)], having no or one child [OR=4.879 (1.835-12.976)], early menarche [OR=3.515 (1.057-11.694)], being menopausal [OR=3.120 (0.965-10.088)], aged 40-49 [OR=2.374 (1.099-5.124)], having low education [OR=0.400 (0.211-0.765)], and perceiving greater benefits in doing mammography [OR=1.080 (1.014-1.151)] were significantly associated with mammography adherence, after controlling for covariates. Conclusions: Sociocultural sensitive intervention for minorities should be emphasized when improving the adherence of regular mammography. Intervention tailored for women with lower education should be delivered and the benefits of mammography should be propagated to women in rural areas of China.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 AAM(Active Appearance Model)과 가버 특징 벡터를 이용한 얼굴 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 가버 특징 벡터를 사용하는 대표적인 얼굴 인식 알고리즘인 EBGM(Elastic Bunch Graph Matching)은 가버 특징 벡터를 추출하기 위해 얼굴 특징점들의 검출을 필요로 한다. 그런데, EBGM에서 사용되는 얼굴 특징점 검출 방법은 가버젯 유사도에 기반하는데 이는 초기점에 민감하다. 잘못된 특징점 검출은 얼굴 인식에 영향을 미친다. AAM은 얼굴 특징점 검출에 효과적인 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 AAM으로 얼굴 특징점들을 대략적으로 추정하고 추정된 특징점들을 초기점으로 하여 가버젯 유사도 기반 특징점 검출방법으로 특징점 검출을 정교화하는 얼굴 특징점 검출 방법과 이에 기반한 얼굴 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 제안된 특징점 검출 방법을 사용한 얼굴 인식 시스템이 EBGM과 같이 기존 가버젯 유사도만의 얼굴 특징점 검출을 이용한 얼굴 인식 시스템보다 더 나은 성능 개선을 보임을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.457-467
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• 2015

최근 전세가격 상승과 저금리 저성장 시대에도 불구하고 금융 및 보험업의 산업 생산지수는 전 산업생산지수 대비 지속적으로 상승폭을 유지하면서 일반적인 상식에 반하는 현상이 나타나고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 금융업 산업생산지수와 전세가격 상승의 동태적 상관관계를 분석함으로써 전세가격 상승이 금융업 산업생산지수에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석하고자 했다. 이를 위해 전세가격지수와 거시경제 변수인 전 산업생산지수, 금융 및 보험업 생산지수의 변수를 정의하고, 공적분 관계가 없는 벡터자기회귀모형(VAR)을 이용하여 연구를 진행하였다. 2000년 1월부터 2015년 5월말까지 총 183개월의 시계열 데이터 분석결과 전세가격상승이 직접적으로 금융업 생산지수에 인과 관계를 나타내지는 않았으나 금융업 산업생산지수의 상승이 전세가격 상승에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 곧 전세가격의 구조적 변화와 주택금융의 관계 분석을 통해 실질적인 주택 관련 정책이 금융산업에 직접적인 영향을 줄 수 있음을 시사한다.

• Advances in Energy Research
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

The green microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtti is well-known specie in the terms of $H_2$ production by photo fermentation and has been studying for a long time. Although the $H_2$ production yield is promising; there are some bottlenecks to enhance the yield and efficiency to focus on a well-designed, sustainable production and also scaling up for further studies. D1 protein of photosystem II (PSII) plays an important role in photosystem damage repair and related to $H_2$ production. Because Chlamydomonas is the model algae and the genetic basis is well-studied; metabolic engineering tools are intended to use for enhanced production. Mutations are focused on D1 protein which aims long-lasting hydrogen production by blocking the PSII repair system thus $O_2$ sensitive hydrogenases catalysis hydrogen production for a longer period of time under anaerobic and sulfur deprived conditions. Chlamydomonas CC124 as control strain and D1 mutant strains(D240, D239-40 and D240-41)are cultured photomixotrophically at $80{\mu}mol\;photons\;m^{-2}s^{-1}$, by two sides. Cells are grown in TAP medium as aerobic stage for culture growth; in logarithmic phase cells are transferred from aerobic to an anaerobic and sulfur deprived TAP- S medium and 12 mg/L initial chlorophyll content for $H_2$ production which is monitored by the water columns and later detected by Gas Chromatography. Total produced hydrogen was $82{\pm}10$, $180{\pm}20$, $196{\pm}20$, $290{\pm}30mL$ for CC124, D240, D239-40, D240-41, respectively. $H_2$ production rates for mutant strains was $1.3{\pm}0.5mL/L.h$ meanwhile CC124 showed 2-3 fold lower rate as $0.57{\pm}0.2mL/L.h$. Hydrogen production period was $5{\pm}2days$ for CC124 and mutants showed a longer production time for $9{\pm}2days$. It is seen from the results that $H_2$ productions for mutant strains have a significant effect in terms of productivity, yield and production time.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2017

UFMC(Universal Filtered Multi Carrier)는 새로운 종류의 다중 반송파 전송 기술로 OFDM을 대체하는 것을 목표로 하고 있는 5세대 무선 통신 시스템의 하나이다. 이것은 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation)과 FBMC(Filter Bank Multi Carrier)의 장점을 결합하고 주요한 단점은 피한 두 시스템의 일반화된 모델이라 할 수 있다. UFMC는 기존의 CP-OFDM(Cyclic Prefix-OFDM)에 비해 시간-주파수 불일치와 같은 동기화 조건에 대하여 비교적 강인한 특징을 갖는다. 또한 5G 시스템 M2M(Machine to Machine) 전송과 같이 burst uplink 전송에 적합하다. 이 논문에서 우리는 다양한 채널 상황과 이동속도의 변화에 따른 UFMC의 BER(Bit Error Rate)성능 변화에 대하여 분석 하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 모바일 장치의 이동 속도가 높을수록 낮은 BER성능을 확인 할 수 있었고 채널 상황이 좋을수록 속도에 대하여 민감하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.1011-1015
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• 2014

Octadecyl-modified graphene (graphene-C18) was fabricated and used as adsorbent in hollow fiber liquid phase microextraction (HF-LPME) for the first time. The extraction performance of graphene-C18 reinforced HF-LPME was evaluated using chlorophenols as model analytes. The factors affecting the extraction efficiency, such as extraction time, pH of the sample solution, agitation rate, the concentration of graphene-C18 and salt addition were optimized. After the graphene-C18 reinforced HF-LPME of the chlorophenols from honey sample, the analytes were separated and determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. The linearity was observed in the range of 5.0-200.0 ng $g^{-1}$ for 2-chlorophenol and 3-chlorophenol, and 2.0-200.0 ng $g^{-1}$ for 2,3-dichlorophenol and 3,4-dichlorophenol, respectively. The limits of detection (S/N = 3) of the method were lower than 1.5 ng $g^{-1}$. The recoveries of the method were between 88% and 108%. The method is simple, sensitive and has been resoundingly applied to analysis of chlorophenols in honey samples.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2008

사회가 발전함에 따라 삶의 질에 대한 촉구는 나날이 증가하고 있다. 방수공사는 이러한 삶의 질과 직결되는 공종임에도 불구하고, 미연에 하자발생을 방지하기 위한 사전대책보다는 사후관리에 중점을 두고 있어 하자발생률이 높게 나타나고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 사전대책을 고려한 LCC 분석모델을 개발하고, 각 대안별 생애주기비용을 비교 분석함으로써 사전대책의 필요성을 살펴보고자 하였다. 선행연구 및 전문가 면담을 통해 하자의 발생을 줄일 수 있는 사전대책을 제시하였고, 이에 따른 각 대안별 비용항목의 민감도 분석을 통해 가장 경제성이 있는 최적안을 도출하였다. 사전대책을 실시하는 경우 초기투자비용이 추가 발생하지만 하자발생 후 전면 보수 시 발생하는 재투자비는 절감되므로, 궁극적으로 생애주기비용 측면에서 절감되는 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제60권5호
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• pp.69-80
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• 2018

This study investigated climate change influences over crop water requirement (CWR) and irrigation water requirement (IWR) of the wheat-rice cropping system of Upper Chenab Canal (UCC) command in Punjab Province, Pakistan. PRECIS simulated delta-change climate projections under the A1B scenario were used to project future climate during two-time slices: 2030s (2021-2050) and 2060s (2051-2080) against baseline climatology (1980-2010). CROPWAT model was used to simulate future CWRs and IWRs of the crops. Projections suggested that future climate of the study area would be much hotter than the baseline period with minor rainfall increments. The probable temperature rise increased CWRs and IWRs for both the crops. Wheat CWR was more sensitive to climate-induced temperature variations than rice. However, projected winter/wheat seasonal rainfall increments were satisfactorily higher to compensate for the elevated wheat CWRs; but predicted increments in summer/rice seasonal rainfalls were not enough to complement change rate of the rice CWRs. Thus, predicted wheat IWRs displayed a marginal and rice IWRs displayed a substantial rise. This suggested that future wheat production might withstand the climatic influences by end of the 2030s, but would not sustain the 2060s climatic conditions; whereas, the rice might not be able to bear the future climate-change impacts even by end of the 2030s. In conclusion, the temperature during the winter season and rainfall during the summer season were important climate variables controlling water requirements and crop production in the study area.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1492-1512
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• 2011

Due to multiple hops, mobility and time-varying channel, supporting delay sensitive real-time traffic in wireless local area network-based (WLAN) mesh networks is a challenging task. In particular for real-time traffic subject to medium access control (MAC) layer control overhead, such as preamble, carrier sense waiting time and the random backoff period, the performance of real-time flows will be degraded greatly. In order to support real-time traffic, an efficient adaptive packet scheduling (APS) scheme is proposed, which aims to improve the system performance by guaranteeing inter-class, intra-class service differentiation and adaptively adjusting the packet length. APS classifies incoming packets by the IEEE 802.11e access class and then queued into a suitable buffer queue. APS employs strict priority service discipline for resource allocation among different service classes to achieve inter-class fairness. By estimating the received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) per bit and current link condition, APS is able to calculate the optimized packet length with bi-dimensional markov MAC model to improve system performance. To achieve the fairness of intra-class, APS also takes maximum tolerable packet delay, transmission requests, and average allocation transmission into consideration to allocate transmission opportunity to the corresponding traffic. Detailed simulation results and comparison with IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) scheme show that the proposed APS scheme is able to effectively provide inter-class and intra-class differentiate services and improve QoS for real-time traffic in terms of throughput, end-to-end delay, packet loss rate and fairness.

• 한국인구학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.41-53
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• 1986

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. One is to investigate the determinants of the demand supply of labor, and another is to project long-term demand and supply of labor. The paper consists of three parts. In the first part, theoretical models and important hypotheses are discussed: for the case of a labor supply model, issues regarding discouraged worker model, permanent wage hypothesis, and relative wage hypothesis are examined and for the case of a demand model, issues regarding estimating an employment demand equation within the framework of an inverted short-run produc- tion function are inspected. Particularly, a theoretical justification for introducing a demographic cohort variable in a labor supply equation is also investigated. In the second part, empirical results of the estimated supply and demand equations are analyzed. Supply equations are specified differently between primary and secondary labor force. That is, for the case of primary labor force groups including males aged 25 and over, attempts are made to explain the variations in participation behavior within the framework of a neo-classical economics oriented permanent wage hypothesis. On the other hand, for the case of females and young male labor force, variations in participation rates are explained in terms of a relative wage hypothesis. In other words, the participation behavior of primary labor force is related to short-rum business fluctuations, while that of secondary labor force is associated with intermediate swings of business cycles and demographic changes in the age structure of population. Some major findings arc summarized as follows. (1) For the case of males aged 14~19 and 2O~24 groups and females aged 14∼19, the effect of schhool enrollment rate is dominant and thus it plays a key role in explaining the recent declining trend of participation rates of these groups. (2) Except for females aged 20∼24, a demographic cohort variable, which captures the impact of changes in the age structure on participation behavior, turns out to show positive and significant coefficients for secondary labor force groups. (3) A cyclical variable produce significant coefficients for prime-age males and females reflecting that as compared to other groups the labor supply behavior of these groups is more closely related to short-run cyclical variations (4) The wage variable, which represents a labor-leisure trade-off turns out to yield significant coefficients only for older age groups (6O and over) for both males and females. This result reveals that unlike the experiences of other higer-income nations, the participation decision of the labor force of our nation is not highly sensitive with respect to wage changes. (5)The estimated result of the employment demand equation displays that given that the level of GNP remains constant the ability of the economy to absord labor force has been declining;that is, the elasticity of GNP with respect to labor absorption decreasre over time. In the third part, the results of long-term projections (for the period of 1986 and 1995) for age-sex specific participation rates are discussed. The participation rate of total males is anticipated to increase slightly, which is contrary to the recent trend of declining participation rates of this group. For the groups aged 25 and below, the participation rates are forecast to decline although the magnitude of decrease is likely to shrink. On the other hand, the participation rate of prime- age males (25 to 59 years old) is predicted to increase slightly during 1985 and 1990. For the case of females, except for 20∼24 and 25∼34 age groups, the participation rates are projected to decrease: the participation rates of 25∼34 age group is likely to remain at its current level, while the participation rate of 20∼24 age group is expected to increase considerably in the future (specifi- cally, from 55% in 1985 to 61% in 1990 and to 69% in 1995). In conclusion, while the number of an excess supply of labor will increase in absolute magnitude, its size as a ratio of total labor force is not likely to increase. However, the age composition of labor force is predicted to change; that is, the proportion of prime-age male and female labor force is projected to increase.