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Bottleneck-Free Architecture of A High Speed Printer (고속프린터의 병목 없는 구조)

  • Lee, Kang-Woo
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.11A no.3
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    • pp.115-128
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    • 2004
  • The proliferation of Information Technology and Business Automation become the mainstay of the growth of world printer market. Especially the demand for high speed printers increases drastically as the need for printing service station in networked computing environment grows. However outstanding research activities are seldom reported. Only efforts are currently focused on the printing quality and development of application programs for low or midium speed printers. This stimulates the research for high-speed printers. In this paper, we first defined the architectural components of high-speed printers so that the performance requirements can be satisfied. The individual impacts of each module on overall throughput are then elaborately analysed. Based on this result, we accomplished well-tuned system architecture which presents up to 163.52 PPM. Another contribution of this paper can be found in that this is one of the first articles that deal with the architecture and the performance of high-speed printers.

Fatigue Life Evaluation of Butt-Welded Tubular Joints

  • Kim, Dong-Su;Nho, In-Sik
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.34-39
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    • 2003
  • Recent deepwater offshore structures in the Gulf of Mexico utilize butt welded tubular joints. Application of a welded tubular joint includes tendons, production risers, and steel catenary risers. Fatigue life assessment of these joints becomes more critical, as the structures to which they are attached are allowed to undergo cyclic and sometimes large displacements around an anchored position. Estimation of the fatigue behavior of these tubular members in the design stage is generally condrcted by using S-N curves, as specified in the codeds and standards. Applying the stress concentration factor of the welded structure to the S-N approach often results in a very conservative assessment, because the stress field acting on the tubular has a non-uniform distribution through the thickness. Fatigue life analysis using fracture mechanics has been applied in the design of the catenary risers. This technology enables the engineer to establish proper requirements on weld quality and inspection acceptance criteria to assure satisfactory structural integrity during its design life. It also provides guidance on proper design curves and a methodology for accounting for the effects of non-uniform stress distribution through the wall thickness. Still, there is inconsistency when designing tubular joints using a conventional S-N approach and when specifying weld flaw acceptance criteria using fracture mechanics approach. This study developed fatigue curves that are consistent with both the S-N approach and the fracture mechanics approach. Accounting for non-uniform stress distribution and threshold stress intensity factor were key parameters in relating both approaches. A series of S-N curves, generated from the fracture mechanics approach, were compared to the existing S-N curves. For flat plate butt joint, the S-N curve generated from fracture mechanics matches with the IIW class 100 curve when initial crack depth was 0.5 mm (0.02 ). The new curves for tubular joint agree very well with the experimental results. The comparison also indicated the degree of conservatism built into the API X design curve.

A Study on an innovative model of qualification based on NCS within cooperate (NCS 기반 사업 내 자격 혁신모형에 관한 연구)

  • Joo, Kang Seok;Jeong, seon Jeong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.553-556
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    • 2018
  • This study proposes a 'NCS-based corporate qualification system for elementary and maintenance tasks manual' applicable to industry in order to establish standards for corporate qualification system which perform education and evaluation for industry-specialized technic, and for corporate qualification system which practice structured training for corporate specialized tasks to reflect the demand of industries' on-site training more precisely, and set up standardized policy and process manuals within various corporations in order to improve credibility and objectivity. Prior research has focused on on-site visits to companies and institutes in Japan that employ corporate qualification systems. Research analyses on current practices, structures and outcomes of qualification systems, online, and 1:1 interviews with administrators responsible for qualification systems, which lead to simulate the qualification system for elementary and maintenance tasks model of NCS and corporate, and establish NCS based corporate qualification for elementary and maintenance system manual, and suggested recommendation to promote this standard manual for use by analyzing current practices.

A Study on the Evaluation of Treatment Conditions of the Nursing Homes based on the Characteristics of the Elderly - Focusing on the Municipal Nursing Homes in Seoul - (노인특성을 고려한 노인요양시설 치유환경평가에 관한 연구 - 서울 시립 노인요양시설을 중심으로 -)

  • Song, Hyo-Ju;Choi, Sang-Hun
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2009
  • Population of senior citizens in Korea has been on the increase rapidly through decrease in population by falling birth rate and extension the average life span by development of medical technology and improving people's standard of living. As the booming population of senior citizens, it has appeared to problems of the elderly such as protection, health and supporting and welfare facilities for the elderly have increased there but it leaves something to be desired at plan and improvement of qualitative environment which the elderly's living space. It attaches importance to valuate about nursing homes such as management, quality of service, manufacture of physical environment and so on, so it is required to consider the elderly's emotion on environmental valuation. Healing environment that is a important fact of indoor environment operates powerfully upon the nursing homes as well as general medical facilities. It needs to healing environment for the elderly's physical health and mental stable life, we should know importance of healing environment that affects the elderly's health and life. The elderly have experienced physical, mental, and social changes with advancing years. The people who use the nursing homes are the elderly. We should find fact of healing environment as the elderly's characteristics and have to find healing environment that gives aid to the elderly's health in the nursing homes. In care for the elderly is not house care, it has focused on the elderly's health for improving their life and leading comfortable life.

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Trend Analysis of the Research on Bee Venom Acupuncture in South Korea, Based on Published Articles

  • Han, Chang Hyun;Lee, Yong Seok;Sung, Soo Hyun;Lee, Bong Hyo;Shin, Hwa Young;Lee, Young Joon
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.80-103
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    • 2015
  • Background: This study investigated current research trends in bee venom acupuncture in Korea. Materials and methods: The literature in Korea was reviewed using the search engines Science and Technology Society Village, Korean Studies Information Service System, National Discovery for Science Leaders, and Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System. The keywords searched were "bee venom," "apitoxin," "apitherapy," and "bee sting." We selected 412 studies, which included Korean literary studies, experimental studies, and clinical studies. Results: We classified them by publication year, research type, disease and topic, and quality assessment. Among bee venom-related studies, clinical studies (235 studies) outnumbered experimental studies (149 studies) and literary studies (28 studies). Nineteen experimental studies concentrated on the theme of "anticancer." In the type analysis of clinical studies, lumbar disorders comprised 45 of 235 studies, followed by the effect on body. Forty-two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been published from 2003 to date (2015). Twenty-two studies used appropriate randomization methods. Fourteen studies had a Jadad score of 4-5 points; 15 studies, 1-3 points; and 13 studies, 0 points. Conclusions: Bee venom treatment is based on Korean traditional medicine theory. Numerous research studies suggest its effectiveness. Effort and academic approach on bee venom are expected to receive a positive evaluation.

Seamless and Robust Vehicular MIPv6: VMIPv6 for Vehicular Ad hoc Network (자동차 무선 네트워크 환경에서 연속적이고 견고한 IPv6기반의 이동성 프로토콜)

  • Oh, Ha-Young;Kim, Chong-Kwon
    • Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.122-134
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    • 2010
  • With the rapidly increasing demand of traffic applications, the need to support seamless and robust multimedia services in the Vehicular Ad hoc Network is growing. Fast handover for the MIPv6 (FMIPv6) developed to solve the MIPv6's problem as well as Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) for basic mobility protocol have been developed to support seamless handover in mobile environment. However, MIPv6 and FMIPv6 are useless for Quality-of-Service (QoS) services such as multimedia applications due to the long handover latency and the packet loss problem. In this paper, we propose a seamless and robust handover scheme that supports multimedia services in Vehicular Ad hoc Network using oCoA and background DAD. Through performance evaluation, we show that the proposed scheme is more proper for Vehicular Ad hoc Network than other schemes.

Design and Implementation of Automatic Scoring Software to improve the Efficiency of Driving License Test (운전면허시험 효율성 향상을 위한 자동채점 소프트웨어 설계 및 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Cheol Woo;Yang, Jaesoo;Na, Wonshik
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.180-189
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    • 2017
  • Some people who take a driver's license test retake it again because of license cancellation, but most of them take the test for the first time to drive the car. Driving a car is directly linked to life, and the initial correct driving habits are more important than anything else. In particular, it is very important to obtain a license by evaluating the correct driving ability based on objective and fair standards when learning the first driving, because many people acquire a driving license while entering the society for the first time. In this paper, we propose the S / W design and its main functions that can emit high quality drivers through efficient, fair and accurate automated scoring. Through this, it is proposed to improve the automatic grading driver's license system, to prevent traffic accidents, and to reduce traffic accidents through proper driving.

The Performance Experiments on the Tactical Data Communication over the Legacy Radio Systems (기존 전술 무전기를 이용한 전술 데이터 통신 성능 실험)

  • Sim, Dong-Sub;Kang, Kyeong-Sung;Kim, Ki-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.243-251
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    • 2010
  • The military has been putting great efforts into applying data communication on existing voice communication systems being used in NCW(Network Centric Warfare). Data communication will be an effective choice in one of many effort to yield a minimum kill chain, comparing to legacy voice communications, when tactical units conduct their missions. However, the required budget will be enormous, in case of the replacement of a lot of legacy communication systems with new one. As a cost-effective alternative, the tactical data communication systems using the conventional radio systems instead of the development of new radio systems has been proposed. It is mandatory, though, to ensure QoS while maintaining data communication by making use of legacy radio systems already in use. This paper focuses on the performance issues experimented and analyzed for tactical data communication through the legacy radio systems as the first step towards guaranteed QoS. We have conducted various experiments such as the transmission error rate on certain tactical messages, performance evaluation of redundant transfers, the relationship between the transmission frame size and rate of error, the identification of error points in the transmission frame, and techniques to reduce the errors in both hopping and non-hopping modes. As a result of the performance experiments, The adaptive communication module which decides the redundant transmission or the Forward Error Correction(FEC) technique by analyzing channel status and current transmission status(hopping/non-hopping) of the legacy radio should be designed. the FEC technique in non-hopping, and the redundant transmission technique in hopping mode was recommended from the result of experiment with the frame size is 20bytes in non-hopping and 10Bytes frame size in hopping mode.

Evaluation and Analysis on the Characteristics of Use and Space of Rural Housing Environment according to Universal Design (유니버설디자인 관점에 따른 농촌지역 주거환경의 공간 및 사용 특성의 평가 분석)

  • Choi, Ryung;Byun, Hea-Ryun
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.369-374
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    • 2008
  • In the 21st century, universal design has started to expand as new design value system for the diversity and various need of user: a new design that can reflects the welfare of the society. In addition, the percentage of population over 65 years old has been rising rapidly in Korea, and we are expected to reach 'aged society' with 14.3% of elderly population in 2018. In rural districts, population of the elderly has already reached 'super-aged society' with over 20%. With the rapid increase of the number of the elderly, the need for social service system is rising. For the independent living of the elderly, the dwelling space that supports their lifestyle is the most important factor. In advanced countries, they have proposed the housing for the elderly to keep living in their house, improvement of housing quality that fits the changing various needs of them. Until now, however, the most housing condition that the elderly has lived is poor living environment as below housing standards, especially housing in rural districts is very poor. The purpose of this study was to extract issue of housing in the rural districts in terms of universal design concept and reflecting the cultural and living characteristics of rural districts. With this, additionally, this study make understood about the necessity and important of universal design housing to reflect the characteristics of rural districts. For this study, data were collected from field survey and interview. The major results showed the following. 1) There were very various type of housing in rural districts. Spatial composition and shape was not related to living behavior and cultural characteristics of rural district. 2) The most new constructed housing was similar to urban housing type. It means that housing with respect to living culture of users in rural district must be developed. 3) In rural housing, they all had outdoor building (included storehouse, bathroom/toilet, kitchenet, etc.) relating to a series of work behavior. However, living environment was not to meet needs and characteristics of users.

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Evaluating The Validity of the Contents of the Separation of Prescribing and Dispensing roles Policy (의약분업 정책내용의 타당성 평가)

  • Lee, Sun-Hee;Jung, Sang-Hyuk;Lee, Hye-Jean;Koh, Kwang-Wook;Park, Si-Woon;Shin, Eui-Chul;Chung, Woo-Jin;Hwang, Jin-Mee
    • Korea Journal of Hospital Management
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.121-148
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    • 2003
  • This study is designed to evaluate the contents of the separation of prescribing and dispensing roles(SPD) policy based on the theoretical backgrounds. The results are as follows; Considering the purpose of SPD policy, 'increasing the efficiency in manpower management by separating the role of medical doctor and pharmacist and improving the quality of SPD service through specialization of function' as a policy objective is valid and very important agenda in health care. But the objectives are not working well by no keeping the detail means to actualize it. Also, some policy objectives are unclear or inappropriate and it makes the focus of that policy obscure or misleads inadequate policy alternatives. In terms of means of policy, it is evaluated to have some limits in effectiveness, efficiency, equity, rationality, technical feasibility, economic feasibility, administrative feasibility, social and time feasibility. In conclusion, it's necessary to investigate the some problem mentioned in this paper with empirical evidence. Also, it should be needed to improve the validity of policy by correcting policy objectives and means in execution of policy.

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