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Temperature-responsive bioactive hydrogels based on a multifunctional recombinant elastin-like polymer

  • Santo, Vitor E.;Prieto, Susana;Testera, Ana M.;Arias, Francisco J.;Alonso, Matilde;Mano, Joao F.;Rodriguez-Cabello, Jose Carlos
    • Biomaterials and Biomechanics in Bioengineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.47-59
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    • 2015
  • A bioactive and multifunctional elastin-like polymer (ELP) was produced by genetic engineering techniques to develop new artificial matrices with the ability to mimic the extracellular matrix (ECM). The basic composition of this ELP is a thermo- and pH-sensitive elastin pentapeptide which has been enriched with RGD-containing domains, the RGD loop of fibronectin, for recognition by integrin receptors on their sequence to promote efficient cell attachment. Hydrogels of this RGD-containing polymer were obtained by crosslinking with hexamethylene diisocyanate, a lysine-targeted crosslinker. These materials retain the "smart" nature and temperature-responsive character, and the desired mechanical behavior of the elastin-like polymer family. The influence of the degree of crosslinking on the morphology and properties of the matrices were tested by calorimetric techniques and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Their mechanical behavior was studied by dynamical mechanical analysis (DMA). These results show the potential of these materials in biomedical applications, especially in the development of smart systems for tissue engineering.

Relationships between Wellness, Campus-life satisfaction and Learning Flow among University Students (대학생의 웰니스, 대학생활만족 및 학습몰입과의 관계)

  • Ahn, Hyun-Sook
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.494-502
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of wellness, campus-life satisfaction and learning flow among university students. This Model tests various theoretical research hypotheses relating to Wellness, Campus-Life Satisfaction and, Learning Flow. The proposed model is analyzed to target 214 university students in Daegu using Smart Partial Least Square(PLS) 2.0. The result of hypothesis testing are as follows. First, Spiritual, Intellectual, Social, Emotional wellness positively influenced campus-life satisfaction, but does not significantly influence physical wellness. Second, Campus-life satisfaction positively influenced learning flow. The results of the study empirically shows that university student's wellness meaning the optimal condition increases the campus life satisfaction and has a positive effect on learning flow in a moment. Thus, based on the results of the study, it is needed to make an effort to provide diverse programs to improve university student's wellness for the increase of their campus life satisfaction and learning flow.

A Study on University Students' Use and Assesment with Digital Devices and Services for Realizing Smart Campus (스마트 캠퍼스 실현을 위한 대학생의 디지털 기기/서비스 활용성 및 유용성 조사)

  • Lee, Jin-Myong;Jo, Eun-Bit;Li, Hua-Yu;Rha, Jong-Youn
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.7
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 2017
  • To grasp the current status of smart campus and look for future directions, this study investigated the usage rate and perceived usefulness of digital devices and services by conducting online survey of 580 university students. The main results are as follows. First, smartphones have the highest ownership rate, followed by laptops, desktops, and digital cameras. Purchase intention of virtual reality devices is highest followed by smart watches/bands, and tablets. Second, mobilization in campus life is almost realized, however the usage of desktops is still high in education and administration context. Digital devices have been perceived particularly useful when searching and sharing information. Third, students use digital services such as search engines, messengers, and online libraries in their learning, and they use messengers, music and video services in their lives. Service usage rate and perceived usefulness are not proportional.

Smart Anti-jamming Mobile Communication for Cloud and Edge-Aided UAV Network

  • Li, Zhiwei;Lu, Yu;Wang, Zengguang;Qiao, Wenxin;Zhao, Donghao
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.12
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    • pp.4682-4705
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    • 2020
  • The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) networks consisting of low-cost UAVs are very vulnerable to smart jammers that can choose their jamming policies based on the ongoing communication policies accordingly. In this article, we propose a novel cloud and edge-aided mobile communication scheme for low-cost UAV network against smart jamming. The challenge of this problem is to design a communication scheme that not only meets the requirements of defending against smart jamming attack, but also can be deployed on low-cost UAV platforms. In addition, related studies neglect the problem of decision-making algorithm failure caused by intermittent ground-to-air communication. In this scheme, we use the policy network deployed on the cloud and edge servers to generate an emergency policy tables, and regularly update the generated policy table to the UAVs to solve the decision-making problem when communications are interrupted. In the operation of this communication scheme, UAVs need to offload massive computing tasks to the cloud or the edge servers. In order to prevent these computing tasks from being offloaded to a single computing resource, we deployed a lightweight game algorithm to ensure that the three types of computing resources, namely local, edge and cloud, can maximize their effectiveness. The simulation results show that our communication scheme has only a small decrease in the SINR of UAVs network in the case of momentary communication interruption, and the SINR performance of our algorithm is higher than that of the original Q-learning algorithm.

Access Control as a Service for Information Protection in Semantic Web based Smart Environment

  • Siddiqui, Isma Farah;Lee, Scott Uk-Jin
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2016
  • Pervasive computing and Internet of Things (IoT) have recently received considerable interest to deploy solutions for the future Internet. Smart environments are integrated with Semantic Web to provide context-awareness to the processed information. Self-learning techniques have been adopted within smart solutions for efficient retrieval of data but do not process data with privacy parameters for in-place authorization. To overcome this issue, we present a novel approach of deploying access control as a service mechanism within Semantic Web based smart environment by using eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). The proposed XACML as a Service (XACMLaaS) approach offers fine-grained access control for protecting information within smart environment. In this paper, we have defined mathematical rules for each components of proposed access control service layer. These rules are for implementation of access control using XACML. The proposed approach allows the adaptation of authorization of information at component level and provides scalable solution for authorization policies and rule enforcement within smart environment.

Analysis of University Students' Needs for Developing Smart Learning Spaces (스마트 학습공간 발전을 위한 대학생들의 요구 분석)

  • Lee, Sang-Eun;Park, Taejung;Han, Hyeong Jong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.27 no.5
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2020
  • From the perspective of smart learning space, this study aims to take a look at the learning space of college students who do online remote learning in the COVID-19 era, and analyze their demands on what smart learning space they want. Furthermore, this study intends to provide valuable implications for the technology-enhanced learning environments by deriving design elements that make up the university's smart learning space. To achieve these goals, we conducted a review of prior studies, interviews with experts, and case analysis on smart learning spaces of major Korean and foreign universities, which are considered as innovative cases. Additionally, in order to confirm the difference between the importance level recognized by the college students and the current performance level for nine components of technology and for ten components of spaces and facilities, a paired t-test and an Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) were carried out. According to the result of IPA analysis, Internet of Things from the technological aspects, a desk that can supply power and a flexible learning space from the aspects of spaces and facilities were found to have much lower performance than the importance. This result is meaningful in suggesting key design components for smart campus development in the post-COVID-19 world.

Student Group Division Algorithm based on Multi-view Attribute Heterogeneous Information Network

  • Jia, Xibin;Lu, Zijia;Mi, Qing;An, Zhefeng;Li, Xiaoyong;Hong, Min
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.3836-3854
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    • 2022
  • The student group division is benefit for universities to do the student management based on the group profile. With the widespread use of student smart cards on campus, especially where students living in campus residence halls, students' daily activities on campus are recorded with information such as smart card swiping time and location. Therefore, it is feasible to depict the students with the daily activity data and accordingly group students based on objective measuring from their campus behavior with some regular student attributions collected in the management system. However, it is challenge in feature representation due to diverse forms of the student data. To effectively and comprehensively represent students' behaviors for further student group division, we proposed to adopt activity data from student smart cards and student attributes as input data with taking account of activity and attribution relationship types from different perspective. Specially, we propose a novel student group division method based on a multi-view student attribute heterogeneous information network (MSA-HIN). The network nodes in our proposed MSA-HIN represent students with their multi-dimensional attribute information. Meanwhile, the edges are constructed to characterize student different relationships, such as co-major, co-occurrence, and co-borrowing books. Based on the MSA-HIN, embedded representations of students are learned and a deep graph cluster algorithm is applied to divide students into groups. Comparative experiments have been done on a real-life campus dataset collected from a university. The experimental results demonstrate that our method can effectively reveal the variability of student attributes and relationships and accordingly achieves the best clustering results for group division.

Study of the Hydrophilic Properties of Toughened Glass (강화유리 표면의 친수성 특성 조사에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sung Jin;Seo, Jin Woo;Lee, Seung Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we assessed the hydrophilic characteristics of the surface of toughened glass used in smartphones by investigating the optical properties and contact angle characteristics of the plasma device. In this study, the characteristics were different depending on the partial pressure of the gas, input voltage, and degree of ionization of argon gas. In this study, the surface of the toughened glass became more hydrophilic, as indicated by contact angle and light spectrum, after plasma treatment than before the treatment.

Design of a smart MEMS accelerometer using nonlinear control principles

  • Hassani, Faezeh Arab;Payam, Amir Farrokh;Fathipour, Morteza
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents a novel smart MEMS accelerometer which employs a hybrid control algorithm and an estimator. This scheme is realized by adding a sliding-mode controller to a conventional PID closed loop system to achieve higher stability and higher dynamic range and to prevent pull-in phenomena by preventing finger displacement from passing a maximum preset value as well as adding an adaptive nonlinear observer to a conventional PID closed loop system. This estimator is used for online estimation of the parameter variations for MEMS accelerometers and gives the capability of self testing to the system. The analysis of convergence and resolution show that while the proposed control scheme satisfies these criteria it also keeps resolution performance better than what is normally obtained in conventional PID controllers. The performance of the proposed hybrid controller investigated here is validated by computer simulation.

Implementation of Location-Based Smart Campus and Class Guide System Using Beacon (비콘을 이용한 위치 기반의 스마트 학교 및 수업 안내 시스템 구현)

  • Kim, Myung-Ah;Kim, Da-Sol;Hwang, Ji-Yeon;Chang, Byeong-Mo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.419-426
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    • 2018
  • Recently, indoor locating using beacon has gained much attention as an indoor locating technology. This technology has been used for various indoor LBS(location-based services). However, there is a lack of research on LBS service specialized in university yet. In this paper, we designed and implemented a smart LBS system using beacon for campus and class guide in the university. This system provides for campus and class guide services based on the current specific location in the campus, This system can be improved as more precise becon technology is developed.