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Comparison of QA Protocols for Linear Acclerator Published in Europe, America, and Japan (유럽, 미국, 일본의 선형가속기 정도관리 비교)

  • 이레나;이수진;최진호
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.20-27
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    • 2003
  • For the treatment of cancer using computer controlled linear accelerator, it is important to ensure that all equipments are operated properly. Therefore, many studies were performed and published on the safe use of radiotherapy machine controlled by computer logic and microprocessor These studies provided methods of preventing accident from software and hardware failure. In Korea, the use of computer controlled linear accelerator has increased over the past 10 years. However, there are no standard protocols for quality assurance (QA) of linear accelerator. In this study, three QA protocols from America, Japan, and Europe were collected and summarized. In addition, agreement and disagreement among the protocols were analyzed. In conclusion, the QA items included in the protocols were similar among the various QA protocols although there were differences in performance frequencies.

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A Profile Tolerance Usage in GD&T for Precision Manufacturing (정밀제조를 위한 기하공차에서의 윤곽공차 사용)

  • Kim, Kyung-Wook;Chang, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.145-149
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    • 2017
  • One of the challenges facing precision manufacturers is the increasing feature complexity of tight tolerance parts. All engineering drawings must account for the size, form, orientation, and location of all features to ensure manufacturability, measurability, and design intent. Geometric controls per ASME Y14.5 are typically applied to specify dimensional tolerances on engineering drawings and define size, form, orientation, and location of features. Many engineering drawings lack the necessary geometric dimensioning and tolerancing to allow for timely and accurate inspection and verification. Plus-minus tolerancing is typically ambiguous and requires extra time by engineering, programming, machining, and inspection functions to debate and agree on a single conclusion. Complex geometry can result in long inspection and verification times and put even the most sophisticated measurement equipment and processes to the test. In addition, design, manufacturing and quality engineers are often frustrated by communication errors over these features. However, an approach called profile tolerancing offers optimal definition of design intent by explicitly defining uniform boundaries around the physical geometry. It is an efficient and effective method for measurement and quality control. There are several advantages for product designers who use position and profile tolerancing instead of linear dimensioning. When design intent is conveyed unambiguously, manufacturers don't have to field multiple question from suppliers as they design and build a process for manufacturing and inspection. Profile tolerancing, when it is applied correctly, provides manufacturing and inspection functions with unambiguously defined tolerancing. Those data are manufacturable and measurable. Customers can see cost and lead time reductions with parts that consistently meet the design intent. Components can function properly-eliminating costly rework, redesign, and missed market opportunities. However a supplier that is poised to embrace profile tolerancing will no doubt run into resistance from those who would prefer the way things have always been done. It is not just internal naysayers, but also suppliers that might fight the change. In addition, the investment for suppliers can be steep in terms of training, equipment, and software.

PinMemcheck: Pin-Based Memory Leakage Detection Tool for Mobile Device Development (PinMemcheck: 이동통신 기기 개발을 위한 Pin 기반의 메모리 오류 검출 도구(道具))

  • Jo, Kyong-Jin;Kim, Seon-Wook
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.18A no.2
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 2011
  • Memory error debugging is one of the most critical processes in improving software quality. However, due to the extensive time consumed to debug, the enhancement often leads to a huge bottle neck in the development process of mobile devices. Most of the existing memory error detection tools are based on static error detection; however, the tools cannot be used in mobile devices due to their use of large working memory. Therefore, it is challenging for mobile device vendors to deliver high quality mobile devices to the market in time. In this paper, we introduce "PinMemcheck", a pin-based memory error detection tool, which detects all potential memory errors within $1.5{\times}$ execution time overhead compared with that of a baseline configuration by applying the Pin's binary instrumentation process and a simple data structure.

A Development of The IT Audit-Based Application Framework for University IT Governance (대학정보화 거버넌스를 위한 감리기반 응용프레임워크 개발)

  • Choi, Jae Jun;Kim, Chi su
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2019
  • Information system audit, which provides effective diagnosis and inspection of IT governance, is applied to all aspects from planning to development and operation. However, there is a difficulty in carrying out the audit because the system for the specialized university IT project is not developed. Therefore, it is necessary to set the internal system as the audit-based application framework in order to apply it to university IT governance. In this paper, we propose a audit-based application framework of university information system developed for university. The framework has a difference from the existing audit system. By using this framework, it is possible to present a standard for the university IT project and easily approach and use it in the field. And it can be used for direct audit through this framework in the level of the auditor as well as the HQ admin. The framework categorizes the audit into three major dimensions and suggests a method that can be applied to the university information system audit through the UAFP(University Audit Framework Process) and quality assurance.

Comparisons of voice quality parameter values measured with MDVP, Praat, and TF32 (MDVP, Praat, TF32에 따른 음향학적 측정치에 대한 비교)

  • Ko, Hye-Ju;Woo, Mee-Ryung;Choi, Yaelin
    • Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.73-83
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    • 2020
  • Measured values may differ between Multi-Dimensional Voice Program (MDVP), Praat, and Time-Frequency Analysis software (TF32), all of which are widely used in voice quality analysis, due to differences in the algorithms used in each analyzer. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the values of parameters of normal voice measured with each analyzer. After tokens of the vowel sound /a/ were collected from 35 normal adult subjects (19 male and 16 female), they were analyzed with MDVP, Praat, and TF32. The mean values obtained from Praat for jitter variables (J local, J abs, J rap, and J ppq), shimmer variables (S local, S dB, and S apq), and noise-to-harmonics ratio (NHR) were significantly lower than those from MDVP in both males and females (p<.01). The mean values of J local, J abs, and S local were significantly lower in the order MDVP, Praat, and TF32 in both genders. In conclusion, the measured values differed across voice analyzers due to the differences in the algorithms each analyzer uses. Therefore, it is important for clinicians to analyze pathologic voice after understanding the normal criteria used by each analyzer when they use a voice analyzer in clinical practice.

Task-Oriented GIS for Water Management at Taipei Water Resource District

  • WU Mu-Lin;TAl Shang-Yao;CHOU Wen-Shang;SONG Der-Ren;LIU Shiu-Feng;YANQ Tsung-Ming
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.668-670
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    • 2004
  • Taipei Water Management Office (TWMO) is one of the eleven district offices in Water Resource Agency. Water management is the top priority to be pursued both on daily management and long-term management at TWMO. There are five departments to perform a wide range of tasks in addition to water management. All management prescriptions are simply to provide sustainable clean water for about four millions population in Taipei. TWMO has gone through 16 years experience of development and implementation of GIS in water management. The objectives of this paper are to provide the major ingredients of successful and operational GIS for water management. The five departments at TWMO have performed tasks such as city planning, construction management, forest management, land use enforcement, soil and water conservation, water quality monitoring and protection, garbage collection, and sewage disposal management. Data base creation was one of the major jobs to be done. Update of data base has to be done on a daily basis. Computers, its peripheral, and software are essential for GIS developed at TWMO. Know-how and technical skill on computers and GIS for every technician are contributing significantly such that GIS can be implemented on most of jobs performed at TWMO. Implementations of GIS have been pursued by application modules on a task-oriented basis. Application modules are simple, easy to use, and menu driven with only Chinese. Web-based and mobile GIS are the new components that make water management at TWMO stay on the right course. To solve problems encountered in water management by GIS at TWMO can be easily and user-friendly may be the most important experience.

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Integrate Processing Scheme of Flow Control Language (흐름 제어 언어의 통합 처리)

  • Kim, Tae-Wan;Chang, Chun-Hyon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.11D no.2
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    • pp.415-422
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    • 2004
  • Automation systems improve the productivity of works which relate to product design, facilities management, fault processing and quality evaluation. In these systems, the description language for monitoring and control process is called new control language. These are five flow control languages : IL, ST, FBD, SFC and LD. IL and ST are based on left form. FBD, SFC and LD are based on graphic form. Generally, a software which monitors and controls a system is allowed to use just one flow control language. It is impossible to use more than two languages for simulation in the same system environment. In this paper, we analyzed the characteristics of flow control languages and the process of programming in the legacy system. In addition, for the Integrated processing of languages, we propose Extended ST based on the high-level ST language. Based on this research, we implement a graphical language editor and EST-IL convertor. The graphical language editor makes sequence rules, and converts graphical language into EST. EST-IL convertor has a function to convert EST into IL which is similar to assembly language. As the result of this paper, we present a scheme which integrates all the flow control language processing based on IL.

Improved Contour Region Coding Method based on Scalable Depth Map for 3DVC (계층적 깊이 영상 기반의 3DVC에서 윤곽 부분 화질 개선 기법)

  • Kang, Jin-Mi;Jeong, Hye-Jeong;Chung, Ki-Dong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.492-500
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, improved contour region coding method is proposed to accomplish better depth map coding performance. First of all, in order to use correlation between color video and depth map, a structure in SVC is applied to 3DVC. This can reduce bit-rate of the depth map while supporting the video to be transferred via various collection of network. As the depth map is mainly used to synthesize videos from different views, corrupted contour region can damage the overall quality of video. We hereby adapt a new differential quantization method when separating the contour region. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve video quality by 0.06~0.5dB which translate the bit rate saving by 0.1~1.15%, when compared to the reference software.

Applying a Forced Censoring Technique with Accelerated Modeling for Improving Estimation of Extremely Small Percentiles of Strengths

  • Chen Weiwei;Leon Ramon V.;Young Timothy M.;Guess Frank M.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 2006
  • Many real world cases in material failure analysis do not follow perfectly the normal distribution. Forcing of the normality assumption may lead to inaccurate predictions and poor product quality. We examine the failure process of the internal bond (IB or tensile strength) of medium density fiberboard (MDF). We propose a forced censoring technique that closer fits the lower tails of strength distributions and better estimates extremely smaller percentiles, which may be valuable to continuous quality improvement initiatives. Further analyses are performed to build an accelerated common-shaped Weibull model for different product types using the $JMP^{(R)}$ Survival and Reliability platform. In this paper, a forced censoring technique is implemented for the first time as a software module, using $JMP^{(R)}$ Scripting Language (JSL) to expedite data processing, which is crucial for real-time manufacturing settings. Also, we use JSL to automate the task of fitting an accelerated Weibull model and testing model homogeneity in the shape parameter. Finally, a package script is written to readily provide field engineers customized reporting for model visualization, parameter estimation, and percentile forecasting. Our approach may be more accurate for product conformance evaluation, plus help reduce the cost of destructive testing and data management due to reduced frequency of testing. It may also be valuable for preventing field failure and improved product safety even when destructive testing is not reduced by yielding higher precision intervals at the same confidence level.

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A Management for IMS Network Using SDN and SNMP (SDN과 SNMP를 이용한 IMS 네트워크 관리)

  • Yang, Woo-Seok;Kim, Jung-Ho;Lee, Jae-Oh
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.694-699
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    • 2017
  • In accordance with the development of information and communications technology, a network user has to be able to use quality of service (QoS)-based multimedia services easily. Thus, information and communications operators began to focus on a technique for providing multimedia services. The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a platform based on Internet Protocol (IP) as a technology for providing multimedia services and application services. The emerging 5G networks are described as having massive capacity and connectivity, adaptability, seamless heterogeneity, and great flexibility. The explosive growth in network services and devices for 5G will cause excessive traffic loads. In this paper, software-defined networking (SDN) is applied as a kind of virtualization technology for the network in order to minimize the traffic load, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used to provide more efficient network management. To accomplish these purposes, we suggest the design of a dynamic routing algorithm to be utilized in the IMS network using SDN and an SNMP private management information base (MIB). The proposal in this paper gives information and communications operators the ability to supply more efficient network resources.