• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.14
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• pp.1-24
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• 2004

The Internet is flourishing and the World Wide Web is growing at an exponential rate. A fundamental concept of Intranet, the so-called second wave, was introduced only a few years ago. Intranets have been embraced by corporate users of information services and made substantial inroads in strategic vision documents and procurement practices. Business organizations have come to the conclusion that they require an extensive data repository in order to acquire a competitive advantage in a dynamically change market. This rich assortment of data must further be delivered and deliverable enterprise-wide in a secure and cost-efficient manner. Information technology(IT) has created the Intranet as a vitally important mechanism for the storage, dissemination, and even the analysis data. The present study is an attempt to develop a more through understanding of the potential and actual impact of the Intranet on organizational functions and activities. Expecially, it also consists of an effort to assess the impact of the Intranet on work collaboration. The research also addresses the issue of how the Intranet affects work collaboration and shapes or modifies business activities. The results of literature review and study revealed that middle managers believe that the extent of the Intranet use is significantly related to improvements in overall organizational functions and activities. While communication, decision-making, productivity, work collaboration, and business activities are all enhanced by Intranet use, Work Collaboration appears to be most dramatically improved by Intranet use.

• BMB Reports
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.1-2
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• 2016

Of the numerous events that occur in daily life, we readily remember salient information, but do not retain most less-salient events for a prolonged period. Although some of the episodes contain putatively emotional aspects, the information with lower saliency is rarely stored in neural circuits via an unknown mechanism. We provided substantial evidence indicating that synaptic plasticity in the dorsal ITC of amygdala allows for selective storage of salient emotional experiences, while it deters less-salient experience from entering long-term memory. After activation of D4R or weak fear conditioning, STDP stimulation induces LTD in the LA-ITC synapses. This form of LTD is dependent upon presynaptic D4R, and is likely to result from enhancement of GABA release. Both optogenetic abrogation of LTD and ablation of D4R at the dorsal ITC in vivo lead to heightened and over-generalized fear responses. Finally, we demonstrated that LTD was impaired at the dorsal ITC of PTSD model mice, which suggests that maladaptation of GABAergic signaling and the resultant LTD impairment contribute to the endophenotypes of PTSD. [BMB Reports 2016; 49(1): 1-2]

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.921-928
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• 2013

A future nuclear energy system is being developed at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), the system involves a Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) linked with the pyro-process. The pyro-process produces a source material to fabricate a SFR fuel rod. Therefore, an isotopic fissile content assay is very important for fuel rod safety and SFR economics. A new technology for an analysis of isotopic fissile content has been proposed using a lead slowing down spectrometer (LSDS). The new technology has several features for a fissile analysis from spent fuel: direct isotopic fissile assay, no background interference, and no requirement from burnup history information. Several calculations were done on the designed spectrometer geometry: detection sensitivity, neutron energy spectrum analysis, neutron fission characteristics, self shielding analysis, and neutron production mechanism. The spectrum was well organized even at low neutron energy and the threshold fission chamber was a proper choice to get prompt fast fission neutrons. The characteristic fission signature was obtained in slowing down neutron energy from each fissile isotope. Another application of LSDS is for an optimum design of the spent fuel storage, maximization of the burnup credit and provision of the burnup code correction factor. Additionally, an isotopic fissile content assay will contribute to an increase in transparency and credibility for the utilization of spent fuel nuclear material, as internationally demanded.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.176-181
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• 2016

Recent years, supercapacitors have been attracting a growing attention as an efficient energy storage, due to their long-lifetime, device reliability, simple device structure and operation mechanism and, most importantly, high power density. Along with the increasing interest in flexible/stretchable electronics, the supercapacitors with compatible mechanical properties have been also required. A eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) liquid metal could be a strong candidate as a soft electrode material of the supercapacitors because of its insulating surface oxide layer for electric double layer formation. Here, we report the electrochemical study on the charging/reaction process at the interface of EGaIn liquid metal and electrolyte. Numerical fitting of the charging current curves provides the capacitance of EGaIn/insulating layer/electrolyte (${\sim}38F/m^2$). This value is two orders of magnitude higher than a capacitance of a general metal electrode/electrolyte interface.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.30 no.5 s.112
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• pp.280-284
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• 2005

Front the production on the farm to the consumer, agricultural products are subject to various physical treatments involving mechanical techniques and devices. It is essential to understand the physical laws governing the response of these biological materials so that the machines, processes, and handling operations can be designed fur maximum efficiency and the highest quality of the end products. A compression test system was developed to test the physical properties of fruits including apple, pear, and peach which may lead to a better understanding of the physical laws. The test system consisted of a digital storage oscilloscope and simple mechanism which can apply quasi-static compression to fresh fruits. Rupture force, energy, and deformation were measured at the five levels of compression speed from 1.25 to 62.5 mm/min for each internal and external tissues. Rupture forces for apple and pear were in the range of 42.2 to 46.2 N and 38.8 to 41.2 N for external and infernal tissues, respectively. Rupture forces fir peach external tissues were in the range of 48.2 to 54.0 N.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.152-173
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• 2017

Mobile phones are the most common communication devices in history. For this reason, the number of mobile subscribers will increase dramatically in the future. Therefore, the determining the location of a mobile station will become more and more difficult. The mobile station must be authenticated to inform the network of its current location even when the user switches it on or when its location is changed. The most basic weakness in the GSM authentication protocol is the unilateral authentication process where the customer is verified by the system, yet the system is not confirmed by the customer. This creates numerous security issues, including powerlessness against man-in-the-middle attacks, vast bandwidth consumption between VLR and HLR, storage space overhead in VLR, and computation costs in VLR and HLR. In this paper, we propose a secure authentication mechanism based new mobility management method to improve the location management in the GSM network, which suffers from a lot off drawbacks, such as transmission cost and database overload. Numerical analysis is done for both conventional and modified versions and compared together. The numerical results show that our protocol scheme is more secure and that it reduces mobility management costs the most in the GSM network.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.393-398
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• 2004

The near-field scanning micro scope (NSOM) technique is in the spotlight as the next generation storage device. Many different types of read/write mechanism for NSOM have been introduced in the literature. In order for a near-field probe to be successfully implemented in the system, a suitable slider and suspension are needed to be properly designed. The optical slider is designed considering near-filed optics and probe array. The suspension generally supports slider performance, and tracking servo capacity in HDD. Moreover, the suspension for optical slider also should meet the optical characteristics, and is also required to satisfy shock performances for the mobility for the actuator. In this study, the optical slider and the suspension fer near-field probe array are designed and analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.676-679
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• 2015

빅데이터 분석을 위한 Hadoop 환경에서 고성능 저장장치인 SSD에 대한 중요성이 증가하면서 일반적으로 사용되는 저장장치인 HDD와 혼합하여 사용하는 연구들이 주목 받고 있다. 특히 SSD를 HDD의 캐시로 사용했을 때 저장장치에 대한 I/O 성능을 향상할 수 있다는 연구 결과들이 있다. 본 연구는 이를 바탕으로 SSD를 HDD의 캐시로 사용한다. HDFS는 저장장치에 접근하여 I/O를 수행하는데 기존에는 로컬 서버에서 캐시 미스가 발생한 경우 로컬 HDD로 접근한다. 이러한 방식은 접근하는 데이터에 따라 SSD의 높은 Bandwidth를 활용하지 못하게 되는 경우를 발생시키고 그 결과 특정 서버의 I/O 지연으로 전체 분산 처리의 성능을 저하시킬 수 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 연구는 HDFS 레벨에서 로컬 서버의 HDD와 데이터 복제본들이 저장된 원격 서버의 SSD에서 I/O를 수행하는 경우에 대해 수식을 통해 비용을 비교한다. 그 결과 항상 기대 성능이 높은 저장 장치를 선택하여 데이터를 읽어오게 함으로써 기존 방식보다 성능이 개선될 수 있음을 입증한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.53-62
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• 2008

Intensive studies have been made in the area of IPTV VOD server. The basic goal of the study is to find an efficient mechanism to allow maximum number of users under the limited resources such as Buffer utilization, disk performance and network bandwidth. The overlay multicast that has been recently presented as an alternative for the IP multicast has been getting much persuasion by the system resource and the network bandwidth and the advancement of the network cost. we propose a efficient overlay multi_casting network policy for multimedia services with multi media partition storage. Simulation results show that the rate of service number and service time of proposed scheme are about 23% performance improved than that of traditional methods. This implies that our method can allow much more users for given resources.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.112-113
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• 2015

최근, IT 기술의 발달로 다양한 스마트 디바이스 및 서비스 증가로 빅 데이터 시대가 도래되었다. 이에 빅 데이터를 저장하기 위한 많은 연구들이 진행되고 있지만 데이터 저장을 위한 측면에 중점을 두어 본질적인 서버 운용에 대한 연구가 도외시 되고 없다. 또한, 기존의 서버 운용은 장애 발생시 페일 오버나 리던던시를 통해 대용을 하고 있지만, 이러한 기법은 연속적인 장애 발생에 대한 대응이 불가하다. 본 논문에서는 빅 데이터를 저장하기 위한 DSV(Desktop Storage Virtualization) 환경에서 서버 장애를 효율적으로 대응하는 M2S2(Metadata Management for Server Sustainability)를 제안한다. M2S2는 독립적으로 분산된 데스크당의 성능, 거리, 저장된 데이터양을 기준으로 최적의 대체 서버가 수행된다. 또한, 대체 서버의 장애 발생시 하위 데스크탑 중에 최적의 대체 서버가 수행 반복됨으로써 지속적인 서버 운용이 가능하다.