• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.1015-1021
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• 2016

Structures, systems, and components (SSCs) important to safety of nuclear facilities shall be designed, fabricated, erected, and tested to quality standards commensurate with the importance of the safety functions. Although SSC classification guidelines for nuclear power plants have been well established and applied, those for research reactors have been only recently established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Korea has operated a pool-type research reactor (the High Flux Advanced Neutron Application Reactor) and has recently exported another pool-type reactor (Jordan Research and Training Reactor), which is being built in Jordan. Korea also has a plan to build one more pool-type reactor, the Kijang Research Reactor, in Kijang, Busan. The safety classification of SSCs for pool-type research reactors is proposed in this paper based on the IAEA methodology. The proposal recommends that the SSCs of pool-type research reactors be categorized and classified on basis of their safety functions and safety significance. Because the SSCs in pool-type research reactors are not the pressure-retaining components, codes and standards for design of the SSCs following the safety classification can be selected in a graded approach.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1449-1461
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• 2019

Face sketch synthesis plays an important role in public security and digital entertainment. In this paper, we present a novel face sketch synthesis method via local similarity and nonlocal similarity regularization terms. The local similarity can overcome the technological bottlenecks of the patch representation scheme in traditional learning-based methods. It improves the quality of synthesized sketches by penalizing the dissimilar training patches (thus have very small weights or are discarded). In addition, taking the redundancy of image patches into account, a global nonlocal similarity regularization is employed to restrain the generation of the noise and maintain primitive facial features during the synthesized process. More robust synthesized results can be obtained. Extensive experiments on the public databases validate the generality, effectiveness, and robustness of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.24 no.69
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• pp.75-85
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• 2001

This empirical study examines the current status of TqM implementation in Korean service industry The data were collected from employes in hotels located in Seoul, korea with the questionnaire. The several statistical method such as t-test multiple regression were used for analysis. The major findings include the followings : First TQM practices have become common in Korean hotel industry. Second, There exist significant TQM factors which effect on customer satisfaction. For the high level hotel group supplier management, quality data management employee relations, and training are important factors for customer satisfaction while top management role and employee relations are significant factors for low level hotel group.

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.30-36
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the perception of nurses on multicultural families. Methods: The study population consisted of 493 nurses from eight general hospitals in B city. Data collection was done from June 1 to July 31, 2012. The Perception for Multicultural Family Inventory developed by Jun and Kim (2010) was used as the study instrument. The collected data were analyzed by t-test and ANOVA using SPSS/WIN version12.0. Results: Perception of nurses for multicultural families was 3.64 points out of 5. Most of the nurses considered that multicultural education is necessary. However, there were only a small number of nurses received training on multiculturalism. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that education and support on multiculturalism for nurses are needed to improve health related quality of life for the multicultural families.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.41-44
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• 2009

This paper describes an implementation of virtual teeth modeling for a haptic dental simulation. The system allows dental students to practice dental procedures with realistic tactual feelings. The system requires fast and stable haptic rendering and volume modeling techniques working on the virtual tooth. In our implementation, a volumetric implicit surface is used for intuitive shape modification without topological constraints and haptic rendering. The volumetric implicit surface is generated from input geometric model by using a closest point transformation algorithm. And for visual rendering, we apply an adaptive polygonization method to convert volumetric teeth model to geometric model. We improve our previous system using new octree design to save memory requirement while increase the performance and visual quality.

• IE interfaces
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.5-13
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• 1995

Automated vision inspection has become a vital part of computer related industries. Most of the existing inspection systems mainly utilize black and white images. In this paper, we consider an application of automated vision inspection in which cable color has to be recognized in order to detect the quality status of assembled wire harness. A back-propagation neural network is proposed to classify seven different cable colors. To represent a single point in image space, we use the ($L^*,\;a^*,\;b^*$) model which is one of commonly used color-coordinate systems in image processing. After training the neural network with ($L^*,\;a^*,\;b^*$) data obtained from color image, we tested its performance. The results show that the neural network is able to classify cable colors with high performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.345-346
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• 2018

Internet of Things (IoT) data is collected in real time and is treated as highly reliable data because of its high precision. However, IoT data is not always highly reliable data. Because, data be often incomplete values for reasons such as sensor aging and failure, poor operating environment, and communication problems. So, we propose the methodology for solve this problem. Our methodology implements multiple LSTM networks to individually process the data collected from the sensors and a single LSTM network that batches the input data into an array. And, we propose an efficient method for constructing LSTM in IoT environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2010.05b
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• pp.95-97
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• 2010

Current trends in the Korean construction industry, including the aging of the workforce, a lack of new Korean construction workers, and an inflow of unskilled foreign labor, have caused a range of problems, including quality deterioration, reduced productivity, insufficient understanding of the function and difficulties in communication, to name a few. Yet while countermeasures to these problems should be based on accurate and diverse fundamental data, including the current status of demand and supply of domestic and foreign construction workers, the perception of construction workers, studies on these questions have, thus far, been scarce. For these reasons, this study was conducted using a questionnaire for managers and workers on construction sites, to secure fundamental data relating to construction workers. The findings of the survey showed that it is urgent to prepare measures to educate, train and foster human resources, considering the aging of the construction workforce and the lack of an inflow of new construction workers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.197-200
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• 1999

In these days many large scale plants are attempting to use the Virtual Reality technology in the process analysis. Their goal is to reduce the development time by more effective information management as Simultaneous Engineering point of view, and by connecting the CAD datum and all kinds of products information. Generally, it is taken for granted that when a plant is equipped with a Virtual Reality technology, they are able to review the design and analyze the engineering performance of the product before actually building it, so that their goal to reduce costs and enhance the initial quality can be achieved. [1][2] In this paper we will look into the application the virtual reality technology Hadong fossil power plant. And we will also define the concepts of virtual plant by summarizing requirements and thoughts from the people who are in working in the actual site.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.32-40
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• 2005

This study was limited Gangwon-do's manufacturing companies that participated in the educational-industrial consortium. These companies' present status and activities under implementation identified and interpreted by this study, therefore, are insufficient to be generalized into knowledge applicable to most of the companies in Gangwon-do. For more precise and detailed results, it is suggested to make further studies that cover not only those consortium companies but also non-consortium manufacturing companies in Gangwon-do. The results also suggest that it is necessary to promote some periodic manpower training programs in cooperation with local universities, to utilize professors and experts to build management strategies that can bring and secure the power of competition, and to construct a system of educational-industrial cooperation, as ways leading these companies to the 21 st century's type of business enterprise.