• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.116-125
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• 2016

Background: Microfluidics is of considerable importance in food and agricultural industries. Microfluidics processes low volumes of fluids in channels with extremely small dimensions of tens of micrometers. It enables the miniaturization of analytical devices and reductions in cost and turnaround times. This allows automation, high-throughput analysis, and processing in food and agricultural applications. Purpose: This review aims to provide information on the applications of microfluidics in the agro-food sector to overcome limitations posed by conventional technologies. Results: Microfluidics contributes to medical diagnosis, biological analysis, drug discovery, chemical synthesis, biotechnology, gene sequencing, and ecology. Recently, the applications of microfluidics in food and agricultural industries have increased. A few examples of these applications include food safety analysis, food processing, and animal production. This study examines the fundamentals of microfluidics including fabrication, control, applications, and future trends of microfluidics in the agro-food sector. Conclusions: Future research efforts should focus on developing a small portable platform with modules for fluid handling, sample preparation, and signal detection electronics.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• v.1
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• pp.208-211
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• 2006

The contents of RF test set which can be used for checking the function and performance of 13m antenna installed in KARI site are described in this paper. For the purpose of considering RF test set as the transceiver in COMS, it is designed to retransmit the LRIT and HRIT in L-Band after receiving them in S-Band from 13m antenna. Additionally, this set has a function to turnaround raging tone used for the measurement of distance between satellite and 13m antenna. The required all equipments of RF test set are summarized with configuration. Measurements of several equipments which have already been delivered are described in this paper. The assembled RF test set will be used for the verification of 13m antenna

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.40-40
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• 2014

Through KASI, Korean astronomers will have access to the Gemini Observatory starting in 2015. Gemini operates two optical/infrared 8m-class telescopes: one on the northern hemisphere in Hawaii, one on the southern hemisphere in Chile. Both are equipped with state of the art instruments and adaptive optics systems that will be presented. Gemini also offers the opportunity for instrument development and welcomes visiting instruments. In terms of operations, Gemini offers to its partners three ways of applying for time: through semester-basis calls for standard programs, through yearly calls for Large and Long Programs, and through monthly calls for fast turnaround programs. Gemini operates in queue mode (observing for the principal investigators and allowing flexibility in the time domain), as well as in the classical visitor mode (where principal investigators come to the telescope). I will explain the requirements and advantages of all these modes as well as a full update on the Gemini Observatory.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.25-32
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• 2006

Given a schedule of train to be routed by a Railway Stock, Railway Stock Routing Problem determine a sequence of train while satisfying turnaround time and maintenance restrictions. The objective is to minimize the Railway Stock during a week and each day simultaneously. And we prove that Railway Stock Routing Problem with maintenance restrictions is NP-hard. In this paper, we present two stage approaches that solve the Railway Stock Routing Problem in a reasonable time. In first stage we relax maintenance restrictions and formulate as a Min-cost-flow problem. Then, in the second stage, we attempt to satisfy maintenance restrictions using ours heuristic algorithm. We show the computational result of applying to an actual train schedule data.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1507-1510
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• 2005

시스템의 한정된 자원을 다수의 사용자들에게 효율적으로 분배하기 위해서 작업관리 시스템을 사용한다. 작업관리 시스템은 그 종류가 여러 가지 있는데, 시스템의 종류나 작업의 특성에 따라서 적당한 작업관리 시스템을 사용한다. NEC 시스템에서는 작업관리 시스템으로 NQS를 사용하고 있으며, 이 작업관리 시스템을 어떻게 잘 설계하느냐에 따라 시스템 자원의 활용율이 달라지기 때문이다. 따라서 한정된 시스템의 자원을 다양한 사용자들의 작업 특징에 따라 적절히 자원을 배분 할 수 있도록 차등 큐를 설계하고 구현하였다, 그리고 작업관리 시스템 각각의 큐에서 처리된 작업의 turnaround time을 분석 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1996.06b
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• pp.13-17
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• 1996

This paper presents animation techniques and issues involved in virtual environments where the participants interact with each other through a network. The state of the participant should be recognized at each local site, and broadcast to the other sites. Because information exchange is minimal, animation techniques are applied to convert the incoming low DOF parameters into high DOF joint angles that completely determine the configuration of the agents at each frame. As a case study, a software system VRLOCO is introduced, which has been developed by the author over the last five years. From a simple stream of body center positions, VRLOCO generates realistic curved path human locomotion in real-time. Based on the heading direction and speed, the locomotion automatically switches among five different primitives: walking, running, lateral stepping, backward stepping, and turnaround. The techniques presented here proved robust and faithful: the algorithm is not sensitive to the noise in the data, and the resulting animation conforms well with the original data.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.137-143
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• 2008

In ubiquitous environment the multi-agent system is effective for providing intelligent services. In this paper we introduce a new scheduling service model for improving the communication performance in the multi-agent system. It is achieved by assigning a priority to the message according to the weight of formalized ACL message and the number of messages exchanged between the agents. An experiment reveals that the proposed approach allows smaller processing time per message and turnaround time than the scheduling with the existing JADE platform. Moreover, the proposed scheme allows a scalable messaging system.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.45-53
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• 2002

The main idea behind the Intelligent Networks(IN) concept is the separation of switching functionality from the service control, in order to meet various service requirements of subscribers and development of new services in time. In (N+1) type Intelligent Network with FEP-BEP framwork, each SCP-BEP system maintains its own subscibers' database respectively. In this case, DB updating operations at each SCP-BEP should be peformed concurrently such that DB updating method could affect the overall system performance. Moreover, it is not easy to predict the current system capacity to satisfy the future IN subscribers' service needs. In this paper, we discuss how much DB updating method affects the performance trends of (N+1) type Intelligent Network with FEP-BEP system by means of the simulation technique as the number of calls increase. The average turnaround time is used as a system performance measure.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.4
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• pp.197-211
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• 1999

The purpose of the research is (1) to identify the usage of Quick Response technologies (QRT) by apparel retailers and the improvement of store attributes by QRT, and (2) to test a conceptual model which examines Consumer Satisfaction(CS) with apparel retail stores. A convenience sample of 32 retailers and 200 apparel consumers participated in the survey research. The most used technology is sales captured at the item level and the store attribute most improved by QRT is fast turnaround of goods. Disconfirmation(DC) (i.e., QRT based, non-QRT based attributes) had significant effects on CS with apparel retail stores. DC of QRT based attributes (e.g. reduced stockout) have more influence on CS than DC of non-QRT based attributes (e.g., location of store).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.237-241
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• 2003

To improve competitive power of the container terminal, we must enhance the yark efficiency of a domestic container terminal in the chronic shortage situation, Therefore, we investigate the basic concept and the expected effect delivery reservation when applying at existing container terminal.