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Social Cost Comparison of Air-Quality based on Various Traffic Assignment Frameworks (교통량 배정 방법에 따른 대기질의 사회적 비용 비교분석)

  • Lee, Kyu Jin;Choi, Keechoo
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.1087-1094
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    • 2013
  • This study aims at enhancing the objective estimation of social cost of air quality due to mobile emission. More specifically, it examines the difference between the daily oriented and hourly oriented estimation results of social air quality cost and draws implications from the comparative analysis. The result indicates that the social cost of air quality differs up to approximately 24 times depending on the analysis time period. Moneywise, the difference between daily and hourly assignments amounts to the average of 653.5 billion won whereas only 1% of error occurred in the estimation result based on peak and nonpeak based hourly assignment. This study reaffirms the need for time-based travel demand management for emission reduction, and confirms the feasibility of emission estimation by travel demand forecasting method over the conventional method employed by the CAPSS.

Study on Abrasive Adhesion and Polishing Effect in Wet Magnetic Abrasive Polishing (습식자기연마(WMAP)에서 입자의 구속과 가공효과에 관한 연구)

  • Son, Chul-Bae;Jin, Dong-Hyun;Kwak, Jae-Seob
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.887-892
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    • 2014
  • In a conventional magnetic abrasive polishing process, the polishing abrasives are mixed with ferrous particles and slight cutting oil to form a cluster of abrasives. However, when a tool rotates at a high revolution speed, most of the polishing abrasives are scattered away from it due to the increase in centrifugal force. This phenomenon directly reduces the polishing efficiency. The use of a highly viscous matter such as silicone gel instead of cutting oil for mixing is one method to solve this problem and increase abrasive adhesion. Another method to avoid high abrasive scattering is the application of wet magnetic abrasive polishing (WMAP). In WMAP, abundant mineral oil is preliminarily applied to the workpiece surface. This study experimentally evaluated the effect of WMAP on abrasive adhesion. The relationship between the amount of working abrasives and polishing conditions was characterized. Despite the lower adhesion ratio of polishing abrasives, the surface roughness was found to be significantly improved as the result of WMAP.

Genome-wide Analysis of Aberrant DNA Methylation for Identification of Potential Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer Patients

  • Fang, Wei-Jia;Zheng, Yi;Wu, Li-Ming;Ke, Qing-Hong;Shen, Hong;Yuan, Ying;Zheng, Shu-Sen
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.1917-1921
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    • 2012
  • Background: Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Genome wide analysis studies have identified sequence mutations causing loss-of-function that are associated with disease occurrence and severity. Epigenetic modifications, such DNA methylation, have also been implicated in many cancers but have yet to be examined in the East Asian population of colorectal cancer patients. Methods: Biopsies of tumors and matched non-cancerous tissue types were obtained and genomic DNA was isolated and subjected to the bisulphite conversion method for comparative DNA methylation analysis on the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation27 BeadChip. Results: Totals of 258 and 74 genes were found to be hyper- and hypo-methylated as compared to the individual's matched control tissue. Interestingly, three genes that exhibited hypermethylation in their promoter regions, CMTM2, ECRG4, and SH3GL3, were shown to be significantly associated with colorectal cancer in previous studies. Using heatmap cluster analysis, eight hypermethylated and 10 hypomethylated genes were identified as significantly differentially methylated genes in the tumour tissues. Conclusions: Genome-wide methylation profiling facilitates rapid and simultaneous analysis of cancerous cells which may help to identify methylation markers with high sensitivity and specificity for diagnosis and prognosis. Our results show the promise of the microarray technology in identification of potential methylation biomarkers for colorectal cancers.

Anger and Health Status in Late School-Age Children (학령기 후기 아동의 분노와 건강상태)

  • Park Young-Joo;Park Eun Sook;Kim Soo Jeong;Yang Seung-Sook;Shin Hyun Jeong;Im Hye Sang;Moon So-Hyun
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.888-895
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: This cross-sectional study was designed to identify anger-expression types in late school-age children and investigate the relation between the identified anger-expression types and their health status. Method: One thousand twenty seven children in elementary school fifth and sixth grades were recruited from November to December, 2004. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, cluster analysis, 2-test, ANOV A, Duncan's multiple comparison test, and Wilcoxon rank sum test. Results: Three anger-expression types in late school-age children were found; Anger-out/in, Anger-control, and Low anger-expression types. Children frequently using the anger-out/in type among the three types and with a higher state anger reported higher psychosomatic symptoms and depression. Children from a divorced or separated family reported higher state anger. Conclusion: This study suggests that a specific anger management program needs to be developed for late school-age children with high state anger and frequently using the anger out/in expression type. For understanding the anger level and the anger expression types of Korean school-age children, further research needs to be done with large samples using a randomized sampling method.

Classification of Side Somatotype of Upper Lateral Torso Analyzing 3D Body Scan Image of American Females (미국 여성의 3차원 바디 스캔 이미지 분석을 통한 상반신 측면체형 분류)

  • Na, Hyun-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.57 no.4 s.113
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2007
  • Somatotype is human body shape and physique type which can be classified not only by the size, but also by the shape or posture of the body. Postural variations in the alignment of the back, shoulder, and neck can have an adverse effect on the fit of garments designed to hang from the shoulders. There have been some previous studies about the lateral upper torso by analyzing photographic measurements. In this study, 3D body scan images were used to classify the side somatotype of upper lateral method even though they are major data in the classification of upper torso. This study focused on following objective.; 1) To apply new and developing technology into the apparel industry analyzing 3D body scan images. 2) To classify upper laterla torso using the data through the new improver technology, 3D body scanner. 3) To propose basic materials for well fitted garments for each type of figure. The test subjects for this study were two hundreds nine female aged 19 years and up who were recruited in Cornell university body scan research team. Seventeen Variables(12 angles, 5 lengths) out of 3D body scan data were measured based on these landmarks and applied to analyze. The result of factor analysis indicated that 6 factors were extracted through factor analysis and orthogonal rotation by the method of Varimax and those factors comprise 62.5% of total variance. And the somatotype of upper body is classified into 3 types of figures according to cluster analysis; Bent forward posture, Straight posture, Swayback posture. Future study could be addressed about the somatotype of body by the age group based on the large database with wide variety of age.

A Sequential Indexing Method for Multidimensional Range Queries (다차원 범위 질의를 위한 순차 색인 기법)

  • Cha Guang-Ho
    • Journal of KIISE:Databases
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.254-262
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents a new sequential indexing method called segment-page indexing (SP-indexing) for multidimensional range queries. The design objectives of SP-indexing are twofold:(1) improving the range query performance of multidimensional indexing methods (MIMs) and (2) providing a compromise between optimal index clustering and the full index reorganization overhead. Although more than ten years of database research has resulted in a great variety of MIMs, most efforts have focused on data-level clustering and there has been less attempt to cluster indexes. As a result, most relevant index nodes are widely scattered on a disk and many random disk accesses are required during the search. SP-indexing avoids such scattering by storing the relevant nodes contiguously in a segment that contains a sequence of contiguous disk pages and improves performance by offering sequential access within a segment. Experimental results demonstrate that SP-indexing improves query performance up to several times compared with traditional MIMs using small disk pages with respect to total elapsed time and it reduces waste of disk bandwidth due to the use of simple large pages.

A Genetic Algorithm with a New Encoding Method for Bicriteria Network Designs (2기준 네트워크 설계를 위한 새로운 인코딩 방법을 기반으로 하는 유전자 알고리즘)

  • Kim Jong-Ryul;Lee Jae-Uk;Gen Mituso
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.32 no.10
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    • pp.963-973
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    • 2005
  • Increasing attention is being recently devoted to various problems inherent in the topological design of networks systems. The topological structure of these networks can be based on service centers, terminals (users), and connection cable. Lately, these network systems are well designed with tiber optic cable, because the requirements from users become increased. But considering the high cost of the fiber optic cable, it is more desirable that the network architecture is composed of a spanning tree. In this paper, we present a GA (Genetic Algorithm) for solving bicriteria network topology design problems of wide-band communication networks connected with fiber optic cable, considering the connection cost, average message delay, and the network reliability We also employ the $Pr\ddot{u}fer$ number (PN) and cluster string in order to represent chromosomes. Finally, we get some experiments in order to certify that the proposed GA is the more effective and efficient method in terms of the computation time as well as the Pareto optimality.

Resampling Feedback Documents Using Overlapping Clusters (중첩 클러스터를 이용한 피드백 문서의 재샘플링 기법)

  • Lee, Kyung-Soon
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.16B no.3
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    • pp.247-256
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    • 2009
  • Typical pseudo-relevance feedback methods assume the top-retrieved documents are relevant and use these pseudo-relevant documents to expand terms. The initial retrieval set can, however, contain a great deal of noise. In this paper, we present a cluster-based resampling method to select better pseudo-relevant documents based on the relevance model. The main idea is to use document clusters to find dominant documents for the initial retrieval set, and to repeatedly feed the documents to emphasize the core topics of a query. Experimental results on large-scale web TREC collections show significant improvements over the relevance model. For justification of the resampling approach, we examine relevance density of feedback documents. The resampling approach shows higher relevance density than the baseline relevance model on all collections, resulting in better retrieval accuracy in pseudo-relevance feedback. This result indicates that the proposed method is effective for pseudo-relevance feedback.

Relationship between Constraint, Motive and Degree of Participation in Sport for All (사회체육활동 참여 제약과 동기 및 정도의 관계)

  • Kim, Kyong-Sik
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.8 no.11
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    • pp.338-346
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    • 2008
  • This study was to analyze the relationship between constraint, motive and degree of participation in sport for all. To attain the goal of this study described above paragraphs, the peoples dwelling in Chungnam, 2007 year were set as a collected group. Then, stratified cluster random sampling method, finally drew out and analyzed 400 people in total. The result of reliability check up was here below; over Chronbach's ${\alpha}=.687$. To analyze materials, reliability analysis, CFA and SEM were used as statistic analysis techniques. The conclusion based on above study method and the result of material analysis are here below. First, constraint influence on the motive of participation in sport for all. Second, motive influence on the degree of participation in sport for all. Third, constraint influence on the degree of participation in sport for all.

Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis of Listeria Species Isolated from Foods in Korea (국내 식품으로부터 분리한 Listeria Species의 RAPD 분석)

  • 최영춘;박부길;이택수;오덕환
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.606-614
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    • 2000
  • This study was carried out for comparing Listeria strains developing genetic markers for Listeroa strains using Listeria sp. genetic markers using Randomly Amlymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis method. Five of RAPD promers (OPA-01, OP-26-01, OP-26-02, OPB-01, OP-26-10) showed the distinctive polymorphism among Kisteria sp. isolated from domestic foods. RAPD-PCR with five arbitrary primers produced 76 DNA polymorphism. Among them, OPA-01 and OP-26-01 primers produced about 1.5kb and 0.7 kb amplified DNA fragments for all the Listeric relationships of Listeria sp. using NTSYS program were grouped into 7 clusters and showed 0.54 to 0.93 similarity among strains. Especially, No. 3 and No. 20 isolates showed the genetically most similar relationship by 0.94, and No. 7 and No. 24, or No. 7 and N0. 45 isolates showed the least similarty by 0.54 From these results, RAPD analysis method deemed to be successfully applied the classification and genetic analysis for Listeria sp. isolates.

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