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Parenting Experience of Parents with a Disabled Child (장애자녀를 둔 부모의 양육경험)

  • Lee, Ki-Young;Park, In-Sook;So, Hee-Young
    • The Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.32-40
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    • 2008
  • Purpose: This study used a phenomenological method, which is a qualitative study, in order to understand the vivid experience of parents who have a disabled child. Methods: The number of participants was 10. The subjects of this study were parents who are raising their disabled child who attends a special school or normal middle or high schools in D city. The period for collecting materials was from September 2005 to July 2007. The phenomenological analysis method suggested by Giorgi was used. Results: The meanings of the child parenting experience of parents with a disabled child are (1) feeling of frustration of the delayed treatment, (2) difficult to accept the diagnosis of disability, (3) having eyes centered on her child, (4) accepting the disabled child, (5) giving all his energy to his disabled child, (6) making efforts for his family's unity, (7) recognizing the difficulty of parenting disabled child, (8) recognizing the difficulty of education for disabled child, (9) feeling pitiful for his their normal children, (10) planning for disabled child's future. Conclusions: All the programs for disabled child should be programed for their entire life. It is necessary to provide physical, psychological, emotional, social and economic nursing intervention to relieve or reduce the burden of parents with disabled children.

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Wireless Measurement Technology for Power Plant Performance Diagnosis (발전설비의 성능진단 적용 무선계측 기술)

  • Kim, Ui-Hwan;Lee, Eung-Gon;Hong, Eun-Gi
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2017
  • The performance test is conducted for the purpose of determining the accurate thermal performance of the power generation facility or deriving the factors of thermal efficiency degradation. Compared to the acquisition method of power plant thermal performance test data by compensating cable or transmission cable, performance test using wireless instrument can acquire digital data in order to shorten the period due to installation and demolition of instrument and enhance safety of workers and relatively accurate data can be acquired thereby improving work efficiency. Wireless instruments have already been introduced to the market a long time ago, and some of them are used in industry such as petrochemical industry. However, there is no example which has been conducted for performance test of power generation facilities. In order to apply power generation facilities, a reliable system capable of acquiring performance data smoothly without affecting the control system is required. The wireless measurement system can eliminate the measurement defects and errors such as the damage due to the movement of the connecting cable, the extension due to the extension of the shield wire, the contact failure at the contact point between the measuring sensor and the connecting wire, This method has the advantage of collecting relatively accurate performance test data.

Color Compensation of an Underwater Imaging System Using Electromagnetic Wave Propagation

  • Inoue, Kotaro;Lee, Min-Chul;Kim, Cheol-Su;Cho, Myungjin
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.200-206
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    • 2016
  • Images can be obtained by collecting rays from objects. The characteristics of electromagnetic wave propagation depend on the medium. In particular, in an underwater imaging system, the interface between air and water must be considered. Further, reflection and transmission coefficients can be found by using electromagnetic theory. Because of the fact that the values of these coefficients differ according to the media, the recorded light intensities will change. A color image sensor has three different color channels. Therefore, the reflection and transmission coefficients have to be calculated individually. Thereafter, by using these coefficients, we can compensate for the color information of underwater objects. In this paper, we present a method to compensate for the color information of underwater objects by using electromagnetic wave propagation theory. To prove our method, we conducted optical experiments and evaluated the quality of the compensated image by a metric known as mean square error.

The Evaluation of Multiplane-Parallel Chamber Using Crystal Plate as Ionization Medium for Therapeutic Radiation Beams

  • Young W. Vahc;Park, Kyung R.;Kim, Sookil;Chul W. Joh;Kim, Tae H.
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 1998
  • There has been necessity of an air free ionization chamber using the gold-crystal-aluminium plates, henceforth called the crystal chamber. The crystal chamber formed of parallel plates is very small in size and has more response for absorbed dose of therapeutic radiation beams. The gold plate on the crystal facing the photon and electron beam acts as an intensifier of signals and crystal plate as an ionization medium respectively. Both the copper guard ring and the aluminum collecting electrode are connected to an electrometer. Using high energy photon (6, 15 MV) and electron (9, 12, 15, 18 MeV) beams, the responses of the crystal chamber are evaluated against a PTW Farmer-type chamber at a field size of 10${\times}$10cm$^2$ and 100 cm SSD. The responses of crystal chamber for therapeutic radiation electron and photon beams are greater in magnitude by several order than Farmer. The crystal chamber has good linearity without correction factor C$\_$t,p/ with respect to the signals, a reading reproduction with good accuracy and precision less than 0.5%, and has other useful functions in measuring radiation beams.

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A Design and Implementation of Testing and Management System for IoT Sensors (IoT 센서 시험 운용 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Chae, Sung-Yoon;Park, Jinhee
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.151-156
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    • 2016
  • The IoT technology and sensors used for collecting the environment information has rapidly increased the number and type. With the increasing need for this type of sensor effective system for selecting and testing the sensor nodes for the IoT to develop products and services. In this study, we design and implement IoT sensor testing system for IoT service and product. In order to support rapid prototyping, the proposed system provides testing and management tools for IoT sensor nodes. We analyze the requirements of the proposed system and design the system based on the functional component-specific design. Finally, we implement testing application to verify the functional elements of the proposed system.

A Estimation of Ionic Space Charge Polarization in Polyimide by TSC (폴리이미드에서 TSC에 의한 이온성 공간전하분극의 평가)

  • Lee, Won-Jae;Lee, Sung-Il;Lee, Ho-Sik;Jang, Kyung-Uk;Choi, Myong-Kyu;Kim, Tae-Wan;Kang, Dou-Yol
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2000
  • In this paper. Thermally Stimulated Current spectra have been measured in the Polypy - romellitimide (polyimide). As a result of the investigation. three peaks have been observed: $A(50^{\circ}C)$, $B(120^{\circ}C)$, $C(200^{\circ}C)$. Among three peaks, C peak has been observed in detail. The C peak is shown to be created due to the polarization of ionic space charge from the experimental results which were measured as a function of forming time, forming temperature. forming voltage and collecting voltage. As a result, we have measured the TSC in ion ($Na^+$) implanted - Polyimide, also found the peak at $215^{\circ}C$. Therefore, TSC characteristics in the C peak is probably caused by residual impurity. And The activation energy caculated by means of initial rising method 1.8eV, hopping distance. $90{\AA}$. and the mobility. $2.88{\times}10^{-11}cm^2/v.s$

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Spatio-temporal protocol for power-efficient acquisition wireless sensors based SHM

  • Bogdanovic, Nikola;Ampeliotis, Dimitris;Berberidis, Kostas;Casciat, Fabio;Plata-Chaves, Jorge
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2014
  • In this work, we address the so-called sensor reachback problem for Wireless Sensor Networks, which consists in collecting the measurements acquired by a large number of sensor nodes into a sink node which has major computational and power capabilities. Focused on applications such as Structural Health Monitoring, we propose a cooperative communication protocol that exploits the spatio-temporal correlations of the sensor measurements in order to save energy when transmitting the information to the sink node in a non-stationary environment. In addition to cooperative communications, the protocol is based on two well-studied adaptive filtering techniques, Least Mean Squares and Recursive Least Squares, which trade off computational complexity and reduction in the number of transmissions to the sink node. Finally, experiments with real acceleration measurements, obtained from the Canton Tower in China, are included to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Two Machine Learning Models for Mobile Phone Battery Discharge Rate Prediction Based on Usage Patterns

  • Chantrapornchai, Chantana;Nusawat, Paingruthai
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.436-454
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    • 2016
  • This research presents the battery discharge rate models for the energy consumption of mobile phone batteries based on machine learning by taking into account three usage patterns of the phone: the standby state, video playing, and web browsing. We present the experimental design methodology for collecting data, preprocessing, model construction, and parameter selections. The data is collected based on the HTC One X hardware platform. We considered various setting factors, such as Bluetooth, brightness, 3G, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Sync. The battery levels for each possible state vector were measured, and then we constructed the battery prediction model using different regression functions based on the collected data. The accuracy of the constructed models using the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and the support vector machine (SVM) were compared using varying kernel functions. Various parameters for MLP and SVM were considered. The measurement of prediction efficiency was done by the mean absolute error (MAE) and the root mean squared error (RMSE). The experiments showed that the MLP with linear regression performs well overall, while the SVM with the polynomial kernel function based on the linear regression gives a low MAE and RMSE. As a result, we were able to demonstrate how to apply the derived model to predict the remaining battery charge.

Comparisons of Dietary Atherogenicity and Nutrient Intakes between College Students and Their Parents (두 세대간의 지방 섭취형태 및 영양소 섭취량의 비교 연구)

  • 윤교희
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.111-117
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    • 2000
  • We assessed dietary patterns of 72 college students and 72 parents. The purpose of this study was to compare the difference in selected nutrient intakes and dietary atherogenicity between young and old generations. Three-day dietary records were used as a tool in collecting data and the diets were analyzed by the computer program Nutritionist IV. Average calori intakes of students and parents were 1,881.5kcal and 1,866.4kcal. Fat intakes were higher for students than those of parents, but problem intakes were higher for parents than those of students. Carbohydrate, protein and fat ratios in energy compositiion of students and parents were respectively 57.6:16.4:26.4 and 59.4:18.3:22.5. Students had slightly higher calcium intakes and consumed more milk exchanges than did parents, but students had lower values than parents when expressed as %RDAs for calcium. Our findings of higher consumptions of fat and sugar, lower fiber intakes, and higher atherogenic scores of diets such as cholesterol index, Keys score and Hegsted score in students than in their parents, would place our students at a higher risk for obesity and cardiovascular diseases.

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Thin Films for Environmental Application and Energy Devices

  • Kim, Young-Dok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.02a
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    • pp.91-91
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    • 2012
  • We aim in synthesizing various functional thin films thinner than ~ 10 nm for environmental applications and photovoltaic devices. Atomic layer deposition is used for synthesizing inorganic thin films with a precise control of the film thickness. Several examples about application of our thin films for removing volatile organic compounds (VOC) will be highlighted, which are summarized in the below. 1) $TiO_2$ thin films prepared by ALD at low temperature ($<100^{\circ}C$) show high adsorption capacity for toluene. In combination with nanostructured templates, $TiO_2$ thin films can be used as building-block of high-performing VOC filter. 2) $TiO_2$ thin films on carbon fibers and nanodiamonds annealed at high temperatures are active for photocatalytic oxidation of VOCs, i.e. photocatalytic filter can be created by atomic layer deposition. 3) NiO can catalyze oxidation of toluene to $CO_2$ and $H_2O$ at $<300^{\circ}C$. $TiO_2$ thin films on NiO can reduce poisoning of NiO surfaces by reaction intermediates below $200^{\circ}C$. We also fabricated inverted organic solar cell based on ZnO electron collecting layers on ITO. $TiO_2$ thin films with a mean diameter less than 3 nm on ZnO can enhance photovoltaic performance by reducing electron-hole recombination on ZnO surfaces.

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