• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.1036-1057
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• 2013

Wireless body area network (WBAN) is a promising candidate for future health monitoring system. Nevertheless, the path to mature solutions is still facing a lot of challenges that need to be overcome. Energy efficient scheduling is one of these challenges given the scarcity of available energy of biosensors and the lack of portability. Therefore, researchers from academia, industry and health sectors are working together to realize practical solutions for these challenges. The main difficulty in WBAN is the uncertainty in the state of the monitored system. Intelligent learning approaches such as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) were proposed to tackle this issue. A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a form of Markov Chain in which the transition matrix depends on the action taken by the decision maker (agent) at each time step. The agent receives a reward, which depends on the action and the state. The goal is to find a function, called a policy, which specifies which action to take in each state, so as to maximize some utility functions (e.g., the mean or expected discounted sum) of the sequence of rewards. A partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) is a generalization of Markov decision processes that allows for the incomplete information regarding the state of the system. In this case, the state is not visible to the agent. This has many applications in operations research and artificial intelligence. Due to incomplete knowledge of the system, this uncertainty makes formulating and solving POMDP models mathematically complex and computationally expensive. Limited progress has been made in terms of applying POMPD to real applications. In this paper, we surveyed the existing methods and algorithms for solving POMDP in the general domain and in particular in Wireless body area network (WBAN). In addition, the papers discussed recent real implementation of POMDP on practical problems of WBAN. We believe that this work will provide valuable insights for the newcomers who would like to pursue related research in the domain of WBAN.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.121-140
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• 2006

Objectives: Safety is a primary health promotion issue in worksite because injury induces multi-fold loss of the human and economic resources to profit organization. The purposes of this study were to describe worksite health and safety education and management status in Korean manufacturing companies. Methods: The original population size of Korean manufacturing industry in 2004 was 74,398 and 2,960 factories were selected by the multiple stratified sampling method for this study. The health and safety manager or representatives of the selected 2,960 companies successfully finished in the face-to-face interview survey about company's general characteristics, health and safety management style, health and safety education hours conducted by the Korean Occupational Safety and Health Agency. Results: The manufacturing companies in Seoul and Kyunggi areas, small size, and clothes and press industries were related to low health and safety management and education status. The companies which assigned at least one safety manager were 70.5% and which had a health and safety room within the company were only 9.3%. The companies which took the health and safety education for their regular blue-collar employees more than the legal education hours were under 56.1% and the percentage of the companies which took their health and safety education for newcomers less than the legal limits was lower than any other types of health and safety education in workplace. The significant strong workplace health and safety management variables in predicting employee health and safety education were psycho-social variables such as the company own health and safety regulation and the workplace health and safety management committee organization. rather than physical variables such as health manager employment, safety manager employment. Conclusions: Systematic and legal approaches are effective to encourage workplace health and safety education, specifically, through sustaining health and safety managers and building the company-wide health and safety management system. Furthermore, theses approaches should primarily focus on the small companies of which sizes were under 50.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.194-203
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• 1993

Quality Control programs for industrial hygiene laboratory have successfully been operated since the 1st round was initiated in April 1992. Three rounds have been completed. Overall analytical performance of participants was improved through a subsquent round. The first round had a large variation among analytical results of all participants, 26.34%~504.22% of coefficient of variation. But the variation of analytical performance in the 2nd and 3rd rounds decreased to 40.42%~52.55% and 10.74%~20.98%, respectively. The difference of analytical performance among participants was decreased by operation of subsquent round. By distribution of Running Performance Index (RPI), over 50% of participants belongs to Category 3 in the first round. The average percentage of participants assigned to Category 3 in the 2nd and 3rd round was decreased to 37.2%. A definite analytical performance improvement of participants seems to be obtained. "A" and "B" group have more participants assigned to Category 3 than those of "C" group through the distribution of RPI by group divided to similar participant. By the distribution of RPI all participants, the percent of participant being over 200 RPI in the 1st round was 43%~52%, but decreased to 9%~29% and 9%~27%, in the 2nd and 3rd round, respectively. These results mentioned above indicate that the analytical performance of all participants have been improved by subsquent Quality Control Program although newcomers joined and a few participants droped out. But, there are some participants with poor analytical performance. Industrial Health Research Institute (IHRI) will offer service such as education, communication and visitation to them, and improve quality of their analytical performance in the future.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.1230-1238
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• 2010

국내 조선기자재산업은 1990년대 이후 국내 조선산업의 성장에 힘입어 지속적으로 성장하였다. 그러나 최근 중국 등 후발조선국의 조선산업 육성에 따라 조선기자재의 신흥시장으로 부상하고 있다. 또한 최근 국내 조선산업의 시장점유율이 35% 내외로 다량의 선박을 건조하였기 때문에 이들 선박에 대한 잠재적인 A/S수요가 막대하다. 그러므로 향후 이들 신흥시장의 선점과 글로벌A/S수요를 통한 직수출을 확대하기 위해서는 글로벌A/S시스템의 구축이 절실하다. 최근 부산 녹산산단에 업계 공동으로 조선기자 재글로벌지원센터를 설립하였으나 구체적인 운영방안을 마련 중에 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 최근 조선기자재의 A/S수요특성과 메카니즘을 알아보고, 국내 조선기자재산업의 직수출 확대를 촉진하기 위한 효율적인 글로벌A/S시스템을 제안하고, 자립운영을 위한 비즈니스 모델 개발하여 제시하였다.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2005

한국건설산업의 전산화, 정보화가 가속되어가는 현재 학교 교육에서는 그에 따른 충분한 교육이 이루어지지 못하고 있다: 대학을 졸업하는 학생들도 산업체 취업 후 요구되는 전산, 정보화 기술에 쉽게 적응하지 못하고 있고, 산업체에서도 그들을 위한 별도의 교육을 실시하고 있는 형편이다. 아울러 기존 건축공학의 전산교육 또한 기능별 소프트웨어의 사용정도로 국한되어 있기 때문에 복합적이고 통합화 되어가는 산업체들의 전산화과정에 크게 뒤떨어져 있다. 본 연구는 대학 건축공학 교과과정에서 적용할 수 있는 전산정보화 교육 프로그램을 개발하여 학생들의 적응력을 높이는 데에 목적이 있다. 교육 프로그램은 2002년부터 2004년까지 두 개의 교과과정에서 연계되어 진행되었고 10개의 모듈과 1개의 프로젝트로 구성되어 있다. 교육 프로그램을 결과는 학생들의 산업체 전산정보화에 대한 이해와 취업준비를 위한 능력 함양은 물론 창의력 개발에도 일조하여 지속적인 연구 또는 기술개발에도 진로 동기 부여가 가능한 것으로 나타났다.

• Carbon letters
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2012

The near explosion of attention given to graphene has attracted many to its research field. As new studies and findings about graphene synthesis, properties, electronic quality control, and possible applications simultaneous burgeon in the scientific community, it is quite hard to grasp the breadth of graphene history. At this stage, graphene's many fascinating qualities have been amply reported and its potential for various electronic applications are increasing, pulling in ever more newcomers to the field of graphene. Thus it has become important as a community to have an equal understanding of how this material was discovered, why it is stirring up the scientific community and what sort of progress has been made and for what purposes. Since the first discovery, the hype has expediently led to near accomplishment of industrial-sized production of graphene. This review covers the progress and development of synthesis and transfer techniques with an emphasis on the most recent technique of chemical vapor deposition, and explores the potential applications of graphene that are made possible with the improved synthesis and transfer.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.405-410
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• 2020

패션은 미용과 함께 신분, 지위, 혼인 여부, 개인 성향 등을 표현하는 시각적 수단이며 과거의 생활습관까지 유추할 수 있는 중요한 실용문화 유산이다. 현대사회에서는 헤어, 메이크업, 네일아트 등의 미용뿐만 아니라 여성 정장, 하이힐, 모자, 장갑, 핸드백, 목걸이 등과 같은 패션도 여성의 사회적 존재를 부각하면서 경쟁력을 배가시키는 요인으로 작용한다. 봉건적 가치관과 고정관념에 저항하면서 시대적 선도성을 발휘한 일제 강점기 신여성은 혁신적 여성상의 모범이며 21세기 과학기술의 급진적 발전에 부응하는 여성성의 표본을 제시하기 때문에 진정한 양성평등(兩性平等) 사회를 향한 원동력이자 발전적 미래설계를 위한 발판으로 작용한다. 신여성들의 패션스타일에서 발산되는 여성성에 대하여 뷰티 전공 여대생 관점으로 요인을 분석한 본 연구를 통하여 건설적 자조론(自助論)을 정립한 여성성의 표본 제시가 가능해짐과 동시에 현대 여성들의 자존감 정립과 성공하는 혁신적 여성성의 확고한 기틀도 마련되리라 사료된다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2004년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.229-233
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• 2004

인터넷과 정보통신 기술이 빠른 속도로 발전함에 따라 B2B 또는 B2C 전자 상거래에 이용되는 전자 카탈로그는 인터넷 공간에서 가장 효과적으로 기업의 상품 및 제품의 특성을 잘 표현할 수 있는 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 그러나 전자 상거래에 중요 기술기반이라 할 수 있는 전자 카탈로그의 작성과 적용에 관한 표준 부재와 서로 상이한 시스템을 구축하고 있어 전자상거래에 참여하는 시장 참여자는 전자 카탈로그 정보를 교환 및 거래에 사용할 수 없는 여러 문제점이 발생하고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 통합적으로 상품의 정보를 처리할 수 있는 전자 카탈로그 문서 구조를 정의하고 거래에 참여하는 사용자가 정의된 전자 카탈로그 문서를 전자 상거래에 이용할 수 있도록 통합형 전자 카탈로그 시스템을 설계 및 구현하였다. 본 시스템은 Web Services와의 연동을 통하여 Web Services가 갖고 있는 서로 다른 환경 내에서의 비즈니스 통합 및 상호 운용성 등 다양한 장점과 카탈로그 문서로부터 얻을 수 없는 유용한 정보를 Web Services를 얻을 수 있도록 하였다.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제38권
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• pp.297-329
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• 2015

Since 1989 about one million Jews from Former Soviet Union have immigrated to Israel. Now Russian speaking Jews are the second largest ethnic groups after the Israeli Jews who were born in Israel. Although FSU Jews have returned to their ethnic homeland, they continue to live as 'foreigners' due to a cultural distance between sending and receiving society, such as, lack of knowledge about Jewish tradition and religious practice and low level of Hebrew proficiency. Because of this reason FSU immigrants tend to continue remain strong ties with Russian language and culture. There are several reasons for such a relatively slow process of language shift of FSU Jewish immigrants, the language shift to Hebrew. Firstly, majority of FSU immigrants moved to Israel since the 1990s are older than 45. Secondly, their first residences in Israel are mostly located in small and mid-sized cities, where the proportion of Russian speaking immigrants is more than 30%. And finally they consider Russian culture is 'superior' to Israel's Levantine culture. For many Jewish diasporic communities, Judaism was a dominant factor for self-consciousness, but because of Soviet regime, aimed to break all the religious institution including Jewish, Soviet Jewry was uprooted from their religious traditions. Besides about 30% of FSU immigrants are not defined as Jews by the Jewish religious law(Halakhah). And many of them are reluctant to convert to Judaism. FSU Jewish immigrant agree that Israel must be a Jewish state, but for them 'Jewish' does not include religious elements. FSU immigrants consider that religious affiliation of citizens of Israel should not affect their civic rights.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.880-885
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• 2024

For Safety Assisted Engineering works, real-time simulators have emerged as a mandatory tool among all the key actors involved in the nuclear industry (utilities, designers and safety authorities). EDF, Electricité de France, as the leading worldwide nuclear power plant operator, has a crucial need for efficient and updated simulation tools for training, operating and safety analysis support. This paper will present the work performed at EDF/DT to develop a new generation of engineering simulator to fulfil these tasks. The project is called SiRENE, which is the acronym of Re-hosted Engineering Simulator in French. The project has been economically challenging. Therefore, to benefit from existing tools and experience, the SiRENE project combines: - A part of the process issued from the operating fleet training full-scope simulator. - An improvement of the simulator prediction reliability with the integration of High-Fidelity models, used in Safety Analysis. These High-Fidelity models address Nuclear Steam Supply System code, with CATHARE thermal-hydraulics system code and neutronics, with COCCINELLE code. - And taking advantage of the last generation and improvements of instructor station. The intensive and challenging uses of the new SiRENE engineering simulator are also discussed. The SiRENE simulator has to address different topics such as verification and validation of operating procedures, identification of safety paths, tests of I&C developments or modifications, tests on hydraulics system components (pump, valve etc.), support studies for Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA). etc. It also emerges that SiRENE simulator is a valuable tool for self-training of the newcomers in EDF nuclear engineering centers. As a modifiable tool and thanks to a skillful team managing the SiRENE project, specific and adapted modifications can be taken into account very quickly, in order to provide the best answers for our users' specific issues. Finally, the SiRENE simulator, and the associated configurations, has been distributed among the different engineering centers at EDF (DT in Lyon, DIPDE in Marseille and CNEPE in Tours). This distribution highlights a strong synergy and complementarity of the different engineering institutes at EDF, working together for a safer and a more profitable operating fleet.