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ESBL: An Energy-Efficient Scheme by Balancing Load in Group Based WSNs

  • Mehmood, Amjad;Nouman, Muhammad;Umar, Muhammad Muneer;Song, Houbing
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.10 no.10
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    • pp.4883-4901
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    • 2016
  • Energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is very appealing research area due to serious constrains on resources like storage, processing, and communication power of the sensor nodes. Due to limited capabilities of sensing nodes, such networks are composed of a large number of nodes. The higher number of nodes increases the overall performance in data collection from environment and transmission of packets among nodes. In such networks the nodes sense data and ultimately forward the information to a Base Station (BS). The main issues in WSNs revolve around energy consumption and delay in relaying of data. A lot of research work has been published in this area of achieving energy efficiency in the network. Various techniques have been proposed to divide such networks; like grid division of network, group based division, clustering, making logical layers of network, variable size clusters or groups and so on. In this paper a new technique of group based WSNs is proposed by using some features from recent published protocols i.e. "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEMDC)" and "Energy-Efficient Multi-level and Distance Aware Clustering (EEUC)". The proposed work is not only energy-efficient but also minimizes the delay in relaying of data from the sensor nodes to BS. Simulation results show, that it outperforms LEACH protocol by 38%, EEMDC by 10% and EEUC by 13%.

Cultural Differences in Politeness and Notion of Flattery (공손표현과 아부의 문화적 차이)

  • Yoon, Jae-Hak
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.33
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    • pp.331-358
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    • 2013
  • This paper looks into several aspects of linguistic behaviors attested in Korean and American English corpora. A special attention is paid to the areas of politeness phenomena, terms of address, power and solidarity, practice of flattery, and closely-related non-linguistic behaviors such as tipping and gift-giving conventions. An analysis of the data reveals that Korean society remains very much superior-oriented, non-egalitarian, non-democratic despite the pride and sense of accomplishment among the populace that the nation has achieved a satisfactory level of democracy. In particular, the following facts in Korean and the Korean society are exposed by an examination of the data: ${\bullet}$ There is a notional gap of positive politeness ${\bullet}$ Superiors enjoy an unfair advantage in the power and solidarity system ${\bullet}$ The terms of address system is set up to make a clear distinction between levels and the terms of address, in turn, dictate norms of expected behavior ${\bullet}$ The notion and practice of flattery heavily favors superiors ${\bullet}$ Non-linguistic acts of gift-giving and tipping are consistent with the examined social interactions As a result, all the benefits, emotional as well as material, are garnered by superiors. These facts may reflect the real Korea that people are used to being comfortable with, a pre-modern, feudalistic society, something akin to its kin in the north. We may proclaim that we aspire to a more democratic society. However, it appears Koreans, deep inside, may have been seeking a powerful dictator all along. These findings help provide a partial but insightful clue to the political puzzle: why Koreans grew uncomfortable with an egalitarian and democratic president and could not save him, but instead replaced him with a succession of a corrupted businessman and the authoritarian daughter of a former dictator. The flight to democracy has stalled in midair, not quite making the grade yet. There is plenty of linguistic evidence in Korean.

War in Leo Tolstoy's Literature and War and Peace (L. 톨스토이 문학에 나타난 전쟁 - 장편소설 『전쟁과 평화』를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Sung IL
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.34
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    • pp.115-146
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    • 2014
  • Cyclical stories on Caucasus and Sebastopol Sketches, including War and Peace, have generally been said as masterpieces dealing with the theme of war in Leo Tolstoy's literature. Among them, it is no doubt that War and Peace is absolutely the best one describing the grand panorama of people's lives and war itself. The plot of this novel consists of the so-called Napoleonic War of 1812 and of diverse lives both from the upper class and lower class, more essentially it dramatically presents how these pictures made all literary participants experienced their destiny and lives. Throughout these texts, war, including of its cause and effects and participants, re-considers and re-evaluates all of each features. The most important themes in War and Peace is war itself as the novel's title says. Rather than a just backdrop to the novel, the war plays a significant role in providing the reader with various realistic, philosophic, moral and existentialist perspectives. Moreover, War and Peace for the writer shows contradictory two views about war; he severally criticizes the Napoleonic war of 1812 in the sense that it violets people's reason and nature. At the same time, however, Tolstoy considers that the war as liberation is justified and necessary for guarding people's nation, otechestvo in Russian. What the writer attempts to show from this novel, however, goes beyond the simple descriptions which were done above. Leo Tolstoy successfully offers and what he tries to show in the long run is that how people go through all kinds of sufferings and hardship and their spiritual resurrection, thereby leading to the vital force making history. For the writer, the essential force that makes history and people's lives is not heroic military leader like Napoleon, but those common people. And the novel serves a wonderful prelude expecting the Decembrist revolt in 1825, because all of the vital and active streams that Tolstoy emphasizes turn out true in Russian history.

A Convergence Study through Analysis of Strength and Durability on Automotive A-Pillar (자동차의 A필러에 대한 강도 및 내구성 해석을 통한 융합 연구)

  • Oh, Bum-Suk;Cho, Jae-Ung
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.11
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    • pp.297-302
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    • 2019
  • A-pillar is closely related to safety for the purpose of protecting the bodies of passengers by mitigating the impact that may be caused by the vehicle being overturned while driving. Therefore, the A-pillar should protect these parts from a variety of dynamic loads. This study result is thought to contribute for the strength and durability of A-pillar by designing two types of parts before making this product and analyzing the product which thickness is adjusted for the light weight of vehicle. If this study result is practically applied to the parts of A-pillar in a car, it is considered that the damage can be protected by the durability verification of design. By utilizing the data of analysis and design on the strength and durability of automotive A-pillar in this study, the esthetic sense can be given by being grafted onto the real automotive part.

A study on the development process of Heesch-tiling for textile design education (텍스타일 디자인 교육을 위한 헤슈타일링 개발 프로세스 연구)

  • Choi, Yoo-jin
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.57-71
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    • 2021
  • When teaching traditional pattern-themed textile design, it has been found that many students struggle during the investigation stage of traditional patterns and complete the development of patterns in relatively simple layout methods, such as block patterns and half drop patterns. Until now, digital textile design textbooks lack content on how to develop patterns. Judging that the current teaching method leads to difficulties in developing a new sense of textile design, this study focused on Heesch-tiling tessellation and software called TESS, a program that can transform patterns themselves. This study is an academic study on the methodology of first developing patterns through TESS, a tessellation program developed for elementary school students in the U.S., and then applying various lines and colors to the complete patterns and textures using Adobe Illustrator. In this study, the concept, formative characteristics, and generative principles of Heesch-tiling tessellation were examined, and the process of developing new patterns using the TESS program, which can be used to create patterns through Heesch-tiling principles, was intended to help in textile design education. Therefore, after analyzing the comprehensive concepts and principles of tessellation, the next step is to understand the principles and the characteristics of pattern making only for Heesch-tiling tessellation, and then ultimately to develop new patterns. While patterns using traditional tessellation layouts have been characterized mainly by repeated geometric shapes, Heesch-tiling tessellation can express surrealistic attributes, such as those by painter M. C. Escher or style elements such as those in neo-pop.

A Study on the Analysis of Port Redevelopment Conditions and Development Plan in Pyeongtaek-Dangjin Port : Focusing on the redevelopment of ports in Dangjin (평택·당진항의 항만 재개발 여건분석 및 발전방안에 관한 연구: 당진지역 항만의 재개발을 중심으로)

  • Seo, Mun-Seong;Kwon, Jeong-Man
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.31-52
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    • 2020
  • The increase in the number of ships entering and leaving the port and the creation of various cargo volumes can promote local economy and lead to regional development, attracting businesses, and influx of local residents. The port area of Dangjin consists of the limited cargo and most private docks, making it increasingly weak in meeting the local economic development and the expectations of local residents. Therefore, in order to promote regional development and revitalize the local economy, and to reduce the sense of alienation of local residents, it is necessary to make it easier to access and water to ports through the development of all areas of Eumseompo-gu, and to make active changes in the marine and port logistics environment. As seen through various cases of port development at home and abroad and the redevelopment of the ports at Gohyeon Port in Geoje, Dangjin Port should be able to quickly demonstrate the development of the Dangjin Port area and improve the quality of life for the residents of the metropolitan area. This is the time when the government's drive is highly requested.

A Study on the Autonomy of the Autonomous Weapon Systems (자율 무기체계의 자율성에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong Ryul
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.101-111
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    • 2018
  • The autonomous weapon systems are being developed with a global competition due to the 4th industrial revolution technologies such as artificial intelligence. This theses analyzes on the technologies related to the autonomy of the new weapons, the new changes in war fighting regime that will be brought by such autonomous weapons, the level of autonomy in a autonomous weapon system, and also the definition and functions of the autonomy. The advanced artificial intelligence for the civilian commercial sectors would be similar to the required military autonomous systems. The future war fighting regime would be the war with autonomous weapon systems without any human casualties. The level of autonomy in the future weapons would be fully autonomous without any human supervision or involvement in the decision making processes. The functions of the autonomous weapon would be to sense, to decide, and to act with a full autonomy in order to accomplish desired purposes.

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The Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Cities and Correlation with Large Apartment Complexes in Korea (국내 대도시의 주거지 분리 추이와 대규모 아파트단지와의 상관분석)

  • Park, Young Min;Kim, Jong Gu
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.633-641
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    • 2020
  • Residential complexes offer a sense of community and convenience, but making closed and privated space have been criticized.Closed urban spaces have issues encouraging residential segregation.large apartment complexes over 1,000 households,the most poular housing type in Korea, seems to make urban space more closed and privated than ever before. Our study puts forward and tests the hypothesis that large apartment complexes with over 1,000 households are linked to residential segregation. First of all, we examined the degree of residential segregation of metropolitan cities in Korea over a nine-year period (2011-2019). The dissimilarity index and the delta index were used for determining the extent of residential segregation. Next, we tested our hypothesis by Spearman's rank correlation analysis. Spearman's rank correlation analysis was performed on the residential segregation index per administrative division ("dong") and the number of large apartment complexes per administrative division ("dong").

Motivation and Meaning of the Elderly Women's Line Dance Experience (여성 노인의 라인댄스 체험 동기와 의미 탐색)

  • Kim, Young-Mee;Oh, Jin-Sook
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.471-479
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to find out what meanings would be brought to the old females' lives, who took part in the line dance as programs for senior's health. 6 the old females were selected. Research materials were gathered from in-depth interviews and observations by researcher. As a result of content analysis, the following conclusions were drawn. First, elderly's motives for participation in line dance were found to be solicitation of the surroundings, recovery and maintenance of health, and participation in pursuit of happiness. Second, the elderly's line dance experience was changed the perception of dance. Third, line dance improved interest and confidence in the body and appearance. Fourth, the line dance experience provides a space for making new friends. Fifth, the line dance experience improved a sense of accomplishment and immersion through dance. Sixth, the support and praise of the family increased self-esteem and improved overall life satisfaction and happiness.

Study on China's Changing Economic Policy toward Africa: focusing on the Cold War and Post-Cold War Comparison (중국의 대(對) 아프리카 경제정책 변화: 냉전과 탈냉전의 비교를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Dong Hwan;Oh, Byung Seok
    • International Area Studies Review
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.297-323
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    • 2010
  • The distinguished feature of the economic relationship between China and Africa during the cold war is the one that there was economic point of view at all even though such a huge trade between the two countries. It was caused by purely ideological and political purpose of China. because of the giant stream of time which is called as 'the cold war', it has been replaced with other conceptions: 'aid' or 'support.' Since the end of the cold war, however, the relationship between China and Africa has been showing noticeable features; political and ideological purposes are getting less meaningful or excluded completely. In 1990, China was based on the pragmatism, which is a rigorous sense of economy, and Africa was getting popular as an emerging market, which is not only performing as a stable energy supplier but also making trade and direct investment is possible. Also, it has implications for Korea that seriously considers putting more efforts into expanding its influence on all over the trade relations which includes investment and import-export in the emerging market: Africa.