• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2012

The popularity of the Internet has affected international politics in many ways; however, it is seemingly overlooked by most scholars, and in particular, realists who view the Internet as low-politics. This article argues that the impact of the Internet on international politics should not be underestimated. By focusing on the capabilities of the Internet in general and P2P networks in particular, this paper shows how the Internet is able to disseminate soft power resources. This is demonstrated by an examination of the dissemination of Japanese soft power resources through BitTorrent. Finally, it is concluded that the Internet is a plausible agent for distributing the resources of soft power; however, once disseminated, soft power resources do not always transform into soft power. In the end, contextual conditions within states always apply.

• 분석과 대안
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.1-30
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• 2018

The concept of soft power presents both theoretical and practical difficulties for researchers and policy makers. This essay examines the practical use of soft power and argues that soft power resources in education are important for attracting individuals to migrate between countries and assimilate to the new language and culture of the new location. Japan's attempts to utilize soft power resources in its educational system have provided mixed results dependent on the target population. Japan has successfully attracted individuals into fields related to higher education much more so than skilled labor programs. This essay discusses the importance of educational soft power resources in Japanese strategy to increase educated working population that is assimilated to Japanese language and culture. After reviewing the literature on soft power in Asia, and Japanese cultural integration policies, the essay examines three cases of Japanese educational soft power - the JET Programme, the caregiver-training program, and internationalization of university programs. In addition, the essay shows that Japan is more successful attracting higher educated individuals seeking higher paying employment rather than skilled labor through these programs.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.55-68
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 문화력이 국력요소인 소프트파워에 어떤 영향을 미치고 있는지를 경험적 연구를 통해 살펴보았다. 문화력을 발휘하기 위해서는 문화적 국력요소에 대한 적절한 수준의 자원을 가지고 있어야 하고, 이의 활용을 통해 자원이 필요할 때 필요한 질과 양만큼 개발 생산하여 확보할 수 있는 역량을 갖추고 있어야 하며, 그런 자원들을 개발 생산, 확보하는 제반주체들의 활동이 원활히 발휘되도록 돕는 제반지원능력, 즉 복합지원역량으로 나타나야 한다. 문화력의 지표는 국민호감도, 문화호감도, 문화산업 경쟁력 지수, 체육경쟁력 지수, 관광 경쟁력 지수 등을 포함한다. 각 국가들의 문화력을 분석한 결과, 각 국가들의 문화산업 경쟁력과 여행 및 관광 경쟁력의 요소들이 비교적 높은 상관관계를 나타내었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 '소프트파워로서의 문화력' 부문에서 한국 중국 미국 간 문화산업과 여행 및 관광 경쟁력 측면에서 요소 지표를 분석하여보고 문화차이 등 자원의 발휘를 고찰하였다.

• Journal of Public Diplomacy
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.75-116
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• 2021

This study argues that scholars lack an adequate conceptualization of the strategic use of social media framing by Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) during crises. As a theoretical starting point, this article employs the concept of soft disempowerment to suggest that MFAs may use online framing to limit an adversary's range of possible actions during a crisis by depicting that adversary as violating norms and values deemed desirable by the international community. Next, the article introduces the concept of mutually assured delegitimization (MAD), which suggests that actors may call into question one another's adherence with certain norms and values during crises, which results in the mutual depletion of soft power resources. Importantly, this article proposes a novel, methodological approach for the analysis of individual tweets during crises. To illustrate its methodological and conceptual innovations, the study analyzes tweets published by the MFAs of the United States (US) and Russia during the Crimea crisis and demonstrates that both MFAs used Twitter to negatively frame each other by calling their morals into question, which resulted in MAD.

• Journal of Public Diplomacy
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.1-26
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• 2022

배경: 조셉 나이(Joseph Nye)의 선구적 저서, 연성권력(Soft Power)이 출간된 이후 소프트파워는 공공외교 연구의 중심 개념이 되었다. 그러나 이 개념은 아직 논쟁 중이라 이를 과도하게 강조하는 정치학자들로 인해 현장 실무에 적용할 수 있는 유용한 지식의 생산은 지체되어 왔다. 나이는 연성권력을 성공적인 공공외교의 수단이자 결과로 정의함으로써 체계적인 분석을 어렵게 했다. 목적: 본 연구의 목적은 효과적인 공공외교에 영향을 미치는 요인 분석을 위한 이론적 모형을 제공함으로써 연성권력과 공공외교의 관계를 나이와는 다른 각도에서 접근하고자 한다. 방법: 본 연구에서 제시하는 이론적 모형은 각국에 신공공외교가 언제 어떻게 도입되었는지 비교적 시각에서 분석하고, 연성권력과 경성권력 자원을 검토하였다. 결과: 다섯개의 차원으로 구성된 본 연구의 이론적 모형은 효과적인 공공외교에 영향을 미치는 요인을 밝히는데 사용될 수 있다. 이 모형을 통해 연성권력 그 자체보다는 공공외교 효과성에 영향을 미칠 것으로 예상되는 사상과 가치, 제도, 거버넌스, 리더십, 의사소통 체계와 같은 정치체제 내의 변수와 홍보학에서 사용하는 평가모형을 결합함으로써 현장에서 적용가능한 지식을 창출할 수 있다. 결론: 본 연구를 통해 공공외교에 관한 정성 분석은 물론 정량분석에 필요한 수많은 가설의 도출을 가능하게 함으로써 공공외교의 이론적, 분석적 발전에 기여할 것으로 예상된다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.407-418
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• 2014

As the high-throughput requirement in the next generation communication system increases, it becomes essential to implement high-throughput SISO (Soft-Input Soft-Output) decoder with minimal hardware resources. In this paper, we present the comparison results between cascaded radix-4 ACS (Add-Compare-Select) and LUT (Look-Up Table)-based radix-4 ACS in terms of delay, area, and power consumption. The hardware overhead incurred from the retiming technique used for high speed radix-4 ACS operation is also analyzed. According to the various analysis results, high-throughput radix-4 SISO decoding architecture based on simple path metric recovery circuit is proposed to minimize the hardware resources. The proposed architecture is implemented in 65 nm CMOS process and memory requirement and power consumption can be reduced up to 78% and 32%, respectively, while achieving high-throughput requirement.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.383-393
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• 2024

Monopile foundations of offshore wind turbines embedded in soft clay are subjected to the long-term cyclic lateral loads induced by winds, currents, and waves, the vibration of monopile leads to the accumulation of pore pressure and cyclic strains in the soil in its vicinity, which poses a threat to the safety operation of monopile. The researchers mainly focused on the hysteretic stress-strain relationship of soft clay and kinds of stiffness degradation models have been adopted, which may consume considerable computing resources and is not applicable for the long-term bearing performance analysis of monopile. In this study, a modified cyclic stiffness degradation model considering the effect of plastic strain and pore pressure change has been proposed and validated by comparing with the triaxial test results. Subsequently, the effects of cyclic load ratio, pile aspect ratio, number of load cycles, and length to embedded depth ratio on the accumulated rotation angle and pore pressure are presented. The results indicate the number of load cycles can significantly affect the accumulated rotation angle of monopile, whereas the accumulated pore pressure distribution along the pile merely changes with pile diameter, embedded length, and the number of load cycles, the stiffness of monopile can be significantly weakened by decreasing the embedded depth ratio L/H of monopile. The stiffness degradation of soil is more significant in the passive earth pressure zone, in which soil liquefaction is likely to occur. Furthermore, the suitability of the "accumulated rotation angle" and "accumulated pore pressure" design criteria for determining the required cyclic load ratio are discussed.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제66권2호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2017

This paper proposes a new non-isolated DC conversion circuit topology of the voltage source coupled inductor series resonant high-frequency PFM controlled boost chopper type DC-DC power converter using two in one IGBT power module, which can efficiently operate under a principle of zero current soft switching for wide output regulation voltage setting ranges and wide fluctuation of the input DC side voltage as well as the load variation ranges. Its steady state operating principle and the output voltage regulation characteristics in the open-loop-based output voltage control scheme without PI controller loop are described and evaluated from theoretical and experimented viewpoints. Finally, in this paper the computer-aided simulation steady-state analysis and the experimental results are presented in order to prove the effectiveness and the validity of voltage regulation characteristics of the proposed series resonant zero current soft switching boost chopper type DC-DC power converter circuit using IGBTs which is based on simple pulse frequency modulation strategy more than, 20kHz.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.127-145
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• 2022

Vaccine diplomacy is a manifestation of competition for political influence among great powers amidst the Covid-19 pandemic's blatant illustration of ineluctable interdependency across the global community. The reinforcement of trends bolstering global polity construction intensify concomitantly with nationalist populist value and attitude expressions increasing political polarization. The interdependency graphically illustrated in the Cold War-era's mutual assured destruction incentivized competition into indirect competitive intervention in the internal politics of third actors. Indirect international influence contestations included extended, de facto challenge competitions to generate soft power on behalf of the victor, e.g., the space race. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified this competition to offer alternative development models while intense domestic political polarization undermines the mobilizational capacities for achieving sustainable development. In contrast to multinational and multiethnic states, nation states have an inherent mobilizational advantage because of the enhanced control capabilities available to the authorities without emphasizing coercion. Control through Gramscian hegemonic mechanisms is more readily feasible in nation states through the greater feasibility of commodification of social relations by states authorities regulating and channeling social competition to encourage social mobility and creativity. The regulation of the so-called private sector serves to manage and contain social competition while channeling it to develop the institutional capacities for control and allocation of developing societal human resources. It enhances developed state control mechanisms and international influence capacities. The appeal of offers of aid and assistance to the so-called developing world becomes ever more urgent amidst Anthropocene crises including its most recent, current Covid-19 pandemic disaster.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.105_106
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• 2009

본 논문은 가압펌프용 전동기에 대한 기동방법을 정류소자(Soft starter)에 의한 기동전류 제어방식을 채택하고 있는 수도사업장에서 한전 수전에 의한 펌프모터 기동시에는 원활하게 운전이 가능하였으나 비상용 디젤발전기 부하운전에서 펌프모터를 기동하는데 실패함에 따라 상이한 전력공급계통으로부터 펌프모터 기동시 콘덴서의 특이현상과 고조파의 영향에 따른 모터 기동특성을 비교분석한 사례를 중심으로 연구되었다.