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Aerodynamic Characteristics of Korean Bilabial Stop Consonant as a Function of Phonemic Position in a Syllable (음절내 음소 출현 위치에 따른 한국어 양순 파열음의 공기역학적인 특징)

  • Park, Sang-Hee;Jeong, Haeng-Im;Jeong, Ok-Ran;Seok, Dong-Il
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.59-75
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    • 2002
  • Aerodynamic analysis study was performed on 14 normal subjects (2 males, 12 females) with nonsense syllables composed of Korean bilabial stops (/p, p', $p^{h}$) and their preceding and/or following vowels, /i, a, u/. That is, [pi, p'i, $p^{h}i$, pa, p'a, $p^{h}a$, pu, p'u, $p^{h}u$, ipi, apa, upu, $ip^{h}i$, $ap^{h}a$, $up^{h}u$, ip'i, ap'a, up'u]. All measures were taken and analysed using Aerophone II voice function analyzer and included peak air pressure, mean air pressure, maximum flow rate, volume, mean SPL and phonatory SPL. A t-test and one-way ANOVA were employed for analysis. A post-hoc analysis was performed with Scheffe and Bonferroni. The results were as follows: First, MSPL. and MAP of /p, p', $p^{h}$/ were significantly different in different positions (initial and medial position). In addition, different vowel environment also produced significantly different aerodynamic characteristics those consonants. Especially the lax consonant /p/ was significantly different /i, a, u/ vowel environments. The tense consonant /p'/ was significantly different only /i/ vowel environment.

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Intelligent Service Agents using User Profile and Ontology (온톨로지와 사용자 프로파일을 적용한 지능형 서비스 에이전트)

  • Kim, Je-Min;Park, Young-Tack
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.33 no.12
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    • pp.1062-1072
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    • 2006
  • Recently, new intelligent service frameworks, such as ubiquitous computing are proposed. So, the necessity of adaptive agent system has been increased. In this paper, we propose an intelligent service agent to help that ubiquitous computing system offer user suitable service in ubiquitous computing environment. In order to offer user suitable uT-service, an intelligent service agent mediates the gap between the context information in uT-service system, and user preference is reflected in it. Therefore, we focus on following three components; the first is suitable multi agent framework-agent communication analysis and applicable method of inference engine, the second is uT-ontologies to describe various context information-context information sharing between agents and context information understanding between agents, the third is learning method of user profile to apply in uT-service system. This approach enables us to build adaptive uT-service system to offer suitable service according to user preference.

Regulation of the plasminogen activator activity and inflammatory environment via transforming growth factor-beta regulation of sperm in porcine uterine epithelial cells

  • Kim, Su-jin;Cheong, Hee-Tae;Park, Choon-keun
    • Journal of Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.297-306
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    • 2020
  • The aims of the present study were to confirm that regulation of the PA and environment via TGF-β regulation of sperm by Percoll-separated in porcine uterine epithelial cells. And, it was performed to identify the cytokines (TGF-β1, 2 and 3, TGF-β receptor1 and 2; interleukin, IL-6, IL-8) and PA-related genes (urokinase-PA, uPA; tissue-PA, tPA; PA inhibitor, PAI; uPA-receptor, uPAR) by spermatozoa. The experiment used porcine uterus epithelial cells (pUECs) and uterine tissue epithelial cells, Boar sperm were separated by discontinuous Percoll density gradient (45/90%), and tissues were co-incubated with spermatozoa, followed by real-time PCR. PA activity was measured of sperm by discontinuous Percoll density gradient (45/90%) for 24 hours. To measure viability and acrosome damage of sperm double stained propidium iodide (PI) and SYBR-14 or FITC-PNA were used. In results, binding ratio of Percoll-separated sperm was found no differences, but sperms isolated from 90% Percoll layer reduced PA activity (p < 0.05). when co-cultured sperm selected Percoll in porcine uterus tissues epithelial cells, 90% layer sperm increased TGF-β R1, contrastively tPA and PAI-1 in comparison with control (p < 0.05). 45% sperm was decreased the expression of uPA (p < 0.05). TGF-β decreased PA activity in the supernatant collected from pUECs (p < 0.05). Especially, The group including uPA, PAI-1 were induce sperm intact, while it was reduced in sperm damage when compared to control (p < 0.05). Also, there was no significant difference group of tPA and tPA+I in the dead sperm and acrosome damage compared to control. The expression of tPA and PAI showed a common response. Percoll-separated spermatozoa in 90% layer reduced tPA and IL-related gene mRNA expression. Thus, Percoll-sparated sperm in 90% layer show that it can suppress inflammation through increased expression of TGF-β and downregulation of PA and IL in epithelial cells compared to 45% layer Percoll.

Environmental test campaign of a 6U CubeSat Test Platform equipped with an ambipolar plasma thruster

  • Stesina, Fabrizio;Corpino, Sabrina;Borras, Eduard Bosch;Amo, Jose Gonzalez Del;Pavarin, Daniele;Bellomo, Nicolas;Trezzolani, Fabio
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.195-215
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    • 2022
  • The increasing interest in CubeSat platforms ant their capability of enlarging the frontier of possible missions impose technology improvements. Miniaturized electrical propulsion (EP) systems enable new mission for multi-unit CubeSats (6U+). While electric propulsion systems have achieved important level of knowledge at equipment level, the investigation of the mutual impact between EP system and CubeSat technology at system level can provide a decisive improvement for both the technologies. The interaction between CubeSat and EP system should be assessed in terms of electromagnetic emissions (both radiated and conducted), thermal gradients, high electrical power management, surface chemical deposition, and quick and reliable data exchanges. This paper shows how a versatile CubeSat Test Platform (CTP), together with standardized procedures and specialized facilities enable the acquisition fundamental and unprecedented information. Measurements can be taken both by specific ground support equipment placed inside the vacuum facility and by dedicated sensors and subsystems installed on the CTP, providing a completely new set of data never obtained before. CTP is constituted of a 6U primary structure hosting the EP system, representative CubeSat avionics and batteries. For the first test campaign, CTP hosts the ambipolar plasma propulsion system, called Regulus and developed by T4I. After the integration and the functional test in laboratory environment, CTP + Regulus performed a Test campaign in relevant environment in the vacuum chamber at CISAS, University of Padua. This paper is focused on the test campaign description and the main results achieved at different power levels for different duration of the firings.

Important Radionuclides and Their Sensitivity for Ground water Pathway of a Hypothetical Near-Surface Disposal Facility

  • Park, J. W.;K. Chang;Kim, C. L.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.156-165
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    • 2001
  • A radiological safety assessment was performed for a hypothetical near-surface radioactive waste repository as a simple screening calculation to identify important nuclides and to provide insights on the data needs for a successful demonstration of compliance. Individual effective doses were calculated for a conservative ground water pathway scenario considering well drilling near the site boundary. Sensitivity of resulting ingestion dose to input parameter values was also analyzed using Monte Carlo sampling. Considering peak dose rate and assessment time scale, C-14 and T-129 were identified as important nuclides and U-235 and U-238 as potentially important nuclides. For C-14, the dose was most sensitive to Darcy velocity in aquifer The distribution coefficient showed high degree of sensitivity for I-129 release.

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u-City service Model based on Implementation and Adaptability

  • Lee, Yeon-Ho;Ko, Seong-Sun;Lee, Nam-Yong;Kim, Jong-Bae
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.251-257
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    • 2010
  • The realization of u-City is coming near in some local governments by applying various city services, namely, u-City services to the city construction field to improve competitiveness of the city. But it is a reality that some local governments are experiencing many trial and errors in application of the u-City service in addition to the problem posing that the u-City service is not considering characteristics of development or application environment of an individual city. The present research proposes a service model for on-site application of the u-City service to solve this problem. The proposed model suggests a method for specifically conceptualizing and objectifying the on-site application that the existing concept-oriented model or an architecture-oriented model, etc. didn't provide. The verification system on effectiveness or effects of the u-City service model to remove ambiguity on the u-City service especially. The verification system of the u-City service model grasps the technology, function, procedure and target, etc. that the u-City service contains, evaluates whether the model satisfies conditions that the model should have, and secures objectivity and predictability of the u-City service model through confirmation on propriety, implementation and effectiveness, etc.

A Study on the Improvement of SAR Capabilities in Korea - On the drifting characteristics of fishing vessel - (우리나라의 SAR 능력 향상에 관한 연구 - 어선의 표류 특성에 관하여 -)

  • 윤종휘;이문진;장하룡
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 2001
  • To improve SAR capabilities in Korea, marine casualties during 5 years(1995-1999) were analyzed and drifting experiment of G/T 50 ton class vessel was carried out off Pusan harbor. As a result, it was found that the occurrence of casualty by fishing boat ranked highest and a considerable numbers of casualties took place more than 20 miles off the shore, and leeway was computed by two drifting experiments as 0.045U - 010 $^{\circ}$, 0.037U+ 021 $^{\circ}$ respectively.

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Studies on the National Standard Packaging Modules to improve Dimensional Integrity on the International Distribution Environment (국제물류환경과의 정합성 유지를 위한 국가표준포장모듈 연구)

  • Lee, Myung-Hoon;Lee, You-Seok;Kim, Jong-Kyoung
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate current packaging modules and design the most acceptable packaging module for domestic and international distribution systems. An optimum packaging module can reduce package costs as well as total distribution costs such as transport, materials handling and warehouse costs. Three different sizes of packaging modules, namely U-type($600{\times}500\;mm$), K -ype($550{\times}366\;mm$) and I-type($600{\times}400\;mm$), were evaluated in terms of the area efficiency and MOEs(measures of effectiveness) for the T-11($1100{\times}1100mm$) and T-12($1,200{\times}1,000\;mm$) pallets. The results showed that the U-type module could fit very well for both pallets and the area efficiency of each module was more than 99 percents. Area efficiency of K-and I-type modules was greatly affected by the pallet footprint dimensions. U-type module also performed better result from MOEs evaluation. Twenty sub-multiple sizes derived from the U-type module were suggested for the future development of the Korean and ISO standards on dimension of transport packages.

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Analysis of Security Vulnerability in U2U Authentication Using MEC in IoD Environment (IoD 환경에서 MEC를 활용한 U2U 인증에서 보안 취약점 분석)

  • Choi, Jae Hyun;Lee, Sang Hoon;Jeong, Ik Rae;Byun, Jin Wook
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2021
  • Due to the recent development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the increase in services using drones, research on IoD is actively underway. Drones have limited computational power and storage size, and when communicating between drones, data is exchanged after proper authentication between entities. Drones must be secure from traceability because they contain sensitive information such as location and travel path. In this paper, we point out a fatal security vulnerability that can be caused by the use of pseudonyms and certificates in existing IoD research and propose a solution.