• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.249-251
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• 2016

Objectives: Nail salon owners in New York City (NYC) are required to provide their workers with gloves and it is their responsibility to maintain healthy, safe working spaces for their employees. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency with which nail salon workers wear protective gloves. Methods: A Freedom of Information Law request was submitted to New York Department of State's Division of Licensing Services for a full list of nail salons in Manhattan, NYC. A sample population of 800 nail salons was identified and a simple random sample (without replacement) of 30% (n=240) was selected using a random number generator. Researchers visited each nail salon from October to December of 2015, posing as a potential customer to determine if nail salon workers were wearing gloves. Results: Among the 169 salons in which one or more workers was observed providng services, a total of 562 workers were observed. For 149 salons, in which one or more worker was observed providing services, none of the workers were wearing gloves. In contrast, in six of the salons observed, in which one or more workers was providing services, all of the workers (1 in 2 sites, 2 in 1 site, 3 in 2 sites, and 4 in 1 site) were wearing gloves. Almost three-quarters of the total number of workers observed (n=415, 73.8%) were not wearing gloves. Conclusions: The findings of this study indicate that, despite recent media attention and legislation, the majority of nail salon workers we observed were not wearing protective gloves when providing services.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.179-184
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• 2003

The pulsed power system is widely used for many industries and environments. Generally, we call the "RUST", the reddish brown surface, that was made on iron surface or some other metals, when they are contacted by water and air the main substance of rust is oxide-ionization. In other words, the chemical symbol of rust on iron surface is iron oxide(III) hydrate Fe203.nH2O. In this study, we have designed and fabricated our system which has a compact pulse generator with switching MOSFET. Also we have studied the metal-oxide removing characteristics using in the atmospheric arc discharge. It has been investigated their removing characteristics by the change of charging voltage and pulse repetition rates. From this result, we can find out that the removal area Is increased from 3.80 to 8.04[$\textrm{cm}^2$], when pulse duration is increased from 100[pps] to 400[pps]. 400[pps].

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제40권10호
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• pp.103-109
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• 2003

기존의 Multiple-Subcarrier변조 방식에 4-차원(4-D)신호를 이용한 Optical Wireless통신 방식을 제안하였다. 4-D 신호는 신호파형 최적화 기술 (OSW, Optimization Technique of Signal Waveforms)을 이용하여 유도하고 Multiple-Subcarricr의 block coder에 적용함으로써 출력 신호점 간의 Euclidean distance를 최대화하였다. 그 결과 고정 dc 바이어스를 부가한 상태에서 시스템에서 요구되는 Normalized power를 QPSK에 비해 3 dB, Reserved Subcarrier 나 Minimum Power에 비해 최대 3.3 dB 를 각각 절감하였고 normalized bandwidth 1.125 ∼ 1.25의 범위에서 QPSK에 비해 평균 3 dB, Res. Subcarrier 방식에 비해 2 ∼ 4 dB, Min. Power 방식에 비해 0 ∼ 3 dB를 각각 절감하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지C
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• 제34C권9호
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• pp.53-60
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• 1997

In this paper, an efficient BILBO(named EBILBO) is proposed for batch testing application when a BIST (built-in self test) circuit is implemented on ASIC. In a large and complex circuit, the proposed algorithm of batch testing has one pin-count that can easily control 4 test modes in the normal speed of circuit operation. For the implementation of the BIST cifcuit, the test patern needed is generated by PRTPG(pseudo-random test pattern generator) and the ouput is observed by proposed algorithm is easily modified, such as the modelling of test pattern genration, signature EBILBO area and performance of the implemented BIST are evaluated using ISCAS89 benchmark circuits. As a resutl, in a circuit above 600 gates, it is confirmed that test patterns are genrated flexibly about 500K as EBILBO area is 59%, and the range of fault coverage is from 88.3% to 100%. And the optimized operation frequency of EBILBO designed and the area are 50MHz and 150K respectively. On the BIST circit of the proposed batch testing, the test mode of EBILBO is able to execute as realtime that has te number of s$\^$+/n$\^$+/(2s/2p-1) clocks simultaneously with the normal mode of circuit operation. Also the proposed algorithm is made of the library with VHDL coding thus, it will be widely applied to DFT (design for testability) that satisfies the design and test field.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.71-75
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• 2004

This paper proposes a new bandgap reference (BGR) circuit which takes advantage of a cascode current mirror biasing to reduce the V$\_$ref/ variation, and sizing technique, which utilizes two related ratio numbers k and N, to reduce the PNP BJT area. The proposed BGR is designed and fabricated on a test chip with a goal to provide a reference voltage to the 10 bit A/D(4-4-4 pipeline architecture) converter of the CMOS Active Pixel Sensor (APS) imager to be used in X-ray imaging. The basic temperature variation effect on V$\_$ref/ of the BGR has a maximum delta of 6 mV over the temperature range of 25$^{\circ}C$ to 70$^{\circ}C$. To verify that the proposed BGR has radiation hardness for the X-ray imaging application, total ionization dose (TID) effect under Co-60 exposure conditions has been evaluated. The measured V$\_$ref/ variation under the radiation condition has a maximum delta of 33 mV over the range of 0 krad to 100 krad. For the given voltage, temperature, and radiation, the BGR has been satisfied well within the requirement of the target 10 bit A/D converter.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.462-472
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• 1999

De-NOx facility using Selective Catalytic Reduction method is the most widely applied one that removes NOx from flue gas emitted from combustion facility such as boiler for power generation engine incinerator etc. Reductant $NH_3\;or\;NH_4OH$ is sprayed into flue gas to convert NOx into $H_2O$ and $N_2.$ Good mixing between flue gas and $NH_3$ is the most important factor to increase reduction in catalytic layer and to reduce unreacted NH3 slip. Therefore the development of mixer device for mixing effect is one of the important part for SCR facility. Objectives of this study are to investigate the relation between flow and concentration field by observation at the wake of delta-wing type mixer. At the first stage qualitative measurement of flow field is conducted by flow visualization using laser light sheet in lab. scale wind tunnel. Also we have conducted the quantitative analysis by comparing flow field measurement using LDV with numerical simulation. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative analysis we investigate the dis-tribution of flow and concentration in flow model facility. The results of an experimental and compu-tational examination of the vortex structures shed from delta wing type vortex generator having $40^{\circ}$ angle of attack are presented, The effects of vortex structure on the gas mixing is discussed, too.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2012

As the huge economical loss and function paralysis of information technology-based systems can be caused by the misoperation of residual current devices(RCDs) due to surge voltages and currents, RCDs shall not operate by surge currents. In this paper, in order to evaluate the reliability of residual current operated circuit-breakers with integral overcurrent protection for household and similar uses((RCBOs) stressed by surges, the unintended trip characteristics of RCBOs under surge currents were experimentally investigated using the combination wave generator. Seven different types of single-phase RCBOs being present on the domestic market were investigated according to KS C IEC 61009-1 standard. As a result, all kinds of specimens were satisfied the requirements for 0.5 [${\mu}s$]/100[kHz] ring wave impulse currents. Most of specimens stressed by the 8/20[${\mu}s$] impulse current tripped at least one or more, and some of them were broken down during consecutive tests. It was found that only one type of specimens meets the L-N mode immunity to the combination wave of 1.2/50[${\mu}s$] impulse voltage and 8/20[${\mu}s$] impulse current.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.1795-1811
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• 2019

In order to achieve rapid and accurate detection of vehicle objects in complex traffic conditions, we propose a novel vehicle detection method. Firstly, more contextual and small-object vehicle information can be obtained by our Joint Feature Network (JFN). Secondly, our Evolved Region Proposal Network (EPRN) generates initial anchor boxes by adding an improved version of the region proposal network in this network, and at the same time filters out a large number of false vehicle boxes by soft-Non Maximum Suppression (NMS). Then, our Mask Network (MaskN) generates an example that includes the vehicle occlusion, the generator and discriminator can learn from each other in order to further improve the vehicle object detection capability. Finally, these candidate vehicle detection boxes are optimized to obtain the final vehicle detection boxes by the Fine-Tuning Network(FTN). Through the evaluation experiment on the DETRAC benchmark dataset, we find that in terms of mAP, our method exceeds Faster-RCNN by 11.15%, YOLO by 11.88%, and EB by 1.64%. Besides, our algorithm also has achieved top2 comaring with MS-CNN, YOLO-v3, RefineNet, RetinaNet, Faster-rcnn, DSSD and YOLO-v2 of vehicle category in KITTI dataset.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.50-61
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• 2000

최근 원추곡선에 기반한 스테레오 비젼에 대한 연구가 주목을 받고 있는데, 이는 원추곡선이 행렬표현, 대응관계설정의 용이성, 그리고 실세계에서 쉽게 찾을 수 있다는 좋은 성질을 갖는다는 점에서 당연한 현상이라 여겨진다. 하지만, 일반적인 고차의 대수곡선에 대한 확장은 아직 성공적으로 이루어지지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 기약인 대수곡선 (irreducible algebraic curve)은 실세계에서 많지 않지만, 직선과 원추곡선은 무수히 많고, 따라서 이들의 곱으로 주어지는 높은 차수의 대수곡선도 무수히 많다. 본고에서는 2이상의 임의의 차수를 가지는 대수곡선을 calibration된 두 대의 카메라를 가지고 스테레오 문제를 푼다. 대응관계설정과 복원, 두 가지 문제 모두에 대한 closed form solution을 제시한다. $f_1,\;f_2,\;{\pi}$를 각각 두 이미지 곡선, 공간상의 평면이라 하고, $VC_P(g)$를 평면곡선 g와 점 P로 만들어지는 원추곡선이라 하면, $VC_{O1}(f_1)\;=\;VC_{O1}(VC_{O2}(f_2)\;∩\;{\pi})$ 의 관계를 이용하여 미지수인 평면 ${\pi}$의 계수들, $d_1,\;d_2,\;d_3$에 대한 다항 방정식들을 얻을 수 있다. 약간의 변형을 통하여 $d_1$에 대한 다항 방정식을 얻을 수 있고, 이 방정식의 유일한 양수해는 나머지 과정에서 매우 중요한 역할을 한다. 그 이후에는 $O(n^2)$개의 일변수 다항식에 대한 계산만으로 모든 스테레오 문제를 해결한다. 이는 과거의 여러 개의 다변수 다항식의 공통근을 구해야 했던 방법에 비교된다. synthetic 데이터와 실제 이미지에 대한 실험은 우리의 알고리듬이 옳음을 보여준다.

• 생약학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.147-153
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• 2014

This study was focused on the evaluation of radical scavenging effect and the protective activity against oxidative stress of the extract and fractions from Petasites japonicus. P. japonicus was extracted with methanol and then fractionated into 4 fractions [n-butanol, ethyl acetate (EtOAc), methylene chloride, and n-hexane]. The extract and fractions showed strong 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging activity. Among all the fractions, particularly, the EtOAc fraction showed the strongest effect with the $IC_{50}$ value of $0.02{\mu}g/ml$. In addition, the fractions also showed strong hydroxyl radical scavenging activity and nitric oxide scavenging activity as well. Furthermore, cell viability generated by the P. japonicus extract and 4 fractions were examined under C6 glial cellular model. The C6 glial cells showed high generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and decrease in cell viability by the treatment generator of hydrogen peroxide. However, the production of ROS formation was decreased by the treatment of the fractions of P. japonicus and also founded that the EtOAc fraction led to significant increase in the cell viability at concentration $100{\mu}g/ml$. Results from this work indicated that P. japonicus showed protective effects against oxidative stress and its EtOAc fraction may be served as a useful natural antioxidant.