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Uncertainty analysis of quantitative rainfall estimation based on weather radars (기상레이더 기반 정량적 강수추정에서의 불확실성 분석)

  • Lee, Jae-Kyoung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.23-23
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    • 2017
  • 기상레이더는 강우량을 바로 추정하지 못하는 특성으로 인해 정량적 강우산출 과정 중에 다양한 원인으로 인해 불확실성 발생 요소가 존재하나 이를 정량화하고 저감하는데 많은 어려움이 있다. 원인을 살펴보면, 첫째, 기상레이더의 관측에서부터 정량적 강우량 추정까지 일련의 과정에 대한 포괄적으로 불확실성 정량화와 분석이 이루어지지 못하며, 둘째, 전체 불확실성이 어느 정도 되는지 제시하지 못하므로 각 단계별 불확실성이 전체 불확실성 대비 어느 정도 비율이 되는지 제시하지 못한다. 마지막으로 기존 연구들은 불확실성을 줄이고자 여러 방법을 사용하고 있으나 어느 정도 효용성이 있는지 불확실성 측면에서 제시하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 Maximum Entropy(ME)와 Uncertainty Delta Method(UMD)를 이용한 접근방법을 제안하여 기상레이더를 활용하여 정량적 강우량을 추정하는 일련의 과정에서 단계별로 불확실성이 어떻게 전파되는지 추정하였다. 본 연구에서는 한반도 전역을 대상으로 2012년 여름철(6~8월)에 발생한 18개 강우사례를 이용하여 품질관리(Open Radar Product Generator 품질관리 알고리즘, fuzzy 알고리즘), 강우추정(Window Probability Matching Method, Marshall-Palmer 관계식), 후처리보정(Local Gauge Correction 기법, Gauge to Radar ratio 기법)단계만을 수행하였으며, 이 결과를 바탕으로 기상레이더 정량적 강우추정 단계별 불확실성을 정량화하였다. 정량화결과, 최종적으로 관측단계의 불확실성보다 최종 불확실성이 줄어들었으나, 강우추정 단계에서 불확실성이 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 어떤 강우추정식을 적용하느냐에 따라 레이더 강우추정결과가 매우 달라질 수 있음을 의미한다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제시한 불확실성 정량화 방법을 통하여 첫째, 전체 및 단계별 불확실성을 정량화할 수 있고, 둘째, 최종 불확실성 대비 각 단계별 불확실성을 비율을 제시할 수 있으며, 마지막으로 수행단계별로 불확실성 전파과정을 파악할 수 있다. 이는 향후 정량적 레이더 강우추정 과정에 있어서 불확실성을 발생시키는 주요 원인파악과 이에 대한 집중적인 투자를 가능하게 한다. 이러한 과정을 통하여 보다 정확한 정량적 레이더 강우추정이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

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A Literature Review of Infection with ESKAPE Pathogens in Oral and Maxillofacial Region

  • Park, Sang-Yeap;You, Jae-Seek;Moon, Seong-Yong;Oh, Ji-Su;Choi, Hae-In;Jung, Gyeo-Woon
    • Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2021
  • Odontogenic infection in the oral and maxillofacial regions caused by bacteria (mostly of oral origin) is one of the most common diseases encountered by dentists. Localized infection can easily be treated with incision and drainage followed by antibiotics. Emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria called "Superbacteria" has become one of the serious problems in modern society, due to its small window of opportunity for treatment and high casualty. The acronym "ESKAPE", encompassing the common and serious MDR pathogens stand for Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacter spp. Literature search was performed in Medline, PubMed and Google Scholar ranging from 2012 to 2020. ESKAPE patient's infection period was longer than that of non-ESKAPE group, and the treatment method due to antibiotic resistance was also complicated. The purpose of this study is to investigate infection caused by ESKAPE pathogens in the oral and maxillofacial regions through literature review and to inform dental surgeons of the danger of ESKAPE pathogens and to suggest viable treatment options. Many studies worldwide reported infections associated with ESKAPE pathogens, but only limited number of studies targeted infection in oral and maxillofacial regions. Further research is required with more data on ESKAPE bacteria and their infection, especially in oral and maxillofacial regions.

Keyhole Imaging Combined Phase Contrast MR Angiography Technique (Keyhole Imaging기법을 적용한 위상대조도 자기공명 혈관조영기법)

  • Lee, D.H.;Hong, C.P.;Han, B.S.;Lee, M.W.
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.72-77
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    • 2012
  • Phase Contrast MR Angiography(PC MRA) is excellent MRA technique for measuring the velocity of vessels in the human body. PC MRA need to at least four images for angiogram reconstruction and it caused longer scan time. Therefore, we used keyhole imaging combined PC MRA to reduce the scan time. However, keyhole imaging can lead the erroneous effects as loss of phase information or frequency discontinuous. In this study, we applied the keyhole imaging combined 2D PC MRA for improving the temporal resolution and also measured the velocity to evaluate the accuracy of phase information. We used 0.32T MRI scanner(Magfinder II, Scimedix, Korea). Using the 2D PC MRA pulse sequence, the vascular images for a human brain targeted on the Superior Sagittal Sinus(SSS) were obtained. We applied tukey window function for keyhole images to minimize the ringing artifact and erroneous factors that are induced frequency discontinuous and phase information loss. We also applied zero-padded algorithm to peripheral missing k-space lines to compare keyhole imaging results and the artifact power(AP) value was measured on the complex difference images to validate the image quality. Consider as based on our results, heavy image distortions and artifacts were shown until using at least 50% keyhole factor. Using above the 50% keyhole factors are shown well reconstructed and matched for magnitude images and velocity information measurements. In conclusion, we confirmed the image quality and velocity information of keyhole technique combined 2D PC MRA. Especially, measured velocity information through the keyhole imaging combination was similar to the velocity information of full sampled k-space image despite of frequency discontinuous and phase information loss in the keyhole imaging reconstruction process. Consequently, the keyhole imaging combined 2D PC MRA will give some clinical usefulness and advantages as improving the temporal resolution and measuring the velocity information via selecting the appropriate keyhole factor at low tesla MRI system.

The Effect of Group Music Therapy Using the Traditional Drum on the Social-Adjustment, Self-Conception and Emotional-Adjustment of Children with Hearing Impairment (전통 북을 활용한 집단 음악 치료가 청각 장애 아동의 사회적응과 자아상 및 정서적응에 미치는 영향)

  • Sung, Mi-Kyeong;Cheong, Kwang-Jo;Choi, Ae-Na
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.85-101
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    • 2012
  • This study was conducted to investigate the effect of group music therapy using the traditional drum on the; social adjustment, self-image, and emotional adjustment, of children with hearing impairment. I participated in this group music therapy using the traditional drum with 7 children with hearing impairment for 3 days a week for 6 weeks(including holidays), and each session was 50 minutes long. The evaluation form of this study is a social-emotional development measurement sheet of Meadow-Kendall, which the children's teacher distributed to the children both pre- and post-examination. With these results, the researcher carried out Window SPSS 19 Version and searched for the experiment's effect of measurement cause (I am not sure what this means.) through paired t-test to identify the experiment's effects (social adjustment, self-image, emotional adjustment) as a result of group music therapy using the traditional drum for children with hearing impairment. This study arrived at the following conclusions. First, after I participated in the group music therapy using the traditional drum, the result of the comparisons of the pre-to-post average for social adjustment showed the statistical significance level of the 0.01 standard. Therefore, it was found that the group music therapy using the traditional drum had a positive effect on the social adjustment of children with hearing Impairment. Second, after I participated in the group music therapy using the traditional drum, the result of the comparisons of the pre-to-post average for self-image development showed the statistical significance level of the 0.01 standard. Therefore, the group music therapy using the traditional drum had a positive effect on the self-image of children with hearing impairment. Third, after I participated in the group music therapy using the traditional drum, the result of the comparisons of the pre-to-post average for emotional adjustment showed the statistical significance level of the 0.01 standard. Therefore, the group music therapy using the traditional drum had a positive effect on the emotional adjustment of children with hearing impairment.

A Study on the Impact of Organizational Capabilities of the Criminal Investigation Police upon Organizational Concentration (수사경찰의 조직역량이 조직몰입에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Ko, Hyun Gyoo;Lee, Yun Hwan
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.9
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    • pp.59-72
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    • 2012
  • The police, as an advance guard for performing governmental functions, should conduct their duties to protect lives, physical bodies, and properties in the nation against various kinds of crimes, prevent from a public risk by detecting a factor that can menace public safeguard and public order and suppress it when a risk factor occurs. Practically it is impossible to protect lives, physical bodies, and properties in the nationprovided that social stability is not taken as security. The roles of the criminal investigation police that take a countermeasure to prevent a risk in prior by detecting hindrance factor of social stability and process any occurred crime in conformity with pertinent laws could control a successful performance in each of the police activities themselves. The study assumes that the organizational capabilities of the criminal investigation police exercises a significant influence upon organizational concentration. In spite of the fact that it is natural that the organizational capabilities of the criminal investigation police exercises a significant influence upon organizational concentration, until now it is very deficient in studies of this field. It is a viewpoint that an organizational concentration would be improved when a capability of the organizational staff will be improved, they would have a targeting capability for sharing organizational goals and vision and a systematic capability would be supported by the dimension of the criminal investigation police. The study was aimed to deduce a developmental method for the criminal investigation police by conducting an analysis on the impact of the organizational capabilities of the criminal investigation police upon organizational concentration that it suggest method that the criminal investigation police will make a contribution for maintaining a social order.

Adaptive Design Techniques for High-speed Toggle 2.0 NAND Flash Interface Considering Dynamic Internal Voltage Fluctuations (고속 Toggle 2.0 낸드 플래시 인터페이스에서 동적 전압 변동성을 고려한 설계 방법)

  • Yi, Hyun Ju;Han, Tae Hee
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.49 no.9
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    • pp.251-258
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    • 2012
  • Recently, NAND Flash memory structure is evolving from SDR (Single Data Rate) to high speed DDR(Double Data Rate) to fulfill the high performance requirement of SSD and SSS. Accordingly, the proper ways of transferring data that latches valid data stably and minimizing data skew between pins by using PHY(Physical layer) circuit techniques have became new issues. Also, rapid growth of speed in NAND flash increases the operating frequency and power consumption of NAND flash controller. Internal voltage variation margin of NAND flash controller will be narrowed through the smaller geometry and lower internal operating voltage below 1.5V. Therefore, the increase of power budge deviation limits the normal operation range of internal circuit. Affection of OCV(On Chip Variation) deteriorates the voltage variation problem and thus causes internal logic errors. In this case, it is too hard to debug, because it is not functional faults. In this paper, we propose new architecture that maintains the valid timing window in cost effective way under sudden power fluctuation cases. Simulation results show that the proposed technique minimizes the data skew by 379% with reduced area by 20% compared to using PHY circuits.

Improvement of Fetal Heart Rate Extraction from Doppler Ultrasound Signal (도플러 초음파 신호에서의 태아 심박 검출 개선)

  • Kwon, Ja Young;Lee, Yu Bin;Cho, Ju Hyun;Lee, Yoo Jin;Choi, Young Deuk;Nam, Ki Chang
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.49 no.9
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    • pp.328-334
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    • 2012
  • Continuous fetal heart beat monitoring has assisted clinicians in assuring fetal well-being during antepartum and intrapartum. Fetal heart rate (FHR) is an important parameter of fetal health during pregnancy. The Doppler ultrasound is one of very useful methods that can non-invasively measure FHR. Although it has been commonly used in clinic, inaccurate heart rate reading has not been completely resolved.. The objective of this study is to improve detection algorithm of FHR from Doppler ultrasound signal with simple method. We modified autocorrelation function to enhance signal periodicity and adopted adaptive window size and shifted for data segment to be analysed. The proposed method was applied to real measured data, and it was verified that beat-to-beat FHR estimation result was comparable with the reference fetal ECG data. This simple and effective method is expected to be implemented in the embedded system.

Recovery of Silicon from Silicon Sludge by Electrolysis (실리콘 슬러지로부터 실리콘의 전해회수(電解回收))

  • Park, Jesik;Jang, Hee Dong;Lee, Churl Kyoung
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2012
  • As a recovery of elemental silicon from the sludge of Si wafer process, a process of mechanical separation-chlorine roasting-electrolysis has been suggested. The silicon sludge consisted of Si, SiC, machine oil, and metallic impurities. The oil and metal impurities was removed by mechanical separation. The Si-SiC mixture was converted to silicon chloride by chlorine roasting at $1000^{\circ}C$ for 1 hr and the silicon chloride was dissolved into an ionic liquid of $[Bmpy]Tf_2N$ as an electrolyte. Cyclic voltammetry results showed an wide voltage window of pure $[Bmpy]Tf_2N$ and a reduction peak of elemental Si from $[Bmpy]Tf_2N$ dissolved $SiCl_4$ on Au electrode, respectively. The silicon deposits could be prepared on the Au electrode by the potentiostatic electrolysis of -1.9 V vs. Pt-QRE. The elemental silicon uniformly electrodeposited was confirmed by various analytical techniques including XRD, FE-SEM with EDS, and XPS. Any impurity was not detected except trace oxygen contaminated during handling for analysis.

A Simple Dosing Scheme for Intravenous Busulfan Based on Retrospective Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis in Korean Patients

  • Choe, Sang-Min;Kim, Gayeong;Lim, Hyeong-Seok;Cho, Sang-Heon;Ghim, Jong-Lyul;Jung, Jin-Ah;Kim, Un-Jib;Noh, Gyu-Jeong;Bae, Kyun-Seop;Lee, Dong-Ho
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.273-279
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    • 2012
  • Busulfan is an antineoplastic agent with a narrow therapeutic window. A post-hoc population pharmacokinetic analysis of a prospective randomized trial for comparison of four-times daily versus once-daily intravenous busulfan was carried out to search for predictive factors of intravenous busulfan (iBu) pharmacokinetics (PK). In this study the population PK of iBu was characterized to provide suitable dosing recommendations. Patients were randomized to receive iBu, either as 0.8 mg/kg every 6 h or 3.2 mg/kg daily over 4 days prior to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In total, 295 busulfan concentrations were analyzed with NONMEM. Actual body weight and sex were significant covariates affecting the PK of iBu. Sixty patients were included in the study (all Korean; 23 women, 37 men; mean [SD] age, 36.5 [10.9] years; weight, 66.5 [11.3] kg). Population estimates for a typical patient weighing 65 kg were: clearance (CL) 7.6 l/h and volume of distribution (Vd) 32.2 l for men and 29.1 L for women. Inter-individual random variabilities of CL and $V_d$ were 16% and 9%. Based on a CL estimate from the final PK model, a simple dosage scheme to achieve the target $AUC_{0-inf}$ (defined as median AUC0-inf with a once-daily dosage) of 26.18 $mg/l{\cdot}hr$, was proposed: $24.79{\cdot}ABW^{0.5}mg$ q24h, where ABW represents the actual body weight in kilograms. The dosing scheme reduced the unexplained interindividual variabilities of CL and Vd of iBu with ABW being a significant covariate affecting clearance of iBU. We propose a new simple dosing scheme for iBu based only on ABW.

The relationship between the patient's health beliefs and the implementation of functional movement rehabilitation and ability to perform ADL in stroke patients (뇌졸중 환자의 건강신념과 운동기능 재활 이행 및 일상생활동작 행능력과의 상관성)

  • Mun, Byeong-Mu;Lee, Yeon-Seop;Lee, Byung-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.7
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    • pp.3057-3064
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    • 2012
  • In this study, we have tried to identify the relationship between the patient's health belief and the implementation of functional movement rehabilitation and ability to perform ADL in stroke patient, and have done this study to use this as evidence in treating stroke patients in clinical trials by providing a basis data of stroke patients' successful rehabilitation program. We targeted stroke patients who were diagnosed with stroke and are hospitalized in D hospital in J City, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea. More over, we distributed a total of 150 questionnaires to patients who understand the purpose of the research and agreed to participate. We were able to collect 132questionnaires at the end. However, 11 had insufficient data so we only analyzed and evaluated 121 of the said questionnaires. We did frequency analysis to understand the general characteristics by using SPSS for Windows(ver.12.0) program and we used Pearson's Correlation Coefficient and regression analysis to know the relationship between the patient's health beliefs and the implementation of rehabilitation and ability to perform ADL in stroke patients. The results of this study shows that patients with higher perceived sensitivity, perceived benefit and perceived severity equates to an implementation of the rehabilitation better, however patients with a lower perceived disability equates an implementation of functional movement rehabilitation better than those with a higher perceived disability.