• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.25-32
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• 2010

In this paper, we analyze the location accuracy of real-time locating systems (RTLS) in multipath environments, where the RTLS complies with an ISO/IEC 24730-2 international standard. RTLS readers should have an ability not only to recover the transmitted signal but also provide arrival timing information from the received signal. In the multipath environments, in general, the transmitted signal goes through both direct and indirect paths, and then it becomes some distorted form of the transmitted signal. Such multipath components have a critical effect on deciding the first arrival timing of the received signal. To analyze the location error of the RTLS in the multipath environments, we assume two multipath components without considering an additive white Gaussian noise. Through the simulation and real test results, we confirm that the location error does not occur when the time difference between two paths is more than 1.125Tc, but the location error of about 2.4m happens in case of less than 0.5Tc. In particular, we see that the resolvability of two different paths depends largely on the phase difference for the time difference of less than 1Tc.

• 전기의세계
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.297-305
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• 1981

The problem of finding shortest paths between every pair of points in a network is solved employing and optimal network decomposition in which the network is decomposed into a number of subnetworks minimizing the number of cut-set between them while each subnetwork is constrained by a size limit. Shortest path computations are performed on individual subnetworks, and the solutions are recomposed to obtain the solution of the original network. The method when applied to large scale networks significantly reduces core requirement and computation time. This is demonstrated by developing a computer program based on the method and applying it to 30-vertex, 160-vertex, and 273-vertex networks.

• Ceramist
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.5-10
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• 2004

약물 전달 시스템(Drug Delivery System; DDS)이란 기존 의약품의 부작용을 최소화하고 효능 및 효과를 최대화 시켜 약물을 효율적으로 전달하도록 제형을 설계하고 약물치료를 최적화하는 기술을 말한다. 약물전달은 전달경로, 약물의 종류 및 전달기술의 형태에 따라 구분될 수 있으며 지금까지의 약물전달소재는 유기소재로서 생체 분해성과 친화성을 갖는 천연 또는 합성고분자를 전달체로 하여 경구형, 경피투여형, 흡입형 그리고서방형 주사제 등이 이용되고 있다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.121-122
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• 2002

PAN (Peroxyacetyl Nitrate)은 오존과 함께 대도시 광화학오염의 주요 원인물질로 알려져 있고 대기 중 NOx와 VOCs가 PAN의 생성에 복잡한 반응 경로를 통해 영향을 줄 뿐 만 아니라 원거리 이동을 통하여 비교적 청정지역에 주요한 NOx 공급원으로 알려져 있다. 하지만 PAN은 대기 중 농도가 작고 비교적 낮은 온도에서도 쉽게 열분해 되기 때문에 관측이 어려운 물질이다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.221-224
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• 1998

간섭신호가 원하는 신호에 coherent한 경우에는 원하는 신호와 간섭신호간의 cross correlation에 의해 공분산 행렬의 rank가 줄어들게 되어 coherent한 간섭신호의 도래각을 추정할 수 없게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 발표된 기존의 방법중 대칭 어레이(Symmetric array)방법은 계산량이 많아지고 공간 스무딩(Spatial Smoothing)방법은 array aperture size에서 손해를 보게 되어 분해능이 떨어지는 단점이 있다[1,2,3].

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.3 no.7
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• pp.937-942
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• 2002

In this paper, using diversity the DS-CDMA system to modulation, performance of DS/CDMA system we have been analyzed. Channels is multipath resolution, and receiver is assemed maximal ratio combining(MRC) using to rake receiver. Simulations have been using element number of communication channels. Therefore, progress average bit error probability have been element number of increment.

• Clean Technology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.293-300
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• 2018

Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) is sulfaamide-based synthetic antibiotics, which are widely prescribed pharmaceutical compound to treat bacterial infections in both human and animals. Most of them are not completely decomposed as refractory substances. The environmental impact of pharmaceuticals as emerging contaminants has generated severe concerns. In this study, catalytic wet peroxide oxidation (CWPO) of SMX was carried out with $Cu/Al_2O_3$ catalyst and investigated the optimum reaction conditions of temperature, dosage of catalyst and concentration of $H_2O_2$ to completely decompose the SMX. It was observed that SMX was completely decomposed within 20 min using 0.79 mM $H_2O_2$ and 6 g $Cu/Al_2O_3$ catalyst at 1 atm and $40^{\circ}C$, but SMX was not fully mineralized and converted to intermediates as hydroylated-SMX, sulfanilic acid, 4-aminobenzenesulfinic acid and nitrobenzene. After that these are completely mineralized through organic acid. We proposed the decomposition reaction path ways of SMX by analyzing the behavior of these intermediates. To investigate the durability of heterogeneous catalyst, decomposition of SMX was observed by continuously recycling catalysts. When the heterogeneous catalyst of 10 wt% $Cu/Al_2O_3$ was continuously reused 5 times, decomposition of SMX was a little lowered, but the activity of catalyst was overall very stable.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.179-186
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• 2009

This paper proposes a target speech extraction which restores speech signal of a target speaker form noisy convolutive mixture of speech and an interference source. We assume that the target speaker is known and his/her utterances are available in the training time. Incorporating the additional information extracted from the training utterances into the separation, we combine convolutive blind source separation(CBSS) and non-negative decomposition techniques, e.g., probabilistic latent variable model. The nonnegative decomposition is used to learn a set of bases from the spectrogram of the training utterances, where the bases represent the spectral information corresponding to the target speaker. Based on the learned spectral bases, our method provides two postprocessing steps for CBSS. Channel selection step finds a desirable output channel from CBSS, which dominantly contains the target speech. Reconstruct step recovers the original spectrogram of the target speech from the selected output channel so that the remained interference source and background noise are suppressed. Experimental results show that our method substantially improves the separation results of CBSS and, as a result, successfully recovers the target speech.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.175-188
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• 2011

This study aims to examine how the U.S. economic shocks affect the Japanese economy. It is widely believed that the U.S. economy has a significant effect on the Japanese economy. Actually, the U.S. accounts for a considerable amount of Japan's exports and imports. To the economic policymakers, it is very important to know how economic disturbances generated by the U.S. are transmitted to the Japanese economy. A vector autoregression(VAR) model is employed to investigate the international transmission channel of economic disturbances. The interactions of the U.S.-Japansese economy are investigated by using variance decompositions(VDCs). The results of this study provided the evidence that the U.S. economic shocks were important for the Japanese economy during the sample period. This study supports the notion of economic dependence of smaller open economy such as Japan as compared with larger economy such as the U.S.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.551-562
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• 2003

Background : NF-${\kappa}B$ is a characteristic transcriptional factor which has been shown to regulate production of acute inflammatory mediators and to be involved in the pathogenesis of many inflammatory lung diseases. There has been some evidence that PI3K/Akt pathway could activate NF-${\kappa}B$ in human cell lines. However, the effect of PI3K/Akt pathway on the activation of NF-${\kappa}B$ varied depending on the cell lines used in the experiments. In this study we evaluated the effect of PI3K/Akt pathway on the activation of NF-${\kappa}B$ in human respiratory epithelial cell lines. Methods : BEAS-2B, A549 and NCI-H157 cell lines were used in this experiment. To evaluate the activation of Akt activation and I${\kappa}B$ degradation, cells were analysed by western blot assay using phospho-specific Akt Ab and $I{\kappa}B$ Ab. To block PI3K/Akt pathway, cells were pretreated with wortmannin or LY294002 and transfected with dominant negative Akt (DN-Akt). For IKK activity, immune complex kinase assay was performed. To evaluate the DNA binding affinity and transcriptional activity of NF-${\kappa}B$, electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and luciferase assay were performed, respectively. Results : In BEAS-2B, A549 and NCI-H157 cell lines, Akt was activated by TNF-$\alpha$ and insulin. Activation of Akt by insulin did not induce $I{\kappa}B{\alpha}$ degradation. Blocking of PI3K/Akt pathway via wortmannin/LY294002 or DN-Akt did not inhibit TNF-$\alpha$-induced $I{\kappa}B{\alpha}$ degradation or IKK activation. Inhibition of PI3K/Akt did not affect TNF-$\alpha$-induced NF-${\kappa}B$ activation. Overexpression of DN-Akt did not block TNF-$\alpha$-induced transcriptional activation of NF-${\kappa}B$, but wortmannin enhanced TNF-$\alpha$-induced in NF-${\kappa}B$ transcriptional activity. Conclusion : PI3K/Akt was not involved in TNF-$\alpha$-induced $I{\kappa}B{\alpha}$ degradation or transcriptional activity of NF-${\kappa}B$ in human respiratory epithelial cell lines.