• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.703-710
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• 2003

Because of their human-like synthesized speech quality, recently Corpus-Based Text-To-Speech(CB-TTS) have been actively studied worldwide. However, due to their large size speech database (DB), their application is very restricted. In this paper we propose and evaluate three DB reduction algorithms to which are designed to solve the above drawback. The first method is based on a K-means clustering approach, which selects k-representatives among multiple instances. The second method is keeping only those unit instances that are selected during synthesis, using a domain-restricted text as input to the synthesizer. The third method is a kind of hybrid approach of the above two methods and is using a large text as input in the system. After synthesizing the given sentences, the used unit instances and their occurrence information is extracted. As next step a modified K-means clustering is applied, which takes into account also the occurrence information of the selected unit instances, Finally we compare three pruning methods by evaluating the synthesized speech quality for the similar DB reduction rate, Based on perceptual listening tests, we concluded that the last method shows the best performance among three algorithms. More than this, the results show that the last method is able to reduce DB size without speech quality looses.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.157-165
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• 1985

Character of oceanic conditions in the bay is investigated by taking hydrographic data on june in Kamak Bay which has two channels and four submarine topographic parts of its own. This bay has four remarkable water mass influenced greatly by the above topographical factor: inner bay water, Yosu harbor water, the middle water and outer bay water. General characteristics of these four water mass were as fellows: inner bay water has a stagnation character with the influence of inland, Yosu harbor water has a out-sea character with the low salinity caused by run-off of Somjin river, outer bay water has a out-sea character with same values vertically coused by eddy current or bottom turbulunce and the middle water has a middle character among the inner bay water and outer bay water. Outer waters flowed in the bay through both channels during the flood are come upon at a near by Daekyong-do and Hangdae-ri of Dolsan-do. Eddy current or bottom turbulunce in the vincinity of Kunnae-ri which is located at south of the bay are showed sinking of water during the flood flow, while that during the ebb flow shelved up-welling phenomena.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.44-47
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• 2016

In these days, interest of systems and services using TVWS(TV White Space) are increased, communication systems and services for TVWS have been actively studied. The unoccupied frequency in TVWS is different according to the geographical location and the time of day. RF systems having a frequency tunable bandpass filter operated in TVWS could be efficiently used. In this paper, a frequency tunable bandpass filter operated in 470 ~ 698MHz is designed and implemented. In consideration of simple control and physical size, the tunable bandpass filter is designed with 2-pole. The implemented tunable bandpass filter has the operating frequency band of 470 ~ 698MHz with control voltages of 1.58 ~ 3.93V, the insertion loss of maximum 4.78dB and the return loss of below 10dB. The implemented frequency tunable bandpass filter can be directly used in the RF receiver for TVWS and the design procedures could be used for developing a high power tunable bandpass filter as the basic research data.

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.8-14
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• 2002

가정용 룸에어컨이나 가정, 점포, 사무실에 사용하는 패키지에어컨은 쾌적한 주거 사무공간을 실현할 수 있기 때문에 최근 10년 동안에 광범위하게 보급되었고, 그 기술도 해마다 진보하고 있다. 그림 1에서 나타나듯이 2001년 가정용 룸에어컨의 국내생산 수량은 연간 600만대 수준이며, 패키지에어컨은 연간 약 80만대 수준이다. 2001년 기준으로 에어컨의 국내시장규모는 약 130만대로 세대 보급률이 약 40%에 도달하고 있다. 비록 패키지에어컨은 생산 수량면에서는 룸에어컨과 비교할 수 없지만, 한대의 냉방능력이 룸에어컨의 수배에서 수십배로 크기 때문에 전력에너지소비, 환경 등에 미치는 영향은 룸에어컨과 비견될 수 있다. 공조장치 보급에 따른 환경, 에너지 측면에서의 사회적 영향과 관심이 점차 커지고 있고, 이것을 개선하기 위한 기술개발이 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 에어컨을 포함한 공조장치의 다수는 효율이 좋은 증기 압축식 냉동사이클로써 구성되어 있으며, 증기 압축식 사이클에서 냉매가스를 압축하여 순환시키는 심장역할을 하고 있는 것이 압축기이다. 또한 압축기는 공조장치 전체의 전력소비의 80%에서 90%을 차지하고 있어 에너지절감 기술개발과 환경기술개발의 포인트가 되는 기구이다. 최근에 에어컨용 냉매압축기의 기술적인 개발동향을 정리하면 다음과 같은 경향으로 진행되고 있다. (1)오존층 파괴 지수가 제로인 친환경 HFC계와 자연냉매용 밀폐형 압축기기술 (2)로터리압축기의 성능향상 및 대용량화 기술 (3)압축기용 모터의 DC화통에 의한 모터 효율 향상 및 압축기 효율 향상 기술 (4)스크롤압축기의 압축비 변화의 대응, 고효율 유지, 대용량화 등 성능향상기술 (5)로터리, 스크롤, 왕복동 압축기를 이용한 용량가변기술 본 논고에서는 룸에어컨과 패키지에어컨에서 사용되고 있는 밀폐형 압축기에 대해서 그림 2에서 나타내고 있는 냉방능력 10tons(120,000Btu/h) 이하를 중심으로 상기의 최근 기술 동향을 간략하게 소개하고자 한다.

• KSCI Review
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.165-174
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• 2006

This paper is a matter of remote control apparatus and display remote control system comprising the same. The remote controller is a wireless remote pointing device that is included a function of mouse and a function of remote controller for VOD etc. It is assembled a sending signal part to communicate with display device, a image sensor part to capture a seen of front view and a main body. Also, it includes a control part that analyzes the captured image, calculates a relative moving factor that main body is moved by user, and then controls the mouse cursor on the display device. The remote control apparatus is able to capture a seen of front view, to analyze the captured image, and to move a mouse cursor point on the display device as much as it calculated relative moving factor. Therefor it brings down the cost of production by a product design that is increased user satisfaction. And it, using the patent and the new product design, will make an epoch in development of the remote control system for Ubiquitous broadcasting industry.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.168-174
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• 2010

Fiber optic current sensors based on polarization-rotated reflection interferometry are demonstrated by incorporating them into polymeric optical waveguide components, including polarization-maintaining 3-dB couplers, TE-pass waveguide polarizers, and thermooptic phase modulators. To remove the bending induced birefringence, optical fiber coil is annealed at $850^{\circ}C$ for 24 hours. The reflection interferometry comprising polymer waveguide devices exhibit a highly stable output signal corresponding to the flowing current.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.11-16
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• 1972

During the period from 1966 to 1968, total catches of Spanish mackerel averaged 6,000 to 7,000M/T per annual in Korea, and approximately 70 per cent of this amount was captured by drift nets. In an effort to improve the efficiency of drift nets, some experiments were conducted in 1969 to investigate the selectivity of material and mesh sizes. Seven different mesh sizes (80,85,95,100,105,110 and 115 mm) of both multi- and mono-filament netting were used, and the following results were obtained : 1, The body weight of Spanish mackerel taken with the seven different mesh sizes ranges from 0.5kg to 2.9kg, and the mode of body weight consists of three groups, 1kg ($21%$), 1.3kg($15\%$) and 1.5kg($19\%$). 2. For multi-filament net, 80 to 105mm mesh sizes were suitable to catch those three groups, and a little smalter than these for mono-filament net. 3. For Spanish mackerel only, the mono-filament material proved to have 1.5 times better selectivity than multi-filament : however, the latter proved superior for miscellaneous fish species due to its different size and shape. 4. Multi-filament net showed better selectivity for smaller species than mono-filament. (and mono-filament in general indicated opposite phenomenon.)

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.13 no.3 s.33
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• pp.87-94
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• 2005

3D positional information of lane can be automatically calculated tv combining GPS data, IMU data if coordinates of lane centers are given. The Road Safety Survey and Analysis Vehicle(RoSSAV) is currently under development to analyze three dimensional safety and stability of roads. RoSSAV has GPS and IMU sensors to get positional information of the vehicle and two road-facing CCD cameras for extraction of lane coordinates. In this paper, we develop technology that automatically detects centers of lanes from the road-facing cameras of RoSSAV. The proposed algorithm defines line-support regions by grouping pixels with similar edge orientation and magnitude together and extracts a line from each line support region by planar fitting. Then if extracted lines and the region in-between satisfy the criteria of brightness and width, we decide this region as lane. The proposed algorithm was more precise and stable than the previously proposed algorithm based on brightness threshold method. Experiments with real road scenes confirmed that lane was effectively extracted by the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.437-445
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• 2016

Recently, polyurethane foam has been used in various industry fields to preserve temperature environment of structures, and a wide range of loads from the static to the dynamic are imposed on the material during a life period. The biggest characteristic of polyurethane foam is porosity as being polymeric material, and it is generally known that insulation performance of the material strongly depends on internal void size. In addition, polyurethane foam's mechanical behavior has high dependence on strain rate and temperature as well as being highly non-linear ductile for compression. In the non-linear compressive behavior, volume fraction of voids and elastic modulus decrease as strain increases. Therefore, in this study, temperature-dependent viscoplastic-damage constitutive model was developed to describe the non-linear compressive behavior with the aforementioned features of polyurethane foam.

• Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.37-42
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• 1986

Papilla and cytoplasmic aggregates clearly formed on the epidermal cells of barley leaves in response to the primary germ-tubes of Erysiphe graminis f. sp. hordei, but their sizes were much smaller than those in response to the appressoria. Some cells of barley leaves exposed to powdery mildew for 36-48h were more deeply stained as compared to the other cells by acid fuchsin. However, the content of malondialdehydein in powdery mildewed leaves, one of the product of lipid peroxidation, did not increase by 96h after inoculation. Positive reactions for callose, protein and phenolics were recognized in the papilla and cytoplasmic aggregates at 6h after inoculation, but cutin, suberin, cellulose and lignin were not noticeable until 72h after inoculation. The total phenol content in methanol extracts increased with increasing time after inoculation. All histochemical reactions were not race-specific in barley­powdery mildew combinations tested.