• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.279-286
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• 1983

An apparatus was made for the electrodeposition of alpha emitting actinide nuclides, $^{207}Bi$ and $^{210}Po$. The electrodeposition was made on a polished stainless steel plate cathode. The anode was made of platinum wire and to stir the solution. With the ammonium chloride as electrolyte initial pH = 4, chloride concentration = 0.6M and solution volume = 15ml, a current of 1.5 ampere(current density = 0.59A/$cm^2$) was flowed for 100 minutes for the quantitative recovery of electrodeposition and on average recovery of 98.3% was obtained within ${\pm}$0.7% uncertainty. Alpha spectrometry of the electrodeposited sample showed alpha peaks from $^{210}Po, ^{234}U$ and $^{239}Pu$ having energy resolution (FWHM) of 18.3, 21.8 and 36.0 keV respectively. The electrodeposition and alpha spectrometry for a natural uranium sample of domestic origin gave $^{238}U : ^{234}U = 1 : 6.1{\times}10^{-5}$ and for a neutron-irradiated uranium sample did $^{238}U : ^{239}Pu : ^{241}Am = 100 : 0.0263 : 5.20{times}10^{-5}$. The result of $^{238}U$ determination in the irradiated sample by electrodeposition-alpha spectrometry was in accord within ${\pm}1.6%$ of relative error with the results of solid fluorimetry and mass spectrometry. For $^{239}Pu$ the result of electrodeposition-alpha spectrometry was in accord within ${\pm}$4.0% of relative error with the results of anion exchange separation and the thenoyltrifluoroacetone(TTA) extraction both followed by alpha spectrometries.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.31-41
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• 1992

A study for the evaluation of selected filter media that need further characterization particularily in the context of alpha measurements of radon progeny has been carried out by investigating physical characteristics and using the alpha spectroscopy. Physical characteristics was investigated by electrostatic charging and mechanical strength of filters, and then pressure drop before and after sampling was tested. Alpha spectroscopy was used to analyze the energy spectra from the deposition of radon progeny into filters. The results of the assessment showed that the newer filter types do not have a great advantage over the 'old standard' Millipore type AA. But Metricel DM-800 is recommended for those situations where electrostatic charging is a problem. Also this method will be used more effective for the evaluation of new developing filters in future.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.949-954
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• 2013

We measured and analyzed the brain waves to observe the characteristics of human drowsiness. The basic method is to analyze the EEG(Electroencephalography) signals from subjects according to the frequency bands. It has been reported that alpha waves are related to a wakefulness state, an eye closure state and a state that begins to sleep. In this study, therefore, we restricted the frequency band for analyzing to between 8 and 13Hz called brain's alpha waves. We observed which components had a stronger influence on human drowsiness among the restricted frequency band and represented the experimental results to analyze using the power spectrum method.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.25-35
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• 1993

To develop a technique of theoretical alpha track density calculation for comparison with measured track density, an electrostatic ion spectrometer was specially designed and fabricated. The mobility spectrum of first radon daughter(Po-218) in the range of $0.07{\sim}5.0cm^2/V\;s$ from the radon chamber was measured using-the electrostatic ion spectrometer. Measurement was taken in a radon chamber operated using dry particle free air passed through silica gel, activated charcoal and molecular sieve filters. The mobility of a new-born Po-218 ion measured by the electrostatic ion spectrometer was determined to be $1.92cm^2/V\;s$. A comparison of the theoretical and measured alpha track densities was completed and uncertainties concerning the shape of the spectrum were analyzed. It was found that the discrepancies in track densities are primarily Que to the neglect of wall loss of ions in the theoretical track density calculation.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.10
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• pp.451-456
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• 2014

The correlations between electroencephalographic (EEG) spectral power and emotional responses during affective sound clip listening are important parameters. Hemispheric asymmetry in prefrontal activation have been proposed in two decades ago, as measured by power value, is related to reactivity to affectively pleasure audio stimuli. In this study, we designed an emotional audio stimulus experiment in order to verify frontal EEG asymmetry by analyzing Event-related Spectral Perturbation (ERSP) results. Thirty healthy college male students volunteered the stimulus experiment with the standard IADS(International Affective Digital Sounds) clips. These affective sound clips are classified in three emotion states, high pleasure-high arousal (happy), middle pleasure-low arousal (neutral) and low pleasure-high arousal (fear). The analysis of the data was performed in both theta (4-8Hz) and alpha (8-13Hz) bands. ERSP maps in the alpha band revealed that there are the stronger power responses of high pleasure (happy) in the right frontal lobe, while the stronger power responses of middle-low pleasure (neutral and fear) in the left frontal lobe. Moreover, ERSP maps in the theta band revealed that there are the stronger power responses of high arousal (fear and happy) in the left pre-frontal lobe, while the stronger responses of low arousal (neutral) in the right pre-frontal lobe. However, the high pleasure emotions (happy) can elicit greater relative right EEG activity, while the low and middle pleasure emotions (fear and neutral) can elicit the greater relative left EEG activity. Additionally, the most differences of theta band have been found out in the medial frontal lobe, which is proved as the frontal midline theta. And there are the strongest responses of happy sounds in the alpha band around the whole frontal regions. These results are well suited for emotion recognition, and provide the evidences that theta and alpha powers may have the more important role in the emotion processing than previously believed.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.30.1-30.1
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• 2021

수소 라이먼 알파선은 관측이 어려운 외부은하의 성간 물질이나 성운 주위의 물질의 운동학적, 기하학적 상태를 알려주는 지표이다. 특히 라이먼 알파 방출 스펙트럼의 두 최고점에서 측정한 선속도 차이(Vsep)는 물질의 수축, 팽창 여부에 영향을 받기 때문에 은하의 역학적 특성을 연구하는 데에 있어 새로운 도구로서 각광받고 있다. 이 연구에서는 복사유체역학 시뮬레이션 코드 RAMSES-RT를 이용하여, 다양한 물리량을 가진 은하가 만드는 라이먼 알파선 특성을 분석하였다. 은하 내 기체 함량 및 중원소 함량비를 다르게 하였으며, 각 시뮬레이션들은 몬테-카를로 공진선 복사전달 코드 RASCAS를 이용하여 라이먼 알파선의 복사 과정을 계산하였다. 그 결과, 거대분자운 시뮬레이션 대비(Kimm et al. 2019) Vsep이 크게 증가하였으며 (약 150->300km/s), 관측되는 은하들 수준의 Vsep이 재현되는 것을 확인하였다. 은하의 중원소 함량비가 증가한 경우, 은하 내 먼지량과 젊은 별들이 거대분자운에 머무는 시간이 늘어나기 때문에 기준 은하와 비교하여 선속도 차이가 작아졌으며(Vsep~270km/s), 은하의 기체 함량을 증가시켰을 때는 산란 횟수 증가로 인하여 선속도 차이가 증가함(약 345km/s)을 확인할 수 있었다. 합병하는 은하의 경우, 성간물질의 역학적 상태를 극적으로 만든다고 알려져 있음에도 불구하고, 고립된 은하와 비슷한 정도의 산란 특성을 보였다. 마지막으로 시뮬레이션 상에서 강하게 발달하지 않는 중성상태의 은하주변물질의 존재가 선속도차이 예측에 미치는 영향에 대해서 토론하고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.37-41
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• 1992

Starch solid system was used to investigate the effects of lipoxygenase, linoleic acid and water activity on the oxidation of ${\beta}-carotene$ or ${\alpha}-tocopherol$. ${\beta}-carotene$ or ${\alpha}-tocopherol$ was co-oxidized severely with linoleic acid by lipoxygenase, and these were reduced to 19% and 5% of initial concentration, respectively, after 2 days storage at $a_w$ 0.72 in the system. The concentration of ${\beta}-carotene$ and the destruction rates were linearly correlated. However, the ${\beta}-carotene$ was very stable in the system without linoleic acid and lipoxygenase. The oxidation products of ${\alpha}-tocopherol$ were considered as ${\alpha}-tocopheryl$ quinone and ${\alpha}-tocopheryl$ dimer, and the level of ${\alpha}-tocopherol$ quinone increased as the reaction time increased.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.10-19
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• 2021

In this paper, we tried to derive characteristic parameters that reflect mental fatigue through EEG measurement and analysis. For this purpose, mental fatigue was induced through a resting state with eyes closed and performing subtraction operations in mental arithmetic for 30 minutes. Five subjects participated in the experiment, and all subjects were right-handed male students in university, with an average age of 25.5 years. Spectral analysis was performed on the EEG collected at the beginning and the end of the experiment to derive feature parameters reflecting mental fatigue. As a result of the analysis, the absolute power of the alpha band in the occipital lobe and the temporal lobe increased as the mental fatigue increased, while the relative power decreased. Also, the difference in power between resting state and task state showed that the relative power was larger than the absolute power. These results indicate that alpha relative power in the occipital lobe and temporal lobe is a feature parameter reflecting mental fatigue. The results of this study can be utilized as feature parameters for the development of an automated system for mental fatigue determination such as fatigue and drowsiness while driving.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.37-51
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• 1993

A standard radon chamber and a radon generator adjusted by ventilation system which had used in this research were assumed to calculate theoretically the concentration of radon progeny using Jacobi model theory. On the one hand, the filter sampled from the radon standard chamber and the radon generator was measured and analysed by the alpha spectrometry method. It is clear that measured result shows a good agreement with theoretical result. Therefore, it is observed that this research can made a great contribution to more accurate internal dose assessment by alpha emission of radon progeny in indoor radon environment, and fast individual measurement and determination of concentration for radon progeny.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37A no.11
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• pp.943-951
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel spectrum sensing scheme based on the order statistic for cooperative cognitive radio network in non-Gaussian noise environments. Specifically, we model the ambient noise as the bivariate isotropic symmetric ${\alpha}$-stable random variable, and then, propose a cooperative spectrum sensing scheme based on the order of observations and the generalized likelihood ratio test. From numerical results, it is confirmed that the proposed scheme offers a substantial performance improvement over the conventional scheme in non-Gaussian noise environments.