• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.201-207
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• 2018

Blood is a commonly found body fluid at crime scenes, and plays an important role in identifying suspects and in the reconstruction of crime scenes. Although serological detection of blood has been widely used in the field of forensic science, research on the detection of old bloodstains is scarce. This work aimed to compare various methods for the detection of old bloodstains and validate the reliability of their results. Four presumptive tests-Tetramethylbenzidine, $Bluestar^{(R)}$, Leucomalachite Green, Kastle-Meyer tests-and two confirmatory tests-Fecal Occult Blood (FOB) and Rapid Stain $Identification^{(TM)}-Blood$ ($RSID^{TM}-Blood$) tests-were compared. Bloodstain samples from post-mortem cases were collected on gauzes and then stored at room temperature for periods from 7 to 30 years. All the presumptive tests were positive, even for the 30-year-old sample. However, FOB and $RSID^{TM}-Blood$ provided false negative results for some samples stored for 17 years or more (1988 to 2001). The results indicate that FOB and $RSID^{TM}-Blood$ are not reliable for the detection of old bloodstains. These findings can be useful in the selection of an appropriate detection method for serological testing of old bloodstains. In addition, the information will be useful background knowledge when applied in the field of forensic practice.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.457-462
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a speaker pruning method for real-time processing and improving performance of speaker identification system based on GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model). Conventional speaker identification methods, such as ML (Maximum Likelihood), WMR(weighting Model Rank), and MWMR(Modified WMR) we that frame likelihoods are calculated using the whole frames of each input speech and all of the speaker models and then a speaker having the biggest accumulated likelihood is selected. However, in these methods, calculation cost and processing time become larger as the increase of the number of input frames and speakers. To solve this problem in the proposed method, only a part of speaker models that have higher likelihood are selected using only a part of input frames, and identified speaker is decided from evaluating the selected speaker models. In this method, fm can be applied for improving the identification performance in speaker identification even the number of speakers is changed. In several experiments, the proposed method showed a reduction of 65% on calculation cost and an increase of 2% on identification rate than conventional methods. These results means that the proposed method can be applied effectively for a real-time processing and for improvement of performance in speaker identification.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.527-547
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• 2020

Fish pathogens cause not only economic damages to fish farming but also infectious pathogens known as a zoonotic agent. Since the continued use of antibiotics to control fish pathogens entails side effects, materials of natural origin need to be developed. The purpose of this study is to discover coniferous essential oils with excellent antibacterial effects in order to develop antibiotic alternatives. We have extracted essential oils using hydro-distillation from the leaves of Abies holophylla, Pinus thunbergii, Pinus parviflora, Tsuga sieboldii, and Pinus rigitaeda, which are all Pinaceae family. And, we have evaluated antibacterial activity with the extracted essential oils against Edwardsiella tarda, Photobacterium damselae, Streptococcus parauberis, and Lactococcus garvieae, which are fish pathogens. As a result, the essential oils from A. holophylla and P. thunbergii showed the selectively strong antibacterial activity against E. tarda and P. damselae, which are gram-negative bacteria. From GC-MS analysis, it was identified that main component of A. holophylla essential oils are (-)-bornyl acetate (29.45%), D-limonene (20.47%), and camphene (11.73%), and that of P. thunbergii essential oils is α-pinene (59.81%). In addition, we found three compounds: neryl acetate, (-)-borneol, and (-)-carveol, which are oxygenated monoterpenes. These exist in a very small amount but exhibit the same efficacy as essential oil. Therefore, we expect that A. holophylla and P. thunbergii essential oils having excellent growth inhibitory effect against gram-negative fish pathogens can be used as biological products such as feed additives and fishery products.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Inherited Metabolic disease
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.28-36
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• 2022

Purpose: Detection of abnormal metabolites in plasma amino acid (PAA) and urine organic acid (UOA) analyses has been used to diagnose clinical mitochondrial diseases, such as Leigh syndrome. In this study, the diagnostic values and effectiveness of PAA and UOA analyses were reviewed. Methods: This was a retrospective study of patients with Leigh syndrome who were diagnosed between 2003 and 2018 in a single tertiary care center. Through a whole mitochondrial sequencing and nuclear DNA associated mitochondrial gene panel analysis, 19 patients were found to be positive for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutation-associated Leigh syndrome, and 57 patients were negative. Their PAA and UOA analyses results were then compared. Results: In the comparison of the PAA and UOA analyses results between the two groups, no abnormal metabolites showed obvious differences between the mtDNA mutation-positive Leigh syndrome and mtDNA mutation-negative Leigh syndrome groups. Conclusion: PAA and UOA analyses are inappropriate test methods for diagnosing Leigh syndrome or screening of mtDNA mutation-associated Leigh syndrome. However, UOA analysis might still be a suitable screening test for Leigh syndrome.

• Journal of fish pathology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.77-81
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• 1998

By standardized method, Bacillus subtilis BGA, Bacillus cereus var. mycoides ATCC 11778, and Micrococcus luteus ATCC 9341 were seeded on the muller hinton agar (Difco) plate, and pH was adjusted to 6.0, 7.2, and 8.0. Five agar plates, B. subtilis (pH 6.0), B. cereus (pH 6.0), B. subtilis (pH 7.2), B. subtilis (pH 8.0), and M. luteus (pH 8.0), were employed as test plates of modified EEC 4-plate method. Oxytetracycline (OTC) with a diet was orally administered to flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus, at 100 mg/kg once a day. After oral administration, modified EEC 4-plate method by the three screening test using muscle-direct, extraction-disk and direct-disk methods was conducted for 3 fish at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 days. Muscle-direct treatment of B. subtilis (pH 6.0) was found to be dubious positive (${\pm}$) at the 1st day after the administration; thereafter, it was found to be negative to the last day of the experiment. Extraction-disk and direct-disk treatment of B. subtilis (pH 6.0) were found to be negative from the 1st day to the last day after the administration. B. subtilis (pH 7.2), B. subtilis (pH 8.0), and M. luteus (pH 8.0) by the three screening tests, were found to be negative all the way after the administration. On the other hand, B. cereus (pH 6.0) by the three screening tests was clearly found to be positive for the first 15 days after the administration, and then muscle-direct and direct-disk treatment of B. cereus (pH 6.0) were found to be dubious positive at 20th days after the administration. However extraction-disk treatment of B. cereus (pH 6.0) was clearly found to be negative at the same stage; thereafter, the three screening tests of B. cereus (pH 6.0) were found negative to the last of the experiment. These findings showed that to have equal sensitivity to those determination for the residual detection of OTC, and also confirmed that B. cereus was effective test organism for the monitoring of OTC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.14-17
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• 2017

인터넷의 발달과 스마트 디바이스의 등장은 기존의 쇼핑구조 및 쇼핑방식에 큰 변화를 가지고 왔으며, 소비자의 일상생활에도 주목할 만한 질적 성장과 발전을 이루게 하였다. 특히, 쇼핑구조는 소매점에서 대형 쇼핑몰로 오프라인 구매에서 인터넷과 스마트 디바이스를 통한 온라인 구매로 변화하고 있고, 쇼핑방식도 오프라인 매장에서 인터넷, 모바일 등 복수 채널을 종합해 고객경험 관리를 최대화하기 위한 옴니 채널의 형태로 급격하게 변하고 있다. 그러나 기존의 옴니 채널은, 고객의 상품 구매 경험을 극대화 시키는 데 중점을 두었기 때문에, 고객 입장에서 보면 채널별 제품정보(가격, 환불정책, 배송정보, 공급점포의 위치 등)의 부족 및 일관성이 결여되어 있어 최종 구매결정까지는 시간이 걸리고, 구매한 제품에 대한 만족도가 낮아서 반품 비율이 상당히 높은 것이 현실이다. 마찬가지로, 유통업체 입장에서 보면 제품의 유효기간, 재고 관리 등 유통과정에 있어서의 제품정보의 일관성이 결여되어 있어, 완전하고 정확한 최신 제품정보의 제공을 통한 소비자의 구매 유도에 큰 어려움을 겪고 있다. 본 논문은 멀티미디어(영상 및 음성) 식별기술을 이용하여, 기존(고객중심)의 옴니 채널이 가지고 있는 문제점을 해결하여, 소비자 및 유통업체에게 구매 및 관리에 충분하고 일관성이 있는 "제품정보 중심의 옴니 채널" 유통모델 및 구현에 관한 방법을 설명한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1787-1791
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• 2009

지표수의 유출과정을 설명하는 과정에서 중요인자이며, 생태수문학의 핵심변수이자 기상모형의 중요한 입력변수인 토양수분의 공간적 시간적 특징들은 강우 및 지하수와 토양수분간의 순환 구조를 규명하는데 매우 중요하다. 가장 널리 쓰이는 토양 수분 측정 장비인 TDR 장비 매설에 앞서 대상유역 선정에 대한 여러 가지 고려사항을 검토하고 수치지형 분석 등을 통한 사전분석을 실시하였다. 대상유역을 선정하기 위해서는 대상유역의 자료획득의 용이함, 지정학적, 시스템 운영적 측면에서의 가용성, 그리고 정밀측량 및 부수적요인 등 여러 요소의 고려가 요구된다. 청미천 유역을 대상으로 약 21 개의 대상후보사면을 정밀조사 하였으며, 충청북도 음성군 수레의산 청소련 수련원내의 산지 사면을 측정대상 사면으로, 지정학적 위치, 식생분포, 지질구조 및 심도 등의 토양특성의 고려를 통해서 선정하였다. 또한 대상 사면에 흐름 발생 및 분포를 계산하기 위해서 대상사면의 지표 및 기반암 표고를 정밀 측량하였으며, 기반암 또는 풍화대까지의 깊이를 실측하여 지표면 및 지하면의 수치지형 모형을 구축하였다. 대상사면 및 지하면에 대하여 표고수치지형모형(Digital Elevation Model:DEM)으로 도식한 후 흐름 발생 공간 분포를 계산하였다. 다양한 흐름 발생 알고리즘으로 기여사면적과 지형습윤지수를 계산하였다. 분배알고리즘의 의해 도출된 지형인자들로 인한 흐름발생 공간적 분포특성을 비교하여 센서의 매설 위치를 결정하였다. 센서 매설 위치에 대한 토양시료를 채취하여 토성을 분석한 결과는 미국 농무성 기준에 의한 분류로는 사양토로, 국제토양학회의 분류기준에 따르면 양토로 분류되었다. 대상사면의 유효입력강우를 확보하기위해서 개방공간인 수레의산 청소년수련원과 대상산림의 Canopy하부에 각각 강수측정 시스템을 설치하였고 약 6개월간 성공적으로 자료를 획득하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.5B
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• pp.794-800
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• 2010

It is necessary to accurate and efficient management for measured digital data from various sensors in digital marine vessel. It is not efficient that sensor network process input stream data of mass storage stored in database the same time. In this paper, We propose to improve the processing performance of multidimensional stream data continuous incoming from multiple sensor. We propose that we arrange some sensors (temperature, humidity, lighting, voice) and process query based on sliding window for efficient input stream and found multiple query plan to Mjoin method and we reduce stored data using SVM algorithm. We automatically delete that it isn't necessary to the data from the database and we used to ship diagnosis system for available data. As a result, we obtained to efficient result about 18.3% reduction rate of database using 35,912 data sets.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.92-95
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 음성에 의해 구동되는 이동천화를 구현하기 위한 기초 실험으로서, 이동전화상에서 많이 사용되는 단어 데이터를 직접 채록하여 단어 인식 실험을 수행하여 인식기의 성능을 평가하였다. 인식 실험에 사용된 단어 데이터베이스는 서울 화자 360명(남성화자 180명, 여성화자 180명), 41상도 화자 240명(남성화자 120명, 여성화자 120명)으로 구성된 600명의 발성을 이용하여 구성하였다. 발성 단어는 이동전화에 주로 사용되는 중요 기능과 제어 단어, 그리고 숫자음을 포함한 55개 단어로 구성되었으며, 각 화자가 3회씩 발성하였다. 데이터의 채집환경은 잡음이 다소 있는 사무실환경이며, 샘플링율은 8kHz였다. 인식의 기본단위는 48개의 유사음소단위(Phoneme Like Unit : PLU)를 사용하였으며, 정적 특징으로 멜켑스트럼과 동적 특징으로 회귀계수를 특징 파라미터로 사용하였다. 인식실험에서는 OPDP(One Pass Dynamic Programming)알고리즘을 사용하였다. 인식실험을 위한 모델은 각 지역에 따라 학습을 수행한 모델과, 지역에 상관없이 학습한 모델을 만들었으며, 기존의 16Htz의 초기 모델에 8kHz로 채집된 데이터를 적응화시키는 방법을 이용하여 학습을 수행하였다. 인식실험에 있어서는 각 지역별 모델과 지역에 관계없이 학습한 모델에 대하여, 각 지역별로, 그리고 지역에 관계없이 평가용 데이터로 인식실험을 수행하였다 인식실험 결과, $90\%$이상의 비교적 높은 인식률을 얻어 인식시스템 성능의 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.261-265
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• 2008

As increasing the user of VoIP service using ITSP(Internet Telephony Service Provider), the VoIP spam becomes a big problem. The spam used in the existing public telephone is detected by using the pattern inspection of call behavior because it is difficult to filter contents for the characteristic of real-time voice communication. However there is a false-positive problem. The threat on spam remains where spam with low threshold can't be detected or users share one number. In this paper, we propose anti-spam for VoIP based on luring test. The proposed method gives a user luring test and he/she can connect to a receiver if passing turing test. A ticket is given to a user that pass luring test and it reduces overhead of luring test in re-dial. The proposed method is implemented on ASUS WL-500G wireless router and Asterisk IP-PBX. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.