• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.1299-1308
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the calibration method of monopulse slope to minimize the variation of angle estimate in frequency agile noncoherent monopulse system. We analyze the monopulse slope characteristics of antenna and RF receiver including the phase and gain imbalances of each receiving channel and present the calibration method to minimize the phase and gain imbalances of RF receiver channels including antenna. In addition, we present the calibration method using channel switching to minimize the gain imbalance of IF receiver channels. The measured average monopulse slope within the frequency bandwidth is -0.96, the maximum variation of angle estimate is similar to theoretical value, $0.15^{\circ}$ at ${\pm}2^{\circ}$ azimuth and $0.03^{\circ}$ at $0^{\circ}$ azimuth.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.17C no.3
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• pp.259-270
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• 2010

In this paper, a Location Information-based Gradient Routing (LIGR) algorithm is proposed for setting up routing path based on physical location information of sensor nodes in wireless ad-hoc networks. LIGR algorithm reduces the unnecessary data transmission time, route search time, and propagation delay time of packet by determining the transmission direction and search range through the gradient from the source node to sink node using the physical location information. In addition, the low battery nodes are supposed to have the second or third priority in case of forwarding node selection, which reduces the possibility of selecting the low battery nodes. As a result, the low battery node functions as host node rather than router in the wireless sensor networks. The LIGR protocol performed better than the Logical Grid Routing (LGR) protocol in the average receiving rate, delay time, the average residual energy, and the network processing ratio.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.363-373
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• 1998

In this study, random flow field in a nonstationary porous formation is characterized through cross covariances of the velocity with the log conductivity and the head. The hydraulic head and the velocity in saturated aquifers are found through stochastic analysis of a steady, two-dimensional flow field without recharge. Expression for these cross covariances are obtained in quasi-analytic forms all in terms of the parameters which characterize the nonstationary conductivity field and the average head gradient. The cross covariances with a Gaussian correlation function for the log conductivity are presented for two particular cases where the trend is either parallel or perpendicular to the mean head gradient and for separation distances along and across the mean flow direction. The results may be of particular importance in transport predictions and conditioning on field measurements when the log conductivity field is suspected to be nonstationary and also serve as a benchmark for testing nonstationary numerical codes. Keywords : cross covariance, nonstationary conductivity field, saturated aquifer, stochastic analysis.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.156-162
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• 2018

The LMF (Least Mean Fourth) algorithm is well known for its fast convergence and low steady-state error especially in non-Gaussian noise environments. Recently, there has been increasing interest in the LMS (Least Mean Square) algorithms with self-adjusted step size. It is because the self-adjusted step-size LMS algorithms have shown to outperform the conventional fixed step-size LMS in the various situations. In this paper, a self-adjusted step-size LMF algorithm is proposed, which adopts an averaged gradient based step size as a self-adjusted step size. It is expected that the proposed algorithm also outperforms the conventional fixed step-size LMF. The superiority of the proposed algorithm is confirmed by the simulations in the time invariant and time variant channels.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.232-239
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• 1992

In this paper, an analytical expression of the excess MSE of ITLMS(Individual Tap LMS) which results from the random fluctuation of the distance between the actual and optimal coefficients due to noisy gradient estimates, is derived. The expression reveals that the excess MSE of the ITLMS algorithm is smaller that that of the LMS algorithm. The performance of the algorithm from the computer simulation for a fading time-dispersive channel verifies the theoretical results.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.591-594
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• 2003

본 논문은 중심 화소의 FOD 성분값과 인접 가해 성분값의 평균으로 축소 성분값을 산출함으로써 FOD에 적응성을 부여한 디지털 영상 축소 알고리즘의 성능을 분석함에 그 목적이 있다. 제안된 방법은, 중심 화소의 우측 및 하측 인접 화소의 기울기의 크기를 이용하여 산출한 각각의 국부 가해 가중치를 우측 및 하측 인접 화소값에 곱한 후에 그 결과를 합산함으로써 인접 가해 성분값을 구하고 FOD 성분값과 이 인접 가해 성분값을 평균하여 축소 성분값을 구하는 과정을 전체 영역에 반복적으로 수행함으로써 축소 영상을 얻을 수 있다. 제안된 축소 방법에 따르면, 적은 연산량을 요하면서도 평균적으로 우수한 결과를 제공하는 FOD 방식의 장점을 취하면서 인접 화소의 유효 가해 성분을 각각의 국부 가해 가중치에 따라 축소 성분값에 적응적으로 반영함으로써 FOD의 단점인 몽롱화 현상을 효과적으로 억제시킬 수 있는 바, 개선된 정보 보존성을 제공할 수 있는 이점이 있다. 본고에서는 주관적인 성능과 하드웨어 복잡도 측면에서 제안된 방법과 기존의 각 방식에 대한 성능을 분석 평가한다.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.193-206
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the consistent presentation of illustrations about the aligning direction of the Axis on the middle school students' acquisition and retention of astronomical concepts. This study was taken using the nonequivalent control-group pretest-posttest design on 116 7th middle school subjects. The same teaching and learning activities were given to both the experimental (n=59) and control groups (n=57) through three lessons. The experimental group was given a consistent presentation of the illustrations about the aligning direction of the Axis, while the control group was given an inconsistent presentation of the same illustrations about aligning direction. Two days after the three lessons, the 1st posttest was administered to compare the statistical difference of mean of both groups, using ANCOVA test. The result of ANCOVA test implicated that the consistent presentation of the illustrations about the aligning direction of the Axis had a positive influence on the experimental group's acquisition of the concepts. The 2nd posttest result for retention effect was given two month later by one-paired t-Test in each group and showed that the method had a positive effect on the experimental group, compared with control group. The results of this study implicated that paying careful attention to using the consistent illustration is highly beneficial for students' meaningful learning on astronomical concepts.

• Journal of Korean Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.41-47
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• 2010

Purpose: To compare the obliquity of femoral tunnels prepared with transtibial (TT) versus anteromedial portal technique (AM) using x-ray in single-bundle anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Materials and Methods: Among one-hundred thirty two patients who were undergoing ACL reconstruction from January 2007 to December 2009, thirty patients using TT and twenty patients using AM, those who had single-bundle ACL reconstruction, were evaluated with plain radiographs including anteroposterior, intercondylar notch and lateral view to compare the obliquity of bone tunnels. Results: The mean coronal obliquity of femoral tunnel for TT was $71^{\circ}$ (range; $65^{\circ}{\sim}77^{\circ}$), while for AM was $51^{\circ}$ (range; $39^{\circ}{\sim}60^{\circ}$) and the mean sagittal obliquity of femoral tunnel for TT was $22.7^{\circ}{\pm}7.8$, while for AM was $30.2^{\circ}{\pm}6.9$, their differences between them were statistically significant (P<0.05). However, there were no differences between two techniques on the tibial tunnel obliquity in coronal and sagittal plane. Conclusion: Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using AM portal technique allows more horizontally oriented and divergent femoral tunnel compared to that of transtibial technique. This seems to enable the graft placement into the femoral footprint and preserve the posterior cortical wall.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.110-119
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation of the prostate using intensity distribution and gradient information in MR images. First, active shape model using adaptive intensity profile and multi-resolution technique is used to extract the prostate surface. Second, hole elimination using geometric information is performed to prevent the hole from occurring by converging the surface shape to the local optima. Third, the surface shape with large anatomical variation is corrected by using 2D gradient information. In this case, the corrected surface shape is often represented as rugged shape which is generated by the limited number of vertices. Thus, it is reconstructed by using surface modelling and smoothing. To evaluate our method, we performed the visual inspection, accuracy measures and processing time. For accuracy evaluation, the average distance difference and the overlapping volume ratio between automatic segmentation and manual segmentation by two radiologists are calculated. Experimental results show that the average distance difference was 0.3${\pm}$0.21mm and the overlapping volume ratio was 96.31${\pm}$2.71%. The total processing time of twenty patient data was 16 seconds on average.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.2156-2160
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• 2008

우리나라 연안의 평균해면이 증가하고 있다는 주장과 고극조위, 저극조위가 증가(또는 변동)하고 있다는 주장이 제기되고 있으나, 연구자가 사용한 자료의 기간 및 분석 방법 등에 차이가 있고, 결측자료(missing data) 및 이상자료(outlier) 등을 처리한 방법이 서로 차이가 있기 때문에 전체적으로 또는 부분적으로 분석결과가 차이를 보일 수 있다. 또한 추세분석에서는 통계적인 신뢰수준에 대한 검정과정 없이 단순하게 선형회귀곡선식을 이용하여 기울기의 부호만으로 증가 감소를 판단하는 경우도 있다. 그러나 추세분석은 최적의 추세곡선을 찾아내는 것 이전에 추세의 유무를 통계적인 신뢰수준을 기준으로 검정하는 것이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 추세분석의 필수과정인 추세검정(추세가 있는가? 없는가?)을 Mann-Kendall 방법을 이용하여 우리나라 전 연안 조위관측소의 평균해수면 및 고극조위, 저극조위 자료에 대하여 수행하였다. 추세검정 결과를 다음과 같이 도출할 수 있었다. 평균해수면은 95% 유의수준으로 분석에 포함된 전체 30개 검조소 중 대산, 보령, 군산, 목포, 통영, 거문도, 부산, 가덕도, 제주, 서귀포, 속초, 포항, 울산, 울릉도 지점 등 19개 지점이 추세가 있는 것으로 파악되었으며, 고극조위, 저극조위는 각각 15개, 17개 지점이 추세가 있는 것으로 파악되었다.