• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2014

Objectives: In this study, we evaluated the antibacterial activity of self-etching adhesive systems against Streptococcus mutans using the agar diffusion method. Materials and Methods: Three 2-step systems, Clearfil SE Bond (SE, Kuraray), Contax (CT, DMG), and Unifil Bond (UnB, GC), and three 1-step systems, Easy Bond (EB, 3M ESPE), U-Bond (UB, Vericom), and All Bond SE (AB, BISCO) were used. 0.12% chlorhexidine (CHX, Bukwang) and 37% phosphoric acid gel (PA, Vericom) were used as positive controls. Results: The antibacterial activity of CHX and PA was stronger than that of the other groups, except SE. After light activation, the inhibition zone was reduced in the case of all 2-step systems except CT. However, all 1-step systems did not exhibit any inhibition zone upon the light activation. Conclusions: SE may be better than CT or UnB among the 2-step systems with respect to antibacterial activity, however, 1-step systems do not exhibit any antibacterial activity after light curing.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권12호
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• pp.6028-6042
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• 2019

Since Sparse Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (SNMF) method can control the sparsity of the decomposed matrix, and then it can be adopted to control the sparsity of facial feature extraction and recognition. In order to improve the accuracy of SNMF method for facial feature recognition, new additive iterative rules based on the improved iterative step sizes are proposed to improve the SNMF method, and then the traditional multiplicative iterative rules of SNMF are transformed to additive iterative rules. Meanwhile, to further increase the sparsity of the basis matrix decomposed by the improved SNMF method, a threshold-sparse constraint is adopted to make the basis matrix to a zero-one matrix, which can further improve the accuracy of facial feature recognition. The improved SNMF method based on the additive iterative rules and threshold-sparse constraint is abbreviated as ASNMF, which is adopted to recognize the ORL and CK+ facial datasets, and achieved recognition rate of 96% and 100%, respectively. Meanwhile, from the results of the contrast experiments, it can be found that the recognition rate achieved by the ASNMF method is obviously higher than the basic NMF, traditional SNMF, convex nonnegative matrix factorization (CNMF) and Deep NMF.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 단순화한 색상 정보에 기반한 컨벌류션 정합(Convolution Matching)을 이용하여 차량을 검출하는 기법을 제안한다. 입력 영상을 화소 색상 벡터의 방향을 고려해 8방향 색상(Red, Green, Blue Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, White, Black)으로 표현한다. 8 방향 색상의 표현은 조명이나 환경 변화에 강인한 영상을 제공한다. 본 논문의 차량 검출 단계는 크게 후보 영역 검출 단계와 차량 검증 단계로 구성된다. 후보 영역 검출 단계에서는 수직 에지와 그림자 등을 고려하여 차량의 후보 영역을 결정한다. 차량 검증 단계에서는 차량을 판별하기 위해 컨벌류션 정합과 후보 영역내의 에지 복잡도를 사용한다. 제안하는 차량 검출 알고리즘은 조명이나 환경이 변화하는 다양한 실험들에서 빠르고 높은 검출률을 보였다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.575-580
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• 2007

A 16 Mb 1T1C FeRAM device was integrated with BLT capacitors. But a lot of cells were failed randomly during the measuring the bit-line signal distribution of each cell. The reason was revealed that the grain size and orientation of the BLT thin film were severely non-uniform. And the grain size and orientation were severely affected by the process conditions of post heat treatment, especially nucleation step. The optimized annealing temperature at the nucleation step was $560^{\circ}C$. The microstructure of the BLT thin film was also varied by the annealing time at the step. The longer process time showed the finer grain size. Therefore, the uniformity of the grain size and orientation could be improved by changing the process conditions of the nucleation step. The FeRAM device without random bit-fail cell was successfully fabricated with the optimized BLT capacitor and the sensing margin in bit-line signal distribution of it was about 340 mV.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.72-78
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• 1996

본 논문에서는 2차원 양방향 포물선 방정식 법과 푸리에 변환을 이용하여 3차원 굴절현상 및 3차원 후방 산란파를 포함하는 $2\frac12$차원 문제를 푸는 방법에 대해 다루었다. 여기서 $2\frac12$ 차원 문제란 2차원적 해양환경 하에 3차원적 음원이 존재할 경우를 의미한다. 2차원 양방향 포물선 방정식법은 수치기법으로 깊이 방향과 수평거리 방향에 대해 각각 Galerkin법과 Crank-Nicolson법을 사용하며 수직 불연속 경계면에 의한 후방 산란파를 포함한 수평거리 의존 문제에 대해 유용한 해를 제공한다. 2차원 해양환경에서는 파수 k가 종 또는 횡 수평거리 방향과 깊이 방향에 대한 함수이므로 3차원 Helmholtz방정식 법을 이용해 스펙트럴 해를 구하여 다시 푸리에 역변환하면 최종 해를 구할 수 있다. 본 연구방법의 정확성을 시험하기 위해서 계단형 해저면을 갖는 간단한 해양환경에서 계산을 수행해 보았으며 대한해협의 특정지역에서의 3차원적 음파전달 특성을 살펴보았다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제28권12호
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• pp.1906-1913
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• 2004

A new method has been proposed for the calibration of frictional forces in atomic force microscopy. Angle conversion factor is defined using the relationship between torsional angle and frictional signal. Once the factor is obtained from a cantilever, it can be applied to other cantilevers without additional experiments. Moment balance equations on the flat surface and top edge of a commercial step grating are used to obtain angle conversion factor. Proposed method is verified through another step grating test and frictional behavior of Mica.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.436-442
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• 2017

A novel method of Skin lesion segmentation based on the combination of Texture and Neural Network is proposed in this paper. This paper combines the textures of different pixels in the skin images in order to increase the performance of lesion segmentation. For segmenting skin lesions, a two-step process is done. First, automatic border detection is performed to separate the lesion from the background skin. This begins by identifying the features that represent the lesion border clearly by the process of Texture analysis. In the second step, the obtained features are given as input towards the Recurrent Echo state neural networks in order to obtain the segmented skin lesion region. The proposed algorithm is trained and tested for 862 skin lesion images in order to evaluate the accuracy of segmentation. Overall accuracy of the proposed method is compared with existing algorithms. An average accuracy of 98.8% for segmenting skin lesion images has been obtained.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2017

In order to maintain customer voltages within the allowable limit($220{\pm}13V$) as much as possible, tap operation strategy of SVR(Step Voltage Regulator) which is located in primary feeder, is widely used for voltage control in the utilities. However, SVR in nature has operation characteristic of the delay time ranging from 30 to 150 sec, and then the compensation of BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) during the delay time is being required because the customer voltages in distribution system may violate the allowable limit during the delay time of SVR. Furthermore, interconnection of PV(Photovoltaic) system could make a difficultly to keep customer voltage within the allowable limit. Therefore, this paper presents an optimal coordination operation algorithm between BESS and SVR based on a conventional LDC (Line Drop Compensation) method which is decided by stochastic approach. Through the modeling of SVR and BESS using the PSCAD/EMTDC, it is confirmed that customer voltages in distribution system can be maintained within the allowable limit.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.231-240
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• 1988

본 연구에서는 외압을 받는 공기윤활 저어널 베어링의 정적인 경우에 대해 증분법과 유한요소법을 적용하고 유량계수는 실험을 근거로 하여 포켓에서 베어링 내부로 유입될 때의 유압손실을 고려한 Pink와 Stout의 값을 이용하였다.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.8-13
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• 2020

Seamless pipes are fabricated by drilling a hole in a cylindrical material and drawing the material to the desired diameter. These pipes are used in environments where high reliability is required. In this study, the pipe drawing process was simulated using DEFORM, a commercial finite element method (FEM) analysis program. The outer diameter of the steel cylinder used herein before drawing was 70 mm, and the target outer diameter was 58 mm. The drawing process consisted of two stages. In this study, the effect of cross-sectional reduction rate on the pipe was investigated by varying the cross-sectional reduction rate in each step to achieve the target outer diameter. The results of this study showed that the first section reduction rate of 26% and the second section reduction rate of 13.9% caused the lowest damage to the material. Moreover, the FEM simulation results confirmed the influence of the drawing die angle on the pipe drawing process. The drawing die angles of 15° in the first step and 9° in the second step caused the least damage to the material.