• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.79-83
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• 2008

As a new standard for performance measurement, NEMA NU2-2001 was presented recently. In this study, I investigated the spatial resolution, sensitivity, scatter fraction, and noise equivalent count ratio (NECR) in order to know the information of physical characteristics and system performance of GE discovery ST using this new standard. Bismuth germinate crystals ($6{\times}6$ array, $6.3mm{\times}6.3mm{\times}30mm$) were used in discovery ST (energy window:375-650 keV, coincidence window:11.7 nsec). To measure the sensitivity, five aluminum sleeves (Data Spectrum Corp., Chapel Hill, NC., USA, thickness:1.25 mm)-NEMA sensitivity phantom- filled with F-18 solution were used. Successive measurements in 2D and 3D acquisition mode were made with a line source at the center of transaxial field of view and 10 cm off from the center until the count was over 500,000. Spatial resolution was estimated using a point source (F-18, 0.1 mCi) at different locations in the FOV. Scatter fraction and NECR was tested using a NEMA scatter phantom. Dynamic data were acquired for 7 half-lives using F-18 solution. And true to background ratio was averaged at last three frames when the random rate was as small as ignorable for the calculation of scatter fraction. We anticipate this overall evaluated results could be used for the quality assurance and optimized image acquisition for clinical research.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.59-62
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• 2000

After ten years of implementing the agricultural automation program in Taiwan, some positive effects and satisfactory results have been recognized by both the agricultural industry and local administrative bureaux. The automation of agriculture is a response to sophisticated demands for production and quality in countries with high labor costs. The development of sensor systems, control systems, precision agriculture systems, and engineering for plant culture systems will determine the degree of automation used for crop production in the 21st century. The engineering system will capitalize upon expertise from physiologists, pathologists, systems analysts, agronomists, horticulturists, computer programmers, economists, crop producers and managers in order to efficiently implement automated crop production.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.35-48
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• 2005

An architectural framework is developed for integrating geospatial and temporal data with relational information from which a spatio-temporal data warehouse (STDW) system is built. In order to implement the STDW, a generic conceptual model was designed that accommodated six dimensions: spatial (map object), temporal (time), agent (contractor), management (e.g. planting) and tree species (specific species) that addressed the 'where', 'when', 'who', 'what', 'why' and 'how' (5W1H) of the STDW information, respectively. A formal algebraic notation was developed based on a triplet schema that corresponded with spatial, temporal, and relational data type objects. Spatial object structures and spatial operators (spatial selection, spatial projection, and spatial join) were defined and incorporated along with other database operators having interfaces via the generic model.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.43-49
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• 2013

The aim of this study was to compare both the performance of litters derived from two sire genetic origins (SGO), Vienna Blue (VB) and Burgundy Fawn (BF), along successive seasons of birth (SB; winter, spring, summer and autumn), and doe reproductive performance in an organic production system. A total of fifty-eight does consisting of a mixture of crosses of several medium-large size breeds at different parity order (P, 1 = nulliparous; 2 = primiparous; ${\geq}3$ = multiparous) and twelve males (6 VB and 6 BF) were housed indoors at environmental conditions that followed seasonality. An extensive reproductive rhythm was used and kits were weaned at $46{\pm}6$ d of age. Doe reproductive performance and the data of 105 litters (55 from VB and 50 from BF SGO) were recorded throughout the SB. No statistically significant differences related to SGO effect were observed. As regards parity order, multiparous does showed higher live weights (LW) (p<0.05), total born (p<0.01), total born alive (p<0.05) per delivery, and litter weight of born alive (p<0.05), but lower milk output at 21st d than primiparous does (p<0.05). The extensive reproductive rhythm mainly increased litter performance at birth in multiparous does but was not sufficient to permit a complete recovery of body reserves lost during lactation. Autumn SB negatively affected doe LW variation between deliveries. The number of pups born and born alive per delivery (p<0.05) and litter size at 21 d of age and at weaning (p<0.01) were lower during hot SB. Due to the lower litter size of pups born in summer and autumn, their individual weight at 21st d of age and daily individual growth rate 0 to 21 d were higher than those of pups born in winter (p<0.001). Litter performance at 21st d of age and individual pup pre-weaning growth rate were poorer for those born in spring than in other seasons due to the harmful effects of increased environmental temperatures. SB affected most of the performance traits of does and young rabbits reared under the organic farming system. The rabbits seemed better suited to organic rearing conditions during winter than in other seasons. The worst results overall were obtained in the spring SB, whereas the hot SB negatively affected both doe energy balance and prolificacy. In conclusion, the pups of the 2 SGO showed good pre-weaning performance and seemed suited to the organic rabbit production system.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.301-312
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• 2021

An optimization framework has been established and applied to a shipshape parametric FPSO hull design. A single point moored (SPM) shipshape floating system suffers a significant level of the roll motion in both the wave frequencies and low wave frequencies, which presents a coupling effect with the horizontal weathervane motion. To guarantee the security of the operating instruments installed onboard, a parametric hull design of an FPSO has been optimized with improved hydrodynamics performance. With the optimized parameters of the various hull stations' longitudinal locations, the optimization through Genetic Algorithms (GAs) has been proven to provide a significantly reduced level of the 1st-order and 2nd-order roll motion. This work presents a meaningful framework as a reference in the process of an SPM shipshape floating system's design.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1025-1031
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 FIR 근사를 기반으로한 전역통과 시스템에 대한 deconvolution 필터링 기법을 제안한다. 제안한 기법은 안정한 non-causal deconvolution 필터를 FIR 근사에 의해 안정한 causal deconvolution 필터로 변환시키는 것이다. 본 논문에서 보인바와 같이 전역통과시스템에 대한 deconvolution 필터의 임펄스 응답은 전역통과 시스템 자체의 임펄스 응답의 거울 영상(mirror image) 임을 알 수 있다. 이와 같이 전역통과 시스템에 대한 임펄스 응답과 그 시스템의 deconvolution 필터에 대한 임펄스 응답의 대칭성 때문에, 제안한 기법은 전역 통과 필터의 차수에 상관없이 동일하게 적용할 수 있다. 제안한 기법의 성능을 보이기 위하여 1차, 2차 및 400차의 전역통과 시스템에 대한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과를 포함한다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2021

In electronic warfare, beamforming using multiple antennas is applied for effective transmission of electronic attack signals. In order to perform an electronic attack against multiple threats using the same frequency resource, it is necessary to apply a multi-beam transmission algorithm that has been studied in wireless communication systems. For electronic attacks against multiple threats, this paper presents an MMSE(Minimum Mean-Squared Error) beam-forming technique based on the prior location information of threats and an optimization method for power allocation. In addition, the performance of the proposed method is evaluated and received signals of multiple threats are compared and analyzed.

• 생태와환경
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.356-367
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• 2012

본 연구는 금강 지류인 충남 청양군 지천의 어류군집 및 멸종위기종 미호종개와 흰수마자의 서식현황을 파악하기 위하여 2011년 조사를 실시하였다. 지천 상류(St. 1~St. 4)는 하천형이 Aa-Bb형 또는 Bb형이고 하상구조는 자갈과 돌의 비율이 높았으며 10~23종의 어류가 서식하였고, 중류(St. 5~St. 7)는 하천형이 Bb형이고 하상구조는 돌과 큰돌의 비율이 높았으며 16~23종의 어류가 서식하였으며, 하류(St. 8~St. 10)는 하천형이 Bb-Bc형이고 하상구조는 모래의 비율이 높았으며 20~29종의 어류가 서식하였다. 전체 출현한 어종은 모두 9과 44종이었고, 우점종은 피라미 Zacco platypus (37.2%), 아우점종은 돌고기 Pungtungia herzi (5.8%)와 모래무지 Pseudogobio esocinus (5.5%)였으며, 그 다음으로 납자루 Acheilognathus lanceolatus (5.3%)와 참갈겨니 Z. koreanus (5.2%), 참마자 Hemibarbus longirostris (4.9%), 긴몰개 Squalidus gracilis majimae (3.5%) 등의 순으로 우세하게 출현하였다. 출현종 중 고유종은 16종(36.4%)으로 비교적 높게 나타났고, 멸종위기종은 미호종개와 흰수마자 2종이, 외래어종은 배스 Micropterus salmoides 1종이 출현하였다. 지점들 간의 군집유사도를 분석한 결과 상류(St. 1~St. 4)와 중류(St. 5~St. 7), 하류(St. 8~St. 10)로 나누어지고, 우점도는 하류로 갈수록 대체로 낮아지는 반면, 다양도와 균등도, 종풍부도 하류로 갈수록 대체로 높아지는 경향을 보였다. 하류에서 출현한 멸종위기종 미호종개와 흰수마자의 서식현황을 정밀조사한 결과, 두 종 모두 하상이 모래인 곳에 집단을 형성하여 서식하고 있어 주목되었다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.645-654
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• 2021

In this paper, we proposed a protocol to convert 2W telephone analog signals to Ethernet data in a private PSTN 2W tactical voice system. There are several kinds of operational problems in the tactical telephone network where 2W telephone copper lines are installed hundreds of meters away from the PBX in a headquarter site. The reason is that it is difficult to install and maintain the 2W telephone copper cable in severe operational fields and to meet safety and stability operational requirements of the telephone line under lighting and electromagnetic environments. In order to solve these challenging demands, we proposed an efficient method that the 2W analog interface signals between a private PBX system and a 2W telephone is converted to Ethernet messages using the optical Ethernet data communication network already deployed in the tactical weapon system. Thus, it is not necessary to install an additional optic cable for the ethernet telephone line and to maintain the private PSTN 2W telephone network. Also it provides safe and secure telecommunication operation under lightning and electromagnetic environments. This paper presents the conversion protocol from 2W telephone signals over Ethernet interface between PBX systems and 2W telephones, the mutual exchange protocol of ethernet messages between two converters, and the rule to process analog signal interface. Finally, we demonstrate that the proposed technique can provide a feasible solution in the tactical weapon system by analyzing its performance and experimental results such as the bandwidth of 2W telephone ethernet network and the transmission latency of voice signal, and the stability of optic ethernet voice network along with the ethernet data network.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.747-753
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• 2010

A series of experiments with a laboratory scale ultrasound treatment system for MTBE polluted groundwater was performed to increase the efficiency of MTBE degradation in groundwater. This study evaluated several factors to increase the efficiency of MTBE treatment for artificial and natural groundwater. The treated volume of groundwater, ultrasound frequency and power, and pollutant concentrations have been changed to evaluate its effects on the degradation efficiency of MTBE in batch and continuous flow reactor. For the specific experimental conditions on this paper, MTBE degradations are more efficient at 580 kHz than those at 1 MHz. The efficiency of MTBE degradation is proportional to the intensity of ultrasound power per unit volume of MTBE polluted groundwater. The concentration of ions in groundwater does not much affect the efficiency of MTBE degradation. The $1^{st}$ order degradation constant of MTBE for different power per unit volume at 580 kHz shows linear relationship at same concentration. The $1^{st}$ order degradation constant for 0.1 mM MTBE solution is higher than that for 1 mM MTBE solution. These experimental results could be helpful to seek optimal conditions for relatively large volume of polluted groundwater treatment.