• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.248-260
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• 2023

A 0.5-numerical-aperture (NA) refractive-reflective objective, composed of a low-NA refractive and a reflective focal reducer, is designed. A 0.25-NA Lister objective is used for the refractive. A two-spherical-mirror system, corrected for spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism is used for the reflective focal reducer. In spite of high NA, the refractive-reflective objective has an 18-mm working distance and improved imaging performance, compared to the 0.25-NA Lister objective.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.89-98
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• 2006

Purpose : The prevalence of serotypes can be changed with respect to age of the patients, regions and times of the surveillance. The aim of this study is to analyze changes in serotype distribution of pneumococcal isolates from Korean pediatric patients. Methods : Four hundred and sixty five strains of S. pneumoniae were isolated from various clinical specimens at the Seoul National University Children's Hospital during a 15 year-period, from 1991 to 2005, were subjected to serotype and penicillin susceptibility. The study period was divided into three 5 year-periods, 1991~1995(period I), 1996~2000(period II), and 2001~2005(period III). Results : Common serotypes were 19F, 23F, 19A, 6B, 14, 6A and 9V in decreasing orders of frequency, and these 7 serotypes accounted for 79% of total 465 strains. In the serotype distribution of invasive infection isolates from children <60 months of age, similar serotypes accounted for 70% of 101 strains. In total strains, the proportion of serotype 19A and 6A increased, while that of serotype 19F and 14 decreased. The majority(75~92%) of vaccine types and cross-reactive types from invasive infection isolates was penicillin-resistant, whereas 34.4% of non-vaccine types was penicillin-resistant. Conclusion : Distribution of serotypes of S. pneuomoniae isolated from Korean children has changed significantly over the last 15 years. The surveillance for pneumococcal serotypes should be continued to monitor changes in serotype distribution which are essential for the establishment of pneumococcal vaccine policy.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.10B
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• pp.919-928
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• 2006

A periodic broadcasting is known as an efficient technique for delivering popular videos to reduce bandwidth requirements for transmitting streaming video to viewers in video-on-demand (VoD) services. However, the most periodic VoD schemes approach needs frequency channel hopping, many segments of video managing, and using many channel at the same time. These make it difficult to implement. In this paper, we propose a Staircase Staggered broadcasting scheme which has a simple structure and substantially improved VoD efficiency. The numerical results demonstrate that the viewer's waiting time of the Staircase Staggered broadcasting scheme is close to the staircase broadcasting scheme and the maximum buffer requirements of this can be adapted for demanding rate by adjusting the short front part of a video sizes.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.70-86
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• 2022

An autonomous demand-responsive bus with mobility-on-demand service is an innovative transport compensating for the disadvantages of an autonomous bus and a demand-responsive bus with mobility-on-demand service. However, less attention has been paid to the quantitative impact assessment of the autonomous demand-responsive bus due to the technological complexity of the autonomous demand-responsive bus. This study simulates autonomous demand-responsive bus trips by reinforcement learning on a microscopic traffic simulation to quantify the impact of the autonomous demand-responsive bus. The Chungju campus of the Korea National University of Transportation is selected as a testbed. Simulation results show that the introduction of the autonomous demand-responsive bus can reduce the wait time of passengers, average control delay, and increase the traffic speed compared to the results with fixed route bus service. This study contributes to the quantitative evaluation of the autonomous demand-responsive bus.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.859-866
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• 2010

In this study, microinjection molding process using the newly developed micromold system, namely modularized and sectioned micromold system (MSMS), has been carried out for a replication of multi-level microstructures. The present MSMS consisted of several micromold modules, each having cross-sectional microstructures on the top surface. The micromold modules were precisely fabricated by deep X-ray lithography and subsequent nickel electroforming. By assembling the micromold modules, an MSMS having multi-level microstructures, which could be used as a mold system in micromolding processes, was obtained. In this manner, polymeric multi-level microstructures, such as the triangular prism microstructures on a stepped surface, were successfully replicated by the microinjection molding process.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.157-164
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• 2022

This study was to analyze consumer confidence, satisfaction and repurchase intention after categorizing food-related lifestyle among 488 consumers who had experience purchasing convenience store lunch boxes. The data were analyzed with PASW 18.0 using frequency analysis, k-means cluster analysis, crosstabs analysis and one-way ANOVA. According to findings, first of all, types of food-related lifestyle are divided into 4 groups: a type of eating out(11.7%), a type of convenience seeking(18.3%), a type of food indifference(15%), a type of dietary interest(55%). Secondly, the types of food-related lifestyle showed statistically significant difference gender, age, marital status, education, monthly average household income, monthly average allowance, job, monthly average number of lunch box buying, lunch box purchase time zone and average one cost of lunch box buying of socio-economic variables. Thirdly, convenience seeking and dietary interest type showed the highest in consumer confidence and dietary interest type showed the highest level of satisfaction and repurchase intention.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.433-451
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• 1991

척추동물(7목 23종)의 췌장에서 insulin( B)세포, glucagon(A)세포, somatostatin( D)세포 및 pancreatic polypeptide( PP)세포 등을 면역세포화학법으로 동정하여 이들의 출현율, 분포양상 및 형태 등을 계통별로 비교하였다. 파충강의 거북목, 양서강의 유미목 및 어강의 악상대목 들을 제외한 모든 종에서 췌도의 형성을 관찰할 수 있었으며, 췌도를 구성하는 내분비세포의 크기에는 계통간의 차이가 있었다. B세포는 파충강의 것이 가장 크고, 양서강, 어강의 순이 었으며 A와 PP세포는 양서강, 파충강 및 어강의 순서였다. D세포는 양서강의 것이 가장 윤고, 다음이 어장이었으며, 파충강의 것이 가장 작았다. 이들 세포의 모양은 B세포의 경우 양서강과 어장에서는 원형, 난원형 및 방추형이었으며, 파충강에서는 원추형 및 단기형 등 다양한 모습이었다. A세포는 어강에서는 원헝, 난원형 및 방추형이 고르게 나타났고, 파충강과 양서 강에서는 원주형, 다각형 및 쐐기형이 나타났다. D세포는 모든 동물에서 원형, 난원형 및 방추형이 관찰되었고, 특히 파충강에서는 원추형및 쐐기형도 나타났다. PP세포는 주로 방추형 및 반원형이 대다수이였으며 간혹 원형 또는 다각형 등의 모습도 나타났다. 각 내분비세포의 출현율은 파충강 열 어강 들에서는 B, A, D 및 PP세포 순이었으나, 양서 강에서는 B, A, PP 및 D세포 순으로 나타났다. B와 PP세포는 양서강, 어강 및 파충강 순서로 출현하였고, A세포는 파충강, 어강 및 양서강의 순서이었으며 D세포는 어강, 파충강 및 양서강의 순서였다. 췌도 내에서의 세포의 분포 위치는 세포의 종류에 따라 차이를 보여 B세포의 경우 대다수 동물들에서 중앙부에 균등하게 분포하였으나 A, D및 PP세포는 주로 췌도 주변부에 분포하였고, 어강에서의 D세포는 췌도 중앙부에서도 관찰되었다. 일반적으로 파충강 및 양서 강에서는 외분비 선포조직에서초 내분비세포들이 출현하였으나, 어강에서는 내분비세포가 전혀 출현하지 않았다. 양서강 및 어강 들의 일부 수에서는 췌관상피에서도 드물게 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2024

The phase-type, PH, distribution is defined as the time to absorption into a terminal state in a continuous-time Markov chain. As the PH distribution includes family of exponential distributions, it has been widely used in stochastic models. Since the PH distribution is represented and generated by an initial probability vector and a generator matrix which is called the Markovian representation, we need to find a vector and a matrix that are consistent with given set of moments if we want simulate a PH distribution. In this paper, we propose an approach to simulate a PH distribution based on distribution function which can be obtained directly from moments. For the simulation of PH distribution of order 2, closed-form formula and streamlined procedures are given based on the Jordan decomposition and the minimal Laplace transform which is computationally more efficient than the moment matching methods for the Markovian representation. Our approach can be used more effectively than the Markovian representation in generating higher order PH distribution in queueing network simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.169-187
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• 1998

The primary purpose of this study is to compare printed index and abstract user's behaviours with digital index and abstract user's behaviours, and to verify of structured characteristics of a printed index and abstract. The major findings are as follows: (1) When the research topic is not specified enough, users tend to rely on printed indexes and abstracts search, whereas they utilize digital form in order to do retrospective search in the stage of research when the topic is determined. (2) Printed index and abstract users are expecting small number of literatures in search, whereas digital index and abstract users are expecting large number of literatures to be found The former are more satisfied with the result of search than the latter. (3) Digital index and abstract users experience more search failure than printed Index and abstract users. When they fail to find wanted materials, both users turn to the other form of indexes and abstracts. (4) Printed index and abstract users shows significantly less knowledge on online searching than digital index and abstract users.

• Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.49-55
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• 2010

Sympatric sites of type NE and NS of Zacco korean us were found in the upper reaches of many tributaries of the Nakdong and Seomjin rivers, as well as in some streams draining into the South Sea, Korea. In streams where the two types exist together, there was a tendency for individuals of NE to densely populate the upper reaches and those of NS to populate the middle reaches. A habitat-segregation phenomenon was observed in the cohabiting sites. Fishes of NE preferred rapids, whereas fishes of NS preferred slowly flowing or lentic regions. It seemed that the number of NE was proportional to the flow velocity, but NS showed an opposite trend in the cohabiting sites. On the other hand, such tendency was not found in regions where NE and NS exist separately.