• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.391-398
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• 2012

The conventional blink reflex has limited clinical application since it displays a wide range of change in the responses. Thus, we studied the blink reflex using the averaging process which is engaged in evoked potential studies in order to measure various responses such as latency, amplitude, and duration, which have been difficult to measure due to their wide ranges of changes. Among the Bell's palsy patient group, 13 patients who had the symptoms of incomplete palsy were examined to assess the results of the blink reflex through the averaging process. The subjects were 54 people in a normal group (108 eyes) and 18 patients (36 eyes) with Bell's palsy. For the study method, the conventional blink reflex and the blink reflex using the averaging process were measured for the people in the normal group, while in the Bell's palsy group, only the blink reflex using the averaging process was analyzed. In the case of the normal group, the blink reflex using the averaging process could measure all of the latency, amplitude, and duration. It was also observed that the latency, amplitude, and duration of R1, ipsilateral R2, and contralateral R2 significantly differed on the affected side of the Bell's palsy patients, compared to the unaffected side. The blink reflex using the averaging process should be more effective than the conventional method since the former can evaluate the latency, amplitude, and duration for Bell's palsy, while the latter can only assess latency.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.283-288
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• 1999

We investigated the characteristics of surface roughness evaluation using phase-measuring interferometer for a few ten $\AA$ and sub $\AA$-rough substrates. The influence of phase averaging and intensity averaging on the roughness measurement by phase measuring interferometer was investigated and the optimal number of phase and intensity averaging for the least measurement error was searched. For a few ten $\AA$-rough sample, roughness value did not depend so much on the data averaging. Whereas, measurement error for sub $\AA$-rough sample was significantly improved as the number of phase and intensity averaging increased. At the phase averaging of 30 and the intensity averaging of 20, roughness value that measurement error was minimized was obtained, and it was in good agreement with that by optical heterodyne interferometer. Roughness measurement at the optimal data averaging showed also good repeatability error less than 0.01$\AA$.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.739-744
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• 2007

Wind loads for cladding can be estimated using the maximum wind pressure including gust effects from wind-tunnel tests. However, when estimating the maximum wind pressure with gust effects, wind pressure coefficients for cladding would be different according to the averaging time of wind pressures, In the paper, for wind pressures obtained from wind-tunnel tests for apartment buildings, whose window panes were damaged by actual strong wind, it was investigated how pressure coefficients varied according to the size of cladding and averaging time using TVL method of Lawson. In result, it was found that the lesser the size of cladding and averaging time were, the larger pressure coefficients became. Accordingly, to estimate wind loads for cladding of apartment buildings and design it, the averaging time of wind pressures should be considered properly.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.589-598
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• 2018

To maintain safety and reliability of reactors, redundant sensors are usually used to measure critical variables and estimate their averaged time-dependency. Nonhealthy sensors can badly influence the estimation result of the process variable. Since online condition monitoring was introduced, the online cross-calibration method has been widely used to detect any anomaly of sensor readings among the redundant group. The cross-calibration method has four main averaging techniques: simple averaging, band averaging, weighted averaging, and parity space averaging (PSA). PSA is used to weigh redundant signals based on their error bounds and their band consistency. Using the consistency weighting factor (C), PSA assigns more weight to consistent signals that have shared bands, based on how many bands they share, and gives inconsistent signals of very low weight. In this article, three approaches are introduced for improving the PSA technique: the first is to add another consistency factor, so called trend consistency (TC), to include a consideration of the preserving of any characteristic edge that reflects the behavior of equipment/component measured by the process parameter; the second approach proposes replacing the error bound/accuracy based weighting factor ($W^a$) with a weighting factor based on the Euclidean distance ($W^d$), and the third approach proposes applying $W^d$, TC, and C, all together. Cold neutron source data sets of four redundant hydrogen pressure transmitters from a research reactor were used to perform the validation and verification. Results showed that the second and third modified approaches lead to reasonable improvement of the PSA technique. All approaches implemented in this study were similar in that they have the capability to (1) identify and isolate a drifted sensor that should undergo calibration, (2) identify a faulty sensor/s due to long and continuous missing data range, and (3) identify a healthy sensor.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.9
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• pp.107-114
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• 2004

This paper presents block and timing diagrams of the DWA(Data Weighted Averaging) to optimize a feedback time delay of the sigma-delta modulator. Through the MATLAB modeling, the optimized coefficients of the integrators are obtained to design the modulator. The fully differential SC integrators, feedback DAC, 9-level quantizer, and DWA are designed by considering the nonideal characteristics of the modulator. The designed third-order multibit modulator is fabricated in a 0.35${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS process. The modulator achieves 75dB signal-to-noise ratio and 74dB dynamic range at 1.2Vp-p 825kHz input signal and 52.8MHE sampling frequency.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1212-1215
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• 2012

This study describes the accuracy improvement of the estimated angle using phase averaging in phase-comparison monopulse algorithm. In addition, to compensate the time-delay due to the phase averaging, we propose the time-delay compensation algorithm which uses the derivative of the estimated angle. These derivative is calculated by the curve fitting method. Using the real radar interferometer, we have verified that the phase averaging and time-delay compensation algorithms are effective in real-time signal processing application.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.138-145
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• 1992

Dependence of the standard deviation of wind direction fluctuations, ${\sigma}_{\theta}$, on atmospheric stability, averaging time and topography were analysed with the data measured at three sites, Youngjongdo beach of the Yellow Sea, Chuncheon basin and Doam-Dam valley. The results show that the mean value of ${\sigma}_{\theta}$ is large in complex terrain, the Doam-Dam site. It is notable that the large value of ${\sigma}_{\theta}$ at night is associated with the low wind speed and the strong stable condition. In order to study the long-period fluctuations of the wind direction, ${\sigma}_{\theta}$ for longer than 10 minutes averaging time was further analysed using the data obtained at the Chuncheon basin. At the averaging time shorter than 60 minutes, larger ${\sigma}_{\theta}$ is associated with longer averaging time in the strong stable condition. However, ${\sigma}_{\theta}$ was not affected significantly by wind speed and averaging time in neutral conditions. The results of the spectrum analysis for the time series data of wind direction showed that low-frequency fluctuations ranging from 10 to 60 minutes were dominated at the Chuncheon basin in strong stable condition.

• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.127-137
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• 1992

묽은 고분자 용액의 유변학적 거동을 elastic dumbbell 모델을 사용하여 연구하면서 hydrodynamic interaction(H.I) 효과를 주로 살펴보았다. 먼저 consistent averaging방법을 사용하면서 Oseen tensor와 Rotne-Prager-Yama-kawa(R-P-Y) tensor를 H. I. tensor로 각 각 사용하여 그차이를 비교하였으며 oseen tensor를 사용하는 경우 tti-nger의 알고리듬과 Ahn과 Lee의 알고리듬을 비교하였다. 또 H.I. tensor를 처리하는 방법으로 consistent averaging 방법과 Gaussian approximation 방법의 차이에 대하여도 살펴보았다. Ahn과 Lee 의 알고리듬이 ttinger의 알고리듬보다 훨씬 빠른 계산시간을 보여주었으며 Gaussian approximation 방법을 사용하는 경우 consistent averaging 방법과 달리 second normal stress coefficient가 음의 값을 보이므로 더 합리적인 방법으로 생각된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.415-417
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• 2005

Core operations (e.9. TDMA scheduler, synchronized sleep period, data aggregation) of many proposed protocols for different layer of sensor network necessitate clock synchronization. Our Paper mingles the scheme of dynamic clustering and diffusion based asynchronous averaging algorithm for clock synchronization in sensor network. Our proposed algorithm takes the advantage of dynamic clustering and then applies asynchronous averaging algorithm for synchronization to reduce number of rounds and operations required for converging time which in turn save energy significantly than energy required in diffusion based asynchronous averaging algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.11a
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• pp.352-356
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• 1990

In this paper proposed a new analysis method that can be controlled DC separately excited motor using DC chopper. An analysis method can be broadly divided the state variables method and the state space averaging method. The state variable method is largely used for analysis method in the time area, but it is complicated analysis of the nonlinear circuit and modeling of the system. Therefore a boundary of the current continuous mode and discontinuous mode can be definited by the state space averaging method. Also this paper proposed a new approximation analysis method using state space averaging method in the discontinuous mode.