• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.725-740
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• 2009

A new simple relation for the estimation of modal correlation coefficients is presented. It is obtained from the decomposition of covariances of modal responses into background and resonant contributions, as it is commonly done for the variances. Thanks to appropriate assumptions, the modal correlation coefficients are estimated as weighted sums of two limit values, corresponding to the background and resonant responses respectively. The weighting coefficients are expressed as functions of the background-to-resonant ratios, which makes the proposed formulation convenient and easily accessible. The simplicity of the mathematical formulation facilitates the physical interpretation. It is for example proved that modal correlation coefficients can be non negligable even in case of well separated natural frequencies, which is sometimes unclear in the litterature. The new relation is mainly efficient in case of large finite element models. It is applied and validated on a finite element buffeting analysis of the Viaduct of Millau, the highest bridge deck ever built so far.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제54권8호
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• pp.384-389
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• 2005

The Resonance Scattering Theory(RST) provides the physical explanation of the scattered field that appears in the vicinity of the resonance frequency. The theory suggests that the amplitude of each Partial-wave mode can be divided into two components : resonance and non-resonant background. The long-standing difficulty in the application of RST is that it always requires background components. We have applied the RST to the electromagnetic scattering problems by a penetrable spherical scatterer and a cavity. In this paper, we show some numerical results, and validate background coefficients.

• 정보통신설비학회논문지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2003

공진산란이론은 산란장의 공진현상을 물리적으로 해석해주는 이론으로, 산란장은 공진성분과 비공진성분 즉 배경성분으로 구성되어 있다고 가정한다. 따라서 공진 성분을 산란장으로부터 추출하기 위해서는 정확한 배경성분을 구하는 과정이 필요한데, 본 연구에서는 원통형 유전체와 공동에 의한 산란장으로부터 공진성분을 얻기 위한 배경성분을 제시하고, 수치 계산을 수행하여 타당성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.424-435
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• 2016

Background: The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recommendations and the Federal Guidance Report (FGR) published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been widely applied worldwide in the fields of radiation protection and dose assessment. The dose conversion coefficients of the ICRP and FGR are widely used for assessing exposure doses. However, before the coefficients are used, the user must thoroughly understand the derivation process of the coefficients to ensure that they are used appropriately in the evaluation. Materials and Methods: The ICRP provides recommendations to regulatory and advisory agencies, mainly in the form of guidance on the fundamental principles on which appropriate radiological protection can be based. The FGR provides federal and state agencies with technical information to assist their implementation of radiation protection programs for the U.S. population. The system of radiation dose assessment and dose conversion coefficients in the ICRP and FGR is reviewed in this study. Results and Discussion: A thorough understanding of their background is essential for the proper use of dose conversion coefficients. The FGR dose assessment system was strongly influenced by the ICRP and the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), and is hence consistent with those recommendations. Moreover, the ICRP and FGR both used the scientific data reported by Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) and United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) as their primary source of information. The difference between the ICRP and FGR lies in the fact that the ICRP utilized information regarding a population of diverse races, whereas the FGR utilized data on the American population, as its goal was to provide guidelines for radiological protection in the US. Conclusion: The contents of this study are expected to be utilized as basic research material in the areas of radiation protection and dose assessment.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.154-157
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• 2017

Background: Shielding properties of compound or mixture is presented in terms of mass attenuation coefficients using Monte Carlo simulation. Mass attenuation coefficients of cement, gypsum and the mixture of gypsum and $PbCO_3$ has been investigated using monte carlo MCNPX. Materials and Methods: The mass attenuation coefficients of cement, gypsum and the mixture of gypsum and $PbCO_3$ were calculated for photon energies 365.5, 661.6, 1,173.2, and 1,332.5 keV energies. Results and Discussion: The simulated values of mass attenuation coefficients were compared avaialable experimental results, theoretical values by XCOM and found good comparability of the results. Conclusion: Standard simulation geometry used in the present investigation would be very useful for various types of sample for shielding and dosimetry applications.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2005년도 총회 및 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.6-8
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• 2005

The forest soils of 92 sites in Korea were analyzed to survey heavy metal background levels using aqua regia digestion method and 0.1N HCl extraction method. From these results, the average natural contents of heavy metals were Cd 0.287, Cu 15.26, Pb 18.43, Cr 25.36, Zn 54.27, Ni 17.68mg/kg for aqua regia method, and Cd 0.040, Cu 0.48, Pb 3.06, Cr 0.09, Zn 1.54, Ni 0.27mg/kg for 0.1N HCl extraction method. The range of correlation coefficients between heavy metal contents obtained from two methods(aqua regia and 0.1N HCl) was significant as $0.24{\sim}0.88$, and the correlation coefficients were decreased in order of Cd, Pb, Cu, Ni, Cr, Zn.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2019

The non-linear equations governing wind-induced internal pressures for a two-compartment building with background leakage are linearized based on some reasonable assumptions. The explicit admittance functions for both building compartments are derived, and the equivalent damping coefficients of the coupling internal pressure system are iteratively obtained. The RMS values of the internal pressure coefficients calculated from the non-linear equations and linearized equations are compared. Results indicate that the linearized equations generally have good calculation precision when the porosity ratio is less than 20%. Parameters are analyzed on the explicit admittance functions. Results show that the peaks of the internal pressure in the compartment without an external opening (Compartment 2) are higher than that in the compartment with an external opening (Compartment 1) at lower Helmholtz frequency. By contrast, the resonance peak of the internal pressure in compartment 2 is lower than that in compartment 1 at higher Helmholtz frequencies.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.493-505
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• 1997

In this paper, a wavelet image compression method using human visually estimated quantizer is proposed. The quantizer has three components. These are constructed by using effects of frequency band, background luminance, and spatial masking. The first quantization factor is a fixed constant value for each band. The second factor is calculated by averaging four wavelet coefficients in the lowest frequency band. The third factor is determined by the difference between wavelet coefficients in the lowest frequency band. Arithmetic coding is used for encoding quantized wavelet coefficients. Coefficients in the lowest band are transmitted without loss. Therefore the compressed image is decompressed by using three quantization factors which can be calculated in the receiver. Compared with previous image compression methods which adopted human visual system, the proposed method shows improved results with less computational cost.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.61-65
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• 2016

Importance of remote sensing for surface is increased than past. So many countries try to many ways to retrieve surface reflectance. In this study, we study a Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) to retrieve surface reflectance. We apply BRDF using observed surface reflectance of SPOT/VEGETATION (VGT-S1) and angular data to get Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution (BRD) coefficients for calculating scattering. And then we apply BRDF in the opposite direction with BRD coefficients and angular data to retrieve Background Surface Reflectance (BSR). The range of BSR is not over $0.4{\mu}m$ (blue), $0.45{\mu}m$ (red), $0.55{\mu}m$ (NIR). And for validation we compare BSR with VGT-S1, there are bias is from 0.0116 to 0.0158 and RMSE is from 0.0459 to 0.0545. As a result, we confirm that BSR is similar to VGT-S1.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 화자검증 시스템의 성능향상을 위해서 주성분 분석 (PCA) 기반 Mel-Frequency Discrete Wavelet Coefficients (MFDWC) 추출방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 멜척도 (Mel-scale)를 근사화한 각 레벨 (level)의 각 노드 (node) 에너지를 계산하기 위해 기존의 평균치 대신 주성분 분석을 이용한 첫 번째 eigenvector를 이용한다. 이 eigenvecto.의 제곱의 합은 1로서 일반적인 가중 함수 (weighting function)의 조건을 만족하고, 또한 각 화자마다 서로 다른 값을 갖게 되므로, 화자의 특징을 더 잘 나타내는 MFDWC를 추출할 수 있다. 화자검증은 Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) 기반의 백그라운드 모델과 화자 모델과의 점수를 비교하는 이진 결정 (binary decision) 방법을 이용하여 Universal 백그라운드 모델 (UBM)과 각 화자 모델의 값을 프레임단위로 비교하여 대상 화자의 수락/거부 여부를 결정하는 방법을 채택하였다. 특징 파라미터에 따른 화자 검증 성능변화를 확인하기 위하여 제안된 화자종속 가중함수를 이용한 MFDWC를 특징 파라미터로 이용한 경우와 Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficients (LPCC), 기존의 MFDWC를 특징 파라미터로 이용한 경우에 대하여 성능비교실험을 수행한 결과 각각 $0.80\%,\;5.14\%,\; 6.69\%$의 향상된 성능을 나타내어 제안한 방법의 유효성을 확인할 수 있었다.