• 농업과학연구
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.310-320
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• 1998

This study is aimed at identifying the socio-economic effects of storage of ginger in artificial caves. The gingers stored in artificial caves in Seochun, 12 sampled areas, were surveyed to get information on the socio-economic effects. The surveyed data were processed by TSP, Qbasic and B/C Ratio computer programs and analyzed the decision making criteria such as B/C ratio, NPV and IRR. The socio-economic effects of the storages of the gingers are as follows. 1. The storage benefits per ton was showed as 184,050won. 2. Considering 10% of the opportunity cost of capital, the uper limits of investments for the cave storages was analyzed as 6,784 thousand won for ginger. 3. The investment of the natural cave storages was revealed economically feasible considering the decision making criteria as B/C ratio = 1.33, NPV = 35.059 thousand won and IRR = more than 100%. The other socio-economic effects of the ginger storages was expected as ; 1. The cave storages will contribute to increase consumer's and producer's welfare through the control of supply and demand and price stability. 2. Long-term storage of ginger without damaging quality and grades will be made on account of the storage conditions as relatively low temperature, high humidity and indifferent affects from the outside climate. 3. Utilization of the underground space, the caves, for storage will maximize the land use and the sustainable environment considering the mountainous area, two third of the total national land area. 4. Construction costs of the underground storage facilities as caves are cheaper than the ground storage facilities by 15 to 20% in general. In conclusion, the underground space like natural and artificial caves are considered the most suitable for storage of ginger on account of the storage conditions as temperature, humidity and blocking the sun light. Accordingly a study on convenient utilization of new development of artificial caves should be made considering transportation and input-output of the farms. Financial support of the government should be institutionally rearranged for the successful implementation of storing farm products like ginger in natural and man-made caves.

• Journal of Biomedical and Translational Research
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.86-91
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• 2018

Angiotensin receptor blockers, such as telmisartan, are considered effective in the treatment of hypertension and proteinuria due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in cats. It selectively blocks the $AT_1$ receptor and does not affect the $AT_2$ receptor, thus effectively blocking the activity of the renin angiotensin aldosterone system. This study aims to compare over time the changes in various indicators, including systemic hypertension and proteinuria, before and after the administration of telmisartan in cats with CKD. Decrease in blood pressure (BP) (p<0.001) and urine protein to creatinine (UP/C) ratio (p<0.001) were found to be statistically significant over time after the administration of telmisartan. BP and the UP/C ratio were $160{\pm} 22.2$ and $0.50{\pm}0.647$ before telmisartan administration (Day 0), $150{\pm}21.0$ and $0.27{\pm}0.487$ on the 30th day (Day 30), $150{\pm}17.0$ and $0.25{\pm}0.376$ on the 60th day (Day 60), and $140{\pm}17.8$ and $0.15{\pm}0.233$ on the 90th day (Day 90) after administration, respectively. BP and UP/C were statistically significantly lower in cats with CKD over time at each time point from Day 0 to Day 90 at 30 day intervals. Especially after 90 days of telmisartan administration, the improvement of BP and UP/C were estimated to be about 20 mmHg and 0.35, respectively. In conclusion, the oral administration of telmisartan to cats with CKD is effective in improving BP and proteinuria, which has a positive effect on long-term survival in cats with CKD.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2022

In this study, limestone powder (LS) and fly ash (FA) were used as powder materials in self-compacting concrete (SCC) in increasing quantities in addition to cement, so that the two powders commonly used in the production of SCC could be compared in the same study. Considering the reduction of the maximum aggregate size in SCC, 10 mm or 16 mm was selected as the coarse aggregate size. The properties of fresh concrete were determined by slump flow (including T₅₀₀ time), V-funnel and J-ring experiments. The experimental results showed that as the amount of both LS and FA increased, the slump flow also increased. The increase in powder material had a negative effect on V-funnel flow times, causing it to increase; however, the increase in FA concretes was smaller compared to LS ones. The increase in the powder content reduced the amount of blockage in the J-ring test for both aggregate sizes. As the hardened concrete properties, the compressive and splitting strengths as well as the modulus of elasticity were determined. Longitudinal and transverse deformations were measured by attaching a special frame to the cylindrical specimens and the values of Poisson's ratio, initiation and critical stresses were obtained. Despite having a similar W/C ratio, all SCC exhibited higher compressive strength than NVC. Compressive strength increased with increasing powder content for both LS and FA; however, the increase of the FA was higher than the LS due to the pozzolanic effect. SCC with a coarse aggregate size of 16 mm showed higher strength than 10 mm for both powders. Similarly, the modulus of elasticity increased with the amount of powder material. Inelastic properties, which are rarely found in the literature for SCC, were determined by measuring the initial and critical stresses. Crack formation in SCC begins under lower stresses (corresponding to lower initial stresses) than in normal concretes, while critical stresses indicate a more brittle behavior by taking higher values.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.84-94
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• 1997

본 연구는 27명의 만성 정신분열증 환자들을 대상으로 비정형적 항정신병 약물인 clozapine을 8주간 투여하여 임상증상 치료반응(PANSS와 CGI 척도 이용)과 혈장 대사물(혈장 HVA 농도, 5-HIAA 농도 및 HVA/5-HIAA 농도비 측정) 변화와의 상관관계를 알아보고, 아울러 clozapine 치료 반응군과 치료 비반응군간의 약물투여전 기준 혈장 대사물과 clozapine투여 8주후 대사물의 변화율을 비교하여 혈장 대사물 농도가 clozapine 치료의 예측인자로서 가능성이 있는 가를 알아 보기 위하여 시행되었다. 전체 연구대상군에서 clozapine 투여기간에 따른 혈장 HVA 농도, 5-HIAA 농도는 각각 유의한 감소가 있었으나, 혈장 HVA/5-HIAA 농도비는 유의한 변화가 없었다. 전체 연구대상군에서 clozapine 투여 8주 후 혈장 HVA 농도변화율, 혈장 5-HIAA 농도변화율, 혈장 HVA/5-HIAA 농도비 변화율 각각과 8주후 정신병리(PANSS 양성척도점수, 음성척도점수, 일반정신병리척도 점수, 전체점수) 변화율과의 상관분석결과 혈장 HVA 변화율은 PANSS 양성척도점수 변화율, 일반정신병리척도 점수 변화율, 그리고 전체점수의 변화율과 각각 유의한 정 상관성이 있었으며, 반면 혈장 5-HIAA 농도 변화율은 PANSS 음성척도점수 변화율과 유의한 정 상관성이 있었다. 전체 연구대상군에서 clozapine 투여 8주 후 혈장 HVA 농도변화율은 PANSS 양성척도 항목중 특히 망상 및 환각행동 항목점수의 변화율과 각각 유의한 정 상관성이 있었으며, PANSS 음성척도 항목중에서는 대화흐름 및 자발성 결여 항목점수의 변화율과 유의한 정 상관성이 있었다. 혈장 5-HIAA 농도 변화율은 PANSS 음성척도 항목 중 둔마된 정동, 빈약한 신뢰감 항목 점수의 변화율과 각각 유의한 정 상관성이 있었다. Clozapine 투여 8주 후 PANSS 전체점수가 20% 이상 감소되고 CGI 심도점수가 경도 이하인 경우를 치료반응의 기준으로 정의했을 때, 전체 27명의 대상환자 중 48%(13명)가 치료반응군이었다. Clozapine 치료 반응군(N=13명)과 치료 비반응군(N=14명)의 비교에서 약물투여 전 기준 혈장 HVA 농도와 기준 혈장 HVA/5-HIAA 농도비는 치료 반응군이 유의하게 높았으며, 기준 혈장 5-HIAA 농도는 양 군 간의 유의한 차이가 없었다. Clozapine 치료반응군의 경우 약물투여 8주 후 혈장 HVA 농도가 40.3% 감소하고, 치료 비반응군은 혈장 HVA 농도가 3.1% 증가하여 양군 간의 유의한 차이를 보였다. Clozapine 투여 8주 후 혈장 5-HIAA 농도변화율과 혈장 HVA/5-HIAA 농도비 변화율은 치료반응군과 비반응군 간에 각각 유의한 차이가 없었다. 이상의 연구결과는 만성 정신분열증 환자에서 clozapine의 항정신병효과 중 양성증상은 도파민 길항효과와 관련이 있고, 음성증상은 세로토닌 길항효과와 관련이 있음을 시사하였다. 또한 만성 정신분열증 환자에서 약물투여 전 혈장 HVA 농도와 약물투여 후 혈장 HVA 농도변화가 각각 clozapine의 치료반응 예측인자로서 이용 가능성이 있음을 시사하였다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.545-557
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• 2018

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become popular and widely used in many fields from military to civilian applications. However, GPS signals are suffered from interference due to its weak signal over wireless channel. There are many types of interference, such as jamming, blocking multipath, and spoofing, which can mislead the operation of GPS receiver. In this paper, vector-based tracking loop model with integrity check is proposed to detect and mitigate the harmful effect of interference on GPS receiver operation. The suggested methods are implemented in the tracking loop of GPS receiver. As a first method, integrity check with carrier-to-noise ratio (C/No) monitoring technique is applied to detect the presence of interference and prevent contaminated channels out of tracking channels to calculate position. As a second method, a vector-based tracking loop using Extended Kalman Filter with adaptive noise covariance according to C/No monitoring results. The proposed methods have been implemented on simulated dataset. The results demonstrates that the suggested methods significantly mitigate interference of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and improve position calculation by 44%.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.390.2-390.2
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• 2016

Single crystalline indium-tin-oxide (ITO) nanowires (NWs) were grown by sputtering method. A thin Ni film of 5 nm was coated before ITO sputtering. Thermal treatment forms Ni nanoparticles, which act as templates to diffuse Ni into the sputtered ITO layer to grow single crystalline ITO NWs. Highly optical transparent photoelectric devices were realized by using a transparent metal-oxide semiconductor heterojunction by combining of p-type NiO and n-type ZnO. A functional template of ITO nanowires was applied to this transparent heterojunction device to enlarge the light-reactive surface. The ITO NWs/n-ZnO/p-NiO heterojunction device provided a significant high rectification ratio of 275 with a considerably low reverse saturation current of 0.2 nA. The optical transparency was about 80% for visible wavelengths, however showed an excellent blocking UV light. The nanostructured transparent heterojunction devices were applied for UV photodetectors to show ultra fast photoresponses with a rise time of 8.3 mS and a fall time of 20 ms, respectively. We suggest this transparent and super-performing UV responser can practically applied in transparent electronics and smart window applications.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.915-918
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• 2010

In this work, the etching characteristics of ZnO thin films were investigated using an inductively coupled plasma(ICP) of HBr/Ar/$CHF_3$ gas mixtures. The plasma characteristics were analyzed by a quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS) and double langmuir probe (DLP). The surface reaction of the ZnO thin films was investigated using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The etch rate of ZnO was measured as a function of the $CHF_3$ mixing ratio in the range of 0-15% in an HBr:Ar=5:2 plasma at a fixed gas pressure (6mTorr), input power (700 W), bias power (200 W) and total gas flow rate(50sccm). The etch rate of the ZnO films decreased with increasing $CHF_3$ fraction due to the etch-blocking polymer layer formation.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.103-109
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• 1995

자율신경계는 서로 상반되게 작용하는 교감신경과 부교감신경으로 구성되어 그 활성의 균형에 의해 신체의 향상성이 유지된다. 자율신경계는 각종 스트레스나 질환에 의해 그 활성이 변화한다. 그러나 자율신경계의 메카니즘은 너무나 복잡하여 해석이 용이하지 않은 관계로 인체에서 유기되는 여러가지 생체신호중에서 자율신경에 의해 지배되는 심전도 신호와 호흡을 매개변수로하여 자율신경의 활성도를 측정하는 시스템의 설계와 제작이 본 연구의 목적이다. 본 논문을 수행하기 위해서 심전도 신호 증폭기, 호흡변위 증폭기, interval time generator 및 처리 소프트웨어 등을 제작하였다. 그리고 심전도 신호와 호흡요소에 대한 power spectrum을 나타낼 뿐만 아니라 이들을 합성하여 하나의 graph로 표현할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제17권 2호
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• pp.223-226
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• 1998

In the Input Buffer Switch using the intial stage FIFO memory structure, It has pointed the Throughput limitation to the percent of 58.6 due to HOL(Head of Line) blocking in the DBP(Dedicated Buffer with Pointer) method, During that time, To overcome these problems, The prior papers have proposed the complicated Arbitration algorithms and Non-FIFO memory structures. and These showed the improved Throughput. But, Now, To design high speed ATM Switch which need to the tens of Giga bit/s or the tens of Tera bit/s. It has more difficulty in proceeding the priority of majority and the complicated Cell Scheduling, because of the problem in operating the control speed of the ratio of N to scanning each port and scheduling the Cell. In this paper, To overcome these problems, We could show more the improved performance than the existing DBP Window policy to design high speed ATM Switch.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.658-664
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• 2020

Zeolite HY is wet impregnated with Ni (0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 wt%), Pt (0.1 wt%) and reduced in presence of hydrogen to form nanosized particles of Ni and Pt. All the catalysts were characterized by XRD, TEM, ESCA, NH₃-TPD, Pyridine adsorbed FT-IR and BET. Characterization results confirm that the Ni and Pt fractions effectively rehabilitated the physio-chemical properties of the zeolite HY catalysts. Further, all the reduced catalyst were screened with hydroisomerization of m-xylene at LHSV = 2.0 h^-1 in the temperature range 250-400 ℃ in steps of 50 ℃ in hydrogen atmosphere (20 ml/g). The addition of Ni to Pt catalyst increases hydroisomerization conversion, as well as maximizes p-xylene selectivity by restricting the pore size. The increasing trend in activity continues up to 0.3 wt% of Ni and 0.1 wt% Pt addition over zeolite HY. The increasing addition of Ni increases the total number of active metallic sites to exposed, which increases the metallic sites/acid sites ratio towards the optimum value for these reactions by better balance of synergic effect for stable activity. The rate of deactivation is pronounced on monometallic catalysts. The results confirm the threshold Ni addition is highly suitable for hydroisomerization reaction for product selectivity over Ni-Pt bimetallic/support catalysts.