• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2020

Objective: Many caregivers often carry infants using baby carriers until they are approximately 36 months old. The purpose of this study was to compare the muscular activity of the trunk and lower leg muscles during trunk flexion-extension movements in correspondence to various wearing methods of a baby carrier blanket. Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: Sixteen healthy adult women were to wear baby carrier blankets in five different ways in terms of direction and height, followed by flexion-extension of the trunk. Erector spinae (ES), rectus abdominis, rectus femoris (RF), biceps femoris (BF) muscle activities and triaxial acceleration of trunk were investigated. Results: The front-wearing method of the baby carrier blanket increased the muscular activity of the ES muscle, and wearing the baby carrier blanket at waist height in the same direction was significantly higher than wearing it at pelvic height (p<0.05). As the angle of flexion increased during trunk flexion-extension, the muscle activity of the ES, BF, and the RF increased. There was a greater increase in muscle activity of the ES and the BF during extension compared to flexion (p<0.05). Conclusions: If it is difficult to wear a baby carrier blanket due to lumbar pain, it is recommended to lower the wearing height of the baby carrier to the pelvic level so that the external load can be transferred to the lower extremity. In addition, it appears to be necessary to hold the baby and distribute the load onto the waist through proper body control when performing flexion-extension movements of the trunk. More objective and scientific research that includes various daily tasks and evaluation methods are needed.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.271-281
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• 2014

Fluctuating wind conditions necessitate the use of a variable speed wind turbine (VSWT) with a AC/DC/AC converter scheme in order to harvest the maximum power from the wind and to decouple the synchronous generator voltage and frequency from the grid voltage and frequency. In this paper, a combination of a three phase diode bridge rectifier (DBR) and a modified topology of the diode clamped multilevel inverter (DCMLI) has been considered as an AC/DC/AC converter. A control strategy has been proposed for the DCMLI to achieve the objective of grid interface of a wind power system together with local load compensation. A novel fixed frequency current control method is proposed for the DCMLI based on the level shifted multi carrier PWM for achieving the required control objectives with equal and uniform switching frequency operation for better control and thermal management with the modified DCMLI. The condition of the controller gain is derived to ensure the operation of the DCMLI at the fixed frequency of the carrier. The converter current injected into the distribution grid is controlled in accordance with the wind power availability. In addition, load compensation is performed as an added facility in order to free the source currents being fed from the grid of harmonic distortion, unbalance and a low power factor even though the load may be unbalanced, non-linear and of a poor power factor. The results are validated using PSCAD/EMTDC simulation studies.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.53-60
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• 2011

무선 센서 네트워크에서, IEEE 802.11은 센서노드간에 최대전력을 사용하여 패킷을 전송하기 때문에, 불필요한 에너지 소모가 발생한다. BASIC구조는 RTS-CTS패킷 전송에 최대 전송전력을 사용하며, 에너지 효율을 높이기 위해서 DATA-ACK전송에 최소한으로 필요한 전송전력을 사용한다. 그러나 BASIC구조는 반송파 감지지역의 노드에 의한 ACK패킷의 충돌로 인해 네트워크 수율이 떨어지며, 전력제어를 하지 않는 IEEE 802.11을 사용할 때 보다 더 높은 에너지 소모를 가진다. 기존에 제안된 PCM(Power Control MAC)구조는 ACK패킷의 충돌을 피하기 위해, 반송파 감지지역에서 DATA패킷의 전송을 감지하기 위해 주기적으로 최대 전력레벨로 DATA패킷 전송방법을 이용하였다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 PCM구조의 에너지 효율에 대한 문제점을 제시하고, 보다 높은 에너지 효율을 가진 개선된 PCM구조를 제안하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.1675-1678
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• 1997

In this paper, an attitude determination system(ADS) for KOMPSAT using GPS LI carrier phase measurements is considered. The baseline vector is estimated by the Exetnded Kalman Filter (EKF) which used the double differenced carrier phased measuremenmts made by three GPS receivers mounted on the spaceraft. The attitude angles of three axes of spacecrat are computed by the estimated baseline vectors, directly. The proposed ADS is verified by the simulation results.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회논문집; 부산수산대학교, 10 May 1996
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• pp.95-99
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• 1996

In this paper, we proposed a method to measure the gap between the magnetic pole and the levitated object applying the inductance characteristic which vary according to gap. We made a driving circuit which supply the control input PWM(Pulse Width Modulation) signal and the carrier PWM signal to estimate the gap. Because the inductance is a function of gap, and the current of the carrier signal is a function of the inductance. We investigated the validity of the proposed method through the experimental results.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.435-445
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• 2009

Purpose: This study was to examine whether VRE infection control strategies have an effect on the decrease in incidence rates for VRE acquisition and VRE nosocomial infection in ICU. Methods: All the patients were examined for VRE carriers on ICU admission. Among them, patients hospitalized for over 48 hours were investigated for VRE acquisition rates and VRE nosocomial infection rate using VRE infection control strategies in ICU for the experimental group from September 2007 to April 2008. Before that, incidence of VRE acquisition and VRE nosocomial infection for the control group without Intervention were investigated from May to August 2007 retrospectively. Results: VRE acquisition rate in clinical specimens was 0.6% in the experimental group, that was significantly lower when compared to the control group. VRE carrier rate at admission to ICU was 15.4%. Out of 182 VRE carriers, 180 patients were identified by the active surveillance culture. Conclusion: These results suggested that active surveillance culture at admission was considered to be an essential measure for detection of VRE carrier. But without strict isolation and adherence rating after each intervention, hand washing and contact isolation alone did not significantly decrease VRE nosocomial infection, although it did significantly decrease incidence of VRE acquired from clinical specimen.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.755-762
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• 1995

A phenolic resin industrial wastewater containing about 41,000 mg/l of phenol and 2,800 mg/l of formaldehyde was biologically treated by a mixed culture GE2 immobilized on ceramic beads. This study was carried out with three experimental groups : Control-only added the sludge of papermill wastewater ; GE2 treatment-added GE2 to Control ; Ceramic treatment-applied ceramic carrier to GE2 treatment. When the original wastewater was diluted 80 times with aerated tap-water, influent COD$_{Mn}$ WaS 1,140 mg/l and that of the effluent was in the range of 22-35 mg/l, which was not much different among the experimental groups. However, at 20-times dilution, influent COD$_{Mn}$ was 4,800 mg/l and the effluent COD$_{Mn}$ of Control, GE2 treatment and Ceramic treatment was 179, 128 and 94 mg/l, respectively. COD$_{Mn}$, removal efficiency by Ceramic treatment was the highest, at 98.0%. At this time, the effluent phenol concentration of Control, GE2 treatment and Ceramic treatment was 10.71, 7.93 and 5.60, respectively. As the dilution times decreased, the removal efficiency of COD$_{Mn}$ and phenol did not change much, but COD$_{Mn}$ and phenol concentration of the effluent increased. Consequently, it is likely that the phenolic industrial wastewater containing phenol and formaldehyde can be biologically treated using a GE2 and ceramic carrier and that at 40-times dilution, the effluent completely meets the effluent standards for industrial wastewater treatment plant.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2006년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.95-98
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• 2006

센서를 통해 수집된 데이터는 모든 정보를 취합하는 기지국으로 전송되게 된다. 센서들은 데이터를 전송하면서 지속적으로 주변 환경에 대한 데이터를 수집하여야 하기 때문에 에너지 소모가 크다. 본 논문에서는 수집된 데이터가 효율적으로 전송되어 트래픽 혼잡을 피하면서 에너지 효율성을 고려하는 기법을 제안한다. 트래픽이 증가하거나 감소할 때 각기 다른 방법으로 전송률을 제어하여 Traffic 혼잡을 피하고, 기본적인 CSMA(Carrier Sense Multiple Access) 프로토콜에 최적의 옵션을 설정하여 각 센서에서 에너지 소모를 최소화는 기법이다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 최적의 CSMA 옵션을 적용하여 제안된 트래픽 제어 기법을 적용하여, 에너지 효율성과 효과적인 트래픽 제어 방법을 제시한다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1239-1243
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• 2005

A multipath mitigation method using the fault detection and isolation technique is proposed for the CDGPS. The base station is assumed to be immune to the effect of the multipath. With this reasonable assumption, the effect of multipath in moving station is mitigated. For that, the double difference measurement is produced, and then another additional difference between code pseudorange and acclumulated carrier phase is calculated. The test statistic is constituted with those differences. The hypothesis testing is applied to that test statistic. The proposed test statistic makes use of the effect of multipath in code pseudoranges and it does not use time differences. Therefore the detection ability for multipath is improved in most environments. However, the increased number of differences makes the measurement noises larger. The performance of the method is compared with that of the conventional parity space method with code pseudorange.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.133.1-133
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• 2001

When the signals from satellite vehicles are blocked, it is impossible to provide positioning information. Integrating CDGPS with INS, the performances of output can be greatly improved. In the CDGPS/INS integrated system, the error growth in INS can be efficiently suppressed due to CDGPS. On the contrary, the search range of integer ambiguities can be reduced with the aids of INS. Furthermore, cycle slips in carrier phase measurements can be easily detected using INS. The paper presents a CDGPS/INS integrated system that utilizes CDGPS aided with INS. Using the outputs of CDGPS/INS integration filter, a method to reduce search range of integer ambiguities is proposed. A method to detect cycle slips in carrier phase measurements is ...