• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Health Society Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.355-358
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• 2005

Nitrate-selective ion exchange resins involving bulky trialkyl amino as functional group were synthesized by the reaction of chloromethylated polystyrene-divinylbenzene copolymer and the corresponding tripropylamine in ethanol. Fundmental properties such as bulk density, water content, effeative diameter, uniformity coefficient, appearance index, exchange capacity and particle size distribution were fully measured. The synthesized resins appeared to be good for nitrate selection.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.10
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• pp.1951-1958
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• 2011

The objective of this study is to analyze the performance of digital low-pass differentiators(LPD) and then to provide a method to select effective LPD filter, for detecting spikes of surface motor unit action potentials(MUAP). The successful spike detection of MUAPs is a first important step for EMG signal decomposition. The performances of simple and weighted LPD(SLPD and WLPD) filters are analyzed based on different filter lengths and varying MUAPs from simulated surface EMG signals. The SNR improving coefficient and effective MUAP duration range from the analysis results can be used to select proper LPD filters under the varying conditions of surface EMG.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.499-507
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• 2016

Medical imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) and Ultrasound (US) produce a large amount of digital medical images. Hence, compression of digital images becomes essential and is very much desired in medical applications to solve both storage and transmission problems. But at the same time, an efficient image compression scheme that reduces the size of medical images without sacrificing diagnostic information is required. This paper proposes a novel threshold-based medical image compression algorithm to reduce the size of the medical image without degradation in the diagnostic information. This algorithm discusses a novel type of thresholding to maximize Compression Ratio (CR) without sacrificing diagnostic information. The compression algorithm is designed to get image with high optimum compression efficiency and also with high fidelity, especially for Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) greater than or equal to 36 dB. This value of PSNR is chosen because it has been suggested by previous researchers that medical images, if have PSNR from 30 dB to 50 dB, will retain diagnostic information. The compression algorithm utilizes one-level wavelet decomposition with threshold-based coefficient selection.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.540-549
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• 1998

This study has been designed to develop a health behavior scale. Data were collected through a survey over a period of two month period. Subjects who participated in the study were 298 Korean adults. The author used a convenience sampling method. The analysis of the data was done with SPSS PC for descriptive statistics and factor analysis. Initially 34 items were generated from the interview data of twenty one adults and from literature review and survey. This preliminary scale was analyzed for a reliability and validity. The results are as follow : 1. Crombach Coefficient alpha for the 30 items was .7907. 2. Factor analysis was done in order to confirm construct validity and nine factor were extracted from the results. These contributed 54.4% of the variance in the total score. 3. Nine factor label were 'exercise' 'stress management' 'energy conservation' 'limit in liking' 'selection of food' 'ingestion of natural food' 'health examination' 'relaxation' and 'nutrition'. The author suggests that this scale could be adequately applied in assessing the health behavior of Korean adults. The results of using this scale in a study can contribute to designing an appropriate health promotion strategy.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.2009-2016
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• 2008

The relationship between thermal decomposition temperature and structure of a new data set of eighty monomers of different polymers were studied by multiple linear regression (MLR). The stepwise method was used in order to variable selection. The best descriptors were selected from over 1400 descriptors including; topological, geometrical, electronic and hybrid descriptors. The effect of number of descriptors on the correlation coefficient (R) and F-ratio were considered. Two models were suggested, one model having four descriptors ($R^2$ = 0.894, $Q^2_{cv}$ = 0.900, F = 172.1) and other model involving 13 descriptors ($R^2$ = 0.956, $Q^2_{cv}$ = 0.956, F = 125.4).

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07c
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• pp.1042-1045
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• 1999

This paper presents a new method for contingency selection of the transient stability. Contingency ranking in transient stability is done by estimating the change in the imaginary part of electro-mechanical oscillation mode, which represents modal synchronizing coefficient. And the change in the imaginary part is obtained by applying eigen-sensitivity theory of augmented matrix to linear system model. The Proposed algorithm was tested for New England System and compared the results with PSS/E dynamic simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2534-2536
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• 2004

본 논문은 유전알고리즘을 이용하여 부정맥 진단의 최적화된 입력을 구성하는 방법을 제시한다. 심전도 신호의 특징을 추출하기 위해 웨이블릿 변환이 널리 사용되고 있지만, 추출된 특징들의 선택과 최적화의 문제에 대해서는 명쾌한 해결책을 제시하지 못하고 있다. 심전도 신호는 연속 웨이블릿 변환을 이용해 5레벨로 분해되었으며, 각 서브밴드에서 추출된 계수들은 부정맥 진단을 위한 특징으로 쓰이게 된다. 웨이블릿 변환을 통해 추출된 특징들(feature)은 유전자 알고리즘과 중회귀 분석을 동하여 부정맥 진단을 위한 최적화된 특징조합이 결정되었다. 본 연구를 통해 특정레벨의 어떤 계수가 부정맥 진단에 크게 영향을 미치는지 판단할 수 있었으며 입력의 차원감소는 연산시간의 축소를 가져왔고 분류정확도를 향상시켜 분류기의 성능을 증대시켰다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.3E
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• pp.91-97
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a classification system of TV program scenes based on audio information. The system classifies the video scene into six categories of commercials, basketball games, football games, news reports, weather forecasts and music videos. Two type of audio feature set are extracted from each audio frame-timbral features and coefficient domain features which result in 58-dimensional feature vector. In order to reduce the computational complexity of the system, 58-dimensional feature set is further optimized to yield l0-dimensional features through Sequential Forward Selection (SFS) method. This down-sized feature set is finally used to train and classify the given TV program scenes using κ -NN, Gaussian pattern matching algorithm. The classification result of 91.6% reported here shows the promising performance of the video scene classification based on the audio information. Finally, the system stability problem corresponding to different query length is investigated.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1085-1090
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• 2007

In recent railway construction, the concrete slab track is getting highlighted as main stream in track type. However, it is the fact that there are different opinions in selection of the optimized spring coefficient of elastic pad. In this study, the performance of vibration reduction in different stiffness of rail pad for ballasted track was compared, and the changes in characteristics, such as static/dynamic deflection of components, vibration acceleration, insertion loss etc., were analysed by using ISI Program for various types of rail fastening system used in concrete slab track. It was concluded that the fastening system with softer pads has shown the better performance of vibration reduction in concrete slab track and the optimized static stiffness has been calculated to 21.1kN/mm for conventional railways, 17.6kN/mm for high-speed railways and 17.8kN/mm for subways.

• 한국데이터정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.181-187
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• 2006

In this paper we suggest a new alternative estimator for the characteristics that are pooly correlated with the selection probabilities by applying the Amahia et al.(1989)'s estimator to Rao-Hartley-Cochran sampling scheme and compare it with that of Rao(1966)'s under a super-population model.