• PNF and Movement
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.171-183
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• 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare universal goniometry (UG), which is commonly used in clinical practice to measure the range of motion (ROM) of finger joints with a wearable soft sensor glove, and to analyze the reliability to determine its usefulness. Methods: Ten healthy adults (6 males, 4 females) participated in this study. The metacarpophalangeal joint (MCP), interphalangeal joint (IP), and proximal interphalangeal joint (PIP) of both hands were measured using UG and Mollisen HAND soft sensor gloves during active flexion, according to the American Society for Hand Therapists' measurement criteria. Measurements were taken in triplicate and averaged. The mean and standard deviation of the two methods were calculated, and the 95% limits of agreement (LOA) of the measurements were calculated using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Bland-Altman plot to examine the reliability and discrepancies between the measurements. Results: The results of the mean values of the flexion angles for the active range of motion (AROM) of the finger joints showed large angular differences in the finger joints, except for the MCP of the thumb. In the inter-rater reliability analysis according to the measurement method, the ICC (2, 1) value showed a low level close to 0, and the mean difference by the Bland-Altman plot showed a value greater than 0, showing a pattern of discrepancy. The 95% LOA had a wide range of differences. Conclusion: This study is a preliminary study investigating the usefulness of the soft sensor glove, and the reliability analysis showed a low level of reliability and inconsistency. However, if future studies can overcome the limitations of this study and the technical problems of the soft sensor glove in the development stage, it is suggested that the measurement instrument can show more accurate measurement and higher reliability when measuring ROM with UG.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics T
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• v.36T no.4
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• pp.94-102
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• 1999

This paper is related with the compensation of communication channel characteristics using predistorter, and the considered characteristic is the additive noise, phase rotation and frequency selective fading which occurred in communication channel. Predistorter can minimize the effect of obstacle element which occured in channel at receiving side by transmitting the predistortion of signal after modulation, the coefficient of inverse electrical charateristic of communication channel is performed at transmitting side. For this purpose, the predistorter is designed by using Tricepstrum Equalization Algorithm which is adaptive equlizer algorithm, and the receiving side must transmit the probing signal to transmitting side. Using the probing signal, the transmitting side can obtain the inverse characteristic coefficient of communication channel, and this probing signal must be transmitted periodically. We assumed that the channel characteristic do not change during this one period. As a result of computer simulation, we confirmed that the performance of predistorter was fairly good as same as the adaptive equalizer, and this technique have a effectiveness that can be used in the forward channel of mobile communication in order to achieve high speed transmission.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.10
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

In this paper, a temperature variation-insensitive power-up detector for use in analog and digital integrated systems has been proposed. To provide temperature-insensitive characteristic, nMOS and pMOS voltage dividers in the proposed power-up detector are made to have zero temperature coefficient by exploiting the fact that the effective gate-source voltage of a MOS transistor can result in mutual compensation of mobility and threshold voltage for temperature independency. Comparison results using a 68-nm CMOS process indicate that the proposed power-up detector achieves as small as 4 mV voltage variation at 1.0 V power-up voltage over a temperature range of $-30^{\circ}C$ to $90^{\circ}C$, resulting in 92.6% reduction on power-up voltage variations over conventional power-up detectors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.503-506
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• 2013

The shielding coefficient of a conductive length structure is calculated by a ratio of induced voltage with that structure to without that structure. The environments are different between with a structure and without a structure. Beside the corresponding structure, all the parameters related to induced voltage should be normalized to a presumable same environment conditions. Basically each parameter must be compensated, which is a bottom-up type method. In this case, some parameter is not possible to be so because of its unknowing function. Then as a calculated voltage already has all characteristics of parameters, seeking a ratio of calculated induction voltages themselves will include the compensation of all parameters automatically. This is a top-down method.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.492-500
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to identity the effects of distributive justice and procedural justice on job satisfaction and organizational commitment in hospital personnels. Method: The subjects were 181 employee who were working at 4 hospitals in Daegu and Gyeongbuk. Data was collected using structured questionnaire from Oct 4 to 24, 2007. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS WIN 12.0 program for descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and Stepwise multiple regression. Result: The mean score of distributive justice was 3.24, procedural justice was 3.05, job satisfaction was 2.73 and organizational commitment was 2.65. The distributive justice(37.5%) and gender(1.6%) explained 39.1% of the variables in the job satisfaction. The organizational commitment was significantly influenced by distributive justice(27.8%), age(8.9%), procedural justice(2.8%) and gender(2.4%). These factors explained 41.8% of the variables in the organizational commitment. Conclusion: The distributive justice is the most important factor in promoting job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Therefore, It is necessary to operate proper compensation system based on fair performance evaluation of workers in hospital.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.442-449
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• 2004

Improving the light utilization efficiency of photosynthetic cells in photobioreactors (PBRs) is a major topic in algal biotechnology. Accordingly, in the current study we investigated the effect and suitability of photosynthetic pigment reduction for improving light utilization efficiency. The light-harvesting complex II (LH-II) genes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides were removed to construct a mutant strain with less pigment content. The mutant strain exhibited a slower growth rate than the wild-type under a low light intensity, while the mutant grew faster under a high light intensity. In addition, the specific absorption coefficient was lower in the mutant due to its reduced pigment content, thus it seemed that light penetrated deeper into its culture broth. However, the distance (light penetration depth) from the surface of the PBR to the compensation point did not increase, due to an increase in the compensation irradiance of the mutant strain. Experimental data showed that a reduced photosynthetic pigment content, which lessened the photoinhibition under high-intensity light, helped the volumetric productivity of photosynthetic microorganisms.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.174-180
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• 1996

The friction is one of the nonlinearities to be considered in the precise position control of a system which has electromechanical components. The friction has complicated nonlinear characteristics and depends on the velocity, the position and the time. The conventional fixed friction compensator and the controller based on linear control theory may cause the steady state position error or oscillation. The plant to be controlled in this study is a positioning system with a linear brushless DC motor(LBLDCM). The system behaves like a 4th-order model including the compliance and the friction. In this study, the plant model is simplified to a 2nd-order model to reduce the computation in on- line estimation. Also, to reduce the computation time, only the friction is estimated on-line while the mass and the viscous damping coefficient are fixed to the values obtained from off-line estimation. The validity of the proposed scheme is illustrated with the computer simulation and the experiment where the friction is compensated by using the estimation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.729-731
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• 2013

The compensation characteristics of 40 Gbps optical signals depending on figure of merit (FOM) of dispersion compensating fiber with dispersion coefficient of -125 ps/nm/km are investigated in this research. Simulation results show that the more fiber span number and launch power increase, the more the effects of FOM of DCF on the compensated signals increase. However, it is also confirmed that the more the effects of optical nonlinearity increase, the more FOM decrease.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.383-386
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• 2001

Distance relay is tripped by the line impedance calculated at the relay point. Accordingly the accurate operation depends on the precise calculation of line impedance. Impedance can be accurately calculated in case of overhead line. However, in case of power cables or combined transmission lines, impedance can not be accurately calculated because cable systems have the sheath, grounding wires, and cable cover protection units (CCPUs). There are also several grounding systems in cable systems. Therefore, if there is a fault in cable system, these terms will severely be caused much error to calculation of impedance. Accordingly the proper compensation should be developed for the correct operation of the distance relay. This paper presents the distance calculating algorithm in combined transmission line with power cable using wavelet transform. In order to achieve such purpose, judgement method to discriminate the fault section in both sections was proposed using db1 coefficient summation. And also, error compensation factor was proposed for correct calculation of impedance in power cable.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.82-88
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• 2009

Low costed position sensor or sensorless control method is generally used in the motor control for home appliance because of the material cost and manufacture standard restriction. In conventional sensorless method, the stator resistance and back-EMF coefficient are varied by the motor speed and load torque variation. Therefore, position error occurred when the motor is operated by sensorless control method because of these variations. In this paper, the compensation method is proposed for sensorless position error using 2 hall sensors.