• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.160-171
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• 2013

$LiNi_{1/3}Co_{1/3}Mn_{1/3}O_2$ powder for cathode materials in lithium rechargeable batteries was treated by atmospheric plasma containing hydrogen to investigate the relationship between charge/discharge performance and physical/chemical changes of materials. Hydrogen plasma at atmosphere pressure was irradiated on the surface of active materials, and the change for their crystal structure, surface morphology, and chemical composition were observed by XRD, SEM-EDS and titration method, respectively. The crystal structure and surface morphology of $H_2$ plasma-treated powders were not changed but their chemical compositions were slightly varied. For charge/discharge test, $H_2$ plasma affected initial capacity and rate capability of active materials but continuous cycling was not subject to plasma treatment. Therefore, it was observed that $H_2$ plasma treatment affected the surface of materials and caused the change of chemical composition.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.333-338
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• 2015

Background: Oral health professionals are responsible in Iran for providing a brief tobacco cessation program to smoker patients. The aim of this study was to assess Iranian dental student and dentist practice, knowledge and attitudes toward smoking cessation programs. Materials and Methods: A valid and reliable self-administered questionnaire was designed and distributed to 150 dentists working in Isfahan-Iran and 60 dental students. Some questions were developed based on the expected 5A tobacco cessation protocol. Statements on attitudes focused on professional responsibility towards smoking cessation and its effectiveness. Chi-square, ANOVA, and t test were used for statistical analysis. Results: The cessation program in dental settings covers a small group of patients (18%). Some 69.1% (n=96) of dentists reported asking their patients about tobacco use, 64% (n=83) advising their patients to quit, 33.8% (n=47) assessing their patients willingness to quit and 20% (n=28) reported helping their patients in changing their behavior. A far lower percentage reported active involvement in arranging assistance for smokers to quit (4.3%, n=5). Some 22% of students and 26% of dentists disagreed that the tobacco cessation programs should be as part of dentists' professional responsibility and 70% of them were willing to follow the protocol of tobacco cessation for patients. Conclusions: Iranian dentist performance regarding tobacco cessation is weak. Dentists and students indicated their lack of knowledge as the major reason for non-adherence to the protocol. Therefore, planning to encourage dentist to follow the protocol needs continuous educational programs.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.37-50
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• 2020

본 연구는 중소·벤처기업에 대한 기술평가 및 기술금융 지원사업이 기업의 경영성과를 향상시키고 성장기반을 확보하는데 유용한 수단인지 여부를 검증하기 위해 기술보증기금이 직접 기술평가 및 보증을 지원한 3,688개 기업을 표본기업으로 분석하였다. 먼저 대표적 경영성과 지표로서 재무건전성이 우수한 기업과 취약한 기업 간에 기술평가지표 세부 항목별로 유의미한 차이가 있는지 t검증을 실시한 결과, 총 33개 기술평가 세부항목 중 25개항목 (75.8%)에서 재무건전성이 우수한 기업집단과 그렇지 못한 기업집단 간에 기술평가의 유의미한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타나 기술평가지표의 유의성이 비교적 높은 것으로 확인되었다. 그리고 대표자역량, 경영진팀웍, 기술집약도, 시장경쟁력 및 투자타당성 등 5개 구성개념 속성들은 모두 기술사업성에 정(+)의 유의한 영향을 미치고, 기술사업성은 기업의 성장성, 노동생산성 및 재무건전성 등 경영성과에 모두 정(+)의 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 멤브레인
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.279-285
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• 2018

이소프로필알코올/물 혼합물은 가교된 폴리비닐알코올 복합막을 이용하여 투과특성평을 알아보았다. 검화도가 다른 3종 PVA를 이용하여 고분자의 농도와 GA 농도에 따라서 투과특성을 확인하였다. 복합막은 PVA 용액을 PAN 지지체 위에 캐스팅한 후, 열가교를 통해 제조하였다. PVA 농도가 증가할수록 투과도는 감소하지만 선택도는 증가하는 것을 확인하였다. PVA-3이 7 wt% 농도로 코팅된 복합막에서 $209g/m^2h$의 투과도를 가지고, 100 이상의 선택도를 가지는 것을 확인하였다. 침지형 분리막을 제조하여 feed tank 온도와 feed 용액의 IPA 농도에 따라서 투과실험을 확인하였다. 또한 IPA 수용액에 농축실험을 지속적으로 한 결과, 60시간 후에 IPA의 농도가 99%까지 증가하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2009

피부색 정보는 비전 기반 시스템에서 인체 인식에 널리 쓰이는 중요한 정보이다. 그러나 기존의 픽셀 단위의 피부색 분할 방법은 피부색 영역 내부와 외부에 발생하는 오분할로 인해 여러 가지 피부색 관련 시스템의 인식률을 저해시키는 요인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 양자화 영역 정보로부터 프레임 간에 근접한 유사 피부색의 영역별 분할을 통한 피부색 분할 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 피부색 영역분할을 위해 JSEG 알고리즘을 통해 영상의 칼라를 양자화하여 영역을 분할한다. 분할된 영역으로부터 근접한 유사 피부 영역의 후보를 결정하고, 각 영역의 히스토그램 비교를 통해 피부색 영역을 결정한다. 이렇게 결정된 영역으로부터 피부색 표본을 추출하여 다음 프레임을 위한 피부색 모델을 갱신한다. 성능 평가를 위해 ECHO 데이타베이스와 조명이 변화하는 환경에서 실제 촬영한 영상을 이용하여 기존 연구의 분류 방법 비교 실험을 실시하였고, 기존보다 향상된 영역 분할 및 조명 적응 성능을 보였다.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2013

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of patient and doctor role-play on participatory clinical clerkship by surveying student's satisfaction and assessing the improvement of skill and consultation ability after conducting a role-play in a Korean dermatology department. Methods: In 2013, 79 seniors participated in the clinical clerkship of the dermatology department at the college of Korean medicine. Two students were randomly selected and paired up. After a brief instruction, one student played the role of doctor and the other took the role of patient. After finishing the $1^{st}$ role-play, they swapped roles and conducted a $2^{nd}$ role-play, using another clinical case. When the two role-plays were completed, the students filled in a questionnaire about their satisfaction with the role-play as clinical clerkship. Also, we compared the scores of the $1^{st}$ role-play with those of the $2^{nd}$ role-play measured by a medical resident to assess improvements of students' skill and interview ability. Results: It appears that students' satisfaction with the role-play was quite high, considering that the overall mean score of the questionnaire was 4.30. According to the result of a t-test on 15 assessment questions, the $2^{nd}$ role-play had a higher mean score than the $1^{st}$ role-play in 12 questions, though this difference was not statistically significant. Conclusions: These results demonstrate that role-play is helpful to improve students' satisfaction and clinical performance ability in clinical clerkship. Further research and continuous development are necessary for better clinical clerkship.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.210-219
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• 2005

This study was conducted to solve the problem of crawled spinach harvesting that had been mainly done by manpower on the outdoor fields during the winter season. Moreover, there are not enough workers available for farming at most of rural areas in Korea because farming is getting hard and the number of old-aged workers is increasing. In order to find appropriate methods of digging, picking and collecting of spinach, the tests were examined outdoors. A prototype was designed based on the results of the tests and then fabricated for digging, picking-up and then collecting in continuous operation for harvesting spinach planted in the outdoor fields. In the field test with the prototype, the vibration intensity transmitted to the driver by vibrating blade was low while the vibrating blade reduced digging power by $46\%$ compared to that of the fixed blade. The spinach loss was found to be as low as $0.7\%$ in the condition of digging depth of 40 mm, cam rotational velocity of 748 rpm, and blade amplitude of 16.5 m. The working performance of the prototype spinach harvester was found to be 3.8 hour/10a resulting in $96\%$ of labor saving and $85\%$ of operating cost compared to the conventional manual harvesting.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.42-47
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• 2010

The pulse diagnosis is an important method in Oriental Medicine. Recently, there have been continuous attempts to replace the finger palpation by Oriental medical doctors (OMDs) by more objective tools based on machines, e.g., pulse analyzers. To improve the performance of the pulse analyzers, both the machine-appropriate interpretations for the pulse images appeared in the literature and the improvement in the repeatability and reproducibility of the measurement sensors are to be developed. As an attempt towards the transformation of the pulse images in terms of machine-appropriate language, in this work, we suggest an upgraded algorithm for the solid/deficient pulses, which are the two representative pulse images informing us how strong the pulse pressure is. It has been argued that one could determine the solid/deficient pulses by the maximum pulse pressure from pulse analyzers. However, by a clinical test, we found that the maximum pulse pressure alone is not sufficient to determine the solid/deficient pulses. In addition to the maximum pulse pressure, the mean pulse pressure averaged over for five different hold-down pressures(3-D MAC) is needed to improve the agreement with the OMD's decision for the solid/deficient pulse. We found that, among the data diagnosed with having either the solid pulse or deficient pulse by OMDs, the novel algorithm showed 86.0% diagnosis rate and 81.6% concordance rate.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제59권5호
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• pp.73-81
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• 2017

The improved movable weir supplements the advantages and disadvantages of the rubber weir and the conduction gate. It consists of a stainless steel gate, air bags, and a steel clamping plate. The stainless steel gate is the main body of the weir, and the inflatable rubber sheet serves to support the steel gate. The steel clamping plate is typically in direct continuous contact with water, but this leads to corrosion issues that can reduce the life of the entire movable weir. In this study, a panel-type glass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) clamping plate was designed and fabricated. The test results showed that the flexural load of the panel-type GFRP composite clamping plate was over twice that of the wings type GFRP clamping plate. The lowest moisture absorption value was obtained upon exposure to tap water, and exposure to other solutions showed similar values. Additionally, flexural load testing after exposure to an accelerated environment found the lowest residual loads of 80.51 % and 78.50 % at 50 and 100 days, respectively, for exposure to a $CaCl_2$ solution, while exposure to other environments showed residual failure loads of over 80 % at both 50 and 100 days.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2017

Preeminent water treatment plans are essential to preserve the water quality of aquatic biotopes. Previous studies have not been sufficient to provide cost-effective maintenance method since they focused only on the purification of deteriorated water that requires a continuous supply of clean water. This study proposes an economical method of water quality maintenance using water treatment media block constructed vertically using porous ceramics, zeolite, and river pebble. The water treatment media block does not require a separate purification area because it functions as a purifier within the ecological pond which can maximize the biotope area. To evaluate the performance of the water treatment media block, we longitudinally tracked the change of water quality indicators (pH, TDS, COND, DO, T-P, T-N, COD) suggested by Water Environment Standards, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea. We compared the water quality of one control (A: general ecological pond composition method of the laminated structure) and two experimental groups (B: a combination of aquatic plants and a water treatment media block, C: a water treatment media block only). As a result, we confirmed that the water treatment media block is an efficient and economical method to maintaining the water quality of the ecological pond for a long time. The water treatment media block will be a great help in providing a better aquatic biotope space for aquatic insects and fishes living in clear water.