• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2015

최근 시뮬레이션이 다양한 계산과학 및 산업 분야에서 널리 활용되면서, 컴퓨팅 자원에 대한 그 요구사항 또한 점점 다양해지고 있다. 특히 이러한 요구는 기존 슈퍼컴퓨터와 같은 CPU 중심의 자원에서 벗어나, 사용자 별 설정 및 활용이 쉬운 유연하고 효율적인 고성능 클라우드 컴퓨팅의 필요성이 커지고 있다. 클라우드 컴퓨팅을 이용해 시뮬레이션을 수행하기 위해서는 다수의 가상머신으로 이루어진 대규모의 가상 클러스터의 실시간 구축이 필연적이다. 이러한 대규모의 가상 클러스터 생성은 동시 다발적인 가상머신 요청을 야기시키고, 이 요청들에 의해 대기 시간이 매우 길어지는 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 이런 문제의 주요 원인은 각각의 가상머신에서 사용되는 가상 이미지를 생성, 복사하는 작업들간에 병목 현상 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 가상머신 이미지들의 생성 시간을 최소화하고, 가상 클러스터의 I/O 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 또한 다양한 실험을 통해 제안한 방법의 우수성을 검증한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.554-557
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• 2016

최근, 슈퍼컴퓨터 시스템은 교육, 의료, 국방 등은 물론 계산과학 시뮬레이션까지 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 특히, 슈퍼컴퓨터, 클라우드 등 이종의 계산 자원을 연동하는 시뮬레이션 환경은 시간, 공간적 한계를 극복하는 차세대 연구 환경으로서 다양한 응용 분야에서 큰 각광을 받고 있다. 그러나 기존의 이종 슈퍼컴퓨팅 환경은 API(Application Programming Interface)의 부재로 터미널 접근을 통해 계산 작업을 수행하는 단조로운 형태를 띠고 있으며, 이는 이종 컴퓨팅 자원의 접근성 및 활용성을 저해하는 주요 요소이다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하고, 슈퍼컴퓨팅 서비스의 다양성을 확보하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 계산과학 시뮬레이션을 위한 웹 기반 HPC (High Performance Computing) 작업 관리 프레임워크의 설계 및 구현에 대해 기술한다. 제안한 프레임워크는 슈퍼컴퓨터, 클라우드, 그리드 등의 다양한 이기종 자원을 활용하여 시뮬레이션 계산 작업을 수행할 수 있도록 플러그-인 기반 표준 인터페이스 및 번들 플러그-인을 제공하며, 플러그-인 관리자를 통해 손쉽게 자원 확장이 가능하다. 또한 시뮬레이션 작업의 생성, 제출, 제어, 상태 모니터링 등의 전주기적인 작업 라이프사이클 관리를 위해 HTTP 표준 방식의 RESTful endpoints들을 제공한다.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.233-246
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• 2009

증발산(ET)을 증발(E)과 증산(T)으로 배분하는 것은 물 순환과 에너지, 물 및 탄소 순환의 연결고리를 이해하는 데에 매우 중요하다. 산림 군락의 총 증발산은 상부 및 하부 군락의 증산과 토양 및 차단 강수로부터의 증발로 구성된다. 이들의 상대적 기여도를 정량화하기 위해, 에디 공분산 방법을 사용하여 2008년 6월 1일부터 2009년 5월 31일까지 광릉 활엽수림과 침엽수림의 마루에서의 증발산을 관측하였다. 스펙트럼 분석에 따르면, 초음파 풍향 풍속계와 수증기 농도 측정기 사이의 거리에 의한 증발산 과소 평가는 군락 하부에서 연간 증발산량의 약 10%정도였다. 하부군락의 연간 증발산은 활엽수림과 침엽수림에서 각각 59mm와 43mm로, 총 증발산량의 16%와 7%를 차지하였다. 전반적으로 식생면적지수가 최대인 여름 기간을 제외하고는 하부군락의 증발산은 총 증발산에서 무시할 수 없는 부분을 차지하였다. 두 산림지역의 비결합 모수($\Omega$)는 약 0.15이었으며, 이는 하부군락의 증발산이 주로 포차나 토양 수분에 의해서 조절됨을 보여준다. 두 산림의 하부 군락의 증발산의 차이는 군락 하부의 환경 조건의 차이에 기인하며, 특히 습도와 토양 수분의 차이로 인해 발생하였다. 광릉 하부 군락의 증발산 기여도가 작지 않다는 사실은 이러한 산림의 물질과 에너지 플럭스를 해석하고 모델링하기 위해서는 이원 또는 다층 모형이 필요함을 시사한다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권10호
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• pp.3913-3923
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• 2023

Todays, medium energy resolution detectors are preferably used in radioisotope identification devices(RID) in nuclear and radioactive material categorization. However, there is still a need to develop or enhance « automated identifiers » for the useful RID algorithms. To decide whether any material is SNM or NORM, a key parameter is the better energy resolution of the detector. Although masking, shielding and gain shift/stabilization and other affecting parameters on site are also important for successful operations, the suitability of the RID algorithm is also a critical point to enhance the identification reliability while extracting the features from the spectral analysis. In this study, a RID algorithm based on Bayesian statistical method has been modified for medium energy resolution detectors and applied to the uranium gamma-ray spectra taken by a LaBr3:Ce detector. The present Bayesian RID algorithm covers up to 2000 keV energy range. It uses the peak centroids, the peak areas from the measured gamma-ray spectra. The extraction features are derived from the peak-based Bayesian classifiers to estimate a posterior probability for each isotope in the ANSI library. The program operations were tested under a MATLAB platform. The present peak based Bayesian RID algorithm was validated by using single isotopes(²⁴¹Am, ⁵⁷Co, ¹³⁷Cs, ⁵⁴Mn, ⁶⁰Co), and then applied to five standard nuclear materials(0.32-4.51% at.²³⁵U), as well as natural U- and Th-ores. The ID performance of the RID algorithm was quantified in terms of F-score for each isotope. The posterior probability is calculated to be 54.5-74.4% for ²³⁸U and 4.7-10.5% for ²³⁵U in EC-NRM171 uranium materials. For the case of the more complex gamma-ray spectra from CRMs, the total scoring (ST) method was preferred for its ID performance evaluation. It was shown that the present peak based Bayesian RID algorithm can be applied to identify ²³⁵U and ²³⁸U isotopes in LEU or natural U-Th samples if a medium energy resolution detector is was in the measurements.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제33권8호
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• pp.1023-1029
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• 2023

Biosurfactants reduce surface and interfacial tension due to their amphiphilic properties and are an eco-friendly alternative for chemical surfactants. In this study, a new yeast strain JAF-11 that produces a biosurfactant was selected using drop collapse method, and the properties of the extracts were investigated. The nucleotide sequences of the strain were compared with closely related strains and identified based on the D1/D2 domain of the large subunit ribosomal DNA (LSU) and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions. Neodothiora populina CPC 39399^T, the closest species with strain JAF-11, showed a sequence similarity of 97.75% for LSU and 94.27% for ITS, respectively. The result suggests that the strain JAF-11 represents a distinct species that cannot be assigned to any existing genus or species in the family Dothideaceae. Strain JAF-11 produced a biosurfactant reducing the surface tension of water from 72 mN/m to 34.5 mN/m on the sixth day of culture and the result of measuring the critical micelle concentration (CMC) by extracting the crude biosurfactant was found to be 24 mg/l. The molecular weight 502 of the purified biosurfactant was confirmed by measuring the fast atom bombardment mass spectrum. The chemical structure was analyzed by measuring ¹H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), ¹³C NMR, and two-dimensional NMRs of the compound. The molecular formula was C₂₆H₄₆O₉, and it was composed of one octanoyl group and two hexanoyl groups to myo-inositol moiety. The new biosurfactant is the first report of a compound produced by a new yeast strain, JAF-11.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2015

목적: 인공 환기요법 관련 폐렴은 중증 소아 환자에게 있어서 심각한 위협이 될 수 있다. 소아 환자에서 Stenotrophomonas maltophilia에 의한 인공 환기요법 관련 폐렴에 대한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 소아 중환자에서 S. maltophilia에 의한 인공 환기요법 관련 폐렴의 임상적 특성을 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: 2008년 1월 1일부터 2012년 12월 31일까지 삼성서울병원 소아중환자실에 입원한 S. maltophilia로 인한 인공 환기요법 관련 폐렴에 걸린 18세 이하 소아들의 의무 기록을 기초로 한 후향적 연구를 시행하였다. 결과: S. maltophilia로 인한 인공 환기요법 관련 폐렴으로 진단 받은 총 31명의 환자가 연구 대상에 포함되었다. 연령 중앙값은 8개월(범위, 0.5개월-16.6세)이고, 남자는 13명(40.6%)이었다. 환자들의 만성질환 분포는 심혈관질환(n=11, 34.4%), 혈액종양질환(n=7, 25.0%), 신경질환(n=4, 12.5%), 호흡기질환(n=3, 9.4%) 그리고 기타(n=4, 12.5%)이었다. 인공 환기요법 관련 폐렴을 진단하기 전 인공 환기요법을 하였던 기간의 중앙값은 14일(범위, 4-256일)이었다. S. maltophilia 인공 환기요법 관련 폐렴후 30일 이내 사망률은 12.5% (4/32) 이었다. 결론: S. maltophilia는 중증 소아 환자에서 인공 환기요법 관련 폐렴의 원인균으로 반드시 고려되어야 할 대상이다. 경험적 광범위 베타-락탐 항생제를 사용하고 있음에도 불구하고 환자 상태가 나빠지고 있다면, 항생제 선택에서 S. maltophila의 감염을 고려해야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제20권2E호
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• pp.30-45
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• 2001

This study considers the environmental factors affecting propagation loss and sonar performance in the continental regions of the East Coast Sea of Korea. Water mass distributions appear to change dramatically in a few weeks. Simple calculation with the case when the NKCW (North Korean Cold Water) develops shows that the difference in propagation loss may reach in the worst up to 10dB over range 5km. Another factor, an eddy, has typical dimensions of 100-200km in diameter and 150-200m in thickness. Employing a typical eddy and assuming frequency to be 100Hz, its effects on propagation loss appear to make lower the normal formation of convergence zones with which sonars are possible to detect long-range targets. The change of convergence zones may result in 10dB difference in received signals in a given depth. Thermal fronts also appear to be critical restrictions to operating sonars in shallow waters. Assuming frequency to be 200Hz, thermal fronts can make 10dB difference in propagation loss between with and without them over range 20km. An observation made in one site in the East Coast Sea of Korea reveals that internal waves may appear in near-inertial period and their spectra may exist in periods 2-17min. A simulation employing simple internal wave packets gives that they break convergence zones on the bottom, causing the performance degradation of FOM as much as 4dB in frequency 1kHz. An acoustic experiment, using fixed source and receiver at the same site, shows that the received signals fluctuate tremendously with time reaching up to 6.5dB in frequencies 1kHz or less. Ambient noises give negative effects directly on sonar performance. Measurements at some sites in the East Coast Sea of Korea suggest that the noise levels greatly fluctuate with time, for example noon and early morning, mainly due to ship traffics. The average difference in a day may reach 10dB in frequency 200Hz. Another experiment using an array of hydrophones gives that the spectrum levels of ambient noises are highly directional, their difference being as large as 10dB with vertical or horizontal angles. This fact strongly implies that we should obtain in-situ information of noise levels to estimate reasonable sonar performance. As one of non-stationary noise sources, an eel may give serious problems to sonar operation on or under the sea bottoms. Observed eel noises in a pier of water depth 14m appear to have duration time of about 0.4 seconds and frequency ranges of 0.2-2.8kHz. The 'song'of an eel increases ambient noise levels to average 2.16dB in the frequencies concerned, being large enough to degrade detection performance of the sonars on or below sediments. An experiment using hydrophones in water and sediment gives that sensitivity drops of 3-4dB are expected for the hydrophones laid in sediment at frequencies of 0.5-1.5kHz. The SNR difference between in water and in sediment, however, shows large fluctuations rather than stable patterns with the source-receiver ranges.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.111-128
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• 2005

Background: Cardiac arrest is one of the most critical diseases which can likely lead to severe cerebral disability or brain death when the cases can not recover their circulation within 10 minutes. Saving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases is a recent concern in Korea. Resuscitation has become an important multidisciplinary branch of medicine, demanding a spectrum of skills and attracting a plethora of specialities and organizations. The best survival can be achieved if all the following links have been optimized : rapid access, and early CPR, defibrillation and ACLS, Since the "Utstein Style" was advocated in 1991, many reports about out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have been published based on this guideline. These differences prevent valid inter-hospital and international comparisons. However, it is not known how effective resuscitation has become to the patients. In other words, there are no guidelines for reviewing, reporting, and conducting research on resuscitation in Korea. This dissertation aims to provide the basic data for a unified reporting guideline of resuscitation in Korea and evaluating the out-of-hospital factors associated with survival discharge of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Methods: As for this study, uses the collected data about Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests at 4 area, from January, 2005 to April. 2005. With a retrospective study, 174 cases were analyzed. The data was recorded based on the Out-of-Hospital Utstein Style. Results: Resuscitation was performed on 174 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases at the 4 area 14 patients(8.1%) recovered their spontaneous circulation. Overall, the ROSC of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients was 8.1%, which was poorer than that of western countries. Gender distribution was 50 females(28.7%) and 124 males(71.3%), approximately twice as many males as females. ROSC of witnessed arrests was found out to be 97.7%. The ratio of the witnessed arrest groups showed higher results than that of unwitnessed arrest groups in the above-examined cases. Cardiac etiology consisted of cardiac(33.5%), non-cardiac(45.7%), trauma(20.1%), and unknown(6.0%). Cardiac was the best performance. Initial rhythm showed Ventricular Tachycardia/pulseless Ventricular Fibrillation in 8 patients(6.0%), asystole in 100(75.2%) and unknown in 25(18.8%). The results of the Ventricular Tachycardia/pulseless Ventricular Fibrillation showed higher results than the others cases, The proportion of the cardiogenic cause was 33.5%, which was only half of western countries. Ventricular Tachycardia/pulseless Ventricular Fibrillation is relatively rare. These differences were due to the prevalent pattern of Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as well as prematurity of the EMSS. Bystander CPR was practiced on 13 patients(7.52%). ROSC was shown in 46.2% cases. CPR by EMT was carried out on 167 cases(96.5%). ACLS by EMf was rare. From collapse, 4 cases(2.6%) arrived to ED within 6 minutes. 13 (8.6%) within 10 minutes, and 49(32.5%) over 31 minutes. The sooner the patients arrived, the greater the ratio of ROSC and discharged alive became, and the same with collapse time to ROSC. As the results of the logistic regression analysis, ROSC was found out to be highly influenced by the time of ED arrival from collapse and Ventricular Tachycardia/pulseless Ventricular Fibrillation. Therefore, the ratio of ROSC depends on not any single factor but various intervention factors. Conclusion: This dissertation presents the following suggestions and directions of the study hereafter. First, the first step for a chain of survival should be taken to activate EMSS early with a phone as soon as cardiac arrests are witnessed. Second, it is keenly needed that emergency medical technicians should be increased through emergency education for living. Third, it is necessary to establish the emergency transportation system. Fourth, most of the Koreans have little understanding of EMT and the present operation systems have many problems, which should be fundamentally changed. Fifth, it is required to have an active medical control over Out-of-hospital CPR, And proper psychological supports should be given not only to patients themselves and their family but also individuals who are engaged in emergency situation. Finally, through studies hereafter on nationwide, comprehensive, and standard forms, it is needed to examine into the biological figures of human body, causes and trends of cardiac arrests, and then, to enhance the survival rate of Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Korean guidelines for Cardiopulmonary resuscitation need to be made.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 1993년도 Fifth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress 93
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• pp.1041-1043
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• 1993

Fuzzy logic based Control Theory has gained much interest in the industrial world, thanks to its ability to formalize and solve in a very natural way many problems that are very difficult to quantify at an analytical level. This paper shows a solution for treating membership function inside hardware circuits. The proposed hardware structure optimizes the memoried size by using particular form of the vectorial representation. The process of memorizing fuzzy sets, i.e. their membership function, has always been one of the more problematic issues for the hardware implementation, due to the quite large memory space that is needed. To simplify such an implementation, it is commonly [1,2,8,9,10,11] used to limit the membership functions either to those having triangular or trapezoidal shape, or pre-definite shape. These kinds of functions are able to cover a large spectrum of applications with a limited usage of memory, since they can be memorized by specifying very few parameters ( ight, base, critical points, etc.). This however results in a loss of computational power due to computation on the medium points. A solution to this problem is obtained by discretizing the universe of discourse U, i.e. by fixing a finite number of points and memorizing the value of the membership functions on such points [3,10,14,15]. Such a solution provides a satisfying computational speed, a very high precision of definitions and gives the users the opportunity to choose membership functions of any shape. However, a significant memory waste can as well be registered. It is indeed possible that for each of the given fuzzy sets many elements of the universe of discourse have a membership value equal to zero. It has also been noticed that almost in all cases common points among fuzzy sets, i.e. points with non null membership values are very few. More specifically, in many applications, for each element u of U, there exists at most three fuzzy sets for which the membership value is ot null [3,5,6,7,12,13]. Our proposal is based on such hypotheses. Moreover, we use a technique that even though it does not restrict the shapes of membership functions, it reduces strongly the computational time for the membership values and optimizes the function memorization. In figure 1 it is represented a term set whose characteristics are common for fuzzy controllers and to which we will refer in the following. The above term set has a universe of discourse with 128 elements (so to have a good resolution), 8 fuzzy sets that describe the term set, 32 levels of discretization for the membership values. Clearly, the number of bits necessary for the given specifications are 5 for 32 truth levels, 3 for 8 membership functions and 7 for 128 levels of resolution. The memory depth is given by the dimension of the universe of the discourse (128 in our case) and it will be represented by the memory rows. The length of a world of memory is defined by: Length = nem (dm(m)＋dm(fm) Where: fm is the maximum number of non null values in every element of the universe of the discourse, dm(m) is the dimension of the values of the membership function m, dm(fm) is the dimension of the word to represent the index of the highest membership function. In our case then Length=24. The memory dimension is therefore 128*24 bits. If we had chosen to memorize all values of the membership functions we would have needed to memorize on each memory row the membership value of each element. Fuzzy sets word dimension is 8*5 bits. Therefore, the dimension of the memory would have been 128*40 bits. Coherently with our hypothesis, in fig. 1 each element of universe of the discourse has a non null membership value on at most three fuzzy sets. Focusing on the elements 32,64,96 of the universe of discourse, they will be memorized as follows: The computation of the rule weights is done by comparing those bits that represent the index of the membership function, with the word of the program memor . The output bus of the Program Memory (μCOD), is given as input a comparator (Combinatory Net). If the index is equal to the bus value then one of the non null weight derives from the rule and it is produced as output, otherwise the output is zero (fig. 2). It is clear, that the memory dimension of the antecedent is in this way reduced since only non null values are memorized. Moreover, the time performance of the system is equivalent to the performance of a system using vectorial memorization of all weights. The dimensioning of the word is influenced by some parameters of the input variable. The most important parameter is the maximum number membership functions (nfm) having a non null value in each element of the universe of discourse. From our study in the field of fuzzy system, we see that typically nfm 3 and there are at most 16 membership function. At any rate, such a value can be increased up to the physical dimensional limit of the antecedent memory. A less important role n the optimization process of the word dimension is played by the number of membership functions defined for each linguistic term. The table below shows the request word dimension as a function of such parameters and compares our proposed method with the method of vectorial memorization[10]. Summing up, the characteristics of our method are: Users are not restricted to membership functions with specific shapes. The number of the fuzzy sets and the resolution of the vertical axis have a very small influence in increasing memory space. Weight computations are done by combinatorial network and therefore the time performance of the system is equivalent to the one of the vectorial method. The number of non null membership values on any element of the universe of discourse is limited. Such a constraint is usually non very restrictive since many controllers obtain a good precision with only three non null weights. The method here briefly described has been adopted by our group in the design of an optimized version of the coprocessor described in [10].