• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.575-582
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• 2004

Fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) devices with a 15 nm SOI layer thickness and 60 nm gate lengths for analog applications have been investigated. The Si selective epitaxial growth (SEG) process was well optimized. Both the single- raised (SR) and double-raised (DR) source/drain (S/D) processes have been studied to reduce parasitic series resistance and improve device performance. For the DR S/D process, the saturation currents of both NMOS and PMOS are improved by 8 and 18%, respectively, compared with the SR S/D process. The self-heating effect is evaluated for both body contact and body floating SOI devices. The body contact transistor shows a reduced self-heating ratio, compared with the body floating transistor. The static noise margin of an SOI device with a $1.1\;{\mu}m^2$ 6T-SRAM cell is 190 mV, and the ring oscillator speed is improved by 25 % compared with bulk devices. The DR S/D process shows a higher open loop voltage gain than the SR S/D process. A 15 nm ultra-thin body (UTB) SOI device with a DR S/D process shows the same level of noise characteristics at both the body contact and body floating transistors. Also, we observed that noise characteristics of a 15 nm UTB SOI device are comparable to those of bulk Si devices.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.1737-1742
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• 2015

물품 검사를 위한 산업현장에서는 물품의 표면뿐만 아니라 내부 부품결함 검사 또한 필요하다. 일반적으로 생산 공정에서의 물품 검사로 광학 검사를 많이 이용한다. 하지만 이는 표면상의 결함만을 검사할 뿐 물품 내부의 검사를 수행하기는 어렵다. 이러한 제한점을 극복하기 위해 광학 장치 대신 휴대용 X-선 DR 영상 획득 장치를 이용하여 영상을 실시간으로 얻는 동시에 제품 불량을 판별할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하였다. X-선 영상을 얻은 후 머신영상 처리를 통해 설정한 기준 값에 오차범위를 허용하면 통과, 그렇지 않으면 불량으로 인식되도록 시스템을 개발하였다. 또한, 물품의 불량 유무 결과와 그 수치는 사용자가 저장할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2023

Background: The detectors of both computed radiography (CR) and direct digital radiography (DR) have a wide dynamic range that could tolerate high values of exposure factors without an adverse effect on image quality. Therefore, this study aims to assess patient radiation dose and proposes institutional diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for two teaching hospitals in Ghana. Materials and Methods: CR and DR systems were utilized in this study from two teaching hospitals. The CR system was manufactured by Philips Medical Systems DMC GmbH, while the DR system was manufactured by General Electric. The entrance skin doses (ESDs) were calculated using the standard equation and the tube output measurements. Free-in-air kerma (µGy) was measured using a calibrated radiation dosimeter. The proposed institutional DRLs were estimated using 75^th percentiles values of the estimated ESDs for nine radiographic projections. Results and Discussion: The calculated DRLs were 0.4, 1.6, 3.4, 0.5, 0.4, 1.1, 1.0, 1.2, and 1.7 mGy for chest posteroanterior (PA), lumbar spine anteroposterior (AP), lumbar spine lateral (LAT), cervical spine AP, cervical spine LAT, skull PA, pelvis AP, and abdomen AP, respectively in CR system. In the DR system, the values were 0.3, 1.6, 3.1, 0.4, 0.3, 0.7, 0.6, 0.9, and 1.3 for chest PA, lumbar spine AP, lumbar spine LAT, cervical spine AP, cervical spine LAT, skull PA, pelvis AP, and abdomen AP, respectively. Conclusion: Institutional DRLs in nine radiographic projections have been proposed for two teaching hospitals in Ghana for the first time. The proposed DRLs will serve as baseline data for establishing local DRLs in the hospitals and will be a valuable tool in optimizing patient doses.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권sup3호
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• pp.257-261
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• 2016

Cancer causes cells to avoid death while being the second cause of death in the world itself. Damaged cells in the absence of apoptosis will increasingly amplify their inefficient genome. Of the two main apoptosis inducing pathways in cells, the first has p53 protein as the main initiating factor in the cascade. According to research results this protein s mutated in 50% of cancers and sointerest has cooncentrated on the second pathway that features death receptors. Among these receptors TRAIL1/DR5 is especially expressed in cancer cells. So targeting such receptors can initiate the apoptotic cascade in cells. Interestingly by substitution of activating ligands with antibodies as agonists, we could efficiently turn on the apoptosis pathway. First of all, three small peptides from the DR5 protein extracellular domain were synthesized and injected with two different kind of adjuvants (Fround and liposomal encapsulation) separately into mice at 15 day intervals. As a result, liposomal peptides induced the immune system more efficient than Frounds adjuvant and at the end point the antibodies which were obtained from liposomal peptide injection induced much more effective death. Liposomal formol could be used as an adjuvant in immunization utilizing small peptides. They carry, protect and deliver peptides very efficiently. In addition, small peptides of a certain size from the extracellular domain of DR5 proteins not only can induce immune system but also produce antibodies playing a remarkable anti-cancer roles against breast cancer cells (MCF-7).

• 대한방사선협회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.108-109
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• 2003

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.165-184
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• 1994

DB 구축 과정은 데이터 분석, DB 설계, 소스 데이터 입력, 데이터 변환 및 로드, DB 유지 보스 등의 일련의 과정을 포함한다. DB 구축을 위한 데이터 입력 및 DB 생성 S/W의 개발 및 운영에 관한 기술은 컴퓨터 환경이나 정보 검색 시스템의 기능에 따라 다소 차이가 있을 수 있으나 대체로 유사하다고 볼 수 있다. 따라서 본 고에서는 한글 DB의 구축 및 운영 사례로서 국내 6,000 가입자 ('94년 10월초 현재)를 대상으로 전자통신 분야의 전문적인 기술 정보 DB 12종을 서비스 하고 있는 한국전자통신연구소의 ETLARS 한글 정보검색 시스템에서의 데이터 입력 및 DB 생성 S/W를 소개하고자 한다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2017

스마트 그리드는 기존 전력망에 ICT기술을 접목하여 소비자와 전력 공급자 간 양방향으로 실시간 정보를 교환함으로써 에너지를 효율적으로 사용 할 수 있는 시스템이다. 수요반응(DR, Demand response)은 전기사용자가 전력시장 가격이 높거나 전력계통 위기일 때 절약한 전기를 전력시장에 판매하여 금전으로 보상받는 제도이다. 본 논문은 스마트 미터(Smart Meter)를 사용하여 실시간으로 수요 정보를 계측하고 이를 클라우드 서버로 전송하는 전력량 계측 데이터 전송장치와 전력 IT 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 논문에서 개발된 전력량 계측 데이터 전송장치는 한국전력 데이터와 측정 오차가 없는 신뢰성이 있는 데이터를 제공하기 위해 Raspberry Pi 3에 연결된 빛 센서를 이용하여 한국전력 계측기의 전력량 단위마다 깜박이는 램프의 횟수를 계측한다. 전력량 계측 데이터 전송 장치는 표준 통신 프로토콜인 OpenADR 2.0b를 사용한다. 계측된 데이터는 LTE, WiFi 통신망을 통해 VEN, VTN, 계산 프로그램으로 구성되는 전력 IT 시스템의 MySQL DB에 저장된다. 개발된 전력량 계측 데이터 전송 장치는 전력계통 위기가 발생할 때 급전지시를 내려 피크감축 DR을 실행한다. 개발한 전력량 계측 데이터 전송 장치는 기존 스마트 미터링의 계측시간이 15분으로 고정되는 것과 달리 사용자가 1분 단위로 조절할 수 있는 장점을 갖는다.

• Reproductive and Developmental Biology
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.435-439
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• 2011

Sildenafil citrate (SIL) a phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor (PDE5I) has been used for long time as a first line oral drug for erectile dysfunction. Though it has beneficial effects on erectile organ it also has some adverse effects in other cells and/or tissues related to reproductive system when exposed to longer duration. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the long term effect of SIL on sperm parameters in Wistar albino rat. The animals are divided into two groups, for group I - rats were treated with saline (vehicle alone) and group - II oral administration of 5 mg/kg b.w. of SIL was administrated orally once in a day for 120 days. At the end of the trial period animals were sacrificed and epididymal sperm were subjected to various analysis. Results showed significant reduction in sperm count, motility, viability and morphologically intact sperm in long term PDE5I exposed animals when compared to control. Acrosomal status and fertility test also showed significant reduction in long term PDE5I exposed animals. The present study clearly indicated that long term SIL has shown to induce alteration in sperm quality and quantity, leading to decline in fertility rate. Indicate that SIL impinge on spermatogenesis as well as epididymal function. Understanding the molecular down-stream events involved in long-term exposure to PDE5 inhibitor can be valuable to supervise on related infertility issues and to suggest corrective measures.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.123-141
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• 2017

Solving a system of linear or non-linear equations is required to analyze any kind of structures. There are many ways to solve a system of equations, and they can be classified as implicit and explicit techniques. The explicit methods eliminate round-off errors and use less memory. The dynamic relaxation method (DR) is one of the powerful and simple explicit processes. The important point is that the DR does not require to store the global stiffness matrix, for which it just uses the residual loads vector. In this paper, a new approach to the DR method is expressed. In this approach, the damping, mass and time steps are similar to those of the traditional method of dynamic relaxation. The difference of this proposed method is focused on the method of calculating the damping. The proposed method is expressed such that the time step is constant, damping is equal to zero except in steps with maximum energy and the concentrated damping can be applied to minimize the energy of system in this step. In this condition, the calculation of damping in all steps is not required. Then the volume of computation is reduced. The DR method for form-finding of membrane structures is employed in this paper. The form-finding of the three plans related to the membrane structures with different loading is considered to investigate the efficiency of the proposed method. The numerical results show that the convergence rate based on the proposed method increases in all cases than other methods.

• 천문학회보
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.54.3-55
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• 2016

DEEP-South Scheduling and Data reduction System (DS SDS) consists of two separate software subsystems: Headquarters (HQ) at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), and SDS Data Reduction (DR) at Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI). HQ runs the DS Scheduling System (DSS), DS database (DB), and Control and Monitoring (C&M) designed to monitor and manage overall SDS actions. DR hosts the Moving Object Detection Program (MODP), Asteroid Spin Analysis Package (ASAP) and Data Reduction Control & Monitor (DRCM). MODP and ASAP conduct data analysis while DRCM checks if they are working properly. The functions of SDS is three-fold: (1) DSS plans schedules for three KMTNet stations, (2) DR performs data analysis, and (3) C&M checks whether DSS and DR function properly. DSS prepares a list of targets, aids users in deciding observation priority, calculates exposure time, schedules nightly runs, and archives data using Database Management System (DBMS). MODP is designed to discover moving objects on CCD images, while ASAP performs photometry and reconstructs their lightcurves. Based on ASAP lightcurve analysis and/or MODP astrometry, DSS schedules follow-up runs to be conducted with a part of, or three KMTNet telescopes.