• 국제물리치료학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1897-1902
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• 2019

Background: Tension-type headaches, which make up the highest proportion of headaches, are prone to develop into chronic tension-type headaches (CTTH). The characteristic of CTTH in patients is that the active myofascial trigger point (ATrP) which causes pain in the muscles of the back of the head is increased, compared to the normal headache and moves the head position forward. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of myofascial release (MFR) and posture correction in effectively improving neck function and sleep quality in the symptoms of CTTH patients. Design: Observer-blind study Methods: To reduce ATrP, MFR was applied and exercise was also applied to correct posture. The subjects of this study were 48 individuals randomly divided into three groups; The MFR group using the MFR technique; The MFR with exercise group subject to both the MFR technique and forward head position correction exercises (MFREx), and the control group. MFR and MFREx groups were given the relevant interventions twice a week for four consecutive weeks, and went through the number ATrPs, range of motion (ROM) of neck, Neck Disability Index (NDI) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) before and after the intervention. A physical therapist, who was fully familiar with the measuring methods of the equipment, was the measurer and not aware of the target's condition was blinded to take measurements only before and after intervention. Results: There was a significant improvement in the ATrP, Neck ROM, NDI and PSQI in the group of patients to whom the MFR technique and MFREx were applied. MFREx was more effective in increasing neck mobility. Conclusions: According to this study, the application of MFR is effective in improving neck movement and sleep quality in chronic tension headache patients.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.744-751
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• 2008

정보와 통신 기술의 새로운 경향을 나타내는 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅은 일반 환경에서 활용할 수 있도록 다량의 정보를 처리할 수 있는 컴퓨팅 기술을 내장하고 있고, 일반 환경의 모든 사물은 통신 기능과의 상호작용을 위해 센서 및 작동기기를 내장하고 있다. 따라서 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅은 언제, 어디서나 기기에 접속하여 적절한 기능을 수행할 수 있어야 한다. 그러나 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅과 같은 분산 환경에서 다양한 기능들과의 상호 보완 및 상호 작용을 위한 어플리케이션 설계는 매우 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문은 네트워크 기능이 추가된 장비를 이용한 임베디드 응용 소프트웨어와 LabVIEW를 사용하여 서버 모듈 및 가상 프로토타이핑과의 인터페이스를 구현하고자 한다. 그리고 상황 인식(Context-Awareness)과 위치 인식(Location Awareness)을 통해서 수집한 센서의 정보를 기반으로 상황 인식 기반의 유비쿼터스 어플리케이션을 제안하고, 이를 실험실 환경의 상황 인식을 통한 장치 제어 및 모니터링에 응용한다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.291-305
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• 2003

원격탐사는 각종 상업용 위성과 항공사진을 바탕으로 연구된다. 그러나 이러한 자료는 연구자들이 원하는 시기와 장소에서 촬영하는데 기상조건 및 경제적 이유로 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하는 작은 방안의 하나로 본 연구에서는 소형비행기 및 초경량 비행기에 탈 부착이 가능한 소형 다중분광 자동 항공촬영시스템을 개발하였다. 본 항공촬영시스템은 연구실 자체에서 보유한 고해상도 다중분광카메라(가시대역, 적외선대역)와 열 적외선 카메라, 자체 제작한 자동카메라 정밀자세조정장치, 촬영관제 소형컴퓨터, gimbal, GPS수신기, 기상센서 등으로 구성되어 있다. 이에 대한 성능평가 및 분석을 경북 칠포지역에서 2회, 낙동강지역에서 3회, 경안천 지역에서 2회 실시하였다 그 결과, 다양한 항공사진, 기상자료 및 GPS자료를 획득할 수 있었고, 환경감시등에 유용성이 매우 높음을 알 수 있었다.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.225-237
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• 2019

Although applying self-consolidating concrete (SCC) in many modern structures is an inevitable fact, the high consumption of cement in its mixing designs has led to increased production costs and adverse environmental effects. In order to find economically viable sources with environmentally friendly features, natural pozzolan pumice and blast furnace slag in 10-50% of replacement binary designs have been investigated for experiments on the properties of fresh concrete, mechanical properties, and durability. As a natural pozzolan, pumice does not require advanced equipment to prepare for consumption and only needs to be powdered. Pumice has been the main focus of this research because of simple preparation. Also to validate the results, in addition to the control specimens of each design, fly ash as a known powder has been evaluated. Moreover, ternary mixes of pumice and silica fume were investigated to enhance the obtained results of binary mixes. It was concluded that pumice and slag powders indicated favorable performance in the high percentage of replacement.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.283-300
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• 2015

Visual condition inspections remain paramount to assessing the current deterioration status of a bridge and assigning remediation or maintenance tasks so as to ensure the ongoing serviceability of the structure. However, in recent years, there has been an increasing backlog of maintenance activities. Existing research reveals that this is attributable to the labour-intensive, subjective and disruptive nature of the current bridge inspection method. Current processes ultimately require lane closures, traffic guidance schemes and inspection equipment. This not only increases the whole-of-life costs of the bridge, but also increases the risk to the travelling public as issues affecting the structural integrity may go unaddressed. As a tool for bridge condition inspections, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or, drones, offer considerable potential, allowing a bridge to be visually assessed without the need for inspectors to walk across the deck or utilise under-bridge inspection units. With current inspection processes placing additional strain on the existing bridge maintenance resources, the technology has the potential to significantly reduce the overall inspection costs and disruption caused to the travelling public. In addition to this, the use of automated aerial image capture enables engineers to better understand a situation through the 3D spatial context offered by UAV systems. However, the use of UAV for bridge inspection involves a number of critical issues to be resolved, including stability and accuracy of control, and safety to people. SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) is a technique that could be used by a UAV to build a map of the bridge underneath, while simultaneously determining its location on the constructed map. While there are considerable economic and risk-related benefits created through introducing entirely new ways of inspecting bridges and visualising information, there also remain hindrances to the wider deployment of UAVs. This study is to provide a context for use of UAVs for conducting visual bridge inspections, in addition to addressing the obstacles that are required to be overcome in order for the technology to be integrated into current practice.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.149-158
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• 2015

Up-to-date manufacturing companies have faced a market-driven environment of pull production order. There should be a difference in operating manufacturing resources according to the type, quantity, and delivery time of manufactured products, because the process situation in pull production is changed by customer orders. And it should be taken into account from the stage of preparing for production such as process design and the placement and utilization of manufacturing resources. However, the feasibility of production plans is limited because most of small manufacturing businesses make production/supply plan of the parts and products assuming that equipment abilities in scheduling is sufficient without managing process standard information systemically. In this study, a discrete event simulation system based on BOM (bill of material), that is F-OPIS (online productivity innovation system), is introduced and a case study on application of the system leading to improving productivities is presented. F-OPIS deals with a decision-problem on production management and it is specialized for small-and- medium sized manufacturing companies. The target company of this case study is a typical small-and-medium sized manufacturing company in Korea, that produces various machined parts. The target company adopts make-to-stock production management to prevent tardy delivery because of fluctuations in demand. Therefore, it is required to apply an efficient inventory control solution for improving productivities. In this paper, based on the constraints of working capacity of manufacturing resources, the bottleneck process is analyzed as production conditions are changed. Consequently, an improvement plan is proposed, that eventually enhances overall utilization rates of resources in the bottleneck process and reduces overall production lead-time and inventory level.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.533-542
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• 2015

본 논문은 도시철도 전동차 정차 시에 발생하는 회생전력으로 인해 전차선 가선전압 상승 시에 Converter(Forward)에서 Inverter(Reverse)로 mode 변환하여 상승된 가선전압을 AC 모선으로 환류하여 전차선 전압을 일정하게 유지하고 전동차 정차 시에 발생하는 회생전력을 재사용할 수 있는 부산도시철도의 더블 컨버터 직류 변전설비를 제안하며 전차선 직류전압 품질향상을 위해 부산도시철도 더블 컨버터 직류 변전설비에서 발생하는 Converter/Inverter mode 변환 시의 undershoot와 overshoot를 최소화할 수 있는 최적의 사이리스터 점호각을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제시하였다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.377-383
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• 2006

Recently, production and use of Freon substances are restrained due to destruction of ozone layer and grobal warming. In this aspect of environmental problems, the best solution is to use the natural refrigerant such as ammonia. Thus, this study apply the $NH_3$ and R22 to study the performance characteristic from the superheat control and compare the energy efficiency of two refrigerants from the high performance. The condensing pressure of refrigeration system is increased from 1,500 kPa to 1,600 kPa and degree of superheat is increased from 0 to $10^{\circ}C$ at each condensing pressure. As the result of experiment, when comparing the each COP, we knew the $NH_3$ is suitable as the alternative refrigerant of the R22.

• 생태와환경
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2021

Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, a keystone species with significant ecological and commercial importance, is declining globally throughout much of its range. While traditional fishing equipment methods remain limited, new sensitive and rapid detection methods should be developed to monitor fisheries resources. To monitor the presence and quantity of C. pallasii from environmental DNA (eDNA) extracted from seawater samples, a pair of primers and a TaqMan^® probe specific to this fish based on mitochondrial cytochrome b (COB) sequences were designed for the real-time PCR (qPCR) assay. The combination of our molecular markers showed high specificity in the qPCR assay, which affirmed the success of presenting a positive signal only in the C. pallasii specimens. The markers also showed a high sensitivity for detecting C. pallasii genomic DNA in the range of 1 pg~100 ng rxn^-1 and its DNA plasmid containing COB amplicon in the range of 1~100,000copies rxn^-1, which produced linear standard calibration curves (r²=0.99). We performed a qPCR assay for environmental water samples obtained from 29 sampling stations in the southeastern coastal regions of South Korea using molecular markers. The assay successfully detected the C. pallasii eDNA from 14 stations (48.2%), with the highest mean concentration in Jinhae Bay with a value of 76.09±18.39 pg L^-1 (246.20±58.58 copies L^-1). Our preliminary application of molecular monitoring of C. pallasii will provide essential information for efficient ecological control and management of this valuable fisheries resource.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제49권10호
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• pp.871-877
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• 2021

항공기 결함은 항공기 운영 및 조종사의 생명과 직결된 중요한 사항으로 항공기 조종 중 발생하는 임무 소프트웨어의 결함은 조종사 임무수행 및 안전에 심각한 영향을 미친다. 항공기 개발을 주관하는 단체나 소프트웨어 결함을 개발 초기에 식별하고 제거하기 위해 프로세스를 강화하고 많은 공수와 시간을 할애하고 있지만 임무 소프트웨어의 특성상 타 항전 장비와 강한 기능적 결합도(Coupling) 및 높은 복잡도(Complexity)를 가지고 있어 기존 시험 방법을 통한 소프트웨어 결함 식별 및 제거에 제약이 따른다. 본 연구는 임무 컴퓨터 연동 장비의 통신 데이터 중 피드백 데이터의 기댓값 검증을 자동화하는 도구를 개발하여 데이터 무결성 검증을 통한 임무 소프트웨어 건전성 확보 및 시험 비용 감소 효과를 분석한다.