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Genetic Algorithm Approach to Image Reconstruction in Electrical Impedance Tomography

  • Kim, Ho-Chan;Boo, Chang-Jin;Lee, Yoon-Joon;Kang, Chang-Ik
    • KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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    • v.4C no.3
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2004
  • In electrical impedance tomography (EIT), the internal resistivity distribution of the unknown object is computed using the boundary voltage data induced by different current patterns using various reconstruction algorithms. This paper presents a new image reconstruction algorithm based on the genetic algorithm (GA) via a two-step approach for the solution of the EIT inverse problem, in particular for the reconstruction of "static" images. The computer simulation for the 32 channels synthetic data shows that the spatial resolution of reconstructed images in the proposed scheme is improved compared to that of the modified Newton-Raphson algorithm at the expense of an increased computational burden.rden.

Voltage regulator for baseband channel selection filters (기저대역 채널선택 필터를 위한 전압 안정화 회로)

  • Kim, Byoung-Wook;Kim, Dae-Ik
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.8 no.11
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    • pp.1641-1646
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    • 2013
  • Control voltage for baseband channel selection filter to select one of communication channels can be easily fluctuated according to external noise or variation of fabrication. In this paper, we design a voltage regulator with small chip area to keep control voltage constantly using current comparative method. Cut-off frequency of channel selection filter is automatically controlled by detecting current flow using the proposed voltage regulator.

A Study on Food Shopping User Experience Design of Omni-channel (옴니채널에서 식품쇼핑의 사용자 경험 디자인 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Hea;Kim, Seung-In
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.403-409
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    • 2016
  • This study is a food shopping experience of omni-channel. Food threats and healthy living concerns bring different channels in led to increase reasonable way such as various demand. Omni-channels should be premised on understanding customer behavior as well as empirical user types in which considerations including the value of experience and understanding consumer behavior. Online survey result showed that, (1)offline food shopping, major retail store with quality, buy fresh food directly 2~3 times a month (2)online food shopping, e-commerce site with costs, buy fruits & nuts 2~3 times a month. After in-depth interview with eight high quality participants, I analyzed needs for food shopping experience in regard to the four steps food purchasing journey then derived a persona with integral value 'health' and 'diet'. It is classified into two types. One is the primary persona, family and health oriented, considering household money 'saving', and other is secondary persona, work and personal oriented, looking forward to 'automatic supply'. The result of this study provided an insight that help us explore ways to resolve function and services in the context of a healthy and balanced diet for improving food shopping experience of omni-channel.

Effects of Noradrenaline on the Spontaneous Contraction and Ionic Current in the Antral Circular Muscle of Guinea-pig Stomach

  • Jun, Jae-Yeoul;Lee, Sang-Jin;Kim, Sung-Joon;Suh, Jae-Yul;So, In-Suk;Hwang, Sang-Ik;Kim, Ki-Whan
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 1993
  • There is evidence that noradrenaline enhances spontaneous contractions dose-dependently in guinea-pig antral circular muscle. To investigate the mechanism of this excitatory action, slow waves and membrane currents were recorded using conventional microelectrode techniques in muscle strips and the whole cell patch clamp technique in isolated gastric myocytes. On recording slow waves, noradrenaline $(10^{-5}\;M)$ induced the hyperpolarization of the membrane potential, although the shape of the slow waves became tall and steep. Also, spike potentiaIs occurred at the peaks of slow waves. These changes were completely reversed by administration of phentolamine $(10^{-5}\;M),\;an\;{\alpha}-adrenoceptor$ blocker. Noradrenaline-induced hyperpolarization was blocked by apamin $(10^{-7}\;M)$, a blocker of a class of $Ca^{2+}\;-dependent\;K^+$ channels. To investigate the mechanisms for these effects, we performed whole cell patch clamp experiments. Norndrenaline increased voltage-dependent $Ca^{2+}$ currents in the whole range of test potentials. Noradrenaline also increased $Ca^{2+}\;-dependent\;K^+$\;currents, and this effects was abolished by apamin. These results suggest that the increase in amplitude and the generation of spike potentials on slow waves was caused by the activation of voltage-dependent $Ca^{2+}$ channel via adrenoceptors, and hyperpolarization of the membrane potential was mediated by activation of apamin-sensitive $Ca^{2+}\;-dependent\;K^+\;channels$.

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A code acquisition method using signed-rank statistics in frequency-selective channels (주파수선택적 감쇄 채널에서 부호순위 통계량을 쓴 부호 획득 방법)

  • Kim, Hong-Gil;Jeong, Chang-Yong;Song, Ik-Ho;Gwon, Hyeong-Mun;Kim, Yong-Seok
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.69-80
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, signed-rank based nonparametric detectors are used for direct sequence code division multiple access pseudo-noise code acquisition systems in frequency-selective Rician fading channels. We first derive the locally optimum rank detector, and then propose the locally suboptimum rank (LSR) and k-th order modified signed-rank (MSRk) detectors using approximate score functions. We compare the serial and hybrid parallel double-dwell schemes using the LSR and MSRk detectors with those using the conventional squared-sum (SS) using the cell averaging constant false alarm rate processor and modified sign detectors. From the simulation results, it is shown that the LSR and MSRk detectors perform better than the SS detector using the cell averaging constant false alarm rate processor.

Performance Improvement Method of Multi-Port Memory Controller Using An Effective Multi-Channel Direct memory Access Management (효과적인 다채널 직접 메모리 접근 관리를 통한 멀티포트 메모리 컨트롤러의 성능 향상 방법)

  • Chun, Ik-Jae;Lyuh, Chun-Gi;Roh, Tae Moon;Lee, Moon-Sik
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.33-41
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents an effective memory access method for a high-speed data transfer on mobile systems using a direct memory access controller that considers the characteristics of a multi-port memory controller. The direct memory access controller has an integrated channel management function to control multiple direct memory access channels. The channels are physically separated and operate independently from each other. Experimental results show that the proposed direct memory access method improves the transfer performance by up to 72% and 69% on read and write transfer cycles, respectively. The total number of transfer cycles of the proposed method is 63% less than in a commercial method under 4-channel access.

Practical Method to Extract Azimuth Angle of Target for Air-Borne Antenna Hybrid Mono-Pulse Radar System (항공용 안테나 하이브리드 모노펄스 레이다 시스템의 실용적 표적 방위각 추정 방법)

  • Kim, Jin-Woo;Youn, Jae-Hyuk;Rho, Soo-Hyun;Lee, Jong-Eun;Jeon, Yeong-Beom;Ok, Jae-Woo;You, Eung-Noh;Yoon, Sang-Ho;Shin, Hyun-Ik
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.29 no.9
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    • pp.735-738
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    • 2018
  • The accuracy of extracting the azimuth angle of a target is significantly affected by the error in the mono-pulse ratio of the air-borne antenna hybrid mono-pulse Radar system. This error is strongly induced by the phase imbalance between the channels of the system. In this paper, a method is proposed for effectively calibrating the phase imbalance caused by physical differences between the RF channels from the antenna to the $180^{\circ}$ hybrid. Through a flight test, it was confirmed that the accuracy of the azimuth angle of the target is improved by using the proposed method.

Design and Implementation of Dynamic Peer Selection Scheme for Allocating Proxy-Server on Pure P2P Network Environments (순수 P2P 네트워크 환경에서 프락시-서버 할당을 위한 동적 피어 선정 기법 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Young-Jin;Kim, Moon-Jeong;Kim, Ung-Mo;Eom, Young-Ik
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.10D no.1
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2003
  • Recently, deployments of firewalls and NATs ire increasing to provide network security features or to solve the problem of public IP shortage. But, in these environments, peers in different firewall or NAT environments may get limited services because they cannot open direct communicate channels. This can be a significant problem in pure P2P environments where the peers should get or provide services by opening direct channels among themselves. In this paper, we propose a scheme for dynamically selecting a peer that fan be used as a proxy server. The proxy server supports the communication between the peers in different firewall or NAT environments. The proposed scheme is operating system independent and supports bidirectional communication among the peers in P2P environments. Additionally, the proposed scheme can distribute network traffic by dynamically allocating proxy servers to the peers that is not located in the firewall or NAT environments.

Possible Involvement of $Ca^{2+}$ Activated $K^+$ Channels, SK Channel, in the Quercetin-Induced Vasodilatation

  • Nishida, Seiichiro;Satoh, Hiroyasu
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.361-365
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    • 2009
  • Effects of quercetin, a kind of flavonoids, on the vasodilating actions were investigated. Among the mechanisms for quercetin-induced vasodilatation in rat aorta, the involvement with the $Ca^{2+}$ activated $K^+$ ($K_{Ca}$) channel was examined. Pretreatment with NE ($5\;{\mu}M$) or KCl (60 mM) was carried out and then, the modulation by quercetin of the constriction was examined using rat aorta ring strips (3 mm) at $36.5^{\circ}C$. Quercetin (0.1 to $100\;{\mu}M$) relaxed the NE-induced vasoconstrictions in a concentrationdependent manner. NO synthesis (NOS) inhibitor, NG-monomethyl-L-arginine acetate (L-NMMA), at $100\;{\mu}M$ reduced the quercetin ($100\;{\mu}M$)-induced vasodilatation from $97.8{\pm}3.7%$ (n=10) to $78.0{\pm}11.6%$ (n=5, p<0.05). Another NOS inhibitor, L-NG-nitro arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), at $10\;{\mu}M$ also had the similar effect. In the presence of both $100\;{\mu}M$ L-NMMA and $10\;{\mu}M$ indomethacin, the quercetin-induced vasodilatation was further attenuated by $100\;{\mu}M$ tetraethylammonium (TEA, a $K_{Ca}$ channel inhibitor). Also TEA decreased the quercetin-induced vasodilatation in endothelium-denuded rat aorta. Used other $K_{Ca}$ channel inhibitors, the quercetin-induced vasodilatation was attenuated by $0.3\;{\mu}M$ apamin (a SK channel inhibitor), but not by 30 nM charybdotoxin (a BK and IK channel inhibitor). Quercetin caused a concentration-dependent vasodilatation, due to the endotheliumdependent and -independent actions. Also quercetin contributes to the vasodilatation selectively with SK channel on smooth muscle.

The Effects of Consumer Characteristics Using Online Shopping on Omni-Channel Strategy (온라인 쇼핑을 이용하는 소비자 특성이 옴니채널 전략에 미치는 영향)

  • Oh, Hyung-Sool;Cho, Su-Yeon;Yoo, Jung-Sang;Kwon, Ik-Whan G.
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2017
  • Omni-channel strategy is an innovative paradigm for integrated information distribution of inventory, sales, operations, marketing, delivery, pickups and returns in supply chain management. Recently the distribution strategy faces new challenges with the advent of mobile distribution channels. Social media with countless apps imposes additional stress on supply chain operations. Due to these changes, distribution network in supply chain is changing naturally and rapidly from multi-channel to omnni-channel platform. Recently numerous domestic distributors establish and adapt this new supply chain optimization tool as a part of seamless flow of movements of goods from one channel to other channels. The objective of this paper is to present a preliminary findings on how omnni-channel affects the supply chain management. A survey is used to ascertain in the degree of omnni-channel implementation and statistical evidence is provided to test sets of hypothesis. The results of the questionnaire showed that consumers' purchasing styles differed by gender, age, purchase purpose, and product type. In particular, women consider purchasing experience in omni-channel to be important. As food and household goods can be conveniently shipped, consumers prefer online purchasing it. Conversely, consumers tend to favor omni-channel strategy in connection with offline experience in IT products.