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Magnetic Sensitivity Improvement of Silicon Vertical Hall Device (Si 종형 Hall 소자의 자기감도 개선)

  • Ryu, Ji-Goo;Kim, Nam-Ho;Chung, Su-Tae
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.260-265
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    • 2011
  • The silicon vertical hall devices are fabricated using a modified bipolar process. It consists of the thin p-layer at Si-$SiO_2$, interface and n-epi layer without $n^+$buried layer to improve the sensitivity and influence of interface effects. Experimental samples are a sensor type I with and type H without p+isolation dam adjacent to the center current electrode. The experimental results for both type show a more high current-related sensitivity than the former's vertical hall devices. The sensitivity of type H and type I are about 150 V/AT and 340 V/AT, respectively. This sensor's behavior can be explained by the similar J-FET model.

Effect of Short-Term Pharmacotherapy on Anxiety Sensitivity, Quality of Life and Functional Disability in Panic Disorder Patients (공황장애에서 단기약물치료가 불안민감도와 삶의 질 및 기능장애에 미치는 영향)

  • Oh, Yun-Hye;Choi, Kwan-Woo;Kim, Bora;Heo, Jung-Yoon;Yu, Bum-Hee
    • Anxiety and mood
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.25-30
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    • 2013
  • Objective : Panic disorder is a chroni, debilitating illness, and has been known to be affected by high anxiety sensitivity and a poor quality of life. We examined if 12 weeks of pharmacotherapy with escitalopram could affect anxiety sensitivity, quality of life, and general disability in patients with panic disorder. Method : We enrolled 27 patients who met the DSM-IV-TR criteria for panic disorder, with or without agoraphobia, and completed 12 weeks of escitalopram treatment. We enrolled 29 normal control subjects who were matched for age and sex compared with the panic patients. All subjects were assessed using the Hamilton Rating Scale for depression (HAM-D), Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A), Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS), Anxiety Sensitivity Index-Revised (ASI-R), WHO quality of life assessment (WHO-QOL) and Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) before and after 12 weeks of treatment. Result : Panic disorder patients had a higher Anxiety sensitivity, a poorer Quality of life, and significant disability than normal control subjects at baseline. After the treatment, Panic disorder patients showed significant improvement in the severity of panic symptoms in terms of the HAM-A p<0.001), HAM-D (p<0.001) in addition, the reached a remission state in terms of the PDSS score. They also showed significant improvement in the ASI-R (p<0.001), WHO-QOL (p<0.001) and SDS (p<0.001), but mean scores of the ASI-R, WHO-QOL and SDS in panic disorder patients were did not reach normal levels. Conclusion : This study suggests that 12 weeks of pharmacotherapy with escitalopram could improve anxiety sensitivity, quality of life, and disability in panic disorder patients, although their anxiety sensitivity, quality of life and disability were not yet normalized after short-term pharmacotherapy. Thus, long-term pharmacotherapy may be necessary for panic disorder patients in order to get an optimal clinical response in terms of anxiety sensitivity, quality of life, and general disability.

Optical Disk Drive Servo System Using Dual Disturbance Observer

  • Lee, Sang-Han;Jeong, Dong-Seul;Chung, Chung-Choo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.2087-2092
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    • 2005
  • Using disturbance observer (DOB) is effective in enhancing the performance of dynamic system in the presence of disturbances. Recently the definition of disturbance has been expanded to modeling uncertainty including parameter variation, internal disturbance. Various structures of DOB have been proposed to improve sensitivity of system for better disturbance rejection performance. However in the case of improvement of sensitivity function, it tends to bring poor transient response due to cross-coupling and phase lag. Furthermore it could be very sensitive to measurement noise due to increased peak of complementary sensitivity function. In this paper, a dual disturbance observer (Dual-DOB) is proposed to reduce the effect of such cross-coupling. It is possible for us to improve the sensitivity function with additional external DOB with hardly affecting complementary sensitivity function. Thus it is able to have robustness against measurement noise. Since we are able to design DOBs of internal and external loop independently, we could prevent transient response quality from degrading while improving the sensitivity function. The proposed Dual-DOB is applied to a commercial optical disk drive tracking servo system. The experimental result shows that the Dual-DOB is an effective method in rejecting the disturbance as well as improving the tracking performance.

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The Effects of Earth System Education Using Multimedia on Elementary School Student's Environmental Sensitivity and Pro-environmental Behavior (멀티미디어를 활용한 지구계 수업이 초등학생들의 환경민감도 및 환경 친화적 행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Soon-Shik;Lee, Yong-Seob
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.266-275
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Earth System Education using multimedia on the elementary school students' environmental sensitivity and pro-environmental behavior. To verify this research problem, the subject of this study was fifth-grade students selected from two classes of M elementary school located in Busan city. For three months, the experimental group of 25 students was taught using multimedia. The comparison group also of 26 students was taught in normal classes which used a text-book. All students were given pre and post test to verify the effects of Earth System Education using multimedia on elementary school student's environmental sensitivity and pro-environmental behavior. The results from this study are as the following. First, Earth System Education using multimedia were effective on elementary school student's environmental sensitivity. Second, Earth System Education using multimedia were effective on elementary school student's pro-environmental behavior. Third, All most all experimental students were satisfied with Earth System Education using multimedia. In conclusion, Earth System Education using multimedia showed very positive effects on improvement of elementary school students' environmental sensitivity and pro-environmental behavior.

Development of an Integrated Education Model for Acupuncture and Physiology in Traditional Korean Medicine with Needling Practice and Pain Sensitivity (한의대 학부학생을 대상으로 한 침시술과 감각생리의 통합실습모델 개발)

  • Lee, Bong-Hyo;Chae, Han;Kwon, Young-Kyu
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.28 no.3 s.71
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    • pp.173-182
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    • 2007
  • Objective : To develop an integrated curriculum for acupuncture treatment and pain sensitivity practice, and discuss its usefulness. Method : We established an integrated practice program incorporating acupuncture and pain on physiology perspectives, and measured pain sensitivity at Yin (PC6${\sim}$PC4) and Yang (TE5${\sim}$TE9) meridians before and after the acupuncture treatment. Results : The Yang (39.4${\pm}$23.5) and Yin (46.0${\pm}$25.5) meridians have significantly different degrees of pain sensitivity (n=118, p=0.018). Pain sensitivity was significantly decreased after acupuncture treatment at Yang (54.63${\pm}$28.02/ 40.81${\pm}$29.39) and Yin (56.13${\pm}$27.88/ 38.72${\pm}$25.17) meridians (n=16, p<0.001). Discussion and Conclusion : The difference between the Yin and Yang meridians can be materialized in this integrated practice curriculum model. The effectiveness of this integrated class and suggestions for improvement of integrated curricula were discussed.

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Establishment of Regional Logistics System and Suggestion for Strategic Policies in Cheonbuk (전라북도 지역발전을 위한 물류진단시스템구축 및 개선방안 제시에 관한 연구)

  • Yeo, Gi-Tae;Park, June-Bae
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.87-103
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    • 2006
  • The aim of this paper is to establish the evaluation system of improving urban logistics using the QFD(Quality function Deployment) model which can facilitate to grasp the improving degree of realizing the system conforming to the relationship of all process and the process improvement. At the first stage, the established system through the QFD method will be used to evaluate and diagnosis the level of urban logistics in Cheonbuk District. The second stage is to investigate the important components that can make prompt improvement of urban logistics. Then, the sensitivity analysis is to be performed and the degree of improving urban logistics will be presented according to the rising degree of the relevant components.

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A DSP Circuit Design on Improvement of Video Signal With High Sensotivity CCD Sensor Camera (고감도 CCD센서 카메라의 영상신호 성능향상을 위한 DSP 회로 설계)

  • Park, Jae-Chul;Kim, Yong-Deak
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.331-332
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    • 2007
  • This Paper deals with the high sensitive camera circuit design, which is more sensitive than those on the market now in a way that it got rid of chronic smearing problem in CCD sensor and other kinds of noises in video signal effectively. This paper focused on the principle of CCD and video signal process and analyzed the specialized technique of industry and fundamental high sensitivity of CCTV camera. 1 also looked into the SONY super-HAD CCD camera which is very popular in the field now and compared this with the SONY EXview CCD camera to analyze the picture improvement using video test equipment. For the result, it had 190mv on camera sensitivity, 14dB on smearing, and 2dB on signal to noise ratio.

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Derating design approach of LED for reliability improvement (LED(Light Emitting Diode)의 부하경감 설계)

  • Kim, Byung-Nam;Kim, Jae-Jung;Kang, Weon-Chang;Son, Young-Kap;Chang, Seog-Weon;Kwack, Kae-Dal
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.1760-1765
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    • 2007
  • This paper shows a derating design approach for LED reliability improvement. The LED is widely used in display devices or circuits. The main failure of interest is defined as 100% reduction of the light output intensity of LED resulting from corrosion due to stresses, i.e. temperature and humidity. The lifetime is varied according to the stress levels under where the LED operates so that correlation of the lifetime to these stress levels over time is modeled through accelerated life testings. A derating design approach to accomplish a required reliability level of LED is proposed to determine adequate the stress levels. In the approach, $B_{10}$ life, Failure rate, Sensitivity Analysis of LED are used as a reliability metric.

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Non-Invasive Plasma Monitoring Tools and Multivariate Analysis Techniques for Sensitivity Improvement

  • Jang, Haegyu;Lee, Hak-Seung;Lee, Honyoung;Chae, Heeyeop
    • Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.328-339
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    • 2014
  • In this article, plasma monitoring tools and mulivariate analysis techniques were reviewed. Optical emission spectroscopy was reviewed for a chemical composition analysis tool and RF V-I probe for a physical analysis tool for plasma monitoring. Multivariate analysis techniques are discussed to the sensitivity improvement. Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the widely adopted multivariate analysis techniques and its application to end-point detection of plasma etching process is discussed.

Improvement of Magnetic Circuit Characteristics for Moving Magnet Type Actuator in High Density Optical Disc (고밀도 광 디스크용 가동자석형 구동기의 자기회로특성 개선)

  • 정호섭;윤용한
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.780-785
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    • 2001
  • A moving-magnet type pickup actuator is proposed, which has the back-yoke to improve th sensitivity. Through the magnetic path analysis, we can find that the flux density is increased i the air gap by the pole assignment of magnet and the adding of back-yoke can reduce the flu leakage and induce 40% up of flux density. Experimental results show that the sensitivity i improved in the tracking direction, however, the improvement doesn't occur in the focusing direction. Finally, the compensation performance is tested in HD-DVD system. And it is verifie that the actuator can compensate the disc tilt of ${\pm}$0.7$^{\circ}$.

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