• 농업과학연구
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.753-767
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• 2020

The commercial value of strawberries is affected by various factors such as their shape, size and color. Among them, size determined by weight is one of the main factors determining the quality grade of strawberries. In this study, image technology was developed to predict the weight of strawberries using the shape characteristics of strawberry cultivars. For realtime weight measurements of strawberries in transport, an image measurement system was developed for weight prediction with a charge coupled device (CCD) color camera and a conveyor belt. A strawberry weight prediction algorithm was developed for three cultivars, Maehyang, Sulhyang, and Ssanta, using the number of pixels in the pulp portion that measured the strawberry weight. The discrimination accuracy (R2) of the weight prediction models of the Maeyang, Sulhyang and Santa cultivars was 0.9531, 0.951 and 0.9432, respectively. The discriminative accuracy (R2) and measurement error (RMSE) of the integrated weight prediction model of the three cultivars were 0.958 and 1.454 g, respectively. These results show that the 2D imaging technology considering the shape characteristics of strawberries has the potential to predict the weight of strawberries.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide basic information for the establishment of a Heavy Ion Therapy center by analyzing the cases of Heavy Ion Therapy devices, introducing the equipment and space composition of Heavy Ion Therapy equipments. Methods: This study is carried out by study the Heavy Ion Therapy, by figure out status of the installation of treatment centers around the world and by analyze the composition of Heavy Ion Therapy equipments and spaces through case studies. Results: The results of this study, which investigated the treatment of Heavy Ion Therapy and analyzed the plans of the five Heavy Ion Therapy centers, are summarized as follows. 1) Heavy Ion equipment requires a significant floor area. Vertical as well, many cross-sectional areas need to be secured for the construction of a delivery system. The Heavy Ion Therapy device should be built as a shielded wall because of the radiation leaking. Therefore, it is necessary to consist of a independent treatment center. 2) The size of Heavy Ion devices is getting smaller. Linac can be put into syncrotron. and the size of syncrotron, delivery system, and rotating-gantry is getting smaller. 3) Japan is often installed for treatment, and control rooms are integrated, while Europe has secured research space and each control room is separated. Implications: People are not familiar with the Heavy Ion Therapy. And the effectiveness of the treatment is not well promoted yet. Hopefully, more attention will be paid to the research involved in the Heavy Ion Therapy.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.1417-1423
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 수중에서 운동하는 무인잠수정의 경로점 유도법칙을 제안한다. 시선각 유도법칙과 수선경로 오차를 줄여가는 경로추종 유도법칙을 조합하여 효과적인 경로점 유도법칙을 설계하였고, 수선경로 오차의 거리에 따라 제어이득을 변화시켜 시스템의 안정성을 증가시켰다. 또한, 관성항법장치와 도플러속도계를 이용한 복합항법 시스템의 성능을 확인할 수 있는 HILS를 구성하였다. 같은 경로점 및 목표점을 입력 후 HILS 수행결과와 실해역 주행시험 결과를 비교하여, 제안한 유도법칙 및 HILS가 올바르게 구성되어 있음을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.338-344
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• 2021

The recently continuous enhancement and development in the biomedical side for the betterment of human life. The Wireless Body Area Networks is a significant tool for the current researcher to design and transfer data with greater data rates among the sensors and sensor nodes for biomedical applications. The core area for research in WBANs is power efficiency, battery-driven devices for health and medical, the Charging limitation is a major and serious problem for the WBANs.this research work is proposed to find out the optimal solution for battery-friendly technology. In this research we have addressed the solution to increasing the battery lifetime with variable data transmission rates from medical equipment as Wireless Endoscopy Capsules, this device will analyze a patient's inner body gastrointestinal tract by capturing images and visualization at the workstation. The second major issue is that the Wireless Endoscopy Capsule based systems are currently not used for clinical applications due to their low data rate as well as low resolution and limited battery lifetime, in case of these devices are more enhanced in these cases it will be the best solution for the medical applications. The main objective of this research is to power optimization by reducing the power consumption of the battery in the Wireless Endoscopy Capsule to make it battery-friendly. To overcome the problem we have proposed the algorithm for "Battery Friendly Algorithm" and we have compared the different frame rates of buffer sizes for Transmissions. The proposed Battery Friendly Algorithm is to send the images on average frame rate instead of transmitting the images on maximum or minimum frame rates. The proposed algorithm extends the battery lifetime in comparison with the previous baseline proposed algorithm as well as increased the battery lifetime of the capsule.

• Composites Research
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2022

무선통신기술의 발전과 함께 통신기기의 활용영역은 기하급수적으로 증가하고 있으며, 이에 따라 통신기기 성능의 저하를 막기 위한 전자파 노이즈 간섭문제 해결 및 방열문제 해결 소재에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 전자파 차폐와 우수한 방열특성을 동시에 가질 수 있는 복합소재 필름을 제안하였다. 이 필름은 고분자 수지에 자성 및 방열 필러 물질이 분산된 복합소재 레이어와 전도성 그리드로 구성되어 있다. 복합소재 레이어의 조성 및 특성에 대한 제어 및 전도성 그리드 형상에 대한 설계를 통해 높은 전자파 차폐능(>40 dB), 낮은 전자파 반사능(<3 dB), 우수한 열전도도(>10 W/m·K)를 5G 통신 대역인 26.5 GHz에서 500 ㎛ 이하의 극박 필름으로 달성하는 데 성공하였다.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.125-136
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• 2022

The costliness index (CI) is an index that is used in various ways to improve the quality of medical care and the management of appropriate treatment in medical institutions. However, the current calculation method for CI has a limitation in reflecting the actual medical cost of the patient unit because the outpatient and inpatient costs are evaluated separately. It is desirable to calculate the CI by integrating the medical cost into the episode unit. We developed an episode-based CI method using the episode classification system of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the National Inpatient Sample data in Korea, which can integrate the admission and ambulatory care cost to episode unit. Additionally, we compared our new method with the previous method. In some episodes, the correlation between previous and episode-based CI was low, and the proportion of outpatient treatment costs in total cost and readmission rates are high. As a result of regression analysis, it is possible that the level of total medical costs of the patient unit in low volume medical institute and rural area has been underestimated. High proportion of outpatient treatment cost in total medical cost means that some medical institutions may have provided medical services in the ambulatory care that are ancillary to inpatient treatment. In addition, a high readmission rate indicates insufficient treatment service for inpatients, which means that previous CI may not accurately reflect actual patient-based treatment costs. Therefore, an integrated patient-unit classification system which can be used as a more effective CI indicator is needed.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.647-654
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• 2022

Wearable devices come in a variety of shapes and sizes in numerous fields in numerous fields and are available in various forms. They can be integrated into clothing, gloves, hats, glasses, and bags and used in healthcare, the medical field, and machine interfaces. These devices keep track individuals' biological and behavioral data to help with health communication and are often used for injury prevention. Those with hearing loss or impaired vision find it more difficult to recognize an approaching person or object; these sensing devices are particularly useful for such individuals, as they assist them with injury prevention by alerting them to the presence of people or objects in their immediate vicinity. Despite these obvious preventive benefits to developing Internet of Things based devices for the disabled, the development of these devices has been sluggish thus far. In particular, when compared with people without disabilities, people with hearing impairment have a much higher probability of averting danger when they are able to notice it in advance. However, research and development remain severely underfunded. In this study, we incorporated a wearable detection system, which uses an infrared proximity sensor, into a backpack. This system helps its users recognize when someone is approaching from behind through visual and tactile notification, even if they have difficulty hearing or seeing the objects in their surroundings. Furthermore, this backpack could help prevent accidents for all users, particularly those with visual or hearing impairments.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.106-112
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• 2022

이중 링 add/drop 필터와 all-pass 지연 필터로 구성된 이차원 optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) 인코더/디코더를 제안하고, 설계 예시 및 수치해석을 통하여 실현 가능성을 확인하였다. 제안된 OCDMA 인코더/디코더의 칩 면적은 지연 도파로를 사용하는 기존 OCDMA 인코더/디코더에 비하여 1/3 정도로 줄어든다. 제안된 소자의 성능을 모델링하기 위하여 고속 푸리에 변환(fast Fourier transform, FFT) 및 전달 행렬 기법을 사용하였다. 정확한 코드로 디코딩된 펄스의 중심에서 자기상관 피크 값은 어긋난 파장 호핑 코드 및 스펙트럼 위상 코드로 디코딩된 경우의 최대 교차상관 레벨에 비하여 3배 이상으로 관측되었다. 이를 통하여 forward error correction (FEC) 한계에 해당하는 10^-3 이하의 비트 에러 오율을 얻을 수 있음을 알 수 있다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.508-514
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• 2022

Piezoelectric composite films which are enabled by inorganic piezoelectric nanomaterials-embedded polymer, have attracted enormous attention as a sustainable power source for low powered electronics, because of their ease of fabrication and flexible nature. However, the absorption of applied stress by the soft polymeric matrices is a major issue that must be solved to expand the fields of piezoelectric composite applications. Herein, a flexible and porous piezoelectric composite (piezoelectric sponge) comprised of BaTiO₃ nanoparticles and polydimethylsiloxane was developed using template method to enhance the energy conversion efficiency by minimizing the stress that vanishes into the polymer matrix. In the porous structure, effective stress transfer can occur between the piezoelectric active materials in compression mode due to direct contact between the ceramic particles embedded in the pore-polymer interface. The piezoelectric sponge with 30 wt% of BaTiO₃ particles generated an open-circuit voltage of ~12 V and a short-circuit current of ~150 nA. A finite element method-based simulation was conducted to theoretically back up that the piezoelectric output performance was effectively improved by introducing the sponge structure. Furthermore, to demonstrate the feasibility of pressure detecting applications using the BaTiO₃ particles-embedded piezoelectric sponge, the composite was arranged in a 3 × 3 array and integrated into a single pressure sensor. The fabricated sensor array successfully detected the shape of the applied pressure. This work can provide a cost-effective, biocompatible, and structural strategy for realizing piezoelectric composite-based energy harvesters and self-powered sensors with improved energy conversion efficiency.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1105-1112
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• 2022

신재생에너지 발전, 스마트팜 통합관제 등 현장데이터의 모니터링 시스템은 PC, 서버 기반에서 모바일 퍼스트 중심으로 발전하고 있으며, IoT 기술의 발전으로 다양한 무선통신 및 응용 서비스들이 출현하였다. 저전력 광역통신망은 저전력, 저용량, 저속 데이터 전송에 최적화된 서비스로 현장에서 수집된 데이터는 지정 저장 서버나 클라우드 기반 데이터 플랫폼으로 전송되며, 이를 통해 데이터 모니터링이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 단일 디바이스로 현장 데이터를 수집하고 저전력 광역통신망을 이용하여 무선통신 사업자 클라우드 데이터 플랫폼으로 전송하는 IoT 중계기와 이를 활용한 현장 모니터링 앱을 설계 및 구현하였다. 이를 활용하면 보다 모니터링 시스템 구성이 간단하고, 구축 및 운영 비용이 저렴하며 효과적인 데이터 축적이 가능하다.