• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.158-166
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• 2016

Purpose: To understand clinical significance of irregular interface between meningioma and adjacent brain parenchyma in predicting histological grading of tumor, focusing on brain parenchymal invasion. Materials and Methods: Pathologically confirmed 79 cases with meningiomas with pathological reports about the presence of parenchymal invasion were included. We defined the presence of interface irregularity as either spiculations or fuzzy margins between the tumor and brain parenchyma. We counted number of spiculations and measured ratio of fuzzy margin length to whole length of mass with consensus of two neuroradiologists. We classified the patients into Present group and Absent group, and the two groups were compared by using the Mann-Whitney U test. Statistical correlations between the presence of an interface irregularity and brain parenchymal invasion by the tumor as well as meningioma histological grade were tested with chi-square test. The optimal cutoff values of spiculation numbers and the ratio of fuzzy margins were determined. The sensitivity and specificity of number of spiculations, ratio of fuzzy margin and the presence of irregular interface as combined parameters for predicting the parenchymal invasion were calculated using ROC curve analysis. Results: Statistically significant differences were noted between the Present and Absent groups for number of spiculations and ratio of fuzzy margin (P = 0.038 and P = 0.028, respectively). The optimal cutoff value for number of spiculations (> 4.5 with 61.1% sensitivity and 68.9% specificity) and the ratio of fuzzy margin (> 0.24 with 66.7% sensitivity and 65.6% specificity) were determined. The sensitivity and specificity of interface irregularity as the combined parameters were 72% and 59%, respectively. The interface irregularity between tumor and brain parenchyma significantly correlated with not only brain parenchymal invasion (P = 0.001) and but also histological grade (P < 0.001). Conclusion: The interface irregularity between tumor and brain parenchyma in MRI can be a strong predictive factor for brain parenchymal invasion and high grade meningioma.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.726-735
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• 2014

최근 초고화질(UHD) 영상시스템의 출현으로 인해 고해상도, 대용량의 4K-UHD급 LCD TV 신호 전송은 높은 해상도와 데이터 확장에 따른 케이블 및 커넥터 수의 증가로 서로 다른 케이블 간의 EMI, 스큐(Skew) 문제로 시스템 구현에 한계가 있다. 차세대 V-by-One HS 인터페이스는 초고해상도 영상처리 IC 및 TCON 간의 새로운 인터페이스 기술로써 600Mbps에서 3.75Gbps의 다양한 데이터 속도로 효율적인 전송이 가능하여 한계를 극복할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 V-by-One HS IBIS(Input/Output Buffer Information Specification) 모델 시뮬레이션을 통하여 주파수 공진모드의 전압 분포와 PCB 설계 방법을 제안하고 고속영상 신호에 대한 신호 무결성의 검증 방법을 제안하였다.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.33-49
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• 1982

This study was undertaken to observe the porcelain porosity exerted by the contamination of the alloy and liquid. The alloy used in this study was Jelstar; liquids were Ceramco Sta-Wet liquid, distilled water and tap water; and Ceramco vacuum porcelain powder was used. The measurements with photomicroscope (x200, Olympus) were made on the porosity, the diameter (mm) of the pores and the numbers of the pores ($No/mm^2$) The results of this study were obtained as follows: 1. In the porosity, the opaque layer contained over 70% of the total porosity, and the porosity was increased about twice in every porcelain layer by the tap water. 2. The contamination of the alloy and liquid caused porosity to increase markedly at the interface of the metal-porcelain. 3. The diameter of the pores were increased about 1.5 times larger by the contaimination of the liquid, and only a slight increase in the opaque layer due to the contamination of the alloy. 4. In the numbers of the pores, there were significant differences according to the contamination of the alloy and the porcelain layer. And the contamination of the liquid caused significant differences only in the opaque layer.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2010

본 논문은 가중 퍼지소속함수 기반 신경망(neural network with weighted fuzzy membership functions, NEWFM)과 웨이블릿 기반의 특징 추출기법을 사용하여 왼쪽 또는 오른쪽의 운동 형상을 분류하는 방안을 제안하고 있다. 초기 특징을 추출하기 위해서 첫 번째 단계에서 웨이블릿 변환(wavelet transforms)을 이용하여 뇌파(electroencephalogram, EEG) 신호로부터 웨이블릿 계수들을 추출하였다. 두 번째 단계에서는 첫 번째 단계에서 추출한 웨이블릿 계수들을 통계적인 방법인 주파수 분포와 주파수 변동량을 이용하여 60개의 초기 특징을 추출하였다. 이들 60개의 초기 특징은 NEWFM에서 제공하는 비중복면적 분산 측정법에 의해 중요도가 가장 낮은 특징을 하나씩 제거되면서 정확도가 가장 높은 6개의 최소 특징을 선택되었다. 이들 6개의 최소 특징을 NEWFM의 입력으로 사용하여 86.43%의 정확도를 구하였다.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.42-51
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• 2003

Public awareness of air pollution problem has increased the need for real time air pollution information system about changes in air pollution level. The purpose of this study is to construct e-AIR, a user-friendly air pollution information system for urban air quality using GIS(geographic information system) technology for windows. GIS was ideally suited featuring a geographical characteristics(e.g., road, traffics, buildings) and very effectively used in mapping and symbolization for the distribution of the spatial/periodic pollution status(e.g., pie or column chart, graduated symbols) which can be effectively applied to a information system on the web-site. And a user interface, GUI(graphic user interface) was designed very diversely and simply enabled the users connect with e-AIR and obtain a useful information of air quality. A interpretive technique, air pollution health index(e.g., PSI, AEI) was used also which transforms complex data on measured atmospheric pollutant concentrations into a single number or set of numbers in order to make the data more understandable. Eventually the final-step of this study was to construct e-AIR based on Web GIS could be assessed anywhere if internet is available and offer a very useful information services of the air pollution to the public like a weather news.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.388-390
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• 2006

This paper presents a hybrid SoC design for phase detection of single tone signal. The designed hybrid SoC is composed of three functional blocks, i.e., an analog to digital converter module, a phase detection module and a controller module. A design of the controller module is based on a 16-bit RISC architecture. An I/O interface and an LCD control interface for transmission and display of phase measurement values are included in the design of the controller module. A design of the phase detector is based on a recursive sliding-DFT. The recursive architecture effectively reduces the gate numbers required in the implementation of the module. The ADC module includes a single-bit second-order sigma-delta modulator and a digital decimation filter. The decimation filter is designed to give 98dB of SNR for the ADC. The effective resolution of the ADC is enhanced to 98dB of SNR by the incorporation of a pre FIR filter, a 2-stage cascaded integrator- comb(CIC) filter and a 30-tab FIR filter in the decimation. The hybrid SoC is verified in FPGA and implemented in 0.35 CMOS Technology.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.349-368
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• 2016

A preconditioning technique is presented for a simultaneous solution to wind-membrane interaction. In the simultaneous equations, a linear elastic model was employed to deal with the fluid-structure data transfer at the interface. A Lagrange multiplier was introduced to impose the specified boundary conditions at the interface and strongly coupled simultaneous equations are derived after space and time discretization. An initial linear elastic model preconditioner and modified one were derived by treating the linearized elastic model equation as a saddle point problem, respectively. Accordingly, initial and modified fluid-structure interaction (FSI) preconditioner for the simultaneous equations were derived based on the initial and modified linear elastic model preconditioners, respectively. Wind-membrane interaction analysis by the proposed preconditioners, for two and three dimensional membranous structures respectively, was performed. Comparison was made between the performance of initial and modified preconditioners by comparing parameters such as iteration numbers, relative residuals and convergence in FSI computation. The results show that the proposed preconditioning technique greatly improves calculation accuracy and efficiency. The priority of the modified FSI preconditioner is verified. The proposed preconditioning technique provides an efficient solution procedure and paves the way for practical application of simultaneous solution for wind-structure interaction computation.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.237-252
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• 2014

The use of composite structures is increasingly present in civil building works. Composite Box Girder Bridges (CBGB), particularly, are study of effect of shear connector's numbers and distribution on the behavior of CBGBs is submitted. A Predicti structures consisting of two materials, both connected by metal devices known as shear connectors. The main functions of these connectors are to allow for the joint behavior of the girder-deck, to restrict longitudinal slipping and uplifting at the element's interface and to take shear forces. This paper presents 3D numerical models of CBGBs to simulate their actual structural behavior, with emphasis on the girder-deck interface. Additionally, a Prediction of several FE models is assessed against the results acquired from a field test. A number of factors are considered, and confirmed through experiments, especially full shear connections, which are obviously essential in composite box girder. A good representation for shear connectors by suitable element type is considered. Numerical predictions of vertical displacements at critical sections fit fairly well with those evaluated experimentally. The agreement between the FE models and the experimental models show that the FE model can aid engineers in design practices of box girder bridges. Preliminary results indicate that number of shear studs can be significantly reduced to facilitate adoption of a new arrangement in modeling CBGBs with full composition. However, a further feasibility study to investigate the practical and economic aspects of such a remedy is recommended, and it may represent partial composition in such modeling.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2005

A theoretical model is proposed in order to investigate rheological behavior of bubble suspension with large deformation. Theoretical constitutive equations for dilute bubble suspensions are derived by applying a deformation theory of ellipsoidal droplet [1] to a phenomenological suspension theory [2]. The rate of deformation tensor within the bubble and the time evolution of interface tensor are predicted by applying the proposed constitutive equations, which have two free fitting parameters. The transient and steady rheological properties of dilute bubble suspensions are studied for several capillary numbers (Ca) under simple shear flow and uniaxial elongational flow fields. The retraction force of the bubble caused by the interfacial tension increases as bubbles undergo deformation. The transient and steady relative viscosity decreases as Ca increases. The normal stress difference (NSD) under the simple shear has the largest value when Ca is around 1 and the ratio Of the first NSD to the second NSD has the value of 3/4 for large Ca but 2 for small Ca. In the uniaxial elongational flow, the elongational viscosity is three times as large as the shear viscosity like the Newtonian fluid.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.116-122
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• 1988

본 연구에서는 공기와 물을 매질로 사용하여 3차원 계면파가 존재하는 근사수평 반류성층유동에서의 계면전단응력과 마찰계수를 결정하였다. 기상과 액상의 유량조건에 따라 3차원 계면파의 특성을 needle contact법에 의하여 측정 하였으며, 기상의 압력강하와 속도분포를 구하여 계면전단응력을 구하였다. 또 공학적인 응용을 위하여 3차원과 영역에서의 계면마찰계수에 관한 실험식을 개발하였다. 그리고 거칠은 고체표면에서의 마찰계수를 표현한 Nikuradse식을 이용하여 계면의 등가조도(equivalent roughness)를 계산하였으며 이것을 계면의 파고교란강도와 비교분석하여 계면전단응력에 영향을 미치는 인자들을 규명하였다.