• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.369-377
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• 2018

This study investigated the effect of noise and reverberation on subjective measure of speech transmission performance for elderly person with hearing loss in residential space through listening test. Floor impact, road traffic, airborne, and drainage noise were employed as the residential noise, and several impulse responses were obtained through room acoustical computer simulation for an apartment building. Sound sources for the listening test consisted of residential noises and speech sounds for boh the young (the original sound) and the aged (the sound filtered out by filters with frequency responses of hearing loss of 65 years elderly person). In the listening test, subjects evaluated speech intelligibility and listening difficulty for the presented word ($L_{Aeq}$ 55 dB) at three noise levels ($L_{Aeq}$ 30, 40, 50 dB) and three reverberation times (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 s). Results showed that the residential space with noise level lower than equal to 50 dB ($L_{i,Fmax,AW}$) for jumping noise and 40 dB ($L_{Aeq}$) for road traffic, airborne, and drainage noise had speech intelligibility of 90 % and over and listening difficulty of 30 % and below. Speech intelligibility and listening difficulty for the aged sound source was shown to be 0 % ~ 5 % lower and 2 % ~ 20 % higher than those for the young sound source, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.386-392
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• 2010

This study was done to measure the color and catechins contents in processed teas using the whole bands (400~2500 nm) with near-infrared spectroscopy(NIRS). The powder colors of 109 processed teas were measured with a colorimeter. The a/b ratios in Hunter color scale in processed teas accounted for about 98.9% of the variation in the fermentation degree(FD), indicating that the a/b ratio was a very useful trait for assessing fermentation degree. Also tea powders were scanned in the visible bands used with NIRSystem. The calibration equations for powder colors were developed using the regression method of modified partial least squares(MPLS) with the internal cross validation. The equations had low SECV (standard errors of cross-validation), and high $R^2$ (coefficient of determination in calibration) values with 0.996~1.00, indicating that the visible bands(400~700 nm) with NIRS could be used to rapidly measure the variables related to powder color and fermentation degree. Also another powders of 137 processed teas were scanned at 780~2500 nm bands in the reflectance mode. The calibration equations were developed using the regression method of MPLS with the internal cross validation. The equations had low SECV, and high $R^2$ (0.896~0.983) values, showing that NIRS could be used to rapidly discriminate the contents of EGC($R^2$=0.919), EC(0.896), EGCg(0.978), ECg(0.905) and total catechins(0.983) in processed teas with high precision and ease.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.176-190
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• 2000

It is possible to construct the more improved communication network quality due to practical use of data network using the redundant frequency bandwidth of CATV network. And the multimedia remote educations under the CATV network environment are being tried in the secondary schools. In general, CATV network is able to support not only the remote education using multimedia contents but also real-time responses because the network of CATV has capability to have transmission speed from 256Kbps to l0Mbps. In this paper, we design a new model of the efficient remote education by analysis of the multimedia data transmission capability using CATV network and suggest a method which can be applied specifically.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.444-449
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• 2003

In this paper, a PCB(Printed Circuit Board) antenna for IMT-2000 is designed and analyzed. The antenna has a helical structure with via-holes and lines on FR-4($\varepsilon$$\sub$${\gamma}$/=4.6 ) PCB, and the type of feeding is GCPW(Grounded Co-Planar Waveguide). Using HFSS of Ansoft, the antenna was designed and the measured results of frequency and radiation characteristic,3 with VSWR<2.0 are satisfied within operating frequency band of 1.920∼2.170 GHz. And it has resonating frequency of 2.045 GHz and a bandwidth of 321 MHz. The radiation gain of the antenna was measured to be -1 dBi.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.22-29
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• 2002

The Gauranteed Frame Rate service category was proposed by the ATM Forum as an enhancement to the UBR service. This service aims to support minimum cell rate gaurantee for each virtual connection and allow any excess bandwidth in the network to be shared among the contending VCs in a fair manner. We propose a new buffer management algorithm for GFR service through FIFO queuing discipline. Proposed scheme can provide minimum bandwidth guarantee for GFR VCs as well as improve the fairness among the competing GFR VCs on a single FIFO queue. From simulation results, we demonstrate the proposed scheme fulfills the requirement of GFR service as well as improves the TCP throughput.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.1283-1291
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• 2002

In this paper, the PLL driven by the DDFS is designed on the schematic using the Q-logic cell based library and is implemented using FPGA QL32 x16B. The measurement results of the frequency synthesizer switching speed were agreement with a register. The simulated results show that the clock delay was generated after eleven clock and if input is random, It has influence on output DA converter has to be very extensive. Therefore, the DDFS used noise shaper to drive PLL by regular interval for input state. Also the bandwidth of DA converter very extensive, the simulation shows that the variation of small input control word is better than the switching speed of PLL.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.259-264
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• 2005

In this paper, a novel compact microstrip-fed antenna with band-rejection characteristic for wideband applications is proposed. By cutting an L-shaped notch on the radiation patch, the wideband property for the proposed antenna is achieved. In addition, a C-shaped slot is introduced to obtain the band rejection operation of the antenna. The antenna, with very small size of $15.5\times21 mm^2$ including the ground plane, operates over 3.08 to 10.97 GHz and has the rejection band of 5.03 to 5.91 GHz for $S_{11}$ < -10 dB.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.219-226
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• 1998

군 위성통신 시스템의 생존성 향상을 위한 대전자전기능 설계기법으로 Dehop/Rehop 중계기를 사용하는 FH-FDMA 위성통신방식 설계구조를 제안하고 성능을 분석하였다. Dehop/Rehop방식은 적의 재밍조건하에서 필수적 통신링크를 보장하는 설계기법으로 Bent-Pipe방식에서의 Power Robbing, Hard-limiter에 의한 소신호 감쇄 등이 거의 없으며 광대역 도약으로 항재밍 능력의 개선이 가능하다. 본 연구에서는 75bps-2048kbps의 LDR/MDR/HDR 데이터 전송이 가능한 중계기 구조를 설계하고, SHF대역에서 도약대역폭에 따른 항재밍 성능분석과 Bent-Pipe방식 대비 Dehop/Rehop방식의 채널별 항재밍 성능분석결과 9-l0㏈내외의 성능개선이 가능함을 보였다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.24-32
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• 2007

지금까지 센서노드에 TCP/IP를 운용하는 것은 과도한 시스템 자원을 요구하기 때문에 부적절한 선택이라고 생각해 왔다. 그러나, 최소한의 기능만을 가진 TCP/IP를 센서 노드에 적용하여도 센서노드가 동작할 수 있으므로 센서 네트워크에 IP 기술을 접목시키려는 연구가 진행되고 있고, 이에 대한 표준 기술의 필요성이 대두되게 되었다. IETF 6LoWPAN WG는 L2 Layer에 IEEE 802.15.4를 기반으로 하는 센서 네트워크에 IPv6를 지원하기 위한 이슈를 다루는 그룹으로서 저전력, $20{\sim}250kbps$의 데이터 전송률, $900{\sim}2400MHz$의 주파수 대역에서 최소형 메모리와 최소형 프로세서만을 장착한 센서 응용을 대상으로 하고 있다. 이 그룹은 국제 표준화 기구 중 대표적으로 IP 기반의 센서 네트워크에 대한 표준 기술을 다루고 있는 그룹으로서, 우리나라에서 6LoWPAN 기술은 USN 기술에 IP를 도입한 IP-USN이라는 개념으로 소개되어 연구개발되고 있다. 본 고에서는 6LoWPAN WG에서 개발한 표준 기술을 소개하고, 향후 WG의 표준화 방향에 대하여 살펴본다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.18-23
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• 2007

Intra-body communication' is a wireless communication technology that uses a body as a transmission medium for electrical signals. Generally, an 'earth ground' is used to create an electric field for operating the system; however this operating method could not apply to telemetry for implanted neural prosthetic devices. So this paper suggests a newly designed intra-body communication for neural prosthetic devices. A floating system which has a couple of electrodes with body was studied to remove an influence of the 'earth ground'. We found that 10MHz is the most suitable carrier frequency in skin experiments and over 3MHz in subcutaneous experiments. The system has been applied to a current stimulator circuit for cochlear implant that uses pulse width modulation (PWM) method at 480kbps rate successfully.