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Acoustic Characteristics Applied to Seafloor and Sub-bottom Survey (해저지형${\cdot}$지층탐사에 적용되는 음파특성)

  • Kim, Seong-Ryul;Lee, Yong-Kuk;Jeong, Baek-Hun
    • 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.09a
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    • pp.42-50
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    • 2005
  • The electromagnetic (light) waves are limited to penetrate the media, ie, water and sea-bottom layers, due to high energy attenuation, but acoustic (sound) waves play as the good messenger to gather the underwater target information. Therefore the acoustic methods are applied to almost of ocean equipments and technology in terms of in-water and sub-bottom surveys. Generally the sound character is controlled by its frequency. In case that the sound source is low frequency, the penetration is high and the resolution is low. On the other hand, its character is reversed at the high frequency. The common character at the both of light and sound is the energy damping according to the travel distance increase.

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Murine Heart Wall Imaging with Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Kim Jee-Hyun;Lee Byeong-Ha
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.42-47
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    • 2006
  • M-mode imaging of the in vivo murine myocardium using optical coherence tomography (OCT) is described. Application of conventional techniques (e.g. MRI, Ultrasound imaging) for imaging the murine myocardium is problematic because the wall thickness is less than 1.5 mm (20 g mouse), and the heart rate can be as high as six hundred beats per minute. To acquire a real-time image of the murine myocardium, OCT can provide sufficient spatial resolution ($10{\mu}m$) and imaging speed (1000 A-scans/s). Strong light scattering by blood in the heart causes significant light attenuation, which makes delineation of the endocardium-chamber boundary problematic. To measure the thickness change of the myocardium during one heart beat cycle, a myocardium edge detection algorithm is developed and demonstrated.

Inherited retinal degeneration in a Bengal cat

  • Jeong, Manbok;Narfstrom, Kristina
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.58 no.4
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    • pp.219-221
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    • 2018
  • A 2-year-old intact female Bengal cat was presented with a 6-month history of visual impairment. The cat manifested bilateral negative menace responses and dazzle reflexes and sluggish pupillary light reflexes. Bilateral fundus changes included generalized tapetal hyperreflectivity, advanced retinal vascular attenuation, and increased pallor of the optic disc. A diagnosis of bilateral retinal degeneration was made. The clinical findings suggest that the investigated Bengal cat was most likely to have an inherited retinal degeneration. Further studies of the Bengal cat breed are needed to determine the prevalence of inherited retinal degeneration in this breed in Korea.

A Detection Method of Fake Fingerprint in Optical Fingerprint Sensor (광학식 지문센서에서의 위조 지문 검출 방법)

  • Lee, Ji-Sun;Kim, Jae-Hwan;Chae, Jin-Seok;Lee, Byoung-Soo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.492-503
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    • 2008
  • With the recent development and increasing importance of personal identification systems, biometric technologies with less risk of loss or unauthorized use are being popularized rapidly. In particular, because of their high identification rate and convenience, fingerprint identification systems are being used much more commonly than other biometric systems such as iris recognition, face recognition and vein pattern recognition. However, a fingerprint identification system has the problem that artificially forged finger-prints can be used as input data. Thus, in order to solve this problem, the present study proposed a method for detecting forged fingerprints by measuring the degree of attenuation when the light from an optical fingerprint sensor passes through the finger and analyzing changes in the transmission of light over stages at fixed intervals. In order to prove improvement in the performance of the proposed system, we conducted an experiment that compared the system with an existing multi-sensor recognition system that measures also the temperature of fingerprint. According to the results of the experiment, the proposed system improved the forged fingerprint detection rate by around 32.6% and this suggests the possibility of solving the security problem in fingerprint identification systems.

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Statistical Analysis on Water Quality Characteristics of Large Lakes in Korea (우리나라 주요 호소의 수질특성에 대한 통계적 분석)

  • Kong, Dongsoo
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.165-180
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    • 2019
  • Water quality data of 81 lakes in Korea, 2013 ~ 2017 were analyzed. Most water quality parameters showed left-skewed distribution, while dissolved oxygen showed normal distribution. pH and dissolved oxygen showed a positive correlation with organic matter and nutrients, which appeared to be a nonsense correlation mediated by the algae. The ratio of $BOD_5$ and $COD_{Mn}$ to CBOD was 21 % and 52 % in the freshwater lakes, respectively. TOC concentration appeared to be underestimated by the UV digestion method, when salinity exceeds $700{\mu}S\;cm^{-1}$. In terms of nitrogen/phosphorus ratio, the limiting factor for algal growth seemed to be phosphorus in most of the lakes. Chlorophyll ${\alpha}$ increased acutely with decrease of N/P ratio. However, it seemed to be a nonsense correlation mediated by phosphorus concentration, since the N/P ratio depended on phosphorus. The N/P ratio of brackish lakes was lower than that of the freshwater, at the same concentration of phosphorus. It is worth examining denitrification that occurs, in bottom layer and sediment, during saline stratification. $Chl.{\alpha}$ concentration decreased in the form of a power function with increase of mean depth. The primary reason is that deep lakes are mainly at the less-disturbed upstream. However, it is necessary to investigate the effect of sediment, on water quality in shallow lakes. Light attenuation in the upper layer, was dominated by tripton (non-algal suspended solids) absorption/scattering (average relative contribution of 39 %), followed by CDOM (colored dissolved organic matter) (average 37 %) and $Chl.{\alpha}$ (average 21 %).

Performance Improvement of PMSM Current Control using Gain Attenuation and Phase Delay Compensated LPF (이득 감쇠 및 위상 지연 보상 LPF를 이용한 PMSM의 전류 제어 성능 개선)

  • Kim, Minju;Choi, Chinchul;Lee, Wootaik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.107-114
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    • 2014
  • This paper applies a compensated low pass filter (LPF) to current measurements for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives. The noise limits the bandwidth of current controllers and has more adverse influences on control performances under the light load condition because of the low signal-to-noise ratio. In order to eliminate the noise sensitivity, this paper proposes a digital LPF with a compensator of gain attenuation and phase delay which are unacceptable in current information for PMSM drives. Characteristics of the proposed LPF are analyzed in comparison with the general LPFs. The compensated LPF is basically designed by the orthogonal property of the measured currents in the ${\alpha}{\beta}$ stationary reference frame. In addition, an implementation issue of the proposed method is discussed. Experimental results using the proposed method show improvements of the current control performance from two perspectives, rapid step responses and reductions of harmonic distortion.

Horizon-AGN virtual observatory: SED-fitting performance and forecasts for future imaging surveys

  • Laigle, Clotilde;Davidzon, I.;Ilbert, O.;Devriendt, J.;Kashino, D.;Capak, P.;Arnouts, S.;De la Torre, S.;Dubois, Y.;Gozaliasl, G.;Leborgne, D.;McCracken, H.J.;Pichon, C.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.32.3-32.3
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    • 2018
  • We use the synthetic light-cone from the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN to produce a mock photometric galaxy catalogue on the redshift range 0

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Bismuth modified gamma radiation shielding properties of titanium vanadium sodium tellurite glasses as a potent transparent radiation-resistant glass applications

  • Zaid, M.H.M.;Matori, K.A.;Sidek, H.A.A.;Ibrahim, I.R.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.1323-1330
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    • 2021
  • This work reported the radiation shielding characteristic of the bismuth titanium vanadium sodium tellurite glass system. The density of the specially-developed glass samples was increased from 2.21 to 4.01 g/cm3 with the addition of Bi2O3, despite the fact the molar volume is decease within 85.43-54.79 cm3/mol. The WinXcom program was used to approximate the effect of Bi2O3 on the gamma radiation shielding parameters of bismuth titanium vanadium sodium tellurite glasses. The ㎛ values decrease with the increase of Bi2O3 concentration. The computed data shows that the glass sample with 20 mol.% of Bi2O3 content has the greatest radiation attenuation performance in comparison to other selected glasses. The Bi2O3-TiO2-V2O5-Na2O-TeO2 glass system shows excellent neutron shielding material with high long-term light transmittance and discharge resistance and could be potentially used as transparent radiation-resistant shielding glass applications.

Photodegradation of VOCs by Using TiO$_2$-Coated POF (광촉매가 코팅된 플라스틱 광섬유을 이용한 VOC 광분해반응)

  • Ha, Jin-Wook;Joo, Hyun-Ku
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.199-203
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    • 2003
  • In this study plastic optical fibers (POFs) were considered as light-transmitting media and substrates for the potential use in photocatalytic environmental purification system. After the characteristics of POFs in terms of light transmittance and absorption were determined at the beginning, the further investigation was performed through the photocatalytic degradation of trichloroethylene (TCE), iso-propanol and etc. with TiO$_2$-coated optical fiber reactor systems (POFR). It is concluded that the use of POFs is preferred to quartz optical fibers (QOFs) since the advantages such as ease of handling, lower cost, relatively reasonable light attenuation at the wavelength of near 400nm can be obtained. Various geometrical reactor shapes have been constructed and applied for the last one and half years. For the use of POF in water phase treatment, however, more detailed scientific and engineering aspects should be envisaged. This case requires a suitable mixture to obtain more stable and innocuous immobilization of photocatalyst on POF. To overcome this disadvantage, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) was conducted in a fluidized bed to deposit thin films of titania on glass and alumina beads. Those can be used as photocatalysis for the removal of pollutants especially in liquid phases.

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Effect of Red-emitting Sr2.41F2.59B20.03O74.8:Eu0.12,Sm0.048 Phosphor on Color Rendering Index and Luminous Efficacy of White LEDs

  • Nguyen, Anh Q.D.;Nguyen, Vinh H.;Lee, Hsiao-Yi
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.118-124
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    • 2017
  • Color rendering index (CRI) and luminous efficacy (LE) are two key performance factors of white LEDs (WLED). While most recent works in optics focus on methodology to improve these factors, little attention has been dedicated to chemical composition of materials. This paper studies the effect of $Sr_{2.4}1F_{2.59}B_{20.03}O_{74.8}:Eu_{0.12},Sm_{0.048}$ phosphor (SrSm), in terms of concentration and particle size on CRI and LE of 8500 K - WLEDs. Importantly, the molar mass of the componential ions in SrSm are calculated to shed light on the connection between the chemical composition of the material of interest and the performance of WLEDs. Results show that CRI can be improved to a value of around 86 by boosting red-light components in WLEDs, for all 3 major configurations: conformal, in-cup, and remote phosphor. CRI value tends to decrease with larger size of particles, while LE value goes in the reverse direction. On the other hand, both CRI and LE appear to be reduced at higher concentration of SrSm. This light attenuation is analyzed by using the Lambert-Beer law and Mie-scattering theory.