• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.724-734
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• 2007

Statement of problem. Translucency and masking effect of provisional crown and fixed partial denture materials is an important esthetic consideration. But, provisional resin materials differ substantially in their ability to mask underlying colors. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the translucency differences of provisional resin materials at various thicknesses and the correlation between the translucency and the masking efficiency. Material and methods. Two polymethyl methacrylate resins (Jet Tooth Shade, Alike) and three resin composites (Protemp 3 Garant, Luxatemp and Revotek LC) were used. Specimens (n=6) were fabricated from each material in 0.3, 0.5, 0.8, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 mm thickness. The CIELAB parameters of each specimens were measured using a spectrophotometer. The translucency parameter (TP) values and the masking effect $({\Delta}ME^*{_{ab}})$ values were computed and all data were statistically analyzed by one-way ANOVA and the multiple comparisons Scheffe test. The correlation between the thickness and the TP values and the correlation between the thickness and the ${\Delta}ME^*{_{ab}}$ values were also evaluated by correlation analysis and regression analysis. Results. The TP values and the ${\Delta}ME^*{_{ab}}$ values were significantly related to the thickness in all specimens. The TP values were more sensitive to the change of thickness than the ${\Delta}ME^*{_{ab}}$ values. The order of the translucency by brand was different from the order of the masking effect by brand in all thickness groups. Conclusion. Within the limitations of this study, the translucency and masking effect of the provisional resin materials investigated were significantly related to their thickness. The masking effect of provisional resin was correlated with the translucency parameter, but the order of the masking effect by brand was different from the order of the translucency parameter.

• 재활복지공학회논문지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2007

대부분의 보청기에서는 난청인의 청력 손실을 보상하기 위해 음성 증폭 알고리즘과 잡음 및 피드백을 제거하기 위한 알고리즘 등을 사용하고 있고, 음성의 인지율을 높이기 위해서 음성의 대비를 강조하는 알고리즘을 사용한다. 음성 대비 강조 알고리즘 사용 시 과도한 대비증폭에 의해서 포먼트(formant) 사이에서 마스킹 현상이 발생할 수 있다. 마스킹 현상을 확인하기 위해서 6가지의 주관적인 평가와 1가지의 객관적인 평가를 수행하였다. 주관적인 평가로는 순음 검사, 어음 청취 역치 검사, 낱말 분별력 검사, 순음 마스킹 검사, 포먼트 순음 마스킹 검사, 어음 마스킹 검사로 이루어져있고 객관적인 평가를 위해서 LLR(log likelihood ratio)을 도입하였다. 정상 청각 피험자와 난청 피험자의 결과로 미루어 볼 때, 난청 피험자가 마스킹이 잘 일어난다는 것을 볼 수 있었고, 어음을 이용한 마스킹 검사에서는 마스킹에 의해서 난청 피험자에서 어음에 대한 인지율이 떨어지는 결과를 볼 수 있다. 이러한 현상은 포먼트 향상에 의한 왜곡 때문이 아닌 마스킹 때문이다. 그러므로 마스킹 효과의 특성을 조사하여, 보청기 적합 시, 이러한 마스킹 특성을 고려하는 것이 필요하다.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2008

청력 손실을 보상하고 난청인이 다른 사람들과 대화할 수 있도록 디지털 보청기 알고리즘은 개발 되어 왔음에도 불구하고, 디지털 보청기 사용자들은 음성을 듣는데 어려움이 있다고 불만을 토로한다. 그 이유는 피드백이나 잔여 노이즈 등에 의해 디지털 보청기를 통한 음성의 질이 이해하기에 불충분하기 때문이다. 또 다른 이유로 포먼트들 사이에서 일어나는 마스킹 현상이 될 수 있다. 이 연구에서 정상 청각 피험자와 노인성 난청을 갖고 있는 난청인 피험자의 마스킹 특성을 측정하여 음성에서의 마스킹에 의한 음성 인지 저하를 확인하기 위한 실험을 하였다. 실험은 순음검사, 어음 청취 역치 검사, 낱말 분별력 검사, 수음 마스킹 검사, 어음 마스킹 검사의 5개 테스트로 이루어졌다. 어음 마스킹 검사에서 각각 어음 세트에 25개의 어음이 사용되었다. 각 어음의 왜곡을 객관적으로 평가하기 위해서 log likelihood ratio (LLR)를 도입하였다. 결과적으로 포먼트 향상의 양을 늘리면 늘릴수록 어음 인지는 낮아졌고, 각 어음 세트에서 각각의 향상된 어음은 통계적으로 비슷한 LLR을 갖지만 어음인지는 그렇지 않게 나타났다. 이것은 왜곡이 아닌 음향 마스킹이 어음 인지에 영향을 준다는 것을 의미한다. 실제로 피험자들 대부분이 맞추지 못한 음성을 주파수 분석한 결과 첫 번째와 두 번째 포먼트 사이의 레벨 차이가 약 35dB이며 이는 순음 마스킹 실험 결과(정상 청각 피험자:36.36dB, 난청인 피험자:32.86dB)와 비슷한 양상을 보였다. 실험 결과에서 볼 수 있듯이 음향 마스킹의 특성은 정상 청각인과 난청인 사이에서 다르게 나타난다. 그렇기 때문에 보청기 착용 전 마스킹 특성을 검사하고, 피팅 시에 적용해야 한다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.2
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• pp.223-228
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• 2006

The main purpose of this paper is to describe the code tracking performance of a non-coherent digital delay lock loop (DLL) or coherent DLL while tracking GNSS signal in the presence of signal masking. The masking effect is usually caused by buildings that obscure the signal in either a periodic or random manner. In some cases, ideal masking is used to remove random or periodic interference. Three types of the masked signal are considered - no masking, periodic masking, and random masking of the signal input to the receiver. The mean time to lose lock (MTLL) of the code tracking loop are evaluated, and some numerical result and simulation results are reported. Finally, the steadystate tracking errors on the performance of the tracking loop in interference environment are also presented.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.116-121
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• 2013

Panaroma Sun roof's sun shade motor elicits two major sounds when operating: the tonal sound and the white noises. Generally, the sound related to the sharpness contributes the most to the quality of motors' tonal sound. The primary purpose of this study was to set the loudness of the motor's objective tonal sound utilizing the masking effect by its white noises. To conduct this study, the sound made by the operating sun shade motor was categorized into two different subsets of masker and test tone to examine the masking threshold. Also, the shifts of masking threshold were observed with the varying masker loudness.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.521-528
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• 2011

A variety of noise control methods have been developed as an interest on noise issues increases. Among them, noise control methods using masking effect, a phenomenon to reduce the ability to notice the unwanted sound by proper sound, to implement a pleasant sound environment have been studied under the name of soundscape. We proposed a novel vector base amplitude panning(VBAP) based noise control method to apply to the building environment. The proposed method could improve the amenity inside the building to reproduce the sounds with excellent masking effect on the incoming path of noise using the control speakers, considering the direction of noise source. The directional masking sounds can be generated by using VBPA technique. To verify the performance of the proposed method, we carried out the subjective test for the degree of amenity according to direction of the masking sound. Subjective test results showed that it is possible to improve the amenity inside the building by controlling the direction of masking sound considering the human's auditory characteristic.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.24-31
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• 2004

Masking effect of the nanoscratched silicon (100) surface was studied and applied to a maskless nanofabrication technique. First, the surface of the silicon (100) was machined by ductile-regime nanomachining process using the scratch option of the Nanoindenter${ \circledR}$ XP. To clarify the possibility of the nanoscratched silicon surfaces for the application to wet etching mask, the etching characteristic with a KOH solution was evaluated at room temperature. After the etching process, the convex nanostructures were made due to the masking effect of the mechanically affected layer. Moreover, the height and the width of convex structures were controlled with varying normal loads during nanoscratch.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.227-232
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• 2008

The masking effect of chlorine on algae-related taste and odor(T&O) compounds has long been an important issue for water suppliers. In this study, masking experiments with chlorine were performed on two kinds of treated water and one of raw water. After adding chlorine(0 to 0.8 mg/L) to water samples, odor intensity was evaluated by a newly developed sensory method(2-out-of-5 odor test) for three days along with the measurement of residual chlorine concentration. Even though the relationship between the residual chlorine concentration and odor reported by the sensory analysts was not always coincident, it was proved that residual chlorine more than a certain concentration could completely mask both added geosmin and naturally occurring T&O compounds. For the sand-filtered water spiked with 10 ng/L of geosmin, 0.12-0.18 mg/L of residual chlorine was necessary to achieve complete masking. In the case of GAC-filtered water, 10 ng/L of spiked geosmin was completely masked by 0.15-0.1 mg/L of residual chlorine. Combined ozone and GAC was not enough to treat raw water spiked with 300 ng/L of geosmin. In this experiment, sensory analysts were able to detect earthy or musty odors from the treated water. From a masking experiment with raw water taken from the Daechung Reservoir, it was found that fishy odor was more difficult to mask with chlorine than earthy odor. As the chlorine residual declined, the analysts began to notice the original odor and the fishy odor was noticed earlier than the earthy odor.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.599-602
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• 1998

In this paper, a speech enhancement method based on phonemic properties and masking effect is propsoed. It is a modified type of spectral subtraction wherein the spectral sharpening process is exploited in unvoiced state considering the phonemic properties. The masking threshold is used to remove the residual noise. The proposed spectral subtraction shows similar performance as that of the classical spectral subtraction method in view of the SNR. But by the prposed scheme, the unvoiced sound region is shown to exhibit relatively less signal distortion in the enhanced speech.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.156-165
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• 2014

This paper is the first investigation on the effect of flow control methods on the part load performance in a spark ignition engine. For comparison of the methods, two control devices, port throttling and masking, were applied to a conventional engine without any design change of the intake port. Steady flow evaluation shows that steady flow rates per unit opening area and swirl ratio are very low compared with the port throttling and saturated from mid-stage valve lift, however, swirl increases slightly as the lift is higher in case of 1/4 masking control. In the part load performance, the effect of simple port throttling on lean misfire limit expansion is limited and insufficient; on the other hand a masking improves the limit considerably without any port modification for increasing swirl. Also the results show that the intake flow control improves the combustion with following two mechanisms: stratification induced by the combination of the flow pattern and the fuel injection timing attribute to ignition ability and the intensified flow ensure fast burn. In addition fuel consumption reduces under the flow controls and the reduction rate is different according to the operation conditions and control methods. At the Stoichiometric and/or low speed and low load the throttling method is more advantageous; however vice versa at lean and high load condition. Finally, the throttling is more efficient for HC reduction than masking, on the other side the NOx emissions increase under the masking and decrease under the port throttling compared with conventional port scheme.